Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.

I am thinking about having surgery in July, due to my insurance restrictions, Still have a lot of questions concerns. I had my first appt with the surgeon and sounds promising. I guess I cant see me ever lossing weight and keeping it off. I know this will not be easy..I need to find ways of releasing my stress besides using food. I still have the feeling I am taking the easy way out but being a nurse I know it will not easy. Part of my emotional battles still comes down to how others think of me, even in this decision that would help me change my current feeling of being over weight I am still worried about how others look at me. I take some pride that I have a very strong confident personality on the outside but in the inside i still feel very fragile- and secretly use food as that comfort.

What was (is) the worst thing about being overweight?

Feeling like crap, having no energy, basically feeling like I am 80 years old. I don't like what i see in the mirror and uncertin if that will ever change...

If you have had weight loss surgery already, what things do you most enjoy doing now that you weren't able to do before?

I am tentively scheduled for July 2012