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Obesity & Me

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

While I was an athlete and thin through high school, I started gaining weight in my early-20s and just couldn't stop. I tried everything, including Weight Watchers - 15 times, with little success. Since gaining the weight, I could only manage to lose 60 lbs with a diet. In the last two years, my knees have just gotten worse and worse and I desperately needed to get the weight off.

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

Not being able to participate in everything I wanted to do.

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 love that I do not have to use a cane to walk anymore and love being into semi-normal clothes sizes. I still have a long way to go, but I am doing it and I feel great!

Before & After
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ARE YOU READY TO PAY IT FORWARD & SHARE YOUR JOURNEY? Your journey will help highlight the many ways weight loss surgery improves lives and makes a difference in our families, communities and world. EACH JOURNEY COUNTS as a voice towards greater awareness.

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