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

I am the only one in my family who is overweight. I remember as a child, my mother bribing me to lose weight. She would say things like "if you lose 20 pounds I will buy you new clothes", that only made me eat more, because If that was the only way she going to buy me new clothes - I would be waiting for ever. I ate when I was said, when I was happy, bored....I just ate food because it was there. I never adopted the theory "eat to live" not "live to eat". I found my self hoarding food late in life. That's a scary feeling, even to this day, I still think about that. I have come to the realization, food will be there after the DIET! It's ok not to eat "all the food", it will be there tomarrow, and the next day. I had made FOOD my go to for everything, (emotional comforter). Today, I still struggle - I pray that this feeling go away.

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

Being out of breath just walking up the steps to my bedroom, only shopping in PLUS SIZE stores, and never, ever letting my husband of 15 years see me totally naked in the last 5 years.

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

Waiting for surgery date