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

I gained weight after childbirth and divorce. My ex said I was a wonderful wife and mother but I was fat and he didn't like it. It tried to change but I couldn't. Yes he was an adulterous jerk but I was swallowed with pain that kept me from even trying to be healthy for 10 years until I weighed 290. No sweet was safe in my presence -- I would eat it until I was sick (whole pans of brownies, dozen cookies etc.)

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

I couldn't move - I work with kids and I couldn't get on the floor, do the fun games like I used to. I hate fat clothes - they are generally ugly and no choices. It also had no strength to garden, to walk around events and actually enjoy them.

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'm only 2 months out but just losing 36 pounds has already made a difference. I can walk again! I don't have to nap every day. I can almost cross my legs like a lady. I have CONTROL over my eating --- it doesn't control me. It gave me hope for a changed life -- it does it constriction thing - I do my wise choices and exercise thing. A new day is coming -- I can see it with each new victory.