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

Ive seen different people give an estimated time of when they started gaining all of their weight and it just dawned on me when I started putting all of mine on. Well, Ive always "thought" I was fat... always "bigger" than the other kids. Yet I look back at my school pictures, especially 8th grade graduation and I wasnt fat at all, I was downright skinny!!! I remember when I was 13 years old, my Dr put me on Fastin.. now this was the second time I had been on it mind you.. but this time I lost enough weight to get down into my moms 5/6 pants ..I was SO proud that I wore a pair of red button up dress pants to a musical we were having at school, I was in the chorus. I was in the 8th grade at this time. Now these pants just about cut me in two, but I was bound and determined I was going to wear them anyway.. just cuz I had put enough effort in the struggle to get them buttoned.. I "thought" I could do it. About half way through the program I started getting light headed and very very sick , I couldnt breathe... and no, it wasnt a case of nerves, I performed in contests across the state with the chorus, I was used to the people. My dad noticed that something was wrong, came up to the stage and got me and took me home. After I got home and took off those damned pants, I started feeling better. Heck they were probably cutting off my circulation as well as cutting me in half lol ... but anways back to the subject at hand.. My dad passed away when I was 16 yrs old ... and that is when I started putting on all of my weight... by the time I was this age, I was back up to a size 16... I never knew "how much" I weighed for it was taboo to get on a scale for me.. It wasnt happening no matter what!! .. At 18 I got pregnant with my first child and gained 45 lbs... and of course the rest is history... I never lost all of that and just kept gaining and gaining with each child and then MORE after I was done having babies... this is probably insignificant, but this is when I started to really realize that I was "FAT".... and not just "thinking" that I was....

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

Every single aspect of it, from not feeling good, always being in pain and missing out on life !!!

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 had it 5 1/2 yrs ago and am now seeking a revision to get back to where i was after original surgery if not better !!!