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

I was very lazy, depressed, and did not want to go anywhere or see anyone. I looked at thin healthy people as lucky. I worried when I put food in my shopping cart for my husband thinking people were laughing at me that I was eating it. I would not dance even though I use to love to.

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

You don't feel healthy so you don't do healthy things. Eating wrong foods and moving is part of the vicious cycle of poor thought process. Also being an adult with children you worry your bad habits will become their future too.

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 10 Years PO this month, can do so much more that I use to. I park my car far so I walk more, I can take stairs without being out of breath. I can find clothes that fit me and look good. I lost even a size on my shoes. I went to Beauty School and Nursing School both dreams I had over 30 years ago. I Opened my own Salon 15 months ago. Never thought I'd be so Positive in so many ways. I don't let people walk all over me as I did prior to this weight loss. I wish I would have done this 20 years prior...Oh No-One in my family passes 59 years I turned 60 this month.