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

I'v always been very active even at my peek wight of 267lbs. And especially as a child! When my family moved to a very suburban neighborhood just as i reached puberty, I pretty much remain over weight since them. But as a 5'7 pear shaped black girl I carried it well... Or Hid it well!! My breaking point was when i turned 18, I was 220lbs and my "Boyfriend" at the time totally just left me hanging, left and never came back! It was the motivation I needed to get it together! Plus Rip Fuel had Ephedra in it at the time (good stuff), so the pounds melted off like butter! In les than 3months I was down 50lbs!! It stayed off till I gave birth to my 1st son. I ballooned to a wopping 260! With only ten pound of baby, I had hella work to do because this fat stuff was ruining my sex life with my fiance! Just uncomfortable mentally and physically for me! So I got on the ball working out hard as ever, this time i'm trying diet pill after diet pill. I get down to 215 and... BAM! We get pregnant with my second son and instead of being happy all i could selfishly think about was my weight!!! And that i hadn't reached my prepregnacy weight yet dammit & here I am not even 1year later, about to be BIG as damn house...Again!!! After weighing in at 28lbs the day of birth, Needless to say birthcontrol was on my to do list this time around lol! So surprisingly drooped down to 157 in less than a year, and yes i said "drooped". My skin needed to play catchup to my body. So I trained and worked on my body and was at a perfect 167 which i very right for my body type. See dispute what many believe, that one size fits all body weight by height chart doctors like to pull out, black woman are shaped different and skin and bones it Not Hot in out culture!! But in no time I was struggling to keep under 200 some timed creeping over 205 mark' Leaving me in a depressed state oh so often. For the next 4 years I would chew and spit, drink prune juice daily & work out with every bite I ate! Hell I could look at a cooking and gain a pound!! It was so physically & emotionally draining. Thats why I thanked GOD when I found out I was pregnant with my final child, I was so glad to be able to let it hang, not have to wear breath taking girdles, purging stops, no pills no banging on the treadmill for the cookie i just ate or the one I wont be able to resist later! I could breath for a while...9 month, 78lbs and my tubes tied, I'm 29, done having children and considering a gastric Sleeve...

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

People treat you different than when average size and avoiding social events.

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

Working on that...