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carla rosen

I've been overweight for many years and after high school and sports it got harder and harder to keep it off. I went on many diets including bulemia. After I had my child it was down hill all the way. If I got very depressed or bored or frustrated I would have 2 lunches. My sister had the surgery and went from a size 22 (in October) to a size 12 (the following June). I had already heard about t...

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Cinda

I ate for every emotion. I've always struggled with weight as a child, I remember my first diet my mom was on weight watchers and she would use the recipes to feed me. From there I've been on every diet conceivable. I had an extremely stressful job which caused me to eat and eat. Weight off with diets, weight back on with a vengeance.

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Hans Meijer

I did not experience any behavioral or emotional battles with weight control prior to surgery. I just loved to eat and learned how to cope with the changes in getting bigger, etc...but looking back now I feel that I was being affected mentally from a self-esteem standpoint.

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Amy M.

I had struggled with my weight since I was a small child. I grew up on Weight Watchers and tried every diet from A to Z only to gain back any weight I lost plus a little extra. I researched bariatric surgery for about 3 years before deciding to pursue it. I'm so glad I did...my life is wonderful now!

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RedHeadLookingToLive

Pre op answered question. . . I was open about it from the onset. I told my husband, discussed with him, shared him what little I did know and then for five years I spent a lot of research time, learning all I could about the surgery and the different types there were. Once we settled on what we thought would be good for me, I went to my mom and shared with her the idea. She and my husband went...

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Over_the-Rainbow

My emotions, like my eating habits, were out of control. I ate when I was happy, sad, frustrated, elated, tired, and more.

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Andy Kovatch

There is an old saying - I'm not sure exactly how old - that you should eat to live and not live to eat. Well, I definitely was living to eat each and every day prior to gastric bypass surgery. I, for some reason, felt the meal I was eating was my last. Food absolutely controlled me.

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Karri T.

I had a incredible lack of interest in life because it was so exhausting just walking from one place to another. Grocery shopping was actually a chore and struggle. I was even having trouble grooming myself including wiping my backside when using the restroom. At that time, I knew I had to do something drastic at that point. I couldn't o to amusement part because I couldn't fit into the rides, ...

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Nikki Knull

I have been on so many diets and i would loose 10 or 20 lbs and then gain all of that back and more. I am only 23 yrs old and i cant have children right now because of my weight! I haven't been able to ride a ride in yrs, i have broken my fair share of furniture and been starred at and teased because of my weight! My own father and brother-in law just flat out refuse to like me and go out of the...

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simonebtaylor

Emotionally being overweight was hard for me. None of my family or friends saw me as overweight, because I had such a nice disposition on life. But I kept a lot of things inside me. It was depressing for me and I had a feeling of loneliness.

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shoegirl1023

I used food like a junkie uses drugs and like an alcoholic uses drink. I ate when i was happy, sad or just simply loved to eat. Food was my life.

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lady_bug

I had no self control and was an emotional eater,it had gotten so out of control to where i really saw no use in trying to lose it on my own.So you can say I had given up hope.

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xosaraxo

I tried it all!! I dieted from 2nd grade on.

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MikeSpencer

Was always tired and could never forgive myself for getting so heavy

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Penny S.

I had been battling my weight for years and years. I suspect that I was probably clinically depressed most of the time, but only diagnosed approximately 3 years before I investigated surgery.

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Musicmama88

I fought the battle of Obesity all my life, weighing in at 36 pounds at 4 months of age. I was an emotional eater, I ate when I was depressed, bored, stressed, happy,,I ATE! I tried every diet , and lost weight, only to regainit again. I felt like it was hopeless.

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brokenelbow

i have been heavy since 9th grade

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holygrl72

I went through the divorce of my parents and started to eat. We never had fast junk food and things before, and when we finnaly got them the weight crept up. Then when I was 18 I married and it wasn't a good marriage. Again the weight started to rise. I Just couldn't control my food it controled me.

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wjoegreen

I've been heavy all my life. I remember always being the one to push but never ride. I found happiness and comfort in food, rewards for doing good and comfort in failure. I was 245 in HS and 260 after. Lost to 200 for 8 years then gained 20-30 ppounds a year until reaching 400. Heart problems, on top of others provoked getting this surgery or die soon. The meat and potates guy that loved ice ...

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cuppyb

I was an emotional eater - a pint of Ben & Jerry's could solve most issues. If not a box of past with a half a loaf of bread & butter would do.

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PhoenixAlexander

There was never enough. Food was my source of comfort, my emotional supporter, and occasionally my lover ... not in a gross way either. Food was my companion that provided what I needed, whenever I desired.

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Michelle M

I have had a weight problem since I was 11. I have gone up and down the scale my whole life until the surgery.

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ambersun

I had battled with my weight for years, The changes it took on my life affected me greatly despite the fact the very low self asteem, The depression that resulted from being this way and on, anti- depressents ..My health suffered the most I ended up diabetic and insulin dependant , medications for BP, cholest...Blood clot, degenerative dic's , arthritis in my knee's Having tried various weight l...

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ckr61

I suffered years of weight problems and slowly gained and could not lose the weight.I ate when I was hugry and when I wasnt. Food was my comfort and it was my enemy. It was a love/hate relationship.

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Marie Sinur-Schmidt

My weight loss journey, (from my diary) I had an epiphany. It was the winter of 2003. I had just celebrated my 50th birthday. My family surprised me with a sit down dinner for 35 of my closest friends and family. It was a wonderful surprise. My oldest daughter planned this so I wouldnt plan a going away party for her. She was leaving us to move across the country to LA with her boyfriend. I pl...

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