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Isha F.

I hated being overweight. No matter what I tried to lose it, nothing ever worked. I have been obese since I was a child so I expereinced all of the torment in school you get when you are overweight. My grandmother also was very cruel to me about my weight.

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Ann N.

My battle of the bulge, began in 1973 after a failed relationship, I moved to Colorado to escape my hurt and distance myself from the situation. I went to college mornings in Colorado Springs, worked 3-11pm shift at a Nursing Home, arrived back to my apartment to study and EAT. Weight was about 134 lbs. in July 1973 by Christmas I weighed 176 lbs. It just continued to climb! I married in 1976 to...

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kemalani

My behavioral and emotional battle was like a yo-yo. Up and down all the time. Although I didn't eat very much I ate all the wrong types of foods.

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stepheetedford

I have been dieting since I was about 14 years old. It was hard on me emotionally, and I hated myself for years. I felt like a failure at everything.

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KBlough10

It was a horrible struggle. I tried every diet that I had ever heard of. I battled bulemia and anorexia. I wouldn't eat in front of anyone that I went to school with. I felt guilty, like I shouldn't eat. I just felt hopeless. High school was not a fun time for me. People are very cruel. I really beat myself up for being overweight as well. I felt like I was a really bad person because I couldn't c...

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Wendy G.

All my life I battled with weight, I would go on a roller coaster, Loose the weight and gain more. So many things come into your life and you take that emotion and furnish it with food. Sure it feels nice at the moment but in the long run your slowly killing yourself on the outside and inside the most.

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v

As a child who was slightly heavy, my parents put me on a strict diet when I was about 11. It has been a rollercoaster ever since. As an example of the extremes of this rollercoaster: By age of 27, I was anorexic and hospitalized having lost 120 pounds in a few months previous to weigh 126. By age of 38, I was just a few pounds shy of 300 pounds. In between I tried LA Weight Loss, TOPS, Weigh...

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kaylabow

I struggle everyday with my self image. My emotional and mental state is significantly affected by my obesity. I also worry about what others think of me because of my weight.

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kevphill

I've been a big'n all my life. Diets and programs and all kinds of craziness over the years with no results. It's been disapointing and depressing because I know I'm not very attractive at this weight. I would try to psych myself into losing weight all the while keeping the question when will I gain it back in my mind.

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Minneapolisredhead

I was an emotional indulger. If I felt happy I ate, sad I ate, didn't feel anything I ate. I hated myself because I could not get it under control. I was on every diet in the world, for at least a day. How no control over intake control

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JeanTownsend

I have been over 200 lbs since I was a teen, I am 46 now. My two sisters had this surgery 20 years ago, I have know about it, wanted it, didn't feel safe doing it because of my children's dependency on me.

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Amy Williams

It's been a very hard time all my life. It started from the day I was in 1st grade. I was always a tall child. I was picked on from then until the day I graduated high school. The kids were so cruel and it was very hard for me to get thru somethings. I wanted to kill my self. I was not happy with my self. I didn't seem to have many friends. The friends that I did have they are not around an...

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SHARON ROSE

I just felt like giving up, very embarrased at times.

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Alicia

I was always eating, mainly due to boredom. I would never eat breakfast, eat a big fast food lunch, eat fast food on the way home, and then eat whatever my husband would make for dinner. Then I'd have some type of snack before bed. I would feel great while I was eating. But once the food was gone, I felt awful. I would be so depressed about not being able to control myself. Having to get dre...

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Much2Lose

I've been heavy most of my life, but I have always thought of myself as even fatter than I really was. When I was only 13, I was perhaps 20 pounds overweight, but I felt like I was 300 pounds. I would feel so self-counscious about what I ate that I started sneaking food and eating it alone so nobody would know I had eaten it. By the time I was a junior in high school, I weight about 180 pounds ...

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Heidi Lauw

I am a classic yo-yo dieter. I can lose weight with minimal struggle, but as soon as I stop "dieting" the old habits come back and I find myself at an even greater weight than I started. I have gone from 220 at my first diet to now 315.

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Katie Gavin

it was a story in my head..that one day i would be thin..or healthy! or compleat the gole of loosing!

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monkeesjunkee

My behavior was very self destructive. I had a long emotional battle with weight. I did get therapy for it. I spent a lot of time soul searching and agonizing over my decision to have surgery

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Debbie R.

I remember my mother taking me to the doctor when I was maybe 8 or 9 years old and the doctoe bribing me with a pretty little gift all wrapped up for Christmas. He said I could have it when I lost 4lbs. well I didn't get that present till Valentine's Day. The kids I played with called me tub-o-lard or fatso. I took tap dancing lesson till I was 15 and stopped when the instructor continued to teach...

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lisageo

I have constantly dieted since the birth of my first child. I have been overweight before but not to a point I couldn't control. I have tried a lot of diets out there. I have tried Slimfast, T-Lite, Metabolife, Stackers, Gold's Gym, Ladies First Fitness, and Southeastern Health Spa. I have been walking, and am currently in Taekwondo.

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Sewcrazy

Hi I'm Carole. My behavior problems is that when you don't dig to deep I just like food. When I really think about it, it's very deep. As young as 4-5 years old I was " chunky " I have pix of me in shorts. I already had " thick" thighs. I don't remebmer eating any more than the rest of my family. I was of "normal " weight when I graduated 6th grade. In Jr. and High school I stared again to have a ...

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ginifh

I have been battling weight my entire life. I remember my first diet being at the age of 7, and now that I look back on it it is the same age as my son is. It is a terrible thing to have to have been on a diet at that point already. I ate all my life for comfort, and to help me get thru some rough times. I had a pretty hard childhood and food was my best friend when I needed it, and it was alw...

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bconaway1953

I had struggled with weight since I was a little girl. I went to 'fat' camp in my early teens lost weight,but was miserable when I came home and promply gained it back plus some. That was my habit. I even lost 100+ pounds in my mid-20's and got down to 234 pounds. It took several years but I gained 20 lbs one year, 10 pounds another year until I was weighing upwards of 250. Then I got 'sick' a...

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kstonecorbett

My life was like a yo-yo, like many of us who are overweight and hate it. In the 1950's, when I was a little fat girl, my mother would chastise me for eating, I thought she hated me because I was fat even though she is the one who made me that way. She gave me diet pills (real diet pills) at age 12 before High School so I could fit into the uniform and one day I passed out. I did every diet there...

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Michelle Fulton

There was no battle...food was in control. I was a compulsive overeater who had no control over food. I treid diets only to overeat more, I tried OA... I tried everything. Nothing helped.

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