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Celia S.

I had been overweight or obese pretty much all my life. I was heavy in grade school and by the time I left middle school, I was already wearing a size 22. I tried fad diet after fad diet, tried regular diet and exercise, and many times I would be successful in losing a little weight then within months it would all be back on - Plus some more for good measure. I had researched bariatric surgery a f...

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Amber S.

I was depressed because of my weight all my life. After I got married, I began eating like crazy and suddenly found myself at a weight that disgusted me beyond any other time in my life.

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Consuela N.

I have been overweight since I was 5 years old. I always was teased about my weight and I always was on a diet since I was 10 years old. I would always lose the weight but in the winter when I was not active it all came back and then some.

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Godgaveus2

My weight has always been a struggle for me. I was constantly teased in high school for being the "fat" girl. For a long time my diet consisted of Diet Mt Dew and diet pills. I even turned bulimiac in my constant battle to "fit" in. Thankfully, a friend told the school nurse what I had been doing and she was able to give me the reality check I needed. The weight issues continued into my adu...

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Charlene R.

Tramatic and abuse with food deficits as a child kept me at size 5 up until 18 years. Most of my life i have been dealing with the effects of past not dealing.

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dannegrl

I have been an emotional eater all of my life.

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SwedishBlonde79

Always counting calories and punishing myself foe going " Off the diet"..

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G. Jenkins

Good part of my life I was always trying a diet or something to lose weight. I am a happy person, but getting older, my body started feeling different and things began to develope. Ashma, knees hurting, gall stones. So something had to be done.

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ANGIE L.

A life long struggle of diets and failures. Wondering if I would ever suceed with losing weight.

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Valerie K.

I was one who went to work and came home to watch tv or just go online because I was to tired to do any thing else. I hated how I looked and hated that I kept gaining weight. I started to gain weight at age 20 and than had children and was getting so big. I knew I had a problem but did not want to admit it.

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PedalSteelGirl

Prior to bariatric surgery, food dominated my days. It took valuable time away from people who needed ME not to mention the money I spent in restaurants and fast food places. I would barely finish breakfast and I would start to obsess about what the other meals would be. That was when I was trying to "control" my weight. When I wasn't even trying to control or contain my weight gain, I just pl...

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R. Brown

Simple if I am bored I eat If I am stressed I eat Hungry I eat Worry I eat

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Karen M.

I was a yo-yo dieter. I'd lose weight, I would be very happy. But when I gained it back, I would go into somewhat of a depression.

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sheilapinkney

I was never overweight until after I had my daughter at the age of 20. And because of the circumstanes surrounding her birth with the biological father, I went into a deep depression. I began to eat. I steadily gained weight. I was so unhappy with myself and my life. Then I jumped into an unhealthy marriage, but things just got worse. I got to the point I just wished I would be hit by a truc...

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minimegs

I was to the point where I didn't know what else to do, I had been on every diet imaginable and the weight kept coming on. Once I was diagnosed with diabetes I really kicked it into gear, my blood sugar was/is under control, I was eating correct and exercising with a trainer...but maintaining my weight. I felt like a failure, weight loss was the one thing I could never succeed at, no matter how ...

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KITYKATTSS

didnt really care, ate because iwanted to . Not because i was depressed, lonely or bored.

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PhoenixMedusa

I had some struggles as a young woman and was a victim of rape and had severe abandonment issues. Food had been my best friend. I lived my life in a daze only feeling from the neck up. I allowed people to abuse me and I felt life happened to me rather than feeling I had any control over anything. I lost weight only to gain weight back over and over and finally eating myself up to 287 pounds. At 5'...

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Brenda C.

I had struggled my entire life, since grade school, so it took a deep look into my soul to come to the decision that I could NOT lose the weight on my own. Before coming to grips, I saw my considering surgery my own failure, but now I realize the failure was only in my emotions. Surgery is a tool, what you do with your tool dictates your success. I am still working on my success story, but now ...

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jayla79

I was always depressed. I felt insecure and so ugly.

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Just Ducky - The Meditative Hag

It was a constant rollercoaster of yo-yo dieting, metabolic problems and worse the physical (pain) and problems. You always tell yourself "Tomorrow I will diet" or "exercise more" and then the tomorrow is so hard to do, or never comes. The trying to have discipline with your eating, and then feeling like a failure when you try hard and the weight doesn't come off.

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DarcyMad

I'm still pre-surgery and I think I'm the most scared about emotional eating after surgery. I'm a huge emotional eater or I eat out of boredom. I'm so worried about failing! This is my last hope to regain a healthy life. I'm desperate for surgery to work but feel completely helpless to the emotional eating. I am seeing a therapist.

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edwardtm

I was always oveweight as a young child and teenager, I had my clothes made for me and when I was a pre-teen I had to get clothes from the large ladies store. I dealt with the problems of being overweight all my life until after I had children, later on in life. I then began to experience the real problems of being overweight; diabetes and join pains took over my life. I never like to depend on...

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DianeSchafer

I was up and down all of the time..Had lost 103 pounds with Fen Fen back in the 90's and of course I have that mitral valve leak..not as bad as some thank God. I don't eat when I am depressed but when I was stressed watch out and yes there is a difference...I had to think about it also.

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monymony

I was depressed because I couldn't keep the weight off. I had given up the idea of getting healthy.

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Lesile Barrett

Mine is a little different than many. I have the opposite outlook on food, and the bad behaviors from my point of view contributed to my weight problem. I grew up active, in Oklahoma where everything is fried. I only ate vegetables growing up, then as I got more active, and more hungry, I turned to breads and cheeses. I used to think I just didn't like meat and things that my mother made. As I gre...

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