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  • Name: Joann E.
  • Username: eysterfamily
  • Location: Dayton, OH, USA
  • Member Since: 5/24/2007
  • BMI: 28.5
  • Surgery date scheduled
  • Surgery Type: RNY (09/04/07)
  • Surgeon: Matthew I. Goldblatt
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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
I ate based on my feelings, and if I was "dieting", I almost couldn't control myself. I ate more rather than less. I ate because of stress, happy or sad. Food was a reward, and a focus. I ate more than I really wanted just because it tasted good.
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  • Comment by pandacat on 9/3/07 3:21 pm
    Congrats Joann - Won't it be great to join the loser's bench!
  • Comment by brickchick on 9/3/07 5:59 am
    Joann, I am so excited for you that you are headed for the losers bench. You will fly right through the surgery and recovery. Sip, sip, sip and walk, walk, walk. (((HUGS))))
  • Comment by Barb G. on 9/3/07 4:45 am
    Hi Joann, CONGRATULATIONS on your surgery tomorrow. Praying for wisdom for your doctors and a speedy recovery for you.
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Hi,  I'm a AF wife and mom of two sweet kids.  Having RNY has really changed my life.  I am still making adjustments and dealing with unhealthy attitudes toward food and eating, however it is getting easier every day.  I am so excited to about loosing so much of myself, while gaining so much happiness and contentment.  God has truly blessed me with this opportunity to get healthy and begin living a life again.
My Story

Do you ever have the feeling you are all alone?  Well for much of my life that is exactly how I felt.  I come from a big family, a loving family, but for some reason I still felt alone.  I was unaccepted by the majority of people in school and had very few real friends growing up.  I was tall for my age, skinny as a bean pole, had glasses, was uncoordinated and felt like I was not good at much of anything.  So with that basis as a little kid, those feelings just kept coming up as I became a teen and a young lady.  I was not good at sports, made fun of a lot, so I learned to hate exercise.  I was never able to find what I was good with in that area, not really given the chance, so exercise was not high on my list of fun things to do.  As I grew up with more emotions and feelings than I knew what to do with, I looked to food.  When both of my parents were at work, I would come home to an empty house, being a very social person, this didn't work well for me.  I loved peanut butter and marshmallow cream and I would hide a jar of each in my room.  I would come home and stuff down all the feelings from school, and feelings of loneliness, with so much peanut butter and marshmallow cream, that I wouldn't want dinner.  But, I had to eat to cover up what I was doing, so down would go dinner.  At school, I would use my lunch money to buy candy bars and soda.  We had a great little junk truck and I would eat there at lunch, all things bad, funions became a staple.  So up went the weight, down went the self esteem, and the only thing I knew to make me feel better was more food.  Cycles are cycles, and it continued through jr high and then in High School I broke up with a boyfriend that I had been dating for 4 years.  I lost so much weight, I was normal for the first time ever.  Then food really over took me after I was married and living in Germany.  While my husband was at work, I ate, slept, and played tetris.  On came the pounds.  The more deep my depression, the more food I ate.  I always joked that I ate my way through Germany.  We did eat a lot during those years, a lot of heavy German food, full of fat and flavor.  Soon after coming back stateside I was pregnant with our first child.  50lbs later, I had her, and the weight didn't come off, it went up.  Almost 5 years later, another baby, more weight that I didn't loose.  I can say that depression played a huge roll in my weight gains, but even when on medication, that depression lingered and I always had my old friend to stuff down all the feelings.  So that is how I came to be 317lbs of an unhealthy, closed off human being.  And now, that is all changing, a whole new realization has been awakened and I am ready to see what God has in store for me now.