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  • Username: Michele816
  • Member Since: 8/12/2010
  • BMI: 22.8
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  • Surgery Type: RNY (09/20/10)
  • Surgeon: Neil Floch
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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
Grazing, bored and binge eating defined my relationship with food. I had the mentality of always "needing to have enough" and so ate to the point of discomfort very often. Humiliation was an ever-constant emotion: from the comments by children ("Mommmy, why is she so fat?"), to the inability to squeeze through turnstyles and fit in seats at stadiums, concerts and movies to having a waiter tell me I couldn't sit in the deck chair and had to switch to a sturdy, armless dining room chair to having to order stretchy clothing in sizes that could fit multiple people. I avoided mirrors, most theaters, and events with public seating. I was isolating myself more and more because I couldn't face the humiliation of being super morbidly in a world that could not fit...
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  Highest Weight: 379; Current Weight: 138-17 pounds below goal
  "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." 
RNY date: September 20, 2010
"Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
                
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