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  • BMI 25.5

Obesity & Me

Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.

I've been fat all my life...from being an overweight baby to having 'baby fat' as a teen and then as an adult adding 5# a year...At 59 years old I became a widow and realized that health was important and I've been remiss in not trying to take care of myself better. So I started on the path of being active and healthly with an RNY surgery. I turn sixty in March and hope to be at my goal weight of 245 which I've never been at as an adult. I just wish I had made these decisions years ago.

What was (is) the worst thing about being overweight?

The worst is not being active, being able to fit 'normal' sizes, get into the bathroom stall, see my toes, fit into the school desk, and the assumption that I'm lazy, stupid or deaf because I was fat!

If you have had weight loss surgery already, what things do you most enjoy doing now that you weren't able to do before?

I love shopping in normal sizes, having friends and family do 'double takes' because they are use to the 'old me' instead of the new slender me, being able to exercise with being tired before I start! I actually can see my toes!

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