Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
before I had ,y surgery I was an upbeat person as long as I was in small groups, I always felt like I was being judged, I was the fat mom that everyone spoke about... it took seeing a picture of my daughter and myself to realize that I needed a change.
5 years ago I began my transformation I started to eat right quite smoking went to all the meetings found a doctor that would refer me to have the surgery... I took a year then my whole life changed.. day of surgery I weighed 370 and its only now that I will admit that I weight that much I never saw myself as being that large I felt that I looked good and now that I look back to the picture I think what the hell was I thinking.
my first goal I set high I wanted to weigh 200 pounds I got there with a lot of problems if there was a side effect to get I got it I threw up the majority of my food and the rest came out behind me I had the worst case of dumping syndrome that has been heard of .. I turned to alcohol it stayed in but I lost the majority of my hair and became an alcoholic it was just so much easier to drink than eat everything got stuck and I was always uncomfortable this lasted nearly two years ti made it to 180 loved being there couldn't seem to get passed it... when I gave up drinking and joined aa I lost 40 more pounds im now 145 and loving it I eat right stay active and live for me.... It really annoys me when people tell me they are proud of me... I feel that I did this cause it needed to be done not to be skinny though its a perk I did it so that my daughter would have her mother for a lot longer
What was (is) the worst thing about being overweight?
I didn't have a proplem with being over weight I kept up with what needed to be done and I thought I looked good doing it
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 it all I went in a plane on vacation, I went on a roller coaster. white river rafting all the things I couldn't fit into before I am gonna do now
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