Before & After RNY with Steve - Why I decided to have WLS Before & After RNY with Steve: A lot of things come with obesity; depression, isolation, even suicidal thoughts to name a few. When I was growing up, I can remember school being a particularly difficult time for
Why I Decided to Have WLS I was 23 when I had my first daughter and was a single mom working two jobs trying to provide for her. As she grew, staying fit and healthy was definitely not on my radar. I was always trying the latest and greatest... Tried
Why I Decided To Have WLS I thought I might be floating on a cloud in some surreal world where the scales won’t work properly. On the scale, 270 pounds? That couldn’t be right. I bought another scale. I got the kind you used to see in a doctor’s office
Why I Decided To Have WLS I would like to tell a little about my struggle with obesity. I tried so many diets in my lifetime and they worked to a point but then the weight just came back on, plus more than I originally lost. My journey all began
Why I decided to have WLS My true struggles with obesity started in my mid 20's. Prior to that, I did have various times in my life where I would gain/lose weight (losing it in not the most healthy of ways), but it did not become overwhelming until I got
Why I Decided to Have WLS My unhealthy relationship with food and my weight struggles began when I was in elementary school. My parents divorced when I was 5 years old and back in the 60's divorce really was an oddity. My mother, younger sister and I moved back to
Why I Decided to Have WLS As a Hispanic family, food was all around. I also grew up poor, so whenever we did have food, my family never liked to see it go to waste, so we ate it. “Poor food” wasn’t exactly healthy food for me and my family,
Why I Decided to Have WLS From the time I can remember, food has been a focal point of my life. I love food, adore it actually, but I had an unhealthy relationship with it. It served so many purposes: a comfort when I was sad or lonely, a high
Why I Decided to Have WLS My weight has been a negative force in my life from my preteen years until I had weight loss surgery in 2011. It seems to me now that before my weight loss surgery, my thoughts were constantly consumed with my weight. When, 5’6’, and
Why I Decided to Have WLS After having difficulty conceiving our last child, my doctor explained the possibility that I had Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, P.C.O.S. However, once we were able to successfully get pregnant and deliver our son, I thought I had been misdiagnosed. After losing all my baby weight,
