Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
I was an athletic teenager and like many a diet coke was my favorite meal. As I got older I ended a very abusive relationship in which I then turned to food for comfort. I had a wonderful baby boy and continued through college. I always knew how important good nutrition was but as a single parent on a very limited budget I focused on my sons nutrition and not mine. I gradually just kept gaining weight. Sure weight watchers worked for a while but so did the other diets I tried. The problem is the minute I wondered off the path I blew up. My whole family is over weight espacilly the women way back to my great grandparents. I work in the medical field and take responsibility for the reason I am heavy, but I also know there is a small bit of genitics involved as well. Everyone who is over weight knows how hard it is to be "fat" its hard to find cloths that fit confortably,and find places to sit, and its hard on your children. I decided I had had enough when I had to buy mens scrubs for work because the womans where not big enough. I also love to go hiking and am tired of being out of breath. I am also tired of my body being in pain all the time. I have a lot of diabetes and heart diease in my family which I have been lucky enough to avoid, I dont want that either! What was (is) the worst thing about being overweight? I think the worst thing for me about being over weight is pain and lack of energy. My back is always sore and I have two herniated disks. I dont have the energy to climb up the hills at my favorite state parks any more.
