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

I did not have a weight problem until my 20's because of bad retlationships and of course bad choices i spiraled out of control. I could never blame my weight on my pregnancies due to the fact I gain very minimal wieght with my first child and actually lost weight on my second child due to constant vomiting. I even lost more wieght breastfeeding. However, after the breastfeeding was over WOW i packed on the pounds. I stayed around 200-220 for about 10 years. In 2009 at age 34 I was diagnosed with invasive triple negative breast cancer. I know it was a sick thought but I wondered if maybe a plus to chemo would be weight loss NOT! The steriods I had to take made me gain even more weight. I had a bi-lateral mastectomey, chemo and radiation. Very depressed and sedentary is what finally brought me to my highest weight of 279. My plastice surgeon refused to do my breast reconstruction surgery because I was obese :( After a year of research and prayer I made the decision to have WLS.

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

The worst thing about being overweight is the way it dampens your spirit. Changes who you are. I was once a very adventurous person but my weight and size started making the decision as to what I could an could not do.

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 am post op with Gastric Bypass as of July 11th 2012. I am still feeling rough but it amazes me not to be hungry. I don't ever remember not being hungry.