Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
I grew up in a household where my mother was always on a diet. She went through all the diet plans out there. I swore I would watch what I ate and never get there. Well, I was wrong. I always watched my diet and stayed pretty good until the dreaded 40s. It seemed like no matter what I did the scale went up, up, up. I loved everything in my life (family, career, friends) but I hated myself because of my weight. I felt like I had control of everything except that. Two years ago my younger sister went for bariatric surgery and I attended the meetings with her as a support person and found myself in a place where I thought I would never be. Six months after my sister's surgery, we found ourselves in reverse roles.
What was (is) the worst thing about being overweight?
I hated how I looked, how I felt, and how I felt people were looking at me.
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 enjoy feeling good. Not being tired. Having that feeling of success and control. It's all mind set. As long as you think positive and realize that you have control not the food you are on the right track. Food is an inanimate object, you as a person have a brain--use it, control it.
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