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Obesity & Me

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

I was a person use to getting up everyday going to work in 2008 I lost my job, I was already having problems with my knees but as soon as I completely stop working and could go to the doctor and have myself check out thoroughly and not knowing how much damage I had done to my knees I was in trouble because I was not paying attention to what I was doing to myself I was gaining weight thinking I was looking good but happy in the fact that my husband was only looking at me that being satisfied but not even listening to him when he would say stop laying down eating like that, things shot out of control while i was tipping the scale at 315 but then it seemed that after I had found out that I had diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and my vision was getting worse and the doctor was warning me I still was not looking at myself until one day I could not walking that well and I went to the doctor and he was telling me I needed my knees replaced and I really needed to lose some weight my back was being crushed I stayed in a lot of pain that I was crying because of the pain I was in and my insurance did to cover much of anything I was in trouble but now both my knees have been done and I have finally had gastric by pass surgery but I am having trouble with that because of my eating habits I cannot seem to find much food that will agree with me and sometimes I cannot keep anything down I am in need of help, sick all the time....

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

My experience of over wight is in my paragraph at the top

If you have had weight loss surgery already, what things do you most enjoy doing now that you weren't able to do before?

Walking

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