Jessie12

Obesity & Me

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

I've. Always have strugled with my weight. All through growing up, always low self-esteem. All my high school friends were very skinny. I cryied alot becuz I new that my friends... well I just move on. I lost a lot of weight on year. Move to. California. And the weight slowly creaped back, and the health issues also starter snowballing, apendix, heart problems, sleep apena ankle swelling and pain. When I found out that I could havbe a vs procediure... I was so happy. I have kiaser insurance. It has taken me a year and a half to do everthing that they wanted me todo. But I did it got my sx date jan 29...... im 2 weeks post op and im very happy that I took this journey...........my highest weigjth was 266 as of the date im 231.

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

Buying clothes, sitting in a public chair

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

Not sure yet

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