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

My sister put me on my first diet when I was in sixth grade. I made it through college without huge weight issues, but then a bad first marriage, three kids and a nomadic lifestyle packed the pounds on. I'm an emotional and stress eater. I was scheduled for WLS in 2005 and was found to have breast cancer at my pre-op. Was diagnosed again with leukemia in 2007. Fought with insurance for the next five years until my dear PCP told me about WLS options within the military healthcare system.

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

There are too many to count. Being diagnosed with diabetes in 2012 was the last straw. On diabetic diet and meds I have lost 40 lbs. to date.

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

Pre-op