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

I have been the fat girl with the pretty face my entire life. I have tried and tried and tried and it doesn't matter what I do I can never seem to win this battle. In 2004 and 2005 I had 3 brain surgeries which caused me to change the way I ate. I was able to get down to 236 and then the scale stopped moving. It would occasionally go up, but only down if I was under a tremendous amount of stress or on diet pills. At the beginning of 2013 I decided to go balls to the wall. Began Insanity workouts and really tightened up my diet. On Superbowl Sunday I work up at the crack of dawn, stepped on the scale and nearly passed out. I mean you could have knocked me over with a feather. All of my hard worked and I had gained 6 pounds. I cried all day. What the hell was wrong with me? Am I being punked? Man, I was so depressed. I was finally beginning to believe that I was destined to live in this fat body forever. It was that day that I decided to give bariatric surgery a try.

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

Feeling as if I was trapped in the wrong body. Feeling successful in so many areas of my life, but a failure in an area that is so important to me. Feeling like I was a horrible role model for my gorgeous daughter. Hating to look at myself in the mirror or in pictures.

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 haven't had it yet. I cannot wait to add an answer to this question.