Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
I was always thin. My natural size is between 6 and 8. I don't know how I got here. I once gained weight and got up to a size 18, but I got my head right and lost it in 90 days. I was completely down to a size 6 with just eating healthy and exercise. I'm older now and I don't know what to do. It came back on full affect. I watched as I went from 165 to 200. That wasn't so bad. I was in a size 10 and it looked great. everyone said I was too thin before. Then I went to 220 and how did I skip and get to 250 with no notice. I slowly tracked my weight at kept it at 260. I was a big girl, but still sexy. I went to 270 - 290 - 300.... Whoa!!! Help me.
At 260 I considered surgery, but I thought I could fight it. Now, where I am today, I've come to the realization that it's okay to say I need help.
What was (is) the worst thing about being overweight?
The worst thing would be the body odor. I'm just keeping it real. I sweat in places that I don't even know I'm sweating in. The next thing would be the poor selection of clothes. Not ever big girl wants to dress like their mother or in black all of the time. The very next thing would be the discrimination. That's almost unbearable. People do treat you differently. Depression is real. Where the heck did all of these body aches come from. Not breathing... need I say more? I look older than I am and much older than I feel. I am always exhausted. I want energy again. Whats really, really bad is not being able to sit in chairs with arms or amusement park rides. What's embarrassing is not being able to do something because of a weight requirement. I want to live again.
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'm going through the process and hope to get a date in May 2012.
Karen170
