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

Prior to learning about bariatric surgery I would try to act as though my weight did not bother me. I was always afraid that if I made it too obvious that it would reflect onto my daughter causing her to obsess about her weight the way I did in my head! What I failed to realize was that I hadn't been doing too good of job. She soon began worrying about hers as well! That, well that is when my eyes definitely became open! I was so embarrassed of my weight I did not want to leave my house! I didn't even want to go to the grocery store! I was a prisoner in my own body! And as much as I thought I kept that to myself, that too was obvious and I realized that when I didn't want to go into a particular store because I might of run into someone amd my 17 year old daughter turns to me and says "why not it isn't lime you're fat anymore"! I was saddened and not because she said I was fat but because she knew I had imprisoned myself because it.

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

The worst thing about being overweight was knowing how hard I've worked again and again and again, just to have it come back as if I hadn't even tried. It's so humiliating to have family and friends see go through your struggle then you just back slide like you were never even there. I always felt like as they would see me going through my weight loss roller coaster that in their heads (or even aloud) they would laugh saying not again, what's the point? I know that most of the time I sure was.

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

Today is 8/7/13 and I am just a few days shy of being 5 months post op! As of today I have lost 100 pounds....OMG 100 pounds I NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, EVER, EVER thought I'd be saying that!! I absolutely love hlw when I have to goto a parent meeting for my kids at their high school, I can fit into the student (1piece) desks and not be afaid nor embarrassed of either not fitting or getting stuck! I love sitting in theatre type seats and having space left. I love having more room on our bed for my husband amd I to sleep....shall I go on LOL