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

After years of ups and downs with my weight it finally came to a point that I had to do something. I've hidden myself away at home for the past several years because I just didn't like what I saw or who I was. I would eat when bored, when upset, when happy. I am only 38 and yet I feel like I'm 98. It's not fair to myself, to my daughter and to my friends and family.

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

Not putting myself out there in life. Not being able to take part in my daughters life.

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 only 14 days out from VSG so at the moment it's still new.