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deondria

I was having a hard time losing my weight. I was very big and felt I was ugly and that just did not have a purpose to life, but to work and go home.

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Oralia Hernandez

I can say I was an emotional eater I would eat when I was happy,sad,excited,depressed so you can say I was always eating. Then when I would stuff my face I would hate myself because I felt like the Good year blimp.

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carisykes

I just got tired of losing weight to only gain it back and more.

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Kemberly S F.

I've always been overweight and felt it was just the way i was made - i'm active and love to be outside, but for the most part, i've always thought "HEY, i am overweight - my sister is skinny - that's just the way it is." I had no idea there was help for people like me. I've been overweight since i was a child - my mom even said since i was a baby. I've never experienced life any other way exce...

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Brenda Diane D.

After age 17 the pounds kept piling on. I was an emotional eater and didnt really pay that much attention to what I was eating. I ate everything I liked. I tried several times to lose only to give up and gain the weight back plus some. My entire family was obese so I blamed it on genetics and resiegned to the fact that I was destined to be obese too.

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DONNA S.

Weight has been the most frustrating part of my life, all my life. Started dieting when I was 12 yrs. old,,,I am 57 now and had just had enough! Bariatric surgery was a life saver for me. Was always able to take care of, and handle, any business in my life EXCEPT my weight. If not for the surgery I don't think I would have lasted more than another 5 or 6 yrs. My body was getting so weak that every...

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CarolineAnnMartin

Shortly before moving out of my parent's house at the age of 18 1/2, I started gaining a lot of weight. In a short year, I went from 135 to 210 lbs. I continued to gain weight over the next several years going up to 330 lbs. In February 1997, I started Phen/Fen and never felt better about my relationship with food. I lost about 70 lbs without hardly trying and was being very physically active. But...

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Tina F.

All I thought about from morning to night was what I was going to eat throughout the day. I was completely obsessed with food. Food made me miserable, but it comforted me at the same time. It is a vicious cycle.

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Janine Greenwood

I have always been that chubby girl. Then I met my true love Travis and we both got fat together. See when I met him I was single and out dancing 3x's a week or more and barley eating I lost in that year 130 pounds so he met me at a size 18. Like I said I have always been big. I have been up and down with my weight but this is my biggest EVER and I do not life it that is why I did something about...

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JENNY

I DIDN'T LIKE MYSELF AT ALL,I DIDN'T WANT TO SEE PEOPLE ,I STAYED AT HOME,I LIVED IN MY HOME FOR TEN YEARS AND MY NEIGHBORS NEVER SAW ME.I FELT LIKE SUCH A FAILURE AND THAT I WAS JUST GOING TO DIE FAT,I WAS SURE THAT PEOPLE WAS ALWAYS MAKING JOKES ABOUT ME AND MY WEIGHT.I CRIED ALOT I WAS SO DEPRESSED AND I WOULD EAT BECAUSE I THOUGHT FOOD WAS MY BUDDY.

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mellyhudel

Since I was 8 yrs old, I have had problems with weight loss. When I was 12, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidsm, and because of possible side effects, the docotors never put me on meds for it. When I turned 18, I finaly started seeing a doctor who put me on meds for it. About that time, I started having problems with my periods. They had never been regular, but I went 6 months without one (my folks...

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Linda Habay

Weight has been a issue since I was 16 years old. I would always go up and down with my weight. Then when I started having children and or problems in my marriage, I seem to put on more weight. Didnt help that I became a Chef and always around food! I have known about Bariatric surgery for some 13 years but, that's when they made those long ugly scars and I thought it was to much to go through to ...

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mary0981

All my life I have been overweight. I have been so miserable and unhappy. Most of the time I don't like myself, the way I look makes me sick!

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JOSHNSUZIE

i could not control my weight no matter what i tried. i just kept watching my weight get higher and higher. i knew i would die without weight loss surgery.

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Kristin W.

I was absolutely miserable. However, I made sure to never show it to anyone. I always appeared to be happy and comfortable with the way that I was, but when I was alone... I hated myself, my weight and the way it made me feel.

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Dayana E. S.

Frustated, depressing, angry, and out of control, those are the words that describe my feelings before learning about the surgery. It seems that just when things are going well with a diet, something happens and then you've gained the weight you lost plus some. Then when you go shopping, you buy something saying, "i'll lose weight and fit into it", course it never happens. And we'll see someone wi...

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Adam Z.

I WAS VERY FRUSTRATED WITH ALL THE YO YO DIETS AND I WAS DEPRESSED ALOT

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miss_sweet_lori

For about 12 years I have been battling with different diets. I have tried Weight Watchers, Cabbage Soup Diet, Slim Fast Diet, Diet Pills, even Diet Prescriptions. All with no luck. I have been overweight ever since I was 5 years old. I was made fun of continually through school all the way up until now. I do not have any self esteem and am always putting myself down. Being overweight is not fun, ...

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vianafs

I have been "chubby" since my teens and didn't really bother until seven years ago when I really started gaining wheight. Since them I have been trying al kinds of diets adn dieticians but for every kilo lost, two more were recovered in a short period of time. I was even threatened by my former employer who said that it was either my fat body or my job! As a result I moved on to anphetamyns for si...

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rhondan

My weight was a constant battle and i was loosing that battle with each year. I lived on prescribed diet pills for about 10 years. I hated the emotional battle of being obese. I never wanted to go any where or do anything. I hid from everything. I hated to buy clothes let alone go shopping, I hated the stares from others and just drew into a shell of a person.

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Michaela S.

I had stuggled with my weight for the last 15 years. I learned about the bariatric surgery from my primary care physician during my annual physical. She informed me of my BMI, told me of the seminar for WLS at my hospital. I had tried weight watchers for years, was a very active person yet could not lose any significant weight. And I think before I went to the seminar I had almost given up on myse...

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ChatKat15

Knowing I had been gaining weight and unable to lose any of it made me very miserable. Going on a diet, just to fail 3 months later was an even greater hardship. So much in fact that I gave up on dieting. Emotionally it was hard, because I felt that life was passing me by, that I was just existing, trapped in my home. My family had to be so cautious, everywhere we went, they had to find places f...

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Marsha F.

I am so certain that my story has the same basic information as all my sisters and brothers who are contemplating and/or have had this dramatic change to their lives. I ad battled the "weight yo-yo" for 25 years, experimenting and living the diet game all the while.

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Marjorie B.

Behaviorally, I am a bulk eater. I finish the package. I cannot seem to stop myself from getting down to the crumbs. I have tried every diet that has come down the 'pike, including Dr. Stillman, Dr. Atkins, the Scarsdale Diet, the Hollywood Diet, the Cabbage Soup Diet, the forgiveness diet, OptiFast (twice!), and I have not been able to curb the urge to "clean the plate." Even while I am eatin...

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Holly B.

I have been over weight since I graduated High School. I found myself doing one diet after another only to find myself loosing weight and then gaining it back and then some. I have always been an active person and over the years I found myself trapped inside because of my weight. Emotionally I feel I was a wreck for I hated looking at myself in the mirror and I know that my family was embarrassed ...

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