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shellmeeee

Life long battle that had smaller fights with each attempt. Not understanding how I kept gaining weight even with activity. Feeling left out or stood out from certain parts of society...seats to small at sporting events, restaurants, airplanes making me feel so self conscience and ruined the evening our day out. Eating because I was depressed about being obese...(that didn't help...:-) )

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Beverly T.

I was very depressed, on antidepressants and had done about every diet under the sun, would lose weight only to gain it and several more pounds back.

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Melissa W.

I was depressed about being overweight and trying various programs and diets and have all of them fail. At times I would say to myself just accept being overweight and be happy with myself but that would only last a short time and I would go back to feeling the way it was before.

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Shelly V.

It was horrible. I felt like I was worth nothing. I am a wife and mother and was really feeling down in the dumps. I knew I needed to find something to help me. I felt like a complete failure with years of diets behind me.

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Alicia S.

I had been a yo-yo dieter losing a large amout of weight and then gaining it back but I never lost over 65 pounds.

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Gypsygirl

I've been fat ever since I can remember. Kids teased me in school. I never dated, never had a very active social life. My father deserted us when I was 3 years old. Never to be heard of or seen again. Mother could be difficult. Family could be difficult. It was my coping mechanism.

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Debra H.

I was a thin child but ballooned upon reaching puberty. Food was the "fix everything" solution in my family. Father could eat anything and never gain. Mother was morbidly obese and a carboholic. Behavioral: Never seriously dieted until college. Starved myself down to 140 lbs and stayed there for 3 years. Then began my years of typical yo-yo loss and gain, lose 25 and gain 30, lose 50 and gai...

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artistmama

I have fought the battle of the bulge my whole life--even successfully for over 20 years, but after bone spurs, bunions which need to be surgically corrected, arthritis in my knee, and finally a hysterectomy four years ago, my weight began to balloon out of control. Five years ago, I looked great, wore a size 10 pants, now I can't stand to look at myself in the mirror. I have been depressed becaus...

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meredith L.

I have been battling weight control since I was 10 years old. I went through a "chubby stage" and just never came out of it. Coming from a family where everyone is obese, sometimes morbidly, my mom was worried that I would be big too, so she started me on diets at a young age and I have been on and off them ever since. I had become used to being big, and not being involved in life, but standing by...

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juliehansen

I always was battling my weight. I think that I was watching my weight in 6th grade already. We were "heavy people" my family would say. I had tried every diet, tried not eating, exercising, pills. nothing worked. I was 25, depressed and very unfit. My health was terrible. I would be short of breath just walking a little ways, to run anywhere was unheard of. My knees and back would hurt and someti...

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jkb

I grew up being told that I was fat and being compared to my thinner sister. I am short with a large bone structure and even when I weighed 95 pounds, I looked in the mirror and saw a fat girl. I was around 115lbs when I got pregnant with my first daughter, gained 55lbs, lost 25lbs only to get pregnant again and gain back that 25lbs. After my divorce, I worked, went to school and spent all my free...

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Sharon H.

Not until I went through Bahavior Modification with my bariatric surgeons officedid I understand why I ate. I scored 85% Stress Eater.

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camiam

It made me even more depressed! I hated the thought of summer coming up! Everyone wearing shorts, and me being the only fat person wearing pants! I hated it! The more depressed I got, the more I ate, the more I ate the bigger I got, the bigger I got the more depressed I got and then right back to the eating. A never ending vicious cycle.

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Maureen W.

My emotional battle with my weight problem was crushing my life into nothing. My blood pressure soared and my asthma got worse every day. I kept packing on more and more pounds, eating was my only escape until I decided I had enough. I watched a t.v. show with Carney Wilson on it and went to the library to get her book to read. As I read her book I cried and cried, she had wrote my life down on th...

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Crystal D.

At first my weight didn't bother me. As I started getting older I realized there were a lot of things I wanted to do and couldn't. I used so many different diets to lose weight. I too would lose weight and the gain it back with additional pounds. I felt it was hopeless.

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CJ Triplett

Before the surgery I was a very outgoing and fun person, I was very active and had like so many others tried a variety of different weight loss methods. None of which really worked. Emotionally I was pretending to be ok, but whenever I really looked in the mirror or saw a photo of myself I became more and more depressed. I hid the depression pretty well for the most part, but after time everyth...

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BARBARA S.

I've been there I've done that. I've been on every diet, pills, calories, carbs, protein, liquid, etc. I always lost weight and I always gained it back and more. This of course makes you feel like a failure than depression sets in. I really felt like its a losing battle. Now I'm hoping this surgery will help, I think of it as a second chance.

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Amy P.

I love to eat! I definetely had a hard time between the concept of "living to eat" or "eating to live"! I ate when I was happy, sad, depressed, celebrating, you name it I ate for it! My father was very hard on us (my sister, mom, and myself) about our weight. He made comments that hurt my feelings and made me feel bad about myself and shot my self-esteem way down. I hated the way I looked and...

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Cheryl V.

The battle of obesity is probably the hardest battle you will ever fight in your entire life. No battle is so draining, emotionally tormenting, frustrating, embarrassing, and all the other bad adjectives I can think of. It ruins your entire quality of life, and eventually "cuts it way short" of a normal life span. After battling obesity for years, you just eventually "give up" and accept your fate...

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slpriceisright

My behavior before WLS was aweful. I have recently taken responsibility for my part in my divorce, because of my attitude etc with being over weight. I couldn't really do anything physical. House work was all most impossible. My attitude was horrible. I would pick fights. Thought basically of myself only. I absolutely hated to go out to dinner or grocery shopping. People would look in my cart to s...

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Tally Sue E.

I tried every diet you can imagine and would always gain back more. I was depressed and isolating myself from others. I got to the place I was unable to walk for any distance, stand for any length of time and felt hopeless most of the time.

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Judy M.

I have done a few diets and the Phen Fen thing. Some with great success, some not, but nothing ever lasted. I just thought I was going to be a fatty all my life. In fact, when people ask me how I am, I always say, 'Fat and happy'. Now I can't wait to be the opposite, thin and b#@&*%y!!! I studied my options for about 18 months before deciding that this was for me. I spoke to both of my Docto...

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Annette M.

I've been heavy all my life...My knees have both gone bad I just had to have surgery on my left knee they did as much as they could to help with the pain, But I'll still always have pain...theres nothing they can do for my right knee as long as I'm this big. As a part of beening so big and I know its just one part I've have always been really depressed...I don't feel like I fit in anywhere... Most...

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Bethany R.

To be honest, I was in denial about my weight. I had convinced myself that my weight didn't matter, and if anyone else thought less of me because I was overweight, it was THEIR problem, not mine. I felt that I was powerless to overcome my obesity, and had developed a hard shell to protect myself from others' comments.

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ToniaM

I have battled my weight problem ever since I can remember. I have tried every diet I know from weight watchers to slim fast to the soup diet, carbo diet, etc etc. I had even in my High School years went to vomiting and not eating to try and lose weight. Now I have to fight not to vomit if I eat to much or I start to feel guilty because I did eat. A simple thing as coughing to much can make me get...

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