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Kathy J.

I was so depressed. I was fighting myself every day. I started to college and one of the hardest things was trying to fit in a desk. Trying to get there early to get the biggest desk I could find. Also going on family trips and not being able to do the things with my husband and kids I wanted to do. I was starting to except just being large and that depressed me.

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jjtheba

I have been on every diet possible and have been on a roller coaster ride with weight since the 10th grade. I am now 52 years old and my health is a wreck from this long term battle. The older I get the more it affects me emotionally since my physical battles of arthritis, incontinence, hypertension, and lumbar strain have become worse. The physical limitations have been so great I now have pan...

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bettybooty32

I have found a best friend in food. Stress really tends to lead me to the kitchen and with all weight I continue to gain the more I stress so its a vicious cycle. I have been very uncomfortable and depressed for the last 3-4 years due to the incresae in my weight. Its total hell.

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dkinson

I am like every other person here. I have struggled with my weight my entire life. Food has been my best friend, and my worst enemy. Only know as I await my surgery am I realizing how big a part of my life food is. Sadly I have also made it a part of my wifes life too as she has put on 50 or so pounds since we met. Our greatest joy is to go out to eat. AND IT SHOWS!! With luck the dietary changes ...

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mbarn2003

As an ICU nurse, I began taking care of gastric bypass patients many years ago. The only doctor that would perform the surgery was a renal transplant doctor who started performing the surgery on renal patients who were too obese for renal transplants. All of his patients came to the ICU and consequently, had many complications. I swore that I would never be THAT desperate to lose weight. Whe...

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pattyincali

I have been obese all of my life, in fact I have never spent one single day of my life as a thin or "average weight" person. Years went by and my weight continued to grow until I reached 438lbs. When I was in the 200 lb and low 300lb range, I was still able to function well, and had a reasonably good social life. But once I began entering the high 300's and beyond, my quality of life b...

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Kerri W.

I COULD NOT DEAL WITH IT, I LOCKED MYSELF IN THE HOUSE!

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Laura B.

I had tried every diet out there and had even taken diet pills. With every diet I would do well for a while and then when I went off of it I would gain back all of my weight and then 5-10 lbs more. The biggest emotional battle was feeling like a failure, over and over again.

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tfarrison

I have always been a overweight person. Since the age of 10. I always ate on an emotional level but as I got older I got control of it. I have been on many diets to many that I can't even remember some of them. I feel like I need to fit somewhere in this world and the predjudice against obese people is sickening.

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nalmond

Weight loss before bariatric surgery was like a roller coaster. I tried everything from hipnosis to roller coaster with weight watchers aided by Metabolife.

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Linda M.

For me I was on a down hill battle with wl. I couldn't even keep up with my job any more. I have work for Walmart for 15 year in the office. And the more weight i was gainning the worst people would treat you. its true when you are over weight people treat you like you are dumb. It really makes you sad.

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Teresa H.

I was 35 when I had my surgery, and I'm epileptic; so I had to deal with seizures and being overweight most of my life. Until I was an adult after I had my son I never considered myself to be morbidly obese and the fact that I got put on disability for my weight and not my seizures.

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Gerard F.

I always was able to lose weight and then begin feeling good about it and slip back into old habits and gain it all back pluss some.

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leeann N.

I have been through so many years of the yo-yo thing it isn't even funny. I've cried, I cussed, I attempted suicide. I was so depressed and then I would not care what any one thought, then I would be depressd again. I have binged, purged, taken speed, tried every stupid diet that was ever heard of. OI worked hard all my life and now along with being over weight and getting older, I am paying a ...

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ozzette

I have been heavy all of my life, with exception to a brief period when i was 14, when I discovered boys and lost a considerable amount of weight. I lost around 40 pounds, but later gained it all back in the next year and a half. I remember my mother putting me on a diet when I was 10 years old. From that moment on, I hopped from diet to diet, trying to rid myself of this body that I hated. Some d...

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corynva

I felt like a total failure. My weight had gotten out of control and nothing I did helped. I had high blood pressure and was diabetic and just felt like there wasn't any hope for me.

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firefly1955

I was a real pain to live with because I was so miserable. I couldn't do anything recreational. How I made it to and from work was a miracle as I had to stop and rest so many times going from the office to the car. I had lost a child also and that threw me deeper into an "I don't care attitude". I was at the bottom of the pit!

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Marilyn A.

I started putting on weight in my late teens. I bobbed up and down for years. In 1990, I lost 70 lbs. and actually reached my best ever adult weight of 145. I kept it off until the late 90's when an auto accident broke my spinal fusion. Self pity, inability to exercise, plus quitting smoking ended me up, by 2002, heavier than I'd ever been in my life and unable to lose weight no matter HOW hard I ...

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Tori D.

I didn't have a weight problem until I had my children. I started to put it on slowly. It was hard to see myself fat, because I had always been thin. Dieting was such a yo yo effect. I thought that I would be fat for the rest of my life. Than I found out about this surgery. The life saver.

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JoAnn S.

I have battled with weight all my life. My dad was morbid obese also. I've tried so may different methods including taking fhenfen which has caused damage also. I have been involved with Weight watchers,Topps and Hanna weight clinic. Joined gyms, taken slimfast, metabolife and on and on. I've lost weight with them all but all shortlived with extra to gain. Emotionally I am very self conciou...

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cinnamongirl

My weight has always been a road block to me . I have been obese since I was 6 yrs old. A whole lifetime has been spent never knowing what it's like to buy regular sized clothing or being able to run and play with my kids who are now adults. In desperation and seeking help I turned to the medical community who handed me paper after paper with 1500-1700 calorie diets and told me "if only I tried ha...

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danielk

I grew up thin until I met the woman I married. She is from a Polish family and food is a huge part of their lives. I started eating more and more until I found none of my clothes fit. I started dieting about 20 years ago. I would lose weight then gain it all back and more on top of that. I continued that same cycle since then. I have tried several different doctor supervised weight loss program o...

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Stacey L.

I was put on my first diet when I was around 4 years of age. From the age of four on I was put on any number of diets. I had women in my family who used fad diets, diet pills, laxatives and any other form of weight loss they could think of. I had a grandfather who constantly told me I was fat, stout, etc! I had a mom who didn't know how to tel my grandfather to back off. During my first school yea...

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Margaret F.

I was a moderatly well adjusted individual that had tried lots of diets to loose and never had more than 15lbs success at any given time. I had been taught how to eat incorrectly since a child. My dad would dish out my servings and they were not child size portions and you didn't get to leave the table until it's finished. I was always made fun of as a child and all through school. I was prett...

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yakema

I have battled with being overweight all of my life. I weighed in at 95lbs in the Kindegarten. It has been a real emotional roller coaster for me. One day I would love myself, and the next I couldn't stand to look in the mirror. That is very weird considering I have always been able to make friends, I was never picked on as a child and I had a happy homelife. I tried numberous diets and exerci...

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