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Kimberly L. A.

I've struggled with weight gain my entire life. I've been on every diet, tried every pill, and have very little energy to even consider another mainstream method. I feel hungry too much of the time, and even become compulsive with my thoughts about food. Over the last several years, life has become increasingly more and more difficult. I have so little energy, find it difficult to move about ea...

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MnShadows

I have been overweight for most of my 33 years. When I was younger I had a real struggle with it, and was unhappy most of the time. I don't know if it was my being unhappy, or my lack of confidence in myself. I have to say the worst thing is that the feeling that you aren't wothy of any of the good stuff in life. At some point in time in my early twenties I hit my stride and decided that being...

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Lawrence R.

I would lose some weight and then gain it again through many different methods such as diet and exercise, Metabolife, etc. It was awful to hear others insult me and now I cannot get a job after being laid off three months ago due to my weight.

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Elaine A.

I have been overweight most of my adult life. The only time I was a normal weight was when I was 16 and all I did is ride horses and do lots of manual labor to upkeep them. My adult life was filled with gains and loses. I even lost 100 lbs once. I was going through an end of a 13 year marriage. It was done the wrond way. I was deeply depressed and buried myself in exercise and a very poor di...

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Diane B.

I was a carboholic. I could stay on a program for a little while, but if I started eating carbs again, I was off and running, and it was binge behavior, not moderate eating.

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Debby M.

I think I've lost 800lbs in my life (and gained over 1,000!) The constant feeling of failure and self-consciousness has taken the front seat to ALL ELSE in my life. Feeling like a FAT USELESS FREAK but "knowing" that that's not the "real" me.....Well, enough is enough.

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Jennifer A.

Before learning about the surgery that they can do I never really took myself seriously till I hit the 200lb mark. I really didn't think that it was something horrible till I saw my stomach starting to sag and then I realized that I really needed to diet. I have tried so many diets that I don't think that I can remember them all, lets see: weight watchers, herbalife, jenny craig, many over the c...

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lallen454z

Every medical problem I ever had was attributed to my weight. I was told to "just eat less and exercise more". It makes you want to scream! Do people think we want to look like this? That we enjoy it?

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joann B.

As a 13year old I injured my neck and back and began to gain weight. I had been very active as a kid. I spent about 22 weeks in the hospital in 2 years due to this injury. Fighting my weight dieting but never losing much. By the age of 23 I had to have a Hystorectomy after which I gained even more weight. I did manage to lose about 80 lb's at age 24-25 but as the years went on the weight came back...

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BarbaraDuke

A never-ending struggle. I was the biggest kid in the first grade. People who see my picture now think I was the teacher's assistant. I wasn't too fat then, just tall. Life as a teenager wasn't much fun and I was constantly teased about my weight. I was a size 14 at 12 years and haven't been there since. When I married, I was about 30 pounds overweight and got pregnant right away, zooming up 6...

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Lynette H.

The only time I had problems with food really was during my menstrual period time. Besides that I would eat for the most part only two "REAL" meals a day. I would eat BIG meals though when I did. I usually nevre ate breakfast though either. How was my emotional state before surgery? Well that is easy to explain in one word, "DEPRESSED". My self-esteem was almost nil and I hated looking in t...

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Sandy T.

My battle with weight control has been lifelong. I can lose weight and have on several occasions. The problems comes in keeping the weight off. I know this is not anything new, but seems to me that I am the only one this way. I used to eat sometimes just because, sometimes it would be that I was upset, or happy, or mad. Really any reason. I did not only eat when hungry.

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lilmskitty

A nightmare rollarcoaster from the bowels of hell. Everything was about food. I barely had breakfast down the hatch and I would be scoping out my next snack or planning a dinner way to big for 2 people.

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Julie C.

I started to gain weight at the age of 21 and gained an average of 15 lbs a year for the following 10 years. The bigger I got, the more of a homebody I became. I use to love to go out dancing and playing pool but as you become larger, you want to become invisible. Buying clothes was depressing and there were only one or two stores that sold the sizes I required. It was humiliating to be so lar...

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Ron C.

I was always fat or as my mom used to I was just chubby. My whole life was as the fat kid in the crowd. I battled low self asteem and humiliation at the hands of others my whole life. I went to Navy diving school and had one of the instructors tell me I would never make because I was just to fat.

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Carol P.

I tried so many times to lose weight throughout my life. I would always do well on the diet for a few weeks, and then the bad habits would start back in. Of course, when I let that happen, I would get depressed and when I was depressed I would start eating again, completely sabotaging my diet efforts. It was a never ending cycle. I think I had just about given up on any hope for weight loss wh...

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Kathleen M.

It was hell, I hated being fat. Tiny little things like tying my shoe was such a chore ,It was an awful thing. as many other things were too. I had no confidence what so ever, I was hiding from everyone, I wouldn't go out unless i absolutley had to.

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Cari M.

I was a thin person before I started having children. Being overweight was new to me. I have been overweight for 11 years. I have become uncomfortable in my own skin. I try not to look in mirrors because who I see now is not who I am inside. I have tried Phen-Phen and lost weight but then they took it off the marked. So from there I went to Susan Powter then to Richard Simmons. I delt with the doc...

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Susan B.

I guess it was much like most others, the yo yo syndrome. Tried everything imaginable, lose and gain.

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carolsteineke

I started gaining weight after my 2nd son was born, altho I look back & when I was in high school I always felt "fat" even tho I was only 120 lbs (I look back on those pics now & think "damn I looked GOOD", altho I felt big when really I wasn't). I had severe morning sickness with sons #2 and #3 & was lighter when I delivered them than when I got pregnant with them, but then after they were born,...

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Christine W.

I have been fighting the "battle of the buldge" for at least the last 20 years. I have tried numerous diets - lost weight and gained it all back - plus more. It has caused me to go into a deep depression, along with other factors. I hate the way I look and feel. Most of all I hate the fact that I allowed myself to get to this point. But finally I have realized that this is an eating disorder ...

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Gail M.

It's a roller coaster ride of emotions. You're head knows that you need to lose weight, but you just can't. I have tried it all, Weight Watchers, TOPS, SlimFast, OTC Diet Pills, Low Carb, Atkins and even Redux/Phen Fen. Most work, but it's only a band aid. I need something to help me control my eating. After researching for over a year, I KNOW that bariatric surgery is going to be a life save...

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Michele M.

Dealing with my weight has been an emotional battle all of my life. It always seemed as though I ate the same amount as everyone else, but I was always the fat one, and they stayed skinny. Looking back, the excessive weight gain was due to overeating and not enough activity. I'd go on diet after diet.. only to lose the weight and pack it all back on with additional poundage. It was a vicious ...

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Quazi M.

I had no real control.

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ARLENE M.

My stomach was a bottomless pit....i ate and ate and ate....and got fatter and fatter and i just didn't care.

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