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A. M.

I ate all day long. I ate when I was already full.

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TWAPPED

Like most people who are morbidly obese, I have fought with diet and weight control plans all my adult life. I tried many, including: weight watchers (some were helpful---some were awful, making us weight in in full view of the others;strangers or not) Nutri-system - can a "diet" get more costly? While I understand it may have changed (I was there 16 years ago) they used to have foods you ...

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smul3

I have been battling weight all of my life. As of lately I have been very depressed and moody, my family keeps telling me that I need to make changes, and that I am not myself anymore. I get so depressed about my weight I don't want to do anything, I don't want to go out and socialize because of my weight.

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Stephanie N.

I was going in cycles. I was up and okay with myself, then I was down and felt no hope. I would try diets, but felt like it was going to have to be drastic if I was going to see any results.

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Cheryl N.

I have been overweight and miserable since I was in the third grade. I slimmed down a bit when I went to High school, but after the birth of my first child, I ballooned up. I then lost about 75 lbs....only to realize that I was pregnant again! In all, I have 6 children....hence, the battle has gotten even more difficult. I also was in a traumatic car accident a few years ago that left me total...

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Terry O.

I have been fighting weight since I was 13 after I went thru my first drastic weight loss. I went from 195 to 115 in 4 months. I have been called a sneaky eater cause I hide eating from people. I have been depressed about it for years.

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debbieoard

I started gaining weight when I was about 6th grade. The doctor put me on a diet then and thats the way life has been for me every since. I tried to pretend that I wasn't overweight. I would tryout for cheerleading, the track team, etc in junior high, just to be with the popular kids. But I was always about 50 pounds over the idea weight. Still most of my friends accepted me regardless of the fa...

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davidb01

I have always been tall and big. My mother was always after me to lose weight. When I was a senior in high school I weighed 170. The nurse took me aside and told me that I was too big. Now for my height of 5'7" that is skinny for me. I have always struggled like everyone else. I went to a diet doctor when I was 24 and went from 225 to 170. After my daughter was born in 1976, I went complete...

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Sharon P.

Like most, I had joined just about every diet program there was.... Richard Simmons, Susan Powter, Compulsive Overeaters, Weight Watchers, Trim-4-Life, Spec-trim, Jenny Craig, Overeaters Anonymous, diet pills, hypnosis, Aids candies, the grapefruit diet, the hot dog diet, guar gum, calorie counting, counting fat grams... and more. My emotions ran from self-loathing to fat self-acceptance, tho...

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Wes P.

I used food for emotional stuffing. Grease and carbs were my friend. Everytime I got angry, or had anyother strong emotion I would binge. At the end I just ate all the time, with no portion control whatsoever. I wanted to die but didnt have the guts to pull the trigger.

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Michelle P.

As a kid, teen, and a young adult, I was pretty average weight. I gained quite a bit of weight during and after the birth of my second child. It has been a battle of various diets over the last 15 years. I am a happy go lucky girl, but miss out on a lot of wonderful things due to my weight...Riding roller coasters with my kids, running after them at the park...Not offering my help at school for...

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nvgirl

My name is Linda and I am 34 and married to a wonderful man. Our 3 year wedding anniversary is coming up in April. I have been overweight for about the past 15-16 years. I weighed about 150 in high school. I was on the Varsity swim team all 4 years and was very fit. I don't know what happened, I guess because of no swimming after I graduated, I started to gain weight. I have tried every weight los...

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Margo P.

I have been battling my weight most of my life and having a thin sister to stand next to did not help. I have tried a million diet, some with success but as soon as I stopped, the weight came back (with friends). I have always been very depressed about my self image and have never had much self eestem. I was teased all the time in school and was always heart broken. I have always felt like the...

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Marsha P.

I have been over weight as long as I can remember. I remember in the fifth grade going to washington d.c. and being miserable. We had to walk alot and it was windy and the insides of my legs got so chaped from rubbing together that I had to stay in the room one day. I have never had the self-esteem that I should have. I havent ever been made fun of alot, but I could tell that people treated me...

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gail01

I was 140 at highschool, after 3 kids in 5yrs i had 50 extra pounds after yo yo dieting. weight watchers, diet pills i lost 80 pounds then gained back to 230. liquid protein diet lost 80 , gained back. then i tried balloon. I had tried balloon put in my stomach with therapy lost 3 pounds after 2months so had ballon removed. liquid diet again. finally gave up depressed and just when ...

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Gay P.

I was up and down the scale, mostly up. I never felt like doing anything. I would go to work, come home and lay in bed and watch TV without stopping. I would eat just because there was food and it made me feel good.

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Lisa P.

When I was growing up it seemed as though my life revolved around food. I grew up in my grandparents household and they were very strict about not going places, etc. It seemed like I was very sheltered. Outside of school I didn't have much of a life, so my friend was food. No one in my family ever said much about being overweight, etc. even though most of us were. So I grew up w/ the fat gene...

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Taquittee

I always felt fat and ugly.I felt like this skinny person was inside of me was trying to get out,But when I looked in the mirror was this fat ugly cow. everytime I went somewhere I felt like everybody was staring at me or even laughing. I couldn't fit in chair's or booths at the resturant.I was sad and made every body else sad around me.

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Bryytteyes

Since I was 12 I've been struggling with weight loss. My family have always let everyone know how they disapprove of weight gain. Somehow that just made things worse. I always felt inferior all of my life because of my weight, although friends say now they never knew it. I could hide behind a wall and mask my feelings pretty well.

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Patsi P.

I have been struggling with my weight since I became pregnant with my first child (who is now 26 years old). I have been up and down and up and down (mostly up) througout the years with my weight ranging from 235 to 135. I would lose weight, only to regain it, plus some, as soon as I stopped dieting. My emotions ranged with my weight; the higher my weight went, the more depressed I became.

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Chris P.

I have struggled with my weight most of my adult life. I would lose weight and then gain it back plus more. It was a yoyo cycle all the time. I was uncomfortable with everything that I did because I was so overweight. I am very self conscience about the way I look also. I want to be able to do things with my children.

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Kari P.

I was extremly depressed and was very self conscious. I had tried every diet available and was begining to have severe self loathing issues

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ANDY PLEMONS

NOT MUCH OF A BATTLE. STAYED PRETTY NORMAL MOST OF THE TIME. JUST DIDN'T LIKE THE STRESS IT PUTS ON YOUR BODY. LOOKING DOWN THE ROAD, I FIGURED THE ROAD WAS SHORTER THAN IT NEEDED TO BE. WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY WAS A LAST RESORT FOR ME.

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zaysmom

My life has been a mess for 15 years now, and I am only 24. I have battled my weight since childhood. So many things in my life have been ruined by this weight. I have tried diets, and felt the embarrassment of everyone loking at me wen I gain it all back. I have felt guilty about everything I have eaten. I saw how let down my family was each time. And I wanted to do the right thing but I di...

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Paula Prichard

Well I've always been a Type "A" personality. I think this is so I could be strong and not let people know I was hurting. I was always in charge of everything I was involved with and I love being the leader. I think I like control in all aspects of my life because I felt like I had none when it came to my weight. I am a stress and emotional eater. Portions are my problem. I have been overweight si...

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