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Loretta E.

I always tried to ingnore my weight, and tried to be confident would not admit I was unhappy

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Alice W.

I have been fighting the weight battle since childhood. I have lost weight many times but have always regained it and more. When I'm at my heaviest I become depressed and tend to hibernate.

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Tisha W.

Plain and simple it was a BATTLE. Yo-Yo dieting,lose the weight I'm happy gain it back I'm depressed. My behavior was bad I was a binge eater, I would eat "normal" when people were around but wait till I was alone, look out kitchen.

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Sonia W.

I have been overweight my entire life. I was born 6 weeks premature at 5lbs 4 oz. Since my earliest memories I have battled with weight. I am also a emotional eater which only intensified my problem during my teenage years when may parents divorced. Food became my tonic and my friend. But you know that not all friends are good for you and food is one of them. I lost all the battles (diets) t...

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Carole W.

I think I have tried every diet available from fad diets to Fen-Phen. I was at the point of being resigned to being overweight the rest of my life and not being able to enjoy my grandchildren like a "normal" grandmother would.

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PAULA W.

BEFORE MY SURGERY I WOULD LOSE AND GAIN WEIGHT LIKE A YOYO.I HAD LOW SELF ESTEEM BECAUSE I WOULD LOSE AND GAIN IT BACK.IT GOT SO BAD THAT I WOULDNT LEAVE THE HOUSE BECAUSE I WAS AFRAID SOMEONE WOULD MAKE FUN OF ME IN FRONT OF MY HUSBAND AND CHILDREN AND THEY WOULD GET THEIR FEELINGS HURT.I LET MY WEIGHT KEEP ME A PRISONER IN MY HOUSE FOR 4 YEARS.NOW I KNOW I CAN DO THIS AND IM NOT GOING TO GAIN IT...

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Jodie W.

I felt like I was not good enough for anyone being fat and that I was taken for granted and not respected because I was overweight. I think most of the time I was losing to weight for everyone but myself. My health started failing me and I decided that I needed to do things for myself. I needed to get healthy and lose this excess weight to have a longer life span to see my children and grand ch...

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Amalia (Amy) W.

I have battled weight all of my life. My earliest memories of depression started around age 7. I started taking depression medication at the age of 16. I have tried every diet and diet pill around. I have lost and gained weight so many times it's alarming. I reached a point where I had just accepted that fact that I was going to be fat for the rest of my life. I thought that it was just the w...

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Peggy W.

I began dieting when I was eleven years old and even battled anorexia at age 19-20. I used many diets, sometimes losing significant amounts of weight, but always eventually gaining back all of the weight plus twenty pounds.

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Chrissie Waite

I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HEAVY, BUT IT WAS FROM A CAR ACCIDENT THAT I BECAME GROSSLY MORE OVER WEIGHT. I WAS ALWAYS A VERY NERVIOUS PERSON AND DIDN'T FEEL THAT I HAD ANY SELF ESTEEM. I BASICALLY JUST GAVE UP ON MYSELF, MY FAMILY AND THINGS AROUND ME.

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MAGICG9

My behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery has been a long one. From day one I started gaining lots of weight. When I was a child I gained 50 pounds each summer from age 10 to 13 topping out at 200 at 13. I went to lots of weight watchers meetings and other various weight loss programs only to stop and gain back double even tripple the weight ...

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Colleen W.

I was angry all the time. Angry at letting myself get this large. Angry at my lack of 'self control' to be able to do it myself. It really affected my relationship with my husband to the point now I don't know if it can ever be healed.

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twenc

I have always battled my weight. My first diet was at 9 years old. I have always used food as my comfort, my fried. There are times in my life that my weight has been the only focus in my life. The scale declared how my day would be...if I lost weight I would certainly be in a good mood. However, if I gained weight I would have a bad day. My relationship with food has been one of a love/hate ...

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Patti W.

I fought the battle of the bulge for my whole life. I have NEVER been classed as normal. My counselors have said it was a way of hiding from all of the sexual abuse as well as emotional abuse. I did alot of dieting in my teenage years and young adulthood. However, when I got to about 29 yrs I virtually gave up and decided I "Liked" being fat. NOT!!! I believed it up until about a year ago. I ...

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Debbie W.

I was an obese very normal individual. I generally ate the wrong things and come from an overweight family. The only behavioral concern was related to my lack of endurance and pep, which resulted in more sedentary activities especially in the last year before surgery, after the birth of my last baby and fifty pound weight gain, that I never lost with the pregnancy.

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DeeDubbs

My self esteem had sunk really low. I never made eye contact with people because I was so ashamed of my weight. I tried every diet known to man. It got to the point that I quit telling people about the new diet because I knew it was going to fail. I feel like such a failure because I should be able to get this weight under control. It is even more depressing for me because I am a Christian ...

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Robert G. W.

My biggest problem with weight control had always been overeating -- both in quantity and quality. I used to eat huge portions at a time and would eat throughout the day. I would also eat too fast and ate out constantly -- usually fast food.

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gail W.

i have been overweight from childhood.i yo-yo'd for years.after the birth of my first child, i continued to gain.i hated the way i looked,but felt that i couldn't control it.i had always been a strong person, but i just couldn't lose weight.i felt that i must be weak and had no willpower.this hurt my self esteem terribly.i couldn't do many activities with my children.i felt like they were sufferin...

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Robin W.

I tried everything from Weight Watchers to Redux. I was misserable. I didn't like myself. I hated shopping. I wouldn't go out much socially because I felt everyone was staring at the fat woman. I was depressed and had no energy. I wouldn't even let my husband of 15 years see me naked with the lights on. My blood pressure was out of control, my sugar was messing up, I had/have asthma, migran...

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dream_small

I had endless Sunday nights when I had big plans to start a new diet that Monday... only to lose the battle and feel like a failure. The longer I stayed overweight the less time I would stay on a diet.

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Peggy W.

My overeating began at about age 6. I had plastic surgery on my face to correct injuries sustained in an automobile accident. My best guess is that it was the stress surrounding the entire incident that caused me to over eat. My other best guess is that it was a means of keeping my mother at my side. I remember being very afraid and I remember that she would sit on my hospital bed and feed me....

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Allen Y.

Out of control

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peggy Y.

I have been at war with my body since I was a child. I had won a battle on occasion but obesity was winning the war. I had tried every diet known to man and some a few times over. My biggest weight loss was with Phen-fen, a total of 85 pounds. I was still obese but not morbidly. I kept this weight off til I got pregnant in 1999. After the birth of the baby it was back to fighting a losing battle.

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kristaz

I remember when I was in the 5th grade stepping on the scale. It read 72 pounds. I cried. I have been on a diet my whole life, from as early as I can remember. What is funny, is I was never fat until I was about 16. I look at pictures of my childhood and ache, because I wish I could tell my child self the truth. I gained about 100 pounds from the time I was 15 to 18. I always convinced myself I wo...

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Scott A.

I've fought a continually losing battle with my weight since childhood. I finally turned fifty, and after two of my best friends of the same age had WLS and the other sextuple heart bypasses, I knew something had to be done. That's when I began to research WLS.

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