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Kim A.

Before learning about bariatric surgery, I was resolved to be fat forever. On those bad days when I looked in the mirror I would always think - this is the smallest you'll ever be again - you're only going to get fatter as the years go by. I thought that because, in high school, I always thought I was HUGE - and that I would be able to control my eating when I got older. Well, I would kill to b...

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msbevhills

I am 47 years old and I have been over weight my entire life. There have been many great opportunities for me in life, but I found excuses to turn them down because of my weight. Throughout my life I have sheltered myself from the world, and because of this it has crippled me with my social skills. I do find it difficult to make friends and even more difficult to keep them. What has transpired fro...

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Barbara A.

I tried everything to lose weight, Physicians Wt Loss programs, Weight Watchers,Formu 3, diet pills, joining gyms and nothing helped. I would lose but only to gain more back. I stayed on a emotional roller coaster felling more down and down as time went by. My self esteem was very low.

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Sharon Jones

My whole life - my weight issue has consumed me. Everyday - almost every minute of my life - my weight would pop into my thoughts - how it affected what I was doing or how others were viewing me. I have a family and knew I had to find a way to deal with this once and for all. I am too young to waste my life worrying about life - I wanted to enjoy my life and made the decision to start doing so.

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SHARON A.

I have had a weight problem all my life. I tried many a diet with no permanent success. I would lose 30 and regain 40, you know, the yo-yo effect? Needless to say my confidence and selfesteem was non-existent. I became interested in bariatric surgery when a friend of mine told me of a relative of hers' that had had the procedure. I never inquired anything about it until recently. Then it s...

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angelgirl1029

I was a very small child however as I got older I got larger. I always felt overweight compared to my peers in high school, however I would love to be 130-140 again. I was involved in athletics which I believe is what kept my weight down. In college my weight started creeping up. I remember different points in my life saying "oh my, I will not let myself weight more than ***#'s", but 6 months ...

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Theresa B.

I have been fighting the battle of the bulge for 20 years now. Just after I got married the weight kept coming on. My husband loves the cook and always cooks for 10. I ate it and it is good. With each pregnancy I gained 35 to 40 pounds but never really lost it. I have been to weight watchers, nutra system, diaet doctors And a new one called LA weight loss. I must have lost and gained the same 70...

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vsbowen

I had tried everything from diets to pills to shots, even exercise. Nothing worked long term.

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Annette B.

I have been overwight most of my adult life. I didn't have a weight problem until I was 12. Something to do with my dads side of the family. All the girls except for a few had gain weight then. I would be like a yo-yo. Up down up down, Tried Weight Watchers lost 40 only to gain it back. Tried tops, which is a very good support group. I was in there for about 6 years. I even went as far as m...

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Lenora B.

I have battled obesity since I was 16. That summer started a cycle of gaining 20 pounds in a month every four years. I dieted, I cried, I got apathetic, I dieted, I got low self confidence, I got depressed, I dieted, I got more depressed. Get the picture? Nothing worked and the harder I tried, the more tired I was of fighting the whale.

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Denise B.

I have struggled for so long to figure out what is wrong with me. I have felt that maybe I will never lose weight and will be doomed to get bigger and bigger. It really got to me having so many ups and downs with dieting and gaining.

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Cheyanne B.

Just before surgery, food had become my life. And no matter what I did I couldn't put the food down and lose the weight.

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kimberley B.

I have had a weight problem since I was 4 years old. Even though people would label me as outgoing and social as the weight crept up the insecurity built to the point where I was drowning and losing myself. All the years of yo-yoing and unhealthy living began to catch up after I hit 30. I looked into the mirror and the woman that glared back at me scared me to death. When did she find those ex...

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Tracie B.

I've been married for almost 16 years. After I had my daughter 11 years ago, my weight increased dramatically. I withdrew from my husband, family and friends. My son was teased at school because of my size. I felt like I had tried every diet known to man.

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Clarissa B.

Beore having the surgery I tried everything short of having my jaw wired shut to loose weight. I would do good as long as someone did it with me. Usually I put the weight back on. I was ok with my weight I thought. I wanted to be thin but had come to except that I was meant to be big. The bigger I got, the more health problems came. Eventually at 325 pounds I was afraid that I was going to h...

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Kimberly Novak

i have pretty much given up on life. i do not like to go out ANYWHERE. this includes shopping for my family. i do not want to get up in the morning, and i cannot wait to get to bed in the evening. the earlier i can get my kids to bed, the better. emotionally, i am a wreck. i take medication for depression, and i still am a mess.

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Sue B.

There's not enough space to put it all in. Weight has been a constant battle for me since I could remember. I've been on diets since 2nd grade, diet pills when I was 12. I had given up being anything but obese...and was ready to live with it, if you could call my life living. I was resigned to that fact that I would probably die before I was 50

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Nanci B.

There were several factors which contributed to the last 60 pounds of weight gain such as medications, a more sedentary lifestyle due to arthritis and the normal decrease in metabolism due to age and the change of life. While I have been overweight all of my adult life and have tried so many of the diets with failing results, I was lucky in the fact that my friends and family had always accepted ...

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patrioticwife

I felt like a yo-yo, loose it gaing it back, been that way since my last child which was 24yrs ago, was really depress over my weight my husband was in the Marine Corps and every year they have a ball and looking for a formal was horrible for me.......always felt ugly and that people make bad comments towards me...Just to day I was sitting at the pool trying to get a tan...and I just had the surge...

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Lori D.

I was an emotional wreck. I hated myself, and therefore, would not allow anyone else to like me. I am surprised that my loving fiance stood by my side through all of this. Now our relationship has improved 10 fold! I have only lost 70 lbs so far, but for the first time in years I am down to a size 16. I feel great!

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Lynette B.

What can I say......I am like everyone else who is to the point of considering bariatric surgery. I've tried every diet and every exercise....and always gained back more than I lost. I've accepted my weight over the past 2 or 3 years, but was never happy with myself. I knew I could be better. But now, over the past 9 months, I've come to realize I'm tired constantly, I ache all over, I don't f...

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blank first name B.

Significant weight loss events: lost 70 pounds 1983 (Scarsdale Diet) Lost 65 pounds 1987-88 (Overeaters Anonymous) Lost 46 pounds 1998 (Weight Watchers) Each weight loss has resulted in gaining back of original weight plus considerably more. With each weight loss and regaining, my health has degenerated and my misery over my morbid obesity both physical and me...

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CathleenC

In my *younger* years, I was obsessed with keeping my weitht down. I knew I would never be *skinny* but felt I needed to be *attractive*. I took the dreaded *diet pills* (speed) during the 70s.. almost od'd with some alcohol + the speed :*( PRETTY scary.... Then came the *liquid protein* diet.... there were TIMES that I cried because I was SOOOOO nauseated.... The BEST weight loss/exerci...

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Patricia C.

If I was just doing normal eating I would eat fast foods a lot. If I wanted something, I ate it. In talking with several friends I don't really think I eat a tremendous amount more than them. There are times though when I can't seem to get enough to eat. When I am dieting I do very well while my mind set is good. Have stayed with a program for as long as 9 months, lost 70 pounds. I do not ...

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debbie C.

I did not like myself and was very quiet and withdrawn. I did not want to go anywhere and my son had to help with the house work and could not do any yard work. It got down to not being able to get clothes to fit also. I was walking with a cane and had constante pain in my back and legs.

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