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Lori C.

I hate myself. I disappoint myself and others with every failed diet attempt. I feel hopeless, depressed and like I'll never be thin no matter what I try.

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livnliter

Life before learning about bariatric surgery was an emotional rollercoaster for me. Looking back at childhood pictures I see that my weight problem began around age 7. For as long as I can remember, I was always trying to find a way to lose weight. Every year I would promise myself that this would be the year that I would be able to wear a swimsuit instead of shorts and a tee shirt. We lived a...

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Donna C.

I started gaining my weight after I got married. I also had surgery after surgery, which helped add more weight on. I felt very depressed and unattractive about myself. People would always say, "You have such a pretty face." Something I would always hate hearing. I would lose weight and then put it back on and then some. I have tried every diet and diet pill out there. Nothing would ever ge...

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MR1LIGHTHOUSE

AS A YOUNG MAN I WAS ALWAYS OVERWEIGHT AND COULDNT DO MUCH GONE THREW SEVERAL HEARTATTACK AND OTHER ILLINESS AND OTHER PROBLEMS, ALL MY LIFE IVE BEEN OVERWEIGHT, I USED TO EAT JUST TO GET RID OF MY PROBLEMS AND TO SHUT THW WORLD OUT AND JUST STAY HOME SO I WOULDNT HAVE TO DO ANYTHING, I DIDNT HAVE FRIENDS BECAUSE OF MY WEIGHT, I WAS ALWAYS GETTING INTO TROULBE AND HAVING FIGHTS IN SCHOOL BECAUSE I...

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Margaret C.

I've been on every diet known to man, including some I invented myself. I've always been fat. My first diet was weight watchers and I was only in the 6th grade. At that time, I weighed 130.

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erica C.

Very depressed no social life at all. Did not like to shop because I could not fit anything.

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Patt C.

I have struggled with weight gain all my life. I have become a prisioner in my own home now that I have reached a weight that has immobilized me. I have no self esteem left, I am embrassed for my son's, but most of all my husband has pretty much forgotten that I exist. He ignores me or goes out and then I eat eat and eat because I am so sad that he doesn't love me anymore..He is very judgementa...

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Maxine C.

I had given up on ever losing weight. I was basically to the point where I was starting to accecpt the fact that I was fat and maybe that was just how it was supposed to be. I was good at being fat. But it was holding me back from alot of things. Like going to college.

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SDmovergal

I was out of control! I would loose 20 lbs. and gain 30 lbs. I was obsessed with food, what I would have for my next meal. One of my most "bizarre" behaviors is that some of my husband and my biggest fights were over where we were going to eat! I had my mind sent on something and I didn't want to budge!!

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DENISE S.

I have been dieting since I was ten years old. Sure I can lose weight but I couldn never keep it off. For the past 25 years my weight has been like riding a roller coaster up and down. I would lose some weight then put more back on. I can no longer do the things I like to do. I am a prisoner in my own home.

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Cindy Lou C.

Everyday was a struggle. I couldn't walk, couldn't take care of my apartment...everything was hard to do. Emotionally I was at peace. My Savior gave me that. But it was tough trying to live day to day in a 529 pound body in a world that viewed me as a freak. I tried every diet known to God and man. I would lose, gain, lose more, gain more, ad infinitim.

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Tamara C.

I always tols people if you don't like the way I look don't look at me. But deep inside it always hurt when I knew people loked at my weight and the true me on the inside.

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Amber1981

I have been fat all my life and no diet ever worked, at least not long term...in school i was never made fun of because i put off the "don't mess with me" attitude, i would intimidate people so they would be nice to me, and it worked. Emotionally i was a wreck...i had no self esteem...i'm not saying i didn't think i was pretty or anything like that, cause i did and i still do, but i didn't think ...

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Desiree C.

I have tried for years to lose weight. I was very successful with Phen/Fen but as soon as I stopped taking it, the weight came right back. Other diets, too many to name, were also unsuccessful. I felt like this surgery was my only hope.

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vitalady

Dieting. Starving. Hungry all the time. Eventually, down to eating 5 salads per week, weight creep back up, thinking about nothing but the food I was NOT eating 24/7. The games I played to control my food intake!

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Pam Davis

I was always fat in every picture ever taken of me. I was an only child, my dad quite a bit older than my mom and never told no when it came to requests for ice cream/candy/coke, etc. UNTIL, I became a teen and my mother decided I needed to lose weight. Every summer when school let out, she would start w/you're going on a diet and we'll see how much you can lose by the time school starts back-they...

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carolfromva

For 20 years I was on a roller coaster weight loss ride. Up and down, mostly up. Finally, it just kept climbing. It got to the point where I could no longer help myself. My weight robbed me of living my life. I felt unloveable. I heard rude comments being made by persons in public and I wanted to hide. I stopped doing the things I liked to do and stayed home more than I ever have in my life...

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ROSA D.

My self esteem is so low. I don't think I am ugly but my weight plays alot of game with me. I never feel confident when going out to clubs nor hanging out with friends.

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Violet D.

MOSTLY I HID BEHIND A LOT OF DENIAL. I TRIED NOT TO THINK ABOUT IT AND I DID NOT LOOK IN MIRRORS.

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Rebecca D.

I have been overweight all my life. I was put on my first diet at the age of five. I starved myself from the time I was about twelve until I was twenty and by most standards was still overweight. I have always had to try harder, do more and be nicer than anyone else because the majority of people I have come in contact with seem to think because you are overweight you are lazy, uneducated a...

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Karla D.

I have battled with my weight my entire life. I have used food for comfort, reward, and stability. Whenever I have tried in the past to break the cycle of eating it has been too hard for me, and I have set myself up to fail by trying diets that a person could not possibly stay with for thier entire life. I have been sabotaged by my family, unintentionally I am sure, but true. I did manage to lose ...

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Jamie E.

For 20 years I have been a hostage to my weight. I never realized how much, until I lost the weight. I would avoid doing things because of my weight and then convince myself I didn't like to do them to protect me, for example; riding rollercoaster, eating at restaraunts with only booths, flying, going to movies and concerts, seeing old friends, all of these things, I love to do today (okay rolle...

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Sharon E.

I have battled with my weight my entire life. I have done Weight Watchers, Slim Fast, Metabolife, and Fat Burners. I was seeing a nutritionist for meal planning also. Nothing worked. At most I would lose a few pounds but then once I stopped losing I stopped dieting and gained it back and then some.

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Mustang

I had no control over emotions, behaviors or food. It's been an absolute nightmare for me over the years. As I have gotten bigger, and my self esteem, energy and the quality of my lifehas gotten smaller, it's been awful. It's been absolutely awful for me. I hated my life. Very few things gave me joy...not even my children could give me total joy because I was too heavy to enjoy the fun of bei...

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Dan F.

Very drepressed No engery, not wanting to do anything, very bitchy

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