myJourney - Sharing Your Story Helps Spread Awareness

Nancy H.

There was always some kind of stress going on in my house ever since I can remember. Food was used for relief of stress but it was also used for happy times, celebrations, holidays,you name it we ate. I can remember many midnight pizza runs with my mom. I had depression from an early age and I ate when it was bad. Then I had our son and in his first yr. I had gained over 100 pounds. I didn't ...

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spottydotty

I was always looking for ways to lose weight, trying everything that came along, new diet pills, exercise programs, weight loss programs. You name it I tried it and never with any success. I was so unhappy, I would look in the mirror and hate the person I had become and couldn't understand how anyone else could like me, let alone love me.

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Cheryl H.

I have fought my weight since I was 14 years old. Only person overweight in my family. My Mother always said "You have such a pretty face, if only...." Although I have had a wonderful life, being overweight has always been a gray cloud over me. When I first heard about the surgery I thought that it was too much of a risk. Now that my children are older I decided that I wanted to take that risk ...

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Missy H.

I have always felt like a failure when it came to weight loss. I have always had success in my employment, I have a wonderful marriage and a great son, but I have not been able to control my weight. It has been so frustrating trying to get help. All anyone does is tell you to eat less and exercise more. Sometimes that doesn't help. People have such disdain for overweight people, as if we are slobs...

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Dawn H.

I just got serious about WLS last year. I had heard of it before then but just like alot of others, I told myself "THAT would never be necessary for ME". It's very hard to put my emotional battles to words. i guess the most obvious is the over-whelming feeling of being a "Looser". Even though I really know that isn't true, I still end up grading myself based on my out-of-control weight. I continue...

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Charis

I came from a long line of large people, so I assumed my genes would never allow me to be 'normal.' I developed and intensely intimate relationship with food. I ate to celebrate. I ate to placate my feelings. I ate to socialize. I ate in the middle of the night to avoid detection. I ate for the sake of eating and rarely ever experienced real hunger other than an enotional gnawing at my core, ...

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Sandy I.

I have been overweight for 12 years. Each time I would lose weight and gain more back. I was the typical yo-yo dieter.

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Kay M.

I pretty much wasn't worried about how people view me. I know I'm beautiful on the inside, and that's all that matters. However, I'm SO tired of not being able to sit in a movie theather seat, or an arena seat, because I'm too big. I can't go to Six-Flags because I don't fit in most of the rides, and I refuse to pay so much money to stand around and watch others have fun.

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KathieInHawaii

I have tried every diet known to man! I began gaining a massive amount of weight due to the insertion of a Norplant. In less then two years I gained 80 pounds. My weight steadily went up along with my weight associated co-morbidities. I am currently on more medication than my GRANDMOTHER due to my weight. I want my life back again!!!

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Karen J.

Horrible! I have been on an emotional roller coaster since I was about 10 years old, dealing with weight problems and teasing from others. My self-esteem was pretty low, even though I have achieved success in other areas of my life. It just didn't matter--being overweight took over. I am so grateful for this surgery, it has really given me another opportunity at living life to the fullest.

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Christy J.

I started gaining weight around the age of 5. I've been obese for all of my adult life and classified as morbid obese for a decade. I tried every diet under the sun and could loose around 30 pounds then would gain it all back plus an additional 10. This is a common story. I the last few years, I suffered from joint and lower back pain. I was fortunate to not have any of the comorbidities usually a...

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Belinda J.

Typical story, Fat all through childhood, only got bigger and bigger as the years went on. The more I ate the bigger I got, the bigger I got the less I moved, the bigger I got. it was a vicious cycle before I knew it. tried EVERY diet There was. They all worked to some degree, you just had to stay on them forever, and that I could not do. My mom and dad, grandparents were all obese.

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Debbie J.

I had tried everything and you know how that is. I had lost over 100 pds and kept it off for 15 yrs when it just came back on like gang busters over 7 yrs. I used to work for Weight Watchers, and still think its the best of all the programs. I just could never have as much as they listed in order to lose. I developed asbestosis and exercise was so limited and so necessary for me to lose that I...

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David K.

Being overweight for 32 years I found I could actually perform very well in almost any setting, however that has changed with my age. I kept thinking I would just loose the weight on one of my bi-yearly diets and after each failed attempt I would fall lower into the pit of failing health. I would compare myself to an alcoholic and wonder why there were no places to go for assistance. When I got...

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stacey L.

I have tried many attempts at losing weight. Everytime I was mildly successful only to gain more weight back than I lost. I really have no self-discipline. Emotionally I have no self esteem and I compensate by being sarcastic and outspoken hoping that humor will take attention off of the fact that I'm obese.

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Lawrence L.

Before surgery, I had struggled with weight loss for about 12 years. I had not been overweight most of my life, having been a thin child and a pretty stable adolescent. After my divorce 12 years ago, I found comfort in food. I ate until I was sick most of the time and found that I would binge and graze all day long. The emotional struggles were great. I had varying degrees of weight loss s...

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bikerchic

Diet Journal Valita Larson My struggle with my weight began when I was a teenager, like most people I guess. 1. My first diet was Cottage Cheese and Prune Juice, 3 times a day, needless to say from reading what I ate, you know what happened, I have tried to lose weight so many times, I cant count them, I have put them in the order from when I can remember below. 1. Cottage Cheese/Prune Juic...

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Melissa L.

I never went out of the house, was ashamed to let anyone see me.

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APRIL L.

Starting at age 8 or so... being put on a 600 calorie a day diet.. afraid of getting in trouble if I cheated, by not measuring, or counting calories.. I was pretty successful.. then giving it up once I lost my weight... gaining it back... and thensome.. Trying every diet known to man, weight watchers, pills, realizing that this will never work, and I don't want to be on pills all my life in order ...

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Beverly L.

I have been fat all my life, except for the Kodak moments when I managed to lose massive amounts of weight only to quickly regain it all shortly thereafter. I became very, very despondent about my ability to ever be thin through conventional methods. I learned to live with my fat and like myself anyway, but as I grew older the fear of diabetis and/or heart attack became very real in my mind, as we...

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Jeannette L.

After a while there was no battle at all. I would just slowly get bigger and bigger. I had given up, in my mind there was no other way to live and I fashioned my world around my disabilities. Eventually I was wearing the biggest size sold at the MENS big and tall shop and I was having trouble walking. I had to do something.

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Laura L.

I have been heavy since I was in the 2nd grade. I was constantly teased as a kid and came home crying every night. I was ridiculed by my own family, especially my mother. High school was pretty good. I was one of the popular ones. At the age of 33, I still find my mother criticizing me. She says that she is concerned, although she is morbidly obese herself. I have a loving husband who accept...

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Louise L.

I've lost and gained weight over and over again since junior high. A couple of years ago I decided not to diet any more because the pain of regaining weight is just horrid. I'd rather stay heavy. I've tried OA and counseling and all the usual stuff, with much short term and no long term success. I can control my weight for a year or two at a time, but I eventually get into a stressful situatio...

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Avien L.

You name it I tried it. Excluding the jaw wiring thing I talk too much for that! :) I have ALWAYS been heavy. I remember being 120lbs in elememtary school. The Dr.s told my Mother that I would grow out of the baby fat. I was tormented ruthlessly in school and have had a very low self-esteem as a result ever since. I learned of bariatric surgery in 1996 when I hit my all time high of 303lbs. ...

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ronnieL

For years I felt I was fighting against my own body. I felt trapped by my weight. I knew I could do so many things in my life but I always felt my weight was holding me back. I was depressed to see myself and loathed shopping for clothes. I felt I was not living but merely existing.

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