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I had really bad acid reflux, coughing. My symptoms were cough and it was really disruptive, if either I was talking too much or fast or eating. While I was eating, or drinking, or laughing, anything would provoke a really nasty cough that sounded like it was coming from my lungs. So everyone would turn…

When I was 17 years old, I started to find that certain things that I ate irritated my stomach and what originally was just an irritation, gradually over time, what turned out to be 20 years, turned into just suffering. If I drank a glass of water, it wasn’t just spicy food that did it…

Most of my adult life I struggled with gaining weight and then trying to lose weight. I had tried all diets, every other option, Weight Watchers, several other fad diets, even diet pills. I had even sought to try medication. In 2012, I opted to do a Lap Band as a tool to try to help me…

As a kid, I always had been a big kid. I remember having to go to Sears to get my clothes because they were the only department store in the area that carried husky pants because I had to be in husky rather than regular. Then, as I got older, I did all of the…

Life before was a little challenging. I have two children, 9 and almost 3. I wasn’t able to like play with them as much. I couldn’t keep up. It was kind of laborious. Obesity runs in my family and my father ended up being almost 500 pounds. So when I was about 10 years old,…

I seem to have always kind of struggled with weight my entire life. It seemed to get worse after I had children, harder to lose weight and as my children got older and you know, I just found it was difficult to keep up with a lot of their activities and stuff, kind of due…

I’ve always been a big guy. From early childhood, I’ve been always the overweight kid, just never ate the way I was supposed to eat. I grew up in a family of big people. My mother was overweight. My grandparents were overweight. A lot of my family is overweight. I just kept getting bigger and…

Before surgery, I was in a depression state, always in my room, eating a lot, a lot of health issues. I had GERD. I would rush to the ER at night thinking I was having a heart attack but it was just anxiety attacks. It affected me at work as well because I wouldn’t be…

I got up to as much as 351 pounds. I had no energy. I had all sorts of ailments, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep apnea. Then I got into truck driving which that didn’t help at all. So the pounds just went up and up and up, and I tried dieting, but when you…

I have always been overweight, starting from about third grade. It’s something I have struggled with my whole life. I’ve always been active. I’ve always done sports, but I just could never get the weight off. From high school and college, I would constantly try to do different weight loss programs. I hated what I…

I’ve always been a bigger person. I was always bigger than everybody else. As I grew up I stopped being able to lose the weight. I stopped being able to exercise as much because I would lose my breath. My weight had gotten to an uncontrolled level. I was the highest I can remember at…

I mean, I have always been the biggest out of my family, sister, brother, mom, dad, cousins, just family in general. I was always the biggest one. I had always tried diets, tried not eating as much, tried eating better and just could never get off the weight. Then, I had my daughter and that…

Life was very difficult. My weight was so over to where it was hard breathing at night. I had sleep apnea, blood pressure issues, and then I also had diabetes due to my weight, and one day, I went to see my PCP doctor, and she told me if I did not do anything, they…

I had gotten sick. I got COPD and emphysema and was taking Prednisone. The Prednisone, of course, made me gain weight, and I got huge. The bigger I got, the less I could breathe, and I virtually could do nothing. I couldn’t go to Wal-Mart. I couldn’t play with my grandchildren. The main thing I…