In 2010, I seriously considered bariatric surgery as a means to permanently lose my excess weight and keep the weight off for the long-term. I wanted the gastric sleeve because I felt at the time that surgery was my only permanent solution to keeping the weight off for good. I had just gone through Overeater’s Anonymous (OA) in 2004 and lost all of the weight at that time, only to gain it back once again in 2007… plus more. An all too familiar story that I wanted to close the book on for good.
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