At the age of 36, after giving birth to my second son, I found myself topping the scale at 355lbs, and feeling helpless and disgusted with myself. To this day I remember lying in bed at night, crying my eyes out, despising myself, and fantasizing about losing this horrendous weight. I was miserable. So began my militant pursuit of gastric bypass surgery, which in itself was a trial! I initially went to see my family physician, ( was living in a small city in a far northern