I kept gaining weight the more I tried to lose it. Carrying around an extra person in poundage took a huge toll on my psyche, my confidence, my back and knees. I was desperate and fearful that I wouldn't even make it to retirement at the rate I was going so I cashed in my retirement investment and had RNY in March 2009. I will not lie and say that it didn't hurt. It did. The recovery was...

I have always been overweight. I once was motivated to get in shape in 2014 and did great but 2015 my mother had a stroke and my marriage was going for a turn. In 2015 I left Nantucket ma and went to Connecticut to help my mom, during that time going through my divorce and stop working out. By the end of 2015 I went from 190 to 245, then entering 2016 I reached 296 which I maintained that...