The decision to have bariatric surgery is highly personal. Each individual must weigh the risks and benefits according to their own unique set of preferences. Some folks would never have surgery and refer to losing weight with diet and exercise as “the right way.” Others, like Wendy Hanawalt, suffer from overwhelming complications of obesity and, for a variety of reasons, including insulin related weight gain, turn to gastric by-pass as a last hope life-saver.
Wendy has shared what it was like living as a “really, really fat person” in her compelling story, “Memoir of a Fat Broad.” Now, with her permission, she shares what it is like to live with the after effects of gastric by-pass surgery.
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Weight loss behaviors, Diabetes , Inspiration/motivation, Overweight/obesity, Insulin resistance, Guest blogs, Complications of obesity, Surgery for obesity