BEFORE & AFTER GALLERY

Vivian P.

Procedure: Gastric Bypass Surgery

My Story: WHY I WANTED TO HAVE Weight Loss Surgery…

I had not always been overweight…. I came into this world a preemie baby weighting 3 lbs. 3 oz. I seriously started gaining weight as a toddler and my weight crept up every year. It was no fun growing up hearing cute guys making fun of you by quacking or oinking when you walked down the hall. I was one of the “lucky ones” so to speak, before my RNY gastric bypass surgery on Nov. 05. I wasn’t on tons of medications like many others nor was I diabetic. I was borderline diabetic and I had asthma….that was ALL that was wrong with me besides being morbidly obese.

I just wanted to be a “normal person,” whatever normal is. LOL, I never reached my goal weight. I got very close, but still I never reached it….but that is OK with me. I am SO much better off after my WLS than before. I now do things that I never in my wildest dreams thought that I could do. I can shop anywhere and buy really cute clothes that actually FIT my body.

Life has been amazing this past 7 yrs. since my WLS. I can get up and down off the floor with ease and I am looking forward to August when I will become a grandmother for the very first time. I am looking forward to the future that DFW Bariatrics has given me, and I hope to live to be a very old active woman.

Thank you SO very much for my life and future that you gave back to me!!! I am and plan on continuing to “Pay it Forward”.