Jenny’s Discovery

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Jenny is a 49 year-old married woman and mother of two boys. She works full time at a financial institution. Weight was always an issue for Jenny and her family. It became a significant issue for her when she went off to college and her “freshman 15” ballooned to an extra 100 pounds by the time she graduated. Jenny was always looking for a life event to trigger efforts to lose weight but even with happiness it never happened. She was almost embarrassed about having gastric bypass surgery until a co-worker told her it was the bravest thing that she could do. She speaks to the importance of having a team to surround yourself with, particularly support post surgery because that’s when all the work really happens. Today she has lost and kept off almost 100 pounds.

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ContributorJenny, 49Read Full Bio

Biography

Jenny is a 49 year-old married woman and mother of two boys. She works full time at a financial institution. Weight was always an issue for Jenny and her family. It became a significant issue for her when she went off to college and her “freshman 15” ballooned to an extra 100 pounds by the time she graduated. Jenny was always looking for a life event to trigger efforts to lose weight but even with happiness it never happened. She was almost embarrassed about having gastric bypass surgery until a co-worker told her it was the bravest thing that she could do. She speaks to the importance of having a team to surround yourself with, particularly support post surgery because that’s when all the work really happens. Today she has lost and kept off almost 100 pounds.

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Jenny talks about her college years and becoming completely “unaware of food in terms of any relation to reality.  I don't remember eating. I do remember loving that there was free food.  In other words, it was open, you know, cafeteria style; you could help yourself; you could go back as many times as you wanted.” She does think of obesity and overeating as more of an addiction or certainly a disease in the way that the symptoms manifest themselves.  She describes the physical and emotional issues of carrying 100 pounds of excess weight, “It's hard on your knees.  It's hard on all your organs. But it also, for me, led to living a life in a lot of fear because you're afraid to go places in case you can't fit into a seat, like on an airplane.”

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