Rebecca’s Treatment

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Becky is a 45 year-old women who raised her 21 year-old son as a single parent. While weight was a problem from an early age it didn’t prevent her from doing what the other kids did. She talks dramatically about growing up in a tough environment, having lost her older brother to gang violence. It wasn’t until she was beaten by the father of her son and became a single parent that her weight ballooned to the point that she was 375 pounds. With the support of her son she had gastric bypass surgery and has lost over 150 pounds with the commitment, defying doctors bets, to lose more. She explains how having surgery is “not the easy way out” and how important it is to “manage the noise ” during the weight loss journey.

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ContributorRebecca, 45Read Full Bio

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Becky is a 45 year-old women who raised her 21 year-old son as a single parent. While weight was a problem from an early age it didn’t prevent her from doing what the other kids did. She talks dramatically about growing up in a tough environment, having lost her older brother to gang violence. It wasn’t until she was beaten by the father of her son and became a single parent that her weight ballooned to the point that she was 375 pounds. With the support of her son she had gastric bypass surgery and has lost over 150 pounds with the commitment, defying doctors bets, to lose more. She explains how having surgery is “not the easy way out” and how important it is to “manage the noise ” during the weight loss journey.

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After discussing potential surgical procedures, Becky chose gastric bypass because it was considered the gold standard for bariatric surgery. When she came out of surgery she felt fine until getting light headed on a walk. The doctors took her back into surgery to see if their was a internal bleeding going on and to their amazement found that she had repair a hole in her stomach and stopped the bleeding on her own. From there it was a few extra days in the hospital getting use to her post-surgical eating regimen.

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