Evan’s Side Effects

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Evan is a 23 year-old college student who remembers her first experience with diet programs at the age of 11. Living with her working single mother, she became accustomed to the easiness of fast food and struggled with childhood obesity. At her heaviest weight, she was 309 pounds and had hit rock bottom. She asked her mother if she could seek advice on Bariatric surgery and had gastric bypass surgery at the age of 21. Evan talks about the advantages of pre-surgical counseling as well as changing her relationship to food after surgery. She reminds us that the surgery is just a tool for success and that it takes hard work to lose 164 pounds.

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ContributorEvan, 23Read Full Bio

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Evan is a 23 year-old college student who remembers her first experience with diet programs at the age of 11. Living with her working single mother, she became accustomed to the easiness of fast food and struggled with childhood obesity. At her heaviest weight, she was 309 pounds and had hit rock bottom. She asked her mother if she could seek advice on Bariatric surgery and had gastric bypass surgery at the age of 21. Evan talks about the advantages of pre-surgical counseling as well as changing her relationship to food after surgery. She reminds us that the surgery is just a tool for success and that it takes hard work to lose 164 pounds.

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As a 23 year-old women, Evan speaks frankly (and visually) about the excess skin that comes with losing 150 pounds. She dreams of the day when she can afford to have much of the excess skin in her arms legs and torso, but say’s that she is glad to have the problem instead of weighing 309 pounds. She struggled with the protein shakes and vitamins immediately after surgery but found gummy vitamins were more to her liking and now carries protein shake formulas with her wherever she goes.  Like other gastric bypass patients she describes the dumping syndrome as no fun, but a necessary tool to her weight loss success.

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