Evan’s Support & Communication

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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

Biography

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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Evan is a firm believer in bariatric support groups and continues to attend at least two group sessions month. She is lucky to have a very supportive mother that has work diligently to find her daughter the means to get bariatric surgery. Evan is clear that bariatric surgery is “not the easy way out” and that she has to put in the work to continue to be successful in her weight loss journey.

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