Evan’s Treatment

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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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It’s not easy getting insurance to cover for bariatric surgery.  Evan’s mother enrolled her into an HMO plan, which finally approved for surgery. She chose gastric bypass surgery because it was not reversible and she never wanted to go back to the 309 pound she weighed prior to surgery. She talks about having a difficult time getting use to the liquid diet and protein shakes that are part of the post-surgical eating program.

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