I am a 23 year old college student who has been over weight my whole life. I don't recall a time in my childhood when I wasn't bigger than everyone else. About four years ago my mom who had also been over weight the majority of her life but rarely ever got sick, was diagnosed with cancer and passed away from it two years later. It was at that point that I decided I didn't want to live this way any longer. I no longer wanted to just talk about weight loss dreams, I wanted to have goals. I began seeking more extremes to weight loss and in march of 2013 I had gastric bypass. Some people feel that it is to extreme and unnecessary, I did it with no regret and would do it again in a heartbeat. That surgery made it both harder and easier on me. I don't like for people to think I took the easy way out because I can say with confidence it wasn't easy but nothing in life worth having is. I'm open to talk to anyone about these types of things as long as they are open minded as well.