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During the early days of my childhood I often wondered why my mother ( Michelle ) looked so different than all my friends mothers. So i got up the nerve around age 10 to ask why are you different. My mother at that point and time weighed almost 400 lbs. She told me that that she has been struggling with this since age 4. She told me she was constantly made fun of and picked on for her weight. So she decided she would just stop eating but to no avail it made her life worse. Around age 12 she was taken to a specialist who diagnosed her with a condition called [|hypothyroidism]. Finally she had an answer to what plagued her for so many years. Over the next several years no treatment seemed to help. At the age of 35 my mother was labeled as extremely obese and her Dr. told her that he could perform a procedure known as [|gastric bypass surgery].She agreed on the surgery and one year later she had lost 196 lbs. She became a healthier person mentally and physically, and to this day her total weight loss is 227 lbs.

References: Hypothyroidism: Too Little Thyroid Hormone. http://www.endocrineweb.com/conditions/thyroid/hypothyroidism-too-little-thyroid-hormone Gastric Bypass Surgery: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007199.htm [Michelle] {my mother}

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