[MikeB]

• How long have you been obese? 15+ years
  

• What is your opinion on how society treats the obese? That's a hard question, for the most part the obesity is a trained or learned scenario that has caused the weight issue (not every time of course). Since the person is partially or fully to blame for their own problems people think it's "OK" to treat them badly. I never specifically was called any names in passing or taunted etc during my overweight time.
  

• How does being obese make you feel? I had the pain of regret, I regretted I didn't work out, I regretted I ate that bag of cookies etc. The pain of regret seems to continually stack on itself until it seems unbearable, until it's washed away with the pain of sacrifice. I had to sacrifice laying around, eating bad food and not exercising. I miss out on going to lunch with my friends every day or eating that whole bag of cookies or 1/2 gallon of ice cream but the pay off is I feel better and I'll live longer.
  

• Have you or are you planning on having weight lose surgery? Absolutely not and I oppose the very thought of it except for very special circumstances. How can you learn to sacrifice and make good habits doing this? There are some very nice people on this site who have done it and have been successful with it but everyone I personally know that has had it done it's failed miserably.