Embracing My Beautiful New Body: The Transformative Journey of Swimsuit Shopping After Bariatric Surgery Looking back on the day, I made the life-changing decision to undergo bariatric surgery, one of the things I excitedly added to my “Skinny Girl Bucket List” was swimsuit shopping. For me, surgery was more than just a standard procedure, it …
I’m overweight and I’m not unique-there are over 90 million Americans that are struggling with their weight as well. With millions of us in the same boat, you’d think this journey wouldn’t have felt so isolating, but it did. I felt like I wasn’t in the same boat, but rather, I was regulated to a dark and lonely hole-filled rowboat. A rowboat that needed to hide in the shadows so no one, not even myself, could see it as it slowly sunk to the bottom. I didn’t want to be seen, because being seen meant that I would have to acknowledge it, it being the elephant in the room, aka me.