"I've always been a large guy," said Brian McMillan of Winston-Salem. An athlete who played football and wrestled during college, it was the transition to a more sedentary lifestyle after college that signaled the beginning of his problems. "I still ate like I was an athlete. As my weight increased so did my health problems."
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Answering that question may give you the courage you need to take the first step. Below are tools you can use to determine if you are morbidly obese and potentially a candidate for weight loss surgery.
There are several medically-accepted criteria for defining morbid obesity. You are likely morbidly obese if you are:
Causes of Morbid Obesity
Calculate Your BMI
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e.g., "allergy," "diabetes"
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