Nearing her mid-50s, Mona Martin found she was facing a host of medical problems – she was overweight, had hypertension and migraines, her knees hurt…

Looking back at her life, Janet Schrader can easily mark the times when she gained a lot of weight.

Nothing seemed to work. And as she neared the end of her pregnancy leave, she had another major problem: as a medic and Sergeant with the U.S. Army…

Patient: Jessica & John Bailey

The weight gain didn’t come all at once for Leslie Wuest. 

Armando felt like a healthy person, and he had no other major medical issues such as diabetes or high blood pressure. He was active with his four sons…

After having bariatric weight loss surgery, Ashunta McMillan laughed at the things she noticed about herself. 

What people didn’t see or understand was that when my dad was 21, he was in a severe car crash. The impact shattered his hip, and he had a metal rod…