dAt the beginning of 2025, Simon Biron hopes to lose about one hundred kilos, that is, just under half of his current weight. His decision has been made: at 43 years old, this former hotel manager from La Roche-sur-Yon will entrust his body to bariatric surgery, a specialty for people suffering from severe obesity. The operation will take place in two stages. The first, called sleeveIt will reduce your stomach by two thirds. The second, baptized. derivationIt will consist of a rerouting of the circuit from your small intestine to your digestive tract. He hopes that a new life awaits him, far from the torments of everyday life and the poison of stigma. Also far from the precepts of “body positivism”, this fashionable movement on social networks that encourages people to feel good, whatever their body shape. “It is very good to accept yourself as you are, said. Except that exceeding your normal weight by 60 kilos is dangerous. » He weighs 216, that is, 1.80 meters.
Simon Biron spent a lot of time looking for the causes of his hyperphagia, which, some nights, pushed him to eat “80 euros from McDonald’s”before spending part of the night observing desperate housewivesthen set the table again early in the morning. He recalled being bullied in high school. Since he left his job, thanks to a conventional break, he also knows how work stress could have exacerbated his Pantagruelian appetite. “I have always reacted to frustrations with food.explains. Eating calms me down, especially before going to bed, convinced, wrongly, that we sleep better with a full stomach. » The man talks about “force-feeding sessions” pushed to the extreme, until his stomach gave up on its own. “I eat my emotions”He confided in a psychologist.
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HE “click” It happened three years ago, when, after a health check, Simon Biron stepped on a scale for the first time in a long time. The needle weighed about 200 kilos. HE ” fat “as it appears at night, it will rise to 232 kilos, but not without having tried numerous brands of food supplements, nor tried multiple diets, from the high-protein version to the paleolithic diet that consisted of eating as our people did. ancestors. Meanwhile, a second trigger occurred due to the impossibility of sharing a bicycle ride with his young niece: “He kicked me in the butt. »
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