DAt the start of 2025, Simon Biron hopes to lose around a hundred kilos, or a little less than half of his current weight. His decision is made: at 43, this former hotel manager from La Roche-sur-Yon will entrust his body to bariatric surgery, this specialty intended for people suffering from severe obesity. The operation will take place in two stages. The first, called sleevewill reduce his stomach by two thirds. The second, baptized by-passwill consist of a diversion of the circuit from its small intestine to its digestive tract. A new life awaits him, he hopes, far from the torments of everyday life and the poison of stigma. Far, too, from the injunctions of “body positivism”, this trendy movement on social networks encouraging people to feel good, whatever their body shape. “It’s very good to accept yourself as you are, he said. Except that exceeding your normal weight by 60 kilos is dangerous. » He weighs 216, for 1.80 meters.
Simon Biron spent a long time searching for the causes of his hyperphagia, which, on certain evenings, pushed him to ingest to “80 euros from McDonald’s”before spending part of the night watching Desperate Housewivesthen set the table again in the early morning. He recalled being bullied in middle school. Since he left his job, thanks to a conventional break, he also knows how stress at work could have exacerbated his pantagruelian appetite. “I have always reacted to frustrations with foodhe explains. Eating soothes me, especially before going to bed, convinced, wrongly, that we sleep better on 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 to a psychologist.
Two tickets to take the bus
The “click” came three years ago, when, following a health check, Simon Biron stepped on a scale for the first time in a long time. The needle was close to 200 kilos. THE « gros »as he presents himself in the evening, will go up to 232 kilos, not without having tested a number of brands of food supplements, nor trying multiple diets, from the high-protein version to the Paleolithic diet consisting of eating as people did our ancestors. A second trigger occurred in the meantime when faced with the impossibility of sharing a bike ride with her young niece: “It gave me a kick in the butt. »
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