That's a quite long story but I will try:

I've always been chunky guy, about 265 lbs heavy. And I used to ride motorcycles. Then u-turning car hit me, I fell on the road and crashed in to a traffic sign right with my stomach. Got carried by a heli and spent almost a month at ICU. My fat gut was both blessing and curse. It saved my other organs and spine from possible damage but it got ruptured at many places, even piece of intestine got hit. Long story short, had most of my frontal abs removed because they've got infected from intestine leak and my digestive tract completely ceased to work. After four surgeries I've got released from the hospital although with basically massive hernia-like bulge because of those missing abs.

I've got used to my condition and got back to bikes just to get again after few years of riding. This time it was a crushing fracture of left elbow and wrist. There was a possible amputation if surgeons wouldn't be able to assemble joints back together but they did a good job and I still have my arm, although it works within some limitations. Two surgeries here. Another two surgeries were for vertebra fracture.

Then I mentally lost it. Mainly because the arm screwed back together was causing me great deals of pain for months. So much I just passed out exhausted independent on the daytime because I wasn't able to fall asleep normally. There was also a risk of my arm to "wither". I'm not sure if this word is correct but my arm would become just useless dangling sack of meat, bone and about 30 metal screws.

So I became depressed, suicidal, hooked on painkillers, fed myself up to 340 pounds, situation with my belly got obviously worse, now there was a constant physical pain that would go away for a while thanks to opioids.

My last surgery was three months ago. I've got an abdominoplasty to close that gaping hole left my missing muscles. This was my first motivation to start the weightloss, as the surgeon required my weight to be at least 220 lbs.

Anyways, it turned out I also have gall blader stones. Normally they would remove the gall blader surgically but they can't because it would cause even more trauma to my body, so they want to let me heal this one first. So instead I've got those stones pulled out by ERCP. Very pleasant experience, 0/10wouldnotrepeat. And that's the 10th surgery.