Nanci
I lost my information in the transition, so guess I'll start again.
It seems I have been overweight most of my life. Even in high school when I weighed a whopping 135 lbs, compared to everyone else I was overweight. I have been thinking about WLS for several years. My husband had lap band two years ago and has lost almost 200 lbs. He had been on disability and virtually house bound for 4 years. Since his surgery, he has been able to return to work and his diabeties in under control for the first time in several years.
I started thinking about WLS back in the 80's. I knew one person who had WLS and did wonderfully. Yet, could not bring myself to go ahead and do it. I kept thinking I could do it on my own. I bet I have tried every diet out there; cabbage soup, weight watcher, cambridge, herbalife, the grapefruit diet, tuna and egg diet... and the pills, oh my god. Phen-fen, Redux, shots, even some pills a "weight" doctor gave out, I don't even know the name, but there were blue one, green ones, and brown ones. Probably more but those were the colors I got.
My turning point came this past summer. I took a plane trip to see my best friend and had an extremely diffuct time getting the set belt to fasten. I don't remember ever being so embarrassed before. Tears welled up, as I tried to "suck' it in, thinking I can do this if only my short arms would go across my big boobs. But my short arms and big boobs were not the problem. It was being 5'4" and 280 lbs. The man in the set next to me, said "there's any empty seat, up there, if no one takes it I'll move so you can have more room." He probably was trying to be nice, but I had never felt like such a fat slob, as I did at that moment. That was in July and in August I attended Dr Kim's seminar and started the process. My DH and best friend are being very supportive. I have not told my girls, yet, but I know they will be too.
