I decided to start this blog as a motivation tool. I figure that writing about how things are going, and maybe even getting a little feedback, can be helpful in this long, hard, and exciting new journey. I'll begin with a short introduction.

My name is Sagan and I am 24. I currently live in Raleigh, NC, but will be moving to Lawrence, KS to go to grad school. I managed to make my way to having to have weight loss surgery by becoming addicted to food after I got my drivers license in high school. This led to me learning the greatness and addicting nature of processed fast food foods!!!!!!!!! Oh boy, did it go downhill from there. I soon learned that I had poly-cystic ovaries, and it would be extremely hard to lose any weight that I gain (by this time I had gained 40 lbs in a year- despite playing serious tennis every day). After I got to college, I continued being addicted to food, and made things worse by not exercising. I graduated college and had gained 100 lbs. Here I was, a year and half after graduating, and weighed 304 lbs. I was devestated, depressed, and out of control. The funny thing was, I had been going to weight loss doctore for 3 years, and still managed to gain weight! My parents were worried, and never failed to remind me of how big I had gotten. I started to look into the lap band. After getting denied by insurance, I decided to try one more time to get approval. I went to a weight doctor for 6 months, and was finally approved. YAY! I decided to get the lap band 3 weeks later on April 15!

Here I am now, about 20 lbs lighter, and struggling every day to make the right decisions. My weight seems to have plateaued, probably because I have not been counting calories. I am starting to keep track of everything now with Myfitnesspal and hope to be successful on staying on a 800 calorie a day diet (lots of scrambled eggs!), get my 64 g of protein in, and drink my water (the hardest part for me!).

Until later, happy banding!