I finally decided to have the sleeve surgery when I admitted to myself that I couldn't lose anymore weight by myself. I lost 30 lbs and kept it off but couldn't manage to lose the rest. I was always hungry! I have had a weight problem ever since I can remember. I was always heavy in school, not huge but just enough so that I was uncomfortable with it and myself.

When I hit high school, I was in a lot of sports, and by always being active and then starving myself on a very low carb, low calorie diet I managed to kept my weight in check. It wasn't bad until I went to college and gained the freshman 15, which for me was the freshman 30. I once again took up sports and extreme dieting and got my weight down a little.

After college I met my husband and it was all down hill from there. Everything we did involved food! We got married and I gained 50 lbs with my son's birth and never managed to take it off. My wieght kept creeping up. I was still active, did resistance training, used a treadmill every day and switched back to low carb, and took off the 30lbs but I just couldn't lose the rest. I had talked with my PCP before about weight loss surgery(it was actually her idea), but just wasn't too keen on the idea of surgery. I kept thinking that there must be something else I could do. And I did try everything! Weight watchers, jenny craig, low carb, going to a nutritionist, you name it and I tried it. I have lost 38lbs since my surgery date of 3/14/13, and I don't regret it at all. I do have to be careful thought, I never had a problem with eating anything after surgery, so I have to stick to the plan I was given, and keep up the exercise..........