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I hear you. I get it. I do. I bet you DID look cute! Remember, Fat is just a thing. All these things you think are a issue are not you, just stuff in your field of vision. Lose weight, get surgery, whatever, but it is a thing, once fat is gone, will it be, age, hair color? It never ends.. I do renaissance festivals, many many BIG women out there, all loved, no problems with men or friends. All attitude. No matter your age, Go to fair, get a corset, find other fat chicks in corsets, be your own tribe! I have personally known people (just people, no descriptions of any thing else) that were insecure, myself included who after a season or two at fair feel so different about themselves. Such community there. It does not matter what you do in "real" life' how you are out there is all that matters. I just came back from a 3-day weekend at Sherwood Forest Fair in Texas and was talking to a friend who (is still big), who'd had Bypass. She's lost a insane amount and still going down. She was great at all sizes. Good luck babe-just a thing, nothing nothing to do with the real you (ignore those nasty chicks in the office too!)

Wow Day Dreamer, I feel your pain! I was about 50 pounds less just a little over 6 months ago, but I could not, no matter what I did, drop below 180 lbs, which was still 55 pounds overweight for my height. So, I had to gain weight just to get this surgery to make sure I can finally get past 180 lbs! How sad is that? It was the first time EVER I went to the doctor and actually hoped I weighed enough, or more, for WLS. i can really relate to all the tings you said you feel about yourself. I hope you can get insurance approval and can get a sleeve or bypass. I don't recommend the LB if you have more then 50lbs to lose. I went to my first seminar not ever expected to qualify, but here I am a little over two months later, laying in a hospital bed typing to you, and freshly sleeved! Bad choices didn't all form over night and they can be changed, in my opinion, with the wonderful tool of WLS. It's not the cure, the answer and will be suddenly easy, and you won't like yourself in the mirror the day after surgery still, but it gives you hope that in 4, 6, maybe 10 months, you will look in the mirror and find that beautiful you that you knew if there under the fat.

Most of the CO2 comes out of your incisions while they are sewing you up. There is usually some residual CO2 that is absorbed by the body over time. Most surgeons test for leaks after the staple line is done while in surgery, others do that plus a post-op leak test with dye and a drain and some with dye and fluoroscopy. Leaks are signaled in most cases by pain and fever above 101 F. I left the hospital with sublingual pain meds, others have liquid. I didn't have to take antibiotics. The staples stay in for life and scar tissue grows over and between them. (You will not set off metal detectors, some people worry about that.) Early out, you have to keep sipping, sipping, sipping and your protein shakes count toward your liquid total. After you can eat solid food, you can also take normal-sized swallows of liquids pretty fast, liquid just runs through your stomach. I don't have any problems getting my liquids in.