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hello everyone!!! I was searching the web and found this I would like to share it with everyone. Brian Tracy on Not Giving Up: "Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles. Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else."~ Brian Tracy

awww i know that feeling my insurance company told me i had to go on a 4 moth diet plan and i lost all my weight went to all the doctors they want me to go but no i am just waiting to see when they will let me have the surgery. i cant wait to also do things again like hiking stuff like that.. well good luck with everything.

I am having mine done in feb i have everything done im just playing the waitng game now i hope all goes well for you.

Hello My Name is shannon I am 24 years old and i live in ellenville new york. The reason why i am replying to your message is because i saw what you had wrote about you going for the lap band surgery. I am also going for the lap band surgery as well I started this whole journey since september 8th of 2010 and it is now jan 16th 2011 and I am still waiting to go for surgery. I got all of my doctors done and now i am going next week to set up the date for my surgery. My mother is also going for the lap band surgery as well so we are going to be doing this journey together. I am also going through a hard time like you have been going through i have been over weight my whole life as a teen and as a child at one point when i was 15 years of age i did get down to 110 pounds i finally got to wear a size 3 jeans and everything was going so well in my life i had friends boyfriends i got to play sports go bowling do things i have never done before in my life it felt so amazing. But then i hit a really ruff patch in my life i lost my best friend in a car crash i was having trouble in school and before long depperssion hit me bad then everything i had worked so hard forwent out the door i looked to food and i just let myself go a little so i got up to 150 pounds. Then when i was about 19 years old i met this guy i thought he was the one but he wasnt so we got married becasue i didnt know how he was like so when we did get married all he did was abuse me and beat me and i turned to food again so then weight just over came me. I want to have a child so bad right now with my new husband and i can not have any children right now i have pod because i am over weight so that really made me so deppressed for the longest time. So i didnt know what to do i went to the doctors and the doctor told me i had to lose weight so i didnt even know where to start i was like how am i going to do this because i didnt really have no support groups to help me lose the weight so i started weight watchers but then you have to pay $12 a week and it becomes way to much money when it all adds up at the end of the month... so my grandmother also had the surgery so she told my mother and i we should check the lap band out so we went to the class on september 8th and we saw what it was all about so my insurance company said that they would pay for me to have it done but i had to wait a 4 months perioud because i needed to do a 4 month diet before surgery and i had to go to doctors and i can sit here and say i am finally done with all of that so far now im just waiting to have my sugery. Words can not explain how my life is changing already i feel so good about myself i thought to myself when this whole thing started i cant lose the weight before surgery because they want you to lose 5 percent so i said i cant do it and come to find out from september to now i did do it i lost 15 pounds and im feeling so good. One day i will be sitting here a 100 pounds lighter and have a beautiful family all because of the lap band and all the support i am getting from everyone this is going to be a journey for the rest of my life and i cant wait to keep continue it..... I also wish you the best of luck with your journey as well i will be praying for you and i will be wishing you the best.... god bless... I really hope my letter helps you out a little bit and give you some inspriation... sincerely, shannon.... :lol: