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Alright!!!! Only 12 days to your band-birthday!!! Good luck Ryan, were all pulling for you! -Nora

How sad that instead of talking to you and finding out what a wonderful, smart, witty man you are, Carol chose to pass judgement. If she could only have accepted that ever person is unique, instead of being self rightous, she would have went home and told people about this great man she had just meet. We all know how bad words can hurt. Logic tells us it doesn't matter what others think, but our hearts tells us we have been rejected and that is painful. I'm sure Carol thought her thoughts were important, and she has no idea how cruel she was. Please remember that for every one person who feels the need to judge you, there are a hundred of us who stand behind you. Ryan, we know that you are strong, who else but a strong person could see past their fear and self doubt and take the step of WLS so that they can rejoin life?. We know you will succeed, admitting that you are human and need help is the first and most important step to success. We know you are a "real" man, you don't let ignorance and fear stop you, and you share your hurt, sorrows, joys and soul to help others. In the middle of the night, in the dark, when self doubt starts to whisper in your ear, when you find it hard to believe in yourself, know that we believe in you.

Hi, my name is Nora... I'm a junk foodaholic. Yesterday I had to take all the halloween candy and hide them in the trunk of my husbands car. Then just to be on the safe side, I hide my key to his car outside of the house. Even then I almost went out in my nightgown to get a kit-kat, alright I was going to get the whole bag of kit-kats, thankfully it was to cold for me, or my hubby would have found me at 2am buried under a pile of candy wrappers in a suger-coma... Maybe If I just bring in one kit kat????

Lauri, Hope your Grandfather is O.K. and I'm so sorry. -Nora

Hi Everyone! I go to see the Dr. for the first time on Nov. 2 and I'm trying to make sure I'm as prepaired as possiable. I have a lot of information on the lap band, and my insurance, but I'm not sure about the diet history. Did you have to provide exact dates, weight, type of diet, ect... ??? I went on my first diet when I was ten, and I've been on like a BILLION since then...I can't even remember my phone number let alone my weight befor/after the ill fated cabbage diet... (to this day, just looking at cabbage makes me kinda sick) Ugh! I'm trying too hard or do I need to look into hypno-therapy to regain my "lost" diet information? Thanks! -Nora

You Guys ROCK!!! Thanks to your advice and your links, I can do this, and if I can't I'll make something up, something way cool, like traumatic accident at twinkie factory, and if they ask DeLarla will back me up :-) Thanks Again! -Nora

Hi! I am so glad I found this site, I have been thinking about weight loss surgery for a long time, but I've never had the chance to speak with people who have had it done. My name is Nora, I'm 33 and happily married. I have 2 boys, one is 21 months and the other is 6 months. I have been heavy all my life. It really became a problem when I hit middle school and the other kids started to notice I was way bigger than them, not just fatter, but also taller (I reached by current height of over 5'11" by the time I was 14). When the other kids started to tease me about being huge, I really took it to heart. In a way it was easier to think they didn't like me because of my weight, and not because they just didn't like me as a person. I started my first diet at the age of 12. I weighed 220 pounds, I lost the weight only to gain it back, plus more. It was the first of, many, many, many diets. By the time I graduated I was 240 pounds. by the time I was 25 I weighed 270. Weight loss surgery seemed like it might work, but I wanted to wait until after I had kids. I started looking into bypass, when my youngest was 2 months old, I was on the floor with him and I could not get back up, it was humilating to have to call for my husband to come downstairs to help me get off the floor. I looked into by pass but it was too risk for me, I thought there was no hope until I heard about Lap-band. I have spent a lot of time researching, with only limited success, then thankfully I found this site. Can lap band really work for me? I know that it is a tool in an overall change at how I look at food, life and myself. But how did you know you were ready for it? I do believe that it is right for me, but my husband feels it is to "extreme"... But I don't think I will ever be healthy unless I make extreme changes. Am I way off the mark? Can anyone offer some guidence? How did you know the lap band was for you, did your family support you? How drastic where the changes in your life (not just eating changes)? Would you do it again? Thank you for giving me a forum to air my questions, and for taking the time to help... You all seem like a really great group of people. -Thanks Again! Nora age 33 height 5'11" weight about 280 1st appointment 11/2/04

Thank you all for your kind words. My husband and I sat down and read thru the responses and we have both agreed that this is the tool I need to start living a new, better life. Thank you so much for taking the time and sharing your thoughts, opinions and stories. It means the world to me to know I'm not in this alone. Thanks Again -Nora

Hi! I'm new to the group and I have an appointment to see Dr. Williams at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Has anybody heard of him? Is there anyone in the South Jersey/Philadelphia area you recommend? Thanks for your help!

Thank you! I feel like I found somewhere "safe" to talk about weight loss surgery. I don't think a lot of people understand why I want to be banded, but here everyone seems to be so kind, understanding and real . Please forgive me if I ask a ton of newbie questions, but you guys are the nicest, best people I have found to ask. Thanks again! -Nora