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Thank you, I will. And congrats to you as well, we are on our way to a new and exciting world.

Ok so I have my appointment with the dietician on oct 18, I'm so excited to get to and past that point, I was told that I would only need to make the one visit which is great. I have been feeling as if I'm waiting on a million dollar check. Lol. Now that I've made my decision to have this surgery after thinking on it for years, I couldn't be more anxious and I'm wondering why it took me so long to make this decision. I work at a really large bank with over 200 employees and a few of my coworkers have had the surgery and now literally have different lives. It's great that I get to see on a regular basis other people's progress in person that have had the procedure, although I'm reluctant to ask them questions due to not wanting to make them feel uncomfortable, it's really astonishing to see people actually shrink and become obviously more happy. I'm so looking forward to being on the other side of this coin. I have the whole entire world to look forward to.

That's outstanding, I'm sure you must feel as if you were reborn, congrats and keep up the good work.

What a wonderful way to start the new year.

My dr has been advising me to look into weight loss surgery since January of this year, I finally made the call this past Friday, the rep called me back today to obtain my insurance info I'm with blue cross blue shield ppo in Illinois and waiting for the rep to call back and advise me if my insurance will cover the surgery, needless to say, I'm on pins and needles right now, it took months for me to go with my drs advice, after reading so much about the sleeve process over the months, I'm very confident that I've made the right choice.

I finally broke the news to my mom that I'm going to have the surgery, she wasn't exactly jumping for joy, over the years she has always advised me that its not worth the risk, however, this is coming from a woman who was a single parent with me as an only child (and not to mention she is a size 8), I'm a single parent with one child as well, so I completely understand where she is coming from as a concerned parent. I told her that my weight has discouraged me, has not allowed me to live up to my full potential and has caused unnecessary avoidable health issues all of my life and she, in a round about kind of way, said that I was over exaggerating, so with that being said I simply broke it down to her in 5 year increments to help her to better understand. I told her that I recall at the age of 5 going shopping with my aunt and my cousins for new summer clothes, my cousins were normal size kids and I was probably twice they're size and we were all approximately the same age, my cousins picked out these beautiful sun dresses and were very happy, I on the other hand can remember us not being able to find anything for me to wear and could sense my aunts frustration with having to look elsewhere, I not only felt bad about not being able to wear something pretty like my cousins but I was as a kid felt sad about my aunt not being happy, I'm will be 38 next year and I can remember that as if it happened yesterday. My mom at this point was silent with a look of empathy and concern on her on face and obviously felt sad for me. I continued to give her an example of discouragement for every 5 years of my life (age 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35) and told her to multiply those stories times 50 for all of the other experiences in between. My last example for her was at the age if 35 when a guy I was dating told me that if I lost weight I would be gorgeous, I was completely taken away because I thought he had already felt as if I was gorgeous. Lol ( I've heard this more times than I care to remember and it's never felt like a compliment its more like being advised that your not ok as you are). By the time we were done talking she was totally on board and happy for me. My experiences at age 40 will be completely different for me and will feel like something on a different universe and I'm sure to appreciate and enjoy every second of it. I feel as if my life before 40 will be looked at as a journey towards having solid wisdom on how to be respectful, fair and compassionate with others, all of the judgements and subtle discrimination that I have experienced will be turned into strength that's indisputable and will be used towards supporting others that have so much potential that's unrecognized due to a huge chunk of the world having tunnel vision towards what advertisements and society has dictated to be "beautiful" . I can't say that I will ever regret what I have gone through Im aware that with all trials and tribulations , especially the ones that are founded simply based on the way you look, are meant to empower us and allow us to demonstrate a greater sense of integrity and warmth than others. I will use this gained wisdom as my gift to the world. My experiences go a lot deeper that what I've mentioned in this post, I didn't want to get carried away and freeze up this site. Lol. Much success to everyone in all stages and remember that your journey was put in place for a reason and to appreciate where you have come from.

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Thank you so much. I will be telling very few people as well, I know this is going to be quite a challenge, but so has all these years of being held down by my weight, I'm ready to experience a different side of the coin. Much success to you going forward. Thanks

Congrats, your on your way to a new you. I know that feeling has to be pretty amazing. Much success to you.

Thank you those words mean so much, (new you) I love the sound of that. Lol and much continued success for you as well.

Yes we are, pretty soon we will be totally different people with the outside matching our spirits inside. thank you and much success for you going forward.

Thanks a lot it's means so much to me to have people such as yourself to reach out with support this site has had a lot of my attention over the past few days, much continued success for you as well.

Thank you so much, I'm still on cloud 9. Lol

Thank you so much, I haven't been this happy in a while.

Thank you so much, it still hasn't hit me yet that I'm finally doing this and can't wait til next summer. Lol

Thank you so much, I'm still living within that feeling I couldn't be happier.

Thank you, best wishes to you as well, it's perfectly understandable how you feel, having this surgery is a huge deal, your already in the maintenance part if your insurance wouldn't cover it they would advise you up front so you are good to go and next summer will be awesome for the both of us. YEA!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much, I'm expecting my call today to let me know what the next step is. Congratulations again, your moving on to a different world and I'm right behind you.

I'm excited as well and thankful that there is so much feedback available, I'm in the very early stages of this I wouldn't be much of a guide but I do wish you much success, from what I have read and also from talking with others that have had the surgery, some insurance plans require a 6 month dr managed nutrition program before they will approve the surgery and some will only require basic testing and phycological insight to approve the surgery right away. Im hoping for a quick approval I've had over 20 years of dieting experience, I'm pretty good to go. Lol