PilateSurfinGurll

I've struggled with my weight my whole life.  I'm fairly fit and strong, but obese, and I'm coming up on 50 this year.   I'm just not looking forward to struggling with this issue for another half decade.  I'm a fitness professional, and I feel like I've made the statement we can love our bodies no matter the size, but it's really coming down to comfort and longevity.   It's hard to hop up on my surfboard because my belly is big.  While demo-ing for the classes I teach I have to consider what combo of spanks, tape, butt lifters, etc  I am wearing as I have the whole class watching me as I come into compromising positions.  My feet hurt after I've taught 4 classes in a row (I usually walk a mile a class) up and down the aisle.  
Ive done a lot of research, and with the safety advances and reduction in longterm complications with this surgical procedure, the telomeres repairing around the chromosomes slowing the aging process, the grehlin reduction with the sleeve thereby lessening the hunger hormones sent to the brain, and the ease and affordability of the procedure, I decided it is time.  I was driving home thinking all this, and that afternoon I had alerted my husband, gotten my application approved, posted for medical leave to get my fitness classes covered, and picked a surgery date 20 days out.  In four days I'll start the pre op diet for a week, then in 11 days I'll meet the driver at the airport, we'll drive over to TJ, and it will happen.  I am under no illusions that this will take the problem away, but I believe it will be a valuable tool that will be very much worth it.  I haven't told anyone.  You're the first person I've told!  Aside from my husband
I forgot to mention there is a study that the depression and anxiety stats of people went down significantly after people were sleeved- regardless of whether they continued their medication or not!  I experience both of those, and I'd love to go off meds.