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For those who read my previous post earlier today..I spoke to my friend who had gastric bypass surgery about a year ago. I'm feeling better now about having the surgery...another plus is that I will quit smoking!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!! I call the hospital tomorrow for pre-registration. Not sure how long the process will take before my surgery can be scheduled...but it'll be enough time for me to get the right "mindset" :teeth_smile: Thanks for your support...I'm sure I'll need a lot more as this progresses

Hi..i'm new here so here goes... I just turned 39 last week and was overweight pretty much my whole life. Back in 1990 I lost a good amount of weight. 17 days after I got married in Jan 1995, my husband was in the Army and had to go to Korea for a hardship tour. I was down to 124 lbs when he got home in Feb '06. I was wearing a size 3 or 5 in most things. When I was pregnant with my first son, I gained 179 lbs during pregnancy. After I had him in 6/97, I got back to a size 14...then I had my second son..haven't been able to lose the weight. I did recently have half of my thyroid removed and lost about 25 lbs. I'm 5'5" and weigh about 223. I knew that I didn't want the gastric bypass surgery and decided to make an appt to have the lapband. My appt with the dr is on Tuesday, Nov 4th. Now that I have been reading the posts here...I don't think I want to have the surgery. I want more than anything to be the weight I was when gary came home from Korea....but I don't know if I can go through with the surgery. Any advice, comments, suggestions???

I don't know if I can deal without not having Diet Coke! A friend of mine had the gastric bypass surgery about a year ago and she is now able to drink diet drinks. I thought you couldn't drink diet sodas after a gastric bypass either! It's not really what anyone has said...it's just reading about the problems people have had, etc.