Shanyab

I am March 12th... I go in for my preop appointment tomorrow am and start the liver thinning diet ( fun) should be a fun next week for me ! Congrats Congrats Congrats to all of you this month. Added note. This is also my 5 year anniversary month as well...making this all together a very special day.

Hi Heather... My surgical date is March 12,2009. I go in tomorrow morning to sign all of the consent forms and go on my lovely liquid diet. I am soo looking forward to this. My husbands sister lives in Minnesota as well.. small world

Hi everyone ! My name is Shanya and I live in Las Vegas. I am a mom to two kids ages 13 and 7 and married to a wonderful man named Jason. I have struggled with my weight on and off for the last 15 years, every time I got pregnant I would gain upwards of 60 lbs or more. With my daughter I tipped the scales at 350 lbs even after I had her. I am pretty tall, 6' to be exact and I am an ex athlete so I carry a bit of muscle weight as well. Currently I weight 279 lbs ( give or take on the day) I purposely had to avoid losing any weight over the last 4 months in order to stay out of the grey area for losing weight. I was on a medically supervised diet with pills ( research study ) for 3 years, one worked great and I lost weight but had to go off of it because of a problem that came up with my heart. That was found while on the study. I then moved over to a new study and was on a placebo with very strict dietary counseling. My issue with food is not grazing, or snacking its that I love food. I dont eat out of depression or moodiness. I eat because I am a wonderful cook and LOVE to make elaborate meals and then my portion sizes stay the same like they did when I was in my 20's and playing basketball and swimming daily. I never took into consideration that after 30 the weight would stay on, it refused to come off and stay off. After I had my daughter I lost a total of 150 lbs in just over a year on my own, I kept it off for the last 4 years till the scaled kept creeping back up. Once I found out that I had a heart problem that was largely in part caused by my yo-yo dieting I decided that it was time to do something and started looking into the lap band after my best friend had it and lost 130 lbs and she looks great. I was told about this site from another soon to be bandee on Thinner Times and I look forward to hearing other stories ! I see lots of people have had problems with insurance, I guess I was lucky, all we had to do was provide my insurance with my charts ( which my primary took 2 months to do ) and it was approved less than 45 min after it was submitted. Shanya

Venting is always good. I am 8 days out from my surgery and part of me is giddy the other part says WOW the other part says wtf am I doing and all around I know that its the best choice for me... I just read your message today and I hope that all of our words of encouragement will help you along your path!