Hey Florida Peeps, I'm new and I'm not banded yet. I'm in the waiting period. I submitted all my paperwork to US bariatrics and I'm going to my PCP to get a referal in a couple of days. Hoping insurance will pick it up. They have picked it up for other people in the company so I'm sure they will with me. I was/still am a little very nervous but my nerves have calmed down. I prayed and was waiting on God to see if this was a good move and I'm slowly getting my answer. I'm hoping to get Dr. K. Kim and was wanting to know how it went for you Telly or anyone else who's used him. I'm getting married in 3 weeks so I can't schedule any classes or anything until I come back from my honeymoon. At first I was upset with myself because I abandoned all thoughts and planning of my wedding and started concentrating soley on getting banded and now I'm coming around to being normal. I'm not going to worry about it until I get back and I see this as the next chapter of my life. My Fiance is not really happy about the surgery but he knows it is what I want so He's dealing with it but he is starting to say little things like, You really don't look that big, I think your beautiful which is wonderful but since he has never been overweight he doesn't know how it feels. I am a very girly girl and love to do womanly things and just can't do it. I can't cross my legs. I can't bend over to buckle my shoes, all my sexy shoes don't fit anymore, (I'm a shoe whore) and it seems like I'm wearing flats, flip flops or sneakers only and it's killing me. I don't feel sexy at all, I have to have my inhaler all the time and get short of breath walking short distances. On top of that I'm diabetic and on high blood pressure meds. So I know I'm going thru this and he'll be there with me all the way. I'm not interested in being the ideal weight any longer, at one point I was but every body is different, when I weighed 150 lbs I was a size 8. Right now I want to lose about 80 lbs at first to put me at 200lb and then work on losing another 20. So my IDEAL weight is 180.
I can't wait to get the process started and make new friends in the area. My ultimate goal for myself is to enter some sort of triatholon and just finish it and have pictures.
Can't wait to hear from all the central florida banders. Sorry for such a long post but it is my first one and I just had to get all these words out.
Peace
