seraiah3

I am getting banded Dec 17th, 2009 and am looking forward to the re-education. Right, it is not the easy road, but doing nothing is a far more difficult road.

I always could lose weight and keep it off when I was younger. Like many bandsters, I am a fit fat person...enjoyed exercise (until the lsst 50-75 lbs this past year) have no high blood pressure, no high cholsterol, nor diabetes, etc. I don't even have a slow thryroid! But I weighed 333 lbs just a week ago. Am on the pre-op and am down 13 lbs already. Bye bye to those pounds, I never have to see them again.

What a gift from G-d. I give Him back the thanks and gratitude...I feel like the leper who was healed, and is coming back to thank Him and I haven't even been banded yet...but He saw fit to help me in my distress.

I have a charismatic dynamic husband who deserves his wife by his side at his business gatherings. He is so happy and loving and shocked that I have the courage to do this...but it is not courage, it is honesty. I have had to admit that I lost my way...

I describe it as I was swimming at the beach, and while I was not paying attention, I drifted out so far that people could not even see me anymore or hear me scream. The band is the life raft that is being thrown to me to save my life.

I am getting tears of gratitude in my eyes. Love You God.
Love you all out there in lap land as well.......