Hello from Australia

[oz girl 0]

I see there are one or 2 other aussies on the forum. I am 34 and just got banded on the 27th of may. I used to work in the corporate world but was retrenched in a merger. Since i was making a lot of changes this year anyway i have gone back to uni to do a masters in social work. This kind of work is more my speed anyway.

Had my first fill yesterday. So far so good. I seem to be loosing about 1.5 kilos a week but as i am a far too hefty 150 kilos i have a loooong way to go. I have joined this forum because i am not really a face to face support group kind of girl. But it is easier for me to share the mortifying personal details of my life (like just how fat i really am) online. I guess my story is pretty unremarkable. I have spent a lifetime fluctuating from normal to voluptuous to grotesque and tried a lot of insane fad diets. 2 years ago i went for a standard check up and kind of hoped for a wake up call but it turned out i was as fit and strong as an ox (go figure) but the doctor warned me that relative youth will fade and then i will probably be up the creek. Sure enough I got even fatter and over the last year have had horrible trouble sleeping and feel tired all the time. I also found normal walking around the shops made me tired and climbing a normal set of stairs made me puffed out for the first time in my life.

As these horrifying changes were beginning to occur i met a woman at a party. She was not overweight. She took me aside and told me that she used to be. But she had surgery (the sleeve thing) and it changed her life. I kind of marvelled at her sheer nerve but afterward told the party hostess and she showed me a picture. This woman had been very big, bigger that i am. So i figured if she could do it then so could I. So i upgraded my private health, saw the doctor and started the countdown.

Here i am a year and a bit later newly banded. I hope this works.

[gwennybabe 0]

Where abouts are you? I'm in perth