Dr. for patients with "low" BMI

[GonnaDoIt 0]

"If you kick someones ass, no matter how provoked you were, you risk losing your children to the state. It's sooooooooo not worth it."

Joking! Joking! I happen to know she moved to New Zealand anyway.

[GonnaDoIt 0]

I'm working on my computer at a coffee shop. One of the baristas just brought me a cup of Water with the comment, "the baby needs some water". I have no baby with me. Obviously she thinks I'm pregnant and is concerned that I'm drinking coffee. I didn't think I looked pregnant in this top. I don't think its the top. I think its the belly. This is the third time in the past six months someone has thought I was pregnant. I always throw away the top I was wearing whenever this happens, but it keeps happening again.

This is the type of thing that makes me think - "money be damned, I'm getting the surgery now if it sends me into bankruptcy."

[marys 2]

Dr. Ortiz in Tijuana did my surgery and i was i think bmi 33 - 5'2 183lbs. I've been as high as 240 and as low as 125 and have yo yo'd all my life - whether you have 50 or 150+ to lose - the issues (emotional, etc) are the same. I have rec'd much discrimination from other higher weight bandsters (although not on this site) but in a local group i belong to. Dr. Ortiz does not take this surgery lightly by any means but he understands the issues of obesity and will definitely discuss surgery with someone of you bmi. For me the results (weight loss) have been slower then most but i am content with the lifestyle changes the band has forced me to make and i know in my heart - this is my last chance - nothing else (diets, pills, etc.) would have worked for me because the issues are too deep - the band has forced me to slow down, chew, - it has helped me to make better choices, etc. It's a tough road but one that I think will work. Best of luck to you.