What Triggered You?

[KtKt 0]

What was the "final straw" --- the thing that made you come to your decision that LB was for you???

[Jachut 487]

Nothing really, just a realisation that I wasnt getting anywhere trying to diet. I felt out of control. Hitting 38 made me realise 40 was right around the corner, and that I really WAS going to be old, dowdy and unattractive if I didnt do something about it. Personality wise, that's just so not me. Life is just beginning and here I was winding down? No thanks.

I just finally realised statistically speaking, odds were that I was never going to lose the weight and keep it off.

[Denise 0]

I really want to have a baby.

[_Becca 0]

My weight kept going up and I felt terrible about myself. I avoided having my picture taken and then would freak out if I saw a picture of myself because I was so big. The final straw was when I broke a chair after sitting down for dinner one night. That was when I said this is it- I can't live my life big anymore.

[cazulay 0]

I went to Brazil and my luggage got lost... and they do not have plus-sized clothes down there, so I had nothing to wear! Not even underwear! It was humilianting, having to wear the same outfit over and over again because nothing fit. Luckly my luggage was delivered after a few days, but I want to be sure I can buy clothes anywhere on the planet.

[cquirino 0]

Well, not really a final straw, but basically the realization that I am missing out on so many things in life, teaching my daughter to ride a bike, camping trips (cause I can't move the next day when I have to sleep on the ground) traveling...so many things!

[Bejeweled 0]

I was reading a book and it had the phrase "decades of misery ahead" and that really hit home for me, as I have already had decades of misery behind me since I've missed out on so much being fat. I said Enough! and scheduled the consultation the next day. I had the surgery (self-pay) within the month. It's been a month since I've been banded and although I haven't lost that much, I have hope that after my first fill I'll be farther along on the loosing path. So, instead of "decades of misery ahead", I'll have many decades of happiness ahead.

[herghost 1]

for me, it was being diagnosed with high blood pressure. I started thinking about not seeing my son's children (and at the moment, he doesn't even have a girlfriend).

SueS.

[Band Chick 3]

The thing that led to me cinsiddering weight loss surgery was my last failed diet and weight gain that followed. At 346 lbs I was feeling doomed.

After all my research this is what most strongly made me say "the band is for me!"

1. My Dr explained that there are different body types-- mine is the type that holds fat reserves and craves the kinds of foods that tend to put it on. My ancestors were the type that probably did hard labor, had lean winters or long boat trips and needed food stores to survive. Thusly there are high metabolism people with ancestors that wouldn't have survived those things.

2. I belong to a very large, supportive weight loss group that has many people who have successfully lost 100 lbs or more with dieting/life style change. They FIGHT the good fight against food every day. It can be done, BUT I'm so tired of FIGHTING so dang hard. I need some help. That's what the band is for me H-E-L-P. I want to hurry up and get with living!

[faithmd 14]

Hello KtKt, I thought you'd enjoy reading some toher threads about this same question. It's a good one, and quite popular. I love reading what drove other folks to it, kind of like commiserating together.

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f17/what-last-straw-36304/

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f93/what-your-final-straw-36714/

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f17/last-straw-stories-33153/

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f17/what-your-last-straw-22868/

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f17/what-your-last-straw-19859/

[KtKt 0]

many things lead me to this decision... they all seemed to "dogpile" on me recently... one:

As I limped into the nursing home to visit my mom, using HER cane (sciatic nerve)... I found that she was in PT... I limped even further, and walked past a woman in PT who obviously had knee replacement... she was larger than me (imagine that) and totally at the mercy of others to help her.... I pictured me being there if I didn't stop to "fix" this, once and for all.....

Yeah, I found other threads here about this topic... I started this thread a few days ago, when I was younger and stupid about "searching" for toics... LOL!

katie

[juliegeraci 7]

I had lost 30 lbs on my own and the scale was stuck. So I opted for the lapband.

[wanabthin 0]

I came across an old journal and began to reread my entries. I realized if I wrote an entry on that day it would say the exact same things it had said five years earlier....I'm starting tomorrow, never agian will weigh X amount, this time it is for real....and I realized this was insane, I had founght the same battle for the first almost 30 years and I knew I would be fighting for the next 30 if something didn't change. I started researching, went to the seminar on 6/12 my surgery is scheduled for 8/3.

[wombat712 2]

I could just no longer take the weight anymore. I gained 50 pounds when I had my tonsils removed 20 years ago. I gained another 20 pounds for having children (worth it :0) ). I gained another 20 pounds when I quit smoking and then I gained 30 pounds due to medications in just the last year. I desperately needed help getting the weight off. I could do short term diets and have some small success but nothing long term.

I went to my seminar and had the surgery 2 weeks later since I was self pay. I had everything ready to go before I ever went to the seminar. I would have had the surgery a week earlier but my Dear Hubby decided to start chatting with the doc and mentioned a precedure I had done but he couldn't remember the name - so the doc supplied the name and my hubby agreed. That required me to go visit my old surgeon for evaluation. I have left my dear hubby in the waiting room since that incident :0)

[Big As Life 0]

I was tired of being tired...I was always so tired..I never felt like doing anything...I have three grandchildren and I didn't have the energy to walk across the room, much less play ball with them....so glad that I had this done...I have lost 41 lbs since 4/6/07....yahoo......if that doesn't sound like much, pick up two twenty pound weights and try carrying them around...