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so I am going to have surgery the second week in january and I am scared to death. What if this doesnt work either? I know that its not a cure tht its just a tool that is supposed to help me but if its up to me to make the right choices that is what I am scare about. The choces that I make have gotten me where I am now. I am scared that my relationship with food is too strong, I am scared of being thin, I keep telling myself that having the surgery is weak and I should be able to do it on my own. Only time and time again I have tried and failed. Please tell me that someone else out there has felt this way.:thumbup:

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Hi Snappi,

I am going through the exact same emotions, I am being banded on the 3rd Dec. I have not been able to stop eating, its like a farewell to food eating. I have been reading these boards of months now and I am convinced that I am making the right decision. One minute I am all positive and then go and scare myself by watching the operation itself and reading all the problems people are having with their bands. So no, you are not alone

Ash

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I think because we have been on and failed every diet we have been on that the unknown of another tool is making us feel we may fail again. I don't even want to tell people that I am doing this because what if I fail again? When I read stories of people that have not lost or watch them on youtube I wonder will that be me too, will I over eat since I eat now when I'm full or not hungry? Will I stretch out my pouch and have my co-workers say they told me so that it could happen? Well, now I just worried myself even more.

I have walked into Weight Watcher's so many times with my head high saying to myself, this is it, this time I am going to lose the weight and keep it off, my freinds and family support me and then I fail, I am so tired of failing.

We have to go into this without our old habits, fears and thoughts of failure. I'm sure we'll have moments of weekness, we will have bad weeks or even a bad month, however, this is the best tool we can ask for so I am going in this last time with my head held high and with a possitive attitude again and I AM GOING TO LOSE THIS WEIGHT, we all are, we have a great site here to come to when we are having a problem or a question, we have friends here we can trust, we have each other and I know I am going to finally and forever lose my unwanted weight, I'm finally going to be healthy. I just can't go into this scared, I can't be scared anymore, I just want to keep the excitement!!:D

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