Need Lap Band Buddy / Mentor Ready to Go For It in the Dallas/FW area!

[Electrawoman 5]

I am a 39-year-old woman who has been overweight for about 19 or 20 years. I have tried diets and even changed my entire lifestyle with healthy eating and exercise for 2 years with very limited results. I am a stress eater but I can't let myself get any fatter and I refuse to buy one more plus-sized outfit so I am getting a lap-band.

I would never consider GB but lap-band seemed like a good alternative for me. The only doubt I had was with myself. If there is a way to cheat, I worried that I would use it. I wondered, will the threat of vomiting or PB experience really going to stop me from stress eating?

"Funny you should ask", God said today as I swallowed a huge glob of air by accident while drinking some chicken broth. It stuck in my esophagus right where food might get stuck outside of a lap-band. It felt so horrible and painful that I knew I wouldn't ever risk that feeling just for extra food. I decided to go for it.

I found a surgeon that accepts my insurance and I will go to the seminar next week. Meanwhile, I want to start lining up supports and this buddy program looks great.

A little about me> I am a mother of a two-year-old (a fertility miracle and the coolest human on the planet), military wife, graphic and web designer, artist and small business owner who works from home. I love animals and I live in Little Elm Texas (near Frisco, Plano, Denton etc.). People who love me describe me as eccentric. Strangers just usually raise their eyebrow at me questioningly. I could care less, though.

I have never been able to lose any more than 20 lbs at one go in my life. My best weight loss came when I was pregnant and on a diabetic diet for gestational DB. I lost 12 lbs. Gained it all back and then some. I need to lose about 150 lbs, though I would be thrilled just to get my stomach off my thigh or this fat roll off the back of my neck.

I don't ever want to be stick-thin but I am uncomfortable in this body and I am ready to climb out. I would love support from someone who gets "it".