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Here goes nothing!

By GonnaBeFit

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I'm going in for my educational seminar tomorrow night. I don't really know what to expect really. I think I have researched what I need to. I just get this feeling that ... well, I'm not even really sure what I"m feeling.

 

I guess this doesn't make much sense for my first blog. I was thinking it would be something poetic like :cool: I saw a picture of me that was taken last night and then one today .. wow, I really need this surgery. I know this is a tool and its not an answer. But right now, in this struggle I have been fighting all my life, this tool is my answer. I need a jump-start, something to help me be successful with what I'm already doing. Stupid PCOS makes it so hard for me to lose anything. I swear I breath in carbs and I gain a pound.

 

I think I'm all confused like because I don't really know how I feel after the seminar. I know how I feel right now and that this is like my only answer to help me, but I feel like maybe at the end of the seminar my mind will change and I wont want the surgery, then what? Where do I go from there?

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    Bklynike

    LAP-BAND Patients

    You will go to the seminar and be so impressed by what you see and hear that you will be even more excited for the surgery. If you choose Lap-Band, it will be a slower loss than Gastric Bypass or the Sleeve, but in my opinion the Lap-Band is less invasive and much more healthy. Plus, you will return to your normal life so much quicker. As you said, the LB is a tool, but you have to do all of the work. Your diet will change greatly - no more bread, potatoes, sugar or carbinated drinks. You MUST exercise, which I never thought I would get to do at my size, but I do and I love it. What will you get? You will lose the weight and get healthier, have a better quality of life and just feel so much better about yourself. Good luck, it is the best gift you will ever give yourself.

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    SAGARCIA

    LAP-BAND Patients

    Good luck... I hope the seminar clears everything up for you and that you make the right decision for yourself. I couldn't be more pleased with my decision to have the lapband.

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    marw

    LAP-BAND Patients

    Ditto . .. to what both Bklynike and SAGARCIA have said. I am 3 weeks post op and loving it. Losing slowly, but my main goal is to KEEP the weight off . . something I have never been able to do. Best wishes in your decision making.

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    GonnaBeFit

    LAP-BAND Patients

    thank you all!!! Its so nice to have ya'll respond to my blog!!!

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