MeredithMcFee

I am a 57 yr old woman who re-married 3.5 years ago to a wonderful man. Prior to meeting him, I had just lost 40lbs. We were very active, biking, off road riding, ziplining, kayaking, etc. And eating. We both realized we were "foodies" and eating was our favorite activity! Over the years we both put on weight and stopped doing the activities we loved to do as we had put on too much weight. I put on the original 40lbs I had lost and gained another 35! I stopped going out and became a hermit for the most part living in my husbands large sweats which we're becoming tight on me. I couldn't go up the stairs without huffing. Last year I had to have a knee arthroscopy following with PT. It didn't help. My Orthopod finally said to me after months of treatment that I should lose weight and start working out to strengthen my quads. Of course, I didn't need my doctor to tell me I needed to loose weight but it got my wheels turning.

Then my husband saw an ad in the Sunday paper for a lapband seminar and we signed up never thinking we were actually going to do it. Just getting some information however, my surgeon "had us at hello", so to speak and we made our initial appointments to start the ball rolling that night and we have never looked back!

It is summer, we are biking, becoming more active as well as exercising since surgery and getting back into my "old" clothes, as well as finally wearing my funky jewelry, scarves and hats I loved to wear that is the real me!