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Thank you. Good luck to you too! I've started making changes now, to ease into it, since I know that this will be a change for the rest of my life. Might as well start early. That makes a lot of sense. If I remember correctly, Dr. A was out of a facility, and Dr. Garcia is at the hospital. I'm really glad this site is here. You are all making me feel much better about this, and it's nice to have a community of people who know what it's like to have weight and deal with all of these issues.

Thank you, and good luck to you as well! I'm 420lbs right now. I'm hoping to get this done in August because I'm supposed to be starting my internship in the fall, so I would have to delay again for another year if this falls through, and I just can't wait anymore. And I feel like my weight has hindered me in getting an internship because I have had a hard time finding one, even though I interview well and have experience in the field.

Thank you, everyone! Right now I'm waiting to hear back about Dr. Garcia. Dr. Alvarez was the one that denied me. My BMI is 72, and I will do whatever I have to in order to get sleeved.

Hello! I'm scheduled for surgery in late August of this year, and I just sent in my heath questionnaire. I'm going to Mexico, and in doing research and contacting different places, one of them told me that by BMI was too high to have surgery. Um, what? Now I'm afraid that that once this place sees my forms, they will tell me the same thing. I'm hoping that if that is the case, since I have a couple of months, maybe they will let my try to lose some weight first. See, I can lose weight if I work really really really hard at at, but the problem is keeping it off. And if I think about eating, I will gain 5 pounds. Seriously, it just happened, right now. I will be crushed if I can't get this done. I've struggled with my weight my entire life, and I can't keep going on like this. This is not living. It's gotten to the point where I can't walk very far without being out of breath and my back hurting. I'm tired of being stared at by strangers, and being laughed at by them. I'm tired of worrying if I'll be able to fit in the seating wherever it is that I'm going. I don't want to just be pretty eyes, or nice lips. This sounds so silly, but besides looking good and being healthy, I want to run. Just run for a mile, or two miles, and feel that stitch in my side and my lungs and heart pumping, wind whipping my hair. I'm huge, I know this. I don't want to be this way anymore. If I could lose weight with diet and exercise, um, yeah, I would be doing that. *sigh* Thanks for reading. I'll update once I know something.