Teri_B

Thank you for your understanding and input. I went to a seminar last night and now I am confident I am making the right decision. Good Luck with your surgery.

MusicalMomma: Thank you too for your input. That is how it is with my mom. I am her baby girl and she has it set her head that if I do this it can shorten my life. She keeps comparing it to gastric bypass. I told her that my life is being shortened by being overweight and that she will never understand where I am at physically and emotinally. I told her that I love her and respect her opinion, but I need her to respect how I feel. I think she knows in her heart that this is right for me, she is just very afraid of the what ifs.

Kacee: That is how I feel. I want to enjoy life with my children while they are young and I don't want them to lose me because I didn't take care of myself. I don't want to waist the next 20 years of my life because I was afraid to take this step. Let's face it, if I could lose the wait by simple diet and exercise, I wouldn't be so over weight. Thank you for your input.

:help:I have been struggling with this decision for over 2 years. I have tried every diet known to man and just can't seem to succeed. I am currently at 265 lbs and fear I will just get bigger. I considered the Lap Band for over a year and a half before finally telling my mom that I wanted to look into it. Thought she was all for it, but after she went to the seminar with me, she became scared of it. She talked me into giving dieting another try. That was back in August. Since then I have gone from 269 lbs to 256 lbs and then back up to 265 lbs. Now it is December and I am kicking myself for not doing what I felt was right for me. I could have been banded by now. When I see and read the success stories, I get very hopefull. Yet, when I read the possible complications, I get scared. I worry that I will spend all that money on another gimmick that I will just fail at. My cousin had the Duodenal Switch done. She says she has never had the problem of food getting stuck or PB. Of course that is surgically altering your insides permantly. If anyone could please give me some personal input on their experience good or bad, I would really appreciate it.<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

:help: I have been struggling with this decision for over 2 years. I have tried every diet known to man and just can't seem to succeed. I am currently at 265 lbs and fear I will just get bigger. I considered the Lap Band for over a year and a half before finally telling my mom that I wanted to look into it. Thought she was all for it, but after she went to the seminar with me, she became scared of it. She talked me into giving dieting another try. That was back in August. Since then I have gone from 269 lbs to 256 lbs and then back up to 265 lbs. Now it is December and I am kicking myself for not doing what I felt was right for me. I could have been banded by now. When I see and read the success stories, I get very hopefull. Yet, when I read the possible complications, I get scared. I worry that I will spend all that money on another gimmick that I will just fail at. My cousin had the Duodenal Switch done. She says she has never had the problem of food getting stuck or PB. Of course that is surgically altering your insides permantly. If anyone could please give me some personal input on their experience good or bad, I would really appreciate it.