LCM74

I'm 43 and have battled with my weight since my teens.  I've always played netball and competed to a high standard which involved intense training and exercise, so whilst I have always been stockier, it was never just fat and I could carry it well.  However over the last 10 years I've stopped playing my sport to such a high level and can't physically exercise to the same intensity or frequency. 

I've been on every diet possible in the last 20 years,  Atkins, weight watchers, cambridge diet, green juice diet, lemonade diet just eating broccoli diet and I've even water fasted.  6 years ago I was diagnosed hypothyroid, probably due to all the dieting stress I have put my body under

So I've been giving WLS a lot of thought as I feel so uncomfortable and depressed with my current size and mobility and totally exhausted with the intense dieting that seems to be the only way my body will now lose weight.  This is of course not sustainable and I eventually gain all the weight I've lost, plus plus some!  I'm in the WLS research stage and am leaning toward the gastic sleeve......