Shanyab

Congrats on your surgery date. I am March 12th. ( if I kick this cold first)

I'm bringing my laptop and my cell phone that has tv on it. I still have work to do that day so my husbands going to bring it to me. P.j.'s for me since I am so tall, a snap front sports bra to hold the girls in, a ponytail holder and a small brush and my favorite pillow and small blanket ( I get cold very easily ) that's pretty much it for me.

i m scheduled for surgery in 5 days(mar.11),now I m starting to come down with a cold after 10 mos. of preparing for the surgery. This happen to anyone else and did you have to delay your date?

Too funny, * in a bad way of course* My surgery date is March 12th and I got sick the day after my signing the paperwork. I am busting my butt trying to kick it before Monday morning so I can go in and do my labs. ugh ... I hope that you feel better as well.

I am being banded next thursday the 12th and cannot wait im so excited and i am glad to see others just as excited as me on here! you would not belive the negativity i have heard from others (i think they are gealous!)

Hey msperson... I am March 12th as well ... ( praying that I kick this cold that I got ) Congrats to you !!

I am March 12th... I go in for my preop appointment tomorrow am and start the liver thinning diet ( fun) should be a fun next week for me !

Congrats Congrats Congrats to all of you this month.

Added note. This is also my 5 year anniversary month as well...making this all together a very special day.

Hi Heather... My surgical date is March 12,2009. I go in tomorrow morning to sign all of the consent forms and go on my lovely liquid diet. I am soo looking forward to this. My husbands sister lives in Minnesota as well.. small world

Venting is always good. I am 8 days out from my surgery and part of me is giddy the other part says WOW the other part says wtf am I doing and all around I know that its the best choice for me... I just read your message today and I hope that all of our words of encouragement will help you along your path!

Hi everyone !

My name is Shanya and I live in Las Vegas. I am a mom to two kids ages 13 and 7 and married to a wonderful man named Jason.

I have struggled with my weight on and off for the last 15 years, every time I got pregnant I would gain upwards of 60 lbs or more. With my daughter I tipped the scales at 350 lbs even after I had her.

I am pretty tall, 6' to be exact and I am an ex athlete so I carry a bit of muscle weight as well. Currently I weight 279 lbs ( give or take on the day) I purposely had to avoid losing any weight over the last 4 months in order to stay out of the grey area for losing weight.

I was on a medically supervised diet with pills ( research study ) for 3 years, one worked great and I lost weight but had to go off of it because of a problem that came up with my heart. That was found while on the study. I then moved over to a new study and was on a placebo with very strict dietary counseling.

My issue with food is not grazing, or snacking its that I love food. I dont eat out of depression or moodiness. I eat because I am a wonderful cook and LOVE to make elaborate meals and then my portion sizes stay the same like they did when I was in my 20's and playing basketball and swimming daily. I never took into consideration that after 30 the weight would stay on, it refused to come off and stay off.

After I had my daughter I lost a total of 150 lbs in just over a year on my own, I kept it off for the last 4 years till the scaled kept creeping back up. Once I found out that I had a heart problem that was largely in part caused by my yo-yo dieting I decided that it was time to do something and started looking into the lap band after my best friend had it and lost 130 lbs and she looks great.

I was told about this site from another soon to be bandee on Thinner Times and I look forward to hearing other stories !

I see lots of people have had problems with insurance, I guess I was lucky, all we had to do was provide my insurance with my charts ( which my primary took 2 months to do ) and it was approved less than 45 min after it was submitted.

Shanya