Up until about two months ago i had every intension on getting a lap band. i was saving up every dollar i had for this $6000 lap band. i almost saved all the money i needed and if everything went perfectly i would have had my lap band surgery in JULY.
BUT everything didn't go perfectly. I lost my job and with bills, food , and haveing to find a new apartment i ended up spending all the money i saved up for the lap band.
At that time i was VERY depressed about it. I have been looking foward to that band forever and just like that- i couldn't afford it anymore....
Fastfoward to now i have done a lot more reaserch about the band and i found out how many people reallly were struggleing with it. and how people had a hard time with restriction and hunger and i realize that the band probably wouldn't have worked that well for me. and i also found a cheaper place that did lapbands gastric sleeves for a very cheap price. and now i got a new (better paying)job, i saved all the money i previously spent, and i plan on having my gastric sleeve surgery in october(for less money than the other facility was charging for a lapband)
So if it wasn't for that finiancial crisis i went through i would have done the lap band and regretted it like a lot of bandsters..
so what i thought was a curse at that time ended up being a blessing.:thumbup: