brandnewme2010

Well I have finally got a surgery date and it feels wonderful just to know the answer to "When?". August 3,2010! I'm so excited to get started on living a healthy life and feeling better. Being able to enjoy the rest of my life without being so miserable. I have steadily gained weight over my life first 5-10lbs more a year to 10-20lbs more a year. I have tried almost every diet you can think of over a lifetime and nothing ever worked. As soon as I stopped dieting I gained the weight plus a few extra. Now I am at my heaviest and I HATE it. I'm tired all the time and make excuses for me doing nothing that I used to LOVE doing. Like...swimming, hiking, working out. I used to love taking off on a day off with my kids for a hike up the mountain, or going to Kennywood. Riding 4-wheelers with family and friends. Now I have a million excuses NOT to do those things. I want to enjoy my life again. I have a two year old grandson and I don't want to have to tell him "nana's tired honey lets sit down". I want to take him to Disney World and ride the rides with him, not stand on the ground and watch. I believe that the LAP-BAND® is the answer. Wish me luck

I finished all the test for my insurance company last week and now am waiting on everything to be submitted. I also am not good at waiting. I am the "just do it" kind of person. It was easy for me when they gave me a list and said "you need to do everything on this list so we can submit it to your insurance for approval". I was like good I'm on it! Now my part is done and I have to wait on someone else to do their part...not so good at that. Then I too am on that borderline with my insurance. My BMI is 42.5 so I meet that requirement...but no high blood pressure, sleep apnea. So I always say I am a healthy fat person. The truth is that my bones and joints are crumbling and I've had one surgery on my neck because it had crumbled and flattened my spine so I was almost paralyzed on my left side. I have problems with my feet and ankles. My hips hurt all the time, my back. I have arthritis from top to bottom. Every doctor I go to says well there isn't much we can do you need to lose weight. Soooo I have tried diets my whole life and I am the perfect example of yoyo diets. Lose 20 gain 30...lose 20 gain 40. It never works, then I go to ex streams and stop eating. The LAP-BAND® sounds like the perfect life for me. A healthy way to lose weight and live a happy life. The hard part is not the fasting before surgery it is the waiting for an approval from an insurance company! The fasting will be doable for me because I will know that at the end of that 10 days I will have my surgery! Wish me luck everyone and thanks for listening. :frown: