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1. My beautiful son, Connor

2. Tired of being uncomfortable and feeling disgusting

3. When I reached a disgusting 330lbs it was time to do something

4. My husband

5. MYSELF

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To be healthy

To play with my little girl and enjoy life

To be comfortable with myself in any situation

(to have nookie every night naaaaaaah naaaaaaaaaaah)

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For ME! I don't want to be the fat girl anymore. I want to be able to take my baby girl where ever she wants to go without embarrassing her or myself.

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My weight was going up and my energy was going down. I want start having kids in a few years and that wasn't going to go well with how tired and lazy I was with all my weight. I want to feel like I look good. I don't have any co-morbidities, but I was probably dangerously close to developing them, and I didn't want that either. Also, I quit doing everything I used to do to stand out. I didn't want any attention drawn to me because I didn't want anyone to see my fat. I used to design outfits and make them and wear them, color my hair unnatural colors, etc. I prolly can't do my hair again in a corporate setting like I'm in, but I've been doing my nails green, and stuff like that. :(. I'm being 'me' again.

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For me! I turn 40 in June and I just couldn't let myself continue to grow. I want to be healthy for my kids, and to able to chase after them as they get older and even more active. I want my husband to make eyes at me like he does the sweet little things that we encounter. I wanted to stop eating so much and so fast!

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I want to be the old fun me again and not have to worry about what chair I should sit in or if I will be able to walk that far, or are my knees going to go out and I want to have kids, but was too fat and tired to even have the sex involved in doing that let alone take care of a child. I have so much more energy now, I still feel huger than ever I think it is because I have so much attention going there now that I am working on my appearance rather than trying to hide it. I would have never worried before about extra or sagging skin, but now that I am actually losing the weight I see how much farther I have to go and how much surgery I will have to clean it up after I reach my goal weight. Ok SOrry I went on tangent.

plain and simple, I wanna be FINE AS WINE~

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Simply?

Health, family and vanity.

I wanted to be healthy again, be around for my family, and look like the little fox I once was :)

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Guest bill boettger

I have three girls ages 1 2 3 i want to see them grow up and i didnt want to embarrass them when daddy couldnt fit in places

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To get off Avandia and insulin, high blood pressure meds and Vitorion 10/40 and 2 asprin a day.

Age 42 and BMI of 35. Mom and step mom of five and Grandmother of one.

And to fit in those size 7 ROCKY MOUNTAIN BLUES

Yeah baby Yeah

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I would have to say my reasons for the band are pretty much the same as many of the posters ahead of me. 1) I want to be able to spend more QUALITY time with my 3 boys, 2) I am toying with the idea of trying for a DAUGHTER, 3) Getting off my HBP medication, and 4) VANITY.

I have never been thin. NEVER. I want to be able to shop in regular stores, buying regular clothes and look HOTTT. I want my husband to be so proud to have me on his arm walking into a room.

I also have a 5 year plan. By the year 2010 I WILL 1) be to my goal weight or surpass it, 2) have a whole body lift to tighten up all the sagging skin I KNOW I'll have left and 3) finally have BOOBS! I am an A/B if I'm lucky. I want to be able to buy/wear a nice, lacy, sexy bra and I WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN!

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because I had lost all self esteem and felt that I was very unattractive and was ashamed of what I had become and how I looked.Was effecting all aspects of my life

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I actually posted my answer to this question a year ago. Here it is, the reason I got Lap Band surgery:

I want to tie my shoes without planning how.

I want to buy clothes on sale.

I want to hug the love of my life, without wishing for longer arms.

I want to stop smiling politely at "those" jokes.

I want to see my manhood again. Just a glimpse, or my feet even.

I don't want to live in fear of stairs, or chairs, any longer.

I want to live to see my dreams come true.

I want that beautiful creature I married to see me grow old.

I want a healthy life sustaining relationship with food.

I'm tired of food being my only friend, an insidious one at that, bent on killing me slowly.

I want to huff and puff only when I'm imitating the "Big Bad Wolf".

I want to have the energy to live my life, love my wife, and count each day on this earth a blessing.

That was why I got the band.

This is why I'm glad I did and wouldn't change it for the world:

Because I no longer hate the person in the mirror. Because I can focus on the best in life, not just the next opportunity to overeat!<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

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