I know that everyone is banded for different reasons, but I'd like to know what they are. So please, post them here

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)

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.

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.

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!

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~

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

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

i was 24 years old....and i wanted to start my life.

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

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!

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

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 -->