I am scheduled for Surgery Dec 30th. I am nervous!

I have not told anyone about this except my Husband, Mom and Boss. I am a little embarrassed that I am unable to lose the weight on my own. Will it be any easier to tell everyone and having them "watching" you all the time?

I am scheduled for Surgery Dec 30th. I am nervous!

I have not told anyone about this except my Husband, Mom and Boss. I am a little embarrassed that I am unable to lose the weight on my own. Will it be any easier to tell everyone and having them "watching" you all the time?

I am scheduled for Dec 30 too!! I can't wait to start a new me for the new year!! I'm a bit nervous too, but I'm sure it will be fine!

I've only told a handful of people, I don't feel obligated to tell everyone. I was thinking about it today, that I should tell my siblings, but hey, they'll find out soon enough when they see the new me in 2011 and wonder how the heck I did it! I even have to go to our family Christmas party on the 26th and I think I'll just make sure I have my Protein shake before I go and only eat the things that are on my free food list if I really have to eat.

Good luck on you journey to being healthy!! Keep in touch as a fellow Dec 30 bandster

Chris

I am scheduled for Dec 30 too!! I can't wait to start a new me for the new year!! I'm a bit nervous too, but I'm sure it will be fine!

I've only told a handful of people, I don't feel obligated to tell everyone. I was thinking about it today, that I should tell my siblings, but hey, they'll find out soon enough when they see the new me in 2011 and wonder how the heck I did it! I even have to go to our family Christmas party on the 26th and I think I'll just make sure I have my Protein shake before I go and only eat the things that are on my free food list if I really have to eat.

Good luck on you journey to being healthy!! Keep in touch as a fellow Dec 30 bandster

Chris

Good luck to you too! I am going for my Preop stuff today. Meet with the nutritionist, get my ekg, labs, and xrays. Getting more excited every day. Lets talk again right before the 30th~!

I am scheduled for Dec 28th. I have the same issue of being embarrassed to tell people as well. My wife knows and last weekend I finally told my parents. I had so much anxiety about telling anyone but with the holidays coming up and me only being able to have Protein shakes I figured a lot of questions were going to come up. Turns out they said. "Good for you" That was it. I have been worried about this for almost a year now and it turned out to be no big deal. I told my wife yesterday that she can mention it to her Mom as well since we will be having beef tenderloin at her house on the 25th. Oops.. I mean they will be having beef tenderloin while I drink my "yummy" chocolate shake.

Actually I haven't tried them yet. I get that pleasure when the 2 week liquid diet start tomorrow. I am actually looking forward to this as it feels like this is where it really begins.

It is exactly one year ago today I attended the introductory session to begin this journey so it is kind of a cool date to start the real process. I had a long year of insurance appeals before finally getting approval

Good Luck with your surgery on the 30th. I am hoping we all have good losses for 2011

I am scheduled for Surgery Dec 30th. I am nervous!

I have not told anyone about this except my Husband, Mom and Boss. I am a little embarrassed that I am unable to lose the weight on my own. Will it be any easier to tell everyone and having them "watching" you all the time?

I am also banded on the 30th! Started preop diet today. I feel very lucky to be on Atkins instead of liquid. I am so excited to be doing this.

I have only told my family & my boss. My sister is doing it also, same day, we live together so I am counting on pretty smooth sailing.

I did not want to tell anyone just for that reason, I don't want everyone watching me either. Oh and I can lose the weight I just put it right back on.

Good luck and lets just do this!!

Only 2 weeks to go. I am starting to get excited about this. The more people I talk to the more comfortable I get.

Congratulations on giving yourself the gift of a new you and the permission to become the fabulous person on the outside that you already are on the inside. What a great way to start off a new year. The lap band will not only help you become a smaller you but more importantly, a healthier you, a happier you, an all around best you can be you! I'm excited for you.

You don't need to tell anyone if you don't want to. And please, please, please don't be embarrassed. I went through the same thing then I realized something....

Smokers have Chantix & Wellbutrin. Drug addicts have re-hab. Alcoholics have Antibuse. Almost all other personal 'issues' or disorders have socially acceptable help. What makes you think that you don't deserve help too? You do. You deserve help just like everyone else. The lap band is the tool you will use to gain control over your food issues and help you develop a great relationship with food. And the best part is, you'll lose weight in the process.

Being overweight isn't about lack of self control or laziness, we know that, but sometimes other's dont. As you look around and try to figure out what everyone else is thinking about you, remember this...."They don't know you! They don't know what your life is like. They have no right to judge." Do not give your personal power away to anyone. Walk on proudly knowing that you had the guts to make a change in your life. I guarantee that all those 'perfect' people you see out there, male or female, have got some 'issue' hidden somewhere. We, as overweight people, just keep our issues a little more visible than they do. But not for long.

Just remember, the lap band is a tool and like any tool you can chose to use it to its fullest potential or you can throw it in the shed with all the other tools. Use it and all the resources your doctor's office provides and you should do well.

Best of luck for you and enjoy this lap-band journey.

I am scheduled for Dec 30 too!! I can't wait to start a new me for the new year!! I'm a bit nervous too, but I'm sure it will be fine!

I've only told a handful of people, I don't feel obligated to tell everyone. I was thinking about it today, that I should tell my siblings, but hey, they'll find out soon enough when they see the new me in 2011 and wonder how the heck I did it! I even have to go to our family Christmas party on the 26th and I think I'll just make sure I have my Protein shake before I go and only eat the things that are on my free food list if I really have to eat.

Good luck on you journey to being healthy!! Keep in touch as a fellow Dec 30 bandster

Chris

I'm on the 29th. And I'm nervous, too. I've told everyone what I'm doing. I hated to tell the people I work with. But I'm going to be out of the office for three weeks (vacation before surgery) so I had to tell them something. I was eating a rice krispy treat today. One of my "lovely" co-workers walked in wagging his stinking finger at me. After I shot him an ugly look, he dropped it. This is the part I hate. Everyone wants to comment on what you should or should not be doing. I went through this with Weight Watchers.

Ah, forget them all. I'm getting banded on Dec 29 @ 8: 15 a.m. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!