I'm eager to hear some stories... I realized that I needed the band after accidentally losing 39 pounds (college starvation... Definitely not recommended). After starving I came home from school and really fell deep in love with food. I also wanted to lose more weight. A year after deciding to lose weight I gained 70 pounds... I passed the 300 mark and my plus size curves were no longer sexy and I couldn't work it off for the life of me. I was depressed and I was talking to some random lady at the bus stop and she told me about the lap band and like a week later I talked to my doctor... Now I'm getting ready for orientation next week!.... Any other stories ?

Wow all these stories are really inspiring!! Thanks guys

I have PCOS which is something that could really affect fertility for me. It's weight related so I knew I was going to have a hard time getting pregnant. My husband and I decided to try right away after getting married because it would probably take a while.

So 1 week after we returned from our honeymoon, I was sitting in the waiting room of my husband's oral surgeon at Duke University Hospital. I needed to get some work done, but couldn't get on the wi-fi. After trying 800 times I gave up, put my computer away and picked up the magazine sitting next to me.

The cover story was about overweight women and pregnancy. It talked about PCOS and even if overweight women can get pregnant, how much stress and risk it puts on the fetus.

later in the article it talked about women who have undergone lap band surgery have been able to reverse so many of those issues and/or actually conceive. At that point in my life I have tried and done every weight loss avenue that has been available. I've lost 30 lbs... and then for some reason I lose all hope and gain everything plus some back.

A week later we went to an informational session at Duke and another hospital. We decided to do this as a team because we both had over 100 lbs to lose.

On Dec 19, 2011 we were banded one right after the other and we've been losing weight ever since. My husband is my best friend and we're so happy to be changing our lives together for the good.

I knew that I needed to have the Lap Band after I started my new job. I looked down at the photo of me that was on my ID badge and said to myself "Hell to the naw!" I looked 10 years older than I should. I cried and then immediately looked up the lap band procedure on my cell phone. I haven't looked back and have my first appointment with my surgeon this Friday. Can't wait!