Hi Everyone!

Just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Linda. I have been overweight off and on my whole life it seems. When I was younger, I swam competitively all summer long. Weight that I had gained from poor eating habits during the school year just melted off during the summer months. Unfortunately, the cycle continued year after year. Eventually, I became a "grown up" with real life responsibilities, stopped swimming, had two boys and then layered on the pounds. Like all of you, I have tried several diets, some very successfully but only learned how to "DIET", not eat. For the record, I am a really good dieter. However, eventually, something would happen, I would get bored with dieting, or just got plain hungry and stopped the diet. And back to old eating habits - the cycle continues.

I have been following the boards for several weeks as I educated myself on WLS. I visited my surgeon today and have scheduled surgery for August 4th. I was all set to get the band until I went to his seminar. My doctor wasn't pushing any one type of surgery but as he discussed the options available, the sleeve sounded pretty good. The more research I did about the sleeve, the better it sounded. So 6 weeks from today, I will get my sleeve.:thumbup:

Hey SoCal ! Thanks for checking in on me. I'm a little stronger each day. I just woke up from a long nap. Still having trouble getting in my fluids. I have already gotten 75% of my daily Protein requirement - so much better there. I went for a walk around the block this morning - made pretty good time. All in all, not a bad day.

You that is great. When I had another surgery last year there is no way I could have walked around the block the first week.