I have been feeling really nervous about what i am going to do to my body and the seriousness of the whole situation. Last night, i thought about cancelling then today i looked at a photo taken for work and i was so disgusted. It has totally spurred me on again. I want to be able to look at a photo of myself without feeling shame.

I have the photo in my bag and if i feel scared about the surgery at all, im gong to take it out and have a look.

This time next year it will be a photo i am proud of!

I'm right there with you. The photos do it all for me! That or walking by a store mirror. Pretty much end of story! Here's to a fabulous 2011!

I have been feeling really nervous about what i am going to do to my body and the seriousness of the whole situation. Last night, i thought about cancelling then today i looked at a photo taken for work and i was so disgusted. It has totally spurred me on again. I want to be able to look at a photo of myself without feeling shame.

I have the photo in my bag and if i feel scared about the surgery at all, im gong to take it out and have a look.

This time next year it will be a photo i am proud of!

I also thought about the "aggression" on my body... but then I looked at my photos and saw a much more serious aggression... 75 pounds packed on in 10 years, sleep apnea, knee pain, back pain, bloating and gas, fatty liver, moving towards diabetes... I could not understand how I got so far, how I let that happen to me, how I did that to myself. Now I am happy and my body seems to be very accepting of the harm reduction approach I took. Knee pain is gone, sleep apnea is gone, fatty liver is gone, bloating is gone... I am positive I could not do it without my sleeve.

It is a big step into the unkown. I will tell you that it is not easy but if you choose to do it. It will change your life forever and you will be a healtier person. I would personally do it over again I have been sleeved for around 5 weeks now

I have been feeling really nervous about what i am going to do to my body and the seriousness of the whole situation. Last night, i thought about cancelling then today i looked at a photo taken for work and i was so disgusted. It has totally spurred me on again. I want to be able to look at a photo of myself without feeling shame.

I have the photo in my bag and if i feel scared about the surgery at all, im gong to take it out and have a look.

This time next year it will be a photo i am proud of!

I'm currently in a 3 month process of dr's appts for insurance approval and I am too having all these questions. I went to see the nutritionist on Friday and when telling her all the diets I've done she asked me about one of them, the HCG diet. She said clients mention it but she doesn't know what it is. After leaving the office I was like -this works, I just have to actualy do all the phases, I lost 30 in 6 weeks why not do it again?- so all weekend long I was thinking, if I change my mind how do I tell me hubby and will he think I'm crazy if like, Wednsday I'm back on the VSG wagon? My family would be happy that I'm not going under the knife again. . .yet, I had lap-band surgery 2 yrs ago and had it removed in less than a yr due to slippage and I did lose over 50 lbs which I have not regained completely. . .then this morning I'm like -oh what the heck, being real Elizabeth, you know you can't do these diets to completion. . .and that later you will gain it back. . .and that you want to renue your vowels with hubby and look and feel AWESOME (almost 10 yrs married) and that you want to have more kids but are afraid of going into early labor again (daughter was born right at 6 mos weighing 2 lbs. She is perfetctly fine :-D) so stop with all these doubts and be grateful that you have insurance that covers this 100%. . .

Do any or all of you ever feel like this, is this common? I guess with the lapband I knew it was revirsable so it was not that scary but this is for real, life altering, in a good way I know. . .Im afraid of regaining, that is my major fear!!!

I am right there also!

I have been on the liquid pre-op for 5 days and have lost 10 lbs. I keep thinking...why don't I just stay on this until I lose 100 lbs and then eat like I did have the surgery and save myself the money and the pain.

Then I walk by a mirror, or walk up the stairs, or bend over to put my shoes on and realize about every 3 years, I do great taking weight off... hence the problem... I can't keep it off.

I am embarrassed that I have such low will power, then I realize I have a disease and trying to cure it, and then I panic over what I am actually doing to my body... it is an endless rollercoaster!

I'm currently in a 3 month process of dr's appts for insurance approval and I am too having all these questions. I went to see the nutritionist on Friday and when telling her all the diets I've done she asked me about one of them, the HCG diet. She said clients mention it but she doesn't know what it is. After leaving the office I was like -this works, I just have to actualy do all the phases, I lost 30 in 6 weeks why not do it again?- so all weekend long I was thinking, if I change my mind how do I tell me hubby and will he think I'm crazy if like, Wednsday I'm back on the VSG wagon? My family would be happy that I'm not going under the knife again. . .yet, I had lap-band surgery 2 yrs ago and had it removed in less than a yr due to slippage and I did lose over 50 lbs which I have not regained completely. . .then this morning I'm like -oh what the heck, being real Elizabeth, you know you can't do these diets to completion. . .and that later you will gain it back. . .and that you want to renue your vowels with hubby and look and feel AWESOME (almost 10 yrs married) and that you want to have more kids but are afraid of going into early labor again (daughter was born right at 6 mos weighing 2 lbs. She is perfetctly fine :-D) so stop with all these doubts and be grateful that you have insurance that covers this 100%. . .

Do any or all of you ever feel like this, is this common? I guess with the lapband I knew it was revirsable so it was not that scary but this is for real, life altering, in a good way I know. . .Im afraid of regaining, that is my major fear!!!

I'm right there with you Dear, I have done the HCG diet too and I lost 26 lbs. in 3 weeks then I had a trip for two months and guess what happen I gain all back and some more, I was crazy hungry like I never before somehow the HCG works but I think if you don't do it all the phases you end up worst... so here I am schedule for surgery on the 22 of March...

Good luck to you I think this is a changing life and like you said that also will allow us to have healthy baby and be able to teach them the correct way to eat with our new habits...