Hello fellow VSG'rs

I will be having surgery on April 18, 2012. I am excited as well as nervous as I am sure most of you experienced some jitters just before.

I began my journey about 7 months ago when I was about to start another diet. My sister noticed how bad my attitude was and I was feeling defeated before I even started. She is the one who said, "hey you should look into that lapband thing." The next day I began making phone calls and while waiting for calls back I started researching everything about WLS. Within a few days I decided that VSG sounded like the best fit for me.

I started gaining weight in my twenties and have been a yoyo dieter ever since, with gaining back more each time until I reached my heaviest point which was 216. I am only 5'1" so my BMI was at 40 when I saw the surgeon for the first time on December 16, 2011.

I started working out and eating a healthier diet and am now down to 208. Today I began my pre-op diet which consists of two protein shakes and a small meal.

In two weeks I will be sleeved! Yay!

In the pic I posted, it was about a month ago and I was around 211. I was with friends at wine tasting and I remember everytime a picture was snapped of me, I would say.."oh this will make a great before picture" I plan to go back there next year with my husband and have some much nicer pictures taken!

I wish you the best of luck we are going through this together. I am also being sleeved on the 18th and am a little nervous like everyone going into surgery. I am on week 2 of 3 weeks of a pure protien shake diet to get my liver as small as possible, and to get my body and mind ready for the surgery. I have been trying to walking every day or every other day to get my more weight off and to build up my lung capacity. I am 5'11 360 at the start of this, I have a doctors appt this morning so I will figure out what I weigh when I go in. We can do this we just have to be positive and diligent.