What was the final breaking point that made you decide to go through with this drastic change? WHat made you decide that "this is worth it"? I'm so scared, but I just don't think I can go on like this anymore. Like everyone here, I've tried a million things and I just need to do something. Is this it?

I'm going to one of the informational meetings on Tuesday to see what they have to say. I've been reading this site and I am so jealous of the progress everyone has made. It's just amazing.

My biggest enemy here is going to be me because #1 I can't make decisions, #2 - I am terrified... TERRIFIED of throwing up and from what I've read you just better be ready to throw up at anytime for any reason. Is it worth it? I don't know... thus problem #1.

Anyone?

Oh my god I don't know whether to laugh or cry because it's so true. If someone is in the handicap stall at work I get so mad. In the little stall I have to be a contortionist. This really isn't funny is it?

Well, it's kinda funny...then again, I use humor quite a bit, so I find it funny. The first time it happened, I was like "really? I'm so freakin' fat I can't wipe my butt? Really?" It's one of those things people take for granted. Who knew that could be a problem? And then there's the creativity involved in figuring out how to reach, and, um, yeah.

Oh my god I don't know whether to laugh or cry because it's so true. If someone is in the handicap stall at work I get so mad. In the little stall I have to be a contortionist. This really isn't funny is it?

I know what you mean. I kinda had to angle every which way. I hated it. It gets better. Thank goodness.

OMG!!! ROTFLMAO!!!

I can laugh at i now too!!! Hell i laughed then!!!

Cant forget about the time i almost put my eye out....bending over to pick up a quarter...n my button popped off my pants...barely missing my face!!! If I can have a camera around me during Some of these times...I would be a millionaire!! 4real

I will miss my son asking to lay on my stomach.....cause its so soft!! Oh well the memories are just as good!! Lol

Just thought of another one....the red belt i had around my stomach...hours after taking my pants off!!!! I can list hundreds of breaking points!!!

My breaking point was getting uterine cancer and being told by the doctor that most of his patients with this cancer were obese. Diabetic, high blood pressure, high cholesterol didn't do it. Losing the same fifty pounds again and again didn't do it. The Big C scared me and I am currently in therapy to try and deal with (some) of my head issues before the surgery. She asked me what I did for fun and I couldn't think of anything not food related, one of those sad but funny moments in life.

Robbie

I had made too many promises to myself that I wasn't keeping. Weight loss surgery seemed like the easy way out, and I wouldn't consider it. I kept asking myself, if I could commit to dieting after surgery, why not before?

Umpteen failed diets later, I saw a surgeon in Dec 2011. I was prepared for Lap-Band, but he told me about the sleeve. I still wasn't ready. I told myself, I would try dieting for one more year. I told myself it was the last dieting promise I would make myself before surgery. I made an appointment with a family practitioner who specializes in bariatrics and takes care of patients before and after weight loss surgery. I told him I didn't want to have surgery, and he told me that my BMI of 50 and diagnosis of PCOS would make it very hard to lose weight and keep it off without surgery. He told me that he would be willing to help me and guide me, but he wanted me to be aware that in his experience, less than 1% of people in my situation were successful. I left his office sure that I was going to be that 1%.

Six months later, I had gained 9 pounds. I decided I wasn't going to weight a year. I had been reading forums about the sleeve, and people who were 6 months post-op were down an average of 50-70lbs.

I was sleeved 6/28. I had some dry heaves the day of surgery, but I haven't thrown up. Couldn't be happier with my decision. I am only a week out, but I am not starving every evening. It is much easier to make good decisions when you are ravenously hungry.

My breaking point is when I was told that if I don't lose weight in 5 years I would need knee replacement surgery (this was 2 years ago) and then after trying for a couple of years I'm still not able to lose the weight, and after talking to people who have had knee replacement surgery and people who have had WLS and hearing almost all the knee replacement surgery people saying that they weren't happy with the replacement and most of the WLS people saying they would do it again in a minute - and knowing that the recovery for knee replacement is that you will pretty much be a cripple for about 6 months or more and with the WLS you will be back to your old self - except not able to eat as much and losing weight in about 2 or 3 months... that was my breaking point.