What is your motivation to make this life style change? Today I'm struggling and I just need some reassurance. I have two beautiful active kids and a loving husband that deserve me at 100%. I'm always tired and dragging and I'm too young to feel like this but today I'm thinking of all that can go wrong.

Feeling better and having more energy is a big motivator for me. I'm just tired of being tired, tired of dragging around all this extra weight, and seeing myself in my mother's shoes in 20 years, disabled at 60 with heart disease. I've been having doubts about this surgery too, actually trying for my surgery date after the first of the year, so it's hard for me to look onto the "other" side, after surgery. I'm going on faith and hope right now, I try to focus on the positive by looking at cute, smaller clothes, imagining how I will feel and look as a thin person, increasing my self esteem and confidence, feeling sexier, ect..we can't know everything about the outcome, and to worry and fuss about every "bad" possibility diminishes our health even more. We are just as apt to be one of the good outcomes! Stay positive!!

Thank you. I'm still grieving the loss of a friend. I think that's y I feel like this sometimes. I'm much better than 2 months ago but I'm a work in progress.

absolutely my family. Looking better will be a side benefit but I want more than anything to see my babies grow up.

Of course my health... But a big one for me... Having more kids! I can't wait and to keep up with the one I already have!

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Can I recommend you all make a list of top ten reasons you are having surgery?

This will help out when you have those doubts. You can pull out before surgery and reread to calm your nerves. You can pull out the days after surgery when we sometime doubt what we have done.

Looking back is easy. Looking forward is brave.

I knew it was time when I couldn't get out of bed anymore. The body aches and pains were so great that it consumed my life. I watched others make this life change and fail regaining all and more of the weight in a year or two. I knew it was time when I heard my 5 year old tell her sister that she couldn't play because her back hurt too bad.

I have lost over 50 pounds in 2 months and feel like a new person. I was at the park this weekend with the family and ran after my 3 year old. I wasn't able to do that before. We all played, I could fit on the slide and in a swing. It felt great. I have been wearing clothes that I haven't been able to wear in over 5 years.

I can do things today that I couldn't do before. I have more self confidence, stand taller, and above all respect myself. This was not an easy choice to make, but I am a new, improved version of myself and don't regret a moment.

50 pounds in 2 months is awesome. Talk about taking your life back. I'm not gonna chicken out I'm going to do it. I really need my nerves to just chill out.