So I'm currently on a business trip.....(first one in quite a long time). First, I was so nervous that the plane seat belt may not fit and I'd have to ask for an extension....but thankfully it fit, barely, but it fit. Both flights were completely full, I changed planes in Atlanta.... ...During both flights I kept thinking....dang! They keep putting the seats closer and closer together, and making them smaller and smaller!....I think that is true to some extent, but I've kept getting bigger also!!!.....both flights were absolutely miserable!

But worse than that, was getting to my next gate .....I checked my main bag, but I did have a lap top bag I carried on......OMG I thought I was going to die walking from one gate to the next carrying my lap top bag....then I had to sit and wait...3.5 hours for my next flight! Again very very uncomfortable......Dear lord I barely fit in the chairs!!!

To top this all off.....when I finally landed at my final destination....(Minneapolis MN)......All I can say, is this is either the biggest airport in the world......or I am just pitiful! By the time I got from my gate where my plane landed to the baggage claim area I literally had tears in my eyes! I really thought I was about to have a heart attack.....or at the very least pass out from exhaustion...now I'm sure it being after midnight had something to do with this............but the biggest contributor to all the issues I was having was my weight!!!

If I had any doubt whatsoever about having this surgery.....this experience has made it very clear that I've made the right decision to get this done! I honestly didn't know how out of shape I am.....I am dreading the returns flights!!!

Sorry this was so long but I wanted to write about this experience while it was fresh on my mind.......

@@Samara1974 Thanks. A couple of other folks mentioned you can buy them as well......I had no idea but thankfully I don't quite need one yet, and my surgery is soon enough that I won't need one for the future....but thanks for the info.

So here's my update.......I just flew home yesterday and I thought I was well past having to be fearful about the seat belt fitting. Well, the first leg of the trip from MN to Atlanta was fine. Uncomfortable of course but actually not as bad as the trip there.....So I had about a 2.5 hour wait in Atlanta and everything was great because where my gate was they had comfy lounge chairs where you could even put your feet up.....I should have know all the "good" was leading up to a "bad.".......So finally I board my plane, sit my happy butt down and grab both ends of my seat belt.....AND ID DOESN'T FIT!!! I was mortified!....but no one saw me try to buckle it, so I ended up just laying it across my lap and tucking the buckle under my shirt.....and just didn't wear a seat belt for the whole flight!....I justified it in my head by telling myself if we crash a seat belt is not going to save me......OMG my surgery date can't get here soon enough!!! Now I have to go back to MN in two weeks and am really dreading it.....I hate this!!!

@@kmorri, I was so embarrassed every time I flew that I didn't even ask for a seat belt extender...I usually just tucked it under my shirt as well and folded my arms over it so the flight attended would not see. Oh my, never again!

@ Kmorri thanks! I had surgery on Thursday the 14th, came home on Friday evening.. I won't lie it felt like I was hit by a Mack truck. But a friend told me today "No pain no gain". So I am holding on to that....

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We just have to hold on to that new person we are going to become and also remind ourselves there's nothing wrong with the person we are emotional or spiritually we just have to love our bodies enough to make them healthy and match our beautiful souls it's a long step I'm two months out from surgery in Mexico so it's easy for me to be content... I will need all of your shoulders to lean on soon!

I'm with you. I didn't realize it until last 6 months. I think I just blocked it out. I'm with you I hate flying for that reason. I pay extra for exit row isle seat even. I'm getting sleeved in July. Scared but have tired it all. Now it's so bad I can't do it alone. But hey least we doing something about it!!

Mpls is a huge airport tho.

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