Why did you do it?

[JazmaniaRNY 80]

I am scheduled tomorrow 2/7/18 and can’t be happier. I am hopeful everything will be fine. I am curious to know why other people decided to have WLS? For me, I hate diabetes , I miss running that feeling you get when the wind hits your face pure freedom(not that I can’t run now but damn it is hard-does not feel like freedom lol), I want to be the best possible role model for my child/family in all aspects, and to live longer to enjoy life. I am beautiful now so it is not to feel beautiful or be prettier. I already love myself, but life happens and being Hispanic- I love food! I am scared, excited, and all emotions I can’t think of. I am just curious to know what made you do it?

[elforman 234]

I'm only two weeks into my three-month pre-op diet, but it wasn't a difficult decision to kick off the process. I've dieted before and done quite well on them but always had problems keeping the weight off. I'm also currently wracked with injuries to my back, feet, knee and shoulders, so any kind of strenuous exercise is out of the picture, and the only times I've lost weight in the past was when it was accompanied by rigorous workouts. I had problems sticking to good eating habits when things got stressful, so combine my son coming down with a semi-debilitating disease and my wife being seriously injured in an auto accident, and my weight ballooned. Now that things have calmed down in my life, I realize that I would benefit from the lifestyle change the surgery would require, so I'm going for it.

So good luck tomorrow and all that stuff.

[GreenTealael 24,913]

I was tired of fighting a battle without the right weapons...

[blizair09 3,250]

I was ready to live life. I wasted my 30s being morbidly obese. It was affecting my physical and mental health, and causing me to retreat from the people in life that I love the most.

Having the surgery, and (more importantly) changing my relationship with food was the very best thing I have ever done for myself. I am happier right now than I have ever been in my adult life!

[kakatlady612 1,053]

Felt myself getting slower daily.Tired of bragging this old body and its weight sround, many of my high school classmates died in the last year, I'm not ready to join them. I have a young spirt, with weight loss a hope for the future. I do not want to die At this weight. I am pretty inside, it's time for the outside to reflect it. Join me on this journey everyone.

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[Creekimp13 5,838]

A cancer scare and climbing prediabetic AIC. For me...it was that simple.

Vanity really isn't something I worry about overly.

Mobility, health, and longevity, on the other hand....are pretty critical.

It was just time to address the issue with every resource available.

Very, very glad I did:) Feeling great!

Edited February 6, 2018 by Creekimp13

[MrsGamgee 756]

These are my reasons why... I want to be around when my kids graduate from high school, I want to meet my grandkids someday, and I want to grow old with my husband. Diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol had me looking at the rest of (probably shortened) my life as an ill person and I'm so terribly sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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[FluffyChix 17,410]

A crap ton of co-morbidities. I felt like I was 90 and fading fast. Hard to walk. Hard to bathe. Hard to wipe my butt. Hard to stand to cook. And my oncologist and My 600Lb Life scared me straight and put the fear of God into me.

[angyplus5 470]

My diabetes and other co-morbidities. Honestly if I did not do something my diabetes was going to kill me. I want to see my children flourish and my grandbaby grow up!!! I want to grow old with my loving husband!

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