Hi Everyone!!!! My name is Anita, Im 23years old Dec 8th will be one year I've been married to the man of my dreams! I've been overweight for about 6 years now. I started gaining weight after I found out my boyfriend for almost 8 years had been cheating on me for 2 years. While I was with him, he didn't allow me have any friends and wasn't allowed to talk to most of my family memebers (cousins). So when I found out he was cheating on me, I had no one to turn to by food!! WHEN YOUR IN LOVE YOUR REALLY BLIND TO EVERYTHING!!!! Anyways enough about him!! So I've tried everything from low carb to Jenny Craig to get the weight off but nothing worked!!! This past June my mom went to Mexico and had the lap-band surgery done, she lost almost 40lbs in a few months. Ever since her weight came off, I started researching lap-band! I've lurking around this site for a few weeks now, and have posted some threads but as I get closer to surgery day, I thought I'd introduce myself to everyone here who has helped me so much these past couple of weeks. And I cant wait to share my journey with everyone here. Surgery day is NOV 10th, and Im so excited!! just thinking about it makes me want to throw-up!!! I cant belive I'm going to be thin again!! I'm 5'8 and 240lbs, I want to lose about 80lbs then try to get prego after prego I'd like to work my way down to 130lbs!!!!

congradulations, you go girl.

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not yet banded

Congrats....

Welcome And Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations on your upcoming surgery and good luck!