It took me 3 years to come to the decision to do this, and once I did I was ready to do it. Now I'm 2 weeks away, and I'm actually doing this! I had my upper GI yesterday, they gave me some ID stickers for my surgery (whoa) and I have already bought some sample protein drinks to see which one I like the best. I'm not nervous, or scared, and I certainly don't have any doubts about what I'm doing, but I have got serious butterflies in my tummy everytime I think about it. I guess it's more excitement than anything. I feel like the life I always wanted is about to begin, and I just hope that I'm able to be strong and do what I need to do to make this work.

MellyB,

I recall the excitement you describe. For me, I felt the procedure ended up being a bit anticlimactic. I was in-n-out before I knew it and back to work, full speed, in about a week (but I've always healed fast and I tolerate pain like no one I know).

My only advise to you, is once it's done and you've completely healed (after about a month) you may feel like you were never banded (depending on the band that you get). If that happens, don't worry, just go get a fill. I have a large capacity band and it took me 5 fills to get to where I am now...where I wanted to be all along. Looking back at it, I would have gone in sooner/more if only I had known.

Other than that, no regrets whatsoever, and that's not really a regret anyway. My only true regret is that I didn't do this years ago!