Hi needless to say I am nervous but I have been in Kuwait since 2005 and know multiple people who have had the surgery successfully. I am excited but I am looking for supporters who can help me through this! :thumbup: I currently weight 235lbs I am 5"3 and I work as a contractor here. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Good luck to you. This seems to be a kinda lonely process. I am scheduled to meet with my doc next week to schedule my surgry date. I have been quite with going though with this process. Just can not explain to others who do not have this problem what this means to me. If you do not suffer with your weight they have no clue.

Wishing you all the best.

My band surgery date is also february 3rd. I am on the liquid diet right now and feel kinda nervous about the whole thing but I also feel I have alot of resolve and I am really ready to make changes and do what needs to be done.

Keep me updated on your progress. They have not placed me on any type of preop diet it is more like "See you on the 3rd"

I wish my friends truly understand but I am anxious and embarassed to tell them that I am having weight loss surgery I feel like I let myself down by not being able to do it the "right way" let me know what date they schedule you for surgery :biggrin:

for me the biggest fear is that it will not work for me somehow and I will fail. With 'regular' dieting no one has to know you are doing it and although money is spent it isn't thousands of dollars (insurance or not). I have been a big person since puberty and nothing I have ever tried has worked. Its very daunting to me that it has come to surgical alteration for me to win over my body's instincts to eat, and because of past failures I still wonder if I am going to disappoint all my friends and family (and myself).