Have lap band surgery

My story is pretty typical.  I am a 38 yr. old, mother of 2 teenagers, and have been married almost 19 years.  I work as a paraprofessional specializing in autism.  I also am attending college and am working toward my degree in Special Education.  As for my weight, it's been a problem since I was about 12.  My father became very sick that year and I used food to deal with it. He died a year later, when I was 13, and it's been downhill from there.  I have tried many weight loss methods over the years....mostly weight watchers and they would work temporarily and then I'd fall right back into old habits.  I first started thinking about wls surgery about five years ago.  At the time, I thought it was not for me.  I wasn't ready.  I'm ready now.  Some reasons that I want the surgery include health (prevention of diabetes), mobility and the ability to do whatever I want, and appearance.  When I'm not thinking about the surgery, I work, go to school, go to the gym, hang out with friends, read, letterbox, play with my dogs, and live an otherwise full life.