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Jul 29, 2010

I am a 37 year old wife to a great man and mom to two boys (my stepson 11 and son 5). I live in Connecticut and have a pretty good life that I can't complain about........however I will LOL! I am SICK OF BEING FAT! I wasn't always over weight. I was always a normal weight (never above 135) all throughout High school. I never had to think about what I put in my mouth and never worried about gaining. Well that all changed after I graduated from school. Slowly but surely I would gain 10-15 pounds a year. When I enrolled into hairdressing school a year after I graduated HS I had put on almost 15 pounds. I was now at 150, and at 5'3" it was noticeable. I did the slim-fast diet to take it off and it did.........but just as quick as I took it off I put it back on :( plus some!

Well the following year I gained another 15 and I stayed there for years and years at 165. I got fed up with it after a while, I felt unhealthy and unattractive so I did crash diet after crash diet only to gain it back...plus....plus....plus!

Then in 2002 I had my gallbladder removed and it seems after that the weight gain was faster and steadier then before.......I got married in 2003 had our son in 2004 and here I am now at 244 pounds. The only success I had with dieting was with Weight Watcher but it came off sooooooooo slowly I could cry. It took me nearly 9 months of doing WW to lose a whopping 13 pounds!!! And then of course I gained it back and then some.

So here I am on this forum. I started out looking at OH back in July of 09 when I was
considering the lap band procedure, under a different user name. I went to a seminar held for possible lapbanders and RNYrs. I went with a surgeon I liked name Dr. Pohl (Providence RI) and had my first consultation. I had my blood work done and just needed a few more tests to be done and then I could make my second appointment and schedule my surgery date. I was a self payer and Dr. seemed to fit my budget.

However I just wasn't sold on the idea of having to get fills (needles through my tummy) just grossed me out, and the fact that I could no longer eat bread.....well that seemed just plain cruel....lol!

I put the idea of WLS to rest thinking it's just not for me and I could diet yet again, and  the diet failed, and a year passed. And I remembered OH and thought maybe I'll log back on (forgot my user-name and PW......so then I created Mittens, lol) and I found DS. I read some posts from the forum users and it seemed interesting. I then wanted to know everything I could about DS......so I did alot of research and I have decided that DS is the route I want to take. I know that its work and I know that it comes with a lot of responsibility but it seems the most livable and closest to real life with WLS as you can get. I am so excited to be moving ahead with some sort of plan! :D

God bless and Godspeed!

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