rabbitfancy
I am a 36 year old registered nurse that has been on a diet since I was about 11 years old and I'm over 400 pounds so we can see how effective dieting has been for me. I have been on every diet there is except for the Jenny Craig/Nutrisystem plans because I couldn't afford the snacks, I mean the food. With the amount of food that I was eating, the entrees would have been snacks and that was too expensive for me. I did lose 115 pounds one year while on a low fat/low calorie diet with regular exercise and my grandmother cooking all of my meals and acting as my moral conscience. Unfortunately, when I moved on my own, I went back to bad eating habits and got pregnant, had my beautiful daughter, and continued on more bad eating habits. I finished nursing school, raise my daughter on my own(my choice), and started working in the stress free world of nursing!! I was petrified of surgery, due to the fact that I have developed Diabetes, Hypertension, and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, and Anxiety/Depression. I was afraid that I wouldn't heal properly so I decided after a year of research, to get the Lapband. I got the band on 12/21/06 and what a life changer!! I have to rethink everything that goes in my mouth. I have started to see the therapist who cleared me preoperatively and am making good but slow process. I didn't get this large in one day, I won't get healthy in one day. Baby steps, it's teaching me patience.
