DaVirtuous1
Well OH Family I'm sure my story starts pretty much like every other story on this site. I've been overweight all my life, but what's so funny is back in the day when I was in school and thought I was fat as well as others thought,but since then I've run into old school mates that tell me that I was fine as hell back then, but the odd thing is they never tried to holla, and I guess that's cause I wasn't as small as alot of my classmates. To HELL with them all they just didn't know what they were messing and now half of them are with full sized women or they are CRACKHEADS now. I was fine & sexy then and I'm fine & sexy now, but just wait and see the new me, Well I have thought about losing weight so many times that it would make your head spin around. I have a friend that was overweight and we've tried several different weight loss programs actually I can say that one did work but of course it was short lived, I did lose abt 70 pounds in a period of 6 months, but of course 6 months later I gained it all back plus some. Well my friend made the big step and she had the gastric bypass over 5 years now and she's still doing well she was at least a size 26/28 but she's now down to a size 16/18, well I became more interested but still actually scared to go thru with it so I've been putting it off for years now. I ran into a young man and he had had the lap band done, he told me that he changed his mind at least about 3 times before he finally went thru with it and he looks good. So I talked with my friend & a co worker abt the lap band and my friend said if she knew abt the lap band then she probably would have done it but she has no regrets for the surgery she did have. Anyway, I spoke with my girlfriend about it and she was very supportive which she always is. Well I went for my annual in October and my Dr told me that she wants me to start walking for 30 min on my lunch break, but I wanted to ask her if she was crazy as hell or something, casual walking was not for me. If I go to the mall I park near the store I'm going in and I leave out the same way or drive to the other end of the mall. Anyway my friend told me about this website and I started looking on here reading the stories abt everyone else's journey and I was truly amazed of so many people that were actually going thru what I had (am) been going thru. Well when I had my annual my blood pressure was very elavated so she started on some medication, and then when my labs came back my blood sugar was above the normal level, and knowing that my mother was a diabetic & she suffered from high blood pressure she wanted to nip those things in the buttocks, and besides that I was diagnosed with arthritis in my knees in Oct of '04, so she currently has me going to therapy 2x's a week now. So went back to see her and I casually asked her abt the lap band, and without hesitation she told me I would be a good candidate for the lap band, so she told me to look into different Dr's and talk with people who've had the procedure done and decide if that's what I want and that she would back me if I did decide. Well I had my friend to call the Obesity Clinic where she went and they sent me out a pkg with pamphlets to go over and fill out the paperwork, they also gave me some seminar dates which I plan to attend. I go back to see her on Feb 2nd and I'll let her know that I'm ready to go full speed ahead. My new found OH family have given me so much hope, you people are spectacular, you just have no idea how anxious I am now.
