hollinsprincess
My story is nothing new here on the boards --- and that honestly makes me feel better:)
I was a large child -- born large (at least for 1982) and stayed large. I remember my mom having to pull me out of ballet because the company was having a hard time finding costumes for me when I was four. I had a great primary care physician though -- who though my teens would NEVER put me on a diet. He always told my parents that I didn't like cake or sweets, asked for seconds with veggies, and played sports almost every season -- I was just destoned to be larger than average. My weight didn't stop me in most things --- and I've neatly blocked out most of the things it did hamper.
Anyhow --- after college and law school I really started thinking about the totality of my life. Sure my weight didn't stop me from doing things, but it did alter the way I did them. I always thought that if you worked out enough, and counted your points -- you would loose weight. And sometimes I did, just to gain it back. Having a best friend (who has always struggled with her weight) who has a lapband (and has gained her weight back due to non-maintaince -- so I've seen the good AND the bad) got me thinking at the begining of 2008 about making the lifestyle change myself -- and about finally giving into the fact that I DO need a tool to assist me. So in January -- after a rought few months (failed the bar, lost my job, moved home, blah blah) -- I diecided what could it hurt. So I made an appointment to see my primary care physician and the rest is history (and six months of monitored weight loss, and psych evals, and another failed bar exam attempt! ugh!). I was most proud that my mom started thinking about changing her life too. I also have seen my mother decline due to weight related co-morbidities (diabetes, high blood pressure), and gathered strength through her choice to have a RNY on 11/10/08.
I'm set to be banded on January 22, 2009 and though I am scared, I'm excited too. I'm exicted to see the possibilities come to light, I'm excited to reduce my chance of following in the family footsteps of diabetes, and I would be lying if I didn't say that I was excited about mabye not always having to shop at Lane Bryant or run from the pool chair into the pool to hide my thunder thighs! (Victorias Secret and The Limited here I come! Also planning on going back to Vegas and leisurely walking from the chair to the pool! Oh yeah!) 
