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I am tired of being overweight. I was a skinny kid and in fact the boys used to call me "spider legs". I never thought I would be overweight but I should have foreseen that I would have a tendency to gain weight because both sides of the family were overweight. Nooooooo.....it would NEVER happen to me. I had everything going for me - Majorette, Homecoming Queen, beauty pageants, lead in all the school plays, could have any boy I wanted (LOL), etc. Then - voila - 40 years later I look like Miss Piggy. Being short doesn't help much but neither does eating a whole bag of chips at one sitting. My problem is that I love junk food - Taco Bell, Pizza, McDonalds, any kind of Mexican food, potato chips, popcorn, peanuts, Corona beer, and wine. I could care less about sweets.
As I got older, and tried every diet out there, including the blood type diet, I knew I had to do something more drastic and if not I would end up dying in my 60's just as everyone else in my family had done. My friend and colleague - Charo - told me she was getting the lap band so it piqued my interest. She had her surgery last July and a month later I was looking for a doctor that practiced close to where I live. I found one but became discouraged after I found out he was not in the BC/BS network so I kept looking until I found one in the network. By the way, Charo has lost 46 pounds in 6 months. Kudos to her!!!
