purplellow
Hi!! My name is Lynn and I am 46 years old. I will be celebrating my 28th wedding anniversary in April 2007 with my high school sweetheart. We have 4 children and a dog so as you can imagine it's busy around here.
I have struggled all my life with my weight. I was always the chunky kid or teen. It got alot worse as I began having kids. You gain weight during pregnancy and never get back to where you were before, still carrying that extra 10 or so pounds and then, guess what before you you know it your pregnant again.
I have been exploring WLS for about 1 year or so and I have finally decided that this is the path for me. I have tried all the fad diets. nutrasystems, slim-fast, and weight watchers. I found that weight watchers was the best diet that I could stay on. I had good success losing about 50 pounds and then I hurt my back and was laid up for quite awhile. I have a cracked vertebrae and exercising is slow going. The weight just seems to keep creeping up on me. So of course I got depressed.
I was looking into going the least invasive route and having the lap band but I was talked out of it by my psychologist. See I love sweets, like ice cream, cake and other goodies and those soft favorites slip right through the band and would not be of any help to me. I also have gallstones and need to have my gallbladder out, so I will be having an open bypass. I am so ready to start feeling better physically and emotionally.
I have struggled all my life with my weight. I was always the chunky kid or teen. It got alot worse as I began having kids. You gain weight during pregnancy and never get back to where you were before, still carrying that extra 10 or so pounds and then, guess what before you you know it your pregnant again.
I have been exploring WLS for about 1 year or so and I have finally decided that this is the path for me. I have tried all the fad diets. nutrasystems, slim-fast, and weight watchers. I found that weight watchers was the best diet that I could stay on. I had good success losing about 50 pounds and then I hurt my back and was laid up for quite awhile. I have a cracked vertebrae and exercising is slow going. The weight just seems to keep creeping up on me. So of course I got depressed.
I was looking into going the least invasive route and having the lap band but I was talked out of it by my psychologist. See I love sweets, like ice cream, cake and other goodies and those soft favorites slip right through the band and would not be of any help to me. I also have gallstones and need to have my gallbladder out, so I will be having an open bypass. I am so ready to start feeling better physically and emotionally.
