RedDragonLady
Despite playing sports throughout childhood and high school, I always seemed bigger than the other girls and gained weight regardless of what I ate. My senior year of high school 1997-98 I crossed the 200 pound mark at an annual sports physical. The soccer team ordered my uniform in the largest size made and that barely fit. In college I didn't participate in any sports and found I was gaining about 20 pounds a year regardless of multiple diet efforts. I tried everything from slim fast to weird pills to weight watchers and yet had no long term success. After considering surgery for about 3 years, and 10 years of being obese, I decided I would have surgery even if I had to pay for it out of pocket. I was blessed to find that my Blue Cross covered the surgery at 80% after deductible. Sept. 3, 2008 was my Realize Band surgery.
