Just dawned on me this am I am not gonna be morbid obese catagory some day soon

I was at the store today .. and i saw so many obese people out shopping and i was think i may actully be actually of normal weight in as little as 6 mos to a year something very foreign to me .. no longer a bbw fat no more stares as I walk by .. all this will change if i keep the course and have the surgery ..I hate the expression u have such a pretty face .. somehow that was saying well the face is fine but the rest of you well? LOL i am gonna miss steak and soda.. but hello to my heath and new body .. and clothes shopping .. yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lisa, I had the very same experience today. Ever since I decided to have surgery I began to look at people very differently. I have no idea what it will feel like not to be a plus size woman...but I know it will feel better! Those pretty face comments are going to be replaced by, "WOW!" Cindy

Hi gals I'm schedules 4/16. Now I've been looking at the fine print and it says that this is only a tool to help you lose weight, that you need to follow a strict diet and exercise regime. Well, if I could do that, I wouldn't need the operation, surely. Any thoughts on this?

Yes Susan in a way you are right, and I felt the same way as you once, before I was approved, but you know what?.......you are not going to be hungry, you are going to be so excited to see yourself with 10 or 15 lbs less so fast!!!! that will give you lots of strenght and energy!!! AND PLUS .....WHO SAID THAT IF A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE DONE IT.... YOU CAN'T?

Ohhh Hilda... lots of people lose weight on Atkins, or Weigh Watchers, or on E-diets, the low GI diet, etc, etc... Not me. I have all the seld discipline of a drunken sailor on shore leave with his bonus in his back pocket. I even had my jaws wired. I'm kind of banking on the malabsorbitve section of the opetion to do some of the work for me. Also getting nervous becuase I have not heard from my doc in a few days. Anyway, on to liquid diet today - and better get moving moving with exercise.

That part hit me in the beginning and I was happy about that. I figured possibility of not losing all of it and that was fine too just as long as I was finally healthy. What hit me... I also have the posibility of being someone that has a hard time stabalizing at a weight and might keep losing. It's amazing how I have been thinking about this for so long and that just occurred to me!