What is your main goal?

Ok, so we all had WLS to lose weight. What is your main goal to reach? What is your driving force? Mine is my heart disease. I am hoping that by losing my excess weight I can stop the heart disease from progressing and therefore prevent heart bypass surgery in my future. What about you? Share with Auntie Shell. Rachelle

My main goal is to Be and stay healthy....There is long jevity in my and Russ' family....I want to be around to enjoy my old age and at the rate I was going......I would be in a wheel chair and Russ is too small of a guy to push me....plus I love my job and restraining kids which I have to do on occasion...and I started having difficulty doing it.......I really did not do it for appearance reasons......I will like looking better..... but health is more important

My goal was overall health, I guess. I've managed to do away with BP problems and sleep apnea. Plus, my mother has been diagnosed as diabetic since my surgery, so maybe I can beat having that problem as well. I'm just glad to be here among family and friends. Tommy

Most importantly it was to get my health back and inwardly to get me back. I was tired of being the fat girl that didnt want to do anything, meet people, or participate in life. A lot of my health issues were related to stress.. and my stress was very much my unhappiness with myself. My unhappiness with myself lead to eating even more. I was having problems in my 17 year relationship because my wife was very healthy and wanting to do things and I could barely get around. We were growing apart.. not that she didnt love me but it was getting harder to find things in common. I wanted my health and it was paramount because I was so sick all the time.. but anyone who dont admit that they wanted that thin body back too and some where in their head thought that life would be so much more happier if I was thin again is not being truthful. If I was happy with myself and overweight I probably wouldnt have tried for the surgery. So what was my goal... you got it.. both.. health and to get this thin body back and feel good about myself again. 15 months later.. I have accomplished both of those goals. My wife and I are doing things together again, I stopped sitting infront of my pc playing games, and I am participating in life again.. it is all so good.. and all of my dreams of feeling good, being healthy as well as feeling good about the way I look has come true.. I have become a clothes ***** just cant get enough.. love when ppl see me now.. it is all so good for the person in side that hide for so long wanting to be invisible to the world.. I am out and happy again. You all take care now.. I am off on another adventure this weekend.. Carla

That's hard. It's a combination of health, looks, and insecurity. LOL. I just want to look good again, and to NOT have diabetes, hypertension, and sleep apnea. I have already fixed all those, and am on my way to fixing the rest of me too. It gives me a real good feeling to finally be getting the whole package.

I am fortunate to be very healthy even at my heaviest. My driving force is the desire to be success at discovering how it feels to be a normal sized person. I have been fat for 50 years and obese for much of that. I have been blessed and achieved my heart's desire with work, love, family, friends, etc. My major wishes are that my wife has pain management that works and for my body to match how I feel on the inside. On the inside, I am vibrant, capable, hopeful, joyous. I want my body to reflect that. I know it is going to take daily habits of exercise, eating well, and all that good stuff. A

Wow what a great question... At first...it was a "It's the right thig to do" thing....I should want to be healthy then it's I didn't know how sick I was... then it migrated again, to geez i'm acting better then geez life is great... geez, the world dosen't suck now my drive force is to be the best I can be.... sound cliche russ

I wanted to get rid of my diabetes.