nervous//why can't I do this without surgery?

Almost everyone thinks that way....I know I sure did. For me it was a matter of time.  I hadn't been able to lose a significant amount of weight in the years prior to surgery (although I had done it in the past), I spent most of my life obese, and I lost most of that life to obesity.....just the limiting factors of obesity...i.e. not being able to fit in a booth at my favorite eatery...or  not being able to fit comfortably in a movie theater seat...or not being able to go fly (because I'd never buy 2 tickets)..not being able to find cloths that fit...anywhere even in the big and tall store..not being able to run around with my kids......ETC ETC ETC.  Add to that the way people looked at me (at 500 lbs I was a sight)..the fact that I broke out into a sweat, in almost freezing weather....with just a little exertion...the fact that it was getting more and more difficult for me to be hygenic (enough said)...and I didn't want to sacrific any more time to obesity.   Time is precious...it can never be recaptures...once it's gone it's gone forever...hence the reason I made a deal with myself.  I said "self" i'll give you 1 more year to do it on yoru own, and if you can't I'm getting WLS...and a year later and 40 lbs heavier...I chose to stop the insanity, to get off the bus..and have WLS.....17 months post op DS...and I've gone from being 492 lbs at my first consult for the DS...to 472 the day of surgery...and now  less then 2 years later I'm 202 lbs..the lightest I've ever been in my adult  life.  The DS was the best gift I could have ever given myself. Scott