Hi everyone

 My name's Maggie, I'm 17 and I weigh about 220lbs. I've been overweight for my entire life. A few years ago, when I was 11 up until I was 13, I got down to 140lbs. On weigh****chers. At that time I started losing weight at the recommendation of my doctor. After a while, my grandmother passed away and things just started happening in my life that caused me to become depressed and I ended up going off of the dieting and exercising and I gained all the weight back and then some. I'm really not someone who is at all interested in surgery, my mother had her stomach stapled when I was young and while it worked for a while, she soon realized that chocolate will go down and it ended up being more trouble than anything. And she now regrets that because she can't eat the food she wants and yet she hasn't lost the weight. I was just thinking today that I really want to start losing weight again. That time in my life, I felt really good about myself. 


So I just wanted to say hello to everyone and to tell my story and maybe get some support. 

I know exactly how you feel right now. I was on Weigh****chers for awhile and had some progress until I hit a plateau and just didn't want to try anymore. By the end of highschool I'd gained back the weight I'd lost plus another 25lbs. But now I've got to the point where I just want to be comfortable again, and feel good about myself. So my Mother and I scheduled our surgery for January 29th and I couldn't be more excited. :D Everyone reacts differently to the surgery, so maybe you'll be more motivated to succeed than your mother was. Have you talked to her about getting it?
Good luck!

No I haven't talked to her about it. Being a teenager,things are kind of tense as far as the teen to parent relationship goes.  

Hah, I know how that is. That's why I'm glad my Mom is doing this with me this time. Although, it's still weird talking about it with her. :P