So, what's your reason. . .

I want to have surgery # 1 to be healthy, have more energy and all that good stuff, and # 2.......To be slim and sexy a 21 year old young woman should be!!!  I've been the fat girl all my life and I'm done with all of that I am ready to look good and feel GOOD!

I am on the same page as Melissa. I want to be healthy. I am sick of not having any energy and eating all the time. I also want to feel good in my own body. I feel trapped right now.

I had the surgery to lose weight, plain and simple.  For a while now I had MOST of the tools to lose weight, but I always lacked that something else.  The BAND proved to be that something else.  Best decision of my life!

I had given WLS some considerationf for a few years, but when I wound up with four herniated discs in my back unable to do my job, dependent on vicodin, and staring spinal fusion surgery in the face I finally decided to seriously look into it. It was then - during the pre-op testing that I found out I had Type II Diabetes and Sleep Apnea as well. So the decision to press on was easy, and I haven't regretted it one bit.  I think that utlimatly though, if it wasn't for my two little kids I would still be sitting on the sideline to chicken**** to go through with it!

I'm having the surgery for many reasons.  I want to be healthy. I want to feel sexy.  I want to have energy.  I've always wanted to wear all the hottiest fashions but was always too big.  So I just cant wait to be on the other side.

Well, For me there are a ton of reasons.... All Are pretty much like everyone else. I Started to look into it when my doctor prescibed a High Cholestoral Pill.  That was on top of my High Blood pressure one, My depression pill, my Migraine pill, and my Lose weight your fat ***** pill. I was fed up with taking all these pills..  I looked into it, told one of my BFFs and she went out and almost immediatly got it!  I was feeling a bit depressed and wasnt as interested as I thought, But after 3 months seeing how good my friend looked and how un*****y she was I wanted to look more into it! I have always been fat, I always got that line, I am sure alot of girls here have heard it.. You have such a pretty face... WTF ok. Just my face? Ok well  its a compliment but it just got to me.  I want to be beautiful all over inside and out.... Not just my damn face. Also, All the cute girly stores have tons of sales and cute clothes! All the fat ppl chlothes are expensive... Not to mention they all look like Old lady Frumpy clothes, EWWEWWW And lastly, I model for a couple of places and when I look at my pics lately I just look like a blob. Its gross... I want to keep these jobs, maybe expand... I want to be the first short runway model~!  (I dont see that happening but I can dream right?) So, Not only is it for health reasons, I want to mentally feel good about myself!

It was my freshman year of college when my doc told me my diabetes was out of control (I was 18).  My insulin dosages left me tired and bruised - and I still went from super high sugar levels to bottoming out in the low 30's (I woke up one morning and couldn't move my arms and legs because my sugar levels were so low and when the paramedics got to my dorm room I almost wished they had just left me there to die because I didn't want to know how many of them it was going to take to lift my 300+ pound self off the bed and down the 5 flights of stairs).  I had hypothyroidism and I could no longer weigh myself on my mom's scale (only went up to 300 pounds).  And this was after being on Atkins for over a year - before which I did weigh****chers, slim fast and this crazy fad diet called "the cabbage soup diet"!  ENOUGH.  I had seen Amy Williams' MTV special so I looked into gastric bypass - found OH and the rest is history. I had gastric bypass because I was SICK OF BEING FAT!  The hating your body, the fatigue, the diabetes, the trapped feeling - I was sick of it ALL.  Did I want to be skinny and pretty?  HELL YEAH!  Do I feel bad about that?  NOT ON YOUR LIFE!  So now I am a normal weight, can run, jump, skip, dance, sit my arse on any seat without a care, ride in airplanes, amusement park rides, motorcycles - and I like my body (saggy skin, disappearing breasts and all).  And I am diabetes FREE since January 2006 (2 months after my surgery).   And today I'm going to a kiddie amusement park with my 2 year old nephew where I will be able to walk, walk, walk and run, run run with him for as long as he can.  That is why. 

My reasons: 1) I want to be healthy and have a long life with my family, on the road I am on now that wont happen. 2) I want to be healthy enough to have children, my obgyn is very concerned about me getting pregnant at my current weight. 3) I want to look the way I feel, I feel and act like a skinny cute 25 year old married wife, I want to feel that way too.  I am bubbly around my family and friends, I want to feel good enough about the way I look to be that way around everyone else.