Getting Closer to Lap Banding

Almost one week to go before my lapband will pe put in... So many thoughts... Scared, excited..but at the current moment terrified.  Just hope all goes well and no complications arise.

This weekend I am going to Disneyworld with my son, a good friend and her son.  Hoping that the trip will distract me from the upcoming surgery.

Will post some before pictures next week before the big day.

Random thought..since the lap band will become a part of me...I think i will have to name it.  Hmm...will have to get back on that one.

2 weeks from today...

Wow.. 2 weeks from today I will be in the hospital getting lapbanded. Its hard to believe that my struggle with weight loss has come to this, but i am ready to tackle it head on.

Growing up I swam competitively from the time i was six years old through college. Although i had to watch my weight because i swam so much, it wasnt an "issue". My eating habits growing up were atrocious..two orders of chicken fingers and fries was a regular. Once college ended, swimming stopped and the "real world" set in. Sitting at a desk 9 hours a day, eating junk and not exercising lead to a 100lb weight gain.

I have decided on Lap Band and will be banded May 9th at Tallahassee Memorial Hopsital by Dr. Eliot Sieloff. In preparing for surgery, I have read blogs and books and searched the internet...man is there a lot of stuff out there...funny how the things that stick are the scary parts..