Nothing personal but I don’t think I can vote for you, I just can’t support surgery as a weight loss solution. Unless there is an immediate health risk (i.e. weeks to live) diet and exercise are the best solution. It's not easy at all but it has to be a life style change not an incision. I do wish you the best of luck though!
Diet and exercize.... Great, and I appreciate the luck.
I have attested that I am willing and ready to adopt healthful habits. I really need to lose some weight before I can do lots of long lasting activity, not that I can't live a normal day, but I can't walk an hour and then do so, because of the pain. The lap-band is not going to make me drop weight, nor will any incision, but it will help me learn portion control and help me become accustomed to a healthy eating schedule, then thereafter it will serve as a reminder of this.
I don't "need" WLS, like a cancer treatment, I "need" it in that it will help me get to where I want to be as quickly as possible, and I do need that, in order to be successful in life as soon as I can. If those who blanket disapprove of WLS would learn about the methods available and how they work thay may start to have a more balanced opinion. Only malabsorption methods allow people to lose wight even if they eat like hogs, Lap-Bands are a restriction tool to help big people feel more comfortable while they diet and exercise.
Since you do, however, feel that urge to serve blanket judgements, then perhaps I ought to join you and use your mentality to come to the conclusion. In order to follow your sense of reason we should walk where we need to go because taking the hard way is always best, right? So, when ya gonna sell your Mark? When reasonable people want to accomplish something we will take the fastest possible route, without cutting corners, to the destination, being fat doesn't make me a retarded food chugging machine.
I know what I need to do, the last 22 years made me who I am, and although I did not realize what I did over the years,
I made me what I am. I want your votes not to get an easy way out, but because I want a tool to use to help do the job.