Long time no blog

Okay so I know it has been forever since I have written. I am sorry for that. I could make all sort of excuses and most of them are true, I took a few trips, I had some really hard school classes that took all my free time etc... but bottom line is I didn't feel I had anything worthy to write about.

Today, I feel I have something to share.

I got approval from insurance to get my lap band surgery and I have scheduled it.

I will be having surgery on March 2nd, 2010. It will be here before we know it.

I am very excited.

I know in the past I was unsure if I would do surgery or not because of how much success I had already had on Low Carb.

what caused me to change my mind? Well, since the last time I have blogged (months ago) I haven't lost any net weight. I have gained and lost 8-10 lbs 4 times.

Each vacation, birthday week, thanksgiving week, Christmas week all an excuse to have a cheat week and when I cheat, I really cheat. So, I would gain back 8-10 lbs in that one week, struggle for 2-3 weeks to loose that weight again and then repeat cycle. No net change.

As I have stated before, lap band is not going to magically loose weight for me. It is going to be a tool to help me loose weight. I like what a friend in a support group wrote today about how can this be considered the easy way out when you have to think about EVERY bite and how that just one more bite thought can cause you to get very physically ill.

This is my tool to help aid my will power. My diet will be basically the same as it has been on low carb. The two are hand in hand. I will eat less with the band but the knowledge I have gained from this weight loss will go a long way toward my success.