Researching Medical Options

In 2006, I started researching alternatives to help me lose weight. I talked to friends with the same problem as I. I was researching the gastric bypass, this New thing called a LAP-Band, partial by-pass. I thought "oh my, there are going to rip the stomach open and do what?" , nope that wasn't for me either. Oh well, I guess I was just meant to be fat. So I did more research and more research. This lady I know from a co-worker had the gastric by-pass done in 2001, she dropped 160 lbs in a year. Wow, I was amazed, but what I wasn't amazed at was the fact she couldn't eat anything. If she had certain foods she got sick. About 4 years after she had the surgery she started to gain her weight back. So I was dumb-founded, I didn't know what to do. I knew I had to do something if I wanted to stop the weight here, and live to see my daughter grow up, graduate from elementary school , high school, college, and eventually get married. I started to investigate the Lap-Band even more, I wrote to the company, read all about it at the library, and on-line. I finally said this is what I am going to do.