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My cousin once looked into the surgery and then decided not to do it. She died in her sleep in her early 40s. Would it have saved her? Maybe. Hard to say... she was also a smoker and had emphysema (sp?) in addition to being extremely overweight.
I'm realy glad surgery worked for you... and it did get my sister-in-law off insulin. Though, getting off diabetes meds and reversing that can also be accomplished with normal weigh loss.
However, for me, the risk of the surgery is too much. In my case, I don't have diabetes, I don't have high blood pressure (last week's reading 107/67), I don't have high cholesterol or any indications of heart disease. What I do have is a lot of discomfort, because I had many ankle sprains as a child and I also ripped up the cartilage in my knee in a bicycle accident as a teen. I've also suffered a work-related repetitive stress injury.
I guess I was born with the weak ankles, but I need to get the weight off them. Likewise for my knee. I know I can do it... I once lost 62 pounds in a year, but it's just harder with my foot/ankle/knee troubles. However, with the ebooks, I feel like I've found the right motivation to keep me on it. Or maybe the switch has finally flipped.
I am a bit worried about winter, because I hate cold and I hate lack of sunlight and we get fogged in usually for a couple months straight with no sun. But I have managed to lose weight during winter before, and I believe I can do it again.
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