[luvlex1017]

That was my doctors suggestion as well. She told me that it was her opinion that I would never lost weight without medical intervention. But you are no where NEAR close to qualifying for that. The process is crazy (I actually started the process). I takes about 6 months, you have to go to classes, see a dietician, no smoking, no drinking alcohol or soda ever again, you have to go in so many times for 'fills'. You have to lose 20-25 pounds before surgery. And when I started I wasn't even qualified for it at 227, because I had no health problems. And I said I wasn't going to go through this whole thing, gain weight from quitting smoking, just to be turned down because I wasn't fat enough at the start of it. Plus the whole never drinking again bugged me. I don't want to be skinny, but a prisoner in my own body.