I Feel Great

Greg's Story ( I Feel Great )

“Lap Band® surgery has had a positive impact on my life”

Greg's Story

Turning the ripe old age of 39 my weight hit an all time high of 150kg...so I thought I would go on a diet, what a joke that was, 10 more kg’s went on so over the next year hitting my record of 160kg’s, I had to do something as my life was becoming shorter, being on a variety of tablets such as blood pressure, gout, fish oil, glucosamine and others was only going to be the start of things to come, so 3 months prior to my 40^th I visited my GP to talk and he suggested lap banding, I was given a referral, made an appointment and haven’t looked back since...that was December 2006.

I have the choice of surgery in either December or January, I took December and everyone asked why? Christmas lunch wasn’t going to happen due to the surgery & I normally go to the Boxing Day test Match, drink whatever beer we can fit in and pies...great diet hey!

December 13^th was the first day to the rest of my life and I haven’t looked back.  Over the next 13 months I dropped 65kg’s taking me down to 95kg’s, being 6”2’ I was still about 10kg over my perfect BMI but compared to what I was, I was not overly worried whatsoever. I am now on only 1 tablet and that is a Multi Vitamin.  I’m now a pretty good picture of health, no sore joints or blood pressure what so ever. I started my own lawn & garden maintenance business, play of a handicap of 6 for golf and have a so much better life style.

During the 13 months or so, times were tough especially the going out part but once you get yourself in the right frame of mind with all the help there is, it became easy, you learn what you can eat when you go out and what is the right foods to buy at the supermarket (the first shop took 3 hours).

Bottom line I have extended my life by who knows how long.  I now have a great life style and absolutely loving it all the time....bike riding, walking the dogs, playing more sport than I evere have.  I am no longer embarrassed to do anything...this will change your life completely.