My Highest weight was 486#. In 2000, I started to investigate bariatric surgery and it's pro's and con's. While I had been obese for a lifetime, now I needed a change, I found a really good support group, who helped me to find new ways to eat, and I very slowly started losing weight. I managed in 2004 to finally get Approved for the Laproscopic gastric band. I weighed 376 on the day of that surgery. Everything went well for me, until in 2011, Thanksgiving found me in the hospital ER. I found out after many tests and procedures that my hiatal hernia had ruptured, and moved the band so severely that I was unable to do more than eyedroppers of liquid at a time. The band was removed. My weight at that time was 268. Now I am going through it all over again and getting the gastric sleeve. Mt current weight is 320, and they need me to lose 15 to 30 more before surgery. First appointment with surgeon is 7/16/14. Here's hoping.