"On my 31st birthday I was at home, alone of course, and went to sit down on the floor to pick out a movie to watch while waiting on my large pizza to arrive; and for the first time in my life I could NOT sit down on the floor with my legs crossed. The bulge in my abdomen had gotten so big that it would not allow me to cross my legs in that way. Even though I was there alone, I was embarrassed, ashamed, and realized right then that I had to make a change, or die. It is not that I became a new person, Its that I finally found the real me thanks to the Lap-Band®."

Read more about Paul's experience with the adjustable gastric band.