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I know, isn't it weird, I'm nothing like I was before the band. The cravings went away and I just don't want that crap anymore.

Glad to hear everything went as well as to be expected for you. Good luck on your journey!

Nice! Hey, it's 50 lbs! Love that. I am in the 'slow but steady' group as well. Well, slower than I would prefer. I'm hoping I can say I've lost 30 in 3 months!

My story is almost exactly the same! Good to have a reference! Hope each day get better!

thanks for posting Joe. i was wondering how you have been doing. glad everything went well. well it is my turn .. in less then 21 hrs i will be sleeved. and to be honest i am scared!!!.. can't wait to hear more about your journey..

thanks for much for that post bigdaddyjoe, I am going to be sleeved in Tijuana on the 20th travelling from Australia. I have gained from your post that walking is good for the gas pains which a lot of other folk have said too. Good luck with the rest of your recovery, am thinking of you!

you are doing great, you let me know that my goal can be accomplish as long as i stay dedicated to the process. Its okay if you cant get in the gym, daylight saving time is in affect so just talk a walk when you get home. know keep up the good work

me again. I told my husband about your clothes shopping and the sizes. yesterday I bought the size 16 pants and he told me to try size 14 elastic waist pants. I did and they fit!!!!!! The store just didn't have black ones. Now I have to search for black. Thank you, thank you for sharing your shopping because if you didn't I would not have tried a smaller size.

​ Absolutely amazing and good for you. I feel the same way about the scale. I take my measurements once a month and they have gone down. I went shopping yesterday for a pair of black pants and they fit perfect-size 16. I was a size 18-20w a year ago also. You will look perfect in your new clothes in FL.

Terry, really glad I looked back on some of the blogs of the past week and saw this one. It is so true on how it is so easy for us to look at your failures and not at our victories. I was thinking about the markers you talked about and was reminded of a Biggest Loser episode from several years ago. The contestants had been competing for several weeks and the show took them out to a football field and had all of these bags on the field. In each bag was some sort of product that weighed as much as that particular contestant had lost in the previous weeks. Then the contestants had to walk across the field carrying that bag of weight.They were amazed at how heavy the bags were and how tired they were after carrying them. That was their marker. So, having said that, the last 2 weeks have been a little disappointing to me. I was banded on January 23rd and including pre-op have lost 27 lbs and am excited about that, but, I have been at that weight for 2 weeks now. I know I shouldn't be bummed, but wish I could get the scale to move. So, last night my son and I were at Target and were passing the exercise area. On the end of the aisle was a display of weights. I picked up the 20 lb weight and was a little surprised at how heavy it seemed. I have lost that 20 lb weight plus 7 more. If I had to carry around that bag with 27 lbs up and down a football field I would be exhausted. That was my marker. If you had to carry a bag with all of the weight you have lost how would you feel after walking up and down the field? Maybe a visualization of that bag of weight could be your marker.