ausbracal

November 18th my life changed.  Growing up I always had a great body and weighed around 100 pounds.  After having my first child in 96, I kept gaining weight.  I never really thought much about it.  I was married to my best friend, had three wonderful children and was happy so I thought.  One day I went to the bathroom and had a hard time wiping my a**.  SOrry to be so blunt but I thought WTH....I am 32 years old and can not wipe my a**.  It was then that I began to realize just how unhappy I really was and that the weight was effecting my everyday life.  So in July I made the decision to have lapband.  I went to the seminar in August and everything went really  quick for me.....November I was banded.  My starting weight was 206.  It has now been a little over 6 months since surgery and I now weigh 159.  I have had some rough couple of months.  I started eating things that I should not have ate, drinking diet cokes and stopped exercising.  My last dr visit I had actually gained a pound which made me feel like total crap.  I had worked so hard to get where I was and I let myself make bad choices.  I was really upset about my bad habits that I had picked back up.  I cried and cried thinking did I really have surgery and I am going to gain this weight back.  After days of feeling horrible about myself I decided that I would fogive myself for my bad decisions and get back on track.  Since June 20th, No sodas, snacks and back to the gym everyday.....even though I have not lost anything yet...I know I am doing everything right.  My jeans are loose again, no muffin top and I feel so much better about myself.  For anyone that says that lapband is taking the easy way out I would like for someone to walk in my shoes for a week and see how much I do to make this band work.  On the positive side.....ANYONE who is overweight and wants to change their life I would say the lapband 100 percent.  I love my band, no problems at all.  And I love shopping now...was a tight 20-22 now I am a 11!!!!!!!  WOW is all I can say!!!!