Sojourner...you are an amazing woman/I just love to read your posts. AliceSandra I can totally relate to you On that level of things changing. But it's a bit opposite for me. Where as I used to fit comfortably in my car I have a hard time even getting in anymore. Or it used to be a breeze walking across campus at school now, I get light headed just walking from my car. It's little things like that ppl don't understand is so frustrating which is why I want to get the lapband. I just recently started gaining so much weight. I'm used to being in that size 8 and now in a 18....it haunts me that I wanna get that 8 so i say ok I'll be back in it again one day so I'll buy it. Which I know there is hope but for maybe 4 of my 22 years I've been feeling like I'm gonna wake up one day and be back in a sz 8 and a bikini when I know life doesn't work that way.