lanagirl

I really don't feel ashamed for having to have WLS, I am a private person and don't need anyones opinion on my chose. Also I look at my band as a treatment. I had an addiction and I got treatment for it. That simple, I got help! Hope this helps some of y'all that feel bad about your WLS, you just got help!!!

I totally agree with you weight loss surgery alone is a tool not a trick. It doesn't magically fix anything and along with diet and exercise you have to keep learning how you react and eat after a fill. Good luck I am 16 months into my journey and have lost 97 pounds, 30 to goal and maintenance.

I really don't feel ashamed for having to have WLS, I am a private person and don't need anyones opinion on my chose. Also I look at my band as a treatment. I had an addiction and I got treatment for it. That simple, I got help! Hope this helps some of y'all that feel bad about your WLS, you just got help!!!

I really don't feel ashamed for having to have WLS, I am a private person and don't need anyones opinion on my chose. Also I look at my band as a treatment. I had an addiction and I got treatment for it. That simple, I got help! Hope this helps some of y'all that feel bad about your WLS, you just got help!!!

I totally agree with you weight loss surgery alone is a tool not a trick. It doesn't magically fix anything and along with diet and exercise you have to keep learning how you react and eat after a fill. Good luck I am 16 months into my journey and have lost 97 pounds, 30 to goal and maintenance.

I totally agree with you weight loss surgery alone is a tool not a trick. It doesn't magically fix anything and along with diet and exercise you have to keep learning how you react and eat after a fill. Good luck I am 16 months into my journey and have lost 97 pounds, 30 to goal and maintenance.

I totally agree with you weight loss surgery alone is a tool not a trick. It doesn't magically fix anything and along with diet and exercise you have to keep learning how you react and eat after a fill. Good luck I am 16 months into my journey and have lost 97 pounds, 30 to goal and maintenance.

I totally agree with you weight loss surgery alone is a tool not a trick. It doesn't magically fix anything and along with diet and exercise you have to keep learning how you react and eat after a fill. Good luck I am 16 months into my journey and have lost 97 pounds, 30 to goal and maintenance.

I totally agree with you weight loss surgery alone is a tool not a trick. It doesn't magically fix anything and along with diet and exercise you have to keep learning how you react and eat after a fill. Good luck I am 16 months into my journey and have lost 97 pounds, 30 to goal and maintenance.

I have been very selective about who I have told and I'm so glad for that, it's my journey...so I decide to only share with a few... But so true you can't unring a bell. I read of horrible reaction from those people others thought would be supportive. What ever your choice " it's your journey"

I have been very selective about who I have told and I'm so glad for that, it's my journey...so I decide to only share with a few... But so true you can't unring a bell. I read of horrible reaction from those people others thought would be supportive. What ever your choice " it's your journey"

I have been very selective about who I have told and I'm so glad for that, it's my journey...so I decide to only share with a few... But so true you can't unring a bell. I read of horrible reaction from those people others thought would be supportive. What ever your choice " it's your journey"

I have been very selective about who I have told and I'm so glad for that, it's my journey...so I decide to only share with a few... But so true you can't unring a bell. I read of horrible reaction from those people others thought would be supportive. What ever your choice " it's your journey"

I have been very selective about who I have told and I'm so glad for that, it's my journey...so I decide to only share with a few... But so true you can't unring a bell. I read of horrible reaction from those people others thought would be supportive. What ever your choice " it's your journey"

I have been very selective about who I have told and I'm so glad for that, it's my journey...so I decide to only share with a few... But so true you can't unring a bell. I read of horrible reaction from those people others thought would be supportive. What ever your choice " it's your journey"

This morning I ate Cereal, then for lunch I was out and about and grabbed a small chili from Wendy's and brought it home and sitting there at the table I was half way thru it and thought to myself, hm, I'm full and getting ready to hiccup which is my soft stop and I did hiccup and I stopped eating and put it away for later. For the first time in 17 mos post op I felt restriction, this was less than a cup of food, really felt like the band was working. Also yesterday it happened, thought I was getting stuck but I was full before I could finish my lunch, just couldn't finish it. Weight loss has been at a stand still for 3 months, maybe this is a start to a new beginning for me, the green zone.
Thanksgiving is tomorrow and I doubt I eat very much but plan on enjoying myself, a bite here and a bite there. I'm just thankful I'm healthier and alive this year. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

It's 4am, having my morning coffee(s) along with my Vitamins and a shot of Protein before heading to the gym when they open at 5....
Thinking about the day coming up...Thanksgiving...gonna be with 20 people +, plenty of food and drink all day long...and I just reinforced my thinking, finding it comforting to know, and getting more motivated by the minute.....
At first, I started to get nervous about what is to come today....but then, I realized.....
THE BAND IS THE BAND IS THE BAND IS THE BAND.......Does not matter today is Thanksgiving, Christmas, a day spent on a cruise ship..or any other day....the BAND STILL BEHAVES THE SAME.....it does not change by what is going on around me!!!
That's what I appreciate the most about this...it was SURGERY....something Physically altered in my digestive tract to change the way I feel about food and situations as today....it is ALWAYS THE SAME....I might be weak and cannot control myself, but the Band is always a constant!
I don't have to do anything special, get myself Physc'd up or motivated to do anything different...the Band is not going to behave any differently because there is something going on differently today....
Why on earth did I go through all this and have major surgery, spend $$ out of pocket, etc, if I did not expect things to be different? Changed?
I'd be totally "You know What" if I had to approach this day as if I did not have WLS...if I had to face today with uncontrollable hunger, with no limits as to what I can manage to eat!! Everything else(surgery) would have been a big waste of time....I expected Miracles with this and will except nothing less!!! And that is exactly what I have received....
So yea, maybe I am getting myself Physc'd up....definitely motivated with some positive thinking and reinforcement....NOT to face any challenges with will power or self determination....but to remind myself I am a New Person, living a New Lifestyle....NEVER having to worry about overeating again...the Band has changed all that....No Hunger....impossible to overeat! What can be better than that????
The Band is what it is...and I am now what I am.....set free from fear of food, over eating, fighting hunger and cravings....
Never again to be overweight, and go through the struggle of diets, etc....as long as the band is there doing it's job, how can that possibly happen??
Yes..it's 4am and I'm getting Physc'd....can't wait for the day...it's going to be a great day and I'm going to come out the other side feeling more better about myself than before..BRING IT!!!! I'm also ready to have a great workout this morning...gonna run for a full 60 minutes and see what it brings....
Today is going to be a great day!!!

JMHO, but you need to stop thinking diets, you need to start thinking lifestyle. If you are like most of us, you have lost the weight a hundred times, only to gain it back again. Medifast is not going to teach you how to listen to your band, because it is liquid will will not give you the satiety signals that solid food eventually will. Even if you loose weight with Medifast, you won't be any farther along in your changed lifestyle.
I know it is hard to hear this, but slow and steady is what will win this race. Learn to use the band, learn to be the band.

I have been very selective about who I have told and I'm so glad for that, it's my journey...so I decide to only share with a few... But so true you can't unring a bell. I read of horrible reaction from those people others thought would be supportive. What ever your choice " it's your journey"

I do not know if this is available for any android users but I have an iPhone and an iPad and I found this new app called "see me get thin". You put your weight in and you take pictures on whenever you log your weight and you get a picture lineup of what you look like at each weight in one easy to use app it's free right now and I just wanted to let everybody know so they can try it out if that appeals to anyone. Sorry if this has been posted before.

I am the one on the right .. I never thought I would see it

[ATTACH]37403[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]37402[/ATTACH]

Thank you!!

Lanagirl, can I just say, wow! Congrats to you on all of your hard work and progress, so far. You look great.

Never posted picture before but here goes, progress so far

Change your brain. Don't focus on those 27 lbs. focus on how much you've lost. And think about just adding one more pound to that loss. That pound isn't that much. You've already lost pounds. Just get rid of one more. And one more. And then one day all 27 lbs will be gone.
I've lost ~100 lbs and have ~40 more to go. I can't think about that 40. I'm just focusing on losing a few and getting under 175 lbs. Then I'll conquer 170. Just a little at a time.