Nykee

THE impossible thing that is possible Its evident and fact since my fill with good restriction I no longer care about food. I dont mourn it or crave it At all. This is how I feel now and every day. But.. I do not think that is possible. I did not decide that food was no big deal and choose to let it go.. And to be obsessed and unable to control what I ate and lived everyday caring about food more than anything else for 15 years and have tried hundreds ways to find my way to freedom from it.. Obviously when in doubt, you choose whats evident, not what your mind thinks. But its not that easy if what is evident doesnt seem possible and until it can be explained how its possible.. I will be thinking the impossible is possible and well thats just crazy.. Something cant be possibe AND impossible.. ya see how you can go crazy in circles.. To illustrate ... here is how I ate, every month for the last 10 years at leaste. This was the usual, every day basics. I HAD to have fast food daily, many times more than once..I would feel all uptight if I couldnt get my little burger, KFC snacker, cheese curds, hershey pie, egg mcmuffin, ect... I had a rootbeer float or a coffee drink or a smoothie everyday, minus maybe 4 times a month. Sometimes 2 or 3. I had to have one or feel sad. I could drink 1 to 5 slurpies a day in the summer. I drank a gallon of milk and juice per day. There had to be milk in the house at all times and everyone made sure of it, daily ritual. If I was out of juice and no one would get me some I would cry and feel lethargic until It came and then I would gupl it like a maniac feeling blissfully refreshed and alive again. I went out to china, resturants, KFC, buffets, about 4 times a month. I would spent bill money on it unable to resist. I did this all the time.. I spent money we couldnt afford on pizza and fast food all the time. I would seriously be holding the money, knowing i cant do it and the food was just too tempting. The house food I ate was corndogs, nachos, frozen foods, candy, chips and Cookies, cerial.. we made a simple meal maybe once a month. I liked fast small amounts of junk foods over a meal. What different now than then: The only fast food I have now is KFC mashed potaotes and twice a root beer float. I drink 20 to 60 ouces of milk and juice a day, not a gallon. I eat chips and cookies and some other crunchie foods. Whats new basics: sherbert, tomatoe Soup, Everything else I have not done since my fill and I have no desire to. REMEMBER.. I am not resisting anything or controling or having will power. I SIMPLY DO NOT WANT IT.. Do not care. I am gonna break this posts up.. more later

CHGIRL) Oh Nykee, you are doing totally awsome!!! In less than a year's time you are already redefining your lifestyle. No more fast food, that's huge to give up, I also notice you have given up a lot of the really sugary foods and drinks, how great is that!!! I don't know of anyone personally who stops the instant they feel the restriction the way you do!!! >>>>>>>>>>>its downright impossible... I still think that too, when obviously it is.. I keep thinking something fishy is going on.. lol You need to give yourself much more credit than you do for having self control. >>>>>>>well, as I wrote this post... it got me thinkng alot.. and I started to think maybe I should contemplate if I can have some credit.. Maybe I make up so many reasons why its NOT me because I am so used to KNOWING for a fact I am a loser... I can give my self credit for stopping as to not Pb ot those things cuz I had these thoughts before I was banded like "I am not gonna have PBs these people are crazy.. sounds like hell to me.. watch.. I wont let it happen to me. (but I didnt know there was lots of other things..i WAS THINKING A pb sounded awefull and It would probably be enough to keep me from risking it .. i was thinking Fear of Pain would control me.. But thats not how it works) and then it was explained to me here that its not that simple and its part of the process and I realized I was being nieve about avoiding them.. And the fact is I can go alot further and be no where near a Pb.. But I just have this thing where I stop right away.. and I feel proud. But the fact that I dont crave and mourn my fast food and buffets and thick drinks and guzzling of juice and milk and so on.. THATS NOT ME!!!!!!!!! I have tried to give these things up countless times.. One time we went milkless for 3 weeks...(plus my month of low carb diet) One time we went without fast food for about a month.. Otherwise nothing lasted more than a week.. AND THERE WAS PAIN AND STRUGGLE the whole time.. right this minute I said in my mind "No way.. I LOVE my fast food and buffets and KFC and I love them and want them so bad" then immediately I thought "no I dont" (cuz i dont.. i dont care) hummmmm My mind is wrestling with reality.... Thats new,... I seriously just said it like it was a fact.. and then remembered it wasnt.... and got confused and couldnt decide whats real.. I guess all i can say is.. I do not care or find my self desireing to eat like I listed in my first post. I know what obsessing and wanting food so bad feels like and its not happening at all... THATS a fact. I ate that way for 0ver ten years and it WAS my life.... and the above fact isnt a possibility I think can exist.. and if it does it sure in the heck is some kind of mental trick... or brain damage.. not of my will. gosh.. I cant stop trying to figure things out.. (sorry I am doing it in my responce to you.. lol) I actually went crazy and am gonna make a new thread.. Thinking is fun.

lamadam I can only speak for me..I know for me that when my restriction level is good..I do not even think about food. It is the strangest thing..there is NO obsession on when I'm going to eat again or what am I going to eat. ..sometimes I forget to eat. >>>>>>>>>>>> THIS IS WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!! WOW I am so excited that You (one of the most successfull bandsters) had that experience.. I so so wanted someone else to have experienced that... I am really psyched out over it.. thats why I call it magic.. cause, I have spent 20 years trying to get food outta my head and never could and cant see its possible.. but it is.. lol Yeah.....

One question, how is it you get a rootbeer float? I was told no more pop EVER again. Is it okay to break this rule? I kinda thought this was the grand rule of rules.<!-- / message --><!-- sig --> >>>>>>>>>>>>>ya know how the root beer goes flat from the ice cream? thats why... you can have flat pop.. so no, its not completely flat but it feels fine.. when i drink a sip of pop it feels very strange.. the carbination.. i dunno about why pop is a rule, i have heard many stories.... i will assume one a week would be fine.. i aint a pop drinker.. some people drink it all day and i bet its bad if your ya know drinkng them every day. I see the grand daddy of all rules being to not allow pbing and slimes and such.. cuz loss of the band scares me to death.

wow thanks people i cant even remember why i was scared to talk about this now i feel special, and thats not easy............ thanks so much for the kind words ans appreciating my post! jachut) I have desperately wanted to avoid (and have done so far) that last supper syndrome >>>>>>>>>>I was ready for a month of pigging our on all my favorite foods and thats when they told me I had to lose 40 to 60 pounds before I came or they would not do surgery and ithat they can tell when they get in me if i had rapid weight loss and if I havent they will pull out if the doctor thinks ts risky ... the fat on the liver gets in the way or something. I was really pissed... I lost 41.. (low carb works) But I still got the 'last supper' cuz they had a really nice buffet for dinner and then we ordered a pizza room service, right before midnight... (the cut off time for food) Even though I was able to eat after banded... I still consider those my last meals,, lol but I really wanted to get some weight off before the op and I just cant do it. I cannot eat little enough, >>>>>>>>>have you tried low carb? you can pig out on crap and lose weight fast.. I mean, if its just for the pre op .. and not for a lifestyle change than its fine. I found a few things i liked and ate them as much as i wanted.. as long as you stay under 20 carbs on average a day... you will loose even if you eat like 5000 calories and 300 grams of fat.. Its coool I lost 41 pounds in a month and a half.. my daughter lost 14 pounds in the same time (she was 154 before) My cousin lost about 20 in total..(she was 165) these girls had EVER ONCE went on a diet cuz they loved food and didnt care about alittle chub, But they saw what they could eat and we all did it together FOR FUN and well my daughter found out how different she looked with out the 15 pounds and she has changed her mind about alittle chub beung OK.. she was really cute shaped..(she is 17) my daughter went back to normal eating and it took 7 months before she started gaining it back..SHE IS JUST NOW LOOKING at 150 and when ever she wants to lose it again she can, but she doesnt really care (I am so glad.. when I was 145, i thought i was the fattest cow in town) My cousin went back too (and she is a hog) and her weight didnt come back on for like 6 months and she is still down by ten pounds We were all really shocked how they didnt gain the weight back real fast, at their size,, i thoughts thats what happened when you resumed carbs.. heck.. we were shocked they lost so much in the first place.. It really works. There is a catch.. Think of it as only having ONE rule. You cannot cheat.... if you cheat, you wont lose 'less'.. you will not lose at all and you may even gain. Cheating is simply having more than 20 carbs a day.. (I honestly sometimes had like 50 a day, and did cheat like 4 times on a big meal.....but thats cuz i was so big...and its easy to do days with zero or 5 carbs...but i wouldnt risk it.... the girls stuct to 20 strictly and didnt cheat ever. Funny thing was.. The biggest challenge is finding out what you can eat thats low carb but you dont feel your 0n a diet and it takes alot of research... Well that turned into a carb speach didnt it.. lol

I remember the day I got on the scale and it said 402... I was hovering around 380 for a few years For some reason, i was shocked.. it had never occured to me that I would hit 400. I starting to cry tears that fell outta my eyes automatically no matter how i tried to stop and was wiping them off.. I wasnt 400 for very long.. But I was 350 for like 10 years... so i really wanna be under 300 the most. I recal being 14-15 yrs old and never even thinking that I would ever weigh 200 pounds... thats a hoot

I eat what I want, or the band allows... But I DO Do some things.. I buy grape juice light. It half the calories, carbs and sugar as real grape juice. I am so picky about juice (100%) and I am amazed at how much it taste like real grape juice.. enouph for me to always buy it lite now. I buy lite OJ.. I was also amazed at how much it taste like real OJ.. I buy 1% milk... I drink alot of juice and milk.. I CANNOT drink no carb drinks as substitutes. I am real happy these lite juices were invented. I buy the reduced fat kettle corn. I buy low fat grahm crackers I buy non fat cream cheese I bought sugar free rasberry syrup to pour into lite lemonaid. I buy 7% lean burger or turkey burger lunch meat is always one gram of fat or less But I dont eat any of that... What I should do.. use Water in my tomatoe Soup instead of milk eat low fat AND low carb soup like cream of chicken (I love tomatoe) eat a lean cuisine or south beach premade dinnner snack on the grahm crackers and popcorn (not Cookies and cheetos) Be sure my sherbert is litest or sorbet

1. Bread...................toasted only or a tiny bite 2. Pasta...................with sauce, chew well 3. Pop.....................feels funny 4. Tortillas................no way, spit out the tortilla 5. salad..................used to, cant now?? 6. Steak.................yuck 7. Roast..................prolly have to spit a wad out that wont chew away 8. Cereal................the mix of cerial and milk makes my6 band act up 9. Hamburger...........meatlaof? 10. pizza................thin frozen kind with xtra crispy crust 11. Apples.............doubt it 12. chips................easy 13. cheese.............easy but chew well 14. Shrimp..............chew well, ok 15. Pop corn.............easy 16. pretzels...............prolly gum up Also if you go out somewhere and need something quick and only fast food is available what would you order? Could you order a Mc Donalds hamburger and just eat the meat? Would this be ok on a very occasional basis?? Thanks for the input Jill That meat is grisly..so it might be hard. I get mashed potatoes and gravy from KFC and root beer floats from A&W (the pop goes flat) I tried nuggets and not good

I didnt feel it either AT ALL.. you miht need a fill first

I am glad I found this thread.. Hello to all and WOW on all the weight loss. I started at 415 No one can tell I have lost weight either. NSV: Energy.. I cant take my pills, I dont feel better yet. Sex.... I have had a sexy boy for 3 years who I have a ton of fun with... But Now I'm at the size I was when I was dating 10 yrs ago at bars and picking up guys and had some game.... But I look at myself and think 'no way'...I sure dont feel like her.. (well she was 25... not 35,,lol) Sleep.. no diff Bras.. fitting into smaller sizes Cuddling.. .. I am not prepared for all the sagging weirdness thats going on and think I may not like to be touched as much as I have been Shoes.. I got 3 new pair and wear them without fear of falling.. Clothes.. the same Seatbelt.. iI still shoove it under my boob, I should try it out. Shower.. no diff attitude.. same but happy to be 349 hubby.. no thanks Apperance.. same

that wouldnt bother me.. cept when it required this big story about what was going on.. I just said "its complicated right now" who cares what you weigh.. I mean I am sure anyone can guess within 30 to 50 pounds.. whats the big deal? plus ya know how some look great at a weight and others look fat at the same weight.. I have lost 65 pounds and no one can tell.. But I am proud to say 349.....

yeah,, well its not just hunger.. its more.. Its sending more than lack of hunger.. I do feel blessed... but its also problematic

This is really great news!! (till I get a fill) I'm asking because of that one post on your other thread making so much sense about eating food at night and going to sleep with all this food in your pouch and causing swelling overnight and tightness in the mornings. Do you, in your experience, find that to be valid? (I dunno....I dont think so.. there is NO food in my pouch... at night the food all goes right through... I was washing all the crunchies and mushies down with milk and juice.. Nothing was staying in my pouch... If I had food in my pouch I can feel it...................and I dont think it was all that much food held in my bottom tummy that would cause it... It wasnt like I was engorged or anything.. So no, not in this case.. I think I have a sensitvie stomach or what ever the band irritates. cu At surgery I was pumped full of anitinflamitories and on IV......coulnd handle ice chips while all the other ladies walked free with their gatorades... I still wasnt able to drink Water when I flew home but Ortiz said as long as I can tolerate my saliva, the swelling will soon go down... it did in a day or two. Then...I got a fill that Martinez Meticulously made sure was good and not too tight and I was fine UNTIL it must of swelled on the plain ride and closed me off. cuz I ended up with a 9hr pb and 40 hr choking on saliva and emergency unfil........... THAT FILL WAS FINE untiil it swelled. So I figure I am sensitive to swelling.. I definate swelled alot during my period last week. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SOMETHING happens as we sleep... to make the band tighter, I assume due to swelling..... I think cuz I am shown to be sentsitive to swelling and because.. I have extreme tightness upon waking that goes down throughout the day until its normal at late night.... I mean 3 ounces of juice and my chest hurts at 9am,,,and by 9pm I can eat all that stuff.... THATS TOO much of a difference and I Want medical care to make it less likely to swell as much.. poo I love the foods you listed above...good for you! That's much better than juice, milk and mashed potatos only. yay!!! You are gonna drop the pounds! >>>>>>>>>>>>I am not convimced.. I am eating more and how can I lose if I am eating more?... <!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

I still dont get soft stops and hard stops and the feelings people have.. Everyone seems to feel something different. Seems she went past her warning sign? Or took too big of a bite and such.

as 150 sounds ridiculous for me.... My chart puts me around 155 .... But I think 195 is the perfect goal..... Iys under 200 and I would feel GREAT at 195.. and IF I lose more that will just be a bonus.. I secretly will feel fine if I bottom out at 250#..... if it has to ya know. They say we have the chance of loosing 75% of our excess weight.. so thats my average... I started over 400 pounds... my skin alone is gonna weigh alot.. I will never look right. At 195 I will prolly look 250... oh well Is it the weight you were last comfortable at?............No...I never was 195, I prolly was 7 months pregnant at 195, .... I had no clue until my baby was born that I had went from a 145 pound teen to a 230 fat mama.

I feel so different... I read thru the posts over the year.....and I feel like I am the only one this happened to... and I want to share it, but its so different than everyone I am affraid I will look like I am putting down people or showing off or look like a total liar. I LOVE this thing that happened to me and no one understands and I have no one to talk to about it,, and I hope I can not ramble too much and be clear. I would like to know if others felt any of this... or if they can explain how its even possible. magic? lol sooooooooooooo info: I got a tight fill two and a half months ago. My first real fill experience with restriciton and all that. I was so tight, I was on liquids a month and mushies a month and just started solid food a week or so ago. I couldnt take but a sip of juice upon waking... and after a couple hours I could add more sips of juice or milk slow but didnt try to come up...All day long I struggled with thin Soup and milk and juice....the later in the day the more I could get in.. Then I could have some mashed potatoes and thicker soup......late at night I could have chips, Cookies, sherbert, more soup and mushies, toast, and lots of juice and milk wiht it..but not solids. I ate the same thing's for 2 months...(see above) The MAGIC: I always stopped eating when the band gave me the warning feeling, I did NOT try to have more and push it and feel like I couldnt help but have some more.... I simply stopped. I didnt Pb or slime or golfball or any of that stuff. And still havent. (I did spit up real gently sips of juice in the A.m. until I figured out what was too much and I had to gag myself a few times when I ate too many chips or drank too much to releive the pressure, but within a few weeks I knew how to avoid that) PLUS: IT DIDNT BOTHER ME MUCH AT ALL... eating so little, so different. Those two things dont make sence to me. NOt reality! I do not use any self control to stop or to feel fine about it. (well alittle) It was just automatically what my brain wanted to do and how it felt. But that was NOT how my brain felt before......(quite the opposite) and HOW could the band change my brain? LOOK WHAT I MEAN: Prefill eating habits....just a few months ago this was my life: I HAD to have fast food daily, many times more than once..I would feel all uptight if I couldnt get my little burger, KFC snacker, cheese curds, hershey pie, egg mcmuffin, ect... I had a rootbeer float or a coffee drink or a smoothie everyday, minus maybe 4 times a month. Sometimes 2 or 3. I had to have one or feel sad. I could drink 1 to 5 slurpies a day in the summer. I drank a gallon of milk and juice per day. There had to be milk in the house at all times and everyone made sure of it, daily ritual. If I was out of juice and no one would get me some I would cry and feel lethargic until It came and then I would gupl it like a maniac feeling blissfully refreshed and alive again. I went out to china, resturants, KFC, buffets, about 4 times a month. I would spent bill money on it unable to resist. I did this all the time.. I spent money we couldnt afford on pizza and fast food all the time. I would seriously be holding the money, knowing i cant do it and the food was just too tempting. The house food I ate was corndogs, nachos, frozen foods, candy, chips and cookies, cerial.. we made a simple meal maybe once a month. I liked fast small amounts of junk foods over a meal. I didnt eat alot at once. but I ate plenty. Soooooooooooooooo.... WHY.. HOW.. is it not bothering me that I am missing out on all this.. I thought it would be tormenting.. I thought it would SUCK... I dont even notice the fast food joints when I used to plan my day around them. I got a slurpee and a cofee drink and a smoothie once and I never finished them, didnt care for the thickness becasue it caused restriction and I rather use it for milk and juice. Now I dont get drinks (cept root beer float) Of course we havent gone to a resturant for months... that was out life! I watch my kids eat the corndogs and pizza and cerial and nachos and I sometimes take one bite and chew it and spit it out and otherwise I dont give it much thought. ??????????????I should be drolling over the pizza, saying "god i want some" and moan and groan and make it get away from me...?????????????? Ya know.. I have been dieting for 20 yrs... I have tried it all and it has always been so hard.. I would feel deprived and want it even more. It would take a HUGE effort to refrain and follow my plan. IT was Hell and full of anxiety and fear and hope and failure.. I made rules all the time. no milk, no carbs, no fast food, ect ect.. and it never lasted.. EVERY diet sucked cuz I couldnt stop my desire and craving for the foods I liked. So... how come I dont care now that I cant have it... just cuz the band makes it so I cant eat it all doesnt mean I dont still want it and crave it...like I always have.. I started each day guzzling ice cold OJ...and taking two vicodan before I got out of bed. Couldnt live without it. How can I keep from just gulping more without caring about the consequences...and regret it later...?? Now I take a sip or a couple slow drinks of warn grape jice and NO PILLS... and so be it... I dont even cry over MY PILLS.. HEllo! I needed those.. I took 6 a day and now take 6 a week. I am in pain but I am accepting the pain too... and I HATE PAIN and I never in a million years would of thought I could give up my pain releif... I mean I would of thought I would get an unfiill before giving up pain control! (I couldnt crush them cuz I couldnt keep it and the juice down until about noon) HOW in the world Could a tiny little feeling from my band make me stop eating and not care about food... after you can see how I was before. Well... I assume the band just tells my brain and thats that... Or my brain reacted to the band in that way.... and its just one of those things... HOw lucky am I!!!!!!!!! I see people on here having so many problems..... with the restriction and control and being hungry and obsessing over food and going through all that stuff I always went through before... and thats normal.. But becasue I have NO problem stopping eating and NO problem with cravings and dont even mind being hungry....(when the band restricts me). And as tight as I am I do not Pb and that stuff.... I wonder why this didnt happen to more people like it did to me. NOW... when I am not restricted i am as out of control as before and cant resist........ RESTRICTION in the smallest form...controls me and protects me... Its like a gift from another realm.... Sometimes it feels so easy.... I cant understand fully how many problems people have with it and then treatrd like its all normal.....and part of the process...and OK...... Sometimes I just want to scream 'hello.. if you really stopped eating the MINUTE you felt that weird band feeling, you would never have these problems... and 'I can feel it easily way before it gets close to getting bad, so why cant you?.... and 'who gives a crap about food... god, we are surpose to be letting go of talking and thinking about food food food... who cares if you never eat this or that again, ect ect.. BUT I know that they are doing is normal and what I am feeling is rare.... I have this rule about never allowing my self to go too far and not letting food be my slave... BUT, How am I following that rule I made is beyond me. I dont know if anyone would read all this.. But I am wondering if anyone was like changed like magic in any way...

(and Nykee, you say your band has loosened up a bit now...do you know why? Is it the weight loss? the way you are eating? I'll go back and read some more, but was just wondering. I'm glad you are loosening up a bit. ) ummmm I dunno it just opened up alittle the last week ..... like I can take about 3 ounces of juice in the morning instead of just a sip or two. And I can eat solid food like crispy pizza, fish, a bite of sandwitch, a bite of buretto (spit out skin).... cheese slices, quiche, the chicken in the Soup, slit pea and ham, almonds.. What so you think? I was wondering if it all came about because I posted on here and It influenced me to try more foods than tomatoe soup and mashed potatoes.... And when I began to eat more food, it started me on this binge like thing... And it was all cuz of being bitched at..lol BUT... Theres no denying I has lossened up cuz I was barely able to take a few sips before and now I can take like 3 real drinks before I feel restricted. This is great news ya know.

GO get a fill! I couldnt wait to get my first one. My fill has lossened up... it sure feels strange huh Its TRUE.. your fill gets lose with weight loss Plus around my cycle I got really tight... for a few days.. That was my first experience with that too.. Thats the time I felt like eating all day long..

horizontal I saw a lady at the ymca showering who's scars were like wounds... they were like a half an inch wide.. it was kinda creepy.. mine are a thin line..

I tend to wonder if I would gain my weight back if I had the bypass... I mean I think I would alittle but not even close to 400 pounds I wonder that just cuz I gained most my weight (200 pounds) from age 15 to 19...during pregnancies like some freak accident cuz I didnt turn into some hog, I was basically the same as before.. liked junk food and such. O still couldnt have a Huge delux burger and fries and a large blizzard and a pop like my mom and sisters... I always got just a little burger and a small blizzard and a Water (I like water and icecream) cuz thats all I could eat. So it was like NO FAIR NO FAIR>> Plus I would cut calories and keep track and the pounds never matched the calorie reduction, not even close! My weight means 4000 calories a day.. UM not. I really think my body is out of whack and once normal would not go back with how I eat.. (maybe weigh #250 at most... I know that is real big to some of you but if you never been 400 pounds than you cant appreciate how nice 250 would be)

Thanks! I have a mini plan (sems hard!) My band is loosened up quite a bit Oct to nov..............8 nov to dec...............7 dec to jan................5 jan ...................get a fill Jan to feb. 15th..........15 I have to lose like that much a month to make it. IF I dont make the 8, 7 and 5 for oct, nov, dec.... I will go low carb in January and bust it out.. (maybe.. try anyway) I think this is a good goal for me.. No one has noticed my weight loss... not even me. and if I can say I lost a 100 pounds in the year since I had it done.. That has to be recognized!

I was all set to do the gastric bypass... I went to a seminar and the doctor was gung ho on lapbands but said GB might be right for some.. I thought 'she isnt gonna talk me into the band' and thought I needed the drasticness and strictness of the GB cuz the band seemed IFFY. So I wasnt able to get a hold of my Mexico bypass shop for days and no numbers worked and it freaked me out, so I just called a random number and it was Ortiz.. I was told he only does lapbands.. and then she sold me on it. She told me about the band it a way i felt in love... and so lucky I had called and been shown the better option... I was gave a surgery date that day for two months later and I just went with it. She said it was safer.. alot.. It was for life. The complications were nill loss is slower but forever.. GB gains it back in 5 years The band was a tool that restricted food not cutting your tummy out and no dumping (I was affraid of that) Well............. I didnt think of all the things that make the band not ideal for me.. I dont know why.. it all seems so obvious now. All I really heard was its a band that restricts food intake and well that would make anyone lose weight... Duh IMO The band is not ideal for people who eat small items of food like corndogs, little burgers, cheese sticks, (fast food) and do not eat meals and snack alot on junk food like chips, Cookies, icecream as their regualar eating habits. (CUZ... If your the kind of person who eats two slices of pizza usually and now the band allows one slice...or your still able to chew your small hamburger well enough to get it all in and the junk food crunches down easily then HOW are you gonna lose weight...?? Very slow or go on a diet.) Its not ideal for anyone addicted to pop or juice or milk or any other sugar or high calorie drink. (Cuz.. the band will not make this addiction go away and unless your very sure you will stop, you wont.) Its not ideal if your a seriously out of control eater, obsessed with food so bad you have less than proud moments, or have a major binging habit. (cuz... you will eat too much, way too often and have PB's and other side effects too often and choose the food over the pains cuz they arent so bad,,,,,the band and body wont tolerate all the stres cuz it wasnt made to handle so much.....and you will lose it or have complications. Over and over. Its not ideal if your living in poverty, Cuz...it cost alot to maintain.

wow all of you are amazing.. good job! I hope I can do it.

Glad you feel better, good luck on the referral I CAN imagine how different skinny life is... its them who cant fathom what our lives are like.

No Port?.... that sucks... you been struggling a long time huh... gosh I wish we had a billionare amongst our mist who understood and gave us money! lol I would use mine to get a bypass..maybe (seems my band may be unable to work down the road if I cant figure out how to get uninflmaed in the a.m.) Oh yeah and plastic surgery for all.. I see no way I will ever be able to get that and It seems so gross to have all that hanging flab skin... HOW ARE YOU delarla? Are you better? I am still scared to get the flu or anything that would swell me... Megan mentioned some meds for inflamation but that wont work for me.. I take prednisone daily already... I would need like an IV full every 6 hours to take the swelling down I wake up with..