I am pretty new to all of this, I have my first consultation with a surgeon two weeks from today and I am so excited. I have been researching lap band for about six months. When I first learned about the lap band I was so excited I told a bunch of my close friends and family, and got a lot of mixed responces, many of them said that I could loose weight on my own (as if I haven't tried 10000 times) I was taken back by the amount of negative responces, so even though I was still interested I kept my mouth shut. Now I have only told one friend that I actually decided to go forward with this, if this actually does happen for me, I'm not sure what I would say to people. All of your comments are so great. I'm so glad to have found this website, you are all so strong and helpful.
Thanks!!!