noahsmomm

I am on DAY ONE of Optifast pre-op diet. In fact - it has beenb 2 hours since my first shake. Loved it, but now my stomach is GROWLING and I am panicking that i won't be able to do this. Just want to pop some Herbal dexatrim or some old phentermine I still have. Is there is medical reason not to???? How about after the surgery when I am waiting for fills?

Okay - I am about to be banded. I am reading all of these posts from successful banders and the general message here is "I made my goal. All you have to do is eat right and exercise and make the band work for you and you can do it too". This sounds like the same jargon I espoused by all the diet machines I have failed at for years. Why does it work now? No one says "Hey that lap band really made me quite eatin like a pig" Everyone is saying they changed their eating habits, they exercised, they eat healthy foods now - I don't get it - weren't all of you people fat as hell and out of control like me??? How exactly does this surgery turn you from me into one of the thin types???

Abby (love that title, by the way - my hubby and I quote it frequently) I am in the same boat you are! I feel EXACTLY THE SAME. AS YOU! I am reading all of these posts from post-banders and it seems like they aren't "fat like me", they are the "thin types" I am hearing how fitness and energy and eating right changed their life - then maybe they are just "those types" of people - of which I am not! I am confused because no one really ever says - "WOW, this band put a stop to all my overeating" - which is why in the hell I am getting it - they say - "I changed, or my eating habits had to change, or I had to do the work" - all rhetoric of Weight Watchers or weight loss gurus - things I have never been able to identify with. If these folks changed so drastically - where does the band really fit in? And it seems that the post-banders view the pre-banders as "unenlightened thinkers" about food and we need to develop a new way of eating and viewing food - but that is the problem in the first place. No one seems to attribute the weight loss and change to the band, but to their habits and will power (which is all you have pre-op and for maybe several months post-op). I don't get it and I keep thinking - weren't these people all as fat and out of control as me?????????

I am getting my surgery in June. I am disappointed because I feel that I have put so many of my hopes on this magic date to change my life, but all of the posts for those who have been banded already reveal that you are really on your own for WEEKS after the surgery - swimming in a sea of food cravings and the same compulsion and that got us in this boat in the first place. So - the surgery is not the magic date - that date is weeks later and if you don't hit that "sweet spot" for your first few fills - it could be months and months before it starts to work. I am feeling very discouraged - I can't stand the thought of being this fat for another minute longer, and yet, dieting has never worked for me, which is what I will have to do for months now, even with the band! When will I see results??????