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I was just wondering if there is anyone on this site that has been banded in the Los Angeles area or nearby? I was banded on 02-24-09 and wanted to meet some new people near by for support. :thumbup:

I am just learning about how to use this site and I just saw this old message. Thank you for the support. I am liking this site a lot.

For me, I am going through a lot of ups and downs. I was depressed right after the band, and now I am ok. Everyone experiences different things ya know. I can't wait for my first fill to see a difference. I wish you luck on your new endeavor. Keep in touch.

Yeah I think your right, thanks for the support and I don't feel like I'm alone now. Yes, patience, something I have to work on because I feel I don't have any. lol I wish you luck too and I am 31 from Los Angeles CA. My friend just moved back to L.A. from Illinois, she lived in Round Lake IL and my boyfriends family moved out here last year from Moline IL (I think it was). Which part are you from?

Thank you. I have been feeling like crap lately not losing any weight. My boyfriend says to step the exercise up a bit to see results. I guess I'm not eating too healthy either. I need to work the program to the T.

Thank you, I appreciate the support. Yes, I have to stop the madness. I will work out tonight for sure.

Hello, I am going through this journey with my boyfriend of 4 years. It's been tuff, it's only been a month now. He has been there for me, but at the same time, it's been hard with him. I am having lots of ups and downs, emotional lows, highs. He has been stressed at work so I have not been able to get much support from him lately and he lives 1 hour away so that doesn't help much either. It's been difficult to stay with him. I feel that a lot of my needs are not being met and I want to move on but not until I lose the weight, so it's kind of a tuff situation. My therapist seems to think once I lose the weight I will have more options and not feel he is the only one for me, since I'm somewhat unhappy with him, but I stay anyways. So there you have it. It's been difficult. Yeah I have thought of meeting a man that has been banded as well, but wouldn't know where to start. Plus I can't do that to my current boyfriend. I would have to leave him first. :cursing:

Congrats! I wish you well. How are you feeling? I go in for my first fill 04-13-09. My surgeon cancelled my last appointment last saturday for my first fill, he is on vacation, so I will have my first fill 7 weeks after surgery. Maybe after I will have restriction and start losing. I guess it doesn't help that I haven't been working out much and eating kinda fatty foods.

Hey ya'll, I am 31, sigle, no kids, lookin for bandster friends around my age. It would be nice to go through this journey with someone that just plain old understands what I'm going through ya know? :w00t: I live in the San Fernano Valley in Southern Cali. Anyways, I was banded 02-24-09 and I have only lost 10 lbs so far and I'm a bit upset about it. Is this normal? I have not had a fill yet, so maybe that's why? :tt1:

Hey Lisa, I am 31, single, no kids, and I feel the same way about looking for single no kids friends. Lol I love my friends with kids and love kids and want them soon, but I understand completly. I just got banded 02/24/09 and have lost 10 lb so far, I wish I would have lost more. It's been difficult journey to get here and I'm trying to be patient with it. I have not had my fill yet, so maybe after that I will see a difference. What do you think?:tt1:

I was banded 02-24-09 and I have only lost 10 lbs so far and I'm a bit upset about it. Is this normal? I have not had a fill yet, so maybe that's why? :tt1:

I was banded 02/24/09 and I keep getting hungry, I just try to keep drinking my carnation instant brekfast every hour or so when I'm hungry and that seems to help. Today I was natious, took meds for it and it's finally going away. I start work on thursday, kinda afraid of the diareah and possible pain with the port kinda bothering me, and me sitting at a desk all day. Hope all goes well. We will all get through this hell soon enough! lol

Hey Derbin, I just got banded 02/24/09 and have been on liquids since. It's the hardest thing! I am so sick of it too! Only one more week and we get to eat a little bit better and then for me 2 weeks later and I can introduce smushy foods. It's hard, I've lost 7 pounds already but it almost feels like it's not worth it because I'm craving so many foods. My boyfriend eating out in my kitchen doesn't help, but I feel bad depriving him. It's so hard to smell the foods he eats, I told him to stay away from my house until I can eat again. Lol:eek:

Ugh! I feel the same way, I change the way I feel every moment. Emotional roller coaster!

I am going to be banded 02/24th in Los Angeles. I am nervous but yet excited I guess. Is anyone else as nervous and scared and anxoius as I am? :confused:

Hello all, I wanted to join a support group of some kind for my new lap band journey. I will be banded in about 2 weeks, I start my liquid diet next tuesday and I am not looking forward to it. :confused: I have been overweight for mostly all my life, I am at my highest now, 255 lbs and am 31 years old. It's time for a change, it's time for me to start living my life with joy and good health. It's just time. I am feeling a lot of different emotions, such as excitement, sadness, anxious, depressed, all kinds of emotions. I am scared of how all the changes will effect me mentally. I'm so emotional. Anyways, nice to meet ya all.