kimkimmie

Wow, thank you all so much for the fabulous input. I knew I was sensitive about my weight, but the caring that you are all showing is overwhelming and I am getting tears in my eyes. I am so grateful. I am almost certain that this is what I want to do, and I will definately be a regular here and will do my best to pay it forward and assist any other new folks that join this message board once I become an expert. Thanks so much, you have no idea (or maybe you do) of how helpful the insight and comments are. I am going to go back and read it all again so that it all sinks in! ~Kim:grouphug: I look forward to getting to know all of you! throughout this journey!

Bettina, Best wishes for Tuesday! I know you can't wait ) Thanks for the video, I watched it for over an hour (till he started talking about the other -more riskier- surgery), and now I have to go to work without much make-up and wet hair lol, but it was definately great and I learned a lot. I am pretty sure that I am going to go for it! I know me and I am not one of the 5% that will be able to take it off and keep it off. If I can get full faster that is what will help me. Thanks so much for sharing! Good Luck at your appointment! let me/us know when your surgery will be! ~Kim

Hey! Good morning! Thanks so much for the previous 4 comments. I truely appreciate your taking the time to reply and help me. I want this to work and I want to do this as long as I know that I can. I can eat so much and anything I want really with WW, but still I have not even been succuessful with that and I was allowed to have light doritos or a McDonalds ice cream cone if I wanted and still lose weight. Geeze I get so emotional when I read how much pain being overweight and the lack of control over food causes so many of us. I do believe that if This 'tool' will make me feel full after only a small amount of food. I feel like the little frozen meals (LC, HC and WW brands specifically) are so tiny and have never been able to call one a meal. If they are allowed, imagine how nice it would be to have one for lunch and dinner and be completely satisfied - and if not that a portion of food that small. I would think that I would have to lose weight eating so little. Last night I went to another site and was looking at tons of before and after pictures, and showed my husband a picture of a lady that went from a 'plain' looking heavy lady to a head turning beauty after losing 100 pounds. I was smiling with hope, and he said that I would have to look as good, because he thinks I am already beautiful and he hugged me and smiled at me. I am curious, I know the band is a tool, but for others that were as addicted to food as me, on a scale of 1-10 how helpful is the band? If it really makes you feel full- like I would say after eating a footlong sub and chips does for me now - by eating a fraction of that, I think I could do it. Usually a couple of hours after the sub I want a little of something sweet or salty or both for a snack, so can I have a tiny snack a few hours after eating 1/2 of a 6" sub and 2 doritos? Is everything just pretty much scaled down, but satisfying? I bet a Chinese buffet would be a complete waste of money lol! I always envy my friends and coworkers that leave a little food on their plate, so I think that would be pretty cool if I got full on only 1/2 of a meal! Ya'll have a great day! ~Kim

Hello everyone! I have been reading in here for the past week and decided to step out of the shadows and say hello. I am going to a Seminar in Jacksonville being given by Dr. Webb next Tuesday. I must say a part of me feels guilty almost like a failure for giving up on diet and exercise and contemplating something so drastic. I am 99% sure that I am going to have to pay for everything and I feel bad using 15-18 thousand dollars to right my own wrong, There are so many things we could use that money for for all of us instead of just me. I think that I am on the right path, because friends tell me I should definately do this. I am terrified that my ravenous appetite will cause me to fail and to fail at something that costs this much would be a huge problem. I guess because I have failed at all of the diets. I always start out good, and have lost over 50 pounds a few times, but I then find myself becoming obsessed with food, and like magic I end up fatter than before. I am now very over weight - I'm 5'6" and I think in the 300 range give or take 15-20 pounds (I think probably give). Any advice would be helpful and appreciated. I do not yet have diabetes or anything major, but sometimes my knees hurt, my hips and back heart every night and I have to get out of bed slowly because of my back, My self esteem is very low, and I have acid reflux off and on. I do have a few minor disc issues in my lower back, that are amplified because of my weight. I do not eat any veggies right now, and only occasionly fruit, so my rationale is that this surgery can help me even if worse case scenario (being realistic and honest) I do sometimes or even most of the time eat the foods I currently eat but in smaller portions because of the band making me feel full. I'm not going into this planning to fail, but I want to put forth the worst case scenario like I said. If anyone else felt this way and has been sucessful, please tell me your story. Thanks for reading this and for any replies!! :paranoid Kim