MsTrae62

If your doctor and his staff are not meeting your needs then by all means, change doctors. It is important that you have all the support you need on this journey.

Thanks for the encouragement!

Hi Everyone,

I am 5 mos post op and I would like to change Drs. I feel like I'm stuck with my Dr and his staff and I'm not happy with the program there. If anyone knows a good Dr in NYC area please share. Not Columbia! They are overrated believe me. I need a place that has a weekly support group and a full staff on site. I don't want to be told "We only do fills on Fridays". Are you kidding.

Has anyone changed Drs? I asked a few people and it seemed like the great taboo.

Please advise.

Thanks.

hey i was banded ont he 29th so i think i can still respond :laugh: i was aroubd a 37 or 38 bmi when i started.. i lost 50 pounds since surgery but again everyone is different. I wanted to comment because its not just the fills.. well in the begining thetruth is its the fills that got this weight down. but now!! im snacking,lost focus, eating deserts all things i know i can eat. and i started to think wait a min do i need a fill as if its really injected into my brain to stop this love affair! its not. i thought i was cured i thought ahh i lost some weight and thats it im a changed person.

Then low and behold i think about food, i snack when i can and choose thign si know will work and i asked myself what happend? whats this about? cuz im not cured. we have good and bad days..im 25 years old and if u told me to write down what i eat id joke and say eeh no room on the paper. but now i do everyday or eery other soi keep track. No bullshit about not having space or i ate bad.. it keeps us aware. and somethng about being aware no matter if we made good or bad choices works wonder all by itself.

so if i can suggest anything in my own time of "falling of the wagon" is rember as far as we used to fall before well never ever fall as bad as preband. and this is no race and not magic.

i had the strangest month i can eat then i cant i struggle with a bite, and now suddenly my port is bothering me,,

but regarding falling off just get back on..i fell off the deep end last night and im floating away this afternoon.

ah i wish u ladies luck, keep at it with ur fills..

keep me posted

Thanks soo much for your encouragement! Sometimes I wonder if it's "just me", so I thank you. :blushing:

Thank goodness I found you guys!! This is my first thread. I got banded on June 30th as well. So far I only lost 25 pounds. I think it's mental. Fills don't help to keep me focused. I can eat small amounts of everything, I have never gotten sick at all. I find it hard to keep motivated. (I'm the loose 2 pounds girl, too) A good tool I found was a food diary on www.mealsmatter.org I printed four days on a page double sided and carry it with me everywhere.

I started out with a BMI of 40. I have heard that the lower your BMI the less you'll lose. I don't know how true that is, but with the holidays coming up I need to be more disciplined and it's hard.:closedeyes: