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I have heard so much about this on here can someone please explain what this is ? I couldn't find the meaning on the search part just that people have hit this stage on their journey. I was banded April 2 2013 an I have had one fill of 2cc so now I have 4cc in band. I watch my portions an stay pretty full for the most part. I am loosing I am proudly finally out if the 200's so also do I need another fill if I'm loosing? Have lost 27 lbs since march 19th. Hoping someone can explain to me an thanks so much in advance for any help!!

Im a mom so the complications of surgery always scared me. Thats why i opted for the sleeve..bc it has very little complications. I put it off for long enough and came to a realization that i cant loose all this weight on my own. Sent from my SM-G950U using BariatricPal mobile app

Can you all tell me what made you decide on the band instead of gastric? I mean I know gastric is more invasive and all, but how did you decide? Also I go to my first meeting on the 28th and I can't wait to hear all the info. I am so scared, but tired of trying over and over again to loose this weight.

I was banded on 11/18/05 and swollen and tender at my port site. Also it feels like a hard knot beneath the skin. Dr. Martinez said that is normal and just takes time to heal

Sorry guys. TMI. But here goes. I am 8 weeks post op and have lost almost no weight. I lost about 5lbs right at first... Then nothing. I eat right... Lean meats and legumes mostly... A little oatmeal when i feel carb starved. I also have had severe constipation. I cant go without copious amounts of stool softners and mirolax and i have to resort to magnesium citrate fairly regularly. When i do go, its a very small amount and seems like it is just scootching around a big blockage. Im making a doc appt this week as im afraid im going to create a laxative dependency. In the meant time.... Could this lack of bm evacuation be causing me to not loose. I know the stool itself weighs alot when impacted, but i am wondering if impaction will actually keep your malabsorption from working propperly? Thanks for your thoughts on this

My age definitely aided in my loose skin problems. Working out has literally made the loose skin on my arms and legs nonexistent! My tummy on the other hand is fairly loose no matter what I do for my abs. Standing up you can't tell but when I bend over like to throw my hair up in a towel after the shower it all just hangs there. I'm already saving to get that taken care of though. Just remember that everyone is different though. I carried my extra weight everywhere evenly.

I'm on my 4th week and going to 5th. I have wgt the same got the past 2 weeks. Only lost 18 pound in almost 5 weeks. This is depressive, no one around me even noticed that I'm loosing wgt???????? Sent from my SM-G928T using the BariatricPal App

Kathy, thank you for your well wishes! Spider veins are considered a "cosmetic" problem and not covered by health insurance plans. Here's a good informative site on them with treatment options: http://www.emedicine.com/plastic/topic437.htm This procedure is done in the doctor's office. A tiny needle is used to inject a saline solution into the spider veins (which are near the skin's surface). If you're having problems with varicose veins, I urge you to check on that procedure. It's great.

I'm going thru the same thing. I'm putting moroccan oil on my hair and then I even rub some on my skin. It soaks in and helps a lot. I get mine at wal mart with the hair supplies. I'll take a picture and post it.

Great questions. I think @Matt Z is on the money! I also think it depends on your "definition" of dumping. You know? Cuz I don't eat more than 2oz (3oz was my all time high) of low glycemic fruits/berries at a time and I will always combine it with fat and protein. So I never get any symptoms of anything remotely like dumping. But, if I have a high fat meal or food, I can plan on extreme nausea and some epigastric "pain" and discomfort within about 30-45 minutes. I feel so bad, that I have to lay down, cover my eyes and have a cool quiet room. And it takes about 2 hours to pass. Sometimes I dry heave (can't Ralph). But I never have the usual thing that goes with it--oily loose stools. Never had 'em. So I don't know if this is a case of mild dumping, or a gallbladder fit, or just the aftereffects of RNY when eating a high fat meal/food. Oh and I haven't dared to test this with sweets other than fruits yet.

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anything ,knowing that in reality all cannot change ,feeling is just a feeling expression and a sense of hope .At the expense of the traditional culture for the price to change national culture modernization ,already in many heart is air plant germination .All great value culture is intermediate ,it doesn do ,no edge ,this fabric crossflow society ,there is no limit ,without choice ,use unscrupulous divisive tactics ,unrestrained eXtreme Rush made a decline and destruction of the tragedy .Material is always a external rather than internal ,forever is transcendental alienation ,no there is no freedom ,freedom transcendental in the natural and spontaneous .All the world will experience a himself immaterial processes ,because the dematerialization is the liberation and unity within, so the spirit is a kind of non - material process .The pursuit of eternal life ,the pursuit of heaven or the Elysian Fields and so on ,and the matter and objects will not allow to obtain eternal life ,because of the oppression ,constraints and restrictions may not have eternal life ,so many religions are from the substance of the universe began to slowly into the spirit world finally entered into the religion of the top .Buddha said :that is empty ,empty ,without empty space ,all empty universe ,all this does not exist ,existence is karma and karma ,and together, edge to come from where, from the past to do good ,do good to all sentient beings can Buddha Buddha Buddha ,after a to the Elysian Fields travel ( Elysian Fields the Buddha had many luxuries, and let us here suffering. ) Wait. Religious suffering as being God hates signs and secret sin ,from the psychology to meet an extremely common need .4 loneliness does not come from * body this is single .As a reflection of society a thinker ,his heart is the most lonely ,the lonely .A soul as long as there is enough deep ,will be found in the soul deep stuff is lonely .Class hope that discovering the meaning of life and value ,and the creation of the meaning of life and the life value ,the purpose is to eliminate the loneliness .Life of the entire contents of unpredictable ,it must in Nike Free Shoes every moment to experience ,we on the unknown fear, so ,our system theory ,technology ,religion ,to set up their own psychological safety .As long as we seek inner security ,life whole process .Will not be what we know .The life does not understand, thought ,looking for the whereabouts of unable to comprehend ,will only make us more benefits and no ,that we trigger a heart and the reality of the conflict ,the conflict between heart and soul .Each is an organism ,so ,as a biological ,life instinct ,is a draw on the advantages and avoid disadvantages ,pursue happiness and avoid suffering .As long as we will be similar to sth ,trying to do ,there must be contradictions ,so the false and true necessarily split .When you say that the purpose of life is happiness ,the purpose of life is to find God ,Buddha ,and so on ,there is no doubt that to find God ,Buddha ,and so on the hope of escape .We are through the all mixed things for some permanent ,durable ,something that we called the real God ,Buddha ,,,truth .On the unknown faith or belief is a kind of self projection ,so it true .As an individual ,you are asking your called real ,emperor ,Buddhist ,truth ,something ask ,ask ,seek ,guide ,so your method is to search for return, looking for satisfaction .As individuals, each of their Kule have the most direct ,most intense feeling ,relating to their interests are most concerned about ,each for his care than on any other concern ,but also more than any other of his concern .Most of our thinking and ideas from the draw on the advantages and avoid disadvantages ,pursue happiness and avoid suffering of the instinct of self-preservation .Belief in some sense already satisfied life instinct ,faith makes isolated ,but we can see all the world is like this ,the economy of the world ,the world of politics ,as well as the spirit of the world is also so .Choose your beliefs ,because you couldn ,and you hope that he will give you required .That is to say ,you choose a can meet the requirements of your beliefs ,you are he will give you satisfaction to choose, you choose depends on your satisfaction ,rely on your mind and reality of contrast under relatively reasonable down selection .While in the US in contrast to show up at don ( or even impossible to detect ) and the fear of being alone .See do not understand ,can never be freed from the shackles and fear .We dedicated things available to our method to evade us from empty reason and condition .Don Jie Yin in the belief that the form at the process ,there must be a struggle ,conflict ,sad ,and will be opposite to each other .Only when you know that you stick to it due to the inherent essence ,not only is the conscious and unconscious so that your faith motivation ,you can get freedom of mind and the taste of loneliness, and not fear lonely .When a lonely looking for another lonely, will have a look .But the two lonely together can get rid of loneliness One day when lonely moment that will fade away .In too many times we need just a place not .We give too much and sacred mystery side of the force ,a lot of time just as a support or a hope .Just a thorn ,temporarily hide the emptiness you ,through another to escape loneliness ,use this obscure loneliness .Too much of our time is not care about the relationship ,but their lonely and emptiness .Too much when we choose to escape ,the real issue up to face to face, this is because the heart no ,so continuously from the outside looking to fill their own .But the love by hypocritical to hide. That true ,but if you like a false ,it must be rejected real .So life first love object should be their own, to write poems for himself ,and his dialogue ,in a space of quiet ,listening to my own heart beat and breathing .Hypocritical relationresultHave a feelingin the deep heart only ,without knowing the corner ,only a day can make such as memory ,let it Tao turbulent entangled, like in general ,finally coming back to reality, soul feel a mirage of diffuse and brilliant .This is my chance to see tired please cigarette paper Jiao burst of feeling .Sometimes I think, and the straightening ,seems to female more very, generally will not let emotions exposed ,always bear ,perhaps only in smoke in the moment ,or in alcohol intoxicated when, the pent-up emotions will be exposed .So ,sometimes I feel alive tired ,but we like the name ,tired on the cigarette ,might also be a good lonely way .Husband of good wine ,drink for a long time, also in the local famous, still belong to a good ,impression, my home is a dimple ,previously lived in the school with a small courtyard house ,although small ,but very wide yard ,the yard can often be barbecue ,then I go to riverside find the firewood is useful ,also have colleagues got something ,boss take ,Hezekiah liquor, the yard is a best place to keep friends .We drink too much of the various state of different expressions, the very next day also ,materials ,met also can be fun .At that time ,I will not drink, husband of training I drink man pull ,man is the local Lisu a special ,kills a tender ,to open ,some like chopped, some like large, with sumac boiled fried fried ,spicy ,brittle bones ,just the people poured in brewed rice wine ,a wine stew ,not too much, plan how many ,each bowl, the wine and aroma of natural compatibility ,some assembly to allow children to gnaw bone ,children are more like the kind of flavor ,but also has the condition .It is said that this man with Shujin live effect, but also the treatment of some diseases of the female department ,Lisu woman confinement to drink man pull .Drink man pull must take the advantage of cold drink ,Rhus oil will be tired ,full dip in the side of the bowl, but also a kind of greasy ,sticky feeling ,if drinking habits ,but also addiction .Now the man of many types ,as long as you love the taste, what has made against a speculation of the drink ,however ,the flavor is better to drink some .I don to eat ,my bowl ,I was drinking it ,give my husband ,straightening ,in don changed to his interest, let him eat the good stuff ,seemed to him .He was training to drink man pull ,but also because he likes to drink ,I don the smell of smoke ,alcohol ,always make can ,the heart is not good, will argue with him, he will be tired ,changes the method training me, let me feel the taste of wine ,I also like this . Man pulling the unique flavor .Later ,husband to change jobs into the city ,I hill ,I almost not at home ,he is more free, drink ,smoke not act recklessly and care for nobody ,no trouble ,and more .Therefore ,there is always a ,has never abandon ,even age than seniority .I occasionally go into town ,because at the end of the month will rest for a few days ,often to see his friends to my home to drink ,though he always said: my wife down ,she said that drinking too much does not have the meaning ,although she did not praise me ,also do not criticize me ,but ,I also feel drunk get drunk .We speak Nike Free 5.0 Men Shoes one time ,also won because I would not come back ,we are accustomed to drink together in the talk of everything under the sun ,disappear for several days ,he missed ,he and those with a sense of ,and my feeling is also deep, and I also easy-going ,know can him, can be his assimilation ,slowly accustomed .If one day without wine to accompany him ,I will accompany him to drink a cup of ,make a pot of tea ,red tea ,diffuse ,white juice ,transparent and pure ,is the local people own brewing ,no alcohol ,the degree is not high ,very bright, but drink or not, as he and his friends often joke ,wine still can not drink ,do not drink to drink too sentimental ,it ,if you drink too much ,really do not .I usually wouldn let him drink ,the most he than me one more drink ,however, will not be drunk ,but also increase the life of fun, that seems not drunk state ,also can really make body fusion a warmth ,generally are also relatively easy to fall asleep .With his drinking, nature also is I straightening and flexible time .At that time ,there is a princess or queen feeling ,what to eat, that gave him a sound ,there ,he will do for you ,want to drink ,he can give you to the edge, but also a friendly and caring to remind you ,don .I don her drinking pattern ,only the feeling of face burns ,experience ,and perhaps a few charming ,otherwise how could so spoil my husband We always with speaking ,usually to silence him, drinking too much can fly say to daughter eyebrow ,can look like, say when love when ignorance and ignorant ,have a pleasant talk together ,watch TV broadcasts entertainment programs ,like the same song and so on, feeling about the past good times ,imperceptibly ,a sleepy feeling .Whenever a scene like this are one kind of happiness quietly diffuse heart .Never denied ,he was just a straightening and vulgar woman ,either in the network through ,or in real life ,I have a kind of food of pyrotechnics custom ,can truly and honestly face their inner .Although a life of many ,so many years ,have you have no chance of coquetry unique ,but that doesnm not soft ,flexible time release in need ,I still soft as . Yesterday ,like a green worm ,through memory pod ,leaving biting mark .This is yesterday a Wen to my feeling .He saw a large green leaves ,green crystal clear ,but there is a small ,appearing a misshapen beauty ,let him be filled with a thousand regrets burst .And I want to say, the story yesterday ,there is always a warm flow over the heart ,with the memory of the wind passing through ,even had the pain and suffering, had the vicissitudes of life, had hurt ,but settling down is happy, the rest are better days .Monkey king to remember , relationresultSchool of excellence is the T ,a famous public school .Our story main surface in this school .But only this year enrollment is three three students ,class .My father is a business, because it is busy with her work ,do not have too much time to take care of noisy ,so keep a lot of bad habits make to a private school .Noisy once said ,but is too naughty too active !She suspected her son has ADHD ,because he wasn for a while but sleep ,son really let her be at a loss what to do ... ... But come to school soon became known as the king of mischief .He is in class when not to provoke not your own stationery pieces of eight and this is his best performance; when he is eating not eating leftover bone in a soup with rice but not in the dining table is the most that the teacher was pleased pattern .Our story occurs in students dormitory at the Residence .The first layer of students Residence lived in primary school students in lower grades ,each dormitory eight ,lower, lower gray iron closet and washbasin washbasin .Residence facilities ,toilets ,room, bathroom ,drinking machine ,central air conditioning ... ... So the Residence is closed management ,the students return to the dormitory can not free access ,washed in the rest .1006 is the lower grade student dormitory ,it is located in the duty room for too ,but lived here, help spread a number ,is located in the door left hand position .But returned to the Residence ,leave the teacher considered ,more act recklessly and care for nobody ,as Sun Wukong left the Buddha palm .Noisy in the dorm havoc in heaven ,not climb to the shop to get the thing is getting to students and students of cat ,in this limited space ,the closet and the washbasin is noisy toys .Inevitably the wardrobe shift ,get my face basin ,so the chest per day were played tinkling ,in a month broke the seven eight foot basin basin .1006 facing the duty room ,every principal director class dorm gathered in a duty room, 1006 discipline problems were a day schedule, every room blackboard are noisy breach of discipline records ,noisy Monkey King title spread like wildfire .But under the name gray iron chest skin skin .But his dirty clothes and smelly socks stuffed in the wardrobe ,closet Phi again for he could no longer ,Phi in noisy shaking towels and shed a few tears ;the most detestable is he to Phi practice Shaolin boxing, wardrobe in noisy cuff and kick off a piece of leather under ,in the tinkling sound masking ,Phi the teeth bite jumping ring ;when the noisy climb for falling paper plane, Phi hard to hit her ,and in the other by kicking him out of the bottom of homeopathy .Be in after lights-out, practice a day time noisy asleep soon .The students are gradually quiet down ,breathing even if to go to sleep, the entire floor is silent .Be made out of leather in the deep and quiet when taking the blame be up his hat ,he waited for the teacher on duty post check places ,in considering how to make revenge .Noisy turns a lower body ,large arm out of the blanket to a corner of the quilt kicking off in ,take at phi .Pipi a bared ferocious smile ... ... Skin skin stretched oppressed long side of the cranium ,gently it also slightly sore face ,moved up for too long ,he will never let this good opportunity .He moved slowly along the ride in his quilt to climb up ,rode into the sleeping boys .Make fast asleep ,he is dreaming .He went to the coveted virgin forest to explore, through a tree mixed forest, through a flower-filled meadows ,then through a swamp ,waded a clear stream ,a mountain stands in front ,he tried hard to find a clump of dense shrubbery, hidden ,heard of this is the mysterious mountain ,the sea-robbers inside magic treasure .He disappeared into the darkness ,blinding ,cold let shiver all over though not cold .He had to feel to crawl ,crawl through a stone block and lot ,and climb over a piece of land ,is to gradually open ,vaguely see a flickering oil lamps ,lamp in one side of the stone table .Apparently come sign ,he is thinking of is moving forward or backward point ,eyes flashed into a shadow ,the shadow closer and closer ,is a short side of the monster ,looks familiar ,like where seen, also cannot think of it at the moment ,but he and his fight ,you punch him one foot a few rounds down ,but finally due to exhaustion by the monster is pressed on the lower ,how to also earn off, almost suffocated . Today I revenge monster in the noisy laugh . You ~ ~ you ~ ~ is He Fang divine Even dead ,let ~ ~ so ~ ~ I dead understand The monster still laugh :good !Good !Today I will let you die !I was originally a piece of possessed the iron chest, be nine gods of female seal in your sleeping under the plate ,let me be free .I is one of the first 365 days, I swore an oath :if there is anyone out there who rescued me, I will give him my mountain treasure half .In this position is an obedient child ,I didn realize my desire ;in second 365 days again I swore an oath :who can give me freedom I will give him my all treasure in Shandong .However, in the bit is an honest and pragmatic girl, I didn realize my desire ;in third 365 days again I swore an oath :who can save me I give him all my treasure will be his servant ,for he follow sb. .This is when your monkey king lived ,I always put hope on you ,but you let me suffer insult ,so I changed my oath :if you can get me out of your board and I will kill you !Like listening to a cold sweat ,with full force shouted: !Help. Noisy sound in the silence of the rush in 1006 dormitories to on duty room ,the teacher hurried to 1006 view ,push the door with a flashlight one one again ,still the noisy balderdash ,like be bound hand and foot only in turning around .The teacher came up to him ,however nearly is something to trip over ,with a flashlight as a block in the passage ,it is an iron chest, no good foot figure out .Now see a long way out of a fight .Make over a lower body ,in his dream ,being noisy is Phi clamped to the emergency ,nine gods of female in time ,while in the phi cover finger seal ,he will never speak !The teacher on duty up full of sweat and noisy, noisy said had a nightmare .He felt he was late yesterday arch out iron wardrobe ,closet is lie on his board, that was really nine gods of female uniforms ,can fall asleep .Since then other dare not drill at the bottom ,and every day to clean clothes neatly in the closet, the closet together along a straight ;no more broken basin and basin ,lest they take revenge !Since then ,people forget about ever Monkey King title, 1006 were rated as five star hostel .

Make a list of all the things you look forward to doing once you loose your weight and all the reasons you are doing this and every time you wanna cheat or feel like cheating read that list!!! Also hot chicken boullion worked very well for me!!! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Damn, I just got my picture taken for my license in September. Maybe after I loose the weight I can go down there and tell them I lost mine so they will have to take a new picture. LOL

Just wondered if anyone else has times when they stop loosing. I seem to be in a pit. I just received a fill.. hopefully it will help.. need some support.thank you:smile2:

Hey everyone! My weeping wound has been an entire saga on its own. I tried everything. At night I'd let the liquid run for five hours till bedtime while "mopping" it up (ha ha, a good one.) Then I'd go to bed with a loose clean t-shirt and just let it absorb the Fluid. Then I tried applying pressure and keeping the wound covered with huge non-stick pads. Then I'd used Bandaids. Nothing stopped it. I even tried "expressing" or "milking" the liquid by massaging my belly to try to get all the liquid to one area. My big mistake was liquid-bandage, which only shriveled up the skin around the wound, but it still leaked. When I peeled the liquid-bandage off, my wound opened more. Today I have a panty liner taped to the inside of my shirt. Brilliant! Now my wound isn't coverd and is getting the air it needs. I have no red, allergic marks from Bandaids or tape, and my shirt is staying clean. The liquid gets dabbed-up by the pad, and everyone is happy. Everyone be very quiet.... the volcano is actually silent for the first time in a week! There's barely any liquid on the panty-liner... could it be, is it possible... am I healing? SHHHH... not to jinx it!

Sorry Lots of typos... I want to crawl out of my skin! .::SurgeryDate 7/25/12::.

:w00t:Hi! I need a buddy/mentor. I have been reccommended to get lap band for about 8 months now, but was rejected on first send out by Cigna for "Improper" documentation on my 6 month doctor visits...so here we are and I just finished my 5th month and on August 22nd will have completed my 6th visit, August 25th I will go and schedule with the surgeon. I have lost about 5 lbs. in the 5 months that I have been going to see Dr. Guth at UTSW. My BMI is 37.4 and my weight is 238.5. I want to loose at least 100 lbs. I live in Lewisville and commute to Royal and 75. I am also training for a 5k...the Turkey Trot to be exact. My surgeon is Dr. Rivas at UTSW and I love their program. So I need some one to play the big brother/sister role...I feel like I'm on an emotional rollercoaster with this...and I would love the support.

I haven't had the surgery yet but, my doctor said the supplements will help. I take 5,000mg of the hair, skin and nails, one pill each day. It does take at least 2 months for you to see a difference. I have also heard fish oil pills work great!

I feel your pain I'm loosing my hair in clumps myself, thank The Lord I had a full think hair, it's so much thinner now, I'm taking 12,500 gm of biotin and other supplement to help with hair loss also using some drops I got at the hair salon. My doc told me it should slow down or stop after three month. I'm praying that it does. Try consuming more protein too, that is also key to help slowdown the hair lose according to my doc. Good luck. And remember it will grow back.

Ok so i have been struggling with my weight since I can remember.... even when i was a cheerleader I was never the small one so i was self conscience... anyways I have gained somuch weight and I know part of it is from all the diets I have tried... I think the only diets I didnt try were like NutriSystem... well I am desperate and I've been looking into Labband.. now according to my research I am a candidate for the tool that will give me that boost and real results... the problem is 1) I have never had any surgery in my life.... 2) after reading blogs I am so so so so so scared that things will go wrong.. I read how people throw up all the time or all these horror stories of the lab band ... I have read how people reccommend a Mini gastric Bypass instead because you can eat regular food or what not and how with the bad some people do not loose weight... anyways I need advice because this is something that I am desperate to do .. and I do not want to invest 13 grand on it and then it go all wrong..... Please Help... (btw tomorrow I have my first consulataion) One more thing... I am getting annyoed by people saying that I am going to take the easy way out... and that I just havnt tried hard enough with the diets... anyways ya's advice will be greatly appreciated.

Hi. Do you mind sharing which hospital you are using? I went through Lahey with Dr. Brams. I am 2 weeks and one day out; and things have been going really well. Due to another health issue it ended up taking me 8.5 months to have surgery. I am not a patient waiter. One thing to keep in mind is the more weight you loose up front; possibly the lower weight you will end up with at goal. I ended up loosing about 52 pounds from my first consult to surgery. Most doctors require you to loose weight before the surgery mine said 30 pounds. The way I look at it is that I have lost weight in the past (more than 100 pounds 3 times) but gained it back. This time I am going to loose it and keep it off. I actually started exercising (hour of cardio 7 days a week) and semi watching what I ate in November 2008 and am now down 94 pounds. One thing to consider is to find an exercise you feel comfortable doing. The more often you exercise the more it becomes a habit. I have knee problems so my Ortho told me to consider swimming. Due to Clorine allergies I always hated swimming. Well I got a snorkle (covers eyes and nose); and a Water proof MP3 player. Makes swimming so much nicer. Helps pass the time. Even with the individual TV's at the gym I would rather swim than do the cardio machines. If you can only do 15 minutes that's fine consider it 15 more minutes of exercise than you used to get. Exercise does'nt have to be epic it just needs to be something you can sustain. And I don't know if it's because I was so fat that I actually get a lot of support from people at the gym. I think they are astounded that I exercise every day. I even had someone stop me at a store one time and said they recognized me from the gym and wanted to congratulate me on my weight loss.

Any WLS isn't a diet - it's a tool to keep you full on a smaller amount of food We have all lost the weight at one time or another on a "diet" but after we lost it - we went back to eating "normal" and the weight came back on plus some - our normal is what got us fat in the 1st place "duh" it is really about making a lifetime lifestyle change in your eating and exercise - Our band's don't choose our foods - we do - and we can eat around them and not loose the weight.. It's all about eating healthy and exercising - I did 75% of the work by doing just that and the band did the other 25% by providing restriction That's why my signature says - eating healthy + exercise+ the band = success.. Good luck to you...

This is a common problem - many of us have discussed this so you have lots of company! I think it just takes time for the brain to catch up - lots of time! I think that the extra skin can make us still feel obese (it does me!) I think that we all get mixed messages - people telling us we are too thin, the pop culture showing all the young, thin, and beautifully airbrushed - makes us feel huge by comparison. What I think is that if you find a weight that is healthy, feels good and you can maintain it - THAT is the right weight for you! I personally felt great in my size 12s. I pretty much buy size 8 pants now, but have fit into a 6 and depending on the maker (designer sizes run differently) I have a dress that is a 12 that fits! Size is about as arbitrary as the scale. I am just a smidge over a normal BMI, but having discussed that with doctors, understand why that is healthy weight for me so I am pretty good right here. Anyway, sounds to me like you too are at a good weight and maybe just need time to find that self acceptance.

I think our heads are just messed up. I wear between an 4/6-10/12 (depending on name brand. Sizes are crazy) and I still feel fat. It's not necessarily with my clothes on though. Mine is mostly when I'm naked. All the extra skin makes me feel like I have on an elephant suit. EVERYONE tells me I'm too thin now, but I'm not ready to stop. My BMI still says overweight by about #10. Sent from my iPhone using VST

Hi everybody! OK, here goes! Well, said she, stalling, I’d like to thank the academy--haha! Thank you all for answering. I smiled as I read your responses, and I think we’re all beautiful. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> Anyway, I’m African-American, though I usually refer to myself as black. I’m five-five, though I used to be taller--haha, and I weigh 331 pounds. I’m fifty-three, as you can see in the information thingie. I’m letting my hair grow, and according to my hairdresser it’s sable brown, which, again, according to him, is dark dark brown, almost black. My eyes are brown, but I have cataracts which cause them to have a whitish caste, I guess. A friend of a friend said once that I had “really unusual eyes.” She didn’t realize I was blind. My friend was mad, but I thought it was funny. I’m very open about my blindness, and independent and proud. Oh, my hair? I’m letting it grow, because I’ve always wanted it long. <o:p></o:p> Plain, you made me laugh when you said that in spite of your southern accent, you’re very smart. <o:p></o:p> My skin is, I am told flawless, and like a couple of you said, people are surprised when I tell them I’m fifty-three. I’ve also been told that my skin is the color of dark chocolate. I don’t feel like it, except when I am reminded that I can’t move as quickly as I’d like, because of this weight. I’m currently dealing with insurance, so everybody wish me luck! Oh, I’m also told I have a beautiful smile. <o:p></o:p> I’m a pianist, but, again, because of my weight, I haven’t tried really hard to get gigs lately, though I have done a couple of CD’s. Those are safer; no one sees anything but your picture and the artwork. <o:p></o:p> Anyway, thank you all for the warm feeling you’ve given me by your willingness to answer. I’ll try to put up a pic soon. <o:p></o:p>