Is anyone disappointed with the REALIZE website? I thought there would be message boards like this, I can't find a place to daily journal & their food list is a bit short. Maybe I just have not found everything on the site through all of the fluff yet, but so far I am not impressed enough to go back daily.

I agree with you. I actually can't get most of it to work. It keeps telling me that there has been an error, and that is me trying at home and work. I have pretty much given up on it.

their web site bites the big one. And I'm almost 100 percent sure my doctor never goes on there. I journal through my iphone. There's a free app called I think Lose it which has a pretty extensive list of restaurants and grocery store brands, plus you can enter your own foods in

The website sucks.

Dear Friends,

I am with all of you. I really thought that there would be a forum like this on the Realizeband.com site and of course, there wasn't. I had to find you all on google.

Today is my first day that I feel any restriction at all - I got banded on 12/28/2009. I had 4.5 cc put in and then this week had 1.5 cc more put in. I still get hungry, but eat slowly and find that I am eating less. I will see how it goes and then make a decision based on my weight loss if I want more saline put in on March 10.

At my highest, I was 225 pounds. I lost 3 pounds on November 12 because I came down with H1N1 flu and had to postpone my surgery. Then, of course, I was on Protein drinks and lost 6 pounds on those. I have lost another 11 pounds since my surgery and purchased a cheap eliptical machine from Walmart which I plan to use tomorrow.

I also have type II diabetes and in the past tried everything under the sun to lose weight, to no avail.

Happy to meet you all.

Debby S.:smile:

Honestly I dont like the site at all.

Their site sucks. I tried it initially after surgery, but sparkpeople.com works so much better for me.

I am new to this I know (6-days Post-op), but I rather like the Realizemysuccess.com webpage...It is good for tracking what I eat as well as my progress and stuff... I agree it would be better if it had these types of forums, but so far I have gotten quite a bit of use out of it... :wink2:

Whew - I thought I was the only Realize Bander on the Lap-Band site! My surgeon uses both products - I let her choose which she felt would be the most appropriate when she got in there.

I looked at both sites prior to surgery - this one is the most interactive. As far as Realize -v- Lap Band as products - from what I've read they're about equal in quality and outcome.

I find it to be incredibly user-unfriendly---so much so that I still use fitday.com (even though my surgeon does access the Realize site).

I think it is very user unfriendly too. The only thing I use it for is to post my weight and measurements monthly. But I actually perfer the obesityhelp Health Tracker for that.

I will be getting the realize band and looked for a forum =couldn't and looked it up and found this. I like it too. On webmd it seemed anyone wrote up to their surgery and stopped!! The most important part to me is after... Nice to meet you all and read your suggestions!

Linda

I only use the Realize my success site to chart my progress in weight and inches and in the food diary. Other than that, I'm disappointed too. i don't think surgeons really care about it either. They are so busy doing surgery I don't think they have time to follow up on all the other stuff.

I have a realize band as well. I find the Website only useful for tracking my weight and measurments. I was highly disappointed to find they did not have any forums or blogs! I come on here quite often if I have any questions that I am looking for answers.

I also like the website for its recipes (Some I can't wait to try)!

Well good luck on your journey!

Is anyone disappointed with the REALIZE website? I thought there would be message boards like this, I can't find a place to daily journal & their food list is a bit short. Maybe I just have not found everything on the site through all of the fluff yet, but so far I am not impressed enough to go back daily.

I agree totally with the Realize band website it just SUCKS ! I ve even e mailed my disappointment. If I had not found LAPBANDTALK i'd have been a lost statistic..............

i use the realizemysuccess.com i really like that.