because...............

Spydr post about too much researching freaking us out really hit home. So if all you people who are already banded would complete the above sentence it would be really really encouraging!

My band is great and has changed my life because now I have brakes, which I couldn't find before, and can stop eating, regardless of "why" I want to eat.

My band is great and has changed my life because now I have hope.

If I spend some days or weeks even, of being "not so good" a bandster, I can still keep my weight within a 3-4 pound range. When I decide to watch my intake a bit more closely...(ie: diet)...I can actually do it! I no longer feel deprived on 1200 calories, it's plenty!, and while my weight loss is slow, it's headed down, down down. I love my band. It makes me a success!!!! Before, I felt like a big fat loser.

My band is great and has changed my life .......

because............... I no longer need my high blood pressure or diabetes medications. I have more energy and I have more choices for clothing shopping...and I still have more to lose.

My band is great and has changed my life.....

because it allows me to feel in control for the first time in my life of what I put in my mouth. It has allowed me to feel that I can beat this fat. It allows me to feel that I CAN do this!

My band is great and has changed my life.....

It has helped me become who I really am. I was a whole different person attitude-wise before my wonderful new best friend LB (Lapband) and I met. Now me and LB make a great team and forces me to stop eating, I am a food addict and LB has changed my life for the better. I feel better and I feel better about myself, I have self-esteem now that was absent before. I am so much happer after LB has helped me lose 140 pounds. I even had a slip and had to have revision surgery and did not even think twice about having it replaced. I want to encoarage anyone who is first at an unhealthy weight like I was or just totally miserable with themselves to consider getting it done. The Lord has blessed me to have it done and I am very thankful. I could talk all night about all the little things that have gotten better in my life but I don't have time to list them here and you all would be asleep before I finished.

So yes, I am a huge band fan!

My band is great and has changed my life by being patient while I struggle with old emotional wounds. It has allowed me the freedom of choice and let me know it's okay that I am not perfect. It has given me back my life and in addition a much brighter future! If something happened to cause me to lose it at any time, some how some way, I would do it all over again. I never want to be without it, it has become my best friend and allowed me to love myself in a way I never could before.

Cindy

My band is great and changed my life because it has led me this forum where i have been able to share in and share with the nicest, wisest and most caring group of people I have ever met--or not met.

Really, even when I don't have time to log on it encourages and supports me to know you all are here!

because

i do not take anymore meds to have menstruation,

i don't snorring anymore

i don't have reflux in stomach anymore

i have HOPE for 1st time in my life

because...............

I now have HOPE !!!

because.........

There's too much to say here! I now have hope that one day I'll be under 200 pounds, I can now play on the floor with my son, I no longer worry about not being around to see my grandchildren, I feel better about myself emotionally & physically, I'm no longer standoffish with people due to my excessive weight, and I could go on forever.

It's given me a new life already!

Hope faith a better life peace tranquility a light at the end of the tunnel happiness

I am free of the food monster.

Cheri

My band is great and has changed my life .......

I am happy EVERY day, not just once in a while. My back and hips dont hurt anymore. I have my sex drive back (THANK YOU GOD!!).

and one huge NSV.....My very first love has been overheard talking lately about how he should have married me, and that I was the "best he ever had" (wonder what that means???, I'll take it as me being the best person he was ever in a relationship with) I cant even begin to describe how GOOD it feels to know that he has finally admitted that he SCREWED UP.

All good things happen for a reason though, I wouldn't have met my wonderful husband and had my 4 beautiful babies.

This band has made the real "ME" come back to life!!!

My band is great and has changed my life...because I am starting to feel like myself again and my self-esteem has been recharged! The 'sexy' factor is starting to come back too! My husband loved me no matter what but I love the feeling that I feel when he tells me that he can see the weight loss in my legs and my waist and how it feels when he holds me is out of this world!

My band is great and has changed my life... because for the first time ever I'm meeting my weight loss goals. It no longer feels like a hopeless endeavor. Now, losing weight feels inevitable instead of insurmountable. I now look forward to seeing people because I know I'll be complimented instead of getting looks of pity. I love my band.