Hello everyone. I’ve been debating to post or not for quite some time now and I finally decided to get some advice to see if anyone else was having issues with losing weight with their band. I’ve read a ton of your posts and everyone mentions how much weight they have lost and I must admit I feel very discouraged. I had my LAP-BAND®® surgery on July 29. My first fill of 1cc was a month later. After not feeling any restriction at all my doctor finally made my second fill 5cc’s. Total I have 6cc’s in a 9cc band. I do now finally feel some restriction, but I am still not seeing the results it seems everyone else is. My starting weight before surgery was 250lbs and my weight now is currently 244lbs. I exercise daily, walking 1 mile and running 1 mile. My diet consists of 1 cup of carnations (the chocolate milk drink) for breakfast (60 calories), a lean cuisine or turkey sandwich for lunch and a lean cuisine for dinner. I don’t know if I’m just being impatient but I feel like I should have lost more weight by now. Losing this weight is extremely important for my mental health. Unfortunately I’ve let the weight become such an issue to me that I prevent myself from normal social activities. I go to work and go home. That’s it. I’m too embarrassed/ashamed and worried that I might just run into someone that I knew before I put on all this weight. Being that I’m only 23 and I’ve spent the past year practically in hiding I can say I have the worst case of cabin fever. I want to get back out there. I had a healthy life before filled with friends and fun events. Not to mention I keep putting off college. I tell myself that once I lose 20 lbs I’ll go back, but it never seems to happen. If anyone has any advice please feel free to share. I’m having some pretty bad tunnel vision over here, so I guess anything could really help. :thumbup:

Hey sweetie, don't feel discourage you made this choice for you to be better. Your wight will soon all come off. I know that i will not be banded until nov 11th and I have 200 pounds to lose. However what i have found to help me begin my journey is the Lap band Journey site. I love that site i track everything and it's lets me know about my calorie intake and my calories burned. It tracks my mood and gives me insiparational quotes. Also the great thing I personal find about it is you get to write yourself letters and have them delievered to your email account whatever date you choose. i have written myself two letters so far because I know from others experience that i will to at some point be discourage and I need to remember y I picked the lap band and what's it suppose to mean to me. I also know from being a social worker and young because i am 24 years old that not being social because of your weight is very unhealthy and you should maybe meet with a therapist. I am 389 pounds and i started my journey at 403 lbs, the biggest i have ever weighed even with bearing a child I never weighed that much. I actually started my journey for only health reasons and the fact that i got to big to even shop at just plus sizes stores. I never want to be small but a nice size 16 would do me good...then i can shop til I drop with my friends. Who I must say we are all big in some type of way which has helped my self-confidence a lot because we have that I am big and if you don't like it that's your problem attitude only problem is when i hit at least a 120 pounds more then all my friends and we can't shop together it brothers me. Sometimes i will not even let people give me a compliment then it is other times like yesterday where I wore my boots and got my hair done and was looking flyy i enjoy compliments then. I am just saying that i think you might really want to meet with a therapist and join a local support group so you can do peer to peer interation face on. I think it might help! From one young lady to another. DON"T GIVE UP!!!:puke: