If there were things you would find helpful if they were more accessible during your Lap Band Journey, to make your life easier what would it be and why?

It could be anything! A specific meal outline, a LapBand friendly gym, ANYTHING!! Lets Hear it!!

How I would love a small, local support group that met weekly to inspire, share and support. Feel so lonely in this journey.

I agree more local and frequent support groups would be nice. In the mean time try buddying up with someone from the boards. The women I have teamed up with happened to find me here.. she had the same doctors and was banded a week before me so we are kinda in the same place. We exchange an e-mail every day.. sometimes it's about needing new underwear since these are not staying up as well.. or the fact that I did good with my food today and journaled.. or that I ate a half a box of cookies for my lunch and now feel like the good year blimp. Just nonsense day to day stuff .. we exchange recipies or things we tried that were gross. she has tuned me on to turkey sausage I have tuned her onto mixing her tuna in cottage cheese instead of mayo.. we have met for lunch once since it's about an hours ride to meet in the middle.. we try and try and meet at the support group every few months... it's nice just to have a sounding board to either cheer you on or kick my fat ass whichever I happen to need that day. She appreciates the stuff someone not on this journey would never get.

More focus on fills. I dont know why so many places are so 'cheap' with fills. These boards are full of stuff about diets, low cal this and that, exercise programs etc....but I had already failed all that, right? With a perfect fill I can forget about all that crap and just lose weight. I dont exercise and I dont eat anything low cal etc!!! So many people on here are still dieting etc and still feeling like a failure if they 'cheat' ...its all in the fill!