It's been a year now, and I'm wondering how everyone is doing. Have we all met most of our goals?

It's been up and down for me. My restriction is all or nothing, and there doesn't seem to be any reason for it. I'm still learning though.

Sharon

One year down and I still love my band. I'd like to have lost about 15 more lbs during the first year but I am happy so far. I haven't been exercising yet, just some walking and such. So, year 2 is all about the exercise. I love my band and am getting another fill tomorrow and I can't wait. Restriction is the best. Hope everyone is doing well and wish everyone good luck.

Hello Fellow March Bandsters, I have to admit that I don't get on LBT nearly as much due to the new site layout. However, I do miss the comradery. It is so hard to believe it has been a year. It has been full of ups and downs for me, but the ups outweigh the downs, Thank God. I have lost 70lbs and originally wanted to lose 77lbs. I would still be obese and would like to lose about 20 more lbs. I also hope to have a tummy tuck in late summer. It seems so weird, I have never been this size in my adult life. It is taking some getting use to, but I love it. I wish I could have done it 10 years ago. If my insurance company had not decided to do this trial of 100 WLS for 3 years I still would not have been able to afford to do it. I also feel that I need to do well so that if those of us in the trial do well, it will be opened up for state employees in MS.

I guess all of us March Bandsters are doing so well that we're too busy to get on LBT anymore! That's good news

Sharon

Hello and yes we made it thru 1 year, I have lost 55 lbs and very excited, would have loved to be down more but I am still excited. I have been fluctuating between 188-191 for 3 months I need a fill really bad. I will be getting my 4th fill on March 29th and it is really needed because my cravings are back and I am eating way to much also thinking about food all the time...that is a sure sign for me. Congratulations to all of us for great success!

I was banded a year ago March 23rd and I am down 112 pounds! (From 264 to 152.) I have gone from a size 18/20 to a size 8!

I crave and want food normally, but am full much quicker. My restriction seems to go from not enough to too much from day-to-day. It is still a learning process as to how to eat successfully every time. Every time I think I want to call and get an unfill because I can hardly eat, I have a day where I feel like a bottomless pit.

Also, I am now 10 weeks pregnant with baby #2!!!

I am down 70lbs. and embarrassingly enough, without exercise. The first six fills I lost nothing but finally got my band in the place it needs to be. I'm surprised everyone seems to be dealing with the same issues as myself. Usually the first half of the week I feel like my band may have broke because I could eat tons then the latter half I'm basically on liquids. Funny thing is my friend asked what exactly it was that I ate to feel the band was broke and I told her I could eat half a chicken breast and almost a full piece of pizza...the realization is when I assume I'm "pigging out" it's still not that much food.

The only tricky part is understanding when I can eat and I can't. If my band is super tight for 4 days I know I could have a serving of ice cream or a small slurpee and be ok but when I actually am eating I have to check myself and be like "marisa why are you at 7-11 getting a slurpee when you actually ate a full meal today". So far I've caught myself and ate accordingly.

Since Thanksgiving I feel like this band is truly working and I'm working with it. Couldn't be happier.

Side note: I had dinner with a man that was banded 10 years earlier, he said his band no longer works. As he proceeded to tell me his issues I sat there and watched him take and entire rack of ribs and cut them into little pieces and pour an obscene amount of ketchup to make a Soup like meal. At that moment I couldn't have been happier...after 10 years it wasn't his band that gave up....it was him!!!