Hello I am looking for anyone who has gotten the lapband to loose 50 pounds, I am 5'5 weight 204 pounds My BMI is a 33.9

I have been over weight for the past 7 years, After a whole 1 1/2 year (16 months) I finally got approve, I was denied the first time, then the 2nd time I got approve, I am excited and bless, however I feel so confused

dont have no support, all my family is against me getting the lapband , telling me I am crazy, to get that just to loose 50 pounds, I have

excercise, eating healty, diet pills and once I get tired of dieting it all comes back, I LOVE food, I love to cook for my family, love having family over and bbq, and love to go out for dinner with my family, however It just freaks me out, that you can have nothing, after you get the band, It freaks me out, to know I have to chew chew and chew everything so it will go down one thing i hate is puking food, , I love steak I have heard you can even have that! or Pasta or pizza, I also love to drink beer, dont know just so confused

IF ANYONE OUT THERE COULD PLEASE GIVE ME AND ADVICE

Thanks

On 5'1 I was 205lb,I for the band and got the same reaction as u. My goal is to be 150lbs,my doctors goal is for me to be 110-120,not gonna happend,however,I haven't quite got there yet. I don't regret it,its jus a slow process

I had a bit more to lose at nearly 200 lbs and 5'3. Lost a bit over 30 lbs now and when people ask me what I have done they always say but you weren't that heavy. It is a personal choice and one that I did not take lightly as I knew how the extra weight was effecting me in my everyday life for all my adult life. Shying away from going out with friends, always feeling tired, unhappy every time I looked in the mirror. Many of the things that I enjoy and love in life all gone because of the excess weight. In the end, I don't really care if people judge me for having surgery because it isn't their life to live. It is mentally exhausting to constantly be in a battle with weight. You have to do what is best for you. So far, I have never vomitted and eat pretty much all types of food without a problem. It does take work but the work it takes (in my experience) is far less than any other so called "diet" I have ever tried and I have tried them all it think. Diets are torture to me, every minute of the day. This does not feel like a diet at all.

I have so glad to read ur post:) I am just starting my journey and I am so excited:) I'm 5'2" 201 and have struggled for 11 years:)

So good to read all the 'low BMI' posts! I have always been the chunky one in my family and the one to struggle with weight. I am only 4'10" and I weigh 170, a BMI of almost 36! Although I am in perfect health now, I had gestational diabetes with both my pregnancies, diabetes runs in my family, and I saw my grandmother pass from diabetes. I DO NOT want to reach that point. So I know doing Lap band will hopefully keep me from getting there. I have my surgery scheduled for the 28th and am getting nervous. But I have all my family and a couple of friends supporting my decision, and willing to help with my journey. Good luck to everyone else~

Sorry, I haven't been on in a while. I was banded on 11/17/11, my goal is to have my BMI slightly below 25. I weighed myself this morning and I am 161. I also changed my goal to 141 so that would be a 50 pond weight lost. I am more than half way to my goal. Looking forward to seeing the scale once I hit under 160. The weight lost has been slow but that is my preference, more likely to keep it off.

I had a bit more to lose at nearly 200 lbs and 5'3. Lost a bit over 30 lbs now and when people ask me what I have done they always say but you weren't that heavy. It is a personal choice and one that I did not take lightly as I knew how the extra weight was effecting me in my everyday life for all my adult life. Shying away from going out with friends' date=' always feeling tired, unhappy every time I looked in the mirror. Many of the things that I enjoy and love in life all gone because of the excess weight. In the end, I don't really care if people judge me for having surgery because it isn't their life to live. It is mentally exhausting to constantly be in a battle with weight. You have to do what is best for you. So far, I have never vomitted and eat pretty much all types of food without a problem. It does take work but the work it takes (in my experience) is far less than any other so called "diet" I have ever tried and I have tried them all it think. Diets are torture to me, every minute of the day. This does not feel like a diet at all.[/quote']

Wow! Thank you for your post. I am paying for LB privately and my surgery is this Wednesday. I'm really excited to hear your success story. I too have tried EVERY DIET known to man and gained it back. I'm needing to lose 50 lbs and felt I was being too extreme about resorting to surgery. Still haven't told anyone other than my husband. Please pray for me.

I will surely keep you in my prayers. The weight lost is slow but steady about 4-5 pounds a month for me. I am 147 this morning, can't believe I am wearing a size 4.....I didn't do any special kind of diet, I still eat whatever I want, the only difference is the amount I am able to eat. Maybe if I would have changed my diet, I would have lost the weight quicker. If I had the ability to do that.....I probably wouldn't have needed the band. Best of luck and wishes to you on Wed. P.S. Replacing clothes is the hard thing to do.

Oh I am glad I found this thread! I have 50 to 60 pounds to lose, and the first couple of times I mentioned the band I got "but you're not big enough" -- or "wow that's expensive why don't you just........join-a-gym, eat-less, try-(insert diet name here), walk-more, get-hypnotized, hire-a-trainer, learn-to-love-yourself" yada yada yada yada.

So, I am doing it, but not telling anyone except my husband. Sadly, I have tried almost every one of those things people keep telling me I should try, and then some. I have been 50 to 60 pounds overweight for 15 years, and I feel it in every joint and lump and bump in my body. I am in my high (very high) forties, and I am really afraid if I don't do something drastic I will limp into old age overweight, unhappy and arthritic with messed up blood sugar and a bad heart (meet my family).

The most weight I have ever lost (and kept off) is about twenty pounds for the last three years --- I switched to low fat vegetarian food for about 90% of the time and that finally put the scale from 220 to 200. My GP thinks my diet is excellent, I just eat too much of it. Uh ya, I eat too much of EVERYTHING, thus the BMI He originally suggested I eat less. (Oh thanks, ten years of medical school and that's what he comes up with?) If I could eat less, I would be thin, ya think?

I was terrified at first, now I am plain and simple excited and impatient. I won't have to have a strict pre-op diet apparently, and have been assured that the post-op isn't so terrifying either.

Bring it on.

Oh I am glad I found this thread! I have 50 to 60 pounds to lose' date=' and the first couple of times I mentioned the band I got "but you're not big enough" -- or "wow that's expensive why don't you just........join-a-gym, eat-less, try-(insert diet name here), walk-more, get-hypnotized, hire-a-trainer, learn-to-love-yourself" yada yada yada yada.

So, I am doing it, but not telling anyone except my husband. Sadly, I have tried almost every one of those things people keep telling me I should try, and then some. I have been 50 to 60 pounds overweight for 15 years, and I feel it in every joint and lump and bump in my body. I am in my high (very high) forties, and I am really afraid if I don't do something drastic I will limp into old age overweight, unhappy and arthritic with messed up blood sugar and a bad heart (meet my family).

The most weight I have ever lost (and kept off) is about twenty pounds for the last three years --- I switched to low fat vegetarian food for about 90% of the time and that finally put the scale from 220 to 200. My GP thinks my diet is excellent, I just eat too much of it. Uh ya, I eat too much of EVERYTHING, thus the BMI He originally suggested I eat less. (Oh thanks, ten years of medical school and that's what he comes up with?) If I could eat less, I would be thin, ya think?

I was terrified at first, now I am plain and simple excited and impatient. I won't have to have a strict pre-op diet apparently, and have been assured that the post-op isn't so terrifying either.

Bring it on. [/quote']

Oh wow! You just told me my own story. Isn't it crazy that we think we are alone in this struggle. I'm the same as you- 40 something, healthy, vegetarian, struggled all my life, just eat too much even though I eat good food ( for the most part-Italian food exception). I'm getting the band this Wednesday. Excited and scared. Planning my "last supper" with family tonight. Please pray this will be my last struggle. God bless.

I will surely keep you in my prayers. The weight lost is slow but steady about 4-5 pounds a month for me. I am 147 this morning' date=' can't believe I am wearing a size 4.....I didn't do any special kind of diet, I still eat whatever I want, the only difference is the amount I am able to eat. Maybe if I would have changed my diet, I would have lost the weight quicker. If I had the ability to do that.....I probably wouldn't have needed the band. Best of luck and wishes to you on Wed. P.S. Replacing clothes is the hard thing to do.[/quote']

Thank you so much. What a blessing to find such an amazing support group. I'm not an blogger, tweeter or Facebooker ( though I have accounts). It's wonderful to know I can reach out.

So good to read all the 'low BMI' posts! I have always been the chunky one in my family and the one to struggle with weight. I am only 4'10" and I weigh 170' date=' a BMI of almost 36! Although I am in perfect health now, I had gestational diabetes with both my pregnancies, diabetes runs in my family, and I saw my grandmother pass from diabetes. I DO NOT want to reach that point. So I know doing Lap band will hopefully keep me from getting there. I have my surgery scheduled for the 28th and am getting nervous. But I have all my family and a couple of friends supporting my decision, and willing to help with my journey. Good luck to everyone else~[/quote']

I'm interested to know how you are doing after your band? I'm getting mine this Wednesday. Nervousness. Hoping to hear your a success story.

Well I 'only' had to lose 70 to get to normal BMI so of course I had to self pay. I consider myself a low BMIer. I can eat anything or drink anything and I dont chew obsessively...BUT...I can only eat about a half a cup of anything at a time. My husband teases me that I eat so little I am a very cheap date! I can order a regular meal in a restaurant (come'on' date=' girls we all know those portions are for an NFL linebacker, but we know we have eaten them!) and take the rest home and live on it for days!

I LOVE my band because at the right fill level it absolutely prevents me from overeating. I have never dieted, counted calories, eaten diet food or low fat food, or exercised since I had the band, Hell, I had done all that many times before and failed or should I say succeeded in getting fatter everytime i lost then regained the weight?!

I definitely eat and am more than happy with tiny portions but people do notice it when I eat with other people and I just had to get over that feeling of being judged. I didnt tell anyone except immediate fam that I am banded so I think my friends who see how little I eat think I am starving myself and maybe they even think I am judging them for eating the whole restaurant meal. I used to feel bad about that and would even overeat to the point of having to yak to try to cover how little I would eat...I dont do that any more I just dont care what people think! Getting to that point was probably the hardest thing about having the band. I went from a size 16 jeans to a size 6...nuff said!

Juicy, good luck...thanks for friending me and dont listen to people who say its about following the rules and living at the gym (if we could do that...) its all about restriction...fight till you get your RIGHT level of restriction!! After that, its a (tiny) piece of cake![/quote']

Thanks for your post. I'm 5.4 1/2 207 BMI 35.4 n Im getting banded 11/5. Im refusing to tell anyone because they will say girl if you cut back and excercise you can lose the weight and that is true. May 2011 I started a diet I was 216 lbs by July 2011 I was 180 lbs I was so excited and I was able to keep it off for a while. I was up to 186 then back at 190 then by July 2012 I was 196 so I was back in the rat race the same thing lose n gain it back. My family has health issues so we all love to eat so the lapband is more of a tool to help to get the weight off and keep it off. And not have to worry about the risks factors that most of my family face. My mom had the lapband 3 yrs ago she has gone from a 28 to a 16 she could be smaller but she actually like where she is. She eat what she want but she just eat much slower n is full faster.

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Wow! Thank you for your post. I am paying for LB privately and my surgery is this Wednesday. I'm really excited to hear your success story. I too have tried EVERY DIET known to man and gained it back. I'm needing to lose 50 lbs and felt I was being too extreme about resorting to surgery. Still haven't told anyone other than my husband. Please pray for me.

I'm the same self pay and the only people that know is my hubby 2 best friends n mom. I'm telling my favorite aunt the day of surgery. I'm glad I found this thread a lot of replys to help me with my decision and to share with my hubby.

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I will surely keep you in my prayers. The weight lost is slow but steady about 4-5 pounds a month for me. I am 147 this morning' date=' can't believe I am wearing a size 4.....I didn't do any special kind of diet, I still eat whatever I want, the only difference is the amount I am able to eat. Maybe if I would have changed my diet, I would have lost the weight quicker. If I had the ability to do that.....I probably wouldn't have needed the band. Best of luck and wishes to you on Wed. P.S. Replacing clothes is the hard thing to do.[/quote']

That's what my mom said who had the surgery three years ago to keep buying clothes. How often do u buy clothes? What size were you before? I'm a size 12. I don't think I want to be anything smaller than a 8.

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Oh I am glad I found this thread! I have 50 to 60 pounds to lose' date=' and the first couple of times I mentioned the band I got "but you're not big enough" -- or "wow that's expensive why don't you just........join-a-gym, eat-less, try-(insert diet name here), walk-more, get-hypnotized, hire-a-trainer, learn-to-love-yourself" yada yada yada yada.

So, I am doing it, but not telling anyone except my husband. Sadly, I have tried almost every one of those things people keep telling me I should try, and then some. I have been 50 to 60 pounds overweight for 15 years, and I feel it in every joint and lump and bump in my body. I am in my high (very high) forties, and I am really afraid if I don't do something drastic I will limp into old age overweight, unhappy and arthritic with messed up blood sugar and a bad heart (meet my family).

The most weight I have ever lost (and kept off) is about twenty pounds for the last three years --- I switched to low fat vegetarian food for about 90% of the time and that finally put the scale from 220 to 200. My GP thinks my diet is excellent, I just eat too much of it. Uh ya, I eat too much of EVERYTHING, thus the BMI He originally suggested I eat less. (Oh thanks, ten years of medical school and that's what he comes up with?) If I could eat less, I would be thin, ya think?

I was terrified at first, now I am plain and simple excited and impatient. I won't have to have a strict pre-op diet apparently, and have been assured that the post-op isn't so terrifying either.

Bring it on. [/quote']

When is your surgery date?

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