Hi! My name is Brandy and I am new to the site. I'm 15 days from getting my band and I am SUPER excited!!

I'm 19 days away, very excited!! But also a nervous wreck! Im scared if surgery in general but I know afterwords it will be worth it! Good luck!

You'll both do great . I'm 9 days post op and happy as a clam!

Thanks for the support! Glad to hear you are doing well post op . I had a set back today and well I'm pretty upset to say the least. My husband and I started our journey toward getting banded about a year ago, we have been threw the entire process together and it has made for a wonderful built in support system. Today we went to meet our surgeon for the first time, as we have been dealing with "his people" for an entire year. I've already lost 25(starting weight: 475 current weight:450) since we began our journey and my husband has lost 35 lbs. We went in the surgeons office together, he reviewed my file first and said I was a "wonderful canadate for the surgery" and he believed I "would do very well with the band" only to follow it with "I am not comfortable doing your surgery at this time, as your BMI is just too high" (BMI currently 60 Starting BMI was 65). As I sat there in tears he reviewed my husbands file and gave it the stamp of approval. After convincing my husband to go ahead with his surgery, despite me not having mine anytime soon, they set his surgery date for next week.

I am so excited and happy for my husband, but at the same time I am simply devastated that my surgery is postponed indefinitely. I have always had problems losing weight, which is EXACTLY why I was pursuing the band in the first place. It has taken me almost a year to lose the 25 pounds I've lost so far and now I'm expected to lose 25 more before my surgeon "feels comfortable" doing my surgery? Will that take ANOTHER year? If just plain "dieting " worked well for me I wouldn't have sought you out--- THATS what I wanted to say to him....

i am also one of the bigger banders... i had my surgery 2 months ago and my starting weight was 400 when i had to go on the pre op diet 2 weeks prior i lost like 20 lbs... that could happen for you too ... just keep trying and stick to it your hard work will pay off... it is not easy to lose weight but just keep doing what you're doing.. a lot of times if you gain weight the insurance won't cover the surgery and your sergeon won't do it either hang in there

The 25lbs may be easier since your husband is having the surgery go on the protein shakes with him since that will be pretty much all he will have for the next couple of weeks or so - I lost 10 lbs on the protein shake diet PRIOR TO SURGERY -which I was on for 9 days- Maybe if you do protein shakes only (I drank them 3-4 xs a day) for a couple of weeks this will jump start your system and you could possibly have the surgery within the next month or so

Good luck keep us posted