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I go for an informational meeting about lap band on July 28th. I am excited but cautious. I weigh 230 and would like to lose 100 lbs. Can I do that with the lap band? I think I can handle giving up the food but what if it doesn't work?

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All you need to do is read this forum to know - yes it works and yes 100 pounds is doable. If you're willing to do the work, and it certainly sounds like you are! Yea for you!!!smiley-happy014.gif

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I also weigh 230 pounds. I have started my 6 month program. I have 2 more doc visits to go. Yes, the band works. I have seen people that have been very successful with it.

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I also weigh 230 pounds. I have started my 6 month program. I have 2 more doc visits to go. Yes, the band works. I have seen people that have been very successful wit

I hate to be stupid but what is the 6 month program? I am very new at this. I go for more information on the 28th. Other than that, I haven't done anything.

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I hate to be stupid but what is the 6 month program? I am very new at this. I go for more information on the 28th. Other than that, I haven't done anything.

Please you are not stupid. This is the room to learn things that you need to know. The 6 week program is a diet or should I say a way to learn to eat right.

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Thanks Larry! That is awesome!

I appreciate the help with the questions. I am so glad I found this forum!

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Hi there!

I'm also doing my beginning stages of finding out about Lap-Band. I'm looking into go to a seminar next week. I looked on the Lap-Band site to look up surgeons in my area and looked into their practice as well. That was my first place and then this was my second. It's a good idea to look into what your insurance covers (if you're not a self pay) and what the dr. requires because some have you go on a pre-op diet and you may have to have several years worth of dr.'s visit records to record your weight over time. I think my insurance is going to require a six month "diet" program, which is fine but I wish I was on a faster track to surgery. But I also decided a long time ago I was ready to change my life in general, being more fit and eating better. I've always struggled with my weight so there was a long time that I threw my food up, I've done all the diet pills and nothing has really helped, even adding in pretty strenuous exercise. I'm 25 and I just don't want to live my life so unhappy anymore.

But read on this site & you'll find a lot of info, the pre-op diet that most have to go on that is nothing but liquids/protein shakes is pretty scary, along with the all liquid for the few weeks after so it really gives you a lot to think about.

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      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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