Hi everyone

I have been reading here for a couple weeks and I think it is Amazing how supportive you all are. The things I need to know are:

- understood we must follow a diet but does that mean no more chocolate or wine ever again???

Sounds crazy but I'm an obese lady and would love to have a tool to help me but I seriously never want to have that last taste of sweets!

I am active but hypothorid so the weight is going no where! I'm thinking lap band may be a great tool to help with portions and the like but after reading... I'm thinking no one here enjoys

A treat every now and then.... Good if you can do without... Great actually! But I simply don't know a life without a sweet treat at night! Hence my obesity!

Any and all advice... I would love to change but what you all have accomplished seems such a dream to me!

I must say that I didn't know a life where date night for me and the Mr. didn't involve going to a restraint , eating delicious often cheesy greasy food until we were stuffed and going home and passing out because we were to fat and tired to do anything else. I eat chocolate sometimes . I drink a glass of wine occasionally. The only thing I feel deprived of is all the years that I spent fat and embarresed of my body. The only thing I regret is trying all the other diets pills and fads before sucking it up and doing the lap band.

Being banded was one of the best decisions I have ever made for myself! Myself!!!!! This is a choice that you must make for you! Yes, you eat very little; but you feel full. This will only work if you use the tool as it was meant to be used. You can have a treat, a glass of wine, or some I've cream. You just have to be smart about it and not go overboard. But everything you go through with the band is worth it when you go from

a size 22W to a 6... And by the way... a size 6 is really small!!!

Ice cream....

its pretty simple. you can eat (whatever you want) just in smaller amounts. its up to you if you eat high fat foods or make healthier choices.

remember, eating junk and high fat/high calorie foods is what made most people get (overweight) and need surgery. so just having the surgery wont help you 100%. you got to change what you eat also.

I allow myself 2 alcohol beverages a week but it's usually only 1. Alcohol reduces your inhibitions and can lead to binging. Hershey's and Dove make these small dark chocolate bites that have about 40 calories each and I have one every night.

tmf

I have a little something sweet almost every night- a pudding, some kettle corn, etc- logged and accounted for in my calories. And on Sunday I allow myself a bowl of ice cream.

I have lost almost 70 lbs in 6 months, so this is definitely a great tool if you're dedicated. I track all my calories and I exercise an hour for at least 5 days a week, and usually six. So it's not all eating sweets, I have definitely modified my behavior and eat much less than I used to!! And I don't crave the sweets like I used to and I really watch what I eat. I am so much happier that I was almost 70 lbs heavier.

Good luck!!

Nicki

22 to a 6. You my friend are my inspiration! A six is tiny!

Hi everyone

I have been reading here for a couple weeks and I think it is Amazing how supportive you all are. The things I need to know are:

- understood we must follow a diet but does that mean no more chocolate or wine ever again???

Sounds crazy but I'm an obese lady and would love to have a tool to help me but I seriously never want to have that last taste of sweets!

I am active but hypothorid so the weight is going no where! I'm thinking lap band may be a great tool to help with portions and the like but after reading... I'm thinking no one here enjoys

A treat every now and then.... Good if you can do without... Great actually! But I simply don't know a life without a sweet treat at night! Hence my obesity!

Any and all advice... I would love to change but what you all have accomplished seems such a dream to me!

Last week I went insane. I guess because i had my period, but quite simply i lost my mind and ate a whole bag of popcorn (slider-city for me!!) as well as 2 snickers and Mexican food (chips!) twice and drank whiskey at least 3 nights... Somehow miraculously I still lost 4lbs in the last 2 weeks.

Don't get me wrong, you simply cannot do that on a regular basis and still lose weight. But you can still be human, and you can still have insanity. And if you're good for the most part, you will lose weight.

(for the record I do still have chocolate sometimes, but I don't seem to really want it or need it anymore. In fact, other than last week, I can't remember the last time I had some, and I have a 4yo daughter!)

(oh wait, not true, I got attacked by a bag of Hershey's chocolate chips not too long ago when my daughter wanted to make chocolate covered strawberries. Note to self, if you keep an "extra" bag of Hershey's chocolate chips in the house "just in case", at least acknowledge that it's just in case you want to eat it, not just in case you want to bake...)