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How Have You Changed Since Lap Band Surgery?

I think I have changed after my surgery in the area of believing in myself before I lost hope and just ate and ate and stop caring (so the bigger I got)

now I care because I believe in me now.

what about you?

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It's kinda weird for me. At my heaviest I was real confident and really didn't care what people thought about how I looked. Now I'm always covered up because of how much attention I'm getting because of my weight loss.

My personality hasn't changed. I'm still very sarcastic and immature at times around close friends but I noticed I'm distant around a lot of people.

I'm worried about that happening to me too. I'm already distant at times. I would hate for that to get worse!

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so 4 months out for me now (still hard to believe its been that long already)...so what has changed (besides scale going down and sizes getting smaller......

my attitude

my ability to walk (more/farther)

i am more positive and more in control

able to see through the BS better (fat glasses??)

but i like me now........and from me that is huge.

so to speak.

My confidence has changed. I hold my head up when I walk, look people in the eyes and say hello. I like looking in the mirror. I really like me!

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