Did anyone postpone their Lap Band surgery after they went through everything (testing, pre op diet, etc) to try a healthy eating lifestyle (diet lol) one last time?

I didn't and I will tell you why. I knew I could follow a diet...I had done it numerous times before. What I couldn't do was stick with it very well or if I did I would gain it all back only to get back on the dieting merry go round. I was banded so I would have a permanant tool to keep the weight off. So far it's working like I thought it would.

I am it saying that's what you should do.... I just wanted to give you my story... Best of luck in your decision.

Ditto Floridays. I can take the weight off but keeping it off us a different story so that is why I went ahead with the band.

I thought that was the purpose of the band..for us that couldn't keep it off because we were hungry all the time not because we didn't have will power it's a medical reason as I see it.

I have been fat since I was very young, I am 57 years old now. For me to even consider WLS was an admission of total defeat in being able to do it any other way, so going back simply wasn't an option.

sure i could lose weight without the band

but i always gained it back...by doing all the wrong things..

this last time i got myself into a pickle at the highest weight ever..

and was having trouble walking and if i didnt get help, they'd have

to cut me out of the house...that is why i went through with the band..

to save my life.

Lost more weight on my own than I ever have weighed in my life. I gained every bit of it back. Lap Band was a lifestyle change commitment for me. I wanted to change!