I was sitting in a hospital lobby this morning while my wife was resting in her room. (She had major back surgery Tuesday.)

Anyways, knowing this hospital does WLS I was looking for patients that was about to go through their surgery. I just wanted to encourage them.

I found a lady, a morbidly obese lady, whose daughter that was having difficulty swallowing after gastric by-pass.

I told her I had a lap band.

Now here is the sad part.

That's when she told me that she had a lap band BUT IT DIDN'T WORK. I wanted to scream at her, WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT DIDN'T WORK!!!!

So, I start questioning her. Why it didn't work??

I asked her, did you exercise?? NO, my knees hurt to much

Did you stop eating greasy, high carb foods??? NO

Did you go to your doctor for follow ups/fills?? NO

I told her the lapband worked, you didn't do the work. You didn't use the tool.

I guess I was very fortunate. Other than throwing up occasionally I've had no problems.

I eat on a small plate, drink my Water and hit the gym 3-4 times a week. I wish I could hit the gym more but I'm home 1 day out of town 2 days with work.