Hi all,

Just want to share a quick story. I was banded on 8/7. For the last 3 weeks I've been losing a pound here and there but nothing to write home about. I was exercising everyday and following my diet. Incredibly frustrating! I have a very stressful job (social worker for child protection) and my husband and I are adopting our first child who will be born in 8 days. So needless to say, my life had a lot of stress. At work my caseload was getting increasingly stressful so I took off 2 weeks from work before the baby arrives. It's been 1 week since my leave began and I've lost 5 pounds. 2 weeks ago I was struggling to not gain and now I'm down 5 (and exercising 4 days a week not 7). I never before believed the whole "stress makes it harder to lose weight" thing. Let me tell you, I am now a believer!! So if there is anyone out there that can relate to this story, please take the time to take care of yourself...especially after a life changing surgery. Thanks for reading

During stress your body creates cortisol the very culprit that increase insulin resulting in excessive storage of fat.

To decrease cortisol destressing is necessary. Some do yoga, some take a break, some just breeeeeeathe..

Now that you have seen stress first hand and how it effects wl I hope you can keep at away.

Congrats on the new baby and welcome to parenthood (oh... I guess the last comment is no longer valid SNICKER)

Take good care of yourself -- that exercise will definitely help with the stress. And just think, you'll have a baby to push around in a carriage pretty soon! So happy for you. I think I mentioned on another thread that I am adopted myself and we have an adopted child. Best wishes for the beautiful new family you are making!

Hi Erin,

Wonderful news, and I totally can relate to the stress and weight issue. That is MY issue also. Always under some kind of stress here, and it just beats me up zaps my energy to the point that I think my body just shuts down and conserves resource including the fat I want to get rid of.

Congratulations to you and your family! Keep up the good work the world needs people like you.

Does anyone think that when they r under a lot of stress their band gets tighter? I have had a very stressful year and a half, it is finally starting to calm down. I have days where I can eat until full and be fine other days I cannot eat even the smallest amount of food and throw up a lot.

Yes I agree! I've mentioned this to my doctor before and he didn't really have an answer. When I'm frustrated or really upset my band seems tighter.