What are your family member's reaction to your decision to get banded or post banded reactions?

My kids want to be supportive but have their own issues as well.

I'm not banded yet, but hopefully I'll get approval soon!:girl_hug:

My mom was so excited for me, she had it done four months later and she was 73 at the time.

When I first started talking about getting the band, my husband was skeptical and worried. He initially said, "No!" I talked him into letting me go to the seminar for it to find out more info. My Mom was visiting at the time, so he insisted she come with. Mom's a very well respected nurse and he trusts her opinion. She too was skeptical when she first heard about it.

After the seminar though, she was impressed with the surgeon and the facts. The whole percentage of diets that don't work thing was a shock to her. Mom of course, knows I've struggled with my weight my whole life. She remembers taking me to stuff like weight watchers when I was 10 and being on diet pills almost all of my teenage years. She also knows that for quite a few years I was bulimic, so she knows what desperation over weight issues can lead to.

She came home from the seminar and told him that she thought it was a good idea. That's all he needed to hear. Since then, the whole family has been mega supportive.

Kind of mixed. DH was banded 2 years ago, so the family is more familar then some with the process. Overall, I get a lot of support and encouragement, but there is also a sense of "well, is this going to work for her?" out there. Since I've tried so many other things and failed.

Well Lisah it looks like you are proving it to them. This is why I haven't told anyone outside of my very closest of family and friends. But my kids and hubby are all for me being banded, I've taken my 16/yr old with to a support meeting and my 20 y/o to a dr visit. I'm now worried hubby will be thinking I should be losing faster ... time will tell.