Ok I have been lingering on here for months now and I think I have it narrowed down to either Dr A Rodriguez in Monterey or Dr Kuri. I have heard good things about both. But would love to hear if anyone has anything to add about either.

Anyway my question is after reading and reading (and then reading some more even in my sleep I go from feeling extremely ready to wondering if this is the right answer. I like most people with wieght problems love food, (so much I even married a Chef) I have tried every diet and diet pill and have struggled with my wieght for over the past 14 years, yes I can lose wieght but then with in a year it is back along with an exta 10-15lb more. I am at the point that I am just tierd of playing the game of being obsessed with starting another Monday with another diet and sinking further and further out of my childrens lives because I am embarresed of my wieght. My worry is so many people on here stress that you have to change your way of thinking and eating (which I have done with every diet) or it won't work for you. I know this and accept this but my fear is just as it has in the past that it will fail . I know that sounds immature but I don't understand how the band can do what years of dieting couldn't do. Isn't your mind the same as it was the night before when you were craming in that last meal?

I would love to hear real open thoughts on this and hope I don't get slammed for it.

Thanks for letting me ramble.

Sara

Good luck with whomever you decide on. It will be a life changing event no matter who does it. It was the best thing I've ever done for myself in my life. I'm just so sorry Dr. Sanchez can't do them for anyone now. We have lost a wonderful, wonderful surgery with the death of him. I'm having a real hard time getting over this.

My worry is so many people on here stress that you have to change your way of thinking and eating (which I have done with every diet) or it won't work for you. I know this and accept this but my fear is just as it has in the past that it will fail .

Sara

Hi Sara - sounds like you are asking the right questions and really thinking about this.

I thought the same way, wondering how the band was going to help me make all those changes I hadn't been able to in over 20 years. It helped that I got to watch DH, and know that something mysterious happened for him.

What I realized this week is that I've known for a long time what I should be eating, and all the tricks to accomplish that, but I just couldn't do it for long. I could lose weight, but I'd struggle constantly, and it would take over my life, wondering what to eat, kicking myself when I didn't do what I had planned, then getting depressed and giving up.

Granted, I'm still new to the band, but now I feel like I have a tool that allows me to do all that stuff I knew I was supposed to. I don't think about food all the time. I still get tempted, but it's so much easier to say no. And when I do have a treat, it's one treat, then back to eating well. It doesn't become an excuse to give up and gorge for a month.

I read once that having a band was like being given a hammer to drive nails when you'd trying to use Jello for so long.

I totally agree with Lisah.

I basically started a diet about 52 times a year (every Monday). Of course, I know what I should and shouldn't be eating. I've always said I could write a best selling diet book, I just couldn't be on the cover, ha ha!

Seriously, the band has given me the opportunity to put my meals, food, hunger, and eating on the back burner. I eat healthier and smaller portions,MOST of the time. I slip up but I don't have the insatiable hunger gnawing at me all the time like I used to when I dieted.

I am new to this but at 7 weeks I feel like I could live my life like this.

Also, you are right, the band does not do what years of dieting couldn't do, but it helps IMMENSELY!!!!

I am new to this but at 7 weeks I feel like I could live my life like this.

That sums it up perfectly.