If yu are having ANY doubts in your mind......Read this!!!
Getting banded was the best thing I have ever done for myself and my family!!!
What people forget is that the band is just a "TOOL"......YOU have to make it work!!! You MUST follow up REGULARLY with your surgeon. You MUST attend Support Group Meetings. You MUST follow up with the Dietitian when you feel yourself slipping back into old bad habits.
I am the Lap-Band Program Director at my surgeon's office and I'm also a patient. I had the band surgery 2 yrs ago and I am doing fine!!! It never ceases to amaze me and anger me when I see patients who have had the surgery and never come back...and yet they call and say that "the band is not working for me".....that is so wrong! The band is only as good as it's owner!!!
I will tell you right now....if you do not intend to follow up regularly, follow a diet, Exercise, attend the support group meetings, and most importantly, change your eating habits and your lifestyle - DO NOT HAVE THE LAP-BAND SURGERY!!!
It only works as good as YOU make it work!!! Hope that helps! Remember the Triangle....DIET + EXERCISE + SURGERY ..... without one of these you cannot succeed!
If yu are having ANY doubts in your mind......Read this!!!
Getting banded was the best thing I have ever done for myself and my family!!!
What people forget is that the band is just a "TOOL"......YOU have to make it work!!! You MUST follow up REGULARLY with your surgeon. You MUST attend Support Group Meetings. You MUST follow up with the Dietitian when you feel yourself slipping back into old bad habits.
I am the Lap-Band Program Director at my surgeon's office and I'm also a patient. I had the band surgery 2 yrs ago and I am doing fine!!! It never ceases to amaze me and anger me when I see patients who have had the surgery and never come back...and yet they call and say that "the band is not working for me".....that is so wrong! The band is only as good as it's owner!!!
I will tell you right now....if you do not intend to follow up regularly, follow a diet, Exercise, attend the support group meetings, and most importantly, change your eating habits and your lifestyle - DO NOT HAVE THE LAP-BAND SURGERY!!!
It only works as good as YOU make it work!!! Hope that helps! Remember the Triangle....DIET + EXERCISE + SURGERY ..... without one of these you cannot succeed!
Nancy
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