I love the way I feel so energetic and healthy. It has been years since I felt this good.

I love having restriction and never feeling hungry.

I am waiting for both of those things to happen! But then again, I have not been at this as long as you all!

Wow........does no one else have any positives to post? I could list 100s, lol!

i love that my band makes most of my food decisions for me. I wasn't able to do that as well as my band can.

I love the fact that I now eat to live instead of living to eat. (Plus all the rest of the stuff that has been posted so far...energy...wise choices..etc.)

Plus...I now know what physical hunger and satiety feel like. I don't think I ever knew anything but head hunger before, because I never went long enough between eating to know the feeling. Same thing on the fullness end...unless it was 'stuffed like a pig after Thanksgiving', I didn't stop.

I love this thing!!!

I love my band because when I hit my first plateau, I couldn't give up and gain it back!!! I coulda lost it without the band, but I never would have kept it off, the diet would have been over at the first sign of no loosing.

Chico Chula: I was self pay in Mexico, and I am glad to have my band!

I love that I am now "Normal" thanks to my band.

I love that now that I'm loosing weight, I've lowered my blood sugars, as well as my blood pressure. I'm on my way to a healthy ME!:clap2:

I love that food no longer controls me!!!

I love the fact that I can control my hunger now and my day isn't centered on eating. I used to drive down the road looking for the next place to eat but now I just drive for the fun of it.

I love that when I wake up and get on the scale I might have lost a pound. That never happened before - the scale always seemed to stay the same or go up - never down.

I just told my husband today "I love my tool", he said "what are you talking about?". I explained to him, my tool is my band. Anyhow, I love the fact it WON'T let me overeat/binge. Trust me, I tried it a few times, it forces me to stop. I'm learning more and more everyday how to deal with my stress, and binging is not the answer. The band helps keep me on track! Even when I splurged and had 8 girlscout cookies - in the past, my binge would have been the ENTIRE box, and I would have binged for days. The band stopped me from doing that!

What I love about the band is that it gave me hope. I had lost many, many pounds over the years, only to gain every one back plus more. I'd gotten to the point where I just couldn't muster up the motivation to try anymore. The band gave me hope that if I would make that effort again, change how I eat, get more active, and lose the weight, that this time, I will hopefully keep it off. And, I believe it will. Just having it there gives me a sense of peace. I don't have to worry that one wrong step will send me spiralling off the "diet" and on the pathway back to obesity.

Tami