I am sitting at the hospital waiting for the band removal. It has been in for two years and I have lost all the weight. It has been a fantastic experience to be really slim and I am just wondering if there are any people out there who had the band removed and stayed slim.

Why is it being removed? I assume you have had problems.

But you have learned good eating habits, you are motivated to stay slim, my very best wishes!

Obviously it can be done! But in honesty, everyone I know who has had it removed has regained.

Without the band, we are back into the category of those who diet without surgery; statistics show that only 5% keep the weight off.

Work hard, monitor yourself and you can do it! Be one of the 5%.

Edited May 11, 201511 yr by KateP

I'd also like to know why it's being removed? As someone who had my band repositioned a week ago as it had Slipped. I toyed with the idea of removal butmcoulnymface the prospect,of,ending up back where I started 7 years ago,,