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I had my band removed in 2011 gained all my weight back and plus. Was sleeved on 6/25/15. My weight loss seems slow to me and I also feel I can probably eat more then I should. I read dramatic weight loss of others and find my loss doesn't compare. I don't care I'm headed in the right direction. I think there are too many variables. I find I can eat everything just a lot less. SW 261, CW 239. HW 298 in 11/14 when I started 6 month supervised diet. Before that 309 was my very highest weight. So I'm just going to keep going wherever this takes me.

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Help familia? Im lilly married and have 4 children & 36yrs young from houston.

I'm stalled for a month.

So grateful to Finally I found my community... After 3 months and one month of a plateau I've lost 20lbs. My revision was

July 9, 2015 and I started at 230 before my lap and lost 60lbs then gained got coroded port then was sleeved. I'm 209.6 for a full month after sleeve. What are some suggestions family?? I went 5 days ago to have my hormones checked. Hypothyroidism so I take levithyroxine & Xanax. They both have something to do w neurotransmitters and hypothalamus.

And I'm thinking with the sluggishness of thyroids if I get my hormones in check I'll have that energy and my metabolism motor will start to work correctly...

Any thoughts facts experiences?

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As an update I have now lost 22 pounds in a little over 3 months. This was faster than my band but I had really hoped to have avg 10 lbs a month. I am also training for a half marathon so I've been working out like a champ. I lost most of it on the first 6 weeks and have only lost 2 lbs the last month. I haven't been great about watching what I eat. I make decent choices but need to be better. About to do a 2 week detox through lifetime fitness. Will update later with progress.

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I'm still considering band to sleeve revision. I don't mind losing more slowly as long as I lose. I've been on a roller coaster ride with my band for the last several months. I had 6cc removed from the band which put me to just under 3cc in. I gained 7 pounds. I've been re-filled back 5.5 cc as of a week ago. I have not lost one pound. I think I need more Protein maybe? I know I'm not getting enough for the last few weeks. I don't know.

I enjoyed really great success over the summer when I lost nearly 20lbs - the most I had lost with the band since I got it in 2009. Then I started having issues and the rest you basically know. I think once you have a large amount of Fluid out of the band it's never the same? It seems that way to me. I do have restriction now, but...I'm just not sure what's going on with this thing.

I had decided I needed that "hard stop" the band gives me, but It's not giving me that now. So maybe I'd be better off with the sleeve. I just don't know anymore.

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I lost 115 pounds during the first year that I had the band. Unfortunately, I slowly started gaining the weight back and complications eventually forced me to have the band emptied (and I gained all of my weight back).

On November 20th I will be having the band to sleeve revision surgery. I would LOVE to have the same weight loss during the first year as I did with the band, but I am thinking it will be slower this time around. I would still be happy with 1 pound a week though because at least that would have me headed in the right direction.

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