I was just thinking in the car earlier about this and thought I would ask you guys to share the list of things that have improved for you since being banded.

Please let us know how long you've been banded, too.

I've been banded since early April and this is my list:

1) I've lost 21# forever

2) I've joined a gym for the first time ever and am loving it!!

3) I've reduced caffeine from 5+ servings per day to 1, maybe 2

4) My recurrent back pain is almost gone completely

5) My plantar faciaitis is almost gone

6) I have way more energy and feel much stronger

7) I move with greater ease

8) I feel sure my bloodwork will be much improved

9) I always have at least 64 oz of Water each day

10) I have reduced my alcohol intake from 6-8 cocktails/week to maybe 3 per month

11) My blood sugars are completely stable (previously hypoglycemic)

12) My salt intake is greatly reduced

13) I have hope

14) I have a bunch of new friends on LBT

15) My sex life has improved

16) I take greater pride in my appearance & self esteem has improved

What about you?

Up. Great thread, keep posting!

Forever I have sent my jeans to be dry cleaned so they wouldn't shrink.

Now I'm washing and drying them with heat so that they WILL shrink and I can get another couple of weeks wear out of them! That's a first!

Ditto TerriDoodle - that is one of the things that has changed. Laundry. I try to shrink everything now!

** I am beginning to CARE about my appearance! I've gotten a new haircut and I am more aware of the clothes I pick out to wear. AND I actually stood in front of a full length mirror in the BUFF this morning and didn't throw up!!!! (Nothing I want to parade at the beach or in a pageant of course)

** I don't get so exhausted quickly.

** I don't need nearly as much sleep.

** I fit in the airplane seat without feeling both thighs rubbing on the sides of the seat!

** My fat neck is going away (being replaced by lines and s potential turkey waddle, but hey, that's what PS is for...)

** My dowager's hump is starting to go down (THANK GOD)

Also a biggie, and it was a surprise to me...going to the doctor, getting on the scale, and NOT HEARING THE CLANK OF THE WEIGHT BEING PUSHED TO THE 200 MARK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me clarify that...I know that technically a dowager's hump is a malformation of the vertebrae due to osteoporosis. However, I am referring to that HUMP of fat that sits at the back of your neck about 4 inches below the base of the skull....that prevents me from wearing anything that doesn't have a collar because it looks so GROSS.

We went camping this weekend and I actually could sit on the toilet in the trailer and NOT have my a$$ touch the walls!!! WOOOO FREAKIN HOOOOOO!!! It was great!!!

Let's see...

I have the best social life I could ever ask for and I'm not tired... I want MORE!

I will have to agree on the sex issue- I am no longer allowing Men to take advantage of me... I am in CONTROL!!!

I am sexy and I know it!

I feel desireable!

I cross my legs and push my boobs out and no longer think about my belly roll as much

I RODE ROLLER COASTERS for the first time in like 10 years and I didn't worry (too much.. it took riding about 3 of them to realize I no longer had to worry)

My friends think I'm hot and they are seriously like models..

I have sooo much confidence I seriously have no idea what to do with it..

I can do PUSH UPS! what>!

I have a trainer and I am addicted to exercise!

Living never felt so good...

anddddd It's only gonna get better with the last 65 pounds! whew I'm gonna one HOT mama!

I would have NEVER felt like this prior to surgery... I just can't keep the guys off me- not that thats a problem

Feelin comfortable in the "regular" bathroom stall vs. the handicap

Tying my shoes with out hyperventilating from lack of oxygen!

Down to two chins:)

Blood pressure stabilized

Free from Diet coke addiction (LOL)

Also a biggie, and it was a surprise to me...going to the doctor, getting on the scale, and NOT HEARING THE CLANK OF THE WEIGHT BEING PUSHED TO THE 200 MARK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Being able to just use that scale...

My boobs are finally bigger than my stomach!!

All of yous on here, my Band Buddies!!

I have lost 50 pounds in 3 months!!

People I know walk right by me, dont recognize me!

After 2 months I went off my Bi-pap breathing machine, hubby says i do NOT snore at all!!

I can FINALLY BREATHE!!!!

Can cross my legs

am off cholesterol pills

off high blood pressure pills

feel good

cannot contain all the energy I have all the time, cant sleep want to get up and go!!

Buying a small size!!! some medium!!

on and on and on PTL!!!!:clap2:

I LOVE this thread !

-I don't wake up exahasted now, I wake up energized !

-I can be weighed at the doctors office, I was over 350, I had to tell them not to bother I was above their scale,that was embarrassing.

-sex just feels more comfortable

-Not to sure if I can fit on a ride yet, to scared to try

I have energy all day ! I used to drag all day long.

-I can fit in a booth more comfortably now

-I have clothes that are too big on me now !

- My double chin is gone !

-I get excited to weight myself, I swear I used to nearly get a panic attack thinking I was going to be weighed !

I haven't even made it through the end of this thread....I'm crying too much to see right now!!

I am SO happy to find it -- I am going to read it EVERY day that I find myself discouraged!

Thank you ALL and God bless!

TerriDoodle - "My boobs are finally bigger than my stomach!! "<!-- google_ad_section_end --><!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

Hey, and mine are not! Thanks for helping me to see yet another benefit!

(Guess we guys and gals can have opposite goals at times)