I have always been heavy to put it nicely. The lowest that I can remember was around 180 and that was for a few months senior year of high school when I had lost alot of weight because I was having my gall bladder removed. Needless to say I have continued to gain since then and I now weigh about 280. so in the past 10 years I have gained 100 pounds - funny enough thats how much I want to lose. I thought I was HUGE back then but now when I look at pictures I would give anything to be that size again!!! Well as I am going through the process to be banded I just keep thinking JEEZ its gonna take 1-2 years at least to lose all the weight that I want too and that seems like an eternity to me and then today it finally dawned on me that at least it wont take the 10 years that it took me to gain all this weight!!!!!!!! I will be grateful for anything that I lose because at least the scale wont be going up anymore!!!

I dont know if anyone else has felt like I did but to me it was another positive to push me to get the band.

Oh yeah and i go for my phsyic evaluation on 8/29 and I am super nervous about what he is going to ask. any words of advise??

:phanvan

Welcome to the site. My only advice would be to tell the truth. Always seem to work best. Best of luck. Donna

Hi, jetti

I think the main thing they're looking for in a psych eval is to be sure you realize that the band is not a magic bullet that's going to MAKE you lose weight. It is merely a tool - albeit a mighty serious and expensive one! -- to help keep you from going too far astray....but it's not going to MAKE you choose grilled fish instead of fried fish and fries....etc. You still have that work to do yourself.

My psych evaluation talked about the movie The Kid (never seen it), about how Bruce Willis meets his child self I guess.. so he asked me what Laura NOW would say to Laura at 13 years old (back when I was goin thru 'problems' that in retrospect are just normal adolescent thing..which I told him), and I realized he wanted me to say something extra nice and special lol. Then he asked me if I would hug my 13 year old self.

Honestly, I think HE had some issues.

Just don't sound like a looney person!

It's not the approach my psych takes but I get what he meant. I look at pictures of me when I was 6 and it makes me kind of sad about what I did to her.