If you are banded or not, we are all trying to lose weight in some form or another.

people ask you are on a Diet....what kind?

If you really want to lose weight it has to be a life style change for every thing.

1. Such as eatting habit's! change them. smaller portion's. Eatting healthy.

2.Exercise big big part in you road to weight loss.

3.You have to want to!!!

4.and it take's time. You will get there on your own time.

5.This work's for me every thing Fat Free.

6.I eat Egg beaters yogart lots of fresh fruit...I think I' am under 1200 calories

7.To finish about the life style change.. if you sit around all the time. Get up and start walking. there is affort in this weight loss game you have to start it

start slow walk down to the corner, the next day 2 block's the three.....

it will work you.You have nothing to lose But weight, And soon you will feel better about your self!

Good luck most of all God bless!

Very well said,

I agree with you 100%

However sometimes for myself it is not always as easy as it seems but having my band does help. It is one day at a time for me, it's all I can do, I do my best to not look into the future or dwell on the past.

I've said many times since my band, I don't plan to ever diet again, but I will make every effort to avoid the pitfalls that put me here in the first place, AND, patting myself on the back now, I feel like I have done that. Maybe I have been stronger at other times since being banded, but I have focus of where I want to go, not where I've been.

Yep, it's a lifestyle change. I've changed my style of eating with some help from a little plastic band. And I've changed my style of moving: much easier to do with 100 fewer pounds to move around. Let's hear it for lifestyle change!!

I agree too! It is a lifestyle change and we still have to work at it.

Great post!

The biggest difference between a lifestyle change and a "diet" is ATTITUDE.

On a diet, certain things are off limits.

In a lifestyle change, all things are choices. To be successful in a lifestyle change your healthy choices just outnumber your less healthy choices most of the time.

A "diet" is all or nothing. You either did it that day, or you didn't. Success or failure. Black or white.

A lifestyle change is NOT ALL or NOTHING. It is more healthy/less healthy. It is how you lived that day, how you will live tomorrow, and the day after that all blended together. Grey.

A "diet" is temporary.

A lifestyle change is forever.

A "diet" is: I was good. I was bad. I'm trying to be good. I'm going to be good. I won't eat xxxx. I can't eat xxxx.

A lifestyle change is: I choose to eat this because it adds to my health. I choose to eat this because I want it, knowing that it does not further my health goals for today. I choose to eat xxxx today. I choose not to eat xxxx today.

A "diet" is almost always drastic and unsustainable. The more drastic, the more appealing. A "diet" sets us up for failure by its very nature.

A lifestyle change is reasonable and maintainable. It makes one sustainable change at a time. It focuses on building desireable habits and feeling good about yourself. A lifestyle change sets us up for success by its very nature.

A "diet" is about deprivation and willpower.

A lifestyle change is about moderation and learning new ways to cope with life.

A "diet" is about weight.

A lifestyle change is about health.

Donali, I'm printing out your beautiful post and keeping it with me at all times. Love the color scheme!!