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As for encouragement I kind of had the same thing happen, where I'd struggle for a few weeks then bam I'd lose one then two then one then three for a few days in row. Shhhh don't tell anyone but I'm a daily weigher.

Anyway, I thought of the days of loosing as fat just melting off me and dropping in little splats as I walked along. plop, plop, plop...I was losing weight...

My point is your pattern is typical for some bandsters, so don't stop doing the right thing.

My other point, is if you noticed I was writing in past tense, there are definate differences as to how we lose weight during the process so if you started one way then it changed that's also to be expected.

Keep up the good work, really you are on the right track.

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I am a realist as well. I sometimes wonder how this band journey is going to end for me. Will I be another success story? Yes, It's up to me but I gained all of my weight over a long time and it may be a long time before I can get it off. The band isn't a quick fix and that was part of the reason me and my doc chose it for me. TY all for all the support!

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Well Bullpen,

There's something in looking for a fix a quick one or otherwise. Certainly there are better and worse ways of behaving but thinking of oneself (and I'm extrapolating greatly here) as broken before the band and fixed after is setting oneself up for disaster, IMHO.

Be encouraged to know that the band helps one regulate their behavior and successful weight management is made more possible with it than without it.

And to be sassy, why in the world are you focused on the "end" and not the now? That's just filling your head with noise, it's really okay to not know the outcome of something, but still work toward a fulfilling goal. We get married with the hopeful outcome of a happy life together, but you never know the end until you get there. You and your band journey are not over until it's over, you know what I mean? We don't put matching burial plots on the gift registry when we get married because well that's morbid but you don't know what the future holds....

Edited by OH Juli

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Froggi, feel free to post whether you are banded or not. Encouragement is wonderful, from the banded and non-banded.

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Several days have gone by since my original post of in a slump and in the dumps. I managed to lose two pounds over the last few days! I am happy and my hope is renewed. I am under that 180 mark. Praise the Lord!

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Several days have gone by since my original post of in a slump and in the dumps. I managed to lose two pounds over the last few days! I am happy and my hope is renewed. I am under that 180 mark. Praise the Lord!

Congratulations Bullpen. My own experience with the band has been that my weight loss is VERY slow however when the scale does move it keeps going down and more importantly I am keeping off the weight I have lost so far.

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