I really am grateful for the weight that the band has helped me to lose so far. 40 pounds is about halfway to my goal weight. I haven't been able to lose a pound for two months. I am incredibly discouraged but still happy that I got the band. I go back to my doc June 16th 2008 and hope he feels the need to give me a sufficient fill. Has anyone else gotten stuck this long? I really need a lift from any bandsters who have been where I'm at. Thanks all...

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!

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 May 20, 200818 yr by OH Juli

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

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!

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.

Praise the Lord!

woo woo!!! Good for you!!!