It's one of the things Im most afraid of. Anaesthetics make me morose and weepy anyway. Will I come home and cry over what I have done?

Do you find enormous challenges in overcoming the reasons you overate despite the band stopping you from doing so. I can picture myself prowling the house desperate to relieve those feelings that I used to eat to relieve.

At the moment, I think about food and my weight constantly. What I'm not going to eat, how I'm going to avoid it, how I can get away with eating it, etc etc. Does that ever go away?

What I would like is to one day be a normal person who eats whatever they feel like eating when they're hungry, until their not hungry and then not think about food again until hunger strikes? Can this ever really happen?

If it can, if you can achieve that do you think its to do with physical hunger or is it a psychological journey? Do I really need a band to undertake that journey?

I really feel like I"ve seen a light these last few days. I now know what I have to do but I'm not sure if I need a band to do it.

It is - what I said there a few weeks back I still believe, only I've come back round to thinking a band will help me achieve all of that, not be an easy way out. I think its the reality check of fine, I may lose weight and I may lose a lot but will I keep it off. I honestly dont know anybody who has lots a lot of weight and kept it off!

I do feel like if I dont go ahead, I've learned a lot about losing weight that I hadnt realised before. But I've also learned that particular surgeon has his own opinion which aint necessarily shared by other surgeons. So I'm going to see someone else.

But I have lost 5kg!!!! Yay :-)

5kgs thats great...keep it up

yeah see what the other surgeon says.

how much wieght do you have to lose?

Your BMI seems to be in a nice range

I wish mine was that!!

I'm 107kg now at 5ft 10 so I've slipped down to 34. Doug has a set of dumbells, I could hide the 3kg weights in my jeans pockets, what do you reckon? (just joking, lol).

I'm losing it fine but its the same old story, get a bit off, get away from panic weight, start to feel better and the motivation just goes out the window. There is no way I've got the strength for the long haul all the way down to 70kg or so without help. That said though, I'd be thrilled to get back to 80, something that once seemed massively fat to me.

Big day for me will be when i pass under 90kg though - I will cease to be obese. Boy how I hate that word. I will just be overweight then.

Emotions we all have them, we all live by them and some of us eat by them! Qustion

do we eat because we are hungery Or by choice?

Deep down most of us at some point just ate because we knew deep down we would feel better after ward, quick fix.....but going back to Emotions we are searching for some thing maybe a pat on the back a good job whatever just a need to feel wanted?

well I refuse to let my Emotions tell me how I am going to eat!

well what ever you deside good luck with your weight loss goals. God bless!

geez my BMI is 45 and my weight is 113kg. Im 159cm tall dunno what that is in feet!!

Is thAt the diff between our BMIS??

we are only 6kg apart but your BMI is 11 less than mine!!

I dont understand why.

Do you know why that would be?

It's because I'm so much taller than you - my ideal weight will be lots higher than yours too - at 159 cms yours will be down in the 50 kg's I'd imagine, mine is about 75kgs.

Same amount of weight spread out over a much longer body. 110kgs is about 30-40 kgs overweight for me, 50 + kgs overweight for you, kwim?

I'd also have more weight in bone, muscle mass etc.

But BMI is not that accurate either by the way - it doesnt really take into account how muscular (or not) you may be. If you have lots of muscle you will weigh more than someone with less, but not be fatter.

geez....i betta hurry up and get this band then..lol