I want to hear from fellow bandsters who are at their goal.....did anyone else after losing 70 lbs come to almost a complete standstill? What did you do to start losing again? I need to lose 23 more lbs....help!!!!!!!!!!!

I reached my goal and then decided I wanted to lose 17 more pounds. The last bit does not come off easily. You have to really track what goes in your mouth and get in the exercise. I lost 4 of the 17 and that was slow and difficult. For the summer I chose to just maintain but I fully intend to fight off the last 13 pounds, no doubt it will take some work though.

NurseJess....that's me! It seemed like I got to 70 lost with no problem. But at that loss, I hit a weight that I had stayed at for several years and I'm thinking my body just decided it was familiar so it was a good place to stop. After a month, I am just starting to see a little downward movement on the scale. i'm not saying I've broken through this plateau but I'm very hopeful.

I'm not there yet but that was one of the first things that my surgeon (who has the band herself) told me. She was like you might think that first 85 pounds are hard but thats only because you havent tried to lose those last 5 pounds yet :scared2: best of luck