congratulations! support within your family circle as well as outside your family is a HUGE key to your success. The band is a tool and we have to learn to work with it. i am 3 weeks post op and I am still a work in progress, wishing you the best of luck!

Awesome that you have all that support. I was banded on 09/08/10 and have lost almost 45 lbs. I wish it was a little more, but realistically, it is pretty good. Good luck to you.

Congrats. Having all that support from familoy and friends is awesome. I had mine done on December 14th 2010 and I ahve lost 25 pounds. My family are friends are so proud of me and are still continuing to support me. How awesome is that:)

Congrats. Family support is so awesome. I had my band done on the 14th of December and i feel great. I have lost 25 pounds and my family and friends are still supporting me every step of the way. Keep it up.

You know you might just be doing your sister a favor as well by doing this!! I now I have a stack of pictures of myself that I will keep handy for if I ever gain more than 5 lbs..I will just pull them out and it will be motivation enough. I was on such an excitement high the minute I started the pre-op diet I couldn't sit still..then once I could eat regular foods (well really it started in the puree stage) I dropped the "diet" word out of my vocabulary and said look this is not a diet this is a lifestyle change and this is how I am going to eat and behave the rest of my life. I need to find recipes/meals to prepare that not only I will like but my family will like because we are ALL in this together. Over the next 11 months I dropped 130 lbs really without any problems. Then I had to have some saline taken out of the band so that I would actually stop losing weight. To me this has been the most amazing thing (besides giving birth) that I have ever done in my entire life.

Maybe your sister will team up with you and get back on track. You understand support is important...this site is so powerful!! Get as much support as you can...either on here, group support, family or wherever you can get it!! Take care and I wish you the very best!

GOOD LUCK TO YOU AS YOU START YOUR JOURNEY! I WISH YOU MUCH SUCCESS. IT WILL NOT BE EASY - BUT YOU CAN DO IT WITH MUCH DETERMINATION AND WILL POWER. THERE WILL BE EASY DAYS AND THEN HARD DAYS TOO!!! HANG IN THERE. WHEN YOU FEEL DISCOURAGED - JUST HOP ON THIS SITE AND START READING SOME BLOGS. SO INSPIRATIONAL AND THEY WILL LIFT YOU RIGHT AWAY!!! IT IS SO GREAT TO HAVE SO MANY FRIENDS THAT TRULY CARE ABOUT YOU!!! KEEP US POSTED ON YOUR JOURNEY!! TAKE CARE! P.S. - I AM DAY 6 POST OP. STILL ON LIQUID DIET TILL I SEE THE DOC TOMORROW. THEN HOPEFULLY ON TO PUREED! YEH!!

Wow..thanks for all the words of encouragement...Maybe Hillary Clinton was right...It takes a "Banded" village...Have a great week everyone!!