I think I really do understand how you feel. I was really really believing that I made the wrong decision getting banded. I thought I wanted the band so bad and I did everything perfect to get it, then after I got it, I was in pain and confused. Discouraged and I experienced something that I realized I had not felt in so long I couldn't remember. HUNGER. I have been overweight and overeating for so long that I couldn't even remember what being hungey actually felt like. I have spent the last 20 years just eating and eating and eating, eating because its morning, night, afternoon, because I'm happy, sad, or because I passed someplace that I just have to stop in and get something. I used to eat a meal while I was cooking a meal and convince myself that I was still hungry...Once I got the lap band, I was experiencing a lot of different emothins and my natural reaction to emotion is to EAT. Except, I couldn't and still can't eat the terrible way I have been eating for so long. I actually got HUNGRY. I was so scared and nervous and depressed and just a whole host of other things...But I have been coming to LBT everyday and reading about the experience of others and getting encouragement and tips and I realize that I am actually Happy and pleased that I do feel hungry, its a sign that I am not overeating anymore(being hungry feels so much better than that, I am so stuffed I want to throw up or die right now feeling) I can no longer stuff everything down my throught and then feel terrible about myself because I did that. I have not had a fill yet and I have only lost 26 lbs so far, but I feel great! I feel like I can do anything. I feel like if I stick with this lap band and use it as the tool it is meant to be I will finally be FREE!

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Your thoughts are very positive thank you.

I was just banded 9/11/08 and enjoying the same of not being hungry but just eating the right things to ensure I am getting enough proteins etc. Your continued success Mary

I had my surgery on the 22nd and asking the question, did I do the wrong thing? Well today is the 27th and I think I am past the second guessing. I realize now that I have been given an opportunity to change my life and this is a GOOD thing, in fact, this is a GREAT thing! Looking forward to looking as normal as I feel inside!