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Congratulations, yes, you are worth investing in I feel the same way. I still have my original band, soon to be 9 years old!

Sounds like you had a great time! Don't fret over your eating....you're doing great. I eat a piece or sometimes two of thin crust from Fridays South in Collinsville every couple of weeks...just like you said, slow and easy. Congrats on starting running! I'm doing the Italian Fest 5km on the 21st....care to join us? It's at 8am....but the start line is walking distance from my house. I've been doing the path they are taking for a couple of weeks now. AND I can tell a difference since I started running. As the support group folks kept telling me, I've gotten some new threads....down two waist sizes in the last two months. I don't EVER remember being a 34" waist! Maybe in junior high...haha. HAPPY! See you soon.

Congratulations!!! I hope you will not be sorry because I am far from sorry. I love the band and the way it has helped me control and readjust my eating habits. I really enjoy going to the monthly support groups at the hospital, also.

This is my first posting. No surgery yet, so I greatly appreciate your post. Keep up the good work and please be sure to add your wt each time. It is very encouraging! Thank you!

Thank you very much for the story of your details. This will help me along with all the readings I have done to help me with my journey.

Thanks a million for this! It gives me so much insight. I needed this. Thank you and congrats!

yummmmmm that looks delicious!

These look great, thanks for sharing! Will definitely make these in the future after I get more food.

Thank you for this piece. I hear you on the stress -- it's not going away but how we respond to it can change drastically. Being on the outside looking in vs. being whirled up in it and (for me) having to eat to anchor myself in the storm.

I can relate, and feel the same way. It sometimes feels that I am reliving the years when our sons were adolescents, and they refused to consider that someone else may have some wisdom forged from living through the experiences. I particularly become concerned when there are posts which give medical advice to others, and the poster possess no professional credentials to do so. Some things will never change. And like you, I ignore most of the posts which ask for medical advice and the responses of those forum members who are unqualified to render them. I rarely post anything on the main forum any longer for those reasons. Thank you for sharing these most valuable insights with others.