Robyn2002

Thanks everyone, I'm going to ask my daughter to put up pictures of me before my surgery and now. I have one pair of jeans I kept, and I can actually fit in one leg of them. lol I want my daughter to get in the other leg and have someone take a picture.

I have lost over 150lbs in less than 2 years, this is what I do. I always wait an hour before and an hour after I eat to drink. I eat really slow, I do that by using a baby spoon and fork, I chew my food 20-30 times, and inbetween bites, I sing the childrens song Jesus loves me. I was told it takes your body 20 minutes to know that your full,I stop eating when I feel full or I quit when I reach 20 minutes. I weighed 295lb the day of my surgery, my top weight was 320lb. I know weigh 157lbs and it will be 2 years on Dec 26th. I'm 47 and need to have a knee replacement due to the arthritus I have had since I was 6, I have it all through my body and it is hard to excersise, but thats the most important part. I started with the water arobics and the eliptical and some weights training at my local YMCA. PLEASE DON"T GIVE UP!! If there is anything I can do for you please let me know. Here is my e-mail buddyboy_furball@yahoo.com

My name is Robyn, I had the lap band put on on Dec 26,2010. It is the best decision I made in my life. My top weight was about 320lbs. My family doctor has it at 314lb, but when I had an appointment I would not eat for a couple days so I know the 314lb was wrong. The day or my surgery I weighed 295lbs. I just got weighed the other day and it was 157lbs. I lost a whole person I am the strongest, thinest, healthest, and the happiest I have ever been. I thank God everyday for this medical miracle they call the lap band. I tried for years to lose weight with all kinds of diets I lost and gained I felt like a yo yo. It was easy to change my life style when the help of the band. I was told by my doctor that with the band I would only lose about 45-55lbs a year, but with excersise I lost alot more. I never had a goal weight in mind I just wanted to be at a healthy weight for my health. I got about 10lbs to go. I went from a size 26 womens, to a 5 junior, and almost in a size 3. People always tell me I look like I weigh 120. lol and don't want me to lose anymore, in reality I weigh 157lbs. The doctor says muscle weighs more than fat so I am at the good weight but the BMI charts I still have alittle way to go. I FEEL GREAT!!!! My daughter had the stomache bypass and has lost 16-lbs in the years but she is having alot of trouble with vitamins deficency and can't seem to maintain her weight, and also she has 12 cavities in her mouth due to the calcium loss. She does take the supplments but it doesn't seem to help. I tried to talk her out of that surgery, but she didn't want to excersise and wanted to lose it fast. I do have some loss skin but not that much, I am 47 years old. If you listen to the doctors and get excersise, anyone can have the sucess I have had. I LOVE MY LAP BAND, and recommend it to everybody thats thinking of that type of surgery. I wouldn't recommend any other type.

My name is Robyn, I had the lap band put on on Dec 26, 2010. It is the best decision I made in my life. My top weight was about 320lbs. My family doctor has it at 314lb, but when I had an appointment I would not eat for a couple days so I know the 314lb was wrong. The day or my surgery I weighed 295lbs. I just got weighed the other day and it was 157lbs. I lost a whole person I am the strongest, thinest, healthest, and the happiest I have ever been. I thank God everyday for this medical miracle they call the lap band. I tried for years to lose weight with all kinds of diets I lost and gained I felt like a yo yo. It was easy to change my life style when the help of the band. I was told by my doctor that with the band I would only lose about 45-55lbs a year, but with excersise I lost alot more. I never had a goal weight in mind I just wanted to be at a healthy weight for my health. I got about 10lbs to go. I went from a size 26 womens, to a 5 junior, and almost in a size 3. People always tell me I look like I weigh 120. lol and don't want me to lose anymore, in reality I weigh 157lbs. The doctor says muscle weighs more than fat so I am at the good weight but the BMI charts I still have alittle way to go. I FEEL GREAT!!!! My daughter had the stomache bypass and has lost 160-lbs in the years but she is having alot of trouble with vitamins deficency and can't seem to maintain her weight, and also she has 12 cavities in her mouth due to the calcium loss. She does take the supplments but it doesn't seem to help. I tried to talk her out of that surgery, but she didn't want to excersise and wanted to lose it fast. I do have some loss skin but not that much, I am 47 years old. If you listen to the doctors and get excersise, anyone can have the sucess I have had. I LOVE MY LAP BAND, and recommend it to everybody thats thinking of that type of surgery. I wouldn't recommend any other type.