I totally understand where you all are coming from. Like so many of you, I have no idea what it will be like to be under 200 pounds. It seems like the last time I remember this was in grade 7 or 8 when I was 180 and then I was just always in the 200s (and not just a little, always in the 240-260 range). I feel like my teens an 20s were a blur of one failed diet after the other. So much sadness and pain that I hid behind my "pretty face". I am so excited that this time it will work. This time when I work it....my band will work for me and the weight will come off. I almost have to not think about it to much cause it freaks me out. What will I be like, what will my friends be like, what will my family be like??