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I cant imagine why you'd want a fill if you're still losing. The more you can eat and still lose, the better nourished you will be. Or should be depending on your food choices :-P Once your weight loss slows down, then think about it. I'm not banded yet though!

I've puked all over the inside of my car anyway when I was pregnant. I'd just been for a long swim then eaten a banana and about half a litre of water. I had very very little room in my stomach when pregnant with Eliza, she was in a very strange breech position, and it just all came back out when I bent over to clip the seat belt. Watery banana, all over the windscreen, dash, and seats, thank goodness that car had leather seats and not upholstered ones. All over me to, but I was only going home anyway.

Sigh. So true.

I cant breath when my DH lies on top of me anyway, he weighs 120kg!! That's gonna hurt no matter what.

ah well, at least you have the consolation of fitting on the ride! When we took the kids to Movie World on the Gold Coast a couple of years back I couldnt take Ewan on the kiddie rides becuase I couldnt fit!

Nykee you're reading my mind the past few days. That's what I want, to not care about food anymore, ever again. I'm not even that fat in the whole grand scheme of things, if I were to never lost a gram but to lose this obsession with food I would die happy.

You're so right. I have a girlfriend who's rather big and she always wore the tightest tops and showed as much skin as she could - there's a fine line you know? She did look dreadful a lot of the time, huge belly rolls over the top of your low rise pants arent really a good look. But one day she turned up at dinner in a huge flowing Kaftan kind of thing and I honestly didnt recognise her when she came in the door. She looked 50kg heavier, she looked like a fat person. Since that day I have never worn huge baggy clothes to hide under. Who am I kidding anyway? But I have always been reasonably confident, I feel sexy when I make the effort and I've never let myself just give up and get round in track pants and baggy tshirts.

Its so frustrating isnt it? I cant help you all the way from Melbourne but when you find a good fit you stick to it. We have an el cheapo, really tacky, nasty store here called Chain Reaction but boy, they do the best large size jeans - lowish rise, nice bootleg, no nana jeans to be seen. All the way up to size 26. I usually buy an 18 from there, which is obviously the most popular size so when I see them, I buy 2-3 pairs. They're not expensive at all either, which is great. When I was a teenager, I was a size 16 (US 14) and I couldnt wear jeans for years and years. You just couldnt get them in that size. It sure is better now.

Sigh, I'll have to give that a good look. We seem to save tiny on a big income these days!

What a frustrating and disappointing journey its been for you. It does really make you wonder too, whether banded people are going to encounter similar problems as they age and their bodies begin to work less efficiently. There is afterall not a helluva lot of long term research done, as the band simply has not been done anywhere in the world for all that long.

roflmao! yes I've been there. Its sooooooo not a good look isnt it? All I can say is thank GOODNESS for the last 3 or 4 years I've been really heavy fashion here has been mainly 3/4 length pants. Shorts havent been a big thing. I really havent worn them for a couple of years, not because I"m too embarrassed to but because they're just not around much in the shops.

Growling tummy = hungry to me too.

No resentment here either, but a healthy dose of cynicism, I just wouldnt be at all surprised if someone like Kirstey Alley was banded but still was Jenny Craig's spokesperson. Her career's pretty much dried up and she obviously wants to resurrect it so it would be good publicity. But does anyone seriously think anyone in the movie industry would have enough morals to think that maybe that's dishonest? No way! They're all nutters, out for themselves and no amount of money is enough. I dont believe she'd knock back an endorsement deal with Jenny Craig just because of a tiny detail like a lap band, lol. And would anyone believe for a minute that Anna Nicole Smith would have a conscience about something like that? The only thing that semi annoys me about it if it were true is that it misleads people to thinking massive weight loss like that is possible and maintainable when statistics show that it isnt.

We used to joke about "fat rash". I remember hot summer weather walking home from school, I used to suffer terribly, havent done in recent years because I wouldnt wear a skirt if I was going to be walking around outside in the heat. But I used to get it badly when I was a measly 80kg (I'm 5ft 10) - that's what I mean about my goal weight needing to be at the low end of my healthy weight range, down in the 60's. And wearing a tight denim skirt in the hot weather?Ouch! Those victories are just coming thick and fast for you now arent they? And everytime I look at your stats, your weight is lower. Way to go!

I'd start the process now but be realistic about setting your weight loss goals aside. however with discipline and attention to detail it IS possible to get through a pregnancy without gaining significant weight. I've done it and my baby was a beautiful bouncing 3.7kg, which is around 8lb. I didnt waste a calorie, no rubbish passed my lips, I ate good, healthy, low fat food from all food groups, exercised throughout the pregnancy and just kept to 25 weight watchers points a day. I came out of hospital 10kg lighter than when I'd conceived.

In that situation I wouldnt hesitate to gain a few pounds. Although its easier said than done when you actually try to do it. My BMI is 35, and most of the info available on the web is American so I thought I'd have to work hard to prove comorbidities. I woudlnt even consider gaining enough weight to put me over 40 (about 14lb), that would be dangerous, but gee, they'd only have to weigh you after Christmas dinner or something and you'd be there. Its not going to harm you to gain 2 or 3 pounds.

I'm 178cm tall and want to be about 68kg. I determined it like this - health range is 63 to 79kg. For long periods of time I weighed around 78kg. Was fat, honestly. Too overweight to be much of a runner which I enjoyed at the time. Before I got married I dieted down to 72kg. Looking back at honeymoon photos, several of me in a bathing suit, I think "oh, I'd love to be that size again" but I was still quite pudgy. I had fat arms and rolls round my middle. So I just want to subtract a few kg from that weight and I should be right. My sister is an inch shorter and weighs 65 kg. She looks fantastic, womanly, curvy with boobs and hips but not bony or skinny at all. I think I need to be on the lighter end of the weight range.

Yep, I reckon Anna Nicole Smith and I think Kirstey Alley too. You just dont get that fat, and be that out of control and suddenly switch it off like turning off a light and lost a tonne of weight so quickly. You just dont. Why in the hell wouldnt you if you were in their position? Plenty of money, it works, its safe, why would you muck around?

So encouraging Nykee. I really want to start right NOW, my op is on 9th December. I have desperately wanted to avoid (and have done so far) that last supper syndrome but I really wanted to get some weight off before the op and I just cant do it. I cannot eat little enough, consistently enough to lose weight. I dont pig out, I dont binge but I just cant keep my portions small enough to really shift weight. You remind me that this IS going to work.

Love your Avatar Lori, you're not an expat Aussie by any chance?

I usually eat less on weekends than I do during the weekdays. For one thing, there's lots happening and for another I eat less when somebody is around to see what I'm eating.

My experience with general anaesthesia has always been to go into the theatre awake (have had minor ops, wisdom teeth, heel spurs). they put the needle in your hand and tell you to count backwards and this incredibly sleepy feeling comes over you, its actually very pleasant. Then next thing you know you wake up in the recovery room. I usually get the shivers really badly as i'm coming round, body racking shivers, they put warm blankets on you to warm you up. Then you're just incredibly sleepy on and off all day, and its really pleasant just to give in and have a nice little snooze. I dont get sick with general anaesthesia, some people do. I've always been home next day, feelign pretty good, tired and a bit slow but that's it. I usually get very morose and weepy though, that lasts a few days and then its all over. its not all that traumatic.

A couple of drinks a week arent a problem and there are health benefits to moderate wine consumption anyway. But it pays to remember that in general alcohol is basically just empty calories. What decided me on the band when I was hung up on things like this was that even if you're not banded, if you want to lose weight and keep it off, you have to give up these things anyway. You cannot leave yourself a safety hatch so that you can overindulge if you really want to - that is why you're where you are in the first place. So being banded in terms of weight loss is really the same as being unbanded. You simply have to get your head around the fact that if you want the result you're after you cannot ever behave that way again! So tell your friends that yes, there is no going back after banding. But really, to lose weight and keep it off, there can be no going back anyway. Banding just ensures you stick to that.

9th of December. Eeeeek, 2 months away. No big Christmas dinner for me this year (I'll still be on liquids - which includes champagne right?) and I dont care. And I have the perfect excuse to avoid the stress and expense of having the family to my house this year too. Somebody else can do it. Of course I'll do it next Christmas when I'm a tiny, fit dynamo.

If anaesthesia is really going to be a risk to you due to the condition you're in, you'll find you probably wouldnt be able to undergo surgery unless it was for an immediately life threatening condition. Anaesthesia today is really very safe and people dont just spontaneously die on the operating table. Usually when they do its a long complicated surgery and is putting their bodies under incredible stress. Even with gastric bypass as well as with the lapband, deaths that occur are more often a result of some complication of the operation, such as internal damage and bleeding, not from spontaenous death on the operating table for no particular reason. Truly, the risk of being obese outweighs the risk of the anaesthetic.