shabee99

Hello, I am due to be banded on Friday...yup the day after tomorrow, and I am scared to death! I am the mother of 4 and am 250lbs. I made the decision to be banded for health reasons...see I have lost 5 family members to diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. One was my sister at age 36 from child onset diabetes which caused her to have 9 heart attacks before she died. According to my pre op doctor visits I am healthy and I would like to stay that way. However I don't know if I have it in me to follow the rules of the band. I have barley stayed on the liquid diet. I consider myself one of those people who loves to eat food. Don't really like sweets. Love Meat! I can do without carbs if i can replace it with wheat products sometimes. I often skip Breakfast and lunch but have hardy dinners late...which is my biggest problem. I am scared that I will suffer from vomiting and depression from being banded after reading some of the postings on this site....I am scared that I will cause the band to slip and wind back in the hospital to fix the damage. I am afraid now that I am not ready. I have seen variations in success stories (weight in lbs) and want my goal to see 100 lbs of weight lost in one year. That is they type of success I am looking to accomplish for my life long banishment of food from my life. Can anyone tell me more about portion size? What do you eat...I was told that I would need to eat about 4 ounces of meat and about 2-4 ounces of veggies....is that more than what is exceptable to eat? If the band will only allow me to eat 2 ounces of food I know that I will be unhappy...even with weight loss because I really don't mind the way that I look...I am a beautiful large woman and I am ok with that. But I am not ok with having diabetes and other weight related health concens...Please can anyone inform me more about your portion size used to achieve my success goal within a year...Hope someone responds to this soon as I don't have much more time to ponder....and thanks ahead of time for anyone's insight. Sha:scared2: