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Started at 280 lbs. Lost 82 lbs. I regained 47 lbs after a year, then lost it by following Weight Watchers and walking usually 3 miles/day. I still feel restriction, but head hunger and the ability to overeat soft calorific foods makes it difficult. The good news is my weight has been stable for years. For the first time in my life, I don't have to buy new clothes every season. Don't get a lap band unless you're willing to do the work.

I make wheel thrown stoneware pottery. Here's a picture taken in my studio.

...and how did those poor little bunnies happen to get into your hot little hands? (Sniff) :mad: :Banane04:

Wow Kat - that was an amazing story, thanks for taking the time to share it with us. It sounds like you finally married a real man this time, much better than that abusive psycho. With his support and your resolve, I know you're going to do so well. You deserve to have a better life; now you will have it. :clap2: Arline

Magic- I Googled the "Midband" - it's not used in the US, but it IS adjustable as is the lapband. You need more restriction or you won't be losing any more Kgs. Contact your Doctor to have this done. The website about your doctor and this procedure is not very good and my French is a bit rusty, but it does mention that ongoing support is provided. Here's the link: http://www.laparoscopic-surgeon.com/visu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=111 Arline

It's all head hunger. The only reason you get hunger pains is because your blood sugar drops at certain times - it's your body's response to your usual eating times. Neurochemicals stimulated by food intake make you feel calmer and happier after eating whether you feel physical hunger or not; that is, of course, unless you were already very full, then you get a stomachache instead. If we weren't programmed to want to eat even when we don't feel "physical" hunger, we'd be too suceptable to famine. Not to worry, when the famine comes, we'll all be the last to go. Arline

I lost 100 lbs on phen-fen. I actually lost my ability to imagine a meal before I ate, which made me a terrible cook - but it was so wonderful to be free of constant thoughts about eating. I had no heart damage from it after 14 months. When researhers come up with something similar but safer, the band is gone.

:clap2: "love your self, if you dont love yourself and dont feel your worth anything then you wont feel your worth the effort of finding that "cure" Good for you Tilly, enough of this self-loathing, enough psychobabble! Arline

Fat parents and grandparents on both sides. Fat siblings, nieces and nephews and cousins. Genetics perhaps? When I'm not eating, I'm thinking of eating.