POMA

Thank you. I have been feeling like crap lately not losing any weight. My boyfriend says to step the exercise up a bit to see results. I guess I'm not eating too healthy either. I need to work the program to the T.

Thank you, I appreciate the support. Yes, I have to stop the madness. I will work out tonight for sure.

Hey Hasmik, I am 32 from San Fernando Valley. Have been with my bf for 4 years. He was against it at first too, he said you can do it on your own, why go the easy route. Then after he saw me depressed for months and getting discriminated against at work and everywhere that I went, he felt bad for me and knew it was time to make a change to make me happy. It took a few months but he finally accepted it and felt I needed this. It's only been a month but he has been pretty supportive. My friend at work had the gastric bypass and her husband felt the same way my bf did, until she took him to the seminars that her surgeon had and he changed his mind and is supportive, they exercise together all the time. Another friend of mind went to Dr. Davtyan and her sister too. He is a good doc from what I heard, she has been banded for 5 years now and is very happy with it. I heard he is cocky and kinda rudeish but he is a good surgeon. I would rather go to Dr. Paya but Dr. Davtyan sounds good too. I went to Dr. Lyass but don't really recommend him, he is kind of cocky and rude too.

Hello, I am going through this journey with my boyfriend of 4 years. It's been tuff, it's only been a month now. He has been there for me, but at the same time, it's been hard with him. I am having lots of ups and downs, emotional lows, highs. He has been stressed at work so I have not been able to get much support from him lately and he lives 1 hour away so that doesn't help much either. It's been difficult to stay with him. I feel that a lot of my needs are not being met and I want to move on but not until I lose the weight, so it's kind of a tuff situation. My therapist seems to think once I lose the weight I will have more options and not feel he is the only one for me, since I'm somewhat unhappy with him, but I stay anyways. So there you have it. It's been difficult. Yeah I have thought of meeting a man that has been banded as well, but wouldn't know where to start. Plus I can't do that to my current boyfriend. I would have to leave him first. :cursing:

Congrats! I wish you well. How are you feeling? I go in for my first fill 04-13-09. My surgeon cancelled my last appointment last saturday for my first fill, he is on vacation, so I will have my first fill 7 weeks after surgery. Maybe after I will have restriction and start losing. I guess it doesn't help that I haven't been working out much and eating kinda fatty foods.

Hey Lisa, I am 31, single, no kids, and I feel the same way about looking for single no kids friends. Lol I love my friends with kids and love kids and want them soon, but I understand completly. I just got banded 02/24/09 and have lost 10 lb so far, I wish I would have lost more. It's been difficult journey to get here and I'm trying to be patient with it. I have not had my fill yet, so maybe after that I will see a difference. What do you think?:tt1:

I was banded 02-24-09 and I have only lost 10 lbs so far and I'm a bit upset about it. Is this normal? I have not had a fill yet, so maybe that's why? :tt1:

I was banded 02/24/09 and I keep getting hungry, I just try to keep drinking my carnation instant brekfast every hour or so when I'm hungry and that seems to help. Today I was natious, took meds for it and it's finally going away. I start work on thursday, kinda afraid of the diareah and possible pain with the port kinda bothering me, and me sitting at a desk all day. Hope all goes well. We will all get through this hell soon enough! lol

Hey Derbin, I just got banded 02/24/09 and have been on liquids since. It's the hardest thing! I am so sick of it too! Only one more week and we get to eat a little bit better and then for me 2 weeks later and I can introduce smushy foods. It's hard, I've lost 7 pounds already but it almost feels like it's not worth it because I'm craving so many foods. My boyfriend eating out in my kitchen doesn't help, but I feel bad depriving him. It's so hard to smell the foods he eats, I told him to stay away from my house until I can eat again. Lol:eek:

Ugh! I feel the same way, I change the way I feel every moment. Emotional roller coaster!

I am going to be banded 02/24th in Los Angeles. I am nervous but yet excited I guess. Is anyone else as nervous and scared and anxoius as I am? :confused: