puddlespalace1

It has been both hard and easy to lose the weight. The hard part has been not eating, since I was a food addict I would eat when I was bored, nervous, upset, etc even when I wasn't hungry. It's been hard to restrain myself from eating all of the time. The easy part has been getting the determination to keep going, every time I look at the scale and its lower then what it was & when i put my really loose jeans on it makes me keep going! Yes the band is just a tool, there is truely no "easy" way to lose weight. My doctor drilled that into my head, this is just a tool. And you have to use the tool right in order for it to work for you. You have to eat healthy & less; and you have to exercise. Without the band there is no way that I could have lost 40 pounds in 4 months. It has allowed me to eat less, I finally knwo what full feels like, before the band i would never get full so I would eat ALOT even if it was healthy food.