kimkimmie

Thanks so much, this is really good to know, if this is the case I am another step closer to the band! Thanks for taking the time to help me!!! ~Kim

I'm asking because I wonder if you feel full as soon as you finish eating 1/2-1 cup of food or if it takes a while. Also if you keep eating due to the fullness not being instant, which means too much food for the tummy pouch what happens?

Awesome! The small everyday victories are the best!! I can't wait until my obesity nightmare is over! I had to tell my boss once that I didn't want to do a business trip because the airline would have required me to purchase 2 seats and I didn't want to face the humility of submitting the receipt for reimbursement and didn't even know if the company would pay for both seats.

Thanks for your input, I know it must be difficult and frustrating. I really think that I can limit the chocolate/icecream and other sweets and high calorie drinks. I'm more into restaurant food and fast food, which luckily if I opt to eat that sometimes I will get full fast and stop since it isn't a soft food. I eat lots of restaurant food right now pretty much daily - and not salads or veggie dishes, and geez if I cut that into a third I would lose weight. Maybe make a rule that you will only eat soft foods like chocolate on the weekend, and then reduce it to 1 day and then eliminate except for your birthday or something. Maybe try FF chocolate pudding, or buy the dip and dip apples or strawberries in a tiny amount so you will become full. I would talk to a dietician too. Also, don't drink anything with calories period...that has been my rule for a long time. Good luck, maybe this year we can lose the weight together! ~Kim

If anyone is going to the seminar Tuesday with Dr. Webb or used Dr. Webb, please please please let me know. Thanks, Kim

WOW! I did the same thing, I went above the x weight (by about 15 pounds) and always told myself that if I hit it I would opt for surgery, and even did WW when I went over saying one final attempt on my own, and here I am again. I am going to see if I can schedule an appointment tomorrow by phone for as close to right after the seminar Tuesday as possible! My husband seems to really mean it when he says that if this is what I want to do and have researched it to the point where I am comfortable that he won't stop me. I have to do something and I have to do it ASAP or next year like you said I will be just as fat or fatter wishing that I would have done something. Maybe even diabetic by then. Thanks again for your advice! ~Kim

Wow, thank you all so much for the fabulous input. I knew I was sensitive about my weight, but the caring that you are all showing is overwhelming and I am getting tears in my eyes. I am so grateful. I am almost certain that this is what I want to do, and I will definately be a regular here and will do my best to pay it forward and assist any other new folks that join this message board once I become an expert. Thanks so much, you have no idea (or maybe you do) of how helpful the insight and comments are. I am going to go back and read it all again so that it all sinks in! ~Kim:grouphug: I look forward to getting to know all of you! throughout this journey!

Bettina, Best wishes for Tuesday! I know you can't wait ) Thanks for the video, I watched it for over an hour (till he started talking about the other -more riskier- surgery), and now I have to go to work without much make-up and wet hair lol, but it was definately great and I learned a lot. I am pretty sure that I am going to go for it! I know me and I am not one of the 5% that will be able to take it off and keep it off. If I can get full faster that is what will help me. Thanks so much for sharing! Good Luck at your appointment! let me/us know when your surgery will be! ~Kim

Hey! Good morning! Thanks so much for the previous 4 comments. I truely appreciate your taking the time to reply and help me. I want this to work and I want to do this as long as I know that I can. I can eat so much and anything I want really with WW, but still I have not even been succuessful with that and I was allowed to have light doritos or a McDonalds ice cream cone if I wanted and still lose weight. Geeze I get so emotional when I read how much pain being overweight and the lack of control over food causes so many of us. I do believe that if This 'tool' will make me feel full after only a small amount of food. I feel like the little frozen meals (LC, HC and WW brands specifically) are so tiny and have never been able to call one a meal. If they are allowed, imagine how nice it would be to have one for lunch and dinner and be completely satisfied - and if not that a portion of food that small. I would think that I would have to lose weight eating so little. Last night I went to another site and was looking at tons of before and after pictures, and showed my husband a picture of a lady that went from a 'plain' looking heavy lady to a head turning beauty after losing 100 pounds. I was smiling with hope, and he said that I would have to look as good, because he thinks I am already beautiful and he hugged me and smiled at me. I am curious, I know the band is a tool, but for others that were as addicted to food as me, on a scale of 1-10 how helpful is the band? If it really makes you feel full- like I would say after eating a footlong sub and chips does for me now - by eating a fraction of that, I think I could do it. Usually a couple of hours after the sub I want a little of something sweet or salty or both for a snack, so can I have a tiny snack a few hours after eating 1/2 of a 6" sub and 2 doritos? Is everything just pretty much scaled down, but satisfying? I bet a Chinese buffet would be a complete waste of money lol! I always envy my friends and coworkers that leave a little food on their plate, so I think that would be pretty cool if I got full on only 1/2 of a meal! Ya'll have a great day! ~Kim