Kelly, very good points! My doc tell's me there 3 things to make this work. 1) Eat Right 2)Are You Happy and 3) Losing Weight.....
If you are not doing all 3 then eventually you will run in trouble.
Though the hardest part is the Mental part and getting used to new foods to replace those bad habits we had in the past if you don't they will just come back.
Things can be discourage when they aren't going the way you want, but don't REFLECT in the past, LOOK foward to the next week or the next day.
Once a month my doc office has a support group, I went to it after only 1 week after my surgery. There were about 30 there, about half were thinking about to have the surgery and the other 15 that did have the surgery only 3 had lap bands the rest had Bypass. 2 of those Lap said they wish they did the bypass and not the Lap cause they weren't losing enough weight or had problems. The only other one there with the Lap said he was in his 4 month and loss close to 50lbs. So surport was looking more discouraing for Lap band.
Rather it to bring me down, I look foward to be back in this month next surport group and keep proving that Lap band also work, but it takes Hard Work!
Like they say Money doesn't grow in tress, we have to earn it, so we aren't going to loss weight just cause we had the surgery.