Good for you- they musy be enviuos of the success you are about to experience!
I was banded on 1-8-2010 and have lost 95 pounds (as of my last follow-up on 6-14-2010)! If you exercise and eat right the LapBand is a great tool and you will see results that will encourage you more and more every day.
I was actually really lucky with the people I told about my surgery, they were all very suportive- but I chose carefully who was told and who wasn't. Now 5 months post-op these words come out of my mouth quite often: "I had a Lapand placed in January" and most people are surprised and then excited and start asking all kinds of questions.
I hope everything goes well for you. :thumbup: