CalaCake

I just found Zumba about 3 weeks ago...I go 2 times a week, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it...I feel so good about myself because I can make it through a whole class...and I look good doing it, if I do say so myself...LOL

So, I was banded on September 13, 2010. I have lost 51 lbs! I am excited....but my weight loss has all but stopped....down a lb today, up a lb tomorrow, down 2 lbs today, up a lb tomorrow...you get the point! I had no problem loosing weight until I started exercising. I walk 3.5 miles 2 days a week, and I work out on the eliptical for 20 mins, and do resistance band for 10 minutes 1 time a week. I hate exercising, and now that I am not loosing weight anymore, I want to stop! I have been at this exercising stand still for about 1 1/2 months! Totally bummed!

I was also banded on the 13th! Feeling GREAT! Ready to start eating "soft foods" on SUNDAY!!! Upset because I don't seem to be loosing much weight right now. I lost 17 pretty quickly, but now for the last 3-4 days I haven't lost anything...not saying that that isn't good....just trying to figure out why it has stopped suddenly. How is your weight loss going?

In my line of work I see a lot of abusive relationships. Mostly women being physically abused by their lover. That is how I am looking at this banding thing. 1. I am in a relationship with something that I love that makes be feel horrible about myself, makes me hate myself for the way I look, and something that makes me so dependent that I think I can't live without it. 2. If I was in a person to person relationship with someone that made me feel like that I would need to leave, or die. Case in point, I love food, and it abuses me, or I abuse myself with it. 3. In bad relationships the one being hurt always feels like it will be better this time, this time I can control him/her, this time it won't happen again. Will I abuse food again if I decide not to get banded....yup probably. Will I continue in this pattern for the rest of my life....yup probably. On September 13th I am divorcing food, I am deciding the the relationship we are in is not working for me. Am I going to have a break up phase...yup probably....am I gonna recover and learn to love ME again....yup FOR SURE!

I would for sure hold off, because we all know that when we try a new diet plan or something similar we will loose weight, and then, most of the time gain it back. You'd loose weight to be denied, and then you might risk gaining it all back, where Lap Band will be there for life!

I have a date of September 13....so now all I have to do is pray to the God Lord above that all my blood work will come back okay, and then I will be set. I'm a teacher and will have to take a week off school, so that sucks, but I have a good sub ready to come in! I am sooooo excited, I'm going to get my blood work takes tomorrow! Pray with me that all comes back well!:thumbup:

Well I sit here with all the hope I have been able to muster in years...knowing that I will be banded in September. I feel full of hope and excitement knowing this COULD be the answer for me.... then I read the posts where bandsters have gained their weight back, or that it isn't working well for them...and I'm back to feel sad and worried that I will be let down... I know that it is a tool....but what if it works like every other thing I've tried and it works until I loose motivation or until I learn to trick myself.... Ugh...now I'm wondering if it is even worth it...why build myself up to just get let down again if I can't be strong enough?:cursing:

Thank you, there was sooo much truth in what you have said in my own life. I am really looking forward to seeing how God delivers you from this challenge. I am on track to get my band in September, I haven't gotten my exact date yet. I so pray that the Lord would be with me in my journey as well!

I too will be banded in September. I am a 27 year old wife and mother of 2. I am also a teacher and grad student. My mother and father just got banded, my mom in March and my dad in April. She has lost 55 lbs and he has lost 88 lbs! I am very nervous that it isn't going to work, or that try as I may I will not be able to get my mind and my body on the same page. I have been working on loosing weight since I can remember...