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I finally made it to 1derland yesterday. Stepped on the scale 3 times in 3 different places to make sure that I really did get there. I haven't seen my weight start with a 1 in over 15 years, and that was for just a few weeks before I got pregnant with my first child. Now, I'm going to start saving money to get all of the access skin removed. My doctor told me I have about 20 pounds if not more of extra skin. It is causing sores, so I'm hoping that insurance might cover it.

if your weight loss is slow. I was banded over 2 years ago, and I only loose around 3 - 5 pounds per month on average. It has been a painfully slow process, and at times I get discouraged because it hasn't happened faster. It dawned on me a few months ago that from where I started until today, my life has dramatically changed. I can now ride rollercoasters without fear that I won't fit in a seat. I sometimes even have a hard time finding myself in pictures of the new me. If the weight loss is slow, just keep at it. The weight will eventually come off if you follow the plan and exercise. I like to say that over 2 years I have not gained any weight. My scale keeps moving in the right direction. That is the best I can do.

I just wanted to see my weight loss thing. I am 9 pounds away from being at 199. It is getting so close I can feel it.

I'm working on 2 years with my band. I too would get frustrated with my weight loss. I wasn't losing fast enough. I should have been at goal weight in less than a year, and then it dawned on me. I'm right where I need to be. I have gone through 2 major surgeries in those 2 years that would have caused me to gain weight before. I still managed to lose weight. I still have weight to lose, but I know now that I'm going to eventually be at my goal weight. This is weight that will not come back. I didn't reach the green zone until around fill 5 or 6, and I even now, there are times that I have to have Fluid taken out because I get too tight. Then have to have fluid added because I get to loose. I'm sitting in the green zone right now. Who knows how long that will last, but I'm certainly enjoying it while I sit here.

I know that I don't have any appetite at all, but I think mine is from my preventive migraine medicine. Having said that, my band seems to loosen up around 3 or 4 PM. I can only eat around 3 oz of food at any given time, but I'm able to drink at any time I wish. I feel that I have found the green zone. I have to remind myself to eat because otherwise I wouldn't eat all day long.

I have lost 122 pounds as of today. I have 58 more to lose, but I know now it is possible, and I will get there.

I can't believe we are closing in on the 2 year mark. What a difference 2 years can make. I've lost a whole person, and I can now see my finish line that I sat. I'm over 2/3 the way to my goal, and I'm 18.6 pounds away to my 2nd major goal. I expect to be there by the end of September. I will say that I feel that I am going to be able to maintain the weight loss. How is everybody else doing?

1. How long have you been banded? nearly 2 years 2. How much weight did want to lose? 180 lbs total 3. How much weight have you lost? 120 lbs 4. How happy are you that you have been banded: scale of 1-10 (1 being regretful, 10 being elated) 10 - I always expected to be at goal in 18 months, but I'm very happy with the slow and steady progress I have made. It has helped me to realize that I will be able to maintain because I didn't have a great big huge weight loss all at once.

My band has become so finicky it isn't even funny. I had to go in Saturday for an emergency deflate. Seems my flight 2 weeks prior caused my band to tighten up. Liquids were only trickling through, and you can forget about food getting through. It wasn't happening. He took out .6 and told me that I was to come back in 2 weeks to get it put back in. I haven't been able to eat for the last 2 days. I guess I am swollen. I was able to actually eat a bit this morning which has been an improvement.

I ended up in the ER yesterday. Ahh, you have to love how your band goes from zero to sixty in 2.2 seconds. I knew my band was tight, and I knew it needed to have some fluid come out. I was still able to drink, and I was down to eating one meal a day. I just really didn't have the money to go and pay for it to be done. Other things came up. Fast forward to Saturday evening, and I started throwing up because of the acid. This lasted for 2 hours. I finally fell asleep about 2. I woke up yesterday around noon, and my limbs felt like dead weight. I could barely move them, and I was extremely dizzy and queasy. My chest hurt right in the middle, and I tingled all over. My husband took me to the nearest ER where thankfully it was just severe dehydration. I couldn't even keep water down. Everything was getting stuck in the band. They sent me home (thankfully didn't touch my band. I was worried they would take all of the fluid out of it.) I go to see my surgeon today at 115. I've been able to sip down very slowly 2 full glasses of water today which I wasn't able to do yesterday at all. Now, I just hope that everything looks okay under the fluro when he goes to look at my band.

I have been having problems eating or even drinking anything at all until after 3 in the afternoon.

Keep us updated on what your doctor ends up doing.

All of a sudden the weight is melting off again. For the first time EVER, I weigh less than my husband does. I am close to my pre-pregnancy weight of my first child which is the smallest I've been since I was 13.

I do at times, but mine is due to reflux. I'm having terrible reflux right now to the point it is making me throw up. I have to call my surgeon.

I looked at what I weighed last year, and I only lost 40 pounds over the course of a year. I tell myself that is better than gaining, and with everything that I went through last year with all of the surgeries and complications that arose from them, I'm trying to be satisfied that I lost weight and didn't gain 1 single pound. I weigh less now than I did when I graduated high school 20 years ago, and that makes me feel wonderful. One of these days soon, I will take a picture of what I look like now. I can finally after nearly 105 lbs lost tell a difference. I guess it helps to wear clothes that fit (that I get to buy in regular stores and don't have to buy plus sizes any more.) I always figured that after a year I would be at my goal weight, but I'm not. I won't even be there at my 2 year mark, but I'm okay with that. I know that as long as that scale moves down (no matter how slowly) that eventually I will be where I want to be.

You look amazing! Congratulations!

Tried on clothes in regular sizes on Saturday for the first time in forever, and they fit. I was so excited!

I did the same thing. I went from a size 32 to a size 22 or 20, and I still have a pair of jeans that are a size 22 that fit comfortably. Then I was stuck on those sizes for what seemed like months. I was losing weight, but I wasn't shrinking in sizes any. It gets very frustrating. Then I got that horrid virus, and I dropped 4 sizes. It was insane. People were telling me that I was looking good, but I hadn't lost any weight. I don't know what happened, but it was the jump start I needed to do what I need to do.

MSDV - My weight loss has been super slow, and I know it is my fault. I should eat better. I shouldn't be drinking sweet tea (my downfall). I should exercise more and quit making excuses. It is hard. I wish there was a magic pill at times to fix this. I am happy though that I haven't gained weight. Even those times that I might not lose in a month, I have been able to maintain. That makes me happy because I used to gain weight. I tell myself that every pound I have lost is 1 pound that I will never see again. Today is the start of a new new me. Yes, I put two news in there. My first new me was when I had the surgery. The new new me is the me that is going to start training for a 5k. I can do this. I have no doubt about it. Our pastor at church yesterday told me that I was getting very skinny. I will take that any day of the week even Sundays.

I had a virus that was causing me to throw up. It was awful, and I still get days where I'm queasy. I wasn't able to hold down any food for nearly a month. The good thing about it is that it helped me to finally hit the 100 lb weight loss mark. I was super excited this morning when I hopped on the scale for the first time in nearly a month to weigh.

3 solid weeks of only being able to keep minimum food down. Now I throw up blood with it. I can tell the difference between a stuck episode and a full blown throwing up. I lose weight, and my body falls apart on me. Have to see a stomach doctor. Praying my band isn't eroded or it has to go. On a happy note, I'm now in a size 18 down from a size 32 at the beginning of this journey. I actually put on my son's XL jacket and zipped it up with room to spare.

I haven't stepped on a scale in so long that I couldn't tell you if I have lost weight or not. I haven't exercised since before my hysterectomy back in June because of pain issues from that. I realized that as much as I want to be at a size 10, that I'm content right now where I'm at. Until I decide that I'm ready to be even littler, I will be where I'm at now. I still see the same person in the mirror that I was in July '10. Maybe, I need to be seeing a professional about the mental aspects of this.

It makes perfect sense because that is me to a T. I have had the hardest time eating. Things I used to could eat, I can't any more. I can't eat bread. I can't eat iceberg lettuce, but I can eat butter lettuce. I had a fill on July 9, and I've waited it out. My band loosens in the evening, so I can eat more. I forget to eat . Plus nothing sounds good at all. I'm having to reteach myself how to eat. I don't have any appetite at all.

I'm having the hardest time eating during the day. I have zero appetite until the evening. It seems that at that point my band loosens. I'm still trying to figure all of this out. My kids started back to school this week, and I start back to college for the first time in 19 years (YIKES!) on Monday. I'm nervous. I'm excited, and I'm kind of overwhelmed. The scale hasn't moved in a month, but I can tell a HUGE difference in my clothes. Everything is falling off, and I mean that literally. I need to do another closet purge. I did see family that I haven't seen since Thanksgiving over the weekend. My nephews (22 and 20) didn't recognize me. Everybody couldn't believe how much weight I have lost since November. My brother told me that he can tell that I've been working out. That I look great. Man, it was great for the ego. Think I'm going to go and buy myself a little something to meet Hubster at the airport in Friday night. He has been gone for 2 weeks thanks to the Navy. I'm loving life right now. Going to start training for a 5k that a bunch of Seabee wives are going to run during the fall. I'm excited, and I would have never dreamed of doing something like that a year ago.

I experienced that, and it was my gallbladder. As soon as the gallbladder was taken out, the chest pain stopped. I didn't even realize how bad my gallbladder was until I didn't have it anymore.