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This reminds me of my coworker. I hear it at least three times a week, "I'm going to start eating healthier and workout every day, starting next week." It's always next week. And when I ask if he worked out last night, there's always an excuse. We both get home from work at 5:30pm, and he is usually up until 1:00am, yet somehow there's never enough time to work out. Of course he had time to watch this program and that program. I wouldn't care if I didn't have to honestly hear this multiple times a week. Get serious about it, stop blaming everything but yourself, and just do it.

This was pretty much my deal too. I didn't start really learning how to work the band until about four months into it.

You mentioned that your world as you knew it was going to end. Really though, it's going to change for the better. You'll still be able to eat your favorite foods too, just hopefully not as much.

Why are you depressed? This is an exciting time for you, a new way of life. You'll come to love it.

Ok, so you lost almost a hundred pounds, and now you're in the process of throwing it all away. I refuse to believe that you can actually feel good after eating all the ice cream and whatever else it is that you're eating. I'm thinking you're eating to the point where you're stuffed? That never felt good to me even when I was overeating every day. You've gained 20 pounds, the clothes fitting a bit tighter? Hope you didn't throw out your bigger clothes. A slip-up here and there for a couple days is understandable. But not this. Did something happen to make this start again? You need to come up with a plan, and start tomorrow. Start eating right and start exercising again, because I'm guessing that stopped too. Just go back to square one. You did this already for long enough, you know what it takes. I honestly don't think a fill is going to help. It certainly won't help with ice cream filling you up.

I had no idea about this and I've flown a few times since being banded. Good to know.

I think a few people started noticing the weight loss at around 30 pounds, I still remember one friend who I rarely see was blown away when he saw me at 40 pounds down. People at work didn't notice really until I went away for a week vacation and came back. I kept hearing "Wow you did a lot of walking on your trip, you lost some weight." No, I've spent the last four months losing 75 pounds. It irritated me, but I suppose it's to be expected.

I can see my collarbone clearly Fitting into smaller clothes, although the sizes are moving slowly Can cross my legs, I don't have to pull it up halfway with my hand I'm no longer overflowing into other peoples' seats at the movies or hockey games And not really NSVs, but....I'm much more energetic now, my overall mood and attitude have changed completely, I now dislike sitting around the house for hours on end, I have started on increasing my flexibility (as of right now I'm as flexible as a brick), and overall I just want to go out and try new things that I never did before because of the weight.

The band gets a lot of hate because it's known to allow for slower weight loss, and it's success depends on if the person truly wants to succeed or not.

Completely forgot to check in last week. I'm at 235.4 as of this morning. I went up a couple pounds last week, hence the slower loss.