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Yes Weight Loss Is Never Easy Its Hard Work!! I Got My Band on June 5th and Its Been a Struggle But Please Keep Telling Yourself as I Tell Myself! If It Comes Easy You Don't Want It Anyways!!! When The Weight Comes Off and People Tell You How Good You Look Take That Compliment and Run With It!!! Some Say We Took The Easy Way Having Surgery But I say NO I Took The Harder Way!!! I Got Cut! I Had Surgery, and I Took a Major Chance That Most Would and Could Not Take and If It Came Easy, I didn't Want It Anyway!!! You See Once You Submit To God and His Purpose For Your Life!!! He Will Make a Way Out Of No Way and Help You With the Lap Band Accomplish All Your Goals!!! Because God Helps Those Who Help Themselves!! And We Did!!!! ;):D

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You can do it, you have a great attitude! Best wishes and God bless you! Karen

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Amen and yes he can make a way out of NO WAY! Best of luck on living a BANDED life! Can't wait to be on the other side... Keep in touch love the positive energy you send out....

Blann

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It is not the easy way out for sure. I was banded 12/19/11 and its taken me this long to realize that my life will never be the same. I know that sounds stupid but I can actually fully understand it now. There will be foods I will never eat again. Sometimes just that is hard because I didn't get overweight not liking food. Its like someone took my best friend away. This is a physical journey and as well as a mental one. I have come to terms with a lot of it. I am almost 6 months out and have had to change my lifestyle. Not focus my life around food. I guess it still does focus on food just in such a better way. Eating better and being active. It has made me a better person with getting a better attitude with myself. I have lost 65 lbs so far and definitely not done. But for anyone saying we took the easy way out let them walk in our shoes for a week and see if they still say it's the easy way out. I bet they wouldn't say that again! God bless!

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Amen! I also tell myself that there is no temptation (junk food) that I will be faced with where God doesn't provide a way out because he always does and sometimes it's as simple as just saying no:-) God bless

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I have to say, if there WAS an easy way I would take it for sure! But this definitely isn't it; surgery isn't an "easy way out" (I've never understood people who say that!). I also believe that we who helps ourselves get to where we want to go. So, we can ALL do this!

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I'm a nurse.about 10 yrs ago I worked on a floor that did a lot of extended care.this was the place they dropped u off when u were not well enough to go home yet not sick enough to be on a regular floor.anyway...I was about 240 lbs. but carried my weight well and still had the coke bottle shape.we would get a lot of gastric bypass patients who surgery went wrong some kind of way.I would talk about them and say that surgery was " punking out" and that what they get for taking the easy way out :-( Fast forward 10 yrs,100 more lbs.and now shaped like an orange ,now I see the light.Surgery was the hardest decision to make .yes it was risky and I kept thinking about those patients from 10 yrs ago as I was making my decision.but now I understand why.and it's not punking out it's a really brave step !

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For me the surgery, and the whole lap band experience has been extremely easy. I have never been able to lose the weight like I did and keep it off as easily as this journey has been for me. Yes, for me it has been the easy way out and it has been wonderful.

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