Banded for a long time and still learning

[Old enuf to know better 8]

Hi - I'm new to this forum, but not to banding. I first got banded in 2007 at a weight of 210 lbs. I had a lot of issues, definitely not using the band properly. It ended with a slipped band in 2008, all the Fluid was taken out and 6 week rest period before being refilled. You would think I had learned something. I did, I learned how not to get stuck by eating slider foods, ice cream, Cookies anything sweet and sugary.

From 2008 until 2012 I had kept 50 lbs off, but still eating crazy.

I went back to doctor for a fill and got to the point of living on ice cream and Soup, thinking this was normal. Finally, I realized how Un-normal this was, I went back and got Fluid taken out of my band. Let me tell you - no restriction - I felt like Denzel Washington in the movie Flight when he finds the key to the mini bar and stares at all the alcohol. I went on an eating frenzy eating every thing that I handing been able to 4 years.

In March 2013, I went back to doctor and got adjusted,I know band is where it needs to be, I just need to get my head on straight. In the last 2 months I have done a lot of soul searching and realizing what I'm sure everyone else already knows - the band is a tool.

I come to the website today for all the right reasons - support from others and for others. This is not an easy thing to do, if it was the industry wouldn't be full books and diet plans to follow. Without being to preachy - we have it all inside ourselves to do it - sometimes we just need someone to help us a little along the way.

So good luck to me and everyone else along this journey and hope to talk to some of you soon.

[babette217 2]

Thanks for this. I'm a newbie to banded life. I haven't even had my first fill yet. But I'm getting nervous to start eating real food now. This is my first day eating eating real food. I'm a little scared but I know it's all up to me.

[2muchfun 8,927]

So much more is known now than 6 years ago. However, it appears that much of this info rarely makes it's way to banded patients. There's not a day that goes by that someone comes here with no idea what happens next? Did they play Angry Birds during the seminars and education classes or did they sign on with lousy doctors with poor communication skills? We'll never know?

Welcome back to your new healthy lifestyle. Keep on posting and reading.

tmf

[mrsto 2,925]

Between the seminars that my doctor's office provided, along with the classes, doctors visits, etc., ALL the information was available......and communicated. For me, I was on such mental overload getting to the point of even deciding to go through with the procedure, than I wasn't FULLY focused on every single detail that came my way. My mind was in a whirl with so much info, and the huge life change ahead of me. Given that my profession of 35 years requires mental focus and attention to detail, and after my OWN absence of mind to some of the details of the surgery process, I'm not surprised when I hear that some people missed some information. That being said, some of the things I read on here still blow me away, and I have to wonder if some folks actually had their primary care physician do the surgery

I've gotten some "missed" info from this forum; all of which was already told to me in the plethora of info from my doctor and his staff.....which I continue to receive. From beginning to end, this is a huge undertaking, and I think that some people deserve a little slack for going brain dead on a detail or two. But then again, there are those that sound like they had drive through bariatric surgery, and didn't receive a road map once they left the window