A good phase on my banding journey

claraluz · December 4, 2004

I am having so many NSVs, it is really exciting. It seems my body is changing so much so fast. I've lost some weight to be sure, but I think a lot of it is the effect of exercise and I am "compacting" (I believe that was Alexandra's word). Bandster friends, I struggled for so many, many months after my initial weight loss post-surgery. I ate all of the wrong things. I didn't exercise. I didn't lose a pound for months and months. And even though I had lost a lot of weight initially, my clothing size hadn't changed at all. So I hope you don't feel I am bragging or tooting my own horn now, but I just feel the need to express my excitement to someone and I figure you all can understand better than my thin friends would.

I love that the band was patient and waited for me to get my act together while at the same time not allowing me to re-gain all my lost weight.

The recent NSVs are too numerous to mention, but here are a few: I finally caved in and bought new clothes about a month or so ago because my clothes were finally getting too big. Now my new clothes are too big. At work there are about 2 people a day - usually people I don't really know - who comment on how much weight I've lost. Most miraculous of all, I've had a lot of photos taken of me recently at parties and such and I didn't hate most of them! I'm just so excited and thrilled!

Nancy

leatha_g · December 4, 2004

Isn't that awesome!! I haven't lost a thing since Labor Day, myself, but everyday I find something else I CAN do that I couldn't do a year ago. It makes me so hopeful when I see another bandster come to that place of realization. Sometimes it sneaks up on you - the weight loss, the inches lost, the new flexibility/agility, the new sense of self who may have been wrapped up in a cocoon for years. Fly, butterfly, fly!!!