April Bandsters where are you?

[Daisy_81 0]

I'm a fellow April 05 bandster and this has been a very exciting couple of months! I had my surgery 4/29 and received my first fill last Thursday. To date I have lost 47.5 pounds and feel so much better already! I have a long way to go but this time I know I'm gonna make it! This website is wonderful and has helped me so much! As I have read at the closing of some posts....I love my band!

I had my surgery April 13, and I have lost 25 pounds. I feel like I should be losing more. I certainly feel better, but nobody ever really notices that i have lost 25 pounds. And when I tell people they kinda look @ me like, they don't believe me. So I'm feeling like I'm doing something wrong. Why am I not loosing faster?:help:

[Daisy_81 0]

hey I was banded April 13, 2007. I have lost 25 pounds:whoo: I have never been ever to lose more than 5 on my own. Although I am very happy, I also feel like I should be losing more. I have heard of people losing 40 pounds in the amount of time I've only lost 25. Whats up with that? What am I doing wrong?:help:

[TracyinKS 7]

Hey Daisy... this is a thread for those banded april 2005.. some on this thread might not hang around here anymore........

Join us APRIL 2007 bandsters over on the MONTHLY threads!

You are not doing bad at all! come on over

[TracyinKS 7]

heres the link http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f91/shrinking-violets-april-07-bandsters-29472/index391.html#post546520

[Angeleyes 1]

Hey, April 2005 Bandsters where are you now?????

Please come back and report how you are all doing now!

[thechatrooper 0]

I was banded April 2005.

I've been through A LOT since then... and I've lost 113 lbs! I've actually exceeded my goal... and I'm so, so happy!

I'm 5'7... I started off at 260 and now I'm 147. My entire attitude towards food has changed... I HATE fast food now (that was my biggest vice before) and I only eat when I'm really hungry... some days I forget about food entirely. It feels good to go visit my parents and have my mom nag me to eat and tell me I'm getting too skinny, lol!

Since the surgery I've become a stronger person. I ditched the people in my life that weren't making me happy... I've become close to two wonderful females who are now my best friends and who are nothing but positive and supportive! I even got the nerve to move to London for four months to go to school there! I traveled all around Western Europe and had the time of my life! That experience also changed my attitude towards food and health a LOT. I actually dropped about 40 pounds while in Europe - and I wasn't even watching what I was eating! My room mates and I ate Pasta, Desserts, etc. The difference was that all of it was FRESH. I truly believe that preservatives really sabotage a lot of our diets. Eating fresh food over there for 4 months straight was really benificial to me.

I really hope everyone else out of the April group have been successful as well! Let us know how you're doing!