plateaued?

I know that what i write isnt as relevant as what other people will write to you yet maybe it is i had the LAP BAND surgery done at port huron hospital some say i took the easy way out of loosing weight on my own but it was impossible here i was 19 years old 5'6" and 265 lbs i was fat in my eyes i even went to the extremes of starving myself for 3 months not eating at all and then gained every pound of the 45 i lost back. now that i have the band i use it as my tool to help me loose the weight that i want to loose it is amazing how much better i feel and honestly how much better i look... everytime i plateau out i just simply go and get a "fill" which i think i may be in need of right now... i had my surgery on nov 16th 2004 and here i am a little over a year later at 180 i have only lost 85 lbs unlike the bypass where i would probably be alot closer to my goal weight of 135 .. they say with the band that the weight comes off alot slower than as if with the bypass in the first 9 months post op i had only lost 28 pounds and plateaued out at that... now i am 14 months post op at 85 lbs with 40 to 45 to go... so the weight has just been falling off lately i run into people that i went to school with that dont even recognise me and i bet all of you get the same are you sure that you are you look that i get everytime i run into people that know me. one thing that i have learned is its not how much you eat it is what you eat... so if you are plateued look at what you eat now compared to what you used to eat when you were loosing the weight more rapidly than you are now.. i bet it is more of the things that you shouldnt be eating. MY mom had the gastric bypass done at the bariatric center in yipsi and she lost 140 lbs and has now gained about 45 lbs back of the 140 because she is slowly allowing herself to eat more and more of the things that she shouldnt be eating.... so for the first 3 years she used her surgery as a tool and now she is letting it all go down hill and as much as i tell her to stay away from the bad things the more she seems to want to eat them. i even tried to get her to go on a protein diet with me... and she just wouldnt learn and still ate all the bad things... so i have realized that if you are going to eat a little more then you should eat the good things... i am a sinner, so i am not preaching because i to eat icecream and chocolates and potato chips sometimes too but it is not a everyday thing like i used to when i was the 265 lbs the highschooler that used to get made fun of for being overweight...