9th anniversary - still 169 pounds down!
So, whaddaya think? Successful? 
This was me, the summer prior to my surgery and again yesterday afternoon.
I'm not going to lie and say it's been easy. it hasn't. It has been eas-IER than the diets I put myself through year after year after year. I have had my ups and downs, fills and total unfills, hiatial hernia surgery and a bit of a battle to adapt to the "new and improved" band. (I just like the first one better.)
Despite everything, and despite me still wanting to use food as emotional rescue, I have still maintained a 169 pound weight loss.
No one should think that this surgery - or ANY WLS - is going to be easy. We each have to do our part, to do everything possible to insure a good result. And even then, it is still possible to have no success. And I don't know why: bad luck? Bad surgeon? Bad physiology? I don't know, and I feel terrible for those who haven't had success. But I wanted to show that, sometimes, the band DOES work.
Banded 10 years & maintaining my weight loss!! Any questions, message me.
Congratulations! I am sure there are lots of folks with the band that appreciate the encouragement that it CAN be done.
I am 5 years out from a RNY and, as of this morning, am only a pound over my goal weight and 3.5 pounds over my lowest weight. I hope (and plan) to still be able to say the same in 4 more years.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
