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Dont second guess yourself....for some, the band is enough to get you where you want..not everyone want to be so tight that they cant eat bread.  I have restriction and I still can eat bread...I just choose not to because it fill me up and I love to eat more food that tast better than bread.

Sad that we dont even reliaze how we (other banders) can be...when I first got band, I went to the support group and got ragged because I was a light weight (236) and one even went so far to tell me that if she only weighed 236 pounds, she would have never gotten the band, she would have just exercise and ate right, (yea right). My point is....they made me feel like I did not belong.

DONT LET ANYONE FORCE YOU TO GET A FILL IF YOU FEEL YOU DONT NEED IT...I could lose weight prior to getting the band...lost 50 pounds while researching but as soon as I got off the restrictive diet where I was hungry all time, those pounds start coming back with a venegence, then I knew....time to do something.

gosh Baby I cant believe somebody said something like that how awful . People can be so cruel sometimes .

I never had problems losing weight either , I would eat right , I would exercise my lowest weight was 260 I went from 355 down to 260 worked my ass off for it so I know I can do it , I did it before .

But I went through money problems and then money problems lead to hubby and I fighting all the time so there went my diet and exercise *sigh* .  Kicked myself in the ass many times for that lol.

You know.. I didn't go to my doc's support group for a long long time because the facilitator and I do not see eye to eye on a lot of things.  Plus our support group is mixed, RNY, sleeves & bands.. and while issues are similar, they're just not the same.  I often feel like an orphan because they're mainly RNY.

Or if I try to express my opinion, a couple of loud-mouths won't let me speak..   grrrr.

I do online support through yahoo groups and get a lot more out of it.

My fav. is smartbandsters at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SmartBandsters

There's also Bandbuddies, DFWBandsters and BariatricRecipes, all at health.groups.yahoo.com

Once you've been banded 6 months or more, there's GraduateBandsters too.

come on over to the online side....  :)

Gosh thanks so much for them links I will check them out tonight after dinner :o) I really appreciate that  .

I dont think I will go back to my support group either . I think it does me more damage then good.  The talks was good I enjoyed the relationship talk we did but I dont like the personal questions, and things like that , that is when they make me feel like Im the oddball lol.

We had an older man at our support group who was banded over 18 months and never had a fill and he lost ALL his goal weight and had kept it off!! No one blasted him, thank goodness. I say, YOU GO!! I do have fills and still eat bread, WTH is with no bread, there is a difference between can't because it gets stuck, and shouldn't. I've never heard that I shouldn't eat bread. I eat 1/2 slice of whole grain, every day. I wouldn't second guess myself, if I was you!
Oh, and my gripe for today is, could all the band bashers just get a life!!!!

MEN!!!!!!! Specifically one MAN!!!!

 Yeesh. Why would anyone need more than one?? 

well during football season Bette I would like to have more then one man. I keep telling hubby that I want to find a man during football season that has season tickets for the Steelers be with him for that , but always come back to hubby during the week cause he is great in bed and I like how he dont make me go out and get a job a guy with Steeler tickets might make me work I just want to use him for Steeler games that is it :o)

LOL!!! Decided I didn't need him at all!  Everytime I think about it I get mad again.  So I guess I'm the silly one now for letting it still get to me.  

I will just leave mine as an all inclusive Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgh!!  Sometimes ya just need to scream 


Wow that was therapeutic, thanks