Yeah know I'm annoying but.......

MY DOGS ARE SO CUTE! :-)

They sure are, as is their mama!

Awww! Thank you. :-) I love being a Pom Mom!

Hi Caramel!

How are you?  You're having a revision too?

Best,
Leila

I haz band issues.

Oy, I see from some of your past posts.  You will be happy when it is all said and done.  It is so hard to be in a place where you are just waiting and hoping and grieving.  I grieved my band going bad and then losing it, gaining weight.  The whole process from being told I had a dilation and for an entire year  of "will it resolve & what to do" felt pretty unstable, devastating , disappointing and downright traumatic.  I am glad it is over.  I am glad I moved on.  The sleeve is great friend.

 Never mind the dogs, who is  that very glam, very slim lady sitting next to Santa???

Don't think I have seen a full length photo before! Wow!

Kate

It's me! It's me! Lol. Thanks Kate. You are too sweet!

The dogs are cute. How can you be unhappy with your lap band when you look that good? I'd kill to be in that shape. (My nephew told me I am a good shape, because circles are shapes too. Got to love that kid.)

Bexie those are 2 different things. The size and the band. I am fine with. I'm not at goal, but I am a size 12 and content with that. I am still overweight (BMI I think is like 25.9?), but I am now close enough to "normal" to fit in, and that's a good feeling. I went to the gym some a few months ago and it was nice to go and feel like "one of them"..........instead of the fat lady at the gym. :-)

Can't get my underline off for some reason.

Anyway I am unhappy with my band b/c other than the first 2 wks. that I had it, it hasn't worked as advertised. The first 2 wks. after the band there was no appetite b/c of the swelling. Awesome experience to go from being hungry all the time..........to not being hungry at all! But that is not what I expected from the band. I just expected a little assistance. I expected to get full sooner and stay full longer like they say. But the first 2 wks. was a nice little extra!

Anyway after 2 wks. the appetite came back which I knew it would. I expected to be hungry till I had the "correct" amount of saline and had restriction. I knew I needed to change my eating habits to work with the band, and I did that. High protein, lower fat and carbs. I was already doing the lower sugar. And I don't drink with meals or 30 mins. after.

So I waited month after month getting my fills thinking "maybe this one with be "the one"! I kept thinking that all I had to do was hold on untill I got restriction and then I wouldn't be hungry and miserable all the time. Then each month I would be disappointed.  It was either too loose or too tight. No happy medium.

I am happy with my weight loss, but I am not happy that I had to starve myself to do it. I got the band so I wouldn't be hungry all the time. And that never happened.

Ok no more underline for some reason now. ?

Also I now have the added stress of worryinig about re-gain. Any WLS'er can regain, but when you have NO "tool" there is nothing to fall back on. So re-gain is a constant concern for me now.

Then there are the expectations of future band issues. I see it on the forums and in real life every day with bandsters, and I don't feel that I will be exempt. Seems to be not a matter of *if* they will happen, but *when* they will happen. :-(

Now as far as your nephew............Yeah that sounds exactly like something a kid would say, and it reminded me of a cartoon in Readers Digest. Little boy and old lady in the pic with a jar of "wrinkle cream". The kid asks her what it is and she tells him it's her wrinkle cream. He says "it works real good grandma! You've got lots of wrinkles!" Lol. So one never knows what a kid is going to say next!