KBOMB!

thanks to all you guys so much all of your replies really helped me. im on my process toward getting banded, hopefully it will be done this summer. thanks again! <3 Kerri

i saw you on oprah the other day! i really have to say you look AMAZING. im 17 and im pretty sure im getting the lap band over the summer, but your whole thing on oprah really made me feel so much better about getting it. so thanks for doing it and talking about it <3

yeah dude if that's not the most motivating thought in the world then i dont know what is!! lol ohhh i get it. see i thought they like go back into the port somehow and like surgically tighten it. haha no actually that was really helpful, its better to know like a personal account of the whole thing. i probably would have been quite terrified of it too lol. how did it go uncomfortably? like it hurt? i know its only been like a few days since you got it, but has it made any kind of difference or anything?

lmao yeah thats what i figured would be the worst, the liquid diets. but its worth it right? i guess for like 2 weeks youd probably be miserable like WHY DID I DO THISSS cause thats just what everyone goes through in the beginning, so i hear haha. and yeah i definitely know that annoyingness, but its just as bad, if not better than, sitting with them while youre on a DIET and you are feeling deprived and starving hah. what do they even do to you when you get a fill?? ive been looking it up everywhere and i still dont really understand that whole process.

yeah i hear you. im probaby the only overweight girl in 12th grade in my hs, and i truly do not want to start college like this. im going to see a doctor about it on friday and hopefully ill be getting it done, ive only heard good things. what's like the hardest thing or worst part about having it? yes that is true. and i was thinking that friends would understand even if i told them, but unfortunately that is not always the case in high school haha. and even if they didn't understand, who cares right? theres nothing wrong with bettering your own life.

oh my god man im 17 too and i wanted to get this done. i havent really decided yet, reading up on it, but yeah i totally understand about the whole keeping it a secret. ive been thinking of how to keep it a secret if i do get it, especially from friends. definitely update on your progresss!

So, I'm 17, and a friend of mine is going through the process of a lap-band surgery. She talks about it all the time, and got me thinking about it, too... so I'm just researching a little bit. My mom got gastric bypass like a year ago, and I know that wasn't such a smooth process, but is this anything like that?? I thought a good place to start would be hearing about it from people who got it done. Like, if you could go back would you do it again? and what's the hardest part about having one, and just anything that would be helpful in anyway. Thanks!!!! <3 Kerri