Nereston

Well, I was banded the day after Labor Day last fall ('07), and my struggle continues. I lost 9 lbs on the 3-week after-surgery dietary restriction, but very, very little since. I am puzzled and so is my Dr. I was walking 3 mi. every other day, from Jul. to Jan., but there was no net weight loss whatever. I switched to an hr. of intensive cardio on the machines at the YMCA 3 nights per week beginning in Feb. That has ground off another 7 lbs. to date. I am at a level 3 constriction of a possible 4, and I promise I really am being nutritionally compliant. Clearly, for me at least, I will have to "grind" this weight off. My band is not going to simply "melt" it off. I lost 25 lbs a year ago on a prescribed 90-day course of phentermine (pre-surgery) as my effort at a "headstart". At least I have not regained any of that. I still have about 50 lbs to go, and it is a very, very slow process indeed, at least for me. I wish others more rapid success.