Since I started reading the forum I have heard from and appreciated alot of the advise and imput from the people who where recently banded and those who are getting banded soon but not much from those with long term successes or struggles. As someone who is going to have this proceedure soon, I want to know what the long term experiences have been.
Thanks!
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.
Anybody Out there banded longer that 2-3 months
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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.