Reflecting Back Before Weight Loss Surgery – 15 Years and Counting

    I enjoy life, and giving back to this community that has given me so much, as I journey through my life after weight loss surgery.

    It’s About So Much More Than The Number On The Scale – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    Be patient with yourself, you are a work in progress and the scale will always catch up with your choices. You are making good choices and those negative thoughts don’t serve your journey.

    Fifteen Years Post-Op Weight Loss Surgery And I Still Food Journal for Long Term Success

    Do you food journal? What app do you like? Share with us, everyone can benefit.

    New Kittens Are a Non-Scale Victory – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    Just imagine me at 70 years old, weighing 424 pounds, trying to get up and down from the floor. It didn’t happen before I had weight loss surgery at 55 years old so it certainly couldn’t happen at 70.

    Keeping My Fitness Routine Is Still Difficult – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    Tired and achy is NOT an excuse to give up my fitness routine. It is the very reason to continue it.

    Take The Time To Stop And Smell The Roses For Long Term WLS Success – Revisited

    When you stop and smell the roses, and realize the progress you have made, the smiles come more easily.

    Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success – The Trigger Foods Of Summer Revisited

    So do you believe that food can be addictive? Do you ever feel out of control yourself?

    Is It Really Hunger OR Am I Just Tired?

    I am using the tool between my ears to solve the mysteries of hunger and satiety in those areas that my surgery doesn’t, and can’t directly, help me.

    Three Simple Steps – How To Love Yourself

    Oh, so you want to know what the 3 simple steps to loving yourself are:

    So, What Is The Connection Between My Cat Dying and Weight Loss Surgery?

    I do not need to eat to feel better.  THIS IS MY LIFE AFTER WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY.

    The Saga of The Sapphire Necklace – Celebrating Life After Weight Loss Surgery

    Now I am the proud owner of a sapphire necklace that is the history of my weight loss surgery journey and I wear it with love in my heart and pride in my step every time I have the opportunity.

    Fit Living Pays Unexpected Dividends – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    Life truly can be great! Never stop looking for and celebrating those Non-Scale Victories.

    It’s My Fifteenth Surgiversary!

    YOU ARE POSSIBLE!. Never forget that as you travel your journey to health.

    Change Your Perspective and Achieve Any Goal You Want – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    Choose happy. Shut those negative voices up that fill your head with negative nonsense and then work on believing in the Power of YOU.

    Why I Attend Bariatric Conferences For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    I help fund grants for surgeries for those who are in medical need and do not have the insurance coverage or the financial ability to pay for the surgery.

    A Body In Motion Tends To Stay In Motion For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    For me the lesson is that no matter what, moving my body in some way every single day results in less pain, more flexibility, and I LOVE seeing and feeling the muscles I work so hard to create.

    How Vacations Are Different After Weight Loss Surgery

    How many years of enjoying my life did I miss before having surgery? It’s not worth worrying about since those years are over -- and today I celebrate LIFE.

    Motivation, Inspiration, and Support on My Journey To Health After Weight Loss Surgery

    Where do you get your motivation, support and inspiration from?

    When Did You Clean Out Your Cupboards Last?

    When’s the last time you cleaned out your cupboards and your pantry?

    STOP The Negative Self Talk for Long Term Success After Weight Loss surgery

    So how do I shut off those negative thoughts in my brain? I shout out loud or in my head STOP! Then I replace them with positive words:

    Changing Up Exercise As The Days Get Longer and Warmer for Continued Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    So, grab your bottle of water, and perhaps a protein bar, and come join me outside as I celebrate Spring. What’s your favorite Springtime activity?

    Pushing Through The Hard – To Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    NOTHING is too hard if we want it bad enough. Share with me what your “hard” is and how you’re working on. Together, we are stronger than we are alone.

    How Journaling Can Foster Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    Eating in restaurants can be tricky. TIP - You can order a kid’s meal if they have decent selections, or some places will allow you to order half portions, or, ask the server to put half of your meal in the To Go box BEFORE it is brought to the table.

    Getting Sidelined Is No Fun – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    Nothing but protein and produce for the win. Another life crisis pushed through to the other side to get back on this wagon of good health.

    It’s Valentine’s Day 2019 – love and chocolate are in the air

    I challenge each of you to find something besides high calorie, high fat, and high sugar chocolate to express your love. Share your V-Day treat and help a sister out.

    Did I Really Just Stuff My Face With That – Emotional Eating After Weight Loss Surgery

    Yes, even after 14+ years post op I am human, make mistakes around food. The big difference now is that I own the mistakes, look for a learning moment in them, and then move on.

    My Weight Loss Surgery Journey As The Little Engine That Could

    Keep chugging on up those hills saying out loud to anyone who will listen, I THINK I CAN, I THINK I CAN, I THINK I CAN, I KNOW I CAN…… LOOK, I DID IT!

    How I Know What I Eat, To Maintain Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    Weighing and measuring has served me well over the past almost 15 years. Any time I ignored it I managed to add a few pounds. They disappear as I begin weighing and measuring again.

    New Year – New YOU – But don’t forget how far you’ve come since weight loss surgery!

    Let’s start 2019 off by Celebrating Our Progress, along with setting new goals. What’s one NSV you’re willing to share with me today?

    How Do You Eat an Elephant and What the Heck Does It Have To Do With Weight Loss Surgery?

    So, my friends, just how do you eat an elephant? ONE BITE AT A TIME.

    Another year as a weight loss surgery patient is ending. A new one is beginning – What will 2019 bring?

    I still am working on one STRETCH goal for the year. I’ll let you know when I have it figured out. How about YOU? What are your goals for the New Year?

    Twas The Week Before Christmas and All Through The House, The Office, and EVERYWHERE We Go – How We Work To Stay On Track After WLS

    Happy Holidays to all. Enjoy your family time, or just your time off and leave the sugar alone. You’ll be happier if you do.

    Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery Means Taking Care of Yourself

    When’s the last time you took your vitamins and supplements consistently? Think about why you had the surgery – to be healthy, right? ‘Nuf said!

    How Reasons, Excuses, and Rationalizations Color Our Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    I challenge each, and every one, of you to find something you have rationalized this past year and acknowledge it, move through it, and strategize a different choice for “next time”

    The Two Most Difficult Things for Me in the Winter After Weight Loss Surgery

    I also pull on my mind’s knowledge that if I don’t get my fitness in I will be even colder all day long since it jump starts my metabolism. What are your trips and tricks for hydration and fitness in cold weather? Inquiring minds want to know.

    Keeping A Positive Mental Attitude For Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success

    Today, at your Thanksgiving dinner, or later, or tomorrow, or the day after that take a moment and reflect on what you are grateful for. I promise you it’s time well spent.

    Taking A Moment to Be Grateful After Weight Loss Surgery

    I am grateful to be alive. I am grateful for each and every one of you who read and share my story. What are you grateful for?

    Hydrate For The Holidays For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    Staying hydrated is critical to my health. How about yours?

    Learning To Love ME – Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    I am happy, possibly for the first time in my life these past several years. Why? Not because I lost all of the weight although that does help me feel good about myself. It’s mostly because I have learned to love and accept myself with all my virtues and all my flaws. I am ME and happy to be ME.

    The Holidays Are Coming – Get Ready And Live Them As A Weight Loss Surgery Patient

    Want to wear that little black dress New Year’s Eve? Want to finish 2018 without the pain of regain? Ready to start 2019 off with a smile on your face. Don’t put it off until next year. Do it now. Stay SANE through the holidays.

    A Quick Study In Meal Planning – Prep My Way As A Long Term WLS Patient

    You all know I talk about weighing, measuring, journaling your food and planning and preparing it for long term success after weight loss surgery. It sounds like a lot of work to many of you, right? It really isn’t though.

    Today I Had A Choice – Long Term WLS Success

    Tthis journey, my long term success is all about choosing ME over everything else that might get in the way.

    Take The Time To Stop And Smell The Roses For Long Term WLS Success

    When you stop and smell the roses, and realize the progress you have made, the smiles come more easily.

    Why I Exercise – Confessions Of A Long Term Successful Weight Loss Surgery Patient

    Why do you exercise, or if you don’t, why do you not exercise?

    Living My Best Life After Weight Loss Surgery

    So, Happy Birthday to Me and to all of you, may I just say THANKS.

    To Journal or Not To Journal – That Is The Question for Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    We deserve to eat delicious food as we reclaim our health and learn how to maintain it. I get to do that by journaling… You can do it also - right?

    Comparison can be the Thief of Joy after Weight Loss Surgery

    Don’t let comparison steal all your joy. You are enough, you are worthy of self-love. Be sure to tell yourself that every day.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – What’s For Dinner?

    Wherever you choose to get your recipes, I encourage you to make it your business to eat REAL FOOD that tastes good AND provides you with the nutrition required to get to your goal and maintain it.

    Pushing Through My Fear Or Eating To Not Feel It – The Choice After Weight Loss Surgery

    The time is NOW to push through the fear and get to the other side where LIFE and JOY exist.

    The Non-Scale Victories Never End – Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success

    I am no longer ruled by that voice in my head that says, “you can’t”. I tell it to shut up and not only can I, but I AM!

    A body in motion tends to stay in motion; a body at rest tends to stay at rest – What it means to me 14 years after Weight Loss Surgery

    Newton’s first law of physics applies here… a body in motion tends to stay in motion. It is my first law also – Keep moving!!

    Fourteen Years Post-Op and Still Pushing the Envelope

    Have you ever taken that one bite too many and paid the price?

    Remembering My WHY For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    ...this is WHY I had surgery – to be fit, healthy, flexible and mobile and this is WHY I continue getting myself to the gym.

    Water The Essence of Life, Especially After Weight Loss Surgery

    I walk around with a liter bottle of water everywhere I go. I have extra water in my car at all times. The bonus to all this hydration is that water assists weight loss a few different ways:

    Getting Through A Rough Patch, Day By Day After Weight Loss Surgery

    I am getting it all done, I haven’t missed a day at the gym nor will I, I just am having to dig very hard and very deep to do it.

    Turning “I Can’t” Into” I Can” And Then Into “I Am”

    I challenge you to create the time for something you have been putting off because you just Can’t.

    Three Things That Count For Feeling Good Even 14 Years After Weight Loss Surgery

    When you feel out of sorts do you stop and check in with yourself to see what might be missing from your daily actions? Personal accountability is key to long term success.

    A Quick Peek Into The Life Of A 14 Year Post-Op Weight Loss Surgery Patient

    I took care of ME first. My persistence is certainly paying dividends in my life. It isn’t easy, but it certainly is worth it.

    Traveling With My LAP-BAND

    These are just a few tips for taking vacation or traveling without sabotaging your journey to maintain long term success with your Lap-Band.

    Fourteen Years After Weight Loss Surgery and Living My Best Life

    Weight Loss Surgery – Why did I have it? So I could truly LIVE my life. And I am, every glorious moment.

    Pointers from a Long Term Weight Loss surgery Patient

    I NEVER GIVE UP! I just keep moving forward.

    Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery Means I Can Pack For Vacation In A Minute

    Not only did Weight Loss Surgery save my life, it also saved me from becoming psychotic as I try to pack for vacation. Another Non-Scale Victory.

    Finding my Journey to Success after Weight Loss Surgery

    Be sure to have some non-judgmental support around to share your thoughts with, whether it is your Doc’s support group, a friend or group of friends, or go to www.wlssuccessmatters.com and click on FREE telephone support group calls and join in.

    Weight Loss Surgery Is, or Is Not, The Easy Way Out

    It’s not easy. Obesity is a disease. There are medical treatments. Surgeries are one of the recognized medical treatments. “Shaming” people because they chose surgery is absurd…

    When Life Keeps Tossing You Lemons How Do You Keep Making Lemonade – Staying True To Your Goals After Weight Loss Surgery

    Any one of these situations individually could provide me with the fuel to toss in the towel, ... NOTHING was more important than whichever one of these I chose to focus my emotions on.

    Hopping to Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery – No fooling!

    With the advent of Spring comes several “holidays” - be they Spring Break, Easter, Passover, or a scheduled vacation. Easter Sunday is April 1st this year and I don’t plan on being foolish about it. So far, no Cadbury eggs have passed these lips, although I must admit when a local grocery store advertised buy 2 get 1 free I thought seriously about going and getting 3 - 1 for each of my grandkids…

    For Success After Weight Loss Surgery, Size Matters

    If I want to remain at my comfortable weight it is incumbent on me to use a smaller plate or bowl and put only 1 serving of food in it for me.

    Daylight Savings Time and Life After Lap Band Surgery

    Does Daylight Savings Time really contribute anything worthwhile? Have a look here for some pro’s and con’s.

    Eating my sadness does not help me or my cat after Weight Loss Surgery

    My journey continues. I keep practicing what I’ve learned so I can live my BEST life and not be drowned in anger or sadness.

    Keep Asking Yourself The Right What If… Question After Weight Loss Surgery

    What might happen if you succeeded? What would that look like? What would it feel like? Are you smiling? I am.

    I Am Not Ready for The Rocking Chair

    Life is what you choose it to be after Weight Loss Surgery. All because I decided that I CAN. I choose to accentuate the positive.

    Hitting A Plateau 13 Years Post-Op or Keeping It Real As A Long Term Successful Weight Loss Surgery Patient

    After the holidays, and some bouts of some serious family illnesses, I found my weight over the top of my comfort/maintenance range. I vowed to knock off the weight and then some as I have a few exciting trips coming up between April and June.

    Seventy Is the New Fifty or Life Is What You Make It as A Weight Loss Surgery Patient

    The moral of the story is – LIVE every day to its fullest whether you are 20, 40, 60, yes, or even 70 years young.

    Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success – Holiday Appetizers That Are Easy Inexpensive And Always A Hit

    Those are just 10 quick variations of deviled eggs that are sure to please. They are protein packed, healthy, and don’t break the budget.

    Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery – Sugar TRULY Is Evil The Saga Continues

    The calorie load on this cake was 6,193 calories. Oh MY! I had not even thought about this as I was measuring and mixing. I was having too much fun in the making.

    How I Streamline Meal Planning And Prep To Keep my Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    I have a busy life. You have a busy life. We all have obligations that require our time and effort and yet we all still need to eat. Right? I have found a way that works for me to streamline some of my meal planning and prep.

    I Love Food!

    I love food, I love to eat, and I love to write. My love of food has transitioned into a way of being since I had my Lap Band surgery in 2004. That love has resulted in our newly published cookbook.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – All Is Well With My Weight Loss Surgery AND I Have Pizza Back In My Life

    So I am a Weight Loss Surgery patient, I eat burgers (black and blue burgers are my fave) and pizza, and maintain my 270 pound weight loss, my tool is in perfect working order and my new cookbook, co-authored with Wendy Campbell is at the publisher.

    Making It Through The Holidays Again Maintaining My Long Term Lap Band Success

    Holidays are about people, enjoying each other’s company, not being annoyed, and not worrying about food.

    Dealing With The Challenges Of Sugar Carbs For Long Term Success After Lap Band Or Any Weight Loss Surgery

    How do I keep from derailing my healthy eating and still allow the occasional processed sugar/carb into my life? Good question.

    Success After Weight Loss Surgery – Eat This Not That!

    Over the past 11 years I have morphed from a junk food junkie to a picky foodie. I only eat food that tastes good. If it doesn’t taste good I don’t want it.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Fifty Shades of Yogurt

    There are so many ways to use one simple high protein low calorie product and wind up with a sweet or a savory food or condiment. Which ones are you going to try?

    Fifteen Minute Chicken Salad – As YOU Like it

    What I love about this is it’s real food, not canned, and can be altered slightly for different tastes. I can eat it over a handful of baby spinach and sliced cucumbers, or eat it right out of the container, or make a lettuce wrap with it.

    Pastrami and Swiss Cheese – Not On Rye Bread

    Who said I can’t enjoy my New York Delicatessen Foods after Weight Loss Surgery?

    Fabulous Breakfast After Weight Loss Surgery

    Folks often ask me what I eat and when I tell them they then ask for the recipe. Today I will share a recipe with you step by step for an amazing breakfast.

    Success After Weight Loss Surgery Means Enjoying Food Not Dieting

    I have said many times before that I am NOT on a diet although I track my calories and protein. I do that to live in awareness so that if the scale goes up or my clothes feel snug I know why.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Quick and Easy Meal or 8

    It’s quick, it’s easy, and it is not expensive. So NO EXCUSES, right?

    Join me in San Antonio June 1st-3rd 2018 and Help Save Lives

    This is the ONLY organization that funds grants for Weight Loss Surgeries for those who are financially unable to do it themselves, have little or no insurance coverage, and have the medical need. Wow, that’s a big sentence for a BIG MISSION, one that is certainly worthy of my time.

    Declaring 2018 the year of ME – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    This year of ME will be filled with choices - choices to work my fitness every day and get stronger and increase my endurance. Age is not a barrier, it is an incentive for me. I can align myself with people who help serve my goals and fuel my soul and let go of those who don’t.

    Finding Myself Starting Over As The Year Ends – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    If I look at my return to fitness like my return to eating after this bought of stomach flu…liquids, soft foods, then back to solids I can progress my fitness back to where I was before and then beyond with no frustration, only the gentle reminder that I CAN, I WILL and I AM.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Exercising My Options – 2017

    SADS or not, the one thing I will NOT do is find excuses to avoid exercise. It has become a habit I need daily, and just as I will brush my teeth each day, so will I get my exercise done. NO EXCUSES.

    Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery – Sleep Is One Of The Cornerstones of Success

    It’s been a good day too. Day 2 of managing my sleep and emotions instead of letting them manage me.

    Tis The Season to Be Grateful – Happiness After Weight Loss Surgery

    There are basically two ways of looking at life: Looking at what you don’t have with avaricious thoughts, or be grateful for what you do have.

    How Falling Can Be A Non Scale Victory – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    So, how is falling and cracking my head open a Non-Scale Victory you ask? Had I still weighed 424 lbs my fall would have been harder, probably caused more damage, and no way would I have been able to put in a full day’s work the morning after.

    How Planning Solves The Never Ending Search For Something Good To Eat – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    We have to eat to stay alive, we have to eat to be healthy. I add to the “have to’s” we have to eat delicious food.

    Fitness Is A Way Of Life For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    I continue 5 days a week at the gym because I can, it feels good, it allows me to continue living an active life outside of the gym, enjoying hiking and biking and swimming and fishing and traveling as I work to keep that “REAL AGE” clock at a number lower than my chronological age.

    Water Water Everywhere — Time To Drink Some For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    Funny thing about The Success Habits of Weight Loss Surgery Patients, they are pretty much the success habits for healthy living, weight loss surgery, or not.

    Living My Life Out Loud – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    I think I got bit several times by the Aloha spirit and will not let it go in my life ever again. This freedom to be is priceless.

    Packing My Suitcase Then And Now – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    The NSV’s (Non Scale Victories) that my weight loss surgery has provided me include stress free packing, stress free vacationing, and truly enjoying just being ME.

    The Best Laid Plans Often Go Awry Or How I Get Back On Course After A Wrong Turn – Long Term Success After WLS

    After 13 years I know how to turn the switch from OFF to back ON and act like a WLS patient so I continue to go through life with ease, Living My Best Life.

    Is It Really Hunger OR Am I Tired?

    I am using the tool between my ears to solve the mysteries of hunger and satiety in those areas that my surgery doesn’t, and can’t directly, help me.

    A Positive Attitude Is What Has Brought Me This Far in My Successful Lap Band Journey

    I ranted and raved and stomped my feet and cried and made it through the understanding that if I fed my head hunger (which screamed for processed carbs and junk - delicious junk though, right) my physical hunger increased.

    Going That Extra Mile for Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    What might happen if you used that power, that energy, that extra bit of effort to further your own health and wellness? I challenge you today to find one area, just one where you could put in some extra effort and win.

    Daily Action Plans For Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    Try it, set a goal, create a daily action plan- follow it through - evaluate at the end of each day and tweak it as needed and see what happens...The possibilities are incredible....

    Long Term Lap Band Success – The Rules – Why Do We Resist Them?

    I enjoy helping others to let go of their resistance to the rules and watch their journeys take off and take them to places they never in their wildest dreams imagine they could go.

    Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success and The Trigger Foods Of Summer

    So do you believe that food can be addictive? Do you ever feel out of control yourself? Please share your thoughts.

    Thirteen Years After WLS And Still Journaling

    Journaling keeps me aware and present in the moment. Do you journal?

    Emotional Eating Doesn’t Serve My Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    Every now and again over the past 13 years I seem to let it slip my mind that I am a weight loss surgery patient. I then find myself eating cookies, chips, froyo, ice cream and other assorted processed junk foods.

    What I Have Learned After 13 Years As a Weight Loss Surgery Patient

    I am no longer hiding on the sidelines of life. I am living my BEST life each day. Bottom line here is: -- I AM ENOUGH

    Thirteen Years After Lap Band Surgery And Still Living My Best Life

    I keep working on my fitness level which is critical to keeping the weight off and keeping this 67 year young body feeling good. I keep working on creating new and healthy recipes that both families and bariatric patients will love.

    Weight Loss Surgery — Is It The Easy Way Out?

    It still infuriates me when folks think that having bariatric surgery is taking the easy way out. HA!

    It’s The Non-Scale Victories That Keep Me Motivated After WLS Surgery

    I remember the first time I stepped into the pool and swam one length of the pool. One part of me was mortified because I was out in the public eye in a bathing suit, and the rest of me was jumping up and down laughing like a child screaming "You did it, You Did IT!!!!" Ever felt that way? That good part was what brought me back to the pool day after day.

    Spending A Weekend Just For YOU Can Lead To Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success

    Together we can inspire one another, talk freely and openly and find resolution to issues we may have believed were insurmountable.

    How Fitness Has Fueled My Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    You know the phrase “Set A Goal That Makes You Want To Jump Out Of Bed In The Morning”? Well staying fit and healthy is my goal because ... I CAN JUMP OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING!

    What’s On Your Plate – Eating For Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    Feeding these foods to my family to see if they would enjoy them as much as I did. Guess what, they did, from my youngest grandchild through my husband of 49 years all were happy eating my food the majority of the time. They often asked for seconds too. I was encouraged so I kept doing this.

    How I Put My Support Systems In Place For Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    I know I could NEVER have gotten here, today, to where I am at 68 years young, living and loving my life, sharing it with others, coaching others, publishing cookbooks, educating new and old patients alike and maintaining a healthy weight without my support network.

    My Mindful Eating Tips — For Long Term Lapband Success

    In the process of learning how to cook healthy, learning what foods my surgery approved of, as well as 11+ years of restaurant eating, I have learned what it means to enjoy dining.

    Where I Go For Motivation – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    Getting regular exercise, whatever your body, your doctor and your physical abilities allows is good for you.

    Success – How Do I measure thee? Let me count the ways

    Remember, SUCCESS is a personal perception, it is the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. What is your purpose?

    A Morning At The Gym In January – Living a Life Of Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    Mornings at the gym in January are frustrating. First of all, the parking lot is full of all of those New Year’s Resolutions people.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Just Doing It!

    So moving my body on purpose also keeps carb cravings under control. Hence, the title- JUST DO IT!

    Detoxing From the holidays – It’s all about the attitude

    With a clear head I simply get all of the toxic foods out of the house, set up a meal plan and stick to it.

    Complacency Is A Buzz Kill For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    In order to maintain my weight loss and the level of health and fitness that I have achieved I need to stay aware of who I am, what I am doing and what I could be doing better.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Finally REALLY Comfortable In My Own Skin

    I managed in the water for about another 2 hours, again walking head held high into and out of the water in my bathing suit and guess what? NOBODY was pointing, laughing, looking strangely at me.

    Resisting Change Doesn’t Work For Me – Long Term Lap Band Success

    My fitness is a non-negotiable and no matter how difficult I try to make it there is ALWAYS an easy solution.

    On Being Thankful – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    OK, so it’s a week after Thanksgiving. That doesn’t mean I can’t be grateful, thankful, appreciative - of all the benefits that have come to me as a result of having Weight Loss Surgery in 2004.

    A Weight Loss Surgery Patient’s Guide To A Healthy Thanksgiving Holiday – Thursday Inspirations For Banded Living

    Now how do we navigate this incredible food fest and make it through the other side, to Black Friday and a shopping bonanza without triggering sugar cravings and having to unbutton our jeans?

    What do I eat for long term success after Lap Band surgery?

    I challenge you all to create tasty meals, using your food scales, measuring cups, measuring spoons, Google and reading labels.

    How Exercise Has Shaped My Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    Don’t wait for the right time to start fitness, start now - just do more than you did yesterday!

    Long Term Lap Band Success – The Tools of The Trade That Work For Me

    For me I know that if I want to lose weight I need to restrict my calories to 1200 maximum and my protein to 80 grams minimum and the weight drops off.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Never Stop The Celebration Of YOU!

    You are traveling, playing, participating 100% in life when suddenly you notice your jeans are a little bit snug, or the top button of your favorite shirt is pulling a bit too much for your taste.

    Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery – The Holidays Come Earlier Every Year

    Is it just me or do the Holidays actually come earlier every year?

    Obesity Health 2016

    This particular non-scale victory brings me joy! I guess it’s time to go back through my closet and see what else is too big. My consistency with my food choices and my hard work in the gym is allowing me to continue to “shrink” without losing weight.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Making My Choices Count

    When we come to a fork in the path of life, it can be what to eat, what to drink, how or when to exercise, who to go out with, what job you want to apply for, or many other possibilities, some life changing, some not so much.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – It’s My Birthday and I Celebrate Life!

    As I look back 12 ½ years to my decision to have Lap Band Surgery I know from the depths of my very soul that this was one of the best choices in my life.

    The Saga Of My Shoulder Continues – Long Term LapBand Success And Recovery From Injuries

    I am following my Doctor’s and my Physical Therapist’s orders on what exercise I can do, and to be perfectly blunt and unprofessional, it sucks!

    Taking Some Time Off For Me And Still Learning – Long Term Lap Band Success

    This food addict has become a fitness addict; however not to extremes that cause problems, just the right amount to fuel my metabolism, my mood and have me living my best life.

    Food, Fitness, Water – Living My Life As A Long Term Successful Weight Loss Surgery Patient

    I’m 270 pounds lighter, 5000% happier, more self confident and enjoying the 60’s of my life more than I enjoyed the 1960’s.

    Planning To Be A Success – Setting Goals For My Health After Weight Loss Surgery

    Why not plan to drink some water instead and join us for our group that begins the first Tuesday of each month.

    Come With Us To The Beach – Long Term Success After Lap Band or Any Weight Loss Surgery

    I invite all of you to join WLS Success Matters, in our next Weekend Retreat, and spend some time working just on YOU. Self discovery is a powerful ally in life.

    Food Glorious Food – Long Term Success After Lap Band Or ANY Weight Loss Surgery

    The solution is to give our cookbook Eat Your Way To Success And Learn How To Control Hunger - A Weight Loss Surgery Friendly Cookbook a try.

    Calories – To Count Or Not To Count – Long Term Lap Band Success

    We can control what we consume and when we consume it at least 90% of the time. Take that information and add our weight loss surgery tools and I see SUCCESS written next to YOUR name...

    Taking Care of Me First – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    If you are suffering with knee pain and avoid exercise because of it - I cannot suggest too strongly that you go see an orthopedic doc and find out about alternatives.

    Claiming Bragging Rights and Celebrating For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

    I do hope that YOU begin sharing some of your personal victories with me. I LOVE a good party, so let’s celebrate life together!

    Twelve Years After Lap Band Surgery And Living My Best Life

    Some days are more of a struggle than others. Am I always perfectly on point? NOPE. I am human and just try to do my best each and every day, whatever that might be.

    On The Road With My Lap Band And How I Get It Done – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    This is how I get my exercise while I’m on the road. It takes planning.

    Still Learning To Keep That Post-Op Lap Band Weight In Check

    That’s the place where my self-confidence blooms, my stress melts away and I can breathe through those feelings as they try to take hold of me.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Some of Why I Exercise Besides Losing Weight

    When I sit or stand straight I notice that I am more alert, more focused in the moment, and more aware of myself and others around me as well. Could this be the result of the decrease in the stress hormone in my body?

    How To Love Yourself In Three Simple Steps – Say What?

    It has taken me years to acknowledge that I really am worthy of loving myself, just as I am today. Until I was willing to begin, in a tiny voice, to tell myself that I deserved to be happy, I deserved to be healthy, and I was the only one capable of making that happen nothing changed in my life.

    Water Water Everywhere – Staying Hydrated For Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success

    My doc told me 64 ounces of water minimum per day, caffeinated or beverages with calories don’t count towards these totals. I feel my best, and eat my least when I am at 80+ ounces a day.

    Pushing Through The Hard Parts For Long Term Lap Band Success

    Sometimes you just have to push through it to get to the other side.

    How A Change of Perspective Can Create The Success You Seek After Weight Loss Surgery

    I chose LIFE over spiraling medical problems and potential early death. Pretty serious, wouldn’t you agree?

    Enjoying Life After Lap Band Surgery

    We are limited in our time on earth this time around and I want to enjoy and LIVE every single day of it, and swimming with the fish, the turtles, the manta rays, hiking rain forests, walking through lava tubes, hiking around a live volcano and enjoying beautiful sunrises and sunsets all count as Living to me.

    Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery – Beating The Odds

    Folks set New Year’s resolutions to lose weight, exercise more and start out with great intentions and no real plan. Their “will power” loses out to their “I can’t”.

    Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery – How I Buy Girl Scout Cookies and WIN!

    By the end of the Cookie Selling Time I have made a nice donation to both sets of troops - the different Girl Scout Troops in my area and the service men and women who will receive my donation as a little love sent from home.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Chasing Winter Blues Even in Southern California

    Keeping busy keeps the tired from settling in, and if it’s 8PM I don’t want to go to bed because I’ll be wide awake by 1AM and that sets up a bad pattern.

    Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery And Head Spins In the Water

    Change does happen ONLY when we step outside our comfort zone, right? (wink, wink)

    CPR For Long Term Lap Band Success – Consistency Persistence and Resiliency

    If my jeans start feeling a bit tight, or my body doesn’t feel up to snuff you can bet it’s time for me to get that CPR going.

    Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery Means Facing My Fears As They Arise

    The ONLY solution to FEAR is to Face Everything And Rise no matter what it is.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Beating Stress With My Own Advice

    I choose to be CEO of my own life, create my destiny and do the best I can every day.

    Mindfully Eating My Way To Long Term Lap Band Success

    I challenge each and every one of you to turn off the TV, put away the book, shut down the phone, and eat one meal each day for a week mindfully...

    What I Learned From Falling Off My Bicycle – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    We can just do what I did, get up, brush ourselves off, and get back on the bicycle. We can remember how far we have come, how many hills we have climbed successfully and how many more we will climb on our journeys.

    New Year’s Resolutions – Setting Goals For WLS Success

    There is lots more involved in setting goals, changing habits and being honest and real with yourself when setting goals than appears at first glance.

    Family Gatherings Are Not About Food Or Competition – Enjoying Life After Lap Band Surgery

    We always left with our tummies “Thanksgiving Day full”. This is my memory of many meals out with my family.

    Don’t Let Those Negative Voices In Your Head Sabotage Your Successful Weight Loss Surgery Journey

    I have negative voices talking in my head frequently. I also have positive voices to balance them. The more positive I can be (even if I am faking it until I am making it) the softer those negative voices become until I just don’t listen to them anymore.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Looking Back At Where I Came From

    It is hard for me to remember that woman who could barely walk and had to stop to catch her breath and let the pain subside in her knees and back...

    Long Term Lap Band Success – What Vacation Packing Looks Like To Me

    Having this plan in place and following it will allow me to enjoy my time and not worry about getting overly hungry and making choices that are not in the best interest of my health no matter where I am on the island.

    What I Am Grateful For – Thanksgiving 2015

    I have so much to be thankful for this year, and next year will have even more. That is how it has been for me since I made the decision to have lap band surgery. My life changes daily for the better...

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Moving Through The Cold Months Is Key

    What can YOU do for 10 minutes to move your body to lessen pain, increase energy and kick your metabolism in the butt?

    I Am Not Ruled By My DNA

    Basically, I do the same thing that I do during the summer when I am full of energy from sun up to sun down...

    Making Time In Your Day For What Matters – Long Term Lap Band Success

    If I don’t have the ME time scheduled, and if I don’t use it, I find myself overwhelmed more frequently.

    My Why For Success After Lap Band Surgery

    I may be chronologically “old” but my mind is still pretty sharp - right? I don’t forget too many things nor do I depend on others to do things for me unless I am being extremely lazy or paying for it.

    Tricks To Change The Halloween Treats Around You

    So you see you can celebrate Halloween, decorate as you like and have healthy themed snacks around for all to share.

    How I Live It Every Dang Day – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

    Are you willing to commit 30 minutes to make a plan, make some choices and make your life better? I was. I did. I am. What could that look like for you?

    Why I Exercise And Look Forward To It – Celebrating Life After Lap Band Surgery

    I say, do the work, reach your “golden years” fit, happy, in love with life, and yourself. All it takes is one choice at a time and the belief in; I CAN, I WILL, I AM.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Living Life One Day At A Time

    I had a vision of becoming a normal size person who was no longer invisible, no longer ashamed of the way I looked, and who could fit in with any group.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – What Is My “Normal”?

    That’s my normal. What does that look like for me? Lots of regular exercise, healthy eating, lots of water, lots of me time, sharing my passions with the world and living for today and tomorrow with no regrets.

    Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery – Reflecting On The Years As My Birthday Approaches

    Don’t get me wrong - it was NOT losing the weight that made me happy, it was losing the weight AND looking at each pound as unwrapping a precious gift and discovering what LIFE truly is.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Making Peace With The Scale And Myself

    As my journey continues and I stand on the scale every morning I find that I am no longer in fear of what the number will be.

    Is It Physical Hunger “Head Hunger” OR Am I Tired?

    I am writing this as I consume a few slices of deli turkey wrapped around pickle spears to try to deal with my 4PM hunger. I will just have to deal with it, and NOT reach for the tortilla chips and guacamole which sound so dang good right now.

    Long Term Life With Your Lap Band Means More Than Fills

    Want to keep your Lap Band, and yourself, healthy and happy? Get connected with your doctor, get the education and support you need, and get that Lap Band tuned up to get your lifetime of success in place.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Move Your Body And Watch What Happens

    I have watched my body shrink and change in so many ways. It’s not just the number on the scale. Muscle is denser than fat so the more muscle I create the smaller I look, and the stronger I feel.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Body Image – The Eyes Have It

    My face has wrinkles of wisdom lines, my body is not perfect. Those are facts. Would I like to be able to correct those imperfections? YOU BET!

    Never Lose Hope – Long Term Lap Band Success

    I had the desire to resolve my health issues by losing weight, using my Lap Band as a tool to reach my expectations. I have been using these techniques for the past 11+ years and here I am losing weight once again- solidly in the 150’s.

    Life After Lap Band Surgery – What I Did On Summer Vacation

    What a joy. LIVING, truly participating in my life each and every day instead of standing next to my car watching it all unfold around me.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – How I Celebrate Goals Achieved

    It started when I was a child; it continued into my teen years and never stopped until I reached over 400 pounds.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – What Is This “Normal” Everybody Seems to Want?

    I challenge you to let go of some of your past thoughts, ideas and emotions around food and look at it for what it is- fuel for your body.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Transformation Happens Everywhere

    I wonder, am I noticing all of these changes because I am asking for what I want and need, or is it that the marketing arms of our country have realized that there is a whole population out there who does not think super-size is great?

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Being Accountable To Myself

    I alone am responsible for my successes and my failures. Not anyone else, just ME. There I said it.

    Hippity Hop Every Store Looks Like A Candy Shop – How I Beat The Easter Bunny After Lap Band Surgery

    Holy Chocolate Bunny Batman! There were huge Easter baskets filled with candy of all sorts, rows and rows of Peeps...

    Managing Food And Alcohol While Out With Friends Or Family – Long Term Lap Band Success

    One of the most difficult things I have had to do over the past 11 years is to learn how to eat at family functions and out at restaurants, or yes, even at Happy Hours with friends.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Shopping Can Be Scary

    Shopping is getting to be more fun every time I go, whether it’s to a new store or in my very own closet.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Stop And Smell The Roses

    I like it! It feels good. It feels right. It makes my body sing with pleasure; I guess it’s called feeling normal. I am going to bask in this glow for a while.

    Living A Life I Never Dreamed Possible With My Lap Band

    I couldn’t stop the tears from flowing while standing over the remains of the Arizona and the more than 1000 men who lost their lives that day, and never knew what hit them.

    LapBanded Living Setbacks – Rebooting After Those Girl Scout Cookies

    The darling little Girl Scout Troop was outside my local market selling cookies, and while I could avoid the cookies inside, the Thin Mints were calling to me.

    Learning To Love Myself Before During And After Weight Loss Surgery

    My ultimate goal is to have 7 good days every week and 52 good weeks every year. Pollyanna you say? I say why not?

    What Are You Waiting For? – Choose WLS Success Today

    Whatever your goal is, don’t wait for tomorrow to plan to get it. GO GET IT TODAY!

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Setting Goals And Getting Goals

    I have my endurance up to completing 30 minutes every day on the elliptical so the rest is a matter of extending my sprints a little bit longer every day. I CAN, I WILL, I AM.

    Lap Band Success – Planning For The Holidays and Winning

    How am I going to deal with this big event and not eat too many calories, too many carbs and ruin my day with overindulgence and physical discomfort?

    Thankful for a Second Chance

    I am sure that my fitness has lots to do with my comparatively easy recovery. I still tire quite easily and have accommodated my schedule around that fact, having plenty of time allocated for short walks and rest periods.

    Back In The Ranks Of The Banded

    It is strange to be this new again, and I am excited that it took me all morning to finish one sugar free Jell-O.

    Lap Band Success Interrupted – I Have My New Date

    I had all my tests done, all is ok and now it’s time for me to schedule my revision and get back on the “bandwagon”, literally as well as figuratively.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – I Decided So Now What Happens?

    When I spoke about what I wanted, and what I didn’t want, as a result of my surgery and someone kindly and gently coached me into the realization that I kept saying I want a Lap Band.

    Long Term Lap Band Success And Making Dreams Happen

    All of us are looking for understanding of how to use our Weight Loss Surgery tools and that most important tool - the one between our ears - in order to maximize our journeys to a long term healthy lifestyle from one where obesity had held us back for years.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – With Or Without My Band

    The BEST tool that we have is the one between our ears, the one that makes the choices; the one that has learned, with the use of the lap band, that it is about quality, not quantity. So go ahead and enjoy your tasty breakfast, lunch or dinner.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – 10 Years Banded 66 Years Alive

    I am not fighting for survival, I am LIVING, and no, I will “not go gentle into that good night”. I will rather LIVE every day to its fullest.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Almost Another Year Older And Wiser Perhaps

    Those are my words of wisdom for today. I sure hope you are enjoying your new life as much as I am enjoying mine.

    Long Term Lap Band Patient Spends An Hour Sunday Planning For Success

    An hour spent on a Sunday morning planning and preparing and then replacing and buying fresh and new for dinners when I make my grocery haul later today. It works now, it’s another lifestyle action I had to integrate into my new habitual behaviors and it took time and patience.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Shopping In my Closet Is Fun

    The biggest part of this weekend of Non Scale Victories was that I didn’t have to really try on any of the clothes. They fit.

    Ten Years With My Lap Band and The Journey Continues

    The lap band works. It controls hunger and portion size when I choose the right foods. It is my surgery of choice, but it is NOT the only surgery that “works”.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Winning The Mental Game

    Believe me I used to view exercise as a “four letter word” until I wrapped my head around all of the good things exercise brought into my life and let go of the resistance.

    Making The Most Out Of My Day – Lessons Learned On My Lap Band Journey

    I have control over my attitude, how I choose to treat my arthritis pain and how I have learned to not use food to soothe the savage beast. It doesn’t work. It makes it worse.

    Change Can Be Frightening If You Let It – Long Term Lap Band Success

    This morning I realized that even if I didn’t have a trainer to make sure I was not favoring one side over another due to my scoliosis I could still swim, use the elliptical, and probably even safely do a few push-ups and bicep and tricep work.

    Lap Band Success Glacier By Helicopter – Yes I CAN

    I think the most incredible moment for me on my tour of Alaska, Victoria BC, and Washington state had to be the helicopter to the glacier and the walk/hike around the glacier. This was a Non Scale Victory for me of the BIGGEST dimensions.

    Cruising Alaska June 2014

    I put on the robe, tied it, filled up my bottles to the tune of 86.6 ounces of water and looked at myself in the mirror and started to cry. I couldn’t believe what I had just done and how incredible I was feeling.

    Taking A Successful Vacation With My LAP-BAND

    It used to be a lot of work. It is now second nature. I do it all automatically. What’s the end result? I get to focus on having a good time, not on FOOD!

    Life After LAP-BAND Surgery – Vacations Become Non Scale Victories

    All in all, this will be a great trip at less than 1/2 the size I was the first time around. I am excited to live new experiences in my new refreshed, invigorated and much healthier body.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Try Something New

    I offer you the ability to get your goals, whatever they are. Join me for coaching and education. Step off the ledge, maybe spend some dollars on your potential success, or just utilize free resources. Get the support you need to move forward and WIN!

    Getting Lazy Doesn’t Work Well After Weight Loss Surgery

    One of the very first rules I was given after weight loss surgery is that a meal lasts for NO LONGER than 20 - 30 minutes.

    Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success – My Relationship With Food

    I still love food, that relationship is not about to change in this lifetime. I enjoy eating it, and savoring the taste and texture. I have just become very picky of what I choose to put in my mouth.

    Living With My Lap Band – WLSFA 2014 Non Scale Victories and More

    Sunning myself and not worrying about my body again and speaking up to anyone who is not a part of our group of about 100 peeps and telling them about Weight Loss Surgery, my life, the WLSFA, and how we save lives. NSV#14

    How exercise has molded my body and my lifestyle – Long Term Lap Band Success

    You don’t have to go to the gym. You can walk the mall, or walk your dog, or ride a bicycle, or march in place during TV commercials, or walk up and down the stairs in your house, at your office, or park the car in the back of the lot instead of driving around for 10 minutes looking for the spot closest to the door.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Look at What’s On Your Plate And How It Got There

    My worst enemy is mindless eating, even after 10 years on this journey. When’s the last time you checked it carefully - What’s on your plate?

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Preparing For Vacation

    That’s my working vacation coming up. It’s volunteer work, it’s paying it forward; it’s following my passion, it’s living my dream. How about you? Are you living your dream?

    Exercise After Lap Band Surgery – Just Do It!

    The same old thing gets boring and I need new goals and new challenges so I can enjoy sweating. Making it a game for me, challenging myself constantly has allowed me to not only integrate exercise into my lifestyle, but allowed me to experience the joys of sweating.

    Living La Vida Lap Band – Old Habits Creeping Back Into My Life

    Food is a poor substitute for sleep, and I think I fall asleep as soon as I finish eating it anyway….

    Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success – Keeping That New Car Smell

    Most of Sandi’s RX for a smooth ride on this journey of long term weight loss surgery success is what we all did right after our surgeries until we got “tired” of it and fell back into our old ways.

    Long Term Lap Band Success Means Winning The Battle Of The Thin Mints This Year

    Best case, some folks somewhere in the world, away from our daily lives but protecting our freedom and keeping us safe will have a treat because of your decision to say YES to a box of cookies.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Nine Years and Support Is Still Essential For Me

    May I respectfully suggest beginning a group with folks introducing themselves, what surgery they had, when they had it, and perhaps a “win” they have had in the past week? Let’s set up a group for success.

    Weight Loss Surgery Long Term Success – Achieving My Personal Best

    Today I did my personal best. I can say that with confidence. And tomorrow I will try my hardest. I can say that with confidence too!

    Living With My Lap Band Is Like Taking A Walk On The Beach

    I offer to each and every one of you who take the time to read this the opportunity to have your choice be LIFE, HEALTH & HAPPINESS, and to take the actions necessary to make your goals, your choices, a reality.

    Living With My Lap Band – A Week Of Non Scale Victories

    I had a blast yesterday hanging out with runners from the Tinker Bell Half Marathon, sure I was tired by the end of the day and my knee hurt a bit from all the walking, but I enjoyed myself and got up this morning and headed right out to the gym. Why, because I wanted to.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Progress Not Perfection

    Plan, do, write it down, get support, go back and do it again, and again with the vision of reaching your goal, and increasing your “expertise” each day. Surround yourself with successful people, and NEVER stop learning or trying!

    Starting The New Year Off Along With Everyone Else

    I personally do not make resolutions other than being kinder, nicer, more aware, and generalities of that nature. Resolutions are the beginning. Goals and plans are what make it happen.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Create It

    I no longer suffer from high blood pressure, asthma, sleep apnea or any of the other co-morbidities associated with obesity. I can shop in junior stores like “forever 21” even at 65 and counting.

    The REAL SKINNY about alcoholic beverages

    Me, I’ll stick with a glass of wine or a Vodka and club soda at a party, after having a tall glass of water with a wedge of lemon or lime.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Exercising My Options

    I must admit, moving my body certainly felt good, but about now, as the sun is threatening to descend in the sky and the wind is still shrieking through the area I am starting to feel chilled to the bone again. Guess it’s time for another steaming mug of hot tea.

    Now THIS clarifies food addiction!

    How sad it is that we are just trying to avoid the pain of life by using food. The problem is that it never works without paying a great price.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Food Addiction Rears Its Ugly Head

    One bad day, or one bad choice is NOT going to put 250 pounds back on me, although continuing to make choices that don’t support my health will certainly have a negative effect. It’s all about me choosing not to feed my addiction.

    LAP-BAND Success – What I Am Grateful For Thanksgiving 2013

    I have so much to be thankful for this year, and next year will have even more. That is how it has been for me since I made the decision to have lap band surgery. My life changes daily for the better.

    Taking My Lap Band On A Road Tour – Obesity Week 2013

    It is possible to get it all done while traveling - the water, the protein, the exercise. It requires some thought and planning and taking advantage of opportunities presented.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Thriving And Surviving The Thanksgiving Day Feast

    .How am I to keep everyone happy, including ME? I start by planning my meal and this is how it will go:

    Grateful For My Lap Band — Reflections

    Life is a miracle, my grand-kids are blessings, and every day I am grateful for my lap band. If you ‘re early in your journey, take a moment to think about where you would like to be a year from now.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Dealing With A Crappy Day Without Feeding My Sugar Addiction

    I did it! I managed to win over both my brain and my body. It was tough going to not "feed" the carb cravings that were threatening to overtake me.

    Making Protein Count In Cold Weather For Long Term Lap Band Success

    Mornings are sweats, sweatshirts, sweaters and Uggs weather and I still have trouble getting and staying warm. One of the side effects of losing 250 pounds I guess since I am not anemic or deficient in any vitamin or mineral.

    Success After Weight Loss Surgery – Learning To Keep My Metabolism Working Overtime

    I have found over the last 2 weeks that this old dog can learn some new tricks and incorporate them into her lifestyle pretty easily. All it took was recognizing that something was a little bit off and analyzing my behaviors, and voila…

    Living With My Lap Band Hitting A Plateau – No Way

    Four weeks ago I had my port replaced and regained my satiety. Now I seem to be losing and gaining the same 2 pounds over and over again. What’s up with that?

    Weight Loss Surgery Success – Satiety Obesity Help Conference and MORE

    My latest encouragement for continuing with training came unsolicited from my young and buff trainer last week. Had I jumped up from doing my crunches and kissed him I would have embarrassed him so I just grinned from ear to ear and told him to continue.

    Cycling Your Way Fit

    Bicycling is a great form of exercise for just about everyone! Young and old alike can rise to the challenge of a cycle training program.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Pushing Play And Being Hopeful

    It is about the number on the scale to some degree, but it is also about getting to be 65 years young and wanting to stay feeling fit and being active forever.

    Success After Lap Band Surgery – Post – Op Thoughts This Time

    What am I doing differently than before I replaced my port? Well, knowing that I have some fluid in my band and not wanting to get stuck, and not knowing my limits yet, I am chewing ALL of the soft foods, putting my fork down between bites and putting only a measured amount on my plate.

    Life After Lap Band Surgery – As The Stoma Turns – Port Repair Surgery Update

    I have so much to be thankful for. I just looked at my before pic and it’s hard to remember how difficult it was to get around back in early 2004.

    Success After Weight Loss Surgery Requires Support – Everywhere!

    The moral of the story is find yourself a specialty shop, get fitted, keep those girls in line, and ENJOY LIFE and the new YOU! We’ve certainly earned it.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – As The Stoma Turns Update

    I am finally scheduled to have my port or tubing replaced... I am looking forward to getting my surgery done, and finding my sweet spot once again so I have my satiety back.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Amazing Insights Come From Struggle

    I can continue tracking my food, planning my meals with care, eating mindfully, having alternatives to go to when grabbing something with unnecessary calorie just will not do, and continuing to win my personal battle with obesity.

    Lap Band Success The Saga of Sandi’s Port Continues

    I had a bit of regain and discovered that either I have a tubing or a port leak. This situation is merely a bump in the road, some routine maintenance on me all the way around - much as changing the oil is routine maintenance on my car. I will come out the other side of this a stronger, better, healthier, more emotionally stable person. WHY, Because I CHOOSE TO.

    Long Term Lap Band Success Really Is A Total Mindset Change

    I can certainly walk for a week or two, or bicycle for a week or two and if I don't burn quite as many calories there is surely another way to deal with it...don't ingest quite as many calories. Easy solution when your mindset is in the appropriate place.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Just What Is Maintenance And How Do I stay There?

    I have developed my maintenance mentality and I am happy to share my new life and reach out for support and into my bag of tricks as I need to.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Bumps In The Road are Not Failure – They’re Bumps

    I am putting the balance back into all of the areas of my life. I am Back on Track to living my best life. How about you, are you going to choose to be derailed by bumps in the road?

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Shopping Is Still A New Experience

    This one hour shopping foray was filled with NSV’s for me. For those of you who may not be familiar with the term that means Non Scale Victories.

    Weight Loss Success Tools – My Lap Band Success Needs A Timer

    Hmmm, so eating at a fine restaurant on a white tablecloth, with candlelight has you eating more slowly than going through the drive thru? Who would have thought that possible? (...wink, wink…)

    Lap Band Success – Eating for Satiety

    Making sure we have adequate solid protein helps us to use our lap band tools to achieve the basic reason we all had weight loss surgery - no hunger between meals.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Nine Years With My Lap Band And LIVING Life

    I will try just about anything once, and if I can’t do it today it just means we need to work up to it. NOTHING is impossible!

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Change Is Still Scary

    My extreme weight loss made me something of a celebrity and I just kept showing up 5-6 days a week without fail. I swam, I used the elliptical machine. I did strength training with a personal trainer. I loved it. Fitness was now an integral part of my life.

    Lap Band Success – Football Politics And Show Biz

    These “fairy tale” characters, these bigger than life figures in our society have all chosen Lap-Band surgery. When they tell their tale the same message resonates- why did they choose it? It is safe, effective, and with proper aftercare they can reach goals they never imagined possible.

    Lap Band Surgery Success – Vitamins Really Why?

    Do your body and your mind a favor, take your vitamins!

    Long Term Success With My Lap Band – Grazing Creeps Back In Beware

    I need to stay in the present moment, be mindful of what I’m doing and then I can choose out of grazing and instead choose an alternate behavior.

    Lap Band Surgery Success Join Me And Challenge Yourself to Success

    There have to be many more fives that we all can come up with to make this more fun. I challenge YOU to join me, make yourself a priority and take the Five More For Five Less Challenge with me.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Do Relationships Change After Weight Loss Surgery?

    I have a problem with sleep. I don’t get enough. Occasionally I can get back to sleep for another hour or so..Woo Hoo! I love those days.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Things I Now Take For Granted

    What seems a simple, every day occurrence was a milestone on my weight loss journey. Now, it is just something I do without a second thought.

    And The (Lap) Band Plays On — Act One

    I am confident that I will have support for my band in the coming years.

    Living With My Lap Band – Navigating The Choices By Planning My Day

    Walking mindlessly through life, making choices only in the moment with no plan got me to 424 pounds.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – How do YOU Spell Success?

    In a nutshell then, on my journey to good health there is actually no difference between progress and success because, as you can see, each measure of my progress is a success in and of itself.

    How Do I Love Thee Let Me Count The Ways

    Love is defined as an intense feeling of deep affection. I love my husband, I love my daughter, I love my Grandkids. I love my country. I love the Pacific Ocean. I love my Lap Band.

    Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery – I Can I Will I Am!

    What can you envision your life like in 5 years - in 2018? What “never in my wildest dreams” do you have the ability to make real?

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Exercise Your Options

    What’s the point you say? Find something, anything you may actually enjoy doing and do it. Start small, don’t try to do it all the first day or the first week.

    My Lap Band Journey – Learning How To De-Stress With Food The Right Way

    There is something therapeutic in cutting and chopping, and chopping and cutting…. and planning for healthy meals.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Food Is A Balancing Act Or You Have To Be Kidding?

    It has taken me a while to develop an eating plan that integrates fruits and vegetables in sufficient quantity to meet my nutritional needs.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Portion Control Has Many Disguises

    My major takeaway then becomes I better start measuring and journaling again if I want to continue wearing my favorite pair of jeans. How about you?

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Leaping Into The New Year

    It’s hard work, but it is so rewarding to be able to pay it forward to a community filled with so many wonderful people who I have yet to meet, so many veterans who have helped me along the way and the newbies who I never cease to learn from.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Since The World Didn’t End I’d Better Get My Act Together Again

    Replacing old habits with new ones is key to long term success after lap band surgery. One habit at a time, one choice at a time. Each of us has the capacity to get it done.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Time Away With Other WLS Peeps Is Fun And Motivational

    A vacation with other WLS peeps, exotic ports of call, on board support group for talking AND exercise, and people who will mean it when they high five you for reaching out to make a dream an accomplishment.

    LapBand Success – What I Am Grateful For Thanksgiving 2012

    My life changes daily for the better, I age more like a fine wine growing better each year, learning more about the world around me as well as myself each and every day.

    Maintaining Lap Band Success For The Long Term – Exercise How It Fits

    Exercise is essential to win on this journey towards obtaining and maintaining good health. So, JUST DO IT!

    Tips to Stay Motivated During and After Weight Loss

    Don't get down on yourself if you"fall off the wagon" once in awhile. It's normal.

    Lap Band Success – Halloween Thanksgiving and Christmas – OH MY!

    OK, now we are at the inescapable food choices. You know, will I have cottage cheese or chips, yogurt or cookies, salmon or ????

    Success After Lap Band Surgery – You’ve Come A Long Way Baby!

    No longer was I being ostracized and made to feel like an outsider. I belonged. I was no longer being discriminated against, because I am no longer obese.

    LapBanded Living – Just How Do You Eat An Elephant?

    What can you take on in small, continuous improvements?

    Lap Banded Living — There is a Reason it’s Referred to as “Bandster Hell”

    I learned a lot by going through “Bandster Hell.” Like so many things in life, those difficult times teach taught me a lot.

    Eating With My Lap Band — The Difference Between Being Satisfied And Being Full

    I have had to learn my body’s signals to me that I am approaching that state of satiety, as well as the signals that one more bite and I will be over the top and running for the restroom.

    Pushing outside of my comfort zone

    I will continue to push outside my comfort zone because the adrenaline rush of actual accomplishment is certainly worth it, as are the muscles and stamina I have built.

    Lap Banded Living and Learning – Self Love and Acceptance

    Today in my journey, I choose love, acceptance, positivity, and action. What do you choose?

    Lap Band Fills: Too Loose Too Tight or Just Right?

    I found that it was helpful to be able to clearly describe what I am feeling to my doctor so that we could work together as a well informed team.

    Me And My Lap Band — Am I Full Or Am I Satisfied?

    My band also gives me some additional signals when I am done eating, and that is sometimes before I have finished the portion on my plate. It is critical that I listen to these signals or I can wind up in trouble.

    Banded Living – What If I Had Not Chosen Surgery?

    Had I not had surgery and still been alive let’s propose what the weekend might have looked like:... Would I have had a happy birthday? Probably, but happy would have been a relative thing.

    Success After Lap Band Surgery – Accountability Makes The Difference

    Am I still too tired to get up and go to the gym? You bet I am, but I do it anyway, most of the time, until I have replaced the habit of staying in bed with getting up and going to the gym.

    Lap Band Surgery – Setting Goals Making Bucket Lists and NSV’s (non scale victories)

    Keep reworking your goals, crossing off and then adding more to your bucket lists and celebrating your NSV’s. Remember, it’s all about LIVING!

    Living with My Lap Band – Vacation Planning and Debriefing

    Lesson learned? I made a plan. I carried through with the plan. I altered the plan whenever I needed to but kept within the spirit of what I was trying to do.

    Lap Band Success – From Limitations To Limitless – Challenging My Body

    After losing about 100 pounds I decided it was time to quit using my knee as an excuse and start doing something to help stimulate my weight loss and add years to my life, so I started swimming.

    Success After Lap Band Surgery: The Bariatric Guru Interviews Sandi On Her Radio Program

    We had a great time talking about weight loss surgery in general, my story specifically and the WLSFA (Weight Loss surgery Foundation of America)

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Avoiding Guilt Self Sabotage and Negative Self Talk

    Let go of your last choice if you don’t “like” it and make your next choice one that supports your goals.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – A Walk Through My Office Food Plan

    I am never anywhere without food, a plan and a backup plan. The main part of my plan is to always have my office stocked up with good choices for me.

    Tips for Banded Living – My Plan for a Happy Healthy Holiday!

    It’s holiday time! This trip I want to do my best to stay active despite long hours in the car so here's my plan.

    Living With My Lap Band – How to Deal With PBs Or A Yak Attack

    Remember, this is a journey to good health, not a contest to see how little you can eat and survive.

    My Lap Band Success — The Value Of My Lap Band Support Network

    I’m also thinking about people who live in areas that are not accessible to support group meetings. How can we all pitch in to help them succeed?

    Living the LapBanded Life – Take A Power Walk with Me…. to Success

    Walking is not only good for burning calories, good for cardiovascular fitness - it is good for the soul.

    Lap Band Success – How I Pushed Outside My Comfort Zone

    How about you? What challenge can you take on that is just a little outside your comfort zone, or maybe it’s A LOT outside your comfort zone?

    Lap Band Living Success -Learning to be normal

    I have never been normal. As far back I can remember I was overweight. I was pleasantly plump. I was at Weight Watchers at age 12.

    Lap Band Success – Maintenance: A War or A Lifestyle?

    The fight is FOREVER. Healthy food choices, move the body, work on the head. Repeat.

    Clare’s LapBanded Living – How I Navigate The Food With My Lap Band

    Even if we take only a taste of everything we end up with way too much food and way too many calories. And even if we only choose to eat what is healthy for us, we can still end up overdoing it.

    LapBanded Living: Dealing With Shrinkles Jiggles Lumps & Bumps In The Night

    The best part of all of this is that I am comfortable talking about me, my body, and the choices I make. Can’t imagine myself doing that a few years ago.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – So What IS Normal And How Do I Achieve That Status?

    I am getting excited over JUST doing what anyone else has always been able to do.

    My Journey to Health With Weight Loss Surgery

    I learned that I ate to live, I no longer had to live to eat. I could actually use food as medicine, as fuel for my body, the building blocks of muscle, and not as something that soothed the savage beast within me.

    Lap Banded Living – Is Obesity the Last Politically Acceptable form of Discrimination

    Self-esteem and weight bias go hand in hand. As someone who has struggled with obesity since childhood, weight bias is something I painfully understand.

    Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery – Staying Motivated And Fully In The Game

    To stay in the game, to keep yourself motivated, enjoy each and every day. Find some joy in your life, find an NSV (Non-Scale Victory) to celebrate.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – On The Road Again

    Sometimes I am caught at the airport early in the morning before a long flight and have not yet had breakfast, and would like to also carry lunch on board. What to do in this case?

    Long Term Lap Band Success: Body Image Issues And Enjoying Shopping For Clothes

    I just went shopping yesterday for spring stuff, because I had some time...End result, I walked into a dressing room with about 15 items to try on and everything fit…EVERYTHING FIT!

    Clare’s LapBanded Living: Body Image Size Small-Who Me?

    We have to be gentle with ourselves as our bodies change and do everything we can to keep up with our physical changes mentally and emotionally.

    The Lessons Of Successful Lap Band Patients – What It takes To Kick Start And Keep It Running

    Anyone who has weight loss surgery of any type who follows these lessons can lose weight. How do you keep it off once you get there?

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Reflecting On My Journey

    The gains I have made in these areas with each pound lost are absolutely, positively, AMAZING, INCREDIBLE, WONDERFUL, AWESOME!!!!

    Success After Lap Band Surgery – Small Steps Up The Ladder Of Life

    One of the most amazing aspects of this weight-loss journey is the improvement in the quality of my life. As a super obese person, there were so many things that I just couldn’t do that my world gradually but definitely got smaller and smaller.

    Holiday Recipes and Strategies

    Holiday Recipes and Strategies

    Weight Loss Surgery Success – Planning For The Holidays

    Here are some of the things I do to help make the holiday season be an enjoyable time:

    Lap Band Success Tips: Don’t Eat With Your Hands

    My doctor reached out to me and asked me to try an experiment: "Don't eat with your hands." Think about what that really means; it sounds simple, but it's really hard.

    Lap Band Success – Keeping a Food Journal Can Be an Important Tool

    As a long-term successful lap band patient, and mentor to other lap band patients I often receive inquiries about journaling asking if there was a proper way to journal. What a great question!

    Success After Weight Loss Surgery – How To Deal With The Holidays

    I want to enjoy myself now, especially since I have so much more energy and choose to participate in life these days.

    Lap Band Friendly Food And Recipes – A Short Term Guide To Long Term Lap Band Success

    One of the most frequently asked questions at my local lap band support group meetings from newer patients is "What can I or what should I eat?" The short answer to that is anything that is high in protein, low in calories that you like.

    Lapbanded Living — Finding Lap Band Friendly Foods In Unexpected Places

    County fairs do not have to be all about food, lapbanded living does not mean you have to eat "special food", and being successful with a lap band is about making mindful food choices.

    Long-Term Lap Band Success – How To Maintain It

    So how do I get my formerly fat rear end in gear and restart my engine and quit sabotaging my success? Hmmmm, how about go back to what worked in the beginning?

    Lap Band Fills – The Green Zone

    The green zone is an expression that's often used to describe where a LAP-BAND(r) patient is in regards to his/her hunger and eating regime.

    Long Term Success With My Lap Band – Can I Really Shop In This Store?

    Long Term Success With My Lap Band – Can I Really Shop In This Store?

    Living With My Lap Band – Summertime And The Living Is Easy

    Every weekend I go to my local farmers' market and this time of year the choices are amazing. The most beautiful groupings of fruits, vegetables and flowers are on display.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Hunger and Satiety After Seven Years With My Lap Band

    That almost inexpressible state called satiety is really and truly within my reach as long as I pay attention. All this because of a silicon band placed around my stomach.

    Living With My Lap Band – My Goals For The Coming Year For My Lap Band And The Rest Of My Life

    Finding something good in every day will take thought each and every day and perhaps get me further into a grateful mindset. This is the mindset that brings wonderful things into my life.

    Lap Band Tips – Airline Travel

    Safe travels! By the way, did you notice that a lot of these tips work well for road trips, bringing food to work or visiting relatives?

    Traveling for Lap Band Surgery – Tips and Planning

    I hope others considering staying in a hotel find this information helpful. What I had at first thought would be a major inconvenience, turned out to be a major convenience!

    Tummy Tuck After Lap Band Surgery Will Best Correct The Upper Belly And Belly Button

    First and foremost, congratulations on your weight loss! What a wonderful transformation. In addition to your improved health, your figure already looks terrific.

    Long-Term Lap Band Success: Staying Motivated After the Compliments Stop Coming

    I found myself missing and craving those compliments, the constant reminders of how far I had come which are a huge motivating force for me. Thanks to my lap band I got what I asked for, now how would I stay motivated and maintain my weight loss success?

    Long Term Success With Lap Band Surgery – Getting Back to Basics After Falling Off The Wagon.

    This is one patient's perspective on how to re-boot and get back to basics and the eating patterns that have me feeling good physically and about myself.

    Lap Band “Rules” Or How I Use My Tool

    My band helps me with portion control, controls my hunger, and leaves me with a feeling of satiety when I work it. This is my version of "the rules."

    Lap Band Success – 10 Reasons I am Grateful for My Lap Band

    It's amazing how much my life has changed as a result of Banded Living™! So here are the 10 top things I told Dr. Billy I was grateful for back in 2008:

    Lap Band Success – Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew

    Now that I can see how far I have come this past year I can think about what I want to accomplish in the coming year.

    Lap Band Success – Exercise or Use it To Lose It

    I really can't find all of the words to describe both the physical and mental benefits. I moved with more ease and flexibility through my day, felt better about myself, felt happier, felt more motivated to continue, and the other side effect was the weight continued to come off.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Modifying My Daily Actions Due To Unforeseen Circumstances

    The moral of the story is NEVER GIVE UP! There is always a way to get it done.

    Regain After Weight Loss Surgery – It Doesn’t Have To Be Forever

    It’s not easy- it takes planning, consistency and perseverance; and each of you is definitely worth the time and energy. I was, and I am.

    How Does My Lap Band Work – No Really!

    He put into words and fact based statements what I have been saying since May 28, 2004 - “As soon as a band was put around my stomach the gnawing hunger I had dealt with, the never having had “enough” went away.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Getting That Newbie Feeling Again

    Today I weighed 162 pounds and my next goal is 159 which has seemed so elusive and so hard to reach until my first fill since my new band placement in November of 2014.

    Being Invisible And Obese

    I have been in uncomfortable positions over the years as a result of my obesity and have this to say to the rest of the world - FAT doesn’t make you invisible. We are human beings, and if a small woman had been in the same situation I bet all 6 of the guys at the pool would have got up and helped her.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Discovering My Realities Day By Day

    Lesson learned. Almost eleven years post op and still a work in progress and loving the journey.

    Success After Lap Band Surgery Take 2 – And The Story Continues

    The number on the scale is not my ruler- I rule the number on the scale!

    Moving Off The Couch To Keep The Scale Moving – Long Term Lap Band Success

    I will try it and either I can or I can’t, but I will NEVER say NO! That is, to my trainer at the gym.

    Random Thoughts Of A Lap Band Patient Seeking Success

    I vow to look in the mirror each day and say, “You’ve got this girl. Just look at what you have been able to do”

    The Saga Of My New Lap Band Journey Continues

    When I go back each and every Monday since surgery I see progress and THAT boys and girls is what matters. The scale is moving in the right direction.

    Finding My New Journey To Lap Band Success

    Today I vow to change the story being told in my head. I am losing between 2 and 3 pounds per week, and my first goal is within reach. It is more than enough!

    Long Term Lap Band Success – There Is No Shame In Regain

    Many of our bariatric doctors will tell us that we can “expect” a 10% regain after a couple of years. Most of us conveniently forget we ever heard, or read, those words anywhere

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Next Installment of As The Stomach Turns- Random Thoughts of a Newbie x 2

    So by now I am a few weeks into my new Lap Band and Plication Surgery and have noted several interesting tidbits

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Making Every Bite Count

    With my Lap Band I was able to successfully lose 250 pounds in about 27 months and keep it off.  I was able to control my hunger through food choices.

    Finally Getting Some Real Food After Lap Band Surgery – Feasting Not Fasting

    All of my clothes are getting too big.  It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be.

    Lap Band Success – Planning For A Trip To Disneyland

     I suddenly realized that going to an amusement park for a few days was no different than any other traveling.  I needed a plan, one that would keep me on track…

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Ten Years And I’m Doing It All Over Again

    The bottom line is I want a working tool to help me with satiety so that when my emotional eating tries to kick in I am not fighting both physical hunger and emotional cravings.

    Lap Band Success – Aftercare Is Key Wherever You Are On Your Journey To Health

    Yup, I own the choices of what I put in my mouth, and perhaps my gain would not have been so much, but the fact was that my band was not holding fluid.  THAT is where the hunger came from.  I had a band, but no fill in it.

    Lap Band surgery — My First Thanksgiving

    Wow, this is the first big holiday dinner at my house since being banded.  I have 15 coming for dinner and am making all of my traditional dishes.

    Long Term Lap Band Success – Reflecting On The Differences

    Just a few minor changes in what my reality has become since having surgery, shedding 250 pounds and learning what I am capable of.

    My Life After Lap Band Surgery – Dealing With Change or How Not to Feed The Beast

    The difference between before lap band and after lap band is that the poor choices do not persist for very long because I do not like the way I start to feel.

    Lap Band Surgery – What Have I Done? Buyer’s Remorse Is Not Uncommon

    Buyer's remorse is very common in the early days after weight loss surgery. It's not unusual to wake up from surgery, in pain, under the haze of anesthesia and wonder "WHAT HAVE I DONE TO MY BODY?"

    Our Book – Is Lap Band Surgery for Me?

    This book is an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide that will help you answer the question: "Is lap band surgery for me?" We will take you through a journey of self-discovery so that you can answer that question for yourself.

    Weight Loss Surgery – Is It The Easy Way Out?

    More and more seriously overweight people are turning to weight loss surgery to assist them in taking off and keeping off the excess pounds. Many people worry that they will be criticized for taking the easy way out.

    Is Lap Band Surgery for Me? – A 7 Step Process to Answer the Question

    The process for deciding if lap band surgery is for you can be a long and winding, confusing journey. The founders of Banded Living have developed a 7 step process to help you make your decision "with your eyes wide open."

    Long Term Lap Band Success – It’s Not Just Me Folks And We Have Evidence To Prove It!

    Long Term Lap Band Success – It’s Not Just Me Folks And We Have Evidence To Prove It!

    The Weight Loss Surgery Dilemma – Should I Choose LAP-BAND™ or….

    It is safe, the surgery is performed in less time than the other types of WLS. It is also our responsibility to advocate for what we want, and if the doctor we speak to does not "believe" in the surgery we choose, we can find one who does and is able and willing to support our journey to health.

    New 15 Year Study Proves That Gastric Band Surgery Is Effective

    A recently published study, conducted by Monash University in Melbourne Australia, finds that gastric band surgery is a highly effective long term method of reducing weight.

    Lap Band Surgery – 7 Things To Consider When Preparing For Surgery

    Now that you have made a decision to have lap band surgery here are some suggestions to get you started:

    Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery – Removing The Obstacles In The Way – The Power of You

    So you decided to have weight loss surgery. You go through whatever pre-op program your insurance company or your doctor requires of you. Now it’s time, the day has arrived and your mind is spinning...

    Preparing For Lap Band surgery — What To Have On Hand

    Here is a list of some non medical items you might want to have on hand before you go for your surgery...