Lap Band Support – Weight Loss Surgery Bloggers and Forums

March 13, 2011

Weight loss surgery patients come from all walks of life.  We are all very different, with different experiences and different perspectives.  In the Introduction to our book, “Is Lap Band Surgery for Me?” we start out with a thought that we’ve heard from our surgeon Dr. Helmuth Billy, over and over again…“there is one thing [...]

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Lap Banded Food Choices – Knowledge is Power

March 6, 2011

Now in my fifth year of my lap band journey, I’m still learning that knowledge is power when it comes to making food choices.  I for one am grateful that many cities are requiring nutritional information to be posted in restaurants.  I thought I had a pretty good handle on my food choices.  So for [...]

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Lap Band Approved for Lower BMI – A Long-Term Patient’s Perspective

February 20, 2011

This week there was big news in world of weight loss surgery and war on obesity. The FDA approved the LAP-BAND® for use in lower BMI patients. As someone who has finally won my personal battle with obesity with the help of this tool, and my commitment to learning how to use it, you can [...]

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Adventures in Lap Banded Eating – Pasta is Back (in the form of Shirataki Noodles)!

February 13, 2011

For me an important part of working my lap band tool, is knowing what foods work and what foods don’t work for me.  I’ve learned throughout my 35+ years of dieting that starchy carbohydrates are trigger foods for me so I’ve learned to avoid them.  I’m always looking for new lap band friendly food and [...]

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Lap Band Support – Who Have You Told About Your Weight Loss Surgery?

February 6, 2011

Lap Band Support – Who Have You Told About Your Weight Loss Surgery?
This topic comes up periodically on the message boards of bandedliving.com and it’s always a sensitive topic for me.  It came up again this week and I felt compelled to blog about it.  Although I’m not a private person, I was very private [...]

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My Lap Band Journey – Those Before Pants! Come Laugh with Me.

January 23, 2011

I’m not very good at laughing at myself, especially when it comes to my weight.  I guess we are all different.  I’ve been known to say “I didn’t get the humor gene.”  I suspect it’s a lot more complicated than that.  When my dear friend Sandi, my lap band mentor, and buddy resolved this year [...]

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Eating with My Lap Band – Having High Protein Staples on Hand Helps Me Work My Tool

January 16, 2011

Let’s face it.  I have a love/hate relationship with food.  Up until August 16, 2006, the day of my lap band surgery, I’d spent my life thinking about dieting, on a diet (and hungry), or feeling bad about blowing my last diet.  I was a professional yo-yo dieter.  Now I’m finally learning how to enjoy [...]

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My Lap Band Journey – From “In the Closet” to The Ups and Downs of Being a Lap Band Blogger

January 10, 2011

If you’ve been following my blog, you know I was in the closet about my lap band surgery until I had pretty much reached my goal weight and starting finally believing that this time I was not going to fail.  I needed to believe I finally found the long-term solution to my lifelong battle with [...]

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My Lap Band Journey – Finding Inspiration by Trying Something New for 1/11

January 2, 2011

It’s the New Year – a time for new beginnings.  I’m in my fifth year of banded living and at the end of this holiday season, with so much to be grateful for I was finding myself in a rut and in need of new inspiration. 
2010 has been an incredible year for me.  My family [...]

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How Is Lap Band Surgery Different Than All My Attempts At Weight Loss?

December 19, 2010

It’s the end of the year.  I’m feeling a little overwhelmed with shopping and planning and all of my responsibilities over the next few weeks. I always let myself get stressed this time of year and need to remember to get back to basics of family and friends and the spirit of this holiday season.  [...]

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My Lap Band Journey Pictures – Fear of Before and After Pictures

December 12, 2010

When I talk with someone who is preparing for lap band surgery, I always urge them to take a full length, head on before picture.  I always feel pain and tension when I bring up taking that picture.
I’ve always hated pictures, specifically photos with me in them!  My childhood pictures were always a painful reminder [...]

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Lap Band Support – Learning How to Use Our Lap Bands and Paying it Forward

December 5, 2010

A recent post on our bandliving.com forums brought me to tears and made me think long and hard about why I chose to go public with my story (If you follow my blog, you may remember that I was very much in the closet about my lap band surgery for years.)  We say it over [...]

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Lap Band Tips – Airline Travel With My Lap Band

November 21, 2010

I just returned home from an awesome week visiting Sandi.  I realized that it has become second nature for me to know how to travel, specifically how to fly cross-country with my lap band.  Since I am a frequent traveler, planning for a trip has become pretty much automatic for me.  But I realized that [...]

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My Lap Band Journey – Healing the Scars of Childhood Obesity

November 7, 2010

My sister Joyce is my only sibling and we are very close. We’ve always been there for each other through life’s ups and downs.  Like most sisters, our relationship has many layers and facets and is complicated.  But what I remember most vividly about my sister growing up is that she was the skinny one [...]

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Long-Term Success with My Lap Band – Making Myself a Priority and Having a Plan for the Holiday Season

October 31, 2010

The leaves are falling; it’s Halloween weekend; next week we set the clocks back and I’m one of those people, who unlike my husband thrive in bright sunshine and warm weather.  This time of year is always harder for me, especially since I moved back to the northeast.  Autumn leaves and winter in New England [...]

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Hungry No More – My Lap Band Story

October 26, 2010

I have battled obesity as long as I can remember.  I vividly recall the pain and embarrassment of being weighed in my elementary school gym, praying that the school aide would not announce my weight for everyone to hear.  I started dieting at the age of 10.  My days were defined as good or bad [...]

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Now on Amazon: Our Book – Is Lap Band Surgery for Me?

October 26, 2010

Our new book is now shipping on amazon!  Read an excerpt here.

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