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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My Fifth Halloween Since Lap Band Surgery – It’s Still a Little Scary

October 24, 2010

Halloween is just a few days away.  For me it marks the beginning of the holiday season; this holiday in particular brings up a flood of emotions from my childhood as an obese kid.  The good news is that Halloween isn’t so scary for me anymore.  It’s actually fun! But it wasn’t always that way.
As [...]

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Is Lap Band Surgery for Me? – I Spent Endless Hours Reading Message Boards Struggling With This Question Five Years Ago

October 18, 2010

Yesterday Sandi and I were looking at the list of new members who recently joined bandedliving.com, excited by the fact that lots of people are finding us now and that more and more practices are referring patients.  We also realized that only a relatively small number of people are ready to post on the forums.  [...]

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Lap Banded Living – Yes, I Still Use Protein Drinks!

October 9, 2010

When I’m talking to people who are preparing for lap band surgery, the topic of protein drinks always comes up.  Which ones are “the best?”  Where do you buy them?  Why are they so important?  Should I buy them by the case? They can be so expensive! And the questions go on and on…
Here is [...]

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Lap Band Success: Gloria and Sandi Were Honored Last Week Along With 10 Other Amazing Lap Band Patients in Washington DC as Winners of the C.H.O.I.C.E. Contest (Choosing Health over Obesity Inspiring Change through Empowerment)

September 28, 2010

This is so exciting. I honestly don’t know where to begin. I had the most amazing experience in Washington DC last week.  As someone who was pretty much “in the closet” about my decision to have weight loss surgery until about eighteen months ago, I now spend a lot of time paying it forward here [...]

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Lap Band Fills – Finding My Sweet Spot

September 25, 2010

I was thinking about the title for this blog maybe I should have called it lap band fills – finding my sweet spot once again in my fifth year.  After being lapbanded for so long, and being one of those people who needed more than a few fills to find that place they call the [...]

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Lap Banded Living – In Memory of 9/11/2001

September 11, 2010

I had a list of things that I wanted to blog about today about how I’m using my lap band, about things I’m still learning on my lap band journey, but today is 9/11.  I was born and raised in NYC.  I Iived twenty miles or so from Ground Zero on 9/11/2001.  I waited for [...]

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Lapbanded Living – Still Learning What Maintaining with My Lap Band Really Means for Me

September 4, 2010

When I decided to have lap band surgery, for me my weight goal was not only to lose weight, but to actually maintain a healthy weight for the first time in my life.  When writing my 4 year bandiversary blog, I talked about being in the high end of my weight range.  You have no [...]

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Lapbanded on Vacation – Having Fun at an All Inclusive Without Gaining Weight

August 30, 2010

Even four years after being lapbanded, the idea of going to an all inclusive beach resort makes me more than a little nervous – seven days and nights of unlimited food and drinks.
I had been looking forward to this trip all summer.  My best friend since childhood and I went with our kids to a [...]

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Lap Band Surgery – Setting My Goal Weight

August 21, 2010

When I talk with someone who is considering lap band surgery, I always ask “What are your goals in terms of health, weight- loss, and quality of life?”  In many ways I know that that the specific weight is probably the least important goal, but like most people who struggle with weight, I have a [...]

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My Decision to Have Lap Band Surgery: I Was Lapbanded 4 Years Ago This Week

August 15, 2010

Tomorrow, August 16th marks four years since my lap band surgery story officially began.  Four years ago after thinking about weight loss surgery for years in silent seclusion and after doing a lot of research,  I took what at the time felt like a giant leap of faith and had lap band surgery.  (Read my [...]

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Lapband-ed in New York City – Menus with Calorie Counts, Oh My!

August 8, 2010

I was born and raised in New York City.  
Decades before I ever heard of lap band surgery I had pretty much seen all the top diet doctors in NYC in search of the magic bullet to my weight problem.
“The city” as I call it will always be like home to me.  Earlier this week I [...]

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

August 1, 2010

When I moved cross-country to a place where no one knew me before lap band surgery a really strange thing happened.  People assumed I never had a weight problem.  Now that sounds like a great thing, but it’s actually been kind of difficult for me.  I was already at the point in my journey back [...]

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