I had the LapBand as a last chance to lose weight and keep it off. I am 67 and was 100 lbs overweight. I figured If I didn't lose weight I would be dead shortly. I have diabetes and have had two heart bypasses and also 4 back surgeries. I was having a hard time just getting around let alone exercising. I am a retired programmer from IBM 15 years now. I gained most of my weight after retiring. I am doing pretty good losing the weight since the surgery. I attribute my success to journaling my food consumption. I use Excel to track my food. Guess being a programmer I wanted to use a tool like this. It works great for me.