My 4 years of Lapband mistakes!!!

Wayne, I'm so glad you posted this.  I know for me posting and reading the boards helps keep me focused and honest and I make myself come here every day, even the days I don't want to follow band rules.  I read posts like yours and I know that even if I make a mistake my band allows me a second chance the next day.

I'm so happy for you that you don't have a slip, that's my biggest fear!

Michelle

I think you are a brave man to be able to post that. And the cool thing is..after all that..all the fighting with the band..it's still there, still in place and you can still go back and do it right. Good for you. Follow those rules and you will lose it all again. I look forward to reading more of your posts. -Nikki

Good luck to you.  Glad to see you are back on the "bandwagon."  I'm sure it took a lot of guts and soul searching for you to write this post.  It will help a lot of people realize that band rules are band rules.  You are lucky that you did not have to remove your band permanently.  I guess the hardest thing for me to learn was eat slower, chew well and limit portions.  It took a year and a half to learn this.  In the mean time what helped me out was not eating any junk food.  Please keep coming back to this forum for support, we are all here to help each other through "thick and thin." 

Wayne,
Thanks so much for posting. It takes real courage to face ourselves.  I am a newbie and will keep your advice hopefully at the front of my mind!! 
Welcome back...
Sal

Thanks Wayne...I am a newbie with the band and every time I think about "coloring outside of the bounds" I am stopped in my tracks but someone like you who is honest enough to let me know the price we all pay. I am right behind you....and will hold you up in prayer as we walk this whole thing together. I love this place....it always seems to give me just what I need when I am needing it...again...you are so courageous and I am excited for all of us! jan

As a pre-op person, you haven't scared me away. I appreciate you posting your experience and am very glad to read you're trying with a different attitude and realized that what you were doing was in fact fighting against your tool. Kudos to you! Good Luc****ep us posted pretty please :-)

Thanks for posting. I lost 80 lbs quickly too and now have been at a standstill forever. I needed to hear what you said and to give myself a kick in the keester. Thanks for posting and I know you will do well!

Connie