John T.

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Thoughout my years of having the band, i have never needed an unfill.   Well....i think i need to get an unfill.  I noticed at night i was coughing and burping alot.  it was eventually getting so it was keeping me up at night.  i think i have some acid reflux too and it is making my night unpleasant.  i have an appt with the doc on friday. 

Hello!  I havent got on this site very often.  I really have plataued to a weight...i think if i really wanted to loose those last 10 pounds, i would REALLY have to work it to get it done.  The last pounds are definitely the hardest.  I have gotten used to working with my band. i know what i can or cannot eat.  I cant believe im saying this but eating is more of something i HAVE to do and not something i always WANT to do...dont get me wrong...i do still love food, but now food is not my overriding priority in life.  well...see ya for now!

i guess i dont get in here very much.

im still hanging around the same weight....i go up and down on weight and end up hanging around 188-192 range..

thats ok....im happy where im at.....i really need to excercise more to see if i can tone up a bit, but otherwise im good!

im going the wrong direction!!!!  relapse time...  i gained 5 pounds since june 8th!!!!!
im not following the rules and ive gained a few pounds back! 
i know what to do...i need to get excercising again and quit eating around the band.

time for a big kick in my pants!!!!

im now only 13 pounds to go in my journey!   im 187 and want to make it to 174.....im so close!

it gets harder and harder to loose weight....but who cares!  i will eventually get there...no rush!
im so much happier than when i was 173 pounds ago!  its amazing!

went to the doctor last week.  He is soo thrilled with me.  He told me that ive probably lost more than anyone in their office. i have been strkuggling with close to the same weight for 2 months.  but i think this fill is starting to help.   it was a rediculously small fill...i think they only put in .015ccs in my Ap large band.   But it seems like its fine tuned so i dont need much to make it feel right again.    before this fill i was starting to snack more, starting to eat around the band and eating a tad more than i usually do during meals.  this one should help.  along with my stepped up excercise

I am real stagnant on weight loss now...its seems hard to loose anything anymore.  I know i need to step it up again in the exercise department and might need another fill.  i probably havent had a fill in 6 months.  Im not real worried.  I have come so far and if i stayed this weight the rest of my life i would be thrilled.

Ok, i gotta tell you something that happened this weekend.   I was with a few guys at a bar this friday and we were in a group just chatting.  One guy that i didnt know very well in the group noticed a farily hevyset woman across the bar.  He said, "she probably got that way because she eats too much and shes lazy.".....ARG!  So normally im the type who just ingores idiotic comments like that, but I just had to speak up to this tool! 
I told him...."Do you really think shes lazy?!  Oh really?   Shes probably 150 pounds overweight.   I myself used to be 160 pounds heavier than im now.    Im no longer that heavy!  I was carrying around the equivalent of another person! "      So then i asked him, "Do you think a someone who carries around the equivalent of 160 pounds on him 24/7 a LAZY person?"   Well he kind of got a little flustered because he knew i was a little mad.  and he said , "well, uhhh, no!"    Anyway he later appologized and congratulated me on my wieght loss and I really dont think he is a bad guy, just a little naive and stupid.

I reached my goal of ONDERLAND which is to get a weight of ONE HUNDRED SOMETHING!!!!

This 18 month journey has been a whirlwind!  I still cant believe it was 18 months ago where i was walking around getting tired out after walking 10 minutes!  Now i look at myself and im a different person, a confident person, excited about life. Knowing my life is just gonna get better!   I was a great caring guy then as i am now.  But what has changed is the confidence i have in myself.  I know I have an awesome life ahead of me and i know i can offer much to my future mate and to all of my friends and family.  In some ways i have not changed, but in many ways this weight loss journey has changed my life not only in weight, but in everything that has to do with my life.  For all of you out there considering whether to do this surgury...i say DO IT....it will change your life!

well the holidays took toll on me.  it seems like all those candies seem to go down thru my band real well!  Its amazing how many ways you can get bad food down with the band or not!  well the last couple of weeks i got back to eating better and now i lost the 4 pounds i gained keeping me at 209 again.  i think this last 30+ pounds or so will be the hardest!