My Lapband Weight Loss Success Story

Most of you are aware that I had my lap band surgery 7 years ago, How Weight Loss Surgery Saved My Life, lost 250 pounds and am maintaining my weight loss.  The huge quality of life gains that I have made just seem to keep coming.  After a whirlwind trip to Washington DC to work [...]

As I reflect on my past 7 years as a successful lap band surgery patient I can list several things I wish I had known that could have helped me on my journey. I had the support of my family, my surgeon, his entire staff, and our local lap band support group. Despite all of this wonderful support I still felt alone. I knew I needed to plan my meals

So here I am, 6 years and 11 months post-op, working to maintain my weight loss as well as continuing to increase my strength, add more muscle and improve my health on a daily basis.  So, if I sound like Charlie Brown’s sister – you know- wa-wa-wa-wa-wa bear with me, I’ll get to the point.
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Even though the days were getting longer, and brighter, and warmer in the last weeks I found myself finding reasons (ok, excuses) to fall back into some very old and very bad habits.

So we’ve all heard the words “super size it” and many of us have actually asked for our meal to be super sized. Of course, that was all in the past. (OK, last week can be the past too).

Many of you know that as a “winner” in Allergan’s C.H.O.I.C.E. campaign I was able to go to Washington DC and, along with other contest winners, and OAC representatives, advocate for weight loss surgery to be considered as a viable treatment alternative. That trip was amazing. I met some wonderful people and realized just how passionate I was about obesity being treated as a disease without discrimination in the medical arena, social arena or workplace.