That's 'Plan A' shot to sh*t!!!
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This Buddy last logged in at 11-07-2011
Birthday: 22-05-1965
This is my story
I suppose I'm a bit different in as much as I actually managed to lose 7 stone without a band but couldn't keep it off once I'd lost it. Having gone from 255 pounds to 155 pounds I had an abdominoplasty, mastopexy, and liposuction, then started to regain the weight almost immediately! At 193 I decided enough was enough and the only place I was heading unless I did something, and fast, was back to where I started, so on 12/2/07 I got banded. I struggled to find somewhere willing to do the procedure at the weight I was - BUPA and Nuffield hospitals refused, but The Park in Nottingham (The Hospital Group) were willing to do it purely because of my weight history. My experience with them wasn't a good one, and the aftercare was non existent. For the first 18 months after the surgery I lost nothing apart from about half a stone on the post-op liquid diet, then my weight just flatlined at around 187 pounds. I had many many problems with lack of restriction, and pain when I ate (despite the lack of restriction!) and found THG to be pretty useless by way of offering any help or support. Anyway, about 6 months out of my non-existent year's aftercare, I was desperate to lose some weight before a holiday, so I tried a course of Reductil which I'd been on several times before I had the band. Anything was worth a try! For reasons which are completely beyond me, they seemed to miraculously 'kick-start' the restriction I'd never had as well as supressing my appetite, and the weight started to fall off. I was wary about stopping them, but once I did the restriction stayed. So, more by pure luck than anything else, I now seem to have a fully functional band keeping my weight at a nice, steady 137 pounds. For the first time in my life I eat what I want, I don't try to starve myself and I'm finally out of a lifelong cycle of either being in a foul mood because I'm hungry and trying not to eat, or being angry because I've 'given in' and eaten so I'm feeling guilty! All I can say is I must have been hell to live with!!! lol. Having lived like that for as long as I can remember, I'll never take what I have now for granted. Never.
