Reflecting Back Before Weight Loss Surgery – 15 Years and Counting

I enjoy life, and giving back to this community that has given me so much, as I journey through my life after weight loss surgery.

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It’s About So Much More Than The Number On The Scale – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

Be patient with yourself, you are a work in progress and the scale will always catch up with your choices. You are making good choices and those negative thoughts don’t serve your journey.

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Fifteen Years Post-Op Weight Loss Surgery And I Still Food Journal for Long Term Success

Do you food journal? What app do you like? Share with us, everyone can benefit.

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Keeping My Fitness Routine Is Still Difficult – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

Tired and achy is NOT an excuse to give up my fitness routine. It is the very reason to continue it.

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Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success – The Trigger Foods Of Summer Revisited

So do you believe that food can be addictive? Do you ever feel out of control yourself?

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Three Simple Steps – How To Love Yourself

Oh, so you want to know what the 3 simple steps to loving yourself are:

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So, What Is The Connection Between My Cat Dying and Weight Loss Surgery?

I do not need to eat to feel better.  THIS IS MY LIFE AFTER WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY.

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The Saga of The Sapphire Necklace – Celebrating Life After Weight Loss Surgery

Now I am the proud owner of a sapphire necklace that is the history of my weight loss surgery journey and I wear it with love in my heart and pride in my step every time I have the opportunity.

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Fit Living Pays Unexpected Dividends – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

Life truly can be great! Never stop looking for and celebrating those Non-Scale Victories.

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Why I Attend Bariatric Conferences For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

I help fund grants for surgeries for those who are in medical need and do not have the insurance coverage or the financial ability to pay for the surgery.

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A Body In Motion Tends To Stay In Motion For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

For me the lesson is that no matter what, moving my body in some way every single day results in less pain, more flexibility, and I LOVE seeing and feeling the muscles I work so hard to create.

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Changing Up Exercise As The Days Get Longer and Warmer for Continued Success After Weight Loss Surgery

So, grab your bottle of water, and perhaps a protein bar, and come join me outside as I celebrate Spring. What’s your favorite Springtime activity?

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Pushing Through The Hard – To Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

NOTHING is too hard if we want it bad enough. Share with me what your “hard” is and how you’re working on. Together, we are stronger than we are alone.

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Getting Sidelined Is No Fun – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

Nothing but protein and produce for the win. Another life crisis pushed through to the other side to get back on this wagon of good health.

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It’s Valentine’s Day 2019 – love and chocolate are in the air

I challenge each of you to find something besides high calorie, high fat, and high sugar chocolate to express your love. Share your V-Day treat and help a sister out.

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Did I Really Just Stuff My Face With That – Emotional Eating After Weight Loss Surgery

Yes, even after 14+ years post op I am human, make mistakes around food. The big difference now is that I own the mistakes, look for a learning moment in them, and then move on.

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My Weight Loss Surgery Journey As The Little Engine That Could

Keep chugging on up those hills saying out loud to anyone who will listen, I THINK I CAN, I THINK I CAN, I THINK I CAN, I KNOW I CAN…… LOOK, I DID IT!

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How I Know What I Eat, To Maintain Success After Weight Loss Surgery

Weighing and measuring has served me well over the past almost 15 years. Any time I ignored it I managed to add a few pounds. They disappear as I begin weighing and measuring again.

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New Year – New YOU – But don’t forget how far you’ve come since weight loss surgery!

Let’s start 2019 off by Celebrating Our Progress, along with setting new goals. What’s one NSV you’re willing to share with me today?

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How Do You Eat an Elephant and What the Heck Does It Have To Do With Weight Loss Surgery?

So, my friends, just how do you eat an elephant? ONE BITE AT A TIME.

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Another year as a weight loss surgery patient is ending. A new one is beginning – What will 2019 bring?

I still am working on one STRETCH goal for the year. I’ll let you know when I have it figured out. How about YOU? What are your goals for the New Year?

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Twas The Week Before Christmas and All Through The House, The Office, and EVERYWHERE We Go – How We Work To Stay On Track After WLS

Happy Holidays to all. Enjoy your family time, or just your time off and leave the sugar alone. You’ll be happier if you do.

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The Two Most Difficult Things for Me in the Winter After Weight Loss Surgery

I also pull on my mind’s knowledge that if I don’t get my fitness in I will be even colder all day long since it jump starts my metabolism. What are your trips and tricks for hydration and fitness in cold weather? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Keeping A Positive Mental Attitude For Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success

Today, at your Thanksgiving dinner, or later, or tomorrow, or the day after that take a moment and reflect on what you are grateful for. I promise you it’s time well spent.

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Taking A Moment to Be Grateful After Weight Loss Surgery

I am grateful to be alive. I am grateful for each and every one of you who read and share my story. What are you grateful for?

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Learning To Love ME – Success After Weight Loss Surgery

I am happy, possibly for the first time in my life these past several years. Why? Not because I lost all of the weight although that does help me feel good about myself. It’s mostly because I have learned to love and accept myself with all my virtues and all my flaws. I am ME and happy to be ME.

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Take The Time To Stop And Smell The Roses For Long Term WLS Success

When you stop and smell the roses, and realize the progress you have made, the smiles come more easily.

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Why I Exercise – Confessions Of A Long Term Successful Weight Loss Surgery Patient

Why do you exercise, or if you don’t, why do you not exercise?

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Living My Best Life After Weight Loss Surgery

So, Happy Birthday to Me and to all of you, may I just say THANKS.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – What’s For Dinner?

Wherever you choose to get your recipes, I encourage you to make it your business to eat REAL FOOD that tastes good AND provides you with the nutrition required to get to your goal and maintain it.

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Pushing Through My Fear Or Eating To Not Feel It – The Choice After Weight Loss Surgery

The time is NOW to push through the fear and get to the other side where LIFE and JOY exist.

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The Non-Scale Victories Never End – Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success

I am no longer ruled by that voice in my head that says, “you can’t”. I tell it to shut up and not only can I, but I AM!

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Remembering My WHY For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

...this is WHY I had surgery – to be fit, healthy, flexible and mobile and this is WHY I continue getting myself to the gym.

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Three Things That Count For Feeling Good Even 14 Years After Weight Loss Surgery

When you feel out of sorts do you stop and check in with yourself to see what might be missing from your daily actions? Personal accountability is key to long term success.

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A Quick Peek Into The Life Of A 14 Year Post-Op Weight Loss Surgery Patient

I took care of ME first. My persistence is certainly paying dividends in my life. It isn’t easy, but it certainly is worth it.

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Fourteen Years After Weight Loss Surgery and Living My Best Life

Weight Loss Surgery – Why did I have it? So I could truly LIVE my life. And I am, every glorious moment.

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Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery Means I Can Pack For Vacation In A Minute

Not only did Weight Loss Surgery save my life, it also saved me from becoming psychotic as I try to pack for vacation. Another Non-Scale Victory.

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Finding my Journey to Success after Weight Loss Surgery

Be sure to have some non-judgmental support around to share your thoughts with, whether it is your Doc’s support group, a friend or group of friends, or go to www.wlssuccessmatters.com and click on FREE telephone support group calls and join in.

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When Life Keeps Tossing You Lemons How Do You Keep Making Lemonade – Staying True To Your Goals After Weight Loss Surgery

Any one of these situations individually could provide me with the fuel to toss in the towel, ... NOTHING was more important than whichever one of these I chose to focus my emotions on.

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Hopping to Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery – No fooling!

With the advent of Spring comes several “holidays” - be they Spring Break, Easter, Passover, or a scheduled vacation. Easter Sunday is April 1st this year and I don’t plan on being foolish about it. So far, no Cadbury eggs have passed these lips, although I must admit when a local grocery store advertised buy 2 get 1 free I thought seriously about going and getting 3 - 1 for each of my grandkids…

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Daylight Savings Time and Life After Lap Band Surgery

Does Daylight Savings Time really contribute anything worthwhile? Have a look here for some pro’s and con’s.

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Eating my sadness does not help me or my cat after Weight Loss Surgery

My journey continues. I keep practicing what I’ve learned so I can live my BEST life and not be drowned in anger or sadness.

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Keep Asking Yourself The Right What If… Question After Weight Loss Surgery

What might happen if you succeeded? What would that look like? What would it feel like? Are you smiling? I am.

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I Am Not Ready for The Rocking Chair

Life is what you choose it to be after Weight Loss Surgery. All because I decided that I CAN. I choose to accentuate the positive.

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Seventy Is the New Fifty or Life Is What You Make It as A Weight Loss Surgery Patient

The moral of the story is – LIVE every day to its fullest whether you are 20, 40, 60, yes, or even 70 years young.

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Join me in San Antonio June 1st-3rd 2018 and Help Save Lives

This is the ONLY organization that funds grants for Weight Loss Surgeries for those who are financially unable to do it themselves, have little or no insurance coverage, and have the medical need. Wow, that’s a big sentence for a BIG MISSION, one that is certainly worthy of my time.

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Declaring 2018 the year of ME – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

This year of ME will be filled with choices - choices to work my fitness every day and get stronger and increase my endurance. Age is not a barrier, it is an incentive for me. I can align myself with people who help serve my goals and fuel my soul and let go of those who don’t.

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Finding Myself Starting Over As The Year Ends – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

If I look at my return to fitness like my return to eating after this bought of stomach flu…liquids, soft foods, then back to solids I can progress my fitness back to where I was before and then beyond with no frustration, only the gentle reminder that I CAN, I WILL and I AM.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Exercising My Options – 2017

SADS or not, the one thing I will NOT do is find excuses to avoid exercise. It has become a habit I need daily, and just as I will brush my teeth each day, so will I get my exercise done. NO EXCUSES.

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Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery – Sleep Is One Of The Cornerstones of Success

It’s been a good day too. Day 2 of managing my sleep and emotions instead of letting them manage me.

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Tis The Season to Be Grateful – Happiness After Weight Loss Surgery

There are basically two ways of looking at life: Looking at what you don’t have with avaricious thoughts, or be grateful for what you do have.

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How Falling Can Be A Non Scale Victory – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

So, how is falling and cracking my head open a Non-Scale Victory you ask? Had I still weighed 424 lbs my fall would have been harder, probably caused more damage, and no way would I have been able to put in a full day’s work the morning after.

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How Planning Solves The Never Ending Search For Something Good To Eat – Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

We have to eat to stay alive, we have to eat to be healthy. I add to the “have to’s” we have to eat delicious food.

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Fitness Is A Way Of Life For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

I continue 5 days a week at the gym because I can, it feels good, it allows me to continue living an active life outside of the gym, enjoying hiking and biking and swimming and fishing and traveling as I work to keep that “REAL AGE” clock at a number lower than my chronological age.

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Living My Life Out Loud – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

I think I got bit several times by the Aloha spirit and will not let it go in my life ever again. This freedom to be is priceless.

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The Best Laid Plans Often Go Awry Or How I Get Back On Course After A Wrong Turn – Long Term Success After WLS

After 13 years I know how to turn the switch from OFF to back ON and act like a WLS patient so I continue to go through life with ease, Living My Best Life.

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A Positive Attitude Is What Has Brought Me This Far in My Successful Lap Band Journey

I ranted and raved and stomped my feet and cried and made it through the understanding that if I fed my head hunger (which screamed for processed carbs and junk - delicious junk though, right) my physical hunger increased.

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Going That Extra Mile for Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

What might happen if you used that power, that energy, that extra bit of effort to further your own health and wellness? I challenge you today to find one area, just one where you could put in some extra effort and win.

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Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success and The Trigger Foods Of Summer

So do you believe that food can be addictive? Do you ever feel out of control yourself? Please share your thoughts.

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Emotional Eating Doesn’t Serve My Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

Every now and again over the past 13 years I seem to let it slip my mind that I am a weight loss surgery patient. I then find myself eating cookies, chips, froyo, ice cream and other assorted processed junk foods.

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Being Sick Totally Cramps My Style In Ways I Never Would Have Thought About – Long Term WLS Success

This life is a gift and I do receive it with grace and thanks. Do you?

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What I Have Learned After 13 Years As a Weight Loss Surgery Patient

I am no longer hiding on the sidelines of life. I am living my BEST life each day. Bottom line here is: -- I AM ENOUGH

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Thirteen Years After Lap Band Surgery And Still Living My Best Life

I keep working on my fitness level which is critical to keeping the weight off and keeping this 67 year young body feeling good. I keep working on creating new and healthy recipes that both families and bariatric patients will love.

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Weight Loss Surgery — Is It The Easy Way Out?

It still infuriates me when folks think that having bariatric surgery is taking the easy way out. HA!

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It’s The Non-Scale Victories That Keep Me Motivated After WLS Surgery

I remember the first time I stepped into the pool and swam one length of the pool. One part of me was mortified because I was out in the public eye in a bathing suit, and the rest of me was jumping up and down laughing like a child screaming "You did it, You Did IT!!!!" Ever felt that way? That good part was what brought me back to the pool day after day.

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Spending A Weekend Just For YOU Can Lead To Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success

Together we can inspire one another, talk freely and openly and find resolution to issues we may have believed were insurmountable.

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How Fitness Has Fueled My Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

You know the phrase “Set A Goal That Makes You Want To Jump Out Of Bed In The Morning”? Well staying fit and healthy is my goal because ... I CAN JUMP OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING!

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Where I Go For Motivation – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

Getting regular exercise, whatever your body, your doctor and your physical abilities allows is good for you.

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A Morning At The Gym In January – Living a Life Of Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

Mornings at the gym in January are frustrating. First of all, the parking lot is full of all of those New Year’s Resolutions people.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Just Doing It!

So moving my body on purpose also keeps carb cravings under control. Hence, the title- JUST DO IT!

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Detoxing From the holidays – It’s all about the attitude

With a clear head I simply get all of the toxic foods out of the house, set up a meal plan and stick to it.

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Complacency Is A Buzz Kill For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

In order to maintain my weight loss and the level of health and fitness that I have achieved I need to stay aware of who I am, what I am doing and what I could be doing better.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Finally REALLY Comfortable In My Own Skin

I managed in the water for about another 2 hours, again walking head held high into and out of the water in my bathing suit and guess what? NOBODY was pointing, laughing, looking strangely at me.

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Resisting Change Doesn’t Work For Me – Long Term Lap Band Success

My fitness is a non-negotiable and no matter how difficult I try to make it there is ALWAYS an easy solution.

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On Being Thankful – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

OK, so it’s a week after Thanksgiving. That doesn’t mean I can’t be grateful, thankful, appreciative - of all the benefits that have come to me as a result of having Weight Loss Surgery in 2004.

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A Weight Loss Surgery Patient’s Guide To A Healthy Thanksgiving Holiday – Thursday Inspirations For Banded Living

Now how do we navigate this incredible food fest and make it through the other side, to Black Friday and a shopping bonanza without triggering sugar cravings and having to unbutton our jeans?

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What do I eat for long term success after Lap Band surgery?

I challenge you all to create tasty meals, using your food scales, measuring cups, measuring spoons, Google and reading labels.

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How Exercise Has Shaped My Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

Don’t wait for the right time to start fitness, start now - just do more than you did yesterday!

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Long Term Lap Band Success – The Tools of The Trade That Work For Me

For me I know that if I want to lose weight I need to restrict my calories to 1200 maximum and my protein to 80 grams minimum and the weight drops off.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Never Stop The Celebration Of YOU!

You are traveling, playing, participating 100% in life when suddenly you notice your jeans are a little bit snug, or the top button of your favorite shirt is pulling a bit too much for your taste.

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Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery – The Holidays Come Earlier Every Year

Is it just me or do the Holidays actually come earlier every year?

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Obesity Health 2016

This particular non-scale victory brings me joy! I guess it’s time to go back through my closet and see what else is too big. My consistency with my food choices and my hard work in the gym is allowing me to continue to “shrink” without losing weight.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Making My Choices Count

When we come to a fork in the path of life, it can be what to eat, what to drink, how or when to exercise, who to go out with, what job you want to apply for, or many other possibilities, some life changing, some not so much.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – It’s My Birthday and I Celebrate Life!

As I look back 12 ½ years to my decision to have Lap Band Surgery I know from the depths of my very soul that this was one of the best choices in my life.

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The Saga Of My Shoulder Continues – Long Term LapBand Success And Recovery From Injuries

I am following my Doctor’s and my Physical Therapist’s orders on what exercise I can do, and to be perfectly blunt and unprofessional, it sucks!

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Taking Some Time Off For Me And Still Learning – Long Term Lap Band Success

This food addict has become a fitness addict; however not to extremes that cause problems, just the right amount to fuel my metabolism, my mood and have me living my best life.

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Come With Us To The Beach – Long Term Success After Lap Band or Any Weight Loss Surgery

I invite all of you to join WLS Success Matters, in our next Weekend Retreat, and spend some time working just on YOU. Self discovery is a powerful ally in life.

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Food Glorious Food – Long Term Success After Lap Band Or ANY Weight Loss Surgery

The solution is to give our cookbook Eat Your Way To Success And Learn How To Control Hunger - A Weight Loss Surgery Friendly Cookbook a try.

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Calories – To Count Or Not To Count – Long Term Lap Band Success

We can control what we consume and when we consume it at least 90% of the time. Take that information and add our weight loss surgery tools and I see SUCCESS written next to YOUR name...

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Taking Care of Me First – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

If you are suffering with knee pain and avoid exercise because of it - I cannot suggest too strongly that you go see an orthopedic doc and find out about alternatives.

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Claiming Bragging Rights and Celebrating For Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery

I do hope that YOU begin sharing some of your personal victories with me. I LOVE a good party, so let’s celebrate life together!

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Twelve Years After Lap Band Surgery And Living My Best Life

Some days are more of a struggle than others. Am I always perfectly on point? NOPE. I am human and just try to do my best each and every day, whatever that might be.

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On The Road With My Lap Band And How I Get It Done – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

This is how I get my exercise while I’m on the road. It takes planning.

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Still Learning To Keep That Post-Op Lap Band Weight In Check

That’s the place where my self-confidence blooms, my stress melts away and I can breathe through those feelings as they try to take hold of me.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Some of Why I Exercise Besides Losing Weight

When I sit or stand straight I notice that I am more alert, more focused in the moment, and more aware of myself and others around me as well. Could this be the result of the decrease in the stress hormone in my body?

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How To Love Yourself In Three Simple Steps – Say What?

It has taken me years to acknowledge that I really am worthy of loving myself, just as I am today. Until I was willing to begin, in a tiny voice, to tell myself that I deserved to be happy, I deserved to be healthy, and I was the only one capable of making that happen nothing changed in my life.

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Pushing Through The Hard Parts For Long Term Lap Band Success

Sometimes you just have to push through it to get to the other side.

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How A Change of Perspective Can Create The Success You Seek After Weight Loss Surgery

I chose LIFE over spiraling medical problems and potential early death. Pretty serious, wouldn’t you agree?

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Enjoying Life After Lap Band Surgery

We are limited in our time on earth this time around and I want to enjoy and LIVE every single day of it, and swimming with the fish, the turtles, the manta rays, hiking rain forests, walking through lava tubes, hiking around a live volcano and enjoying beautiful sunrises and sunsets all count as Living to me.

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Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery – Beating The Odds

Folks set New Year’s resolutions to lose weight, exercise more and start out with great intentions and no real plan. Their “will power” loses out to their “I can’t”.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Chasing Winter Blues Even in Southern California

Keeping busy keeps the tired from settling in, and if it’s 8PM I don’t want to go to bed because I’ll be wide awake by 1AM and that sets up a bad pattern.

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Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery And Head Spins In the Water

Change does happen ONLY when we step outside our comfort zone, right? (wink, wink)

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CPR For Long Term Lap Band Success – Consistency Persistence and Resiliency

If my jeans start feeling a bit tight, or my body doesn’t feel up to snuff you can bet it’s time for me to get that CPR going.

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Long Term Success After Weight Loss Surgery Means Facing My Fears As They Arise

The ONLY solution to FEAR is to Face Everything And Rise no matter what it is.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Beating Stress With My Own Advice

I choose to be CEO of my own life, create my destiny and do the best I can every day.

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Mindfully Eating My Way To Long Term Lap Band Success

I challenge each and every one of you to turn off the TV, put away the book, shut down the phone, and eat one meal each day for a week mindfully...

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What I Learned From Falling Off My Bicycle – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

We can just do what I did, get up, brush ourselves off, and get back on the bicycle. We can remember how far we have come, how many hills we have climbed successfully and how many more we will climb on our journeys.

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New Year’s Resolutions – Setting Goals For WLS Success

There is lots more involved in setting goals, changing habits and being honest and real with yourself when setting goals than appears at first glance.

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Family Gatherings Are Not About Food Or Competition – Enjoying Life After Lap Band Surgery

We always left with our tummies “Thanksgiving Day full”. This is my memory of many meals out with my family.

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Don’t Let Those Negative Voices In Your Head Sabotage Your Successful Weight Loss Surgery Journey

I have negative voices talking in my head frequently. I also have positive voices to balance them. The more positive I can be (even if I am faking it until I am making it) the softer those negative voices become until I just don’t listen to them anymore.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Looking Back At Where I Came From

It is hard for me to remember that woman who could barely walk and had to stop to catch her breath and let the pain subside in her knees and back...

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What I Am Grateful For – Thanksgiving 2015

I have so much to be thankful for this year, and next year will have even more. That is how it has been for me since I made the decision to have lap band surgery. My life changes daily for the better...

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Moving Through The Cold Months Is Key

What can YOU do for 10 minutes to move your body to lessen pain, increase energy and kick your metabolism in the butt?

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I Am Not Ruled By My DNA

Basically, I do the same thing that I do during the summer when I am full of energy from sun up to sun down...

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My Why For Success After Lap Band Surgery

I may be chronologically “old” but my mind is still pretty sharp - right? I don’t forget too many things nor do I depend on others to do things for me unless I am being extremely lazy or paying for it.

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How I Live It Every Dang Day – Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery

Are you willing to commit 30 minutes to make a plan, make some choices and make your life better? I was. I did. I am. What could that look like for you?

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Why I Exercise And Look Forward To It – Celebrating Life After Lap Band Surgery

I say, do the work, reach your “golden years” fit, happy, in love with life, and yourself. All it takes is one choice at a time and the belief in; I CAN, I WILL, I AM.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Living Life One Day At A Time

I had a vision of becoming a normal size person who was no longer invisible, no longer ashamed of the way I looked, and who could fit in with any group.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – What Is My “Normal”?

That’s my normal. What does that look like for me? Lots of regular exercise, healthy eating, lots of water, lots of me time, sharing my passions with the world and living for today and tomorrow with no regrets.

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Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery – Reflecting On The Years As My Birthday Approaches

Don’t get me wrong - it was NOT losing the weight that made me happy, it was losing the weight AND looking at each pound as unwrapping a precious gift and discovering what LIFE truly is.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Making Peace With The Scale And Myself

As my journey continues and I stand on the scale every morning I find that I am no longer in fear of what the number will be.

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Is It Physical Hunger “Head Hunger” OR Am I Tired?

I am writing this as I consume a few slices of deli turkey wrapped around pickle spears to try to deal with my 4PM hunger. I will just have to deal with it, and NOT reach for the tortilla chips and guacamole which sound so dang good right now.

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Long Term Life With Your Lap Band Means More Than Fills

Want to keep your Lap Band, and yourself, healthy and happy? Get connected with your doctor, get the education and support you need, and get that Lap Band tuned up to get your lifetime of success in place.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Move Your Body And Watch What Happens

I have watched my body shrink and change in so many ways. It’s not just the number on the scale. Muscle is denser than fat so the more muscle I create the smaller I look, and the stronger I feel.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Body Image – The Eyes Have It

My face has wrinkles of wisdom lines, my body is not perfect. Those are facts. Would I like to be able to correct those imperfections? YOU BET!

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Never Lose Hope – Long Term Lap Band Success

I had the desire to resolve my health issues by losing weight, using my Lap Band as a tool to reach my expectations. I have been using these techniques for the past 11+ years and here I am losing weight once again- solidly in the 150’s.

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Life After Lap Band Surgery – What I Did On Summer Vacation

What a joy. LIVING, truly participating in my life each and every day instead of standing next to my car watching it all unfold around me.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – How I Celebrate Goals Achieved

It started when I was a child; it continued into my teen years and never stopped until I reached over 400 pounds.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – What Is This “Normal” Everybody Seems to Want?

I challenge you to let go of some of your past thoughts, ideas and emotions around food and look at it for what it is- fuel for your body.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Transformation Happens Everywhere

I wonder, am I noticing all of these changes because I am asking for what I want and need, or is it that the marketing arms of our country have realized that there is a whole population out there who does not think super-size is great?

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Being Accountable To Myself

I alone am responsible for my successes and my failures. Not anyone else, just ME. There I said it.

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Hippity Hop Every Store Looks Like A Candy Shop – How I Beat The Easter Bunny After Lap Band Surgery

Holy Chocolate Bunny Batman! There were huge Easter baskets filled with candy of all sorts, rows and rows of Peeps...

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Managing Food And Alcohol While Out With Friends Or Family – Long Term Lap Band Success

One of the most difficult things I have had to do over the past 11 years is to learn how to eat at family functions and out at restaurants, or yes, even at Happy Hours with friends.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Shopping Can Be Scary

Shopping is getting to be more fun every time I go, whether it’s to a new store or in my very own closet.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Stop And Smell The Roses

I like it! It feels good. It feels right. It makes my body sing with pleasure; I guess it’s called feeling normal. I am going to bask in this glow for a while.

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Living A Life I Never Dreamed Possible With My Lap Band

I couldn’t stop the tears from flowing while standing over the remains of the Arizona and the more than 1000 men who lost their lives that day, and never knew what hit them.

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LapBanded Living Setbacks – Rebooting After Those Girl Scout Cookies

The darling little Girl Scout Troop was outside my local market selling cookies, and while I could avoid the cookies inside, the Thin Mints were calling to me.

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Learning To Love Myself Before During And After Weight Loss Surgery

My ultimate goal is to have 7 good days every week and 52 good weeks every year. Pollyanna you say? I say why not?

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What Are You Waiting For? – Choose WLS Success Today

Whatever your goal is, don’t wait for tomorrow to plan to get it. GO GET IT TODAY!

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Setting Goals And Getting Goals

I have my endurance up to completing 30 minutes every day on the elliptical so the rest is a matter of extending my sprints a little bit longer every day. I CAN, I WILL, I AM.

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Lap Band Success – Planning For The Holidays and Winning

How am I going to deal with this big event and not eat too many calories, too many carbs and ruin my day with overindulgence and physical discomfort?

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Thankful for a Second Chance

I am sure that my fitness has lots to do with my comparatively easy recovery. I still tire quite easily and have accommodated my schedule around that fact, having plenty of time allocated for short walks and rest periods.

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Back In The Ranks Of The Banded

It is strange to be this new again, and I am excited that it took me all morning to finish one sugar free Jell-O.

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Lap Band Success Interrupted – I Have My New Date

I had all my tests done, all is ok and now it’s time for me to schedule my revision and get back on the “bandwagon”, literally as well as figuratively.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – I Decided So Now What Happens?

When I spoke about what I wanted, and what I didn’t want, as a result of my surgery and someone kindly and gently coached me into the realization that I kept saying I want a Lap Band.

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Long Term Lap Band Success And Making Dreams Happen

All of us are looking for understanding of how to use our Weight Loss Surgery tools and that most important tool - the one between our ears - in order to maximize our journeys to a long term healthy lifestyle from one where obesity had held us back for years.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – With Or Without My Band

The BEST tool that we have is the one between our ears, the one that makes the choices; the one that has learned, with the use of the lap band, that it is about quality, not quantity. So go ahead and enjoy your tasty breakfast, lunch or dinner.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – 10 Years Banded 66 Years Alive

I am not fighting for survival, I am LIVING, and no, I will “not go gentle into that good night”. I will rather LIVE every day to its fullest.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Almost Another Year Older And Wiser Perhaps

Those are my words of wisdom for today. I sure hope you are enjoying your new life as much as I am enjoying mine.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Shopping In my Closet Is Fun

The biggest part of this weekend of Non Scale Victories was that I didn’t have to really try on any of the clothes. They fit.

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Ten Years With My Lap Band and The Journey Continues

The lap band works. It controls hunger and portion size when I choose the right foods. It is my surgery of choice, but it is NOT the only surgery that “works”.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Winning The Mental Game

Believe me I used to view exercise as a “four letter word” until I wrapped my head around all of the good things exercise brought into my life and let go of the resistance.

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Making The Most Out Of My Day – Lessons Learned On My Lap Band Journey

I have control over my attitude, how I choose to treat my arthritis pain and how I have learned to not use food to soothe the savage beast. It doesn’t work. It makes it worse.

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Change Can Be Frightening If You Let It – Long Term Lap Band Success

This morning I realized that even if I didn’t have a trainer to make sure I was not favoring one side over another due to my scoliosis I could still swim, use the elliptical, and probably even safely do a few push-ups and bicep and tricep work.

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Lap Band Success Glacier By Helicopter – Yes I CAN

I think the most incredible moment for me on my tour of Alaska, Victoria BC, and Washington state had to be the helicopter to the glacier and the walk/hike around the glacier. This was a Non Scale Victory for me of the BIGGEST dimensions.

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Cruising Alaska June 2014

I put on the robe, tied it, filled up my bottles to the tune of 86.6 ounces of water and looked at myself in the mirror and started to cry. I couldn’t believe what I had just done and how incredible I was feeling.

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Life After LAP-BAND Surgery – Vacations Become Non Scale Victories

All in all, this will be a great trip at less than 1/2 the size I was the first time around. I am excited to live new experiences in my new refreshed, invigorated and much healthier body.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Try Something New

I offer you the ability to get your goals, whatever they are. Join me for coaching and education. Step off the ledge, maybe spend some dollars on your potential success, or just utilize free resources. Get the support you need to move forward and WIN!

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Getting Lazy Doesn’t Work Well After Weight Loss Surgery

One of the very first rules I was given after weight loss surgery is that a meal lasts for NO LONGER than 20 - 30 minutes.

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Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success – My Relationship With Food

I still love food, that relationship is not about to change in this lifetime. I enjoy eating it, and savoring the taste and texture. I have just become very picky of what I choose to put in my mouth.

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Living With My Lap Band – WLSFA 2014 Non Scale Victories and More

Sunning myself and not worrying about my body again and speaking up to anyone who is not a part of our group of about 100 peeps and telling them about Weight Loss Surgery, my life, the WLSFA, and how we save lives. NSV#14

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How exercise has molded my body and my lifestyle – Long Term Lap Band Success

You don’t have to go to the gym. You can walk the mall, or walk your dog, or ride a bicycle, or march in place during TV commercials, or walk up and down the stairs in your house, at your office, or park the car in the back of the lot instead of driving around for 10 minutes looking for the spot closest to the door.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Preparing For Vacation

That’s my working vacation coming up. It’s volunteer work, it’s paying it forward; it’s following my passion, it’s living my dream. How about you? Are you living your dream?

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Exercise After Lap Band Surgery – Just Do It!

The same old thing gets boring and I need new goals and new challenges so I can enjoy sweating. Making it a game for me, challenging myself constantly has allowed me to not only integrate exercise into my lifestyle, but allowed me to experience the joys of sweating.

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Living La Vida Lap Band – Old Habits Creeping Back Into My Life

Food is a poor substitute for sleep, and I think I fall asleep as soon as I finish eating it anyway….

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Long Term Lap Band Success Means Winning The Battle Of The Thin Mints This Year

Best case, some folks somewhere in the world, away from our daily lives but protecting our freedom and keeping us safe will have a treat because of your decision to say YES to a box of cookies.

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Weight Loss Surgery Long Term Success – Achieving My Personal Best

Today I did my personal best. I can say that with confidence. And tomorrow I will try my hardest. I can say that with confidence too!

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Living With My Lap Band – A Week Of Non Scale Victories

I had a blast yesterday hanging out with runners from the Tinker Bell Half Marathon, sure I was tired by the end of the day and my knee hurt a bit from all the walking, but I enjoyed myself and got up this morning and headed right out to the gym. Why, because I wanted to.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Progress Not Perfection

Plan, do, write it down, get support, go back and do it again, and again with the vision of reaching your goal, and increasing your “expertise” each day. Surround yourself with successful people, and NEVER stop learning or trying!

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Starting The New Year Off Along With Everyone Else

I personally do not make resolutions other than being kinder, nicer, more aware, and generalities of that nature. Resolutions are the beginning. Goals and plans are what make it happen.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Create It

I no longer suffer from high blood pressure, asthma, sleep apnea or any of the other co-morbidities associated with obesity. I can shop in junior stores like “forever 21” even at 65 and counting.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Exercising My Options

I must admit, moving my body certainly felt good, but about now, as the sun is threatening to descend in the sky and the wind is still shrieking through the area I am starting to feel chilled to the bone again. Guess it’s time for another steaming mug of hot tea.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Food Addiction Rears Its Ugly Head

One bad day, or one bad choice is NOT going to put 250 pounds back on me, although continuing to make choices that don’t support my health will certainly have a negative effect. It’s all about me choosing not to feed my addiction.

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LAP-BAND Success – What I Am Grateful For Thanksgiving 2013

I have so much to be thankful for this year, and next year will have even more. That is how it has been for me since I made the decision to have lap band surgery. My life changes daily for the better.

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Taking My Lap Band On A Road Tour – Obesity Week 2013

It is possible to get it all done while traveling - the water, the protein, the exercise. It requires some thought and planning and taking advantage of opportunities presented.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Thriving And Surviving The Thanksgiving Day Feast

.How am I to keep everyone happy, including ME? I start by planning my meal and this is how it will go:

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Grateful For My Lap Band — Reflections

Life is a miracle, my grand-kids are blessings, and every day I am grateful for my lap band. If you ‘re early in your journey, take a moment to think about where you would like to be a year from now.

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Making Protein Count In Cold Weather For Long Term Lap Band Success

Mornings are sweats, sweatshirts, sweaters and Uggs weather and I still have trouble getting and staying warm. One of the side effects of losing 250 pounds I guess since I am not anemic or deficient in any vitamin or mineral.

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Success After Weight Loss Surgery – Learning To Keep My Metabolism Working Overtime

I have found over the last 2 weeks that this old dog can learn some new tricks and incorporate them into her lifestyle pretty easily. All it took was recognizing that something was a little bit off and analyzing my behaviors, and voila…

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Living With My Lap Band Hitting A Plateau – No Way

Four weeks ago I had my port replaced and regained my satiety. Now I seem to be losing and gaining the same 2 pounds over and over again. What’s up with that?

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Weight Loss Surgery Success – Satiety Obesity Help Conference and MORE

My latest encouragement for continuing with training came unsolicited from my young and buff trainer last week. Had I jumped up from doing my crunches and kissed him I would have embarrassed him so I just grinned from ear to ear and told him to continue.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Pushing Play And Being Hopeful

It is about the number on the scale to some degree, but it is also about getting to be 65 years young and wanting to stay feeling fit and being active forever.

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Success After Lap Band Surgery – Post – Op Thoughts This Time

What am I doing differently than before I replaced my port? Well, knowing that I have some fluid in my band and not wanting to get stuck, and not knowing my limits yet, I am chewing ALL of the soft foods, putting my fork down between bites and putting only a measured amount on my plate.

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Life After Lap Band Surgery – As The Stoma Turns – Port Repair Surgery Update

I have so much to be thankful for. I just looked at my before pic and it’s hard to remember how difficult it was to get around back in early 2004.

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Success After Weight Loss Surgery Requires Support – Everywhere!

The moral of the story is find yourself a specialty shop, get fitted, keep those girls in line, and ENJOY LIFE and the new YOU! We’ve certainly earned it.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – As The Stoma Turns Update

I am finally scheduled to have my port or tubing replaced... I am looking forward to getting my surgery done, and finding my sweet spot once again so I have my satiety back.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Amazing Insights Come From Struggle

I can continue tracking my food, planning my meals with care, eating mindfully, having alternatives to go to when grabbing something with unnecessary calorie just will not do, and continuing to win my personal battle with obesity.

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Lap Band Success The Saga of Sandi’s Port Continues

I had a bit of regain and discovered that either I have a tubing or a port leak. This situation is merely a bump in the road, some routine maintenance on me all the way around - much as changing the oil is routine maintenance on my car. I will come out the other side of this a stronger, better, healthier, more emotionally stable person. WHY, Because I CHOOSE TO.

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Long Term Lap Band Success Really Is A Total Mindset Change

I can certainly walk for a week or two, or bicycle for a week or two and if I don't burn quite as many calories there is surely another way to deal with it...don't ingest quite as many calories. Easy solution when your mindset is in the appropriate place.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Bumps In The Road are Not Failure – They’re Bumps

I am putting the balance back into all of the areas of my life. I am Back on Track to living my best life. How about you, are you going to choose to be derailed by bumps in the road?

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Lap Band Success – Eating for Satiety

Making sure we have adequate solid protein helps us to use our lap band tools to achieve the basic reason we all had weight loss surgery - no hunger between meals.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Nine Years With My Lap Band And LIVING Life

I will try just about anything once, and if I can’t do it today it just means we need to work up to it. NOTHING is impossible!

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Change Is Still Scary

My extreme weight loss made me something of a celebrity and I just kept showing up 5-6 days a week without fail. I swam, I used the elliptical machine. I did strength training with a personal trainer. I loved it. Fitness was now an integral part of my life.

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Lap Band Success – Football Politics And Show Biz

These “fairy tale” characters, these bigger than life figures in our society have all chosen Lap-Band surgery. When they tell their tale the same message resonates- why did they choose it? It is safe, effective, and with proper aftercare they can reach goals they never imagined possible.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Do Relationships Change After Weight Loss Surgery?

I have a problem with sleep. I don’t get enough. Occasionally I can get back to sleep for another hour or so..Woo Hoo! I love those days.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Things I Now Take For Granted

What seems a simple, every day occurrence was a milestone on my weight loss journey. Now, it is just something I do without a second thought.

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And The (Lap) Band Plays On — Act One

I am confident that I will have support for my band in the coming years.

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Living With My Lap Band – Navigating The Choices By Planning My Day

Walking mindlessly through life, making choices only in the moment with no plan got me to 424 pounds.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – How do YOU Spell Success?

In a nutshell then, on my journey to good health there is actually no difference between progress and success because, as you can see, each measure of my progress is a success in and of itself.

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How Do I Love Thee Let Me Count The Ways

Love is defined as an intense feeling of deep affection. I love my husband, I love my daughter, I love my Grandkids. I love my country. I love the Pacific Ocean. I love my Lap Band.

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Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery – I Can I Will I Am!

What can you envision your life like in 5 years - in 2018? What “never in my wildest dreams” do you have the ability to make real?

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Exercise Your Options

What’s the point you say? Find something, anything you may actually enjoy doing and do it. Start small, don’t try to do it all the first day or the first week.

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My Lap Band Journey – Learning How To De-Stress With Food The Right Way

There is something therapeutic in cutting and chopping, and chopping and cutting…. and planning for healthy meals.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Portion Control Has Many Disguises

My major takeaway then becomes I better start measuring and journaling again if I want to continue wearing my favorite pair of jeans. How about you?

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Leaping Into The New Year

It’s hard work, but it is so rewarding to be able to pay it forward to a community filled with so many wonderful people who I have yet to meet, so many veterans who have helped me along the way and the newbies who I never cease to learn from.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Since The World Didn’t End I’d Better Get My Act Together Again

Replacing old habits with new ones is key to long term success after lap band surgery. One habit at a time, one choice at a time. Each of us has the capacity to get it done.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Time Away With Other WLS Peeps Is Fun And Motivational

A vacation with other WLS peeps, exotic ports of call, on board support group for talking AND exercise, and people who will mean it when they high five you for reaching out to make a dream an accomplishment.

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LapBand Success – What I Am Grateful For Thanksgiving 2012

My life changes daily for the better, I age more like a fine wine growing better each year, learning more about the world around me as well as myself each and every day.

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Maintaining Lap Band Success For The Long Term – Exercise How It Fits

Exercise is essential to win on this journey towards obtaining and maintaining good health. So, JUST DO IT!

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Success After Lap Band Surgery – You’ve Come A Long Way Baby!

No longer was I being ostracized and made to feel like an outsider. I belonged. I was no longer being discriminated against, because I am no longer obese.

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LapBanded Living – Just How Do You Eat An Elephant?

What can you take on in small, continuous improvements?

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Pushing outside of my comfort zone

I will continue to push outside my comfort zone because the adrenaline rush of actual accomplishment is certainly worth it, as are the muscles and stamina I have built.

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Lap Banded Living and Learning – Self Love and Acceptance

Today in my journey, I choose love, acceptance, positivity, and action. What do you choose?

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Me And My Lap Band — Am I Full Or Am I Satisfied?

My band also gives me some additional signals when I am done eating, and that is sometimes before I have finished the portion on my plate. It is critical that I listen to these signals or I can wind up in trouble.

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Banded Living – What If I Had Not Chosen Surgery?

Had I not had surgery and still been alive let’s propose what the weekend might have looked like:... Would I have had a happy birthday? Probably, but happy would have been a relative thing.

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Lap Band Surgery – Setting Goals Making Bucket Lists and NSV’s (non scale victories)

Keep reworking your goals, crossing off and then adding more to your bucket lists and celebrating your NSV’s. Remember, it’s all about LIVING!

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Living with My Lap Band – Vacation Planning and Debriefing

Lesson learned? I made a plan. I carried through with the plan. I altered the plan whenever I needed to but kept within the spirit of what I was trying to do.

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Lap Band Success – From Limitations To Limitless – Challenging My Body

After losing about 100 pounds I decided it was time to quit using my knee as an excuse and start doing something to help stimulate my weight loss and add years to my life, so I started swimming.

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Success After Lap Band Surgery: The Bariatric Guru Interviews Sandi On Her Radio Program

We had a great time talking about weight loss surgery in general, my story specifically and the WLSFA (Weight Loss surgery Foundation of America)

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Living With My Lap Band – How to Deal With PBs Or A Yak Attack

Remember, this is a journey to good health, not a contest to see how little you can eat and survive.

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My Lap Band Success — The Value Of My Lap Band Support Network

I’m also thinking about people who live in areas that are not accessible to support group meetings. How can we all pitch in to help them succeed?

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Living the LapBanded Life – Take A Power Walk with Me…. to Success

Walking is not only good for burning calories, good for cardiovascular fitness - it is good for the soul.

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Lap Band Success – How I Pushed Outside My Comfort Zone

How about you? What challenge can you take on that is just a little outside your comfort zone, or maybe it’s A LOT outside your comfort zone?

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Lap Band Living Success -Learning to be normal

I have never been normal. As far back I can remember I was overweight. I was pleasantly plump. I was at Weight Watchers at age 12.

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Lap Band Success – Maintenance: A War or A Lifestyle?

The fight is FOREVER. Healthy food choices, move the body, work on the head. Repeat.

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Clare’s LapBanded Living – How I Navigate The Food With My Lap Band

Even if we take only a taste of everything we end up with way too much food and way too many calories. And even if we only choose to eat what is healthy for us, we can still end up overdoing it.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – So What IS Normal And How Do I Achieve That Status?

I am getting excited over JUST doing what anyone else has always been able to do.

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My Journey to Health With Weight Loss Surgery

I learned that I ate to live, I no longer had to live to eat. I could actually use food as medicine, as fuel for my body, the building blocks of muscle, and not as something that soothed the savage beast within me.

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Lap Banded Living – Is Obesity the Last Politically Acceptable form of Discrimination

Self-esteem and weight bias go hand in hand. As someone who has struggled with obesity since childhood, weight bias is something I painfully understand.

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Long Term Success After Lap Band Surgery – Staying Motivated And Fully In The Game

To stay in the game, to keep yourself motivated, enjoy each and every day. Find some joy in your life, find an NSV (Non-Scale Victory) to celebrate.

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Long Term Lap Band Success – On The Road Again

Sometimes I am caught at the airport early in the morning before a long flight and have not yet had breakfast, and would like to also carry lunch on board. What to do in this case?

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Long Term Lap Band Success: Body Image Issues And Enjoying Shopping For Clothes

I just went shopping yesterday for spring stuff, because I had some time...End result, I walked into a dressing room with about 15 items to try on and everything fit…EVERYTHING FIT!

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Clare’s LapBanded Living: Body Image Size Small-Who Me?

We have to be gentle with ourselves as our bodies change and do everything we can to keep up with our physical changes mentally and emotionally.

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The Lessons Of Successful Lap Band Patients – What It takes To Kick Start And Keep It Running

Anyone who has weight loss surgery of any type who follows these lessons can lose weight. How do you keep it off once you get there?

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Reflecting On My Journey

The gains I have made in these areas with each pound lost are absolutely, positively, AMAZING, INCREDIBLE, WONDERFUL, AWESOME!!!!

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Success After Lap Band Surgery – Small Steps Up The Ladder Of Life

One of the most amazing aspects of this weight-loss journey is the improvement in the quality of my life. As a super obese person, there were so many things that I just couldn’t do that my world gradually but definitely got smaller and smaller.

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Holiday Recipes and Strategies

Holiday Recipes and Strategies

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Lap Band Success Tips: Don’t Eat With Your Hands

My doctor reached out to me and asked me to try an experiment: "Don't eat with your hands." Think about what that really means; it sounds simple, but it's really hard.

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Lap Band Friendly Food And Recipes – A Short Term Guide To Long Term Lap Band Success

One of the most frequently asked questions at my local lap band support group meetings from newer patients is "What can I or what should I eat?" The short answer to that is anything that is high in protein, low in calories that you like.

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Long-Term Lap Band Success – How To Maintain It

So how do I get my formerly fat rear end in gear and restart my engine and quit sabotaging my success? Hmmmm, how about go back to what worked in the beginning?

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Lap Band Fills – The Green Zone

The green zone is an expression that's often used to describe where a LAP-BAND(r) patient is in regards to his/her hunger and eating regime.

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Long Term Success With My Lap Band – Can I Really Shop In This Store?

Long Term Success With My Lap Band – Can I Really Shop In This Store?

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Long Term Lap Band Success – Hunger and Satiety After Seven Years With My Lap Band

That almost inexpressible state called satiety is really and truly within my reach as long as I pay attention. All this because of a silicon band placed around my stomach.

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Living With My Lap Band – My Goals For The Coming Year For My Lap Band And The Rest Of My Life

Finding something good in every day will take thought each and every day and perhaps get me further into a grateful mindset. This is the mindset that brings wonderful things into my life.

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Tummy Tuck After Lap Band Surgery Will Best Correct The Upper Belly And Belly Button

First and foremost, congratulations on your weight loss! What a wonderful transformation. In addition to your improved health, your figure already looks terrific.

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Long-Term Lap Band Success: Staying Motivated After the Compliments Stop Coming

I found myself missing and craving those compliments, the constant reminders of how far I had come which are a huge motivating force for me. Thanks to my lap band I got what I asked for, now how would I stay motivated and maintain my weight loss success?

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Long Term Success With Lap Band Surgery – Getting Back to Basics After Falling Off The Wagon.

This is one patient's perspective on how to re-boot and get back to basics and the eating patterns that have me feeling good physically and about myself.

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Lap Band “Rules” Or How I Use My Tool

My band helps me with portion control, controls my hunger, and leaves me with a feeling of satiety when I work it. This is my version of "the rules."

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Lap Band Success – 10 Reasons I am Grateful for My Lap Band

It's amazing how much my life has changed as a result of Banded Living™! So here are the 10 top things I told Dr. Billy I was grateful for back in 2008:

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Lap Band Success – Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew

Now that I can see how far I have come this past year I can think about what I want to accomplish in the coming year.

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Lap Band Success – Exercise or Use it To Lose It

I really can't find all of the words to describe both the physical and mental benefits. I moved with more ease and flexibility through my day, felt better about myself, felt happier, felt more motivated to continue, and the other side effect was the weight continued to come off.

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