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.

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?

Three Simple Steps – How To Love Yourself

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

Living My Best Life After Weight Loss Surgery

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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?

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

LapBanded Living – Just How Do You Eat An Elephant?

What can you take on in small, continuous improvements?

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.

Lap Banded Living and Learning – Self Love and Acceptance

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

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.

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!

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.

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)

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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!

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.

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?

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!!!!

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.

Holiday Recipes and Strategies

Holiday Recipes and Strategies

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?

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.

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.

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?

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:

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.