This has been an eye opener this week... i guess with the lead up until Christmas you tend to see people you may not of seen for a while and they have seemed to be in total shock that I have lost so much weight!!! Its a good feeling but at the same time its made me realise just how big i was and just how big people saw me! When you are big all your life you tend to some how block it out and live life like everyone else, not knowing or feeling any different to anyone else. For me it would always haunt me and i was forever dieting. I feel like the same person so I cant understand why people are raving about it so much... Its very nice to get compliments, something im not use to.
Iam only sad that I have been kind of lying to everyone about how i have managed to loose so much in little time! I usually say that Im eating smaller portions which is somewhat true, but i feel no need to tell everyone about the band. in the past I have told people of the diets i was on only to be watched and i feel that this is only for me and not anyone else and really no ones business. There are a few people who know... those people i trust and have helped me through this. You can not un tell people of the decision made so really truly think who you tell!!!
There is also a small stigma with some people about WLS,( i used to be one of them who thought it was a no no) but its especially from those who are fortunate enough to be granted the "thin gene" they seem to assume that we can all just diet and excersise and bang!!! magic!!!!!! Some people can and good for them... But not me!! I was ALWAYS hungry and ALWAYS eating... Not anymore!!!
Beena
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- Beena
- I got the Lapband on the 7th August 2008 and have lost just over 30kg in 4 months. This is my journey so far.... I am more then happy to help with what I have learnt so far being banded. Cheers Beena
2 comments:
I hear ya! I'm not telling anyone apart from my partner, and he's not totally convinced about the op, but a few arguements later, he realises this is my decision. I'm not even going to tell family! When I lost 30 odd kilos a couple years back in a short period of time, I too got the comments (they are nice after a while, but when they keep coming from the same people, you start to think, shit I was a sodding whale or something.
You don't really have to say peep to anyone, do we go around to all the skinny biddys asking them how they stay so skinny? When the table is turned, it's not so strange! Fact is, you've taken control - and how, is noones business!
I started my pre-op diet this week, am down 4kg which I'm stoked about, but damn am I starving. I can manage eating small amounts of food, I just want the hunger to go away! Roll on band.
Em.
SMILES Good luck I know what its like to be on the pre-op diet I did it for 4 weeks and my doctor was really strict Optifast ONLY for breakfast, lunch and tea and green veg only 2 cups per day!! there were some days I would rather of starved then stomach another optifast but I got through it and you will 2!
As I get thinner I realise i have made the right choice not telling many people, I can focus on me and not what everyone else is thinking of my decision. At first my husband thought I was joking when i said what i wanted to do. After a good 12 months of research he began to see I was really serious about my choice of the band! He thinks I made the right choice because he has spent the past 10 years watching me go on and off diets and suddenly seen 30kg disapear off me in 4 months which is something I have never done so fast before. He sees my happiness and he has also seen me in a lot of pain and hes been really great. I needed the support especially from someone who was not going to tell me "I told you so" if it didnt work" Its great that he has finally seen its your decision. You need a bit of help to get through the post op stage because for me it hurt, and I have kids that needed to be cared for a while why I recovered
Best wishes
Good luck. Keep me posted.
Beena
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