My family says I need to stop

[kebsa]

I think i may actually have an advantage in some ways, even if i were slim and at the ideal weight, i would still have very visible disabilities. I have had to come to terms a long time ago with the fact my body will never look like societies version of ideal- for me weight loss has been far more about health, ease of movement, etc and it is only as i have had some success that the ability to shop for clothes that i actually like and in regular stores, has become something that i want more of! Don't get me wrong, i really want to be able to see myself as slim but i am far more motivated by the thought that i will not have to struggle to walk a few steps and that getting a prosthesis will not be so tough. For years, when i first had my amputation and was trying to get a prosthesis, i was met with this constant message about how humongous i was because it was tough to find componenets that were weight rated over 100kg (220pounds roughly), modern suspension systems (the means to keep a limb in place) seemed to be limited to really slender people. I would love to be able to have a prosthetic limb that can be held in place by a suction sleeve not the waist band and shoulder harness that i have to use- my movement would be so much freer.

being able to see myself as slim, normal sized would be the icing on the cake

[cwalck]

Originally Posted by Nick N Ava's Grammy

Tami... I would say, ask your Dr where he thinks you should stop, and trust your instinct too. You'll know when it's time. As you know, I've not been banded yet, and it's been years since I've lost enough weight to have been told I'm too thin. The reason I set my goal at 160ish was because I felt that was realistic to me. For my height (5ft) I'm suppose to weigh a lot less than 160, but this weight sounds good to me. I've been 140 lbs before.. I was very thin, and I looked like I didn't feel good and I really didn't feel good (a bad gallbladder will do that). I decided then, that if I ever lost enough weight to get under 200 lbs. I would pick 160 as my goal. Nothing says that when I get there, if I don't like where I'm at, I can go lower.. or if I like where I'm at.. I can stay there. Just go with your feelings, and your Dr's.

It was like I was talking listening to your thread. I am 230. Am hoping to get the band and if Could get to and maintain 160 I would be a very happy camper and so would all my doctors!

[susi1662]

It
s been a while since posting in this thread; but after having read all of the posts, I feel the need to share my own thought and of my my history.
As some people may know, I am just at the very begining of starting my journey to getting the lapband. I am 4'9" and I weight 264 lbs.
About 5 years ago, I was taking some medications that had the side effect of loss of appetite. At that time I weighed 216 lbs, and over the course of a year of hardly eating at all (I think now I became somewhat anorexic), I got down to 116 llbs. I loved how I looked, but no one else did....nowwhen I look back at pictures of that time, I see a tiny little gaunt old lady! My face was pale and sunken in, and you could see wrinkles and lines.
Anyway, since that time I have balloned, again partly due to medications, but mostly because of my eating habits and now sedentary lifestyle.
Right I weigh more than I ever have, and I hate how I look and feel. My goal right now is to get to 135. Hopefully I will feel good at that weight, maybe I'll even feel good at 150!