Hi Realselfers, I am a 28 year old mother of 2 young children under the age of 5 and I have been overweight for 20 of the 28 years of my life. In 2010 I reached my highest weight of 106kg (234lbs) and decided to get the lap-band following a decade of unsuccessful weight loss attempts through diets, exercise and prescription weight loss medications. I was initially quite pleased with the results of the lap-band. Dropping down to 92kg (203lbs) within a year. However, I failed to