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Bostongurl's Lap-Band Journal

A blog by Bostongurl in General

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About this blog

Bostongurl's Lap-Band Journal, a weight loss surgery blog by Bostongurl on BariatricPal. 24 entries on surgery, recovery and progress.

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Reword Ideas

I have setup a jar in the kitchen. I pay myself a dollar for every day i workout, and a dollar i eat right. and i am going to pay myself 5 dollars for every pound lost gold band for my pinky. I'd call it my promise ring, PROMISE not to gain it back for a lifetime.

gallbladder

So I have not written a journal entry in forever, but thought I would mention that I had my gallbladder removed on Jan. 23, 2007. I was having pretty regular attacks of terrible upper abdomin pain that would last for up to 6 hours! It was terrible and hard to take, so we decided the best thing to do was to have it taken out. I had the surgery around 5pm on Tuesday, spent the night in the hospital, and returned home on Wed. around 2pm. At around 4:30 I paged Dr. Hess as I wasn't able to even swo

December 06 Goals

So my next big goal to achieve is to get to 184. When I reach this, I will have lost a total of 80lbs, and not only that, but at that point, my BMI will be below 30, which means I will no longer be considered "obese." This of course is huge for me, and something to really work towards. I'm currently at 191, and my more immediate goal is to get to 189, which will bring me to a total of 75lbs lost, which is also huge. Goal #1: Get to 189 before I go home for Christmas Goal #2: Get to 184 by J

July Update/ New Goals

So today is July 13th, and I had another appointment with Dr. Hess and with Wendy as well. I had lost another 14 lbs since I was last there on June 1st, a total of 34 since surgery and 50lbs since my first appointment with Dr. H back on January 10th. The appointment went well, I've lost around 31% of my excess body weight since surgery and the average person looses %40 one year post-op, so I'm way above that. Dr. Hess was very happy with me and thrilled with my loss - I'm such a "teachers pet"

June Goals

Okay, so I managed to achieve all of my goals from last month except for the cooking one. But that's okay, as I looked through the reciepies, I found they were a bit more complicated then I had thought. So, goals this month: Current weight: 223 218 (6/10/06)   1. Get to 209 by my next appointment with Dr. H on July 13 2. Go to the gym at least 4/week and do at least 30 min per time 3. keep up water consumption 4. continue to track my food on sparkpeople.com

May Goals

Okay, so I'm post-op, still healing, but doing better and better every day. So, now that the post-op "easy" weight is off, it's time to start working for it. So I thought i would get back to my monthly "small" goals list.   1. Get to 225 by my first fill appointment with Dr. H on June 1st. 2. Continue to track my food intake online 3. Start going to the gym at least 3 times a week 4. cook a new meal from my book at least once a week

Weight Tracker

01-17-06: 264 01-24-06: 262 (-2, -2t) 01-31-06: 260 (-2, -4t) 02-07-06: 258 (-2, -6t) 02-14-06:256 (-2, -8t) 02-21-06:254 (-2, -10t) 02-28-06:252 (-2, -12t) 03-07-06:248 (-4, -16t) 03-14-06:247 (-1, -17t) 03-21-06:245 (-2, -19t) 03-28-06:246 (+1, -18t) 04-04-06:245 (-1, -19t) 04-11-06:243 (-2, -21t) 04-18-06:243 (-0, -21t) 04-25-06:244 (+1, -20t) 05-02-06:237 (-7, -27t) 05-09-06:231 (-6, -33t) 05-16-06:229 (-2, -35t) 05-23-06: 227 (-2, -37t) 05-30-06: 224 (-3, -40t) 06-06-06:

Date Changed

I think I may have forgotten to post this, but due to some scheduleing issues with Dr. Hess' assistant, my surgery date was moved from 4/25/06 to 4/26/06 - all in all, not a big deal. So here I am, last day at work, and two days away from the surgery. It's crazy that it's almost here, unbelieble really. Liv is flying in first thing tomorrow am, then Mom and Dad will be driving in around 2pm. We'll all be together tomorrow and then off to the hospital early early on Wed. AM.

10 days until surgery

So I'm 10 days away from getting banded, and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. I know it's the right decision for me, but i'm just going through the motions I think. I worry that even this wont work for me, that I will faill this as i've failed so many diets before. I worry about the situations I will be in (dinner with friends, dates, etc) where I'll have to come up for a reason for not drinking during dinner, reasons for eating such small amounts. I know these things are small and in the big scop

Most Deff Approved!!

So, it's official, I recieved a letter from Harvard Pilgrim yesterday saying they have approved the surgery!!! I can't believe it, so now I'm thinking I'll problably have the procedure sometime in May. Now I just have to get mysef on track again and make the most of this next month.

Approved!!!!??????!!!

So, Tony called me this morning with a couple of questions and then he said that everything was in order and that he was going to submit the paperwork to Harvard Pilgrim today. So I called just now (6pm) to see if I could get my user ID for online, as I read on LBT today that you can check your approval status online!! Anyway when I called, I asked them to check to see if they got all application, figuring they couldnt possibly have recieved it already... and not only had they recieved it, she s

March update

So, I called Tony from Dr. Hess' office on Friday to see if they got my MMPI test results yet, and he said no but that they should be there any day. He said if I haven't heard back from him by Tuesday to call him...so that's exactly what I'm going to do.   My diet is slipping a bit, i'm not staying in my ww points as well as I was, and i'm not working out as often. It's just difficult, but I'm trying very hard. i'm trying so hard to stay on track so hard to pick myself back up when I fall.

March Goals

Last months goals: 1. loose another 10lbs 2. get control of evening snacking 3. edjucate myself to diet and excersise SMARTER - get the best possible workout and diet results from what I'm doing 4. get a new scale 5. short term goal, get under 250 6. get my BMI below 40 First off, I actually did really well on last months goals. In fact, I can pretty much say i accomplished all of the goals above. Although #2 is an ongoing badle, and #3 is never ending, I completely accomplished the

MMPI Test

So I had my MMPI test today. I arrived at the Boston Medical around 7:40AM. Tony checked me in, I payed $160.00 then I filled out a couple page multiple choice. Then Tony brought me and one other women into another room, told us what was in store for us, then we watched a TERRRIBLE video from i kid you not the 70s. Then towards the end of the video the therapist came in and took me to another room to basically interview me. She was really nice, and she asked me TONS of questions about my state o

MMPI Test

So I called after my last appointment to see when I could schedule my MMPI test, and Felicia said that she didn't have the calendar yet, but that they were now booking in May. After you take the MMPI, it takes 2-3 weeks before you get the results, then you have another appointment with Dr. Hess, and another with my PCP. Then when that is all done they submit your paperwork, and THEN you get to schedule your surgery. so at the very least we were looking at July, Aug. maybe even september. So per

February Update

So on 2/15 I had my appointment with the dietician (Dr. Isfan): He and I know eachother well from previous vistis, so there wasn't really any surprises there. The good news is that he backs me getting the surgery totally. Then on 2/21 I had the full abdominal ultrasound, which hurt a bit more than I had expected, but was fine in the end. Then later that morning I had appointment with the Nutritionist (Wendy Anderson). She is a funny woman, but very nice, and very knowledgeable. She was very hap

Joined the gym!!

January 29, 2006 - So today I joined Healthworks gym in Copley Square. I signed up, and then I worked out. I did 35 minutes on the Elliptical machine, then 20 or so minutes lifting. I'm going to plan to take as many classes as I can, b/c I know classes keep me more motivated, and make me work out longer and harder. I'm feeling very motivated to work out as much as possible, which helps me to eat better too, as I feel like the work-outs are a waste if I just come home and eat crap. It's also good

Brief summery of my experience thus far

November 15, 2005 – I make some phone calls and do a lot of research about WLS, particularly the Lap-Band procedure. My research shows that Boston Medical does not do the Lap-Band, so I look into BWH November 17, 2005 – Had my appointment with my PCP to get referral to BWH November 22, 2005 – Attend aFree Info Session @BWH, Dr. Luatz is there, who I like very much. November 23, 2005 – Call and schedule an appointment with Dr. Luatz @ BWH. Appointment set for Jan. 26th December

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