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Blog 69714

A blog by bestbette in General

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A weight loss surgery blog by bestbette on BariatricPal. 16 entries on surgery, recovery and progress.

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Long Time...Life Continues

Greetings! I am happy to say that my wt loss is continuing to progress. I've lost 110lb since my surgery 7/20/09 (actually, that includes pre-op diet), but regardless, I'm only 20lb away from my goal. I'm really finding that sugar impedes my wt loss dramatically, so am re-focusing on whole foods, veggies and meats mostly. I will say that over the last few months I have become a HUGE fan of Muscle Milk and have at least one per day, two if I'm being good. No PBing and sometimes band irritati

Third Fill

I went to the hospital and received my third fill today; .5 ccs. I thought I needed .2 or .3 but got .5, under flouro. The PA and tech said that I have a "cute pouch." What does that mean I wonder? I guess that it means that it's really small. :wink: That makes me happy. So I'm on liquids then mushies until the weekend. I'm really hoping to kick this next 20-30 lbs in the butt and thus far I haven't failed to loose after getting a fill. I'm about to go and make my breakfast, which will co

Three Months Out

Greetings! I thought I would do a post since I'm at the three month post op mark and a couple of different things are happening. I'm down a total of 62lbs already, which seems to be a little fast and I'm experiencing the repercussions of that, for sure. Most notably headaches and hair loss. I'm going to have the last bit of my hair cut off tomorrow. Eating is going ok. I really need to add a protein shake to my daily intake and increase my water. I just have, at this point, no hunger. An

Second Fill

Well I went into the office and got my second fill today. Not nearly as traumatic as the first one, not as painful and not so much bleeding everywhere. I saw the NP and she only gave me a touch of a fill, .6cc. That seems small to me since my first fill was a full 2.6cc. She told me to wait 2 weeks and then touch base with how it was going. Since I'm self pay all visits are free for me for the first year, so I don't mind going in again if need be. The second fill puts me at a total of 6.2c

Weight Gain and PBs

Greetings. This has not been a wonderful week for me. I started a new job and have made some really crappy food/eating choices and as a result have gained 1 lb. My first non weight loss week since starting this journey. A combination of lack of protien rich foods and eating more than three times a day is *not* good! Also, I pb'd last night for the first time since getting the band. It was weird, the milk I'd just sipped to get it to go down was still cold. Gross. So I'm about to get up a

Post-op

Dang. It's been quite a while since I've posted here. I'll proceed with the short version. Surgery was very good, post-op recovery was awesome. Writing on my forearms with the Sharpie was definately a score. Post surgery, at home recovery sucked and was very very painful. Not a fun time. It took for freaking ever to heal and is much more of a "deal" than I anticipated. I had my first fill 5 weeks post-op. They took out and measured the 3ccs in my band (unbeknownst to me) and then added 2.6cc mo

Surgery is Tomorrow!

My surgery is tomorrow and I'm playing it cool. I've completed my "to-do" list (including pedicure) and have just had my final shake of the day. It's almost 7:00p here and I'm about to set my alarm for 5:00a as I have to be at the hosptial at 7:00a tomorrow. I have everything in order to the very best of my ability and am keeping a positive attitude that things will go well with the surgery. The only thing that I'm concerned about is my past history of very bad nausea/vomiting after going un

Two More Days

Well it's Friday night and I'm about to turn in. I finally got my arrival for the hosptial time this afternoon, which is Monday morning at 7:00am. That means just Saturday and Sunday and then I'll be off this godforsaken LSD diet and the band will be in place! I'm very excited. Scratch that, I'm very very excited! I think that the next two days will pass quickly as the things that I have to do to before surgery day is a bit long. So busy busy over the weekend...hopefully will be able to sq

Cheating

I cheated on my pre-op diet today :blushing: I stopped and got a burger on my way home. I had a bad day at work and auto drove to fast food and ate it even really before thinking. I am in complete shock... Actually I think I might be past shock and on to rationalization. So here's my rationalizing...my surgeon said that everyday for dinner we can have a sandwich with two slices of bread. Since last Monday I have had only high protien slimfast shakes and a total of 4 salads...that's it. If

One Week Until Surgery

Well at this time next week I will be at home recouping from my procedure. Things have passed by swiftly. I'm going to my first support group meeting tonight and am glad because I feel like I could use a little support. This past weekend was reeeeaaallly tough on the pre-op diet and I had one slip-up, which is discouraging. And honestly, I'm feeling a little depressed and not sure why. It will be good to get around some other people who are experiencing similar situations. I have been havi

Final Pre-Op Seminar

I just returned home from my final pre-op seminar. Whew. It seemed like a lot of hoops to jump through to get to surgery but I'm sure it's nothing compared to those wrangling with insurance denials and I've probably just been watching too much Nip/Tuck. Tonight's seminar was more like group and the moderator was great and we had some good discussion. I think I'm going to start going to the regular support group at my hospital to get to know some of these folks better. I know one other pers

H&P and Labs Day

Most of my time today was spent waiting... The pre-op history and physical consisted of the nurse practioner saying "well are you ready for surgery?" then listening to my lungs and giving me some papers. We were probably in the same room together for 90 seconds (after an hour wait). The tests were pretty speedy and consisted of a pee test, blood draw, 2 chest films, and an EKG. That was it and they told me to show up on my surgery date! Today is day 2 of the LSD diet. I got through it by having

Blog Comments

Ok. Before signing off I noticed that I had some comments to my previous posting. A) that's pretty cool, I didn't know you could comment and I'm not sure how to best respond except in another post? If there's something better, please advise. Anyway, many thanks to all of your well wishes - please consider them equally returned :confused3:. I found out more details about my pre-op diet today and while I am allowed non starchy vegetables, the main point is to keep the daily caloric intake be

Monday, Monday

Today I went to my last mandatory seminar prior to surgery, which was a 4 hour educational course. Half of the course was devoted to what to expect and risks, the second half to diet, both pre-op (which I am enjoying now) and the first phase of post op. I'm looking for the High Protien Slim Fast cans but they were not at my local grocery or WalMart. I might let my fingers do the walking instead of driving all around town wasting gas. I'm excited about the procedure and think I've decided on

Last Supper

Well I just finished an oh-so-healthy dinner with my mother, which consisted of chips and dip and double pepperoni pizza. Mmm. Over the last month I've tried to "get in" all of the bad foods that I will not be able to have once banded. I think I'm most sad about sushi. I might have to be a sashimi girl from now on. Tomorrow marks the two week date until my surgery. I don't officially meet with the dietician until Tuesday but I've committed to starting liquid tomorrow. If I find out that

First Post

Hello to all of the bandsters out there. I decided to keep a quick blog here to keep track of myself and to share with others. I find that the message boards are a bit busy and I do a poor job of keeping up. Here I can say what's going on for my own reference as well as anyone else who might stop by (welcome). I am scheduled to be banded on Monday, July 20, 2009. WLS was first suggested to me back in 1997 but I think I was too young and generally not ready. I recently have had a family sponsor c

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