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A blog by janetsjourneytoslim in General

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A weight loss surgery blog by janetsjourneytoslim on BariatricPal. 141 entries on surgery, recovery and progress.

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What a difference the Lap Band makes!

It is so hard for me to believe that this was me about three years ago. I actually did not know the extent of the danger I was in with the added weight on my body and my heart and other organs.   How could I have let myself go like this? What is it that made me overeat? I quess I ate to replace something I was not getting from my life.   I am so thankful to God for the LAP-BAND® experience, when I find an old photo like this one, I just cringe with an almost disbelief! :wink:

My Appetite is getting Less and Less!!!

:wink:Well it seems that my appetite is now getting less. I don't know what happened, maybe I am just use to eating less? But my head hunger was there for ALL the beginning months after my surgery and when I SAW foods that I use to eat or LOVED to cook like brownies, I did not think I could REFUSE to eat them.   NOW, it seems like a page has turned and I am NO longer so tempted to eat those things anymore because my appetite is so low.   Today, I was out on the road by myself, money in my po

Starting your day right!????

:smile:GOOD MORNING! OR IS IT???? ARE YOU STARTING YOUR DAY RIGHT EVERY DAY??????   THAT IS THE KEY TO CONTINUED SUCCESS WITH THE LAP-BAND®, WE HAVE TO GET OFF TO A GOOD START EACH AND EVERY MORNING. THEN THE BALANCE OF THE DAY WILL FOLLOW AND AT THE END OF THE DAY WE ARE SUCCESSFUL.   BE RENEWED:   GOD SELECTED...WHAT THE WORLD CALLS WEAK TO PUT THE STRONG TO SHAME. AND GOD ALSO SELECTED (DELIBERATELY CHOSE) WHAT IN THE WORLD IS LOWBORN ANDINSIGNIFICANT AND BRANDED AND TREATED WITH CONTE

Labor Day~A year long labor of love with the Band! That is what I am talking about!!

:smile:It has been a real ride. I have been pretty happy every minute of it. There are of course disappointments along the way, but they seem to go away soon and we move on again. I am really laboring over cleaning the silver for my daughters upcoming wedding and getting all the crystal out and unpacked and finding the "special" pieces from those who have passed away, that we will incorporate into Jennifers special day. I have the great grandmothers punchbowl the was used at the 65th W

Court Day~I was there, No one Recognized me?!! LOL

:drool:Ok so the day I had to appear in court in a case I was ready to have tried, waited over a year for, was finally here! This was a Real Estate Development Case and I was to recieve a settlement that has long been overdue, so I was ready. Traveled to the town, spent the night, and I was right on time.   Now the last time I had seen the opposing Attorney was on July 28th, 2009, the day before my LapBand Surgery. Since then, 91 lbs are gone, my hair in no longer the same color and not cur

Do Good Anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Almost every day, I hear a friend, a college, or a news reporter casting suspicion on the motives of someone who is doing good. They imply that others who seem to be doing good are only pretending to do good when in fact they have their own selfish ulterior motives. We may be accused of being selfish and have motives that are ulterior to ourselves for gratification by others who are no

Six little Pounds

Well I have six little pounds to go to get to my goal weight for my daughters wedding! Tried to lose 10 lbs. but now I am down four.   Working on the wedding stuff is keeping me very busy and all these babies (grandbabies) coming. I am on the go a lot.   We got baby Michael Wesley last night! 8 lbs, l oz, 21 inches long, he is a little doll with a head full of hair!   Now one more is on the way our little Ava Danielle, my oldest daughter is expecting and ready to go by next weekend.

Plenty of Time~Your brightest Hour Is Always ahead of you!

:scared2::smile2:There is plenty of time! If we have nothing else, we have time and it is on our side!   I have said this before, but after reading a little bit about TIME, I am starting to see and feel it differently.   TIME is both an enemy and a friend. At my age and I will tell you, I am 58. I see time slipping away fast, but there is so much happening in my life right now, it is good but it is on ZOOM AWAY! Tomorrow I will have grandchild number 5! A little boy named Michael Wesl

Just a few weeks till the Wedding, still 9 to go!

Ok, SO now I have to up my exercise program to push off these added lbs. 9 still to go.   I so want to see what a size 12 would look like and "feel" like on. That is my goal, not the weight exactly, but that elusive size 12.   I know some people are thinking, a size 12! That is a Fat Persons size. But not for me. I don't want to be a size 8 anymore, I am a Granny. I need a Granny Lap! LOL   I am healthy and that is first and foremost important for me. I can live with a 12.   Have a B

It is raining! NO BEACH TODAY~ TEA Party instead?

:frown:Well so much for the beach day, it has been pouring for two days now, so my granddaughter and I have played dolls, dressup and today it will be the "Tea Party" time.   God has given us this time together and I will not grumble about the rain, we must need it.   Trying to stay on plan with a three year old in the house is harder than I thought! She wants Chicken Nuggets for lunch! Here we go, Fast Food places are places I try to stay away from now, they tempt me too much! I can't have

Grilled Peanut Butter(Crunchy) and Jelly Sandwich??

Yes I was smitten at the Ag Expo in Moultrie GA last year by these tasy little sandwiches! Now If you just use one slice of bread, it cuts the carbs way back!   Something about the heat and the butter that I use to toast the bread, what a great supper, my husband is eating vanilla ice cream right now for his dessert, so I get on here to avoid the temptation, and talk about my sweet PB&J Grilled Sandwich. He worked hard today and he has ALWAYS weighed the same since the day we married 32 y

Waiting for the Right Timing???? Read this and rate it too!

NO AMOUNT OF WORRYING can make things happen, let alone make them happen the way you want. Still, your human nature, bent on trying, rises to the challenge. What's the remedy for this all-too-common malady? Oswald Chambers, in his classic MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST, wrote," When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.....If you have the slightest doubt, then he is not guiding." I know it is hard on those of you waiting, wait

Rainy Days always make me HUNGRY!!!AWWRRRRG

:mad:Why is it Rainy Days always make me HUNGRY?????   I am a very active person and I like being busy. I had my two grandsons ages 1 yr and 3 yrs for the weekend, and they were a blast.   Boy I was hungry! Now I ate on their schedule every two to three hours a little something, which was fine.   But as I was thinking about what to cook for them, what foods they liked, I got HUNGRY. It has rained here in Florida for two days on and off!   Keeping two little boys so full of energy inside,

Finding Happy Trails!

Everyone persues happiness, but FEW can define it!   Is happiness the bright red apple dangling from the highest branch of the tree or the immense treasure buried somewhere underground? Is happiness the perfect person with whom to spend your life with?   Many times you lose hope of finding happiness simply because you may be looking for it in the wrong places.   True happiness has less to do with outward circumstances that with inward, and more to do with the inward harmony than with outw

Will anyone Help?

Your journey through life is not often easy, and you may experience times when you awaken to find yourself battered and bruised, lost and forsaken, lying helpless along the side of life's road. Your resources gone and your strength spent, you may wonder if there is hope for you! WILL ANYONE COME ALONG TO HELP? This journey through life has been a challenging part of my daily plans. I am learning to "fit in". And I mean that in an emotional way as well as physically. I can now feel some

Waiting is HARD!!

:mad:Waiting is the hardest thing to do! We are a want what we want, get what we want society and we want it in a hurry too!   It is work to wait! Takes a lot of effort on our part! There are those of you with the lapband that are waiting to get a fill, waiting to get past the post op phase. Waiting to lose the weight you have gained over a lifetime of not eating right. Some of you are still waiting to be approved for the lapband, anticipating what it will be like when you do get the band,

What should I do?

:confused:Does anyone watch the show "What would you do?" It is a news show, they had a segment last night whereby a "FAT LADY" actress who was really big, and several teenage actress's were blasting her for her Fatness as she was sitting on the beach.   They did this to her "ALL DAY LONG"! The teenagers had NO SCRIPT~and came up with the ugliest things to say to the FAT LADY actress, that they actually had her in REAL tears. NO ONE except a young girl who is studying obesity for a health c

Questions and Doubts?

:confused:When I question and doubt myself, I have to think about in the utter stillness of a cavern deep underground, a single drop of water falls onto the surface of a small pond and then another and then another and another. With time, the pond swells until the entire chamber is underwater. Doubt enters our lives in the same way~one drop at a time.   When we experience disappointment, it is natural to have questions and doubts. If I have a rough week with challenges and don't do exactly

Don't Worry ~ Be HAPPY!

:thumbup: I use to love that little tune! And you know it really sticks in your head! And it should. When we are happy, things in our life just go better.   Worry and fear are the bane of human existance. Any number of events or circumstances can trigger them to cripple or incapacitate you.   Worry and fear strike when you feel far from God. They rise up and crash over you when you are not paying attention to what is really important in life. Your relationship to God is so important, more th

Daily Life~ THINGS DON'T JUST HAPPEN!!!

:confused:THINGS DON'T JUST HAPPEN!!! I know this for sure! Another beautiful Sunday Morning, I am alive and happy. I still have my Mom with me and although she can not remember yesterday, she still knows me today! (Alzheimers)   My beautiful Daughter is getting married soon and so we are showering her today at 1PM. It is going to be nice. Hope I don't cry! My last one out of the nest! It is hard. But I have a lot to be thankful for! Every day is a gift from God~and all things are goo

The Right Path Taken!!!!!!

:tt2: In his poem, "The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost wrote about two paths that diverge in a wood and how he chose the"one less traveled by,". He ended the poem with these words: "and that has made all the difference."   We may ponder what may have happened if we had veered down another life path. Ultimately, however, it's the path taken that molds you into the person you turned out to be~~~for better or worse. How blessed you are when you choose the path that leads to God.   I feel he

A decision to Trust!

:smile:Learning to swim in daunting. You'll probably never forget how it felt to squint across the pool before filling your lungs with that last deep breath. Three strokes later, your hesitant paddling ended in frantic sputtering when water started closing over your head. At the same moment, strong arms caught you from beneath and lifted you back up to the surface. ( I had this happen to me at age 12 in our large round town lake)   A heart of trust is one of life's sweet but hard-won gifts. Th

Hunger increases at the end of one year with the band! Take a Diet Pill?

:closedeyes:Well, I have to tell you that I don't lie about this band journey! I have started being hungrier at the end of the first year, so you newbies, milk it for all you can get while you are NOT hungry at first.   It feels like I am hungrier now, and my tummy growls too, it did not do that at first.   I am debating trying to add a diet pill to help with the last 20-25 lbs of weight I need to get off! I am not in a hurry really, but I get worried when the weight just drags or comes off

Celebrated today my Mothers 80th Birthday! And I did not Starve to Death, I ate Cake!

:closedeyes: She looks fabulous at 80! Sure hope I am following in those footsteps. I had the nicest comment today when I logged on from a sweet lady who told me I looked like I was in my 40"s. God Bless You!   Taking off weight makes us look younger ya'll! And it will give you back years and more years. I had four children and two miscarriages during my child bearing years and that is also rough on the body. But it is all coming back together again! Thanks to the band and a lot of dedication!

Bandiversary Today ~ NOT Dissapointed, NOT Through Yet!

Yes I am smilin today! One year and I am so happy and definately not dissapointed! A year ago today, I was unsure, unhealthy, unhappy and unattractive! The lapband AP surgery has changed all that to me! I am full of confidence, if I can do this, I can do anything! I was unhealthy, on the verge of diabetis, taking Metphormin for it, High Blood pressure and High Cholesterol too were just around the corner. Now I take no meds unless I have a headache, like Normal people do. I was so unhap

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