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A weight loss surgery blog by One Love on the DL on BariatricPal. 5 entries on surgery, recovery and progress.

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Weight Update

Starting weight - April 15th 2010 - Total Weight - 235lbs   Weight Update - July 21st 2010 - Total Weight - 218lbs   Grand total of weight loss in 3 mons. 17lbs   Good LORD - This is taking FOREVER!!!!!

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• One Love on the DL
• July 22, 201016 yr

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The day after my surgery

When I got home after my surgery I was feeling great. It wasn't until like 2am when the pain kicked in. I woke up crying definitely needing some pain meds. So I went to kitchen and took 2 of my pain meds at the same time. Not thinking anything bad would happen but once I swallowed both of them. I felt one go down but the other just wouldn't go. It just felt like it was stuck and wasn't moving. To be honest it was a really scary moment! I didn't know what to do. So I started spitting up and that

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• One Love on the DL
• April 16, 201016 yr

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My Story

Hi everyone! My name is Jhanette and I live in Miami FL. If you can image I'm 26years old and I haven't been to the beach in god knows how long. I just had my LAP-BAND®® surgery today 4/15/2010 and now I'm home checking out this site and reading all of these amazing stories.   So here is mine. I've always been over weight since I was very young but ever since I turned 22 my weight seriously hit the roof. My highest weight was 285lbs.   I started to look into the gastric bypass and was going

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• One Love on the DL
• April 16, 201016 yr

Read more about Surgery Day 4/15/2010

Surgery Day 4/15/2010

Finally this day has come. At 10:30am on 4/15/2010 I finally had my LAP-BAND®®®®® surgery. Seriously it went by so fast. They weighted me in which they really wanted me to lose 15lbs for the surgery but I only lost 11lbs which is still GREAT! they took me to the back and put the I.V, gave me a couple of shots and after 30 mins. They sent me into this room where everything was so BRIGHT laid me on a bed, put a mask on me and asked me to take a couple of deep breaths. In just a few mins I was out.

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• One Love on the DL
• April 16, 201016 yr

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I cheated on my pre op diet

Ok so i'm going to be honest and this is going to be really hard for me to do. But here I go. So I started my pre op diet on 4/5/2010 and the first day I did great but on the 2nd day I had a horrible day at work so I ate burger king... Took some pills to go2 the bathroom (if you know what I mean) but I still felt terrible. After that I haven't really stayed on my diet 100% I have been eating some cream chesse here and there w/ritz crackers (Reduced fat) But now my doctor told me on saturday 4/10

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• One Love on the DL
• April 11, 201016 yr