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Talk about anything related to weight loss surgery, such as choosing a surgery and surgeon, preparing for surgery, pre-surgery and post-surgery diets, weight loss, exercise and mental challenges. Exchange recipes, find weight loss surgery buddies, get exercise advice, ask about cosmetic and reconstructive surgery and share your weight loss surgery story!

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  1. Abbreviations

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  2. Food Before and After Photos

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  3. who supports right to choose

    By 396power,
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  4. The Official What You Will Need For Your Upcoming Weightloss Surgery Thread!

    By LilMissDiva Irene,
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  5. Weirdest None-Scale-Victory - I'll go first

    By chiquitatummy,
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  6. Bariatric Surgery Do's And Don'ts

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  7. Why do women have anal sex?

    By Oregondaisy,
    • 332 replies
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  8. Health Care

    By TN_girl21,
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  9. Dreaded 3-week stall?

    By BriDawn,
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  10. Did you cheat on pre-op liquid diet

    By crystalcml,
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  11. Poll - Democrat or Republican?

    By KariK,
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  12. Poll: How many have acid reflux problems?

    By NJChick,
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  13. Would You Have Weight Loss Surgery Again?

    By Alex Brecher,
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  14. Should people barely over 200 lbs or below 200 get Lapband or any WLS...?

    By Froggi,
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  15. Embrace the Stall

    By Inner Surfer Girl,
    • 222 replies
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  16. Did your Doc require a pre-op diet?

    By whosthatgirl,
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  17. Confessional - Lets post our cheats/confessions/etc so others can see that we are all human

    By Matt Z,   
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  18. Australia - Melbourne

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  19. Reflux Poll

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  20. Cheating..No, not with food!

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  21. Keeping it a secret?

    By Fluffy,
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  22. Should prostitution be legal?

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  23. Favorite Grocery Products

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  24. May 24 Surgery Day

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  25. Soda soda soda

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  26. Are We ready for a Black President?

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  27. POLL Should I have them redone to make them perfect... Breast pictures

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  28. Do you burp more now that you are banded? (non-productive, just air)

    By dustout,
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  29. Bands eroded, slipped or still successful bands?

    By PamRN,
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    • 37,860 views

  30. Tricare Approval or Denial??

    By JamieNP,
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  31. First Six Months of Lap Band: Average Weight Loss??

    By bwaydiva,
    • 91 replies
    • 36,580 views

  32. Complete and *OFFICIAL* List of Every Celebrity Who Had Weight Loss Surgery

    By Alex Brecher,
    • 38 replies
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  33. When did your toughest weight loss plateau occur?

    By Alex Brecher,
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  34. How many calories a day do you eat?

    By Sammysue78,
    • 130 replies
    • 35,239 views

  35. Have you had a leak in your port/tubing and had to have it replaced?

    By DrewsLou,
    • 246 replies
    • 35,223 views

  36. Lapband Slippage

    By Beka,
    • 118 replies
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  37. For VG 10 cc Bandsters ONLY

    By BeacheeGirl,
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  38. how many cc's for restriction 14cc

    By Alfie,
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  39. Do You? You know use that word!

    By SlimTarnishedDiva,
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  40. 2009 - New York City Banded Together-Lapband Talk National Event

    By CoachCher,
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  41. Are We Ready For A Woman VP?

    By Daisalana,
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  42. POLL - Whats your sweet spot in 10cc band?

    By bunnykin4u,
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  43. How often do you PB?

    By lins12,
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  44. Nicotine Level Test

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  45. How often do you vomit/PB?

    By mandi78,
    • 149 replies
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  46. Exercise frequency

    By susannah,
    • 184 replies
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  47. How Many Calories Do You Consume On An AVERAGE Day?

    By WASaBubbleButt,
    • 173 replies
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  48. POLL Does Everyone Lose Their Hair??

    By KariK,
    • 181 replies
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  49. How long have you had your band and are you still happy?

    By Beka,
    • 133 replies
    • 24,266 views

  50. Member Spotlight In The BariatricPal Newsletter

    By Alex Brecher,   
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    • ChunkCat

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      Thank you everyone for your well wishes! I totally forgot I wrote an update here... I'm one week post op today. I gained 15 lbs in water weight overnight because they had to give me tons of fluids to bring my BP up after surgery! I stayed one night in the hospital. Everything has been fine except I seem to have picked up a bug while I was there and I've been running a low grade fever, coughing, and a sore throat. So I've been hydrating well and sleeping a ton. So far the Covid tests are negative.
      I haven't been able to advance my diet past purees. Everything I eat other than tofu makes me choke and feels like trying to swallow rocks. They warned me it would get worse before it gets better, so lets hope this is all normal. I have my follow up on Monday so we'll see. Living on shakes and soup again is not fun. I had enough of them the first time!! LOL 
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    • BeanitoDiego

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      Still purging all of the larger clothing. This morning, a shirt that I ADORED wearing ended up on top. Hard to let it go, but it was also hard to let go of those habits that also no longer serve my highest good. Onward and upward!
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    • jparadigm

      jparadigm

      Happy Wednesday!
       
      I hope everyone is having a lovely week so far! 
      It's been a bit of a struggle this last week...I'm hungry ALL the time.
      · 1 reply
      1. BlondePatriotInCDA

        BlondePatriotInCDA

        Have a great Wednesday too! Sorry you're hungry all the time, I'm pretty much the same..and I'm sick of eating the same food all the time.

    • ChunkCat

      ChunkCat

      Well, tomorrow I go in for an impromptu hiatal hernia repair after ending up in the ER over the weekend because I couldn't get food down and water was moving at a trickle... I've been having these symptoms on and off for a few weeks but Sunday was the worst by far and came with chest pain and trouble breathing. The ER PA thinks it is just esophagitis and that the surgeon and radiologist are wrong. But the bariatric surgeon swears it is a hernia, possibly a sliding one based on my symptoms. So he fit me into his schedule this week to repair it! I hope he's right and this sorts it out. He's going to do a scope afterwards to be sure there is nothing wrong with the esophagus. Here's hoping it all goes well!!
      · 4 replies
      1. AmberFL

        AmberFL

        omgsh!! Hope all goes well!! Keeping you in my thoughts!

      2. gracesmommy2

        gracesmommy2

        Hope you’re doing well!

      3. NickelChip

        NickelChip

        I hope it goes well! Sending positive thoughts for a speedy recovery!

      4. AmberFL

        AmberFL

        How are you doing? any update?!

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