laura5127

Hi everyone, I'm new to this thread. My name is Laura and I am from New Zealand. I was banded on March 23rd 2011, I started at 112.6kg/248.2lb pre-op but my heviest was 116.8kg/257.5lb. My weight loss has been very slow and having been so young (19) when I had my surgery I have found it very difficult to adjust to banded life. At about 8 months post-op I was down to 91kg/200.6lb, however after that point my weight loss stopped and I struggled to maintain that weight. Over the last year and a half I have yo-yoed between 91kg/200.6lb and 98kg/216lb. 2013 has been a very hard year for me to date and I have been very stressed. About 2-3 months ago I stepped on the scales and was horrified to see that I had gone over the 100kg/220.5lb mark and now sit at about 102kg/224.9lb. So here I am trying to get back on track, get the weight off and get my life started as I want to train to be crew on superyachts and unfortunately it is a very superficial industry and my confidence at this point is almost non existant. Name, real or screen~ Laura Goal weight for July 31st~ 92kg/202.8lb (I know it sounds like a lot but I need to push myself) Weight on July 1st~102kg/224.9lb Age~ 21 City/State~Auckland, New Zealand Dietary goal for July~ reduce sugar and fat Exercise goal for July~ Walk my 1hr 20min circut 6 days a week Personal goal for July~ only weigh myself once a week Date banded~ 23/3/11 Total weight loss since banding/pre op diet~ 10kg/22lb (since having regained weight ) Favorite Independence Day Activity~ N/A good luck everyone.

Hey PaleoKris, I think I will... I did a four day juice fast last week just to kind of refresh my body and i lost a couple of kg so current weight tody was 93.6kg. been walking a couple of days last week and hoping to do a bit more this week (hoping the weather will clear a bit more tomorrow). As for food, I think i will do a couple of weeks of Optifast to kind of kick start my weightloss again. My mum is doing well, i think she is about 6-7 months out and she has lost about 10kg (she started at 96ish and is down to about 86ish), she is going to get a fill tomorrow as well cos she feels she needs some more restriction. Today is a big day as well because my brother, Ashley, (25yr), has just had a gastric bypass with silastic band. he went in at about 8am this morning and like you 'changingmylife' he was very nervous but he came through great, it's the first day of the rest of his life and I believe it will be the best thing he has ever done. he started at 199kg and 6' 2", he did 8 weeks on optifast but took a week off it over xmas but lost 10kg in this period. The band is a huge adjustment but I don't regret having it done one bit, I'm not at my goal weight... I still have a good 30kg to go... as for the port as i still have a ways to go i cant feel my port unless I physically feel and press it... you should be able to find it though cos of course they need to give you fills. At first its an odd feeling but you get use to it. Good Luck... and i think we all get or got nervous before our surgeries but for me I knew it was my best chance to make any changes in my life.

Hey guys, Just thought i would do an update, so im a couple of months away from my 2 years post op and my weight has not really budged since i got to 95kg. I have been bouncing between 91kg and 97kg for about the last year and can't quiet seem to keep myself on track to get under that 90kg mark. My goals are big for 2013 and instead of focusing on losing weight which of course i do want to do, my main focus is going to be on living life... i just want to have fun this year and put myself out there and not hold back. Right now im looking and applying for jobs (as i finally graduated uni in december YAY!!!) not only here in NZ but also in Sydney as my dad is working in OZ and my brother is just about to move over next friday. I have applied for a job at a travel company which im really hopeful for cos i think it would be amazing. Got to run, i have work, maybe i will post again but wish me luck Fingers crossed that this year will be amazing.

WOW really, he just did my mums gastric band on august 1st.

Yeah, i didnt mean to sound like such a cow in my post. (my bad) but yeah i remember that boy, when i went to get my band the first time when i was 17 he mention that guy and said that because he had his band so young by the time he got to 18 and was able to drink he just started doing his own thing and wasnt following the rules but idk if they got him back on track.

your comment has upset me a bit and i asume it is implied towards my comment about my mother and seeing as you do not know my mother let alone ever met her i would like to tell you. My mum has been a 'taxpayer' for over 40 years, she takes over 5 medications a day and she has type1 diabetes which incase you dont know is not caused by weight gain and is not cureable!!! my mum struggles so much with her diabetes and its the position in which the band sits arround the stoumach that sends messages to the brain to use the insulin she has to inject - the weightloss is an added bonus. my mother eats a reasonably healthy diet and it was the insulin she was perscribed that caused my mum to pile on 15kilos in just over a year. My mother has been through so much and sacraficed so much over the years if they could afford the op then she would never have been recommended to the DHB, and seeing as she was denied we are working on raising those funds. i believe people like my mother that have worked their whole lives and have an illness that impacts their life so much deserve a surgery that could change the impact the illness has on their lives 10 fold. I do not think that the surgery should go to people that have bearley worked a day in their lives and live off us, the taxpayers (like my brother), that is where i believe these surgeries are going. sorry for my rant.

Hey everyone hows it going? So my mums GP sent a referral to the Waitemata District Health Board for a gastric band after her spacialist strongly advised she undergo the surgery (you see my mum has uncontrolled type 1 diatbetes) and to be expected they denied my mum. WHO ARE ALL THESE SURGERIES GOING TO???? I am so fustrated, all I want is for my mum to be able to live a happy life but struggling with type 1 diabetes as well as a **** LOAD (sorry bout my language) more health problems is making that impossible. has any one got any ideas on how i can eaither 1) raise at leas $13,000.00 2) find a way to get the surgery for no cost or 3) cure all my mothers health issues. This situation makes me feel so upset that my mum is having NO luck, and also I wish that I could turn the clock back 12 months and use my loan and my savings to get my mum the surgery rather then myself. She needs this sooooooo bad and i just dont understand how the DHB don't see that. WHAT CAN I DO?

I want to eventually do a cycle trip down the south island aswell cos I have never been down there and i think it would be a really exciting way to see the south island. it would be such an amazing experience. Yeah i went with Dr Fris also, like i said earlier they do seminars and you can make an appointment with who ever your looking to go with and work from there.

Hey, Yeah, hope you all had a really nice christmas and new years. My ultimate goal weight at the moment is 58kg (but thats just a number im obsessed with in my head, if i reach the right place before that then i will be happy). Right now im at around 92kg so thats a huge 34kg i want to loose by my 21st which is on the 28th october. I think i can do it though, im getting into cycling. I borrowed my aunties bike and have been ridding a bit over the last couple of weeks and was planning a bike trip from auckland to wellington but with the weather being crap its not really the best time to do it so we gonna wait a few months give us time to get a bit fit and then do the ride. Im a bit surprised that im actually quite enjoying cycling and my exercise has been really bad like im talking non existent, but im getting into exercise so i think the weight will start dropping off again now.

happy 2012 everyone new years resolution - get to my goal weight by my 21st birthday

oh ok, my aunty had a sleave a few years ago in hamilton by a doctor schroeder i think and she has done really well with that but they do the band and stuff as well.

that sux, what are they gonna do about it, or is there anything they can do about it?

Hi Pockets, welcome XD I have heard of some complications and things but I think they are quite rare, in fact my neighbours son had a band many years ago and it didn't work for him but it's the person not the band! Obviously with any surgery there are risks. The good thing about the band is that if anything goes wrong the band can be removed. I had the band in march and it is definitely the best ting I have done. I'm only 20 and I have found it quite difficult to adjust to having the band, I feel it's only now that I'm getting use to it. I think for me the benefits outweigh the risks. I don't know if you have been for a consultation or been to a seminar (http://www.nzobesitysurgery.co.nz/seminars.html) but usually the surgeons will tell you all about the risks and you can ask them for some literature. Not sure if that helped you. Have you looked at any clinics or surgeons in particular? I had my done with Dr Fris at Norhtridge specialists on the North Shore.