KatieKateKate

WOW Bunz!!! 10lbs! That's awesome! So excited for you! Hope you get to feeling better soon. I just had my first follow-up today and am down 7. =)

Since I just got banded the 21st, this is a ways off, but I'm so looking forward to the day where I won't have to tailor my environment to fit my body, but can instead go anywhere I want. As it is now, I limit myself from doing things I'd love to do because of the anxiety I have about not fitting in...and by this I mean: ~I ALWAYS offer to drive when going anywhere with friends because I know I'll have a seat in the car I fit into, with a seatbelt that isn't too small ~I only go to certain restaurants because I know that I can fit into the booths/the chairs won't break ~I always sit in the aisle seat at the movie theater (when I bother to go) because I have that extra space to spill over into ~I don't fly because the seats are small and it's embarrassing as hell to ask for the seatbelt extender while everyone stares at you ~Forget about amusement park rides (which I LOVE) Can't remember the last time I even went to the fair was ...and sadly, the list goes on. I can't wait for the day when I will feel confident accepting any invitation to anywhere without having to first preplan or "scope out" the location. What a sense of freedom! Thank you LapBand!

I was just banded this past Tuesday the 21st, but I'm counting the fact that I went through my closet pre-op and got rid of all the clothes I'd been holding onto for YEARS because they ranged in size and I had the comfort of knowing that if I yo-yoed up or down again, I'd at least have something to wear. No more!! I'm going and staying down from now on! No looking back!!!

Oh my Gosh! I totally do that too! Love it! :biggrin:

Hi! I'm Kathryn (also known as Katie, Kate, or Kat) I'm 27, single with no kids and live in Montana. I was banded the 21st of July and am feeling many things about this new journey. Joy, Fear, Nausea, Anticipation, Failure, Excitement, the list goes on... I've been overweight my entire life...no seriously...I was 10 pounds 3 ounces when I was born and it kept going up from there. Being that everyone else in my family is also big, it wasn't that big of a deal growing up...or maybe I just won't let myself acknowledge just how traumatized i am? =p As I got older and the weight kept piling on, (graduated high school at a little over 300lbs) I decided I wasn't going to live the rest of my life this way and decided to do something about it. Sadly, I didn't choose the healthiest route but still managed to starve myself to down about 220...which remains to this day my lowest adult weight. Of course the pounds just came right back with a vengance and I managed to hit my all-time highest weight of 426 lbs about 3 years ago. I could have died!!! Especially considering the fact that I've never really seen myself as "obese"...which sounds crazy...but is one of those unfortunate side effects of being overweight your entire life; you know you're bigger than most but don't really put much thought into just HOW big. Since that shocking discovery, I've tried (and failed) at a multitude of diets including, LA Weightloss, Slim Fast, MediFast, and Phenteramine (the half of Phen Phen that is still legal in the US). The Band is something that I had been toying with for about 5 years but didn't really get serious about until I got so frustrated by only being able to lose small amounts of weight just to gain them right back with the above mentioned diets. I'm hoping that this is a life long solution that will allow me to experience everything I never knew I was missing out on before. I'm so excited to be a part of this forum and the Freedom Fighters! It looks like we've got a really great group here!

I was banded July 21st, 2009!

~ Wear everything in my closet that still has tags on it because I outgrew them before I had a chance ~ Run around the park with my nieces and nephews for more than 5 mins at a time ~ Not be the "fat friend" ~ Actually LIKE the way I look in pictures ~ Go hiking, camping, rafting, etc...(i.e. everything my friends do for fun during summer around here) ...and the list goes on. Great thread! Thanks for posting!

Greetings! I was also banded Tuesday the 21st. After researching this surgery for 5 years before deciding to do it, and lurking in the chat rooms for the past year, I had no idea I was going to have this many questions about things! I guess it really is different once you actually do it! My surgery went well, but I'm so paranoid about messing something up that I've mostly just stayed in bed and not had more than Water and Jello since tuesday! i did hop on the scale yesterday and was quite disappointed to learn that I had GAINED a pound. Hopefully that was just some kind of sick cosmic joke though. lol. Have my first post-op appt Monday and will be sure to ask all the things I had no idea I needed to know...like band size and if there was a surgical fill or not and report back. =) So, that's my story. Glad you posted this thread! Congrats on your band and hope to hear more from you as time goes on. This is a really cool website and I think it will make all of our lives easier as we go through this. My friends, family and co-workers have been amazing, but can only do so much as they haven't been here themselves, so it's great to be able to chat with folks who have.