yoli76

hey guess what i sit around ! i do my house work go 4 walks i just moved to the 3rd floor, i been a year n a half with lapband ! 255 starting ! i am 160! i do not go for work outs !

Performed through a laparoscope, Gastric Plication is minimally invasive. The stomach is folded into itself, limiting the capacity of the stomach from about 50 ounces to 4 to 8 ounces. No cutting or stapling is performed so the risk of complications are obviously much smaller than traditional gastric bypass operations. Lap-band surgery is unique in that it requires implantation of the gastric band around the top of the stomach. The fill port is also implanted and attached to the Lap-band by a tube. Some patients have very low tolerance to these implants and the band must be removed when rejected by their body. A very few patients don't deal well with the fill procedure. To adjust the Lap-band saline solution is injected through the skin into the fill port. The Lap-band fill procedure is easily tolerated by most patients. But every once in while a patient has problems with the injection. Gastric plication only requires simple sutures (stitches) that are typically never rejected by the human body. It requires no maintenance (such as fills).
The advantages of Gastric Plication over Lap-band and bypass surgeries:

No foreign devices are implanted (the Lap-band is implanted along with its fill port and tubing).
No adjustments are required (the Lap-band requires the injection or removal of saline solution to adjust it).
food is far less likely to become stuck (food can more easily become stuck with the Lap-band).
Gastric plication offers more restriction than Lap-band surgery. Reports on Gastric Plication surgery show 60-65% excess body weight loss in one year vs. 45-55% for Lap- band surgery (although individual results will vary, this is the average).
No cutting of the stomach or the intestine (all gastric bypass surgeries include radical surgical reduction of the stomach and small intestine).
Gastric Plication causes no nutritional deficiencies. Bypass surgery patients can suffer anemia, osteoporosis, Vitamin deficiency and Protein deficiency because the small intestine is radically shortened.
Few food restrictions compared to Gastric Bypass or Lap-band surgeries. Patients can eat most anything, because even though the stomach is drastically reduced in size, it is not surgically altered and functions normally.
Gastric Plication can be reversed more easily than any other surgery.

hope this helps

For the past month i have gotten off track so bad... I haven't gained any weight but I haven't lost any either. I have not exercised or eaten the way I should.
Any encouraging words to help me get back on track would be greatly appreciated..
From the words of my grandma she said " you paid all that money and your not going to do a thing about it????"
That has really hit me hard and come Monday morning I am getting back on track and I am going to lose the weight I not only NEED to but what I want to lose to feel good.
Hope everyone has a good week and I love this site to come and read and see all of the encouraging things y'all post!!!!!

It almost surreal.... But I am 10 lbs from goal. And it only been 21 months.... Such a short time considering the amount of weight I needed to lose ....
But i am almost there and i have lost 207 lbs! I just wanted to post this so anyone having to lose 200 lbs or more might realize IT CAN BE DONE!!!!!

I was just wondering if anyone has state insurance medicaid/ Medicare , and if so was it a long process to get approved?

Along the same lines think of it as a journey. It's about the journey and not the destination! Along the way remember to appreciate all the little changes like buying new underwear because yours is now baggy in the butt!
Here are a few of my little victories along the way. Remember to take time to appreciate these - kind of like stopping to smell the roses.
My wedding ring is now too big (married 22 years on May 19th)
Shopping for clothes with my 16 year old daughter in the same store.
I now like the way I look with earrings that dangle. (Before my face was too fat and it looked silly!)
I am able to paint my toenails!
I am able to walk up and down stairs without getting winded.

shhhh i am a heavy smoker ! and i smoked b4 my surgery ! apr 28 it will b my year !

That is excellent, keep up the great work... I was banded Oct. 3rd and down from 242 to 195... So excited.

Needed to read these success stories today. Going out for my first "Girls Night" since being banded. Started at 255 and down to 230, but still self conscious about getting dolled up and going out. But these posts helped me realize that as long as I stick with the band it will have great effects and I will just continue to lose the weight. Great job everyone!