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cheryl2586

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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from ☠carolinagirl☠ in Words of encouragement   
    Anyone considering weight loss surgery needs to know that it is not always going to be pleasant (two to four weeks post op of Clear liquids and I did not die). It's going to be a fight until your band is adjusted correctly. You will feel probably for the first time in your obese life hunger. Real true hunger after surgery that you never knew existed. Why? Because we never let ourselves get hungry before. Some of you will get down right pissed off about being hungry and wonder why do I have to starve this isn't what I signed up for. I signed up for weight loss surgery and for the weight to come off instantly and to put no work into it or do anything but sit on the couch and watch my body disappear. Well in the real world that would happen and you can see some cartoon that would represent a fat woman or man who took a magic pill and the fat was all gone. Well let me tell you this: it is not always going to be easy, it is always going to take work from you, it is always going to take patience because the weight is not going to fly off your hips like a stork delivering a baby. It's going to take devotion, restraint, the ability to want to never live in an obese world again. It's going to be down days and no move scale days and everything else in between. food is going to get stuck and you are going to wish that you could just die at that moment because the pain is so bad the food can not pass fast enough. But in trade for all those bad things will come no more back pain, no more pain medications, no more blood pressure or insulin, you will be able to walk a long distance and not need to sit down because you can hardly breathe. You will get the life that you were robbed of because food was holding you captive. You will be able to travel, sit comfortable anywhere your bootay wants to sit. You won't be the fatest person in the room, you will take a million pictures of yourself instead of hiding from the camera. Hard work pays off but the thing you have to remember is that this little thing is there to help you not to do all the work. You will in the beginning have to diet yes diet because the band won't help you in the first months. You will have to have will power from bad foods but you will make it. I love to feel hunger now because that is my body telling me its time to nourish me. But I fill it full of good healthy Proteins, veggies and once in a while fruit. Do I splurge on ice cream? Absolutely because that is one thing I wouldn't care if they made it from grass I would eat it.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from ☠carolinagirl☠ in Words of encouragement   
    Anyone considering weight loss surgery needs to know that it is not always going to be pleasant (two to four weeks post op of Clear liquids and I did not die). It's going to be a fight until your band is adjusted correctly. You will feel probably for the first time in your obese life hunger. Real true hunger after surgery that you never knew existed. Why? Because we never let ourselves get hungry before. Some of you will get down right pissed off about being hungry and wonder why do I have to starve this isn't what I signed up for. I signed up for weight loss surgery and for the weight to come off instantly and to put no work into it or do anything but sit on the couch and watch my body disappear. Well in the real world that would happen and you can see some cartoon that would represent a fat woman or man who took a magic pill and the fat was all gone. Well let me tell you this: it is not always going to be easy, it is always going to take work from you, it is always going to take patience because the weight is not going to fly off your hips like a stork delivering a baby. It's going to take devotion, restraint, the ability to want to never live in an obese world again. It's going to be down days and no move scale days and everything else in between. food is going to get stuck and you are going to wish that you could just die at that moment because the pain is so bad the food can not pass fast enough. But in trade for all those bad things will come no more back pain, no more pain medications, no more blood pressure or insulin, you will be able to walk a long distance and not need to sit down because you can hardly breathe. You will get the life that you were robbed of because food was holding you captive. You will be able to travel, sit comfortable anywhere your bootay wants to sit. You won't be the fatest person in the room, you will take a million pictures of yourself instead of hiding from the camera. Hard work pays off but the thing you have to remember is that this little thing is there to help you not to do all the work. You will in the beginning have to diet yes diet because the band won't help you in the first months. You will have to have will power from bad foods but you will make it. I love to feel hunger now because that is my body telling me its time to nourish me. But I fill it full of good healthy Proteins, veggies and once in a while fruit. Do I splurge on ice cream? Absolutely because that is one thing I wouldn't care if they made it from grass I would eat it.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from ☠carolinagirl☠ in Words of encouragement   
    Anyone considering weight loss surgery needs to know that it is not always going to be pleasant (two to four weeks post op of Clear liquids and I did not die). It's going to be a fight until your band is adjusted correctly. You will feel probably for the first time in your obese life hunger. Real true hunger after surgery that you never knew existed. Why? Because we never let ourselves get hungry before. Some of you will get down right pissed off about being hungry and wonder why do I have to starve this isn't what I signed up for. I signed up for weight loss surgery and for the weight to come off instantly and to put no work into it or do anything but sit on the couch and watch my body disappear. Well in the real world that would happen and you can see some cartoon that would represent a fat woman or man who took a magic pill and the fat was all gone. Well let me tell you this: it is not always going to be easy, it is always going to take work from you, it is always going to take patience because the weight is not going to fly off your hips like a stork delivering a baby. It's going to take devotion, restraint, the ability to want to never live in an obese world again. It's going to be down days and no move scale days and everything else in between. food is going to get stuck and you are going to wish that you could just die at that moment because the pain is so bad the food can not pass fast enough. But in trade for all those bad things will come no more back pain, no more pain medications, no more blood pressure or insulin, you will be able to walk a long distance and not need to sit down because you can hardly breathe. You will get the life that you were robbed of because food was holding you captive. You will be able to travel, sit comfortable anywhere your bootay wants to sit. You won't be the fatest person in the room, you will take a million pictures of yourself instead of hiding from the camera. Hard work pays off but the thing you have to remember is that this little thing is there to help you not to do all the work. You will in the beginning have to diet yes diet because the band won't help you in the first months. You will have to have will power from bad foods but you will make it. I love to feel hunger now because that is my body telling me its time to nourish me. But I fill it full of good healthy Proteins, veggies and once in a while fruit. Do I splurge on ice cream? Absolutely because that is one thing I wouldn't care if they made it from grass I would eat it.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from ☠carolinagirl☠ in Words of encouragement   
    Anyone considering weight loss surgery needs to know that it is not always going to be pleasant (two to four weeks post op of Clear liquids and I did not die). It's going to be a fight until your band is adjusted correctly. You will feel probably for the first time in your obese life hunger. Real true hunger after surgery that you never knew existed. Why? Because we never let ourselves get hungry before. Some of you will get down right pissed off about being hungry and wonder why do I have to starve this isn't what I signed up for. I signed up for weight loss surgery and for the weight to come off instantly and to put no work into it or do anything but sit on the couch and watch my body disappear. Well in the real world that would happen and you can see some cartoon that would represent a fat woman or man who took a magic pill and the fat was all gone. Well let me tell you this: it is not always going to be easy, it is always going to take work from you, it is always going to take patience because the weight is not going to fly off your hips like a stork delivering a baby. It's going to take devotion, restraint, the ability to want to never live in an obese world again. It's going to be down days and no move scale days and everything else in between. food is going to get stuck and you are going to wish that you could just die at that moment because the pain is so bad the food can not pass fast enough. But in trade for all those bad things will come no more back pain, no more pain medications, no more blood pressure or insulin, you will be able to walk a long distance and not need to sit down because you can hardly breathe. You will get the life that you were robbed of because food was holding you captive. You will be able to travel, sit comfortable anywhere your bootay wants to sit. You won't be the fatest person in the room, you will take a million pictures of yourself instead of hiding from the camera. Hard work pays off but the thing you have to remember is that this little thing is there to help you not to do all the work. You will in the beginning have to diet yes diet because the band won't help you in the first months. You will have to have will power from bad foods but you will make it. I love to feel hunger now because that is my body telling me its time to nourish me. But I fill it full of good healthy Proteins, veggies and once in a while fruit. Do I splurge on ice cream? Absolutely because that is one thing I wouldn't care if they made it from grass I would eat it.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from ☠carolinagirl☠ in Words of encouragement   
    Anyone considering weight loss surgery needs to know that it is not always going to be pleasant (two to four weeks post op of Clear liquids and I did not die). It's going to be a fight until your band is adjusted correctly. You will feel probably for the first time in your obese life hunger. Real true hunger after surgery that you never knew existed. Why? Because we never let ourselves get hungry before. Some of you will get down right pissed off about being hungry and wonder why do I have to starve this isn't what I signed up for. I signed up for weight loss surgery and for the weight to come off instantly and to put no work into it or do anything but sit on the couch and watch my body disappear. Well in the real world that would happen and you can see some cartoon that would represent a fat woman or man who took a magic pill and the fat was all gone. Well let me tell you this: it is not always going to be easy, it is always going to take work from you, it is always going to take patience because the weight is not going to fly off your hips like a stork delivering a baby. It's going to take devotion, restraint, the ability to want to never live in an obese world again. It's going to be down days and no move scale days and everything else in between. food is going to get stuck and you are going to wish that you could just die at that moment because the pain is so bad the food can not pass fast enough. But in trade for all those bad things will come no more back pain, no more pain medications, no more blood pressure or insulin, you will be able to walk a long distance and not need to sit down because you can hardly breathe. You will get the life that you were robbed of because food was holding you captive. You will be able to travel, sit comfortable anywhere your bootay wants to sit. You won't be the fatest person in the room, you will take a million pictures of yourself instead of hiding from the camera. Hard work pays off but the thing you have to remember is that this little thing is there to help you not to do all the work. You will in the beginning have to diet yes diet because the band won't help you in the first months. You will have to have will power from bad foods but you will make it. I love to feel hunger now because that is my body telling me its time to nourish me. But I fill it full of good healthy Proteins, veggies and once in a while fruit. Do I splurge on ice cream? Absolutely because that is one thing I wouldn't care if they made it from grass I would eat it.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from Debbie3sons in Maintenance- what does it look like.....   
    Well I will just say it is not so easy. You have to pretty much watch everything you put in your mouth because that scale will start moving the other way easily. I haven't strayed from my Protein. I don't do meat well so I eat mostly Beans, tofu, and such. You have to be careful because when you think oh I can eat what I want that is when the problem begins. It is very easy to put it back on. I would say losing was much easier then maintaining. Everyday is a struggle as to what to eat because I do not eat the same things over and over. It would just be so easily to tire eating the same foods daily. I think that maintenance is way harder then losing was.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from betty_s in slightly freaking out   
    I would take that with a grain of salt. If you could keep the weight off you wouldn't be putting yourself through weight loss surgery. Of course they expect you to be on a supervised diet but if you don't lose the more reason to approve you. We all know that nothing worked and that is why we resorted to weight loss surgery. Don't get yourself a nervous wreck over nothing they all say the same thing to try to intimidate you not to have the surgery.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from Debbie3sons in Maintenance- what does it look like.....   
    Well I will just say it is not so easy. You have to pretty much watch everything you put in your mouth because that scale will start moving the other way easily. I haven't strayed from my Protein. I don't do meat well so I eat mostly Beans, tofu, and such. You have to be careful because when you think oh I can eat what I want that is when the problem begins. It is very easy to put it back on. I would say losing was much easier then maintaining. Everyday is a struggle as to what to eat because I do not eat the same things over and over. It would just be so easily to tire eating the same foods daily. I think that maintenance is way harder then losing was.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from intelirish in slightly freaking out   
    Well stress eat now because you wont be able to when that band is tightened then you will have to resort to shopping I'm afraid lol
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from betty_s in slightly freaking out   
    I would take that with a grain of salt. If you could keep the weight off you wouldn't be putting yourself through weight loss surgery. Of course they expect you to be on a supervised diet but if you don't lose the more reason to approve you. We all know that nothing worked and that is why we resorted to weight loss surgery. Don't get yourself a nervous wreck over nothing they all say the same thing to try to intimidate you not to have the surgery.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from intelirish in slightly freaking out   
    Well stress eat now because you wont be able to when that band is tightened then you will have to resort to shopping I'm afraid lol
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from Debbie3sons in Maintenance- what does it look like.....   
    Well I will just say it is not so easy. You have to pretty much watch everything you put in your mouth because that scale will start moving the other way easily. I haven't strayed from my Protein. I don't do meat well so I eat mostly Beans, tofu, and such. You have to be careful because when you think oh I can eat what I want that is when the problem begins. It is very easy to put it back on. I would say losing was much easier then maintaining. Everyday is a struggle as to what to eat because I do not eat the same things over and over. It would just be so easily to tire eating the same foods daily. I think that maintenance is way harder then losing was.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from Debbie3sons in Maintenance- what does it look like.....   
    Well I will just say it is not so easy. You have to pretty much watch everything you put in your mouth because that scale will start moving the other way easily. I haven't strayed from my Protein. I don't do meat well so I eat mostly Beans, tofu, and such. You have to be careful because when you think oh I can eat what I want that is when the problem begins. It is very easy to put it back on. I would say losing was much easier then maintaining. Everyday is a struggle as to what to eat because I do not eat the same things over and over. It would just be so easily to tire eating the same foods daily. I think that maintenance is way harder then losing was.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from Debbie3sons in Maintenance- what does it look like.....   
    Well I will just say it is not so easy. You have to pretty much watch everything you put in your mouth because that scale will start moving the other way easily. I haven't strayed from my Protein. I don't do meat well so I eat mostly Beans, tofu, and such. You have to be careful because when you think oh I can eat what I want that is when the problem begins. It is very easy to put it back on. I would say losing was much easier then maintaining. Everyday is a struggle as to what to eat because I do not eat the same things over and over. It would just be so easily to tire eating the same foods daily. I think that maintenance is way harder then losing was.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from Debbie3sons in Maintenance- what does it look like.....   
    Well I will just say it is not so easy. You have to pretty much watch everything you put in your mouth because that scale will start moving the other way easily. I haven't strayed from my Protein. I don't do meat well so I eat mostly Beans, tofu, and such. You have to be careful because when you think oh I can eat what I want that is when the problem begins. It is very easy to put it back on. I would say losing was much easier then maintaining. Everyday is a struggle as to what to eat because I do not eat the same things over and over. It would just be so easily to tire eating the same foods daily. I think that maintenance is way harder then losing was.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from betty_s in slightly freaking out   
    I would take that with a grain of salt. If you could keep the weight off you wouldn't be putting yourself through weight loss surgery. Of course they expect you to be on a supervised diet but if you don't lose the more reason to approve you. We all know that nothing worked and that is why we resorted to weight loss surgery. Don't get yourself a nervous wreck over nothing they all say the same thing to try to intimidate you not to have the surgery.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from betty_s in slightly freaking out   
    I would take that with a grain of salt. If you could keep the weight off you wouldn't be putting yourself through weight loss surgery. Of course they expect you to be on a supervised diet but if you don't lose the more reason to approve you. We all know that nothing worked and that is why we resorted to weight loss surgery. Don't get yourself a nervous wreck over nothing they all say the same thing to try to intimidate you not to have the surgery.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from betty_s in slightly freaking out   
    I would take that with a grain of salt. If you could keep the weight off you wouldn't be putting yourself through weight loss surgery. Of course they expect you to be on a supervised diet but if you don't lose the more reason to approve you. We all know that nothing worked and that is why we resorted to weight loss surgery. Don't get yourself a nervous wreck over nothing they all say the same thing to try to intimidate you not to have the surgery.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from Mikee57 in A Primed Band Is A Filled Band   
    Again as I keep saying everyone takes out of a post what they want and hound on it. The only thing that you all are hounding on or have taken from this post is "someone is bragging" three words that is all. The point of the whole thread was that when a band is primed it has a fill. That was the education that this post was trying to make known. I clearly can never understand why some of you take what you want from a post and begin to hound on it like that is all she was saying.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from Mikee57 in first fill next week and weight loss.   
    Now is the time you should be measuring your food and keep measuring it until you can safely measure out a cup of food without anything. That is the only way to ensure you do not over eat. If you are eating more then you should then that is why you should measure your food. As far as losing weight some people do and some don't but if you are eating solid foods and mainly Proteins you should still be losing. When going for a fill, it is best to go on an empty stomach but I would call the doctor and ask what they want you to do. You most certainly can walk even if your lifting is restricted. That will also help with weight loss.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from kll724 in 1cc unfil   
    Good luck but I just want to throw out there that a small unfill will not make or break the scale. Maintenance is harder then people think. You just have to know that.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from ☠carolinagirl☠ in What happens after gastric band removal without additional bariatric surgery?   
    Gaining weight after band removal is not a necessity. If you stop dieting and lose Portion Control of course you are going to gain the weight back. Some people still have restriction once the band is removed because of the scar tissue. I do not believe that band failure is as common as most think. Of course there will always be a complication to any weight loss surgeries but most patients who have their bands removed is because they did not comply with their program their doctor put in place for them.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from kll724 in 1cc unfil   
    Good luck but I just want to throw out there that a small unfill will not make or break the scale. Maintenance is harder then people think. You just have to know that.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from kll724 in Is this normal. .   
    But what are you depressed about? Your weight loss, personal issues, etc. We can't help if we don't know what you are depressed about.
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    cheryl2586 got a reaction from kll724 in 1cc unfil   
    Good luck but I just want to throw out there that a small unfill will not make or break the scale. Maintenance is harder then people think. You just have to know that.

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