Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.
BariatricPal

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Join BariatricPal free

  • Ask your own questions
  • Reply and follow topics
  • Message other members
  • No cost, no spam
Create free account

faddiscc4

LAP-BAND Patients

  • Joined

  • Last visited

View Profile Find content

Blog Entries posted by faddiscc4

  1. Finally Told My Family

    · faddiscc4 · 02/05/2012 06:59

    When I first decided to get the band I only talked about it with people whom I see me every day. Because we are a military family I am far from my actual family it would be easy to keep my surgery from them. But I really felt I wanted to tell my brother and sister in law that I was going through this process.
     
    I finally talked to both my brother and his wife this past week. I am so glad I did. I really needed to tell people who truly care about me and my well being. They are concerned for my health but they are happy that I am making an educated decision on something I want to do.
     
    I received my sleep study results yesterday and I am in the clear in that respect. It looks like all I have left are 2 nurtritionist meetings and 1 support group meeting due in February.
     
    I'm getting very close to the end!!! So very excited!!!!!
  2. Today is January 27th. I am very close to being finished with all of my prerequisites involved with getting the Lapband.
    I only have remaining:
     
    2 Nutritionist Meetings
    1 Support Group Meeting
     
    I have been reading these posts for awhile now. I am just as determined as I was before joining this website but I do have a better knowledge of the fact that this is not a "sure" thing.
     
    When I first knew I was qualified for this surgery I began eating whatever I wanted and stopped exercising altogether. There was a large part of me who said, "you will have surgery soon, eat and do whatever you want". That attitude has lead me to more weight gain and left me feeling very down. Plus, none of my clothes are fitting.
     
    But things have been different this week. I have begun to make some small changes.
     
    I met a friend who needs to lose weight even more than I do. She refused to even walk as far as my house, which is only a block away from hers.
     
    I have inspired her to start walking with me. We have begun to walk from here to there and even went to the gym together this week. I hope that helping her will help me to help myself as well.
     
    I saw the same doctor earlier this week. He repeated what he had said before about bariatric surgeries, "I would guess that 50% of patients who received bariatric surgeries gain the weight back after 5 years".
     
    I told them that his words have made me more determined to make lifestyle changes which are necessary to keep the weight off.
     
    I pray I can do this.
     
    Cynthia
  3. Mountain Cedar is thick in the Texas air this week. I have been miserable, sneezing, coughing, throat itching and eyes watering and itching. I finally broke down and got an appointment with a doctor (not my regular dr.). He saw in my file that I'm seeing a bariatric doctor. After a brief discussion he said, "Many of the women who get those surgeries end up putting the weight right back on in 5 years." I was totally shocked.
     
    I wouldn't say that his comment has made me change my mind about the surgery....but it is making me think hard about the usefullness of it.

  4. Change Is On The Horizon

    · faddiscc4 · 01/06/2012 05:24

    Today is January 5th. My height is 5'6" and I weighed in today at 217 lbs. I believe my BMI is around 35 right now. Honestly, I'm glad that LapBand is my only option. I believe that the LapBand can give me the tool I need to finally beat the fat.
     
    My eating habits have gotten so bad that I hide the amount of foods I eat from my husband (who is also my best friend). He and I have different sleep schedules. Because he goes to bed before me I'm free to make grilled cheese sandwiches in the middle of the night and hide the evidence. My husband is a great man who, honestly, wouldn't deny me a grilled cheese....but I know my ever growing waistline is starting to bother him.
     
    My husband tries to get me to the gym. But my asthma affects the amount I can do on the elliptical machine and my knees hurt when I ride on the stationary bike. The worst is feeling so fat next to everyone else who seems to zip through a 90 minute cardio routine without a problem.
     
    In order to receive the lapband surgery at Brook Army Medical Center's Bariatric Clinic I must jump through these hoops:
     
    1 - informational meeting (done)
    2 - 3 hour in depth informational meeting (done)
    3 - 2 nutritionist meetings in December (done)
    4 - 2 nutritionist meeting in January (1 done)
    5 - 2 nutritionist meetings in February
    6 - Psychiatrist meeting
    7 - Xray of upper GI Tract
    8 - Laboratory Blood Work
    9 - Sleep Study
     
    Many of these appointments have already been scheduled.
     
    I hope to be banded in early March.
     
    Please keep you fingers crossed for me.
     
    I am tired of the ups and downs of weight loss. I am ready for something that will help me to change my life permanently.

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications
Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.