#MagicWithinme

HI yall My name is Heather just had my lapband surgery on fridauy the 17th in dade city at pasco regional hosptial by Dr Grossbard went well my fab sista shawna had it the same day actaully right before i did we are ready to start a new healthier life !

you will be able to support each othe, how awesome is that!

I experience some stomach discomfort but my head starts hurting its what I notice more and want to take care of , before I had the lapband I always made sure I was regular, its gonna be even more important, and yes Proteins don't come out easy. Right now I will eat some applesauce and that helps ALOT when its been a day or two, but Im gonna look at other stuff, to keep me regular daily. All these learning experiences.........

I've lost 33 lbs, and my face is clearer, I can sleep on my stomach more comfortably sleep apnea very rare. Once I get my food cycle situated where Im eating and its comfortable Im gonna get out of my comfort zone (sofa) and start my walking again.

Good luck everyone, lets go forward!

I like the responses from all those who have been banded before us newbies. I guess part of our thinking is out of desperation for the weight to already start dropping, No one really explained to me, (or I wasnt paying attention to be fair). yes they said it was a process, but one I thought would kick off faster than it is now. Im trying not to be a whiner, I started a personal log of my daily feelings, of what Im feeling, what Im eating, and doing, I want to look back on this in the future when whether Ive reached my goal or not. thanks

I eat guadamole with no problems yet, only a few tablespoons for snack with crackers, Im still looking for something that keeps me regular without taking meds.

grapefruit Protein drink

poached egg

snack guacamole 4 triscut crackers

boiled egg with guacamole

grilled talapia veggies

and Water all day long I can manage maybe 16 oz of water in between the crystal light and 0 drink

congratulations, maay be learn from you as we start some of our travels,

I know I read somewhere becareful of fruit with skins like grapes,

I know for myself when I started this process I didn't think I weighed enough. Simply because I didn't look big. But the scale said different. and of course what people would say when I would tell them I was thinking of getting lapband, oh you dont need it you arent that big. I went to seminars and saw people larger than me and Im sure they asked themselves what was I doing there. Maybe I didn't look big, but the extra weight I carried brought on so many health problems that my quality of life sucked. I went throught the process of labs, therapists, nutritionists and seriously at every one, I expected one to say oh you don't need it. But every door was open everyone was encouraging and even though I chickened out the first date of surgery I went through the 2nd time.I was in a better frame of mind, and so ready to loose weight that I have followed drs restrictions to the T and have been lucky to have lost a good amount of weight so far. Yes Im having problems right now with the right foods, eough Proteins, but I now know Im not the only one and that helps in itself to know and speaking for myself, I still have alot of insecurities, alot of doubts but I know that I chose the right path, and the way my body feels is telling me so. And I will continue on this path and I hope you do too, don't worry about anybody else, this is your journey.

I had mine on Jan. 25 and until this week, I was not able to sleep on my side without it being uncomfortable, but now most of the time it's not an issue now. It's also nice to kinda not feel the sensation all the time that it is in there to. I was always worried that it would feel like a foreign object, but unless I touch it, I really don't notice it's there most of the time.

I catch myself rubbing it, like a baby... lol

This happens to me all the time. I attribute it to the absence of lots of fats from my diet. I eat mainly Proteins, fruits and vegetables. I don't much in the way of carbs for the most part. I think that carbs and fatty foods are what causes this type of feeling.

I have to remember that its not just my mind that is going through alot its my stomach as well. The retraining is hand in hand for both and when I eat I have to take both into account. Its not easy right now, I'm the first today admit it (today) Im like everyone else, I don't want to fail, or think that I've wasted everyones time and money on a failure. I can see if I was 6-9 months out but Im barely 3 weeks out, what a wimp I am.. but I feel so much better after venting and reading on here for answers.. I hope you do too.

I had surgery 1-24 and Im a tummy sleeper I try to sleep tummy up but sometimes I find myself down, lol, but no pain or apnea

my hubby brought me grilled fish talapia from Long John Silver's no breading and I ate the veggies that came with it, not rice. I had my post op appt next day and I weighed the same.

Congrats for off.....

I'm a year post op, to be exact, today is my 1 yr bandiversary!! :-D I'm only down 60 lbs but my life couldn't be better!!

I have a couple favorites. There are many things I can not eat at all anymore. bread is very hard... wraps, steak any dry meats, those are all rough. I don't know if you have a Sam's Club in your area but I always get the Parmesean Crusted Tilapia already made. It's almost 30 grams of Protein per filet. YUMMY! Another favorite is Tablouli. Most people don't know what that is but it's absolutley delicious and sooo healthy! Just aski for it in any grocery store. Anything in a crockpot.. that all goes down east it seems. Soups, just watch the sodium content. I aim for under 1000 mg a day. For Snacks I'll eat turkey perperoni w low fat or fat free cheese and triscuits. My absolute fav for snacking, which I never seem to get tired of is sliced strawberries and bananas with low fat or fat free whipped cream. you can also throw in some bluberries, grapes, rasberries... ect. Just be careful with fruits that have skin on them. (blueberries, peaches...)

Just an FYI, it will take you a while to be able to feel restriction. It took me a good 3 or 4 fills to really be able to feel anything. Heck, I'm a yr out and I still havnt reached that sweet spot. However long youre on a liquid diet remember to stay strong. That was so mentally tough for me. Stay strong and don't give up. Lap Band is not the answer to becoming skinny.. it's a change of life. You will reroute your entire life to becoming healthy!

Good Luck and remember, we are your banded family!

<3 Lots of Love and Prayers!

-Ronni

P.S sorry for the novel! just told you what i wish i knew back then.

loved your post and got losts of info! we have a place here called java juice

my dr using just puts for illness and leaves it at that. I did tell my immediate supervisor so she knew what was going on, I told a few office staff after, but thats it, I work with 150 people but I rarely see them as they work out in the field. I told my sister and my female cousin. and the rest afterwards. You should just ask dr to put due to illness and see if that will work.

I was banded 1/24/12 so Im a newby but there's alot of stuff I didn't realize until after surgery. (or I read over it) so far lost 33 lbs,

I don't remember anything about the jitters, scared the bejeezes out of me, I went to md today and he said that was fine. He said I wasn't eating enough maybe and I told him Im suppose to eat a cup/or size of my fist. He looked at my fist and said if you are going by that you are probably starving yourself. Does everyone go through those? I'm such a wuss, In my world I was supposed to wake up and lalalal be thin, but Im in this world, and its not like that at all and I know seriously that I'm need to change my lifestyle, (really I do) but that just really caught me off guard.

Please don’t hate me for saying this but I am just being honest from my own experiences, a mutual friend of our group started weight watchers and begin losing, in about 6 months she looked amazing totally different person, with a little peer pressure from family and friends I decided to give weight watcher another go, after investing in meetings, food, scales, time and everything else that goes with it, again ended up a failure. “if she could do why couldn’t I?” very depressing to try try and fail, after getting banded I found out 2 of my in-laws where banded and our little weight watcher friend ……..she had gotten a sleeve done……..REALLY? to this day I still hold a grudge I feel lied to and betrayed …I feel if they would have cared just a little, they would have let me know why they were/are truly succeeding, every time I see a commercial about some new or old weight loss meds, machine, food or program I always think to myself, Yes, they might being doing that, but I guarantee they have had some kind of WLS first.

And if we are being completely honest we would not be succeeding without this tool, to make people believe that we are somehow stronger or better is deceiving. Anything else is sugar coating, It is what it is. People talk, as much as you think your secret is safe it’s not!

She should have been truthful, as you would have been. but don't hold it against her, look at what we are doing for ourselves!

OMG girl me too. Its aweful isn't it. It was low when I went for my post op appt Monday and I felt very jittery today so I went to my local md. and my bp was regular. (they even took it 3 xs) and the average was low. I wasn't anemic, I did ask for a B12 shot and he said most people who have these kind of surgerys will need them . and I have not started exercising so I know for me it can't be that yet. I told him Im suppose to eat the size of my fist and he looked at my fist and said you are probably starving yourself, eat alittle more. Its definitely a balance of eating the Proteins versus the carbs. I have contacted a nutritionst so hopefully that will help me. Someone else mentioned the low blood sugar. because we do eat more proteins then carbs sometimes, go to your local md as suggested, there shouldn't be a charge to just check your bp. Let us know what you find out!

I do, I feel I shouldn't have needed band, I could have lost it on my own, but like dr said Ive lostit before but unable to keep it off. I went to seminar and there were people so much larger than me, and Im sure they were saying the same thing. but so far Ive been able to keep 33 lbs off, I think I did expect things to be easy as it has been for some, but in reality, theres gonna be struggles.

my virtual hug for the day was:

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this happened to me, I wasnt drinking enough Water

you guys will like this one, I go yard saling and LOVE when I see that the people who are selling are big so I know I might find something that will fit me!

I know what you mean, its the the fact that we actually ate some of the stuff, but that the choice to be able to was taken away but us ourselves..

On the way back to work,( I talk to God alot talking thru my lifes situations ) and he always throws words in my head and he threw the word accountability in today. Before we were not accountable to no one for the food we ate but ourselves,(but we didn't care/worry about it) this lapband is forcing us to become accountable now, and we might be accepting but not liking yet. Hold the burger high for the rest of us when you do get to eat it girl!

hey mine was 1/24!

I was in the same boat as you were Ashleigh, I had lost 23 lbs before surgery and had rescheduled surgery till january, was reweighed and lost another 4. It was totally up to me whether I get lapband or not, but dr did say to me you have lost weight before did it stay off. so I went ahead and got lapband. now loosing 33 lbs I went to the md for post op he was very pleased with weight loss, I asked him if I even needed a fill and he said that it was again up to me, and at the rate I was going I might need one, so if you are happy with what you are doing, and feel truly that you can continue the path you are on, and can stay on it, then postpone surgery for a month or two.

Oh yes, we are still the fat girl in the mirror, My hubby can tell me a million times I look good, Sexy and whatnot, and I will still think he is just saying that because he wants me to feel better about myself. Its a mind thing, we learned early , and sometimes it took one person to say something about our weight and it has stuck in our mind up to now. We have to shake loose of this image, I used to avoid mirrors neck down, (how sad is that) but lately I am at waist level, but with clothes on.. (hehehe) we didn't go this this pain, these limitations so they would not be enjoyed. , seen. I agree we are and have always been process in the works, Good luck !