purplegirl1818

So im on a 2 week liquid diet (very restricted). my main objective is to get my mind OFF food. so all i can think of is what the first real meal in gonna have is gonna be. thinking of meals doesnt really get my mind off food. ive found that when they say food becomes very unimportant, they are so right. so what are all these skinny people doing to NOT worry about food all the time? also what are the doing while they eat? how can they make meals so slow!? theres only so much to talk about! and just a side question, i know im going on a liquid diet to shrink my liver, but the food i can have is SO repulsive, im barely eating anything... that wont make it enlarge again for some unknown reason will it?

I am so excited. I cant wait to see my real face, i mean i know that sounds weird, but look how different people look who dont have the extra fat compared to when the did. thats why people always get me confused with another girl at my school... even thought we look nothing a like. I cant wait to see my real face

will you do facebook? ive got myspace done lol the URL is as follows: groups.myspace.com/crazyates

Aug 8th here! soooooo excited! 2 weeks on nothing but sugar free Jello, popsickles, and yogurt. and cottage cheese. im 16 with a very unsupporting father... good thing he doesnt live with me!

hi everyone. Im from the Battle Creek area, but im being banded in chicago at the New Hope Center, so im more on the ill. message board<br /> i know some of you on here, im just not sure who and yes, i am 16 and i am being banded on Aug 8th ps, it took me 6 months, but i had to go though a special program

i started in feb. and will be banded beginning of aug so aboiut 6 months. i also did it in chicago

2 weeks liquid its to shrink your liver so the surgen can work around it easily

purplegirl- AUG 8TH!

I cant wait! i just got my date last week, Aug 8th!!! I am sooooo excited!

thank you guys a bunch, i am feeling a little better about it now. my surgens wife gave me a book on the lap band and everything that goes with it ect. and im excited to get it started!

haha i totally agree with you

i dont know, but one of my friends keeps telling everyone about it. and theres people that really dont need to know, and its really starting to make me angry, and ive asked her not to tell everyone and their brothers, but she just wont stop

ok ive gatta question... how do you get rid of all the extra skin? just get it removed? if so, can we donate the skin cuz its not like we'll ever need it again!

thanks :-) if any of you get the bariatric monthly or something along those line, im helping my nurse write an article for it

alright, thanks. haha, ill be sure to tell you when i get it

im getting mine in July! the FDA is going to pay for it because im a guninne pig (yes and i have horrible spelling) for banders under 18.

thank you all, it really helps, i guess im justin going to have to see what happeneds

haha thanks, did you just get banded?

thanks julie :-)

thank you so much, that really does help :-D

its in chicago, im 16 and im actully getting mine payed for by the government or something. im a test subject lol but im like the 30th teen to go through the New Hope Program:)

ok so i have some questions for you banders out there How much does a fill hurt, if at all? about how much do you lose a month if you follow the meals, etc? how is the post op diet? ok so im going to be a senior this coming fall, and i wouldnt go to prom my junior year because i was way too embarrissed, im getting banded in July, and have high school swimming (which is about 13 hours a week plue 1-2 meets) prom is in may, how much do you think is a good idea to think i would possibly lose?

this is an excerpt from my life weight story: After season finished, I swam spring season and did Water polo, and during the summer there is never a day you can't find me in some body of water. In addition to swimming I began taking shakes as a meal substitute. Again no results. The following year, I began taking Meridia, a pill designed to help with weight loss, I lost around 12 pounds, but again gained it back. This trend continued until this past fall, fall 2006. During the first part of swim season we always run. The day we ran the football stadium stairs (this consists of running ¼ of a mile and running up 14 stairs, and back down three times, and repeating this around 4-5 times) I was at the top of the bleachers and couldn’t breathe very well, I began to get light headed and returned to the ground. By the time I got back to my coach, I was crying from not being able to breathe, and the frustration that I had that I knew that I could do this but my body wouldn’t allow it. In the middle this season I was diagnosed with depression. I knew it was my weight; my whole life has revolved around my weight. At this point I am out of ideas; I'm frustrated with my weight to the point of tears. In my freshman year we went to Cedar Point in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Sandusky</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Ohio</st1:State></st1:place> for the national physics day. That year I finally get the backbone to ride the Millennium Force, all of my friends and I got in line. I decided to sit in the chair outside the line to make sure I fit. Well, I didn’t. At the age of 14 I couldn’t fit on a roller coaster seat. Not just this ride, but many others too. This fact still taunts me, especially because my high school’s honors choir is going to Disney this spring, and I am scared that I will lose the Disney experience because of my weight. When I shared my fears with my mother this past January, we decided something needed to be done. After a lifetime of failed diets and gyms, a lifetime of frustration and just wishing on every start that I could be ‘normal sized’, I am finally taking my first steps toward a healthier lifestyle, and a new me.

ok, im 16, and im either getting the band later this month or July. If i do it in July, its free but i just want to start losing! i cant stand being like this much longer! lolnut in all seriousness, i am nervous that i wont lose any weight. im scared to death that ill go through all of this and never be a healthy weight. sometimes i just want to cry, because im just so stressed, i feel as though this is a last resort. ive always been like this and its so embarrising. ive had to go through school like this, i mean i know somepeople who have gained weight after highschool and after theyre skinny again say they can finally fit into their highschool jeans or something. and ive never had that, i am so scared that im just going to do this and have nothing happen... if anyone could help me out, please do :think

im 16 aqnd am getting one this summer