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After the first couple of days it felt like a pulled muscle only hurting when my movement required stomached muscle use. I switched from narcotics to Advil Tylenol rotation on day 2. 23rd you'll be ready to rock! Good luck.
Ps... This coming from someone who had laparoscopic surgery may 31st then banded August 3rd- double wammy.

Day 4 for me.....cream of wheat diluted with skim milk and thin creamed Soups. However, your doctor should have given you post op diet instructions.

Thanks to all. I'm anxious and ready. Got 5 hours of good sleep. Keep the Faith.

Good luck to you!!!! Keep us informed to your progress! I'm still waiting for my referral visit.
You will do great!!!!!!
Keeping you in my prayers.

I will be on the other side soon today at 1:30pm.

Please pray with me.

Please pray with me.

Please pray with me.

Please pray with me.

August 3rd from Memphis area

Thank you for your prayers, thoughts, and well wishes. I just got home...all was smoove sailing. I got to the hospital at 8am, brought in the operating room about 9:30 and was discharged at 12 noon. The only pain I have is were the stitches are and that is not much at all. I will continue to keep you guys posted on my journey.

One of the main reasons I decided on Lap Band was because I was dissapearing from history. I would cringe when someone got out the camera. I absolutely HATED the way I looked. I still have that knee-jerk reaction when someone starts snapping photos, and I'm still not madly in love with how I look, but it's not so bad.
Use that video for inspiration. Recognize where you are right now, and know that you're starting your journey so you never have to look back.

My doctor says low fat Proteins only- no Peanut Butter.< /p>

I just got banded two weeks ago, i have read alot too on the setbacks some are experiencing
It really started to freak me out because i saved up for a year to pay for this and never expected to read about so many NOT having success
However, having thought about it, i choose to use their mistakes as reasons not to fail. Knowing now that the band is simply a tool to HELP us lose weight, so very much still depends on our own resolve to make healthy choices for ourselves at each and every meal.
Not easy, but doable, AND... There are WAY more success stories here than anything else.
Its expensive...i know, but you are making a geat deccision to do it...i hope you follow thru with the surgery.
And think about this...i read it once years ago during one of my many diets...and now i say it out loud to myself every day...
"Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels"!

Except my husband he sees how my confidence has declined and only wants what makes me happy and healthy so I have his support 100%

I promise- the psychiatrist said they recommend drinking meat tenderizer. ( this came up during a what if question session)

Dab lock what was done for your esophogas ?

Started at 280, 46 yo and loved it, I still run today, three years later

Hi my name is Jackie. I am 46 will be 47 in two weeks. I was banded Aug.15 and am now down 36.5 pounds. I can hardly wait for the 50 lb. mark. I want to have cute clothes this summer!
JP

I am dressing to go to my 1st appointment with my batiatric doctor. Excited, anxious and overwhelmed. Can not wait to report back,

Well I 'only' had to lose 70 to get to normal BMI so of course I had to self pay. I consider myself a low BMIer. I can eat anything or drink anything and I dont chew obsessively...BUT...I can only eat about a half a cup of anything at a time. My husband teases me that I eat so little I am a very cheap date! I can order a regular meal in a restaurant (come'on, girls we all know those portions are for an NFL linebacker, but we know we have eaten them!) and take the rest home and live on it for days!
I LOVE my band because at the right fill level it absolutely prevents me from overeating. I have never dieted, counted calories, eaten diet food or low fat food, or exercised since I had the band, Hell, I had done all that many times before and failed or should I say succeeded in getting fatter everytime i lost then regained the weight?!
I definitely eat and am more than happy with tiny portions but people do notice it when I eat with other people and I just had to get over that feeling of being judged. I didnt tell anyone except immediate fam that I am banded so I think my friends who see how little I eat think I am starving myself and maybe they even think I am judging them for eating the whole restaurant meal. I used to feel bad about that and would even overeat to the point of having to yak to try to cover how little I would eat...I dont do that any more I just dont care what people think! Getting to that point was probably the hardest thing about having the band. I went from a size 16 jeans to a size 6...nuff said!
Juicy, good luck...thanks for friending me and dont listen to people who say its about following the rules and living at the gym (if we could do that...) its all about restriction...fight till you get your RIGHT level of restriction!! After that, its a (tiny) piece of cake!