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I had the lap-band in for a few years I was up and at it in no time. But pre ins. diet I dropped 100 lbs and got the band and it made it so I could only eat the stuff I was not supposed to eat..Only thing that would go down. my meals were spaghetti and meat sauce. But it did maintain my weight at 350 lbs. no more no less with a full band. So I gave up and figured 350 lbs was a lot better then 500lbs but then my teeth got loose hair fell out.. I went back Dr, said it was malnutrition at 350 lbs. So he took out half the fluid and set a date one mont out for the Gastric bypass. So there was no restriction. So I had one last go at it. A final feast or month if you will before the gastric-bypass and gained 50 lbs. I had a few publics cakes I am now 10 years older for I had a birthday and cake every day. few little boxes of little Debbie's many Dunking donuts large with extra whipped cream and chocolate mocha lat tees. and multiple flats of hot glazed doughnuts and few boxes of mixed ones too. I had every kind of Oreo's they ever made M&M's by the pound.Cant forget the Steak, Rib roast with mashed traders and gravy T' bone Steak ,Mack and cheese fried everything. including elephant ears with powdered sugar just like from the fair. I could go on but you get my drift. I don't miss it at all. I can play with my kid now and not have to be worried about breaking peoples chairs. I no longer use the good old' C-pap machine. Just yesterday I thought I had a tumor on my upper left back and one on my upper right back.....Turns out it was what the doctor said was some kind of "shoulder blade" what is that all about.

Be safe! and I wish you a speedy recovery! And do get out of bed when they ask you too. It really is for your benifet.

Tell the nurse you are reallt freaking out in the operating waiting room getting ready to flight or fight and they give you a IDK shot and then things are better you will tell a few jokes and wake up in a bed with the magic thumb pump. Good luck and when they tell you to get up and walok walk as far as you can as often as you can do it at night if you must. it will make you feel better. I walked after every pain med given every 4 hrs.

yes I find myself getting sick after a meal so over time I just eat dinner and then go to sleep.

Your scale is broken! Do your self a favor and get rid of the scale or hide it. Let it be a big surprize each moth you go for the official weigh in. Just a thought. Good luck in your in your weight loss adventure.

Hey, Everyone want to hear a "Joke"? What the hell is wrong with people. Seems we can't win for loosing. Based on a true story. I was told a "Joke" involving a gastric bypass surgery patient that was successful in loosing weight. Now let me remind people that I myself have also hade gastric bypass and the person telling the joke knew this.....So I hear the crude "Joke" and I have been told I have a great sense of humor a time or too. And can indeed if you will take a "Joke". This "joke was not funny to me in any way shape or form. I will not repeat this so called "joke" but what I will say is this.... Some people are ignorant and hurt full that is just the way it is. Later I imagine the same joke being told about myself they just need to change two names and this crude joke would be told on anyone that has had WLS. And it is sad. The point I am trying to make is this. Be yourself and if you are just a little over weight or morbidly obese like I once was. Make the change for yourself not what other people think or say. Because in the end you can not stop people from being hurtful to one another. . If you think the dirty looks or crude "jokes" about your weight will stop once you are at a "health" weight it will not. Some people will just find other faults to judge others by and be hurtful. That is just the way it goes But what you can do is distance yourself from those people. Has anyone else run into situations like this? If so how did you handle it?

Great!