blpchick

My surgeon does the plication with all of his patients.

Yes it is!! I still can't believe it!! I love the new me and I have absolutely no regrets with my band :-)

Only problem is I've been in the mindset of losing for sooooo long I almost feel lost now knowing I just need to maintain instead of lose more.

Thank you everyone I love the new me. The other day my mom told me " you got your happy back". I've been told I'm more outgoing now too. I started out as a size 28 in pants and I kept those pants so I have something to compare to.

Just wanted to let everyone know that a couple days ago I met my goal weight and I'm soooooo happy!! I'm down 152 pounds total and 138 pounds since surgery. I had my surgery 13 months ago. I now am down to 140 pounds and a size 8. Yay!! My husband also had the lap band done and I get to support him now. :-)

I didn't have any catheter with my surgery. I didn't know anyone did since its such a short procedure. I didn't have one with my gallbladder either.

I determined mine by my "healthy" BMI weight

The gummy probiotics I bought at Walgreens. I was also told to do miralax or stool softeners but even taking stool softeners everyday I wasn't going but like once a week and that was even hard to do. Once I switched to the probiotics I haven't had any problems with going and its not hard at all its like its supposed to be. There are also probiotic pills but I was unsure of how big the pills were so I went with gummies.

Sorry didn't mean to put the pic of the prenatals just the one of the probiotics lol

Yes I had problems with constipation until I found probiotic gummies and now I go every day with no problems.

I had the lap band with plication and I absolutely love it. I have no regrets at all. It's been a year and 3 days that I've had my band And I've lost 130 in that amount of time. I'm only 8 pounds from my goal weight.

I have had gallbladder surgery and an egd with no unfill. I didn't have a whole lot in my band at the time though.

I chose it because its the least invasive of the surgeries.

I take fiber gummies and gummy probiotics now and i go everyday at least once a day. I also used to struggle with constipation. I used to take stool softeners everyday at first and they didn't work for me so I started the fiber and probiotics and man they work.