Debbie3sons

LOL I guess you burn and save for the good calories at another time .

That is why most of us don't even grab a Water bottle or ask for anything to drink at resturaunts or even get a glass until after we eat and wait for 30 -60 min after then we take a SMALL sip to see if we can drink and make sure it stays down , it is a real learning process and that is what they call being stuck and if there is mucas involved that is known as sliming & does not feel good , so just try and remember Protein first then wait to drink a small sip , hope this might help you and for us we can not guzzle any fluids as it will come back up , right away so we have to take our tie and we are so used to not taking time that we have to learn how to good luck on your journey.

I click on my own profile then I go to where it says settings or gallery or go to the top of the page and it will say upload then click on that , then scroll down to the bottom and you will see where it says browse and choose file then choose select and review & publish , and it should get what you want it to do also there is some where it says before and after , sometimes I forget bt you can load your before and after pics, also you have to make and name your albums , so choose one o the albums and see what happens , it takes me a while but these are suggestions that I try , good luck and hope you can figure it out.

If you got the pre op instructions from your Surgeon ask for the post op instructions it says what to do and if not you can find it on the e where and follow that for pre & post op , I know for me I think it was either 1 or 2 days 1oz of Water everf course it was hard and it had to be room temp or I could chew and suck on ice chips , then I could do clear broth on either day 2 or 3 if your never sure about anything , always please ask your surgeon.

Remember terrydumont she is only 2 days out of surgery so the oz, of Water every 15 min, is what is normal , I am not sure if she can have more on day 2 or 3 , hopefully she got the post op directions fro her surgeon, it says what to do, just saying , then again different doctors do different things .

Lisacaron , like I said I had to buy at least one pair of jeans as I didn't have but 1 pair and they are way to big for me now , so I took 3 different sizes of the same and started with the biggest se that I was used to , and they were WAY to big so I kept going down till I felt comfortable in the size that I could bend or what ever and not feel restricted , wow what a journey we are on , but it felt so GREAT knowing that I could NOT fit in the bigger ones and that they were to big , now I know my size right now , who knows what size I will be in week , month or future but that's ok because I a losing and that is fine by me , sometimes not scale wise but those inches are coming off every where , the only thing I didn't like is I noticed the thighs were looking awful and that was the only place that I want to Really change Right now even though other things are hanging yes I will leave that to any ones imagination lol, so try a few things on it will make you feel better watch and you will have a moment of different emotions , I have and you will also.

Isn't it a great feeling , it sure is a good day for us I love the change in our minds , body and our nsv's fro where to now and where we are going and the things we can do , that we could not even do before whether it be small or big , yes I say big lol , I a loving being able to just have energy and not say no when some one says let's go here or there , fro being tired all the time or not being able to just breath, yes I know most of us were out of breath , just trying to move sometimes now we do all that we can do and just try to do a bit more than before , so we will keep on going, and won't worry when o last breath might be, cause we chose to better our selves, by being healthy and making choices on eating and drinking healthy.

When and how long has your Husband been banded , and how much did he weigh before and after being banded ,it takes tie for our heads to wrap around our images of being healthy and if he is excusing his self ask hi why , is he getting stuck , sick or eating to much , we all have different signals that let s know not to take the last bite and also , most of us have to take tie to eat , and also for some of us we are not able to drink with or meals and we do forget , most of us have to wait a while just to take a sip of a drink so things don't come back up sort of speak, well keep us updated and some of us do look unhealthy if we don' take care of our selves , hopefully he will look ore healthy , he is your husband , talk to him abo our concern .

I totally understand and I just posted in banders 5 and let CG know it was a good Friday , heck even just a good day for me , but I know that feeling , but I couldn't deal with my comfortable shorts I wore before being banded any more because now they want to hit the floor if I get up or walk now , so I had tome in expensive clothes it was finally time.

Every time I read your post about what you have or are doing I get a little out of breath as I ll walk , and dance to the oldies , by Richard Simmons, and I even tried to do the dance game with my son his box is down but I still do what I can do , but it just takes my breath away to read your post of your exercise , great job do for your self , applause.

Very nice , now you can stay warm , and you look n , oh I mean it looks good on you is it a bit big on you?

That's what I was going to mention , does your pcp no about your band first and let them know , what you can and can not tolerate , also I don't know what else you can do for the respitory problem but to ease nausea I go to the pharmacy like Wallgreens or any pharmacy and ask for Emetrol it taste nasty so I take it but have a sip of water handy to make sure it stays down , all I know is it works really well for nausea , but you have to ask for it because they don't sell it over the counter any more , used to be you could just pick it up , buy it and go , but now you have to ask for it.

Took the survey , not so bad , so I di I am still losing , but all is well.

it is up to you as in everything you do and have done , how ever don't be surprised if I pm you just to say hi and see how you are doing once in a while.

Well I did 30 min of dancing to the oldies , yesterday and my heart was beating so fast when I stopped ,I can't stand Richard Simmons voice but I do like dancing and the oldies , then I went to the store since it stopped raining and tried to get back hoe before it started up again , today this morning I got to get my walk in because it nice and sunny but not warm yet,

OK to start I have a question for you are you getting banded or thinking about other wls, now I will say I was banded Sept 28th 2012 and have lost 93 lbs so far I was 320 lbs when I started thinking about getting banded , but I was banded Sept. 2o12 and weighed 276 then , before banding I weighed a bit more but the 2 week diet to shrink my liver that the doctor ordered me to do made me lose the weight so I could be banded , so do your research and ask ANY questions to your Doctor so you are comfortable with what ever surgery you choose , all I can say is my band is helping me and if you can't tell click on my pic then go to my gallery and you will notice the changes, it took me a while to notice also till people kept telling me , and I am SO MUCH MOCRE ACTIVE and have SO MUCH MORE energy, well good luck and if you do choose the band there are a lot of informative , nice , and helpful people on here also and most of us like to just talk about are experiences and not each others and 98% of us try to give positive feed back and encouragement.

I was craving a slurpee this last summer so I got a small one found out it has carbonation and yes even the crystal light ones , just for me it was not a good experience and I didn't even drink through a straw , it was like a roller coaster in my body fro my toes to the top of my head , so I found out for me it was not good and it felt weird also in July it will be 2 yrs. since I have had a soda of any kind, and if I drink anything it's not through a straw my Doctors orders.

Just stopping by to say don't be nervous, as we have all went though that and you have been doing your research and reading some of our post , so I just know I made the right decision for me to get banded and be healthy, just remember it is not easy as some people may think and follow your Docs. orders and instructions and you will be fine and do good, so welcome to band land and the start of a new journey in life.

Where have you been and how are you doing , also I just noticed you are in California , Alex posted about us banders starting a chapter for get to gathers in different states , I think there are few of s that would like this idea so you might check it out and maybe us here that are on the web and that have talked would be able to set something up I am in Orange county Calif.

That sucks I thought I was going through a lot with y Mother and life in it's s with one of my kids, well I am sorry that you lost her(mother)and look at you way to go you are doing good keep it up.

The Lap Band is reversible , NOT the other ones, like sleeve ryn or rny, or gastric by pass or vsg so remember if you don't want them to re arrange or take part of your stomach , so why would some one say that gastric bypass is reversable when it's not , that is why I personally chose the band my self because if something did go wrong then I would know they could take it out and I still have my body and health know many people that things have happened with stapeling,b y pass and ryn, and they are in my family so I did my research thourghly and chose the band for that reason.

This is good for people to know and we do Thank putting it out there and on here How ever remember tot that it was slim band and NOT Lap band please, as we are banded people ,but this is a great post for people to know so they don't go there or any other slim band offices in any area or state.

Ok I went to the grocery store today and I didn't take in enough money so the checker I knew suspended my trans action because there were people behind me and I didn't want to make the wait , told him I would run to my car and get more , and to my surprise I actually did run , lmao I have only ran twice having the band , as I could barley walk before , so that was a nsv been on a plateau for 3 months , but I guess since my clothes are smaller she thought I lost more weight.

Lap band is not a cure all for our eating habits but it is a tool to help us with our portion control that we can not control on our own , and there are a few people on here that have the band with plication wish I would have known about the plication also , but I have lost about 88 lbs. since I started in July 2012 and I still struggle but with out the band I would still struggle up and not down I also would not be able to walk on my own , Yeah had to use a cane just to walk and for breathing I could hardly breath , now I am more active , with no assistance and I can breath also don't have sleep apnea any more , so ask you Doc. many questions do your research and like I said be click on some of our pics from 2012 , 2013 and notice we have made the decision to make our selves more healthy , the other benefit is we start to feel so much better about our selves , again , good luck in what surgery you choose.

NO because we still have to exercise and ach what we put in our bodies , so we just have a tool that reminds of that , so t think it's unfair we still have to put in our work .