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I've heard many people talk about Quest bars and I figured I would try them. I found a link for free Quest samples! I'll let everyone know how they tasted once I get my samples.< /p>

Every fat girl knows the right angle to hold the camera for a good selfy.

Im going to say this...People like this, (who have insurance or taxpayer money to get the band and then fail the band), are the reason that MY insurance company has a COMPLETE exclusion clause for ANY bariatric procedure. No matter your health or any other factors. I was total self pay. $10,000 out of my pocket. Because some people just take advantage of the system and dont even try. GRRRRR!!!

I have never been able to buy ANYTHING from Victoria's Secret. Cannot wait until I can!! Congrats on your victory!!

Well, it's a bittersweet day. My family told me that my favorite shirt is too big for me to wear. I LOVE my shirt. It is my "go-to" shirt. I thought I always looked good in my shirt. I'm going to keep it like a security blanket and cuddle with it while I watch tv at night. Yay to a smaller size though!

If you’re once a fatty, are you always a fatty?


THINK THIN, BE THIN
I think I’m well qualified to speak on this subject, since once upon a time my schoolmates chanted, “Fatty, Fatty, two by four, can’t fit through the kitchen door!” when I walked into the gymnasium for a physical education class with a teacher who, after weighing and measuring each kid, announced to her captive audience that Jean was the shortest and heaviest girl in the class. After which I was the last kid (once again) to be chosen for a volleyball team.
I believe that in order to become a thin person, we must learn to think like one. It’s a tall order, I know. You might as well ask my dogs to learn to think like cats (I’m pretty sure my cats can think like dogs, but it doesn’t seem to work the other way around, to the everlasting detriment of the dogs).
At the same time, I believe that we must never forget our inner fat person. If we do forget, the fat folks may burst out of us and take over again. I know mine did last year, for six months and 30 pounds of regain. She was aided and abetted by the loss of my beloved Lap-Band®, but once she was out of her cage, she took charge so fast it made my dizzy blonde head spin. That’s not a pretty sight when that head is busy gobbling all the food in the western hemisphere and the body attached to it is rejoicing, “Starvation has ended at last! It’s party time!” (which is what my gastroenterologist said my metabolism was doing, although not in those exact words).
I lost the weight I had regained, plus another 10 pounds. I know (or I hope) I don’t look like a fatty any more, but a fatty still lurks inside me somewhere. My fat demon is hidden from view, but she’s still my demon. Exactly what every girl needs, along with a good bra and a good hairdresser. Seriously, though, my fat potential lives on, mainly because obesity is an incurable, chronic disease that no surgery today can cure. As long as my inner fatty threatens to take over, it’s hard for me to think and act like a thin person. But I refuse to give up the Quest for Thin Jean, and I strive every day to emulate her. I believe that practicing thin behavior will eventually teach me thin thinking, and I believe that practicing thin thinking will keep my body thin.
FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT
We have now arrived at the bad-tasting course in this home-cooked meal of advice. In order to practice thin thinking, we need to do things that we’ve done over and over again in the past without long lasting results, like making good food choices, practicing Portion Control, and exercising. I know that this concept frustrates many of us and infuriates some of us. Some people scorn the practicing part of the WLS journey. They say, “It’s just another diet.” A friend of mine declared a week before her band surgery, “I refuse to diet.” Perhaps it’s a matter of semantics or personal preference, but I persist in believing in the importance of practice because thin thinking and thin acting don’t come naturally to me. I wasn’t born with piano-playing skills. I had to take lessons and practice every day just to be able to play “Chopsticks”. Even famous concert pianists must practice every day. The same is true of being thin.
This reminds me of the “fake it until you make it” slogan repeated in 12-step groups. The 12-step tradition recognizes that sobriety or abstinence doesn’t come naturally to people with addictive tendencies. It doesn’t expect its members to leap from the first to the 12th step in one week, one month, or even one year. All it asks is that we practice desirable behaviors every day, day after day, while the struggle to do that gradually lessens and we gain some control over the undesirable behaviors. Eventually we discover that we don’t have to “white knuckle” it anymore because the desirable behaviors have become habits.
Assuming that you had WLS because you don’t want to be a fatty any more, I’d like to suggest that you begin by not eating like a fatty any more. You don’t have to do it perfectly, because you’re just practicing, right? As far as I’m concerned, you can leave the perfection stuff to God. All you need to do is do your best, day by day, to work with your strengths and work around your weaknesses. Even if practice doesn’t always make perfect, it’s got to help you with the fake it part until you get to the make it part. Yes, it’s a lot of work, but you can do it!

Im going to say this...People like this, (who have insurance or taxpayer money to get the band and then fail the band), are the reason that MY insurance company has a COMPLETE exclusion clause for ANY bariatric procedure. No matter your health or any other factors. I was total self pay. $10,000 out of my pocket. Because some people just take advantage of the system and dont even try. GRRRRR!!!

Thank you all.(: I was banded 1/3/13. I'm down 60 pounds so far.

I've been wearing size 20 in pants for the longest time and today when I finally went to buy new pants, I fit into a size 16! I can't believe it! I'm ecstatic!

Im going to say this...People like this, (who have insurance or taxpayer money to get the band and then fail the band), are the reason that MY insurance company has a COMPLETE exclusion clause for ANY bariatric procedure. No matter your health or any other factors. I was total self pay. $10,000 out of my pocket. Because some people just take advantage of the system and dont even try. GRRRRR!!!

I had my IBand (lapband with plication) done in Ft Worth Texas at True Results. The doctor did not charge any extra for the plication. I have only had my done for 3 1/2 weeks, but I love it and am happy with my choice. My doctor said the results are 25% BETTER than with just the lapband alone.

Im going to say this...People like this, (who have insurance or taxpayer money to get the band and then fail the band), are the reason that MY insurance company has a COMPLETE exclusion clause for ANY bariatric procedure. No matter your health or any other factors. I was total self pay. $10,000 out of my pocket. Because some people just take advantage of the system and dont even try. GRRRRR!!!

Here I am!! thanks again!!

Good, glad to hear it I have to switch back and forth between 2 different browsers depending on what website I'm on, it's a pain, but it works.

Im going to say this...People like this, (who have insurance or taxpayer money to get the band and then fail the band), are the reason that MY insurance company has a COMPLETE exclusion clause for ANY bariatric procedure. No matter your health or any other factors. I was total self pay. $10,000 out of my pocket. Because some people just take advantage of the system and dont even try. GRRRRR!!!

Usually, but my LB nurse keeps pushing me toward it as a Protein source. I picked up a box of these from costco the other day and fixed them tonight. All I can say is I had a hard time not going back for seconds and my entire family loved them. I ended up baking the entire box so that I could have it for lunch all this week.
High Liner - Tortilla Crusted Talapia With Chipolte & Lime,

My grandmother got a call not too long ago from a man who said he was my husband. Said he was in New Mexico and had broke down but not to call me because I would worry. He needed $1000 Western Union ASAP!!!
2 things tipped her off, first she lives out in the county and it had been raining for 3 days, he told her to call and taxi and go to the store. (No Taxis here for 100 miles around here).
Number 2 is he used my maiden name. She was sooo mad. I worry about that happening again. She is 94 and lives by herself. Good thing she is still smart as a whip!!

Im going to say this...People like this, (who have insurance or taxpayer money to get the band and then fail the band), are the reason that MY insurance company has a COMPLETE exclusion clause for ANY bariatric procedure. No matter your health or any other factors. I was total self pay. $10,000 out of my pocket. Because some people just take advantage of the system and dont even try. GRRRRR!!!

I would be pressing for discounted services as well...

i love to eat also
but i love being healthy more..
this lady did not try to (mentally change)
this is what i feel and why i felt she failed the band.
she admitted she overate the wrong things...
you gotta want it for it to work.

I Finally Believe in Someone I have not Believed In Years!! Myself!!
Philippians 4:13
I can do All Things Through Christ Which Strengthens Me!!!
Love All of You!! Happy Monday!!

Morning All Last Wednesday I restarted my journey, If you read my post's you will see last Wednesday 4/3/13 I went in for a fill (5CC's) then back on Friday 4/5/13 (1.5CC's) I was going to only look at the scale Every Wednesday morning, However only 5 days later when I went back to work I had to weigh myself ( Couldn't help myself) and happy to say after 5days I lost 11 pounds, I know it's alot in short period of time but it feels so good. Been on strictly liqueds since Friday. Tonight for dinner small soft amount of food. Have a great day everyone John

Oh my...that is too funny. Who would ever fall for something like tha??

I wanted to share an NSV with all of my fellow bandsters. A year ago today I weighed 289. This morning I weighed 233. I had my surgery on Feb 15th, 2013 and weighed 264 on that day. I have lost 56 lbs in one year and 31 lbs since the surgery. I know that I personally have mentally overcome many of my bad habits and continually find more and more of them that I need to work on. I have learned whom I have as a support system and which ones are not there for me in reality. I take each day as it comes, just as an addict would. Above all I am happy that I made this decision to be banded and take the challenge of becoming healthier and having a better life. I no longer have swollen hands, legs and feet at the end of the day. I no longer have to purchase wide shoes. I can run up and down 10 flights of stairs, twice a day without having an asthma attack or feeling like I am going to pass out. Each day is no longer a struggle to get up.
I just wanted to share.