Mariposa Bella

Welcome back and congratulations, sorry about your bug experience, I hate roaches and would be doing just exactly what you did. So you had ps? I am heading to Mexico possibly the end of June for a tt and body liposculpture, I am so excited, and a little scared, but mostly excited. Everynight I stand before the mirror, buck nekkid and look at my nasty stomach and fat bulges on my thighs and back and think that they will be gone and how wonderful it will feel to not have to pull my underwear over my belly bulge when it rolls down over it, LOL I found a underwear sale in Dillards this weekend and bought a tons of really cute CK underwear, I can't wear them yet, but hopefully I will be modeling them soon. So how do you feel? Please post pictures, so that we can see. I'm so excited for you. How wonderful you must feel and you have already lost 14 lbs, that's wonderful too. Well wishing you a speedy recovery and keep us posted and please post your pictures.

Congratulations to both of you, I have to remind myself constantly that this band will work for me especially lately. I started out at 190 having to lose 53 lbs, and I thought that it would be much easier than it has been, it is tough dealing with these fills, too tight, not tight enough, a lot of work. The hardest thing is my idiot relatives feeling disappointed that I haven't lost all my weight and making me feel like a failure. But then I stop and think, I don't have a magic wand in me, I have a lap band that requires work and time, especially time. I have to remember that I am only five months into this and have lost 30 lbs, that will never come back (knock on wood) and then I think I'm not a failure, I'm a winner for taking control of my life and trying to live it the way I have always imagined. Well I very much appreciate reading about your success stories because they give me the encouragement that I need and you all truly inspire me to continue on my journey. Sorry for the long drawn out post, but I just had to let you all know that I am truly proud of all of us and I pray that we will beat this freaking ugly weight monster. Let's kill him and never let him come back.

You are too funny.

Melissa I am sorry that you had to go through that, but hopefully the restriction you have now will be enough to get through the next coming months and before you know it, it will be time for you to get a brand new port. Did you have to pay to have the port removed? And will you have to pay to have a new on placed back? I hope not. Well, best of luck and please keep in touch. And again, I am so sorry.

I'm a go-getter, too, yes I am...

Well why isn't anyone interested in telling me what happens once your at goal weight, is there anyone out there at theri goal weight??? I need to know, please tell me...

Alexis, thank you so much for explaining in such detail your procedure, I feel better now. I know what you mean about the drain, when I had my C section I had a drain and the removal was quite a feeling, not painful, but stomach upsetting, at least for me it was, it gave me a quezy feeling, oh well. I am so looking forward to it. I was planning on late July, but now my boss thinks she is going out of town on my dates, so I probably have to move my dates to late June which is better, I guess. I'll have more time to recupperate before I have to do all the running around to get the kids started back to school and all that good stuff. Well I very much appreciate all your help, oh, one more question, After your tt, when you start excercising, can you further tighten your stomach muscles, or what you'll have is what you get, I'm thinking with this flab gone and with the ps help, if I work harder and do all my crunches, I can really get some nice looling abs, what do you think? Well talk to you later and again, YOu look fabulous my daling!!!

Val, I got very very sick after banding and ended up in the hospital, a very frightning experience, but I have to tell you that warm tea is the best thing you can sip and by sip I mean tiny little sips at a time, since you have been pbing you have aggravated yourself further and have more restriction. I hope you start feeling well soon. I know what you are going through and you are probably questioning if getting the band was worth it? I had so many emotions going through me and it made me worse. I was so upset. So calm down and sip warm fluids only and I am sure that will help. You don't want to get dehydrated, so if the warm fluids don't work, please get a hold of your doctor, mine gave me some meds to help with the pbing. Good luck.

Melissa have you had your port moved? Just checking in with you, let us know how your doing. P.S. I'm in SW Florida and I have been using Dr. Eddie Gomez in Coral Gables for my fills, he is wonderful and quite good looking too.

Hi there, I've been wondering this for a while, I still have 23 lbs to lose and no doubt that they will be the hardest to lose, but I know that I will get there at least by mid summer, I just pray and hope so. Well I am scheduled to have a tt mid July and I was curious what happens once your there at your goal. Do you go get an unfill? half an unfill? What?? Or do you continue with all the restriction you have? I sure would like to know what happens when you get to that place over the rainbow. Coffewench, you look like your at goal and you look wonderful after your tt, do you still have restriction? Can you please help me understand what will be next? I hope you can.

I too cannot tolerate bread, crying, actually sobbing, no but I do miss bread a lot, I was a total bread person, probably wouldn't have needed the band if I would have just layed off the bread, but I did discover this weekend that I can eat about 1/2 slice of toasted bread and boy was it delicious, just delicious. And the worst thing of all, I can't just can't eat tortillas, and that sucks cause I'm Mexican and they are a huge part of our diet, tacos, quesadillas, all that yummy stuff, I can't do anymore, I don't eat pasta either, can't all the good stuff, nope, no more. NO burgers, no tacos, no sir. Its hard, but oh well, when I get to my goal it will be worth it.

Tangerine, Can you please give me more specific info, I have scheduled my tt for the second week in July (don't have exact date yet) and liposculpture, I am quite excited, but still have lots of questions, how lond did you stay in the hospital? Do they stitch you up or do staples? Is it very painful? I had a Csection back in 1991 and it was quite painful and the cut was much smaller than what a tt cut is (from hip to hip) please give me all the specific details, I work a desk job and can only take about three weeks off, do you think its realistic of me to think I can come back to work after three weeks, My mom is going to be taking care of me and my kids, so that will be wonderful, but I'm a big baby and even though I'm excited, I'm scared too. Well any info will be appreciated, and you look just awesome, wonderful, fantastic, well, you already now.

congratulations on getting a date. On to bandland.

Well It has been three weeks since my last fill, the too tight one also, and now its too tight again, I am not having a hard time with liquids which is good, but I am not able to keep food down too well. Is this common? I mean I can barely eat about three tablespoons of solid food and that is all. On the upside, I weighed myself this morning and I weigh 160 on my home scale which is light about 3-4 lbs, so I am doing quite well, but yesterday we went to this awesome restaurant w/ some friends and all I did was play with my food because I couldn't eat any of it. When one of my friends seemed like he hadn't had enought to eat, I quickly took one of my enchiladas (chicken and spinach and feta) ,( really awesome to eat, preband of course) and put it on his plate so that I wouldn't have to explain why I hadn't eaten anything (I'm a closet bandster, to most). I don't know if this is how I want to live the rest of my life, feeling so deprived... ONce I'm at my weight, what happens, do I go get the band totally unfilled and then adjust as needed? Please tell me.

I love her too, my checkbook is Maxine here are some of her quotes I won't stand for gossip? NO, I sit down and make myself comfortable for gossip. There are two ways to look at things -- my way and...and...okay, there's ONE way to look at things. I tried paying my bills with a smile. They wanted money. It wouldn't kill me to be nice once in a while. But why take a chance? I'm not grouchy. Everyone else is too happy. That which does not kill me makes me even crabbier.

Well as always I am a lap band week poster, I just want to wish everyone a wonderful weekend as I don't log on during the weekend. (Computer is laying on the floor in my closet and can't set it up right now, remodeling) See you all on MOnday, or I guess I should say read about you on Monday. Take care, you all. Love,

Funny that you should talk about this today, I have been sitting at my desk all week doing the same thing, It is so big on my finger, I really should go get a ring guard while I finish losing my weight. I would sure hate to lose it, you see this is actually my third ring, when I first got married all I could afford were gold wedding bands, well after a year, we splurged on a 1 ct diamond with baquets (sp?) on the sides, but it is gold and not what I wanted. (He surprised me with this very nice ring, but it wasn't quite what I wanted.) You see I have always dreamed of this huge diamond rock mounted on platnium and two years ago, he bought me the ring of my dreams, its beautiful the center stone is only 1 ct, but the setting has another 1 3/4 ct of diamonds and it is platinum with a matching band. It is totally awesome, and it was so expensive like you would not believe, (well to us normal folk, I'm sure that to rich people this is not much, but to me its priceless) this is probably the only piece of nice jewelery that I will ever own in my life and so I have to take very good care of it. Even when I wear only jeans and a tshirt, my ring dresses me up. But the fact that he splurged on something that was so important to me makes it even more valuable to me. So there is my story on my beautiful wedding set. So Delarla make sure you also get a ring guard so that we don't lose our precious rings.

Well I want to know too, I usually start to hiccup and by that time I'm overfull and pb, I still don't have the hang of this thing and its very frustrating, sometimes I can eat certain things, sometimes I can't, personally I am very annoyed by the whole thing, most days I sit here and think if this whole process was worth it, I sit here and wish I could eat one of those massive burgers they prepare at CHilli's, oh boy, I can't stand it, I want one of those burgers so bad. But I can't, I can't even eat bread, this is a lot tougher than I ever imagined, I am sure it will be worth it in the end, but meanwhile I am left here wondering. Well hope someone can help with this question.

Congratulations, take it easy and don't try to do too much, it will make your recovery easy and follow your doctors diet very strictly, I didn't and payed the price afterwards by making myself very sick. Well here's wishing you a speedy recovery.

What is prilosec? Never heard of this before. I'm sorry you had to go through this Paula, I hope you feel better soon, this band is hard work you know, so much for some people thinking we took the easy way out. If they only knew what we go through.

Good luck, I now how excited you must feel, I have 30 lbs to lose by July so that I can have my tt and liposculpture. I too must start working on getting to my goal. BEst of luck to both of us. Keep us posted on your progress as I will do the same. Love,

I get my fills without flouru and there hasn't been any problems with not hitting the port. As far as getting to your sweet spot, flouru doesn't determine that, other people have gotten fills with flouru and have been too tight or haven't gotten any restriction, so I don't know how to answer that. The last fill I had was terribly tight for the first three days and I was miserable, but it loosened up just enough to give me good restriction.

Thanks ya'll. you're the best. I'm glad to get reassurance that this is dooable. Thanks again. L,

Well, I spoke with my doctor and I am planning to head to Mexico to get my tummy tuck and my liposculpture end of July, I am so happy, I have to work extra hard to try to get as close as I can to my goal weight. I have a tough job ahead of me, but the reward will be amazing. He even said that he will reshape my butt with the same fat he removes from other areas to give me a rounder, higher looking butt, I am thrilled. My husband is excited for me, he gave me the money last week and I'm all set to go. One catch, he has challenged me to get to my goal weight and my reward will be my surgery. I think this is the incentive I need. I am so excited. I stand in the mirror everynight and imagine how my body is going to look minus the fat roll overhang on my stomach, minus the extra fat on my thighs, and back. Oh, its going to be awesome, please keep me on track, I want this so bad. Can I ask that all of you check in with me and keep me encouraged to eat properly and do my exercising. I would really appreciate the encouragement from all of you. Well, I will keep you posted on how I'm progressing, I have to lose 30 lbs in four months or 14 weeks, so that is about 2.14 lbs per week, its dooable, please help me stay focused. Thanks. I can't wait.......

Just awesome, just awesome ((((YIPPII!!)))