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What she said.

Wow! that's exciting! I've always thought it looked like so much fun!

I dunno, I am still thinking I'm a fraud, and if I go, y'all will find out.

Not sure exactly what you mean here. I was told to not eat after 20 minutes, not to make my meal last 20 minutes. Once you have a fill, trust me, you will only eat in a rush once or maybe twice if you are a slow learner.

Okay! I'm set to arrive on Friday at 3:00 pm! I can't believe how nervous I am!

Call your doctor right away! You are not only putting your band in danger, but you are putting your life in danger. You could asperate (inhale) the vomit and choke to death, or at the very least damage your lungs with acid. Call you doctor. Call your doctor. Call your doctor.

If you weren't getting nervous we'd be worried about you.

There is nothing that says you can't call the office and ask your questions. Just be sure to bring them written down. I don't know that anyone can ease your jitters, since that is part of the normal process. use the search function for specific questions. You will be amazed at what you find.

Why yes Jack, I believe that is definately another NSV!

This has been kicking around in the back of my brain for a while. I know that we have so many people who simple don't have a clue what they look like. For some of us we can't see how much weight we've lost. I think partly because in our head we are still gi-normous, while in other cases we don't see it because we live with it. It's hard to notice change when it is incremental. I would like to propose a series of threads that show what people look at different sizes. I've never seen anything like this anywhere, so this is why I'm proposing it here. I think this would be very powerful and invaluable for people moving down the size chart. I also know that size is independant of weight, so I'm thinking that it might be a good idea to post weight too so that people can understand the range of weights that are possible at that size. What do y'all think?

Toes? Wait, those are the wiggly things at the end of my feet, right? Wait, you can SEE THEM?? I thought they only came out when you sat down, sort of like a weird hinge mechanism.

Anwyn! Do not compaire your pain with others! That is not fair to you. And who's to say that your issues are not as valid as someone else's? Some people are just more sensitive than other people, which is a good thing. I don't think it is dumb at all. Sometimes we cannot recognize what is going on because we are right in the middle of it. Like the analagy of the frog and boiling Water, you might be sitting in that pot of boiling water and not even recognize it. Sometimes it takes someone else to say "hey, did you know you are being boiled" for us to recognize what is happening. I didn't even recognize that I have this hoarding thing until being here for a while. Sure, everyone else knew it, and it runs in my family, but I couldn't recognize it because it wasn't as bad as my mother's, for instance. But I hoard. I'm working on it, but there you go.

Please get a second opionion, talk to your PCP. Keep pushing because his answer is NOT Good Enough. You deserve to be pain free!

I've only read it in the waiting room at my dog's ... maybe they should be called "weighting" rooms at bariatric clinics?... Anyway, it was all RNY stuff, nothing useful for me, as far as I could tell. Oh, there was one article that talked about the psychological impacts of losing weight, but there again, the focus was on the impact of losing really fast.

Hi PinkMary! Not sure what you mean by having a "rocket." Sounds like a terrible PB though. After something like this it is very important to do one to two days of liquids. Not fun. I'm really sorry. I had a terrible PB this week, ended up full on vomiting, terrible. I spent the next day and 1/2 on liquids then a day of mush because it was so bad.

This is amazing and wonderful! I'm so happy for you, and I'm willing to bet you felt like you won a game show! Woot!

Good job! They make walking so much easier!

I've been thinking about this since you posted it Jack. It makes amazing sense. The weight I quickly lost was weight that was "new" as it were. The weight that doesn't want to budge has been with me for about 10 or 12 years or so. I look at my DH's journey. He's yet to crack 400 pounds, but he's been over 400 pounds his entire adult life. He lost his first 200 pounds very quickly, like in the first 18 months of being banded. But those extra 200 pounds were new. He's in the physical process of rearanging his body. I think you are absolutely right. Thank you.

Dunno about that, but that's something I"m not willing to Google...

interesting question. The thing is, for me, I don't know if there would have been a "long term" without the band. Not for me anyway.

Welcome to LBT

I've heard of this thing you call "vacation" but I have very little exerience with sucha a thing... ohhh, have a great time!

Yay! Thanks for being here for us Zoe. Your journey has been important to us.

Excellent work! Excellent! See how powerful NSVs are?

of course it is normal to gain weight when you go from liquid to food.. your colon now has stuff in it if for no other reason. Oh, and I want to stress YOU ARE NOT ON A DIET. YOU HAVE MADE A LIFESTYLE CHANGE. YOU ARE NOT ON A DIET. The first weeks are for healing, not weight loss.