beena

:thumbup:Hello Welcome to my blog. Im from Australia and weigh a good 260lbs i think! (not good with metric conversion ) (131kg) either way the fact is my bmi is 56 really not good Im fairly short so I guess that puts me in a higher category. Anyway I will post my progress. As the year goes ahead and as i get more advanced and educated with my band I will answer as many questions as i can cheers!

:thumbup:Hello Welcome to my blog. Im from Australia and weigh a good 260lbs i think! (not good with metric conversion ) (131kg) either way the fact is my bmi is 56 really not good Im fairly short so I guess that puts me in a higher category. Anyway I will post my progress. As the year goes ahead and as i get more advanced and educated with my band I will answer as many questions as i can cheers!

CONGRATULATIONS I am not yet banded but IM looking forward to meeting people who are and am hopeful that the journeys of others will help me make a decision. Keep me posted on your success (go to Beena, in the Journal section for my story) all the best.

Thanks for your reply. Just wondering how much excersice do u need to do for this to work, How much do you do? if you dont mind me asking And are you full all the time? how has the band changed your eating habbits?

Hi all Im so new to this not yet banded but looking into it I really need this and am hoping to be inspired by your success stories.

Have questions for who ever can help Im from Melbourne and am looking to get this done soon. I want to know about the scaring and where do they cut? Can anyone reccomend a Melbourne surgen? What is the post and pre op procedures?

Did u reach goal ?

WOW are u now 107 lbs thats tiny!!!! Do u have excess skin ? Im also worried about that side of it thanks 4 the feed back

CONGRATULATIONS looking forward to hearing about your journey. It may inspire me to get the ball rolling and make that call to to the same thing.

Just popping in 2c how u are going keep me posted all the best

I hear you!! I know what u mean! I think for me its more of a bored thing I eat when im bored! I eat out of enjoyment I rarely eat cos im actually hungry. But at least we have worked out our problems. Now to fix them is another story. I guess we need to get it out of our heads and keep busy. Food can be like an addiction I guess!! except you need food to live!! Im not yet banded but its an option for me cos im over being big. But ive been able to analyze my thoughts about food lately which is helping me make a decision. good luck keep me posted

GOOD LUCK TO YOU Im not sure what u need to loose but hopefully u r on your way to success. Each day i just keep getting bigger and bigger and more and more depressed. I need to get my butt moving in the same direction you have gone in. In a month or 2 you wont know yourself and i will still be huge!!! More power to u keep me posted on your journey it will help me make a final decision on my future and the lapband.

GOOD LUCK Im yet to be banded but im hopeful just looking into it at the moment need to loose 110+ so I could only wish I was 216 pounds like your start weight. I dont know where and how I got to this point. All the best keep me posted on your journey to sucess

Just dropping in to c how u are feeling?

:kiss Yes here is a debate for the bansters !!! Do you tell everyone or those close to you? or do you keep your mouth shut completly? Do you need the support or will you feel as though that you are being watched like a hawlk? Me personally feel that its no ones business but my own! My husband is there to support me and he doesnt judge me! I feel if I tell my mother and father and sisters and brothers things could get out of hand!! Im at the point now where the lapband is my last resort and if all else fails im just meant to be BIG!! I mean the world and everything in it comes in all different shapes and sizes right!!! I have disscussed my plans with my parents and my sister and a few friends but am not prepared to admit that I have gone through with it until the time is right and i make that step to have the surgery. Thats if it ever is!!! I m sure many of you out there need the support of everyone and that is great for you but I know what the past has been like for me! I went on Jenny Craig about 4 times and each time i lost 30lbs which really doesnt show on someone my size I never got the compliments I deserved even from the ones that knew. On top of that ive been told on many occasions that it obviously doesnt work! well not for me anyway but im sure it has for some. i just dont want the same opinions and pressure put on me again. GOOD LUCK TO ALL:kiss

Good luck with your banding I m certainly not in denial but have been in the past so i get what you mean about your friend. If i had the money i would do it tomorrow but 2008 is looking good for me

What has posessed me to make a decion that will in tern effect the rest of my life!! I really do not know how all this has came about!:omg: But the rest of my life hopfully will be longer then the path im currently on if i dont do something about this weight! Im 126kg which is around 270lbs OUCH!!! I cant remember getting here its a long life journey that needs to end. I do know too much food and no working out=ME!!!!! Im currently depressed and frankly have no real motivation to do anything this is my last option and if it fails well so be it Im just meant to be big!:hungry: i know there will be some of you that say that i should think positive. My response to that is Well here iam making a dramatic lifestyle choice and its a big step for me so cut me some slack! LOL . I think im in denyal and i never thought I was until I tried to hide myself under loads of makeup today to make myself look attractive! but it doesnt work anymore I cant hide the fat that has built up over 28 years under foundation. I cant hide it under my size 26 clothes and i cant hide it from myself anymore. My husband is supportive but i find it offencive that he is. I mean i think he must think im ugly and fat and must secretly be repulsed by me!! But if he wasnt supportive i would be angery at him!! POOR GUY;)!!! Im in a pickle confused about who im and what I want to be but if anything i need to do this for myself and for my life i dont wont to be another statistic and i certainly dont want to see the day where my 2boys get ridiculled cos there mother is fat. So i picked up the phone and made the first step wish me luck my journey starts on the 16 Aug where i will meet the Doctor for the first time!!