Jammin & Losin

So glad your Dr. reort turned out okay. i'm sure you feel better knowing your band is okay!

Brenda I'm so glad for you. I hope you will have a quick recovery. Keep us posted on your progress!

So glad you got your band and your on the road to recovery. I hope you are feeling good and losing in no time.

Jorjet Once you get to your goal or an idea body weight for your height,you would just go get your band unfilled and you could just maintain your weight. If you started to gain again you could get a fill. This is the beauty of the band!!! Good luck on getting your band date. I hope all goes well for you! This site is full of info and you will learn alot here!!!

Madeline's mom~ (Mary) came to meet me at work today!!! Well we aren't really neighbors but I figure with in 20 miles of each other is close enough!!She was banded 3 days before me so we started our journeys close together too!!! Madeline is so pretty and sweet and I really was so suprised that her and Mary came to see me. I also found out that our little girls will be going to the same school this next year!!! How cool is that!!! It's a small world !!!!! Just wanted to say that I'm thrilled to have met someone in my area from LBT!!!! I hope we will become good friends and also be good suport for each other!!!!

Hope your surgery goes well and that your recovery will be quick. congrats on getting your band and keep in touch on how your doing. And remember its not how fast you lose that 95 pounds it's the fact that your band will be there to help you KEEP it off!!! We didn't get over weight over night so just get that band and be patient you will get there!!! Good Luck!!!

Kathy I hope all is going well for you. Please post when you get back!!!! Congratulations!!

Doing my job I stand alot. I took off a full week and was glad I did. That first day back was rough!!!!

Trish this was so cute and it put a smile on my face. My little girl loved it too!!!! LOL!!!

This is truley a blessing that God has given you and your family.

penni I really hope that your mom's health will improve and that the Dr's can tell you something soon. ((((((HUGS))))))) Sent your way!!!

Becki thank you for taking time out of your own buisy life to post and encourage others. I being a little over 2 weeks banded really appreciate you being so positive about your band. You have done so well with your band and I just want to say congratulations and I hope with my band I can follow in your foot steps!!!!

Well I'm on to my 3rd week being a bandster and I'm doing great!!! I'm down 11 pounds and I'm able to eat lots of different things right now which is great that nothing I've tried has bothered me yet. Also I was very excited that Tuesday I got back results from my cholesterol screening and in November it was 257 and it is now down to 177 Whoohoo I would consider this a definate NSV and I'm so glad that it is down in a normal range and my Dr. said I should be able to completly get off of the cholesterol meds soon. now if I can get that blood presure down so I can quit the blood presure meds I will be in really good shape and on my way to a smaller and healthier me. 2 and 1/2 weeks left till I get my 1st fill!!!

Finally coming back to post and tell where my port is and it is on my left side about 6 or 7 inches out to the side of my belly button but higher than my belly button by just a bit! I like the fact that you can't see it and it is not uncomfortable and doesn't rub at my waist!

Glad your doing well and you are doing wonderful with that weight lose! WHOOOHOOO!!!!

Thank you for sharing this! I needed a good laugh today!!!

Kathy your big day has finally made it !!!! You are goingto be a bandster. I'm so excited for you and I know you will do wonderful!!! Post when you can !!!! Good luck and i hope the pee pee man helped with all the excitment!!! GO GET THAT BAND GIRL!!!!!!!

I like doing floral arrangments... but don't get much time to do them! Trish i love the ceramics you have done and I think that would be a good hobby to have.

Tanya I'm so glad your doing well. Please keep updating us on how you are doing!!!! Right now it is sip,sip,sip later it will be mushy, mushy, mushy!!!! LOL!!!

Hope that the pee pee man is helping you get out all that extra stress right now. I am really so excited for you and I know you will do wonderful!!!! Just a few more days!!!! WOOOHOOOO!!!!

I should have wated till today to give my update. I weighed yesterday and was down 10 pounds since surgery. I weighed this morning and I had lost a pound .... so I've lost 11 pounds in all!!! That puts me at 241!!!That means I hit 12 pounds but I'm not stopping there I came in to challenge saying I would lose 25 so I'm gonna keep on losing!!!!

Well I'm only 2 weeks post op and my incisions look really good. They are healing nicely but are still red. I am using Mederma on mine and that should help them look even lighter!!!!

Thank you Jonathon I needed to hear this today and I'm glad that you shared this with us. You are so right about everything you said and with an attitude as good as you have you will do nothing but succeed!!! You are doing great and I as a fellow bandster look up to you for that!!!

Kathy Thanks for the encouragment. I guess my biggest thing is that you lose real quick and then when you get on mushy's it comes to a screeching halt and it makes you woder if you are doing every thing right or not!! So it is hard to know if you are eating too much or not enough??? I was like you.... I had it all planned out and that is good to be prepared but then it goes more like trial and error.... just like that dog on turkey I thought I could make mushy enough just by chewing it up.... aaaant!!! ..... wrong answer it got stuck.... sure did't think that would happen so soon but it did. Learned my lesson. Definatly my first error. I guess it takes practice to be a good bandster and you definatly have to fall off the band wagon every once in a while but its so nice to get back up and try again!!

Hey Paula Make that 11 pounds I weighed this morning and I'm down another pound WOOOHOOOO! I'm getting in 1500ml of water a day right now. That is equivalent to 3 16.9 oz bottles or 50.7 oz. This is what Dr. said was a good water requirment during the mushy stage. This does not include if I drink milk, coffee ,tea ext... This just what water intake he said I should have. I'm also getting at least 40-50 grams of Protein a day which is good acording to my instructions!!