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Welcome and congratulations on your success so far! It is the best thing you will EVER do for yourself and this site is awesome. Lots of support and resources. I pray you continued determination!

walk the dog, play computer games, sew, swim.....anything that requires movement or the use of my hands so that it makes it difficult to eat at the same time and also that puts my focus on something other than food. I find that if I can refocus on an activity most of the time I forget I was "hungry"!

Thank you and congratulations to you on your weight loss my friend! Keep up the good work! Isn't it wonderful being in the "Losers Club"?

I turned 50 last week 62 lbs lighter thanks to this surgery! It is absolutely the BEST thing I have ever done for myself.:thumbup:

I am an RN and wanted to tell you that it is really good that your doctor is being so careful. I am so sorry that you had gotten so far before they discovered the quirky heart beat. I know how mentally ready I was for the surgery and how much that would have crushed me to be told I had to wait, especially with the IV already in my arm! Pull back, take a deep breath and see this for what it is though--a bump in the road on your way to giving yourself the best gift you could possibly ever receive! And because your doctor is being so cautious you can KNOW that you are doing it the safest way possible. When you find yourself lying there the next time getting the IV started you won't have to worry about the surgery itself! Your doc sounds like the kind who truly cares for his patients! Hang in there my friend!

This is the BEST gift you will EVER give yourself! If you work with the band you WILL lose the weight. I look back over photos of myself now and just start tearing up. I can't believe I was really that big. It feels so good to be 62 lbs lighter and counting! Welcome to the "Losers Club" my friend! I am excited for you and the journey you are about to begin!

You will still have the head hunger but it is SOOO much easier to push away from the food when you feel full! And you feel full with very little food. It is still a choice every time you are tempted to eat and you can out eat it by grazing or eating high fat high calorie foods. It is a tool and one that has finally helped me lose 62 lbs! And for the first time in my life I have no doubt that the rest of the weight is coming off as well--very slowly, but that is the BEST way to lose it anyway!

When you exercise regularly you will probably not lose as many lbs but you will reshape your body and lose inches which is what you really want anyway. You are building muscle and muscle weighs more than fat. You just have to be very careful. After my workout I am not hungry at first but several hours later I could eat a horse! I have to really watch out that I don't out eat the band by grazing or eating the wrong foods! Great job! keep up the exercise!

My surgery date is coming up on ONE YEAR next month! I have lost 57 lbs. SO excited! This is the BEST thing I have EVER done for myself. It has changed my life! I can't wait to get on the tennis court again--only a few more "10's" to go before I feel it will be safe on my ankles!:wink2:

I was also banded by Dr. King in April and have really been VERY pleased with my care. I live and work in Tupelo and our hospital has just launched a brand new bariatric center with Dr. Terry Pinson as the surgeon. They use a team approach and many of my friends have now been banded by Dr. Pinson and are having wonderful results with great support by the team. Look into both programs! I would highly recommend either one!

Please Help! Need suggestions. I feel like a recovering alcoholic living in a frat house! EVERYWHERE I turn there is food--and it's not sliced chicken and turkey. It's the high fat high sugar high carb variety! At work, at church, and with my college age daughter who likes to cook at home even AT HOME! I have convinced her not to cook anything so tempting that I don't need to eat but the other places have my spinning! I have eaten so much tonight that my stomach is burning and I am really concerned that I have seriously messed up. Plan to do clear liquids tomorrow and full liquids for the next couple of days but I am just so frustrated. Have skipped several parties simply because I didn't feel I could face the spread of food that I knew would be there....and deciding to avoid the buffet table isn't working! It seems like with the first bite of holiday sweets that went into my mouth triggered something in my brain and now I crave them! Suggestions anyone? Has anyone here experienced the burning sensation? __________________

:clap2: What do you love about your band surgeon and their practice? He has an attitude of truly wanting to see me succeed in losing the weight. He aggressively treats complications and leaves nothing to assumption. I had trouble w/ burning in the first months after surgery and he unfilled the band and did a scope to make sure there weren't ulcers. He has done over a hundred procedures and is obviously very knowledgeable and skilled at what he does. What do you hate? He does not have a team approach to his bariatric practice. I am an RN at my local hospital. They launched a bariatric program 6 months after I had my surgery in a nearby town. The patients at our hospital routinely see a dietitian, an exercise physiologist and have access to a number of staff members who have had bariatric surgery and are willing to give support whenever needed. I have never seen a dietitian or an exercise physiologist as a part of my treatment. When I have needed emotional support or suggestions about struggling with the challenge of changing my eating habits, his staff has often been curt and very discouraging in the way they have reacted. What more could we do to help you succeed? Have a team approach to your practice. Ensure that your team members are sensitive to the disease called morbid obesity and that they do not label your patients with the common assumptions most ppl make of overweight patients. Whether they voice their opinions or not makes no difference—their attitude toward “fat ppl” comes through LOUD and CLEAR. Use “tough love” when necessary. My surgeon came down on me pretty hard at the second visit when he thought I wasn't being compliant. It upset me because I was trying to do everything correctly. It is very difficult to take in all the information thrown at one in the beginning and because I didn't understand about not drinking water with my meals I had stretched my stomach to the point of considerable irritation. Being an RN I appreciated the severity of his reaction even though it upset me at the time. Patients need to understand just how serious non-compliance can be in causing problems. How could we improve your customer experience with our practices? By doing just what you have done here! ASK the patient!

:cryI feel like a recovering alcoholic living in a frat house! EVERYWHERE I turn there is food--and it's not sliced chicken and turkey. It's the high fat high sugar high carb variety! At work, at church, and with my college age daughter who likes to cook at home even AT HOME! I have convinced her not to cook anything so tempting that I don't need to eat but the other places have my spinning! I have eaten so much tonight that my stomach is burning and I am really concerned that I have seriously messed up. Plan to do clear liquids tomorrow and full liquids for the next couple of days but I am just so frustrated. Have skipped several parties simply because I didn't feel I could face the spread of food that I knew would be there....and deciding to avoid the buffet table isn't working! It seems like with the first bite of holiday sweets that went into my mouth triggered something in my brain and now I crave them! Suggestions anyone? Has anyone here experienced the burning sensation?

I was banded in April. Starting wgt- 326. Went to the doc today and have officially lost 53 lbs. OH YEAH! I feel incredible. BMI has gone from 48 to 41! What a ride!

I am SO glad I had the surgery. Not a regret at all. In fact it has changed my life. But understand it is just a tool to help you lose weight. You will have to change your eating habits in order for it to be successful. The good news is that with the band it is easier to pass up food when you are not hungry since it makes you feel full sooner and with less food. The band does not have the major complications associated with the gastric bypass and if you do experience complications it can be taken out allowing the stomach to heal. You will want to go into the surgery knowing and expecting it to be permanent unless there are complications that your doctor believes warrant its removal. Ask lots of questions and read all you can before making your decision.