giveyouthemoon

Hi guitar4life3000! I just had band revision surgery on March 7, so I am juuust barely past that painful stage you are in. Stay strong! For me, it was real bad for a week and then suddenly I shot out of bed with all the energy in the world. I've already lost 7 lbs. Crazy!!
Ok, so I'm going to publicly declare what I want to do...so far I've only told my husband and even he was a little surprised.
I want to run a 5k.
Walking a 5k was my goal at my first band surgery when I weighed 300lb. When I weighed 250, I successfully finished a 5k. After this revision surgery, I'm upping the ante. And now I'm *publicly* declaring it here on LBT.
SCARY! I am not a runner. At all. I really, really don't like to run. But hell, even if I do a wimpy half jog thing and turn in a terrible time, I don't care. I'm going to run a 5k.
Whew! It feels so good to share.
And on my girly, vanity thing....
I want to be able to sit with my legs crossed again (as someone else said, sit like a girl).
And I want to be able to sit in a chair and not have the arms of the chair jabbing in my sides.

Hi guitar4life3000! I just had band revision surgery on March 7, so I am juuust barely past that painful stage you are in. Stay strong! For me, it was real bad for a week and then suddenly I shot out of bed with all the energy in the world. I've already lost 7 lbs. Crazy!!
Ok, so I'm going to publicly declare what I want to do...so far I've only told my husband and even he was a little surprised.
I want to run a 5k.
Walking a 5k was my goal at my first band surgery when I weighed 300lb. When I weighed 250, I successfully finished a 5k. After this revision surgery, I'm upping the ante. And now I'm *publicly* declaring it here on LBT.
SCARY! I am not a runner. At all. I really, really don't like to run. But hell, even if I do a wimpy half jog thing and turn in a terrible time, I don't care. I'm going to run a 5k.
Whew! It feels so good to share.
And on my girly, vanity thing....
I want to be able to sit with my legs crossed again (as someone else said, sit like a girl).
And I want to be able to sit in a chair and not have the arms of the chair jabbing in my sides.

Seven years in, and I think about the band every day. I also obsessed about it a lot at the start, and it does quiet a little. It becomes less about the band and more about "oh, no, I can't eat that." You get to a point where you just know if something will work or not. So while that's not, per se, thinking about the band, having a band does TOTALLY change your relationship to food and eating.
And then there are the days when I wish I didn't have a band. Lately I've been wanting a good old fashioned hamburger. With fries. And no, having a patty and no bun doesn't fill the crave. That's how I eat a burger (occasionally, when the band and I get along) but it's not the same. And sandwiches. I miss the ease of eating sometimes.
That said, I don't for a moment regret getting the band. Totally worth it.

Ah yes...he IS a crackhead. That OTHER crackhead in the practice...Dr C also gave me a ration of sh*t for a 6 lb loss in a month. This was back in January when I had to get an unfill. He harassed me about the unfill AND he harassed me about not losing enough. I lost really fast right after being banded and after losing the first 70 lbs the loss slowed considerably. I still thought that 6 lbs in a month was great but Dr C thought it wasn't right.
And yeah...I had *quite* an altercation with their so called "nutritionist" over the 800 calories a day thing. They can BITE ME!!! I said to that tiny chick "don't you think it's a lot to expect a 300 pound woman to eat 800 calories?" And she just looked at me like *I* was the idiot......