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This post wins the day.

My doctor told me no swimming for six weeks. Just my experience.

After this heavy, heavy week I came home from my therapist appointment all cried out and exhausted. Leaned over in the bathroom and finally paid the piper for my bad habit of tucking my phone in my bra. Yep, my iPhone fell right in the toilet. There must be a five second rule for phones in toilets, or else I have a really good phone case, because it survived without incident. So I have that going for me. ????????????5⃣????

Please don't worry. This far post op it is very common to gain a few pounds back. You've been on liquids pre op and eating very little right after surgery. Then your body swells from the surgery. Then you start to eat full liquids or soft foods. The small gain will come back off, I promise. Stay active and stay on your food plan. It will all start coming off quickly again, soon. Congrats and good luck !

My divorce lawyer has this on a plaque on her desk.

That's amazing! You really nailed it how life completely changes once we are not lugging around an extra hundred or more pounds. I hiked a state park this week. Seven miles and 59 floors climbed, according to my Fitbit. My arthritic knee hurt like hell the next day, but not once was I out of breath. It's such a glorious miracle to get our lives back. I haven't tried a Water park yet. My baggy ass swimsuit won't quite cut it. Maybe next summer! Loved this post!

The wake and service were standing room only for four hours. We were in line for two hours and then the service began. Hundreds of young people. I stood next to a young man that sobbed the entire time. My daughter stood with her small group of study abroad friends. After the eulogy, the reverend asked for people to share memories. My daughter had prepared something and she talked for a minute. Afterward, the young man's girlfriend Kaylie came up to my daughter and they both cried. The young man's parents thanked my daughter for the video she made of their son with the highlights from their trip to Spain. They said they had been watching it over and over. They asked for her phone number and the mom asked my daughter if she could call her in the coming weeks. My daughter has hundreds of photos from the Spain trip on her camera. She is planning to put together an album for his family and give it to them later. I hate the word closure but that's the best word I can think of. We are headed back home today.

Body tissues can swell during flight. Think of your feet and ankles. You can't predict if your stomach tissue will swell, leading to more band restriction or tightness, so the general advice is drink plenty of Water before and during your flight, eat before you fly, and no food during or right after your flight. A few hours afterward, start slow with soft food. I flew to Italy a couple of weeks after my first fill. I followed these directions and had no problems. I actually did eat a few bites of a meal on the trip home. But I was also not very filled either. So play it safe and eat right before. Hydrate hydrate hydrate!!!

You are not alone feeling this way. But let me tell you. Six months to a year from now post op, you will be amazed at your transformation. Health and attitude will have changed 180 degrees. You will be able to and want to walk and move your body. I joined a frickin gym! Me! On purpose! Please let go of the guilt. WLS saved my LIFE. I work my ass off now trying to lose my last fifty pounds. The LapBand made the first hundred down comparatively easy. WLS operates on the stomach, not the brain. There is so much more work to do besides putting the fork down. But until my WLS helped me put that fork down, nothing happened. I was trapped in a living death. My surgery was simply the first step in a chain of events that is changing my life.

I'm temporarily living with my mother, who is obese and fully into her own food addiction. I am forever hearing that I keep "too much food" in the refrigerator (kale, tomatoes, yogurt, cheese, peppers, Soups, leftovers from restaurants), and there is "no room for my food" (crap, crap and more crap).

Simply beautiful. Beautiful pictures. Beautiful message.

Wow. I was told low carbs, high protein. Talk to the doctor.

Yes!! I forgot about simply standing!! No back pain. Ever. Miracle, I tell ya.

That's a hard one, isn't it?? What helped me was to drink a lot right before eating. A glass or two of Water. Then have the water removed from the table or put your napkin over it, or put salt in it, or whatever you have to do to not touch it again. My doc lets me drink up to the first bite and then not until twenty minutes after the meal. Use whatever tricks you need to. But hydrating right before the first bite helps me a lot.

I ended up going to St. Louis with my daughter. Her somewhat flaky friend ended up having car insurance issues and their driving plans ended up very sketchy Friday afternoon. So I threw some clothes in a bag and here we are. This will be a very difficult day for so many people, many of them college kids. The wake and service start late this afternoon. This same week, one of my best friends left her husband of thirty years. It was not a surprise and she gave him months of warning. They sold their house. The day before the house closing, he attempted suicide. He is now in a psych ward and she is left to deal with the mess. He underwent five rounds of kidney dialysis to clean his system of the overdose of lithium, Tylenol and some other medicine he took. His 20 year old son found him in the garage. It doesn't appear that he did any permanent damage to his brain. Suicide is surrounding us this week. I am praying daily for the people in my life. It seems that although there are more options for mental help and treatment than ever before, somehow people still don't find what they need. So much to process. I'm glad I'm here for my daughter even if she didn't initially want me on this trip. I can't imagine being away from her right now. I apologize for bringing this thread down. It's been a difficult week and this has been my only safe outlet. My friend's family privacy prohibits me from discussing her situation with others in my life. My daughter feels the same way about her friend. Thank God I have a therapy appointment Tuesday. My therapist will get an earful for sure.

You can do it. I left my 23 year marriage last summer. I was alone long before that emotionally. We are reborn with WLS and I look forward to many good years ahead, alone or not.

Woo hoo! Way to go!!

I needed the confidence to leave my emotionally and financially abusive marriage. Ironically, I can thank the NSETBEx (not soon enough to be ex) for WLS as the solution. He is obese, and knew three men who had recently had three different surgeries. His boss (RNY), his cousin (sleeve) and a coworker (LapBand). He would come home and ridicule them to me, and make fun of their trials and tribulations. Oh, it was so funny that J with RNY crapped his pants at work. Oh, sure, M lost a hundred pounds with his band, but now he's not losing anymore and eats a full Subway sandwich every day and sometimes fries. D doesn't walk with a cane anymore after his sleeve surgery, but he still looks like an old man with all his hanging skin. Those fools. Ha ha ha. Little did he know that this was all causing me to look into surgery, since his excellent union insurance covered these surgeries, and I was oh so ready to make a permanent change. I was over 300 pounds and miserable and having trouble breathing at night. I didn't ask anybody's permission. I checked into the surgery in September, had the LapBand in March, and left him in July. A year later the divorce is still creeping forward. Creeping. Ha. My divorce is creeping forward and my LapBand fills are creeping toward the green. All thanks to the creep. Anyway, I never looked back. Best series of decisions I ever made in my life.

I just had my eighth fill this past week. I am at 7.90 in my 14 band. We have added 0.1 at the last several fills because it is that close. I don't want to overshoot and regret it.

We are odd creatures, we humans.

Catherine's has them and they are easy to wear and use the restroom in. I feel naked without mine now which makes outdoor activities in August a little unsettling.

This is wonderful news. I'm so happy for you! May you have continued joy. Yippee!!!!!

For me it is circular and ever-changing. I HAD to put the fork down before I could make needed emotional and mental changes in my life. Once I did, my health began to improve. This improved my mood. This helped me begin exercise. This improved my mood. Etc., etc.

Good luck Friday. It will change your life.

This is how morning tightness was explained to me and makes sense, at least to me. We sleep prone, and during that time our blood is no longer pooling in our lower extremities. I used to have severe foot edema. At night my feet and lower legs were like sausages. In the morning I could see the bones in my feet again, since the evening swelling had dissipated. My stomach is made of living tissue, and the fixed band is encircling an area that swells and unswells based on many factors. Gravity is one big factor. So it's really just like swollen feet, but affected by gravity in the opposite direction. During the day, gravity pulls blood down and away from my band area. The stomach tissue isn't squeezed by the band as much. Overnight, more blood gets back up into that area because I'm not standing up. The tissue plumps up, and the band is a bit tighter around it. I wake up the "tightest" I will be all day. The more I walk around vertical, the more that eases throughout the day. I'm no doctor, but this makes perfect sense to me and matches how I feel in the early morning and then as the day goes on. I have the least "restriction" late in the evening.