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I will keep you in my thoughts and keep us posted, try to stay positive and try not to stress.

BTW Ryders by Lee are wonderful, they have a stretchy quality to them and they are the 1st pair of jeans I've bought in a long time.

My surgeon told me the first 6 weeks you should focus more on healing than losing and sometimes you might gain a little weight before your 1st fill.

If you want tender chicken or turkey stick an onion and an orange inside of it. For a whole chicken use half or a quarter of the onion. Try it I swear it is awesome.

That sounds like the kind of compliment a kid who doesn't know any better would give. It did remind me I now have more of a lap as my stomach no longer sits on my legs, but I wouldn't want someone else to say so.

I have had large breasts all my life even as a teen and something else to consider is your back, I am down to a D cup from a DD and in all honesty would prefer a breast reduction with a lift when the time comes.

I love New Balance shoes, and sketchers go walkers but when you wear out the go walkers and you walk on gravel you can feel the gravel but they are so light but also not great for winter so more of a summer shoe or treadmill.

I'm pretty new here but this community has been a big support for me already, I love looking at all the other members stats to see who started out at around the weight as me and how far they have all ready come. I love having people tell me hang in there and not to give up when I've had a down day, and I love getting a Yay YOU when I've had a good one. I also love rooting for everyone else who has struggled with obesity like me, I want to see everyone with this issue, overcome it, no matter which surgery they choose, I'm on your side.

I am fixing to make my husband quiche tonight it only has 1TBL spoon of flour the way I make it.

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I did okay for about 1 week but on day 7 I was chomping at the bits for food.

My surgeon didn't require a certain amount of weight loss, but my insurance required 5%. The biggest requirement my surgeion had was the all liquid pre op diet. So while I was doing the 6 month insurance Dr. supervised, diet I decided to really try to lose what weight I could before surgery, because I read that it was safer to have the surgery if you lose weight, I lost 62lbs during that 6 months and 18 during the liquid diet and 2 more since surgery, while I was waiting I got things in order, had and EGD, a heart cath for cardio clearance, began walking stopped drinking pop stopped buying chips. Went to the movies and just did some normal stuff until finally the time arrived.

Well I had told a few people I was getting a fill today but that is the 18th I thought 2wks after surgery was a little soon but I swear I was told that but I could have dreamed it too, who knows. I actually had lost 2lbs since surgery though so that's good.

Your beautiful!!! Way to go.

No, but I want to say I'm sorry this has happened, I've seen shows on TLC where people have had lymphedemas removed so they could walk, and they usually weigh quite a bit. I hope the fact they have caught it will help some how, but I have to admit I don't know a whole lot about them.

@@loser2014 I know the average with lapband is about 2lbs a week, that is about what it is with any type of diet so I have had to really wrap my head around that. I also do better with exercise, and am really working on not wolfing my my food down, but you know what I think is going to be one of the hardest things for me is remembering not to drink anything with my meals, it seems so unnatural not to have a drink with your food. Glad your weight is moving down again, I know that had to be discouraging.

@@briefs199 will do, I am right now trying to stick to the stage 2 diet plan, but I had some tuna fish on toast a minute ago and I will be glad to eat a bit more variety by Saturday, even if it is in small portions.

@@briefs199 I go tomorrow

@@Baybridgestylist to shrink your liver, my surgeon bases how long your on the liquid diet on your BMI I had to do 4 weeks. UGH lol but I made it.

@@AbruptlyBlue I think the surgeon you use is very important, I really am confident with my choice of surgeon I went to 3 different seminars and chose the surgeon that had WLS surgery himself. He gives you his personal cell number, and believes a lot of weight problems lie in the psyche, he does lean more towards lapband but will preform the surgery that your comfortable with. I love that he knows what it's like to be obese he has had his own struggles with rude medical Drs just like I have.

My husband likes that he will be getting more meat so Protein side of it is not a problem, I usually will fix mashed potatoes for the kids and my husband and a veggie side for me and I will eat a little of both. I go around the plate like my Dr. said Protein Veggies fruit and then anything really high carb. hopefully when I get my 1st fill tommorrow this will have been good practice.

I had to lose 5 percent during a 6 month supervised Drs visit, I lost considrably more, Than that, during the pre op diet I lost 18 pounds. I lost a total of 80lbs by the time I had my surgery but holding steady now and waiting for my 1st fill.

yes Cardio and pulmonary clearance also had to have an EGD

@@BeagleLover I also had a primary care Dr. that everytime I would bring up WLS she would shake her head and would not even discuss the issue with me. She is no longer my Dr. I am so glad I dropped her as she wasn't giving me the right BP meds or monitoring my irregular heart either that should have had medication as well. Sometimes we really have to be our own advocates.

I wouldn't let them put anymore in that's for sure. Can you get a 2nd opinion?