kblack1222

Hi Everyone!  My name is Kathy Black.  
My personality...I'm a fun-loving, joke-making-smart ellic kinda girl.  I've been told that my sense of humor is dry - I can make a joke and you don't know if I'm serious or not - more than likely not lol.
 
I have been suffering from yo-yo dieting since my first divorce in 1998.  I went through a severe depression and packed on the pounds.  In 2000, I started going to the doctor...diet pills, SugarBusters, Weight Watchers, Atkins, Slim Fast.  I did them all.  I'd go down 20 pounds and up 30 more.
 
In March of 2013 I started working at NAL where I had a co-worker that had undergone Lap-Band surgery.  She was done nearly 100 pounds in a year's time.  I'll be honest, I saw numbers on the scale and that was about it.  Our insurance also covered the surgery so that made it even better.  So, I started the process.  I had a consultation visit and since I had record of all my other "tries" I didn't have to do any special diet for any amount of time.  I was able to do the physical, dietician appointment and psych eval all on the same day.  About 2 weeks later I received my approval.  
 
I'm 5' 5".  My highest weight was 260#, date of surgery was about 250#, and my current weight has been bouncing between 225-230# (that story to follow).
 
On October 31, 2013, I recieved the Realize Band.  Boy, were the first few weeks excruciating.  I was starving to death!  I even ate a can of chicken and stars soup the DAY after my surgery.  I finally got to a "workable" place.  By the end of February, 2014, I had lost about 30#.  I haven't lost a pound since.  In March 2014, I started the fill/unfill process.  I should have left well enough alone and just went with what I had in January.  I have had nothing but trouble from "Cybil" since March. The doctor I had just wanted to keep filling and unfilling.  I guess that would have been okay had I not been almost 2 hours away, but it was getting quite expensive and also a pain trying to make up all that time from work so I didn't lose money or get in trouble for missing so much.
 
Anyhow, after seeing so many posts on Facebook about how much weight people had lost and so forth, I started to get very upset and discouraged.   So, I found another doctor that would take me and Cybil.  Unfortunately, he is also 2 hours away.  BUT, he did a complete unfill.  My records indicated that I had about 8cc in my 10cc band, but he took out 9cc!!!  A couple of weeks later he put in 6cc under fluorscope.  I've still been pretty hungry between meals and eating more than I should portion wise, and also not making very smart choices sometimes.  I go back the first part of December for some more fluid.  I hope that will make Cybil and I happy :)