Lana24

Congrats Jax on your success, I am right behind you... I can feel your excitement

Hi everyone, I was diagnose a few years back with Fibro, and I am glad to say I have had zero problems since the surgery...all healed and ready to go! I wish you all the very best of luck with your surgeries. Lana

damn now I really don't have the courage to try gum, LOL thanks for the info.

I was told by the nutrisionist to avoid frozen meals because they contain too much processed food and lack the necessary vitamins and minerals. Good luck looks like you got some great feedback.

Steri Strips anyone? They are like glue...lol

my doc said 6 weeks or whenever your ready...good luck with the sexin' everyone I hear it only gets better as the weight comes off!

Wow Kiki, That really was a wonderful story thanks for sharng and I wish you nothing but the best with your journey

Well said Vegas Grace, I enjoyed his resent work and he will be greatly missed.

Too Funny Tracy !

Wow this is wonderful and graphic...lol congrats on the loss!

HI everyone, I did a lot of reading before I had the surgery, I felt I truly understood what was expect of me and what my new responsibilities to self were but after getting home and feeling that hunger, not head hunger, physical pain hunger willing to eat your own young kind of hunger (lol). I am hungry but I am hungry to this degree because presurgery although overweight I was starving, my body was simply not getting whatever it needed. And now that I have had some protein and some water I do have some clarity... my advice is take a multi vitamin, have a few swallows of protein and then a little later have some water... the whole world seems different when your body is getting what is actually needs and not what it actually craves! Good Luck fellow band wagoners!! Lana

I have never heard of a binder either, like a control top or waist cincher?

I am right with everyone else I am just hungry!

glad I stumbled in here, great info... I personally am just starving...from the time I got home from the hospital I am friggin hungry... I want to nawg off an arm for the sake of saiety!

Great and scary info....lol

Don't worry TS you can do it, look at all the suport you have. Welcome Back! Lana

That's cool, I live in the Antelope area, I am having my surgery in South Sac at Methodist Hospital

Keep the faith some times people get dropped off the surgery schedule. my fingers are crossed for you

With or without insurance?

Hi there is a thread already on food

There is a thread on head hunger a lot of people go through it...

Wonderfully said Andy Thank you

Cool thanks for the info

ok, so you are on the road... I needed proof I had tried other things as well. You doctors office should be able to tell you what they have been able to submit in the past. All they wanted from me was a list of things I had tried over the years... I had 2 pages of diet programs exercise programs etc... and that was all I had to do. So call your surgeon and ask them what they need to get you approved... Good luck LANA:thumbup:

I totally agree with NewImage, There is a reason why we are all here, mostly we can't control the volume of what we eat... eyes always bigger than stomache... Don't worry so much. This is the time when you are learning about your band (the do's and don'ts). It will take a few meals before your brain makes the connection between pain and eating too fast or gulping. Don't worry. Lana