JennaJ221

havent been on in awhile. but got some news. i was approved for surgery. i go for my pre op visit with the surgeon on march 6th and start my optifast diet then. and then exactly one week later is my surgery date on the 13th. im sooooo excited. i have a few things still to do. like tomorrow i have to meet with the lap band doctor to just talk to her a lil bc wont see her again til day of surgery and then i have to make an appointment with my regular dr to get medical clearence. im just soooo excited and anxious. march 13th cant come soon enough. lol

quick question. i was never told to do a pre op diet. i did all i was supposed to do, and been submitted to insurance for approval, should take about 2 weeks, then i have to make an appointment with the surgeon to set a surgery date. so im guessing i wont be on a pre op diet? but i was wondering if someone can tell me what it is, i think i want to do it while im waiting, hearing about all this success..i want to get down a few lbs before my birthday next week, and plus less i got to lose after the surgery. any help is appreciated. thanks!!

im so excited for tomorrow. i have my 4th and final appointment at 1pm. and i think we sit down and set the date. im so scattered not knowing a date, its gonna be awesome knowing one now. i have something to countdown to and its tangible. my friends are asking, "so whens this surgery happening?" and i can never give them a date. so its going to be so nice to actually have one to tell my friends now. im gona be very disappointed if we dont set one tomorrow. dr said the end of february. so i have to get one set up, right? oh well. stoppin the stressing. we'll see how things go tomorrow. i'll write after the appointment.

im so excited for tomorrow. i have my 4th and final appointment at 1pm. and i think we sit down and set the date. im so scattered not knowing a date, its gonna be awesome knowing one now. i have something to countdown to and its tangible. my friends are asking, "so whens this surgery happening?" and i can never give them a date. so its going to be so nice to actually have one to tell my friends now. im gona be very disappointed if we dont set one tomorrow. dr said the end of february. so i have to get one set up, right? oh well. stoppin the stressing. we'll see how things go tomorrow. i'll write after the appointment.

well yay, did good again tonight. nothing to eat after 6..lots of water and i walked for 30 mins. feels good. night time is the worst for me. all i wanna do is catch up on tv and snack, so this is a big accomplishment for me.

well yay, did good again tonight. nothing to eat after 6..lots of water and i walked for 30 mins. feels good. night time is the worst for me. all i wanna do is catch up on tv and snack, so this is a big accomplishment for me.

feelin good tonight. didnt have anything to eat after 7pm. just drank water for the rest of the night instead of diet coke. (im a total DC addict) and i also walked for 40 mins tonight in the cold (heard u burn more) and with the wind against me most of the way. i feel great after i walk. havent walked in awhile so i want to keep this up and get back on track. plan on walking tomorrow night, wednesday and saturday night. ease into 3 nights a week and then jump to 5. keep thinking about the surgery. im so excited and cant wait. one more week and then i hopefully set a date. im going to be so disappointed if i dont set a date next week. my Dr. isnt exactly the most reliable. she never even remembers me and i've almost done the required things twice. i got to remind her. i really dont care for her, but heyy..she aint my surgeon so i can deal. alright off to bed, need some beauty rest.

feelin good tonight. didnt have anything to eat after 7pm. just drank water for the rest of the night instead of diet coke. (im a total DC addict) and i also walked for 40 mins tonight in the cold (heard u burn more) and with the wind against me most of the way. i feel great after i walk. havent walked in awhile so i want to keep this up and get back on track. plan on walking tomorrow night, wednesday and saturday night. ease into 3 nights a week and then jump to 5. keep thinking about the surgery. im so excited and cant wait. one more week and then i hopefully set a date. im going to be so disappointed if i dont set a date next week. my Dr. isnt exactly the most reliable. she never even remembers me and i've almost done the required things twice. i got to remind her. i really dont care for her, but heyy..she aint my surgeon so i can deal. alright off to bed, need some beauty rest.

goal 1st week of lap band. lose 10 goal with lapband after that..lose 16-20 lbs a month. be sure to hit 100lbs down by august 1st then.

goal 1st week of lap band. lose 10 goal with lapband after that..lose 16-20 lbs a month. be sure to hit 100lbs down by august 1st then.

no. shes about 5'5 and rail thin. shes got her issues. but no deaths or weight problems. she's just a little bitter i think bc im not close with her anymore. she still thinks she can talk to me like that. i've had problems with her cursing at me and i reported that. we're always fighting because she takes it beyond that professional level.

Stats and goals. HEIGHT: 5'7 HW:265 CW:265 2/4 GW: 260 by surgery GW: 250 goal with lap band surgery: 160 altogether with this lap band i want to lose about 100lbs. if i get to 175 by july/august, treating myself to Discovery cove to swim with dolphins.

Stats and goals. HEIGHT: 5'7 HW:265 CW:265 2/4 GW: 260 by surgery GW: 250 goal with lap band surgery: 160 altogether with this lap band i want to lose about 100lbs. if i get to 175 by july/august, treating myself to Discovery cove to swim with dolphins.

Well guess i should introduce myself. Im Jenn from long island, ny. i'm 23 and overwight. I've just recently decided on going through with weightloss surgery. after a lot of research i've decided to go with the lapband surgery. And i wanted to document my journey along the way. I've been overweight most of my life. Had a shotty childhood involving my dad and was mostly raised by my grandparents who gave me everything to eat. whatever i wanted and being a normal kid, i wanted junk. And then in middle school i got into some drugs with friends. i grew up in FL, so it was all around even at such a young age. Everyone was doing it, and there was nothing else to do in our little town. so thats where i ended up in middle school and the 1st 2 yrs of high school. Then my sophmore yr, my parents divorced, thank god..i couldnt stand my dad..and my mom ended up getting back together with her childhood sweetheart from where she was born, in NY. so summer of sophmore yr i was yanked out of FL and away from friends and drugs and pulled into NY. Looking back, it was very jolting. i went from having friends and going out everynight to having no friends all summer and then i got sick over summer. i lost my eyesight. turned out to be optic nueritis and they still dont fully know more. They say its MS, then its not, then its an isolated incident. i have a 4% chance of developing MS when im old. who knows, all i know is i got my eyesight back in 2 weeks, better than ever. i think it was stress!! but thats me. So when school started here, i knew nobody, and not to mention, i now lived in massapequa, which happens to be an all white area. so there was not 1 other race but white in this school. and the school has over 1500 kids. and they're all clicky. so my 1st yr there, u can count friends out. it was very lonely. but i started working at modells sporting goods and made friends there and was able to go hang out with people. my senior yr things were also better. i had a lot of friends, i lost a bit of weight too. i've always been around 250, im pretty tall tho too. im 5'7. so senior yr before graduation i lost about 20-25 lbs. but over that summer i was in a toxic friend relationship that left me lost for the next yr and a half, until he moved and i gained the weight back. i started a new job after he left and found some good people. i was happy again and then lost some more weight, i was down from 250 to about 200 at my lowest. but then i started another job yet again, and was put in a office environment with skinny girls who ate a lot and ordered out everyday, instead of out on the sales floor moving around. So the weight slowly crept back and higher than ever. now im at 260. and i just hate it right now. So lets close this, i just started the requirements for lap band in November, have to do 4 months with my Dr. so i have the last visit with Dr. Ferrara on the 4th of february. and that visit im hoping she will set my surgery date. she originally told me the end of february, which is around my bday, so i got to celebrate that early so i can eat lol. but in the meantime before then, i want to lose about 5 lbs before my appointment on the 4th. i have a little over a week. So i think im going to get into weight watchers again and walk a few nights a week. i want to drop about 15 before surgery which is doable, so i guess i'll be pouring myself into this blog while i do it!! Words of encouragment are ALWAYS welcome and appreciated!! thanks for reading!!

Well guess i should introduce myself. Im Jenn from long island, ny. i'm 23 and overwight. I've just recently decided on going through with weightloss surgery. after a lot of research i've decided to go with the lapband surgery. And i wanted to document my journey along the way. I've been overweight most of my life. Had a shotty childhood involving my dad and was mostly raised by my grandparents who gave me everything to eat. whatever i wanted and being a normal kid, i wanted junk. And then in middle school i got into some drugs with friends. i grew up in FL, so it was all around even at such a young age. Everyone was doing it, and there was nothing else to do in our little town. so thats where i ended up in middle school and the 1st 2 yrs of high school. Then my sophmore yr, my parents divorced, thank god..i couldnt stand my dad..and my mom ended up getting back together with her childhood sweetheart from where she was born, in NY. so summer of sophmore yr i was yanked out of FL and away from friends and drugs and pulled into NY. Looking back, it was very jolting. i went from having friends and going out everynight to having no friends all summer and then i got sick over summer. i lost my eyesight. turned out to be optic nueritis and they still dont fully know more. They say its MS, then its not, then its an isolated incident. i have a 4% chance of developing MS when im old. who knows, all i know is i got my eyesight back in 2 weeks, better than ever. i think it was stress!! but thats me. So when school started here, i knew nobody, and not to mention, i now lived in massapequa, which happens to be an all white area. so there was not 1 other race but white in this school. and the school has over 1500 kids. and they're all clicky. so my 1st yr there, u can count friends out. it was very lonely. but i started working at modells sporting goods and made friends there and was able to go hang out with people. my senior yr things were also better. i had a lot of friends, i lost a bit of weight too. i've always been around 250, im pretty tall tho too. im 5'7. so senior yr before graduation i lost about 20-25 lbs. but over that summer i was in a toxic friend relationship that left me lost for the next yr and a half, until he moved and i gained the weight back. i started a new job after he left and found some good people. i was happy again and then lost some more weight, i was down from 250 to about 200 at my lowest. but then i started another job yet again, and was put in a office environment with skinny girls who ate a lot and ordered out everyday, instead of out on the sales floor moving around. So the weight slowly crept back and higher than ever. now im at 260. and i just hate it right now. So lets close this, i just started the requirements for lap band in November, have to do 4 months with my Dr. so i have the last visit with Dr. Ferrara on the 4th of february. and that visit im hoping she will set my surgery date. she originally told me the end of february, which is around my bday, so i got to celebrate that early so i can eat lol. but in the meantime before then, i want to lose about 5 lbs before my appointment on the 4th. i have a little over a week. So i think im going to get into weight watchers again and walk a few nights a week. i want to drop about 15 before surgery which is doable, so i guess i'll be pouring myself into this blog while i do it!! Words of encouragment are ALWAYS welcome and appreciated!! thanks for reading!!

been havin such a hard time with my boss lately. she used to be a friend, but she just never was good to me and i had enough. so for about a yr now i've disstanced myself from her. she's my boss so i have to talk to her, but my jobs pretty free where i can go a few days without having to see or talk to her. she's delusional and still calls me a friend. well, with that being said, she thinks she can put inputs about my decisions on a personal level. i informed her last month that i would be getting lap band in february and will need to take a week off. she then said something so shocking that i wanted to clock her... ..she told me i was going to die from the surgery. now it didnt scare me. but i was shocked that any kind of person would tell someone before surgery that. she then proceeded to call it the "death surgery". i was annoyed, but not scared. she's crazy. and i've never hated somebody so much before in my life. ..then today, she said it to me again, told me i was going to die and she would not be attending my funeral. i just lost it, i let her break me. i burst into tears because of fustration and shock that someone would say these things. i dont know if she just doesnt want me to get it, or she's trying to make me break down. either way..she's really low. now dont get me wrong. im not scared by any means, i know things can go wrong, but im pretty confident and am not worried or scared. my question is, she is a personnel manager, so shes in human resources..now i dont think this is right to talk to people like this being in human resources. is anyone out here in human resources? if so, or if anyone has any knowledge about it, is there something or anything i could do? she needs to know she cant talk to people like that, but i just dont know if theres any rules. any help would be appreciated. and thanks for listening to my rant.

hi. thanks u guys for ur responses. i was never actually diagnosed, and it was never really fully blown out bulimia. i would get rid of stuff if i overate, wasnt a all the time thing. just wanted to clear that up a lil. even tho its still bad to do. lol

hi. i have kind of a weird question. I'm scheduled to be banded at the end of february. And well..i USED to be bulimic..for a few years, been recovered for a year now. and i always knew about damage to the esophogus. i dont think i have any, but am still worried. i havent told my doctor. just scared to bring it up. Anyone else have a past with throwing up? Do u think it would cause problems? Thanks to anyone who can help

hi. im from massapequa. anyone else go to Dr. Ferrara in wantagh?

hi everyone. just wanted to quickly introduce myself. My name's jenna. I'm scheduled to get my band around the end of february. Just went for my second visit to my Dr. today, so that leaves just one more visit left on Feb 4th, then i set up my appointment. So excited, cant wait!! lol. :confused: Hope to get to know ya all!!