scarlettbegonia

Good luck with your journey

My surgeon makes everyone do a month of optifast...which is foul

well easter sucks....not impressed with it at all broke today (day after easter) and had a few m&m egg's soooo pissed off at myself for it on a happier note i recently reconnected with a friend id lost contact with through facebook....love fackbook...so stocked to be talking to her again and she's a gorgeous skinny mini which is motivation to drop abit more b4 we meet up:rolleyes2:

well easter sucks....not impressed with it at all broke today (day after easter) and had a few m&m egg's soooo pissed off at myself for it on a happier note i recently reconnected with a friend id lost contact with through facebook....love fackbook...so stocked to be talking to her again and she's a gorgeous skinny mini which is motivation to drop abit more b4 we meet up:rolleyes2:

i see you made up your mind already but....at least this is reversable if you need to be able to eat for some reason AND less likley to have masses of extra skin it might take a little longer but in the long run thats better for you btw when's your date?

Well done Hun Giving up the evil diet coke was one of the hardest things for me i looooooved my diet coke....haven't had any for a month sooo if i can do it so can you keep up the good work!!!

Thanks guys sorry for not getting back sooner have not been in computer land for awhile Kyteachjules...i think its a bit of that aswell but SHE'S SKINNY always has been you're doing well just stay focused and don't let her issues rub onto you it's hard and it hurts cause their the ones that you expect to cheer you on the most Angelbuddy....im up in a month

Ewww so i started opti-ing up today ...properly this time not like the past two weeks where i was kinda optied kinda not but for real three times a day only thing i have(bar salad)opti-ing which means i am exactly one month from surgery wooo hoo me. Hopefully i can budge some more weight between now and then because the last three weeks i have been up and down and all over 5.5 kgs which is shittin me no end i just want it to go and not drop the breadcrumbs so it can't find its way home this time and can stay lost in the woods forever. Im actually starting to get a little nervous now the surgery dosn't phase me ,i had a c-section last yr under not good circumstances with a dr who did'nt have my weight on record and i went under fitting so i know i can handle the aneastetic....but it's being done in the middle of the school hols which means i'll have all three nutta's home:ohmy: thankfully hubby is taking time off work and my eldest is great help with my youngest and if the c was anything to go by i was up that night and walking around next morning so i should be o.k. Still umming and ahhing over telling people so far only my hubby mum and super nosey unsupportive grandmother know the in-laws think im having a hernia removed from my pregnancy and thats what the kids think aswell Hate opti makes me grind my teeth:blink:

Ewww so i started opti-ing up today ...properly this time not like the past two weeks where i was kinda optied kinda not but for real three times a day only thing i have(bar salad)opti-ing which means i am exactly one month from surgery wooo hoo me. Hopefully i can budge some more weight between now and then because the last three weeks i have been up and down and all over 5.5 kgs which is shittin me no end i just want it to go and not drop the breadcrumbs so it can't find its way home this time and can stay lost in the woods forever. Im actually starting to get a little nervous now the surgery dosn't phase me ,i had a c-section last yr under not good circumstances with a dr who did'nt have my weight on record and i went under fitting so i know i can handle the aneastetic....but it's being done in the middle of the school hols which means i'll have all three nutta's home:ohmy: thankfully hubby is taking time off work and my eldest is great help with my youngest and if the c was anything to go by i was up that night and walking around next morning so i should be o.k. Still umming and ahhing over telling people so far only my hubby mum and super nosey unsupportive grandmother know the in-laws think im having a hernia removed from my pregnancy and thats what the kids think aswell Hate opti makes me grind my teeth:blink:

Hun how are you going with everything? i hope alls well and i'd love to hear how you're doing Ileft a little message for you in the AcOA thread i hope it finds you safe and well

I just wanted to say i think this is a fantastic idea....i grew up with an alcholic mother who did'nt get sober until i was 21 she tried a couple of times but always picked up before that....she had her 8th "birthday "the other which is fantastic and im very proud of her. we are quite close now i would'nt say really close or as close as she would like but we're closer than i expected to be. I did'nt have alot of the horrible things happen that others have but i did grow up sole parent /only child which meant i really had no-one to turn to and tried to hide/coverup for my mum alot. Im pretty sure my weight issues stem in part from growing up in that situation in part from coming from a very addictive family and in part from trying to cope/dissappear,I personally have struggled with addictions but not so much with alchole as i decided when i was 18 that thats not the way i was going to go even though i very much enjoyed drinking adeaher i just wanted to say to you that i think its wonderful that you're trying to get this sorted whilst your kids are still relativly young....i agree with what the others said about your kids realising and taking in more than you know...i have memories as far back as 4 yrs old of pissed and stoned people and the things that were going on in our house...they may not talk about it but they won't forget it either if i can offer support to you in any way im more than happy to be here for you....it's hard and i realise that but you deserve the best for YOU and your family and you CAN do it

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Josh I love the fact that you named your band lola .... your lose to date has been awesome and thankyou for sharing that ,I know excatly how you feel in the past when iv lost alot of weight if felt like i did'nt know who i was or how to deal anymore Glad its sorted Astrid

Good luck Rox im sure you'll do great....Keep us posted with how it all goes

I purchased one of those fat jiggly vibration plate machines about 2 weeks ago....OMG as weird as it feels its great i lost 1.9kg in just under a week which is awesome anyway i mentioned this to my hubby and my mum and they were both really excited for me BUT the next day my mum shows up with choc marshmallow bunnies in the morning at some stage during the day put a tub of icecream in my freezer and custard pie that night WTF..... When my husband got back from being away working for a week the next day he showed up with a new camera (yay) and 2 boxes of krispy kremes(minus the filled one) am i losing it or do they seem to have some major issues,Now im used to this from my husband as much as he wants me to lose the weight so IM happy he does get very insecure when im smaller and we have addressed this before but my mum on the other hand has always wanted me to be slim like her so im really really confused by her actions. so now im trying to burn of that extra .9 i managed to put back on over the WEEKEND....how sad

I purchased one of those fat jiggly vibration plate machines about 2 weeks ago....OMG as weird as it feels its great i lost 1.9kg in just under a week which is awesome anyway i mentioned this to my hubby and my mum and they were both really excited for me BUT the next day my mum shows up with choc marshmallow bunnies in the morning at some stage during the day put a tub of icecream in my freezer and custard pie that night WTF..... When my husband got back from being away working for a week the next day he showed up with a new camera (yay) and 2 boxes of krispy kremes(minus the filled one) am i losing it or do they seem to have some major issues,Now im used to this from my husband as much as he wants me to lose the weight so IM happy he does get very insecure when im smaller and we have addressed this before but my mum on the other hand has always wanted me to be slim like her so im really really confused by her actions. so now im trying to burn of that extra .9 i managed to put back on over the WEEKEND....how sad

Thanks for you're words of encouragment

michelle have you had a look on the yahoo lapband chat there seems to be alot of brissies on there they may be able to point you in the direction of a good surgeon thats cheaper Lap Band Surgery - Health Message Boards

o.k so im not yet banded but have met with the surgeon and have a date....albeit a month later than i wanted but hey its better than waiting another 6 months i'v been looking into this for about 4yrs now let myself be talked out of it before but decided a yr ago just after i had my son that i WAS going to do this no matter what everyone thought,took out private health insurance and have been playing the waiting game since. In the year iv waited iv lost and regained about 15 kgs sometimes less its a constant up and down. Since my DR's appointment last friday i'v lost 1.9 kgs pretty chuffed with that considering i had a few run ins with some cadbury cream eggs and im hoping to loss about 10 before surgery so we'll see how i go.

o.k so im not yet banded but have met with the surgeon and have a date....albeit a month later than i wanted but hey its better than waiting another 6 months i'v been looking into this for about 4yrs now let myself be talked out of it before but decided a yr ago just after i had my son that i WAS going to do this no matter what everyone thought,took out private health insurance and have been playing the waiting game since. In the year iv waited iv lost and regained about 15 kgs sometimes less its a constant up and down. Since my DR's appointment last friday i'v lost 1.9 kgs pretty chuffed with that considering i had a few run ins with some cadbury cream eggs and im hoping to loss about 10 before surgery so we'll see how i go.

errr posted before i finished we have hospital with $50 excess per night and top extra's cover we've got three kids and it comes to $81.20 a fortnight which has been an effort to pay at times we found out a couple of months ago that my daughter needed a heap of dental work and that ALL been covered haven't paid a cent for that iv also had 2 fillings done and that was fully covered aswell so we have spent less on the insurance than we would have dental iv also found everyone iv dealt with from HCF really helpful wow i should do there ads after that speel also michelle where are you located? i know diffrent surgeons and there teams have diffrent gaps (if any)

sorry for the delay michelle

hi im being banded on april 18th 08 im with HCF and have full cover (i took this out specifically for the surgery) initial consult was $100-$65 back from medicare checkups $50-$35 back from medicare $50x2 hospital excess health insurance covers the rest including aneath and assistant ...i checked this 3 times with my surgeon and he said with my cover+medicare there's no gap all fills are done at the hospital and thats covered aswell im with Dr warrier in nambucca nsw Astrid

apples thats awesome you're doing so well ....good luck for the 6th Scarlettbegonia