Allison

Hey guys, I'm dying over here!! I never thought that I was someone who emotionally ate, maybe a little boredom eating here and there, but nothing out of controll, I was just always hungry!! Right? Er... well now my whole family is on vacation this week. My brother and sister have school vacation this week so my sister went to Greece on a class trip, and my parents took my brother to New Hampshire. SO its just me!! The first day I was home alone, I took my moms credit card and hit the stop and shop!!!! I filled a cart with cereal, popcorn, mac n' cheese, yogurt, orange soda, pasta, popsicles, and just generally nothing healthy. Its not too bad when I'm busy, but I had the night off from work and all my friends are busy. I've been sitting here since like, 3 p.m. shoving everything in my mouth and staring at the TV. I went for a walk earlier since it was so nice out today, but after that I just kept eating. I'm dying of boredom and now I am starting to realize JUST how much I rely on food for company!!!!! :crying:

AHHHH I agree with pretty much all of that!!! I especially know what you mean about Brooke, I HATE all those facial expressions she makes!!!!!!! She looks like she is trying to life a 900 pound weight while she is singing, it drives me NUTS!

Hey marineliebe, I bet we are all feeling like this, I know I am! I think especially since I have NEVER been thin, I feel like maybe I'm supposed to be like this! I mean, I've done everything, and nothing has worked! There have been a few pounds lost here and there, but I have simply never been a normal or healthy weight. Its so strange to think that if this really does work for me, I shold be at a weight that I haven't seen since probably 5th grade!! I think it might be a little different for people that were thin when they were young and now that they are older have gained weight. Its so strange to think of me being thin, (will I look 10 again? lol) which is why I'm so afraid that this, along with everyone else, won't work.

Thanks for the good wishes three sixty six, yeah that thing sucked but at least its all over ( i hope lol ) angelic 1, I recently tried telling my thin sister about all this, she just gave me the death eye and didn't say anything, I had to say, isn't that exciting? Just to try to get something out of her, she just said, "no, thats f**king stupid, just do it yourself, your so f**king lazy." Awesome. I didn't even try to reason with her, I just shut up and sat there on my laptop, she hasn't mentioned anything since so whatever. I mean, shes in highschool and all highschool girls are BIG BITCHES! lol, so screw her! I'm getting so excited now that I'm just waiting for my surgeon to call and schedual an appointment where he will give me my date hopefully! As of right now I have 3 supporters, my mom, (shes finally totally supportive) and two close friends.

Yay!!! My best friend worked at Sharon Cinema 8 forever and we still go there all the time when shes home from college. Nice to find people so close by :glare: Who is your surgeon?? Mine is the Glasgows in Norwood.

Yeah Lucy we are in the same boat. I just finished up all my appointments with everyone and am now just waiting!!!!!! Hope everything goes well!!! Keep me posted as well! Allison

Hey Ailie, my best friend lives in North Adams, its so pretty out there but so far from everything lol! She goes to MCLA but lives back home in Attleboro over the summer.

I've been told that if you focus on specific weight training and such that your skin will have an easier time toning and firming and such, I don't really know what kind of excersizes you can do for your boobs lol.

They just ask you some questions and make sure your not doing this for the wrong reasons and such its not too bad. I'm not sure about a breathing test maybe to make sure you don't have asthma or something? Good luck

Hey lauren we sound pretty similar, I'm about 5'1 - 5'2 and have about the same bra size. When we are so short our "healthy range" sounds so unreachable since the numbers are so low!! I haven't weighed anything close to 130 since probably 5th grade. I just hope that if I loose weight my boobs don't look like saggy pancakes lol! I'm 20, I WANT them to shrink so I don't have to go to PT anymore for my back problems, I just don't want to have to pick them off the ground if I bend over lol. Good luck with everything!!!

Haha I can't work in retail anymore, It was like I was just handing my paycheck back to them every day when I would spend the whole thing on their stuff! I worked at Pier 1 for about 2 years, then I worked at Torrid for a year... so much money gone lol. BUT at Torrid we got a 40% discount!!! Then when the clearance stuff would have its 50% off sale we got a 90% discount on all of that! I bought the most beautiful prom dress (I have it in some of my album pics, its the kelly green one) for like, $2, it was in perfect condition and was orignally like, $80. Gotta love employee discounts!

Haha the opposite is always happening to my best friend. He is a very well dressed, well groomed, attractive, built, straight out of GQ gay 18 year old. Whenever he goes into stores, like banana republic, heritage 1981, gap, hollister, abercrombie, etc, people ALWAYS come up and ask him for a different size, or to let them in the fitting room... its pretty funny sometimes but he is always embarrassed when he has to direct the people to someone who actually does work there. We usually leave the store after that lol.

Hey there, I know how you are feeling, I have been with someone on and off for five years now, we met when we were sophomores in high school and have been inseperable ever since. We have had a lot of "relationship" issues, but we are always still best friends and he is always my #1 person to go to with any problems or anything and has been since I was 15. He doesn't understand what it is like to feel uncomfortable in your own body. He is very attractive and in great shape, and always has been. He is in a band and constantly has beautiful, skinny girls throwing themselves at him (hmm one of the causes of our "problems") He gets ripped on a lot for being a "chubby chaser" but simply likes girls with a bit more meat hehe. When I first told him about all this back in September he was like, "so are you gonna be skinny??" as if he didn't want me to be. He then called me selfish! It was so strange of him, he is always so supportive of me. I haven't told him that I am actually going through with it now. I know he is afraid that if I loose weight I will finally get fed up with his "antics" and leave him, friendship and relationship, for good. Our men will just have to appreciate when good things happen for us!!! When mine joined a really popular band with a recording contract and a tour schedualed for the summer, I knew it would bring "temptation" and probably a rift in our relationship, but I was supportive and I tried as hard as I could to be open minded and think of how this is going to benefit HIS life. I'm still his best friend and I don't want to hold him back from something that could change his life. Your boyfriend, and mine, should understand that its not their job to hold us back either. I hope everything goes well with you!!! Allison

Thanks Jena! That sounds like a really good idea, although I'd have to clean my room, tehehe, The rooms I was in was nice and quiet, it was really just the wiring and tubes and the strange room and such that kept me up. If I have to do it again I will def look into having it at home. Haha you're story about the snoring sounds like me and my best friend, we sleep over each others houses a lot, but I remember the first time I stayed at his house back when we met in highschool his snoring kept me up for like, half the night! Apparently MY snoring kept him up the other half lol. We argued about who was the snorer all morning lol, now we just tease each other about it and he even brings headphones to my house now haha (Don't worry he's gay lol)

I know a lot of people loose 20 pounds or so just because of the liquid diet, so maybe you could start yours a little earlier? I know it sucks but it might be a good way to drop the weight fast and since you probably have to do it eventually anyways. Good luck!

YAY!!! Everything went good. The 48 hours of hell are over and I'm so relieved. Thank you so much for all the support guys!!! Half of me hopes to be banded the end of May because I start school June 2nd, the other half wants to be banded in May because I already feel so close to all of you and don't want to loose the support of this thread! I love you all! Good luck to everyone whose dates are coming up in the next couple weeks!!!!!

Hey guys thanks for all the support. Ugh I hope I never have to do it again, if I do I'm definately getting some sleeping pills. The wires all over me were uncomfortable, but I especially didn't like the tubes going up into my nose *ew* The glue wasnt actually that bad, it all came out in the shower I took when I got home, I just washed my hair twice then used a deep conditioner, haha in case you have to go through this!! At my psych eval I brought up this concern and he (the psychiatrist or whatever he is lol) said if there was no sign of sleep apnea then I would probably be fine. *fingers crossed!!!* I usually have a hard time sleeping in strange places too. As soon as I got home at around 6:30 I took a shower then hopped in bed, I had another appointment at 9 am but that hour and a half long nap felt like the best sleep I had ever had lol. During the sleep study I remember looking at the clock around 2:30, then I kind of zoned out until around 4:30, I'm hoping this zoning was some form of sleep lol. Thanks again everyone!!!

:thumbup: Hey guys, last night my sleep study was pretty brutal, I maybe dozed for about 20 mins? It might have been longer but I stopped checking my clock, I barely felt asleep at all. They guy didn't ask me to reschedual another appointment. Do I have to call my surgeon? Do I call the sleep lab? I really doubt they got enough information based on some light napping, I just couldn't fall asleep though!! I'm really worried this is going to set me back significantly. Any experience or advice with this situation, as I'm sure it is a fairly common one, would be greatly appreciated. Now its off to my psych eval Wish me luck! Allison

Hey guys just checking in really quick before I have my psych eval. Sleep study was awful, I didn't sleep at all, I might of dozed off for like, 20 mins at the most. I really don't want to have to take another one! If I do then there is pretty much no hope for me being banded before school starts on June 2nd. The guy didn't tell me to reschedual or anything, ugh I don't know if I should call and make an appointment or call the surgeon or what. Everything else went alright, but right now I've been driving all day, by the end of today I will have spent 7+ hours on the road, and I haven't slept in maybe 35 hours?? Time to leave for the psych eval. Wish me luck!

Thanks guys! She was pretty interested, she has never had a lap-band patient before and only 1 bypass patient... So she was a little wary, just because she didn't really know anything about it. I tried explaining a little but she said she was really interested and would love to do some more research on her own, I'm hoping she gives the surgeon the go ahead!

Alright, I'm really really nervous about going to my PCP. I'm really bad at starting "tough" kinds of conversations. She brought up the idea of WLS a long time ago and at that point I had never really heard of it. She said she wasn't sure how she felt about it but it was always an option. So at least she knows about the idea, but she had no idea what types were available or anything. So now I have to go to an appointment to ask her for a letter of medical neccessity. I'm going to bring the big book about lap band with me so I at least have something to reference. I'm afraid she'll still be weird about it, everyone else is! Anyone have any good stories or advice about all this??? I have so much going on today and tomorrow and I'm sure before each appointment I'll be really nervous. Thanks!

oh yeeah and, BRING BACK MICHAEL!!! Now thats hes gone and I'm looking at whose left I really feel like he could have been the one.

THANK GOD!!! No more Kristy, now we can move on.... I bet next week Syesha will be gone, after that maybe Carly. This year is definately about the guys. I used to think, when the show first started, the last 2 remaining would be David A. and Brooke, now I'm not so sure and I'm sick of both of them. I really don't have a favorite, so who knows. Everyone seems to love Jason and David C. I like Jason, but he's just not the American Idol type, he belongs in a jam band or even could have a great solo career like Jack Johnson but American Idol is about BELTING IT and he just doesn't fit that bill. I think David C. is getting a little too cocky and its starting to make me want to puke, so does Donnie Osmond, I mean David A, and Brookes over the top gasping for air this is so serious I'm choking facial expressions.

Thanks!! I'm in class right now, te he he, got me and boyfriend to school ok, oh and on my way here, work called and asked if I could come in early, HA. I told them I'd be there as soon as my appointment with my PCP is over, so hopefully it doesn't take too long. Thanks for the support!

Maybe! Are pre-bandsters encouraged to go??