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Momo I love the lipo in a box stuff!! It looks great! I HATE Spanx and would love something that does not make that nasty sound when I walk around LOL I will def be buying some of that stuff Randi - Its funny you would post that. I have a plastic surgeon friend that I have spoken with a lot about this. He felt it was fine for me personally to have the apron surgery before losing the weight. BUT!! (there is always a big butt around ehre isn't there? LOL) He said that the surgeries that I plan on having after I reach goal should only be had after a year of being at goal. For a couple of reasons. 1. Those who have WLS (but not the band mind you) often have malnutrition issues due to the way they digest their foods. Their complications just skyrocket in the percentage bracket because of this malnutrition and the body's inability to perform at peak levels. But he said that was not an issue with most bandsters because we do not deal with the same malnutrition issues. 2. The skin is in shock after losing massive amounts of weight quickly. After a year of dealing with the skin in its baggy state it begins to shrink some. Not all in most previously severely overweight patients, but it can result in up to a 50% shrinkage, plus be more elastic so that the final outcome is smoother and more appealing. My original plan was to have the apron surgery, then have the band, get to goal, wait a year, then have the total body lift done. My plan now just starts from the band point, and deal with the apron during the weight loss. I would rather not had to deal with this, but I do believe in devine intervention and am happy to go with the flow. I will be waiting that year, though, to see if I can get the skin to respond to my new body and do some self correcting before going under the knife. Then I am being what my husband refers to as "Barbi-ized". LOL

Thanks Andy!! I have gone with the doctor's choice of not doing the apron surgery due to a history of blood clots. We are going to wait till I am smaller to do it. :confused: I am really excited to have the band surgery so soon! I was really anxious, and have had to push it out a number of times. Now I am finally going to be banded! I thought I was going to have to wait till sept or oct. So this is a fine change of events for me!

Ok...I gotta ask. What do you see with the blacklight? Does your skin glow? Cause I go to a club on the weekends with a lot of blacklights and I want to know if I am going to glow before I get in there. LOL I used the pillow today. OMG I am taking that on the plane!!!

Starting the liquid diet today (monday) and we'll see how I do with it. I may or may not have the last supper. Depends on how angry the little telly in my head is with me. LOL You are such great support girl! You keep me going back to that #$(%^#(^# eliptical machine. HA! When are we hiting the outlet malls girl? We have to go shopping for next summer's bathing suits!! I have 2 months of work to try and squeeze into two weeks of time, so I will not be around as much, but I will be checking into the GFG club regularly to update my score card and let you all know how nervous I am before getting banded. Pnut has my phone number, and I will be letting her know how the surgery went. Happy skinny hugs to all.

Well ladies a gentlemen, I am off this diet as of midnight tonight. With my surgery 2 weeks ahead of me I am going on a strict Protein liquid diet. Lots of Jello and Isopure and such. I will check in to see how you are all doing. I need to really make sure I follow the orders to make my liver nice and tiny for the band surgery. I hope you all continue to do well, and will be checking in to see how you all do. If you want to follow whether I gain all the weight back or not jsut check my sig line, or check into the Gone For Good club. Good luck and big hugs to all :confused:

It was going to be a last supper. LOL But I will be drinking, maybe no burrito. ok...maybe three or four chips. LOL Oh just leave me alone telly. you can beat me later. LOL Love ya girl!

LOL I am sorry that this thread touched such a nerve Honu. I think that you have taken it with much more seriousness than the rest of us. 1. We all know it is a fad diet. It has been mention many times, and in the posts which you think all say the same thing we all mention our intention of just trying something for various reasons, not dedicating a lifetime to veggie soup. 2. I workout twice a day. That has also contributed to my weight loss. You can whatever my success all day long. it doesn't lessen what I have achieved. 3. If you don't like the diet, then don't do it. If you had taken the time, again, to read the posts after just reading the first message you would have found that all of us in this thread know the downfalls of this diet. We are all changing it and morphing it into what works for us. We are also very aware of all the things you have posted about. Read the posts. You will see that. I just don't see where all of this negativity and hostility came from. If I am misreading your posts, I am sorry, but it seems that you are very angry at us all for having fun with this. I am sure I speak for everyone when I say I am sorry that our diet has ticked you off so much. Lots of smiles for this glorious sunday evening to you. I know I am having a good one. :confused:

Honu, with all due respect it seems you didn't read much of this thread or the diet receipe at all. There is no cabbage in this soup. This is not the cabbage soup diet. But it is a fad diet. My nutritionist has put a twist on it to up the Protein. There are many days where you are getting lots of protein, and potassium. But my nutritionist has added more protein to the diet. She likes the soup recipe though. She thinks it is a good soup to have around, to eat when hungry between meals, and to get all your daily intake of veggies if you are not a raw veggie person like my husband. I can tell you right now that the 13 pounds I lost the first week of this was not all Water weight. How do I know? Well for one I have been "losing water weight" for the past 2 months. Eventually it stops. And the weight we lose is true fat. I know I am very low in my water weight. That is an easy thing to blame it on, but I know I am not losing just water weight. I think the people who have decided to do this diet are looking at it as a preop diet, and as a plateau breaker. No one here thinks they are going to live for a year on this diet while banded to lose all of their excess weight. I think a majority of us just want to get back on the losing bandwagon and want to try something new out. Plus it is a really good soup plan that seems to be band friendly. I know some people have trouble finding soup ideas. This is a good one, and it is really really tasty!! I know you mean well honu, but all of your conserns were addressed early in this thread. Take a look before you put down the idea of us girls having a little fun with a fad diet. Its really just for kicks, and to get us motivated again.

Momo the worst is when you actually take the laundry to a service and they bill you by the pound. Man you can get addicted to that quickly!! Time2Live thanks for the well wishes and the thoughts on my surgery. I am going to stick to the sacred heart diet till we get to Mexico. Then I am going to have some fun with Mexican food and a few drinks. Lots of chips. some really spicy burritos. YUM!

I think I was going over all of these ideas myself. LOL Thankfully I don't have to do anyone's laundry. HA! And I think the band gives me a "get out of laundry free" card for a few weeks hehehe. Is it wrong for me to milk it a little bit?

God comes through again!! LOL alma, the patient care coordinator, got me set up on a payment plan for $1500 of the cost. This allows us to have some emergency money while we are there. It is through a company called DocPay, and it is intrest free. She said they usually need a lot of time to get it set up, but they are pushing it through priority. I'M GETTING BANDED!!! OH MY GOD!!!

Sherri, you will be my band mate. It will be awesome being banded the same day together. We are in for a great experience, I can feel it! Thank you all for the well wishes and the support. It was a hard night, but I know this is the best outcome. I would be lost without the support I get here. Wheets, I am gonna try that. It sounds liek a good idea. I had been using baby diaper rash ointment, but it is sticky and greasy and really nasty. I hate the stuff, and would shoose anything to get aways from it. I wonder if that would work for my thighs too. One thing that is really cool is that we are flying into Mexico on the evening of the 6th. We are staying at the sheraton till Monday the 10th, and we have all that time to sight see and look around the town. We have heard wonderful things about Monterrey, and can't wait to explore. !!!

No, cause we do not use checks. We do everything electronically. Debit cards and online payments. It is an account that bank of america offers. Paperless account, and we get special perks. That has come back to bite me a number of times so far.

Tricia I am. And yes...last night I cried. But I got it out. And I am scared I won't be able to figure out the last $1k. I have a week. Something will come to me. I am just praying really hard about it. It will happen.

Wow I almost blew the diet last night. My poor rob. He really means well. But he needs to releard how we are supposed to celebrate. I have these lovely steaks for the steak part of the diet, and nice asparagas and some squash. What does he bring home for celebration on setting the band date? A Coconut cream pie. And I SOOOOOOO wanted some! LOL But I resisted, and told him and the kids not only do they get to eat it, but they have to eat it all. And they did. I was happy for the kids. I felt bad for Rob because he felt he had done something so bad. He apologized throughout the night, and really felt he had done something awful! I told him it was alright, he had nothing to worry about. but man that pie looked good.

Sherri!! Are you serious! We get to have our surgeries on the same day! That is so cool!!! It will be great to meet you and recover with ya!!

There was a doc here that estimated I would have approx 16 pounds to remove. But that included some lipo as well.

yeah...all of this really has me totally in love with these doctors and staff, as dissapointed as I am. It just is amazing that they would even take the time to get another doctor involved to make sure that this is right. I appreciate that more than they can imagine. Yay Dr. Cardenas!!!

well i can't just do it. They will not do the surgery on me. And the surgeons who don't care about my wellbeing here in the states want close to 20k to have it done. I will have it removed. But now I will more than likely wait till goal, and have a total body lift done.

can you imagine me, pants around my ankles balancing on the corner of the orange bin, kiwis rolling everywhere, as I try to get an accurate reading on that flimsy little grocery store scale. Do they even go past 3 pounds? I think I would break the chain. Then all the oranges would be ruined. It would just be a disaster.

I was wanting to have it done now because I have a lot of issues with skin rashes and infections due to the humidity and heat down here, and my active lifestyle. It is a comfort thing. I would have been able to move easier, and workout more efficiently. But now I have found out the surgeons do not want to do the surgery due to my history of blood clots. It is sad, but I will be banded instead on the 10th of July. So that makes me happy. I do not have to wait for that to happen. I will definitely be having the surgery after I lose the weight, because I am so heavy, and already have sagging skin due to my weight loss already.

Stop the presses! the news is in. LOL The docs do not feel that I should do the apron surgery. As sucky as that is, they are wanting me to come down and get banded now. I am working on getting the last $1k together (somehow) to have everything in place. they are fitting me in for Monday the 10th. OH MY GOD I COULD BE BANDED BY THE 10th!! LOL So I just have to figure out how to get my paycheck which will be here in the mail the day of my surgery turned into $1k the day before I leave for my surgery. hehehe. Stranger things have happened! I talked this over with my dh and we both feel that devine intervention does exist. I kinda wish that these feelings the docs have had happened before I bought my plane ticket, but the series of events has led me to believe that this is the right move for me. So I will be lifting me ugly tummy more, and just finding ways to deal with the nastiness that comes from having a large apron. I know that many more before me have dealt with this, so I am not worried. It would have been really nice to have, but all good things come to those who wait.

you are going to be gorgeous in that!!! Rob and i are going to renew our vows as soon as I am at goal. That way I get to wear a nice dress. Not a pillowcase with glittery beads on it.

I did have a blood analysis on my clotting ability when I had my tests run. They didn't ask for it, but I thought it would be good to have it included. I do hope that he sees that my blood is actually on the low side of normal with the clotting. But I have turned it over and will let him decide. I am willing to take the risk, and have known of the risk with all of my previous surgeries. I had a c-sec with my son and my OBGYN and I discussed the possiblity of having another clot. He said that the chances were one in a ton because I was not on the hormones that I was on before, and he said that I should not worry with future surgeries. It is a possible complication. And us fat people get them more than most just because of the sedentary lives we lead, and the high cholesterol we normally have. Thankfully, my cholesterol is only on the high side of normal, and my blood is in the normal thickness range. So my mind is at ease. It just depends on whether or not his mind is at ease. :eek:

watch out! Telly is on the move!! LOL That reminds me. I have been keeping track on my calender at home, but not here. I need to update it. Kathi - it is a slang term used by immature men. LOL But a few of us at the GFG have decided to embrace out weight, embrace or fat, and embrace our FUPAs. LOL Be proud!