AlyCat

Thank you Diane! Here is what i got: Two pretty zulugrass necklaces. One is a pretty green color with beads and the other is a tan one. She also sent me cute tissues for my bag that had flowers all over them. Not to mention how extremely cool they were wrapped. They were placed in crackers (pull one end and they pop open in the middle). :clap2: I hope you have a great holiday. I tried to send you a thank you e-mail but it was returned back to me. I tried it again because I wasn't sure if the last letter was an n or a m before the @ sign. Anyways. Happy April and Happy Easter!!! ~Aly

I'm only allowed specific protein shakes allowed by my doctor. I'm 3 weeks pre op and use carb solutions choc. they are pretty good and smell nice too. I buy them off of drugstore.com

I have been overweight since the second grade. I am 22 years old and have tried weight watchers time and time again along with doing the eliptical at the gym and kickboxing. The most I ever lost was 25 lbs and I hgained it back and then some ina year and from then on my weight keeps rising. I am so unhappy with my weight, it is the only bad thing in my life and does horrible things to my self esteem. I have spent hours researching this and my desire to have it is more than the anxiety of getting surgery (i have only had my teeth out!) I am so ready for this and my road ahead. I have my physical tomorrow, and an appointment with the surgeon soon too. I also have a thryoid disorder and Irritable bowel syndrome so I can't eat "healthy diet foods" I appreciate any feedback that you have or would like to give to me. March 15th 2006 is the big day!! 1/23/06 today I had my upper GI X- ray. It wasn't that bad. I was nervous but you didn't have to drink too much. I just hugged it and held my nose. It was almost like a milkshake with chalkyness. 2/12/06 All my tests are done and everything is set to go. The only thing is that I'm still waiting on the insurance aproval. 2/17 I'm approved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3-15-06 I'm home and banded! Everythimg is going well but I'm sore. will update more later 3-20-06 minus another 9lbs since surgery so together its 26 lbs 4-3-06 So glad to be on pureed foods! I love ricotta cheese with spagetti sauce! I lost another 4 .5 lbs for a total of 31:clap2: Interests: I love reading magazines to catch up on the latest gossip. I'm in college to become a teacher so I try to stay up to dat on all the current events by reading the newspaper everyday. I love bath and body products. I'm pretty easy to please and enjoy many things.

I have been overweight since the second grade. I am 22 years old and have tried weight watchers time and time again along with doing the eliptical at the gym and kickboxing. The most I ever lost was 25 lbs and I hgained it back and then some ina year and from then on my weight keeps rising. I am so unhappy with my weight, it is the only bad thing in my life and does horrible things to my self esteem. I have spent hours researching this and my desire to have it is more than the anxiety of getting surgery (i have only had my teeth out!) I am so ready for this and my road ahead. I have my physical tomorrow, and an appointment with the surgeon soon too. I also have a thryoid disorder and Irritable bowel syndrome so I can't eat "healthy diet foods" I appreciate any feedback that you have or would like to give to me. March 15th 2006 is the big day!! 1/23/06 today I had my upper GI X- ray. It wasn't that bad. I was nervous but you didn't have to drink too much. I just hugged it and held my nose. It was almost like a milkshake with chalkyness. 2/12/06 All my tests are done and everything is set to go. The only thing is that I'm still waiting on the insurance aproval. 2/17 I'm approved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3-15-06 I'm home and banded! Everythimg is going well but I'm sore. will update more later 3-20-06 minus another 9lbs since surgery so together its 26 lbs 4-3-06 So glad to be on pureed foods! I love ricotta cheese with spagetti sauce! I lost another 4 .5 lbs for a total of 31:clap2: Interests: I love reading magazines to catch up on the latest gossip. I'm in college to become a teacher so I try to stay up to dat on all the current events by reading the newspaper everyday. I love bath and body products. I'm pretty easy to please and enjoy many things.

I had to get the upper gi (drinking stuff) and it wasn't that bad. I also had to get an edg which you get done in a hospital under anestesia. I'm the biggest baby and it was fine. I also had to get a stress test, ekg, and halter monitor and blood work and I'm only 22! but the insurance covered it on the fist letter!!! march 15th is my day:)

I have been on synthroid for years and I just got approved for my surgery. I think my doctor actually put that in my letter to persuade the insurance comapny to o.k. it. Good luck to you!

I too will be getting banded by wonderful Dr.Kwon on March 15th. I went to the NY message board but only saw three posts? is there a way to see all of the NY members?

I too go to this support group. It's every other Monday at 6:45-8 in Goshen at Delancy's behinde Goshen Diner.