moonchild713

OH I DON'T think you want the by pass! I know to many people that have gained back weight with it... U can stretch that pouch. My mother cousin lost like 90 and then started to eat and put 50 back on on by pass. We think the band keeps you on track. U will want something good to eat and u will have to have it... BUT the band will keep you from eating it all..... Just hang in there u will like the band. by pass is so much more involved....... Look what Ben lost in a year! U don't want it to come off to fast... Then you have skin stretched and hanging. slow and steady wins the race!!!! doctors will push you in that direction they did with me! NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!! I have Ben friend you so you can talk to him!

Hang in there

Tammy:thumbup:

yeah this page is good and bad!!! My son thinks so to! He and his band are for real... and he says allot of of what he reads is about how you and cheat the band! boy that make him mad! He really has done well and is 100 lbs. off! tomorrow is his anniversary date for his band! he is 23. I can give you help, but he is like the poster child of this! Our Dr.(newlin) is en-pressed with how well he is doing. so any problems or questions just e him! I will have him friend you.... If you want! So that is great you passed on green light! I know they make you go do allot but I think it's a good thing. I know you have to be ready to do it. Oh boy I was such a baby about it! I was really up-set..... REALLY it was easy! I have had other operations and I thought it would be painful it really was not!!!! there is no internal pain. I had more problems with the gas they use to blow u up with so they can work! It was not that bad at all! Oh my name is Tammy by the way.....:thumbup:

hey I'm living here in Altoona!!! did you go to Dr. Newlin? I don't go to the Altoona Hospital meetings. Went one time It was Ok. E me back to chat!

Hey buddy how you doing??? have not heard from you..

yeah I was gonna tell U it was NASTY! but some people like it. My cousin Mary Ann when she comes in from Mich. She take 4 pounds home with her!!! I come to the burg allot! My friends daughter goes to Vet Tech school Down Town. sometime I ride along. But I love to shop at the strip!!!! I wanter to gcome over for the parade, but it was a little short notice... GO STEELERS! My husband works for Norfolk Southern railroad and he works with a guy that lives in Crandberry. I have been up that way. We come over to the starlite car show @ this BIG church.. It's like every friday night starting end of may. Oh who the guy Darrell works with his name is Dave Foley(I think that is spelled right) He wife works out at the Y allot they have 3 kids. you prob don't know them.... SOOO how are you doing with the band? I was banded on June 12, 2008 and I'm about 60 pounds off......

yeah I don't eat it!!! but when all the relatives come home they want it! I live in Altoona now! It's not that great... Depressed area.... but my husband grew up here and we purchased his family home and raised our son here.... So I go to Philly and the burg allot! I'm a city girl for sure!!!!!! Do you live in the burg?