Josette

Hubby told on me in front of the doctor:( hahaha He says "why do you weigh that much? You'll be happier with results if you do it a little less then every day!"

My motivation was seeing an episode of Montel Williams where mohammad ali's daughter spoke about having lapband and losing 100+ pounds while I sat at the bedside of my dying mother who was only 49. Seeing her die of ovarian cancer was a wake up call to me. Also I want to have children and I'm not getting any younger. Having babies at 398 pounds is not safe! Plus I wasn't even ovulating. I hope in a year me and hubby can start trying! Until then we'll just practice, which is becoming more and more fun the more I lose!

I can't even eat anything from a fast food resturant on the go. anything with bread gets stuck no matter how much I chew it or how small the bite. anything fried gets stuck. fast food is out of the question for me at this point (thank God!) Get another fill as soon as possible. It'll start getting stuck and you'll be forced to make the better choices! Get drinkable/sippable yogurt to take with you.

all the salad stuff has been fine for me. Shrimp has gotten stuck on me, again, because it's harder to chew up. I got stuck on scrambled eggs and never had them again. No fried eggs. chicken varies all the time for me. I try to avoid it actually because sometimes it can also be hard to chew up. I enjoy ground beef and you're right...the chopper is a wonder! I love that thing. My mom bought me one of those magic bullet mixers and it's heaven sent. I chop a lot of stuff in it and mix a lot of stuff.

Hello all. I'm from the Lansing Area. Had my surgery done in August in Port Huron. I'm VERY happy with the results so far. If anybody has any questions I'd be happy to answer them!

Thank you! My husband talked me into not weighing myself everyday anymore. It's driving him nuts. hahaha. I think I'll wait every two weeks or so. How often do you weigh yourself?

Pictures!!! We want pictures!!!

sometimes I can't eat it.. sometimes I can. I just never know. THe other night my dog got my entire $8 meal after I PB'd for a third time. At lunch last week I ate everything just fine. It just depends on the day or something.

This was on Dec 18, 2006 on our 2nd wedding anniversary.

Robin... I too have noticed that people think it's easy too. I guess they look at it like the gastric bypass where the weight flies off people. I kind of regret telling anybody I had the surgery because they nag the hell out of me about how much I've lost and give me that disappointed look when I don't tell them like 60 pounds already. very annoying! I went to my doctors check up yesterday and I've lost 8 pounds in the past month so he didn't want to do another adjustment. I'm feeling pretty good!

That is awesome faybie!!! I have had that feeling with some of my pants. this morning i actually put on a pair of undies I couldn't fit anymore prior to surgery (because my husband is unemployeed and slacking on the laundry) and they fit perfect. a panty NSV!!! hahaha

Dr. Phil welcomes Sharon Osbourne onstage, where she immediately kicks off her shoes and gets comfortable. “You’re just as busy as ever," Dr. Phil observes. "You’ve got your show in the UK, and you’ve got the X Factor [with Simon Cowell]." "We’re in our third season now," Sharon says proudly. "I can’t believe it. I’ve actually lasted that long without getting fired!" "So, how is Ozzy?" Dr. Phil asks. "He’s wonderful. He’s busy making a new record and getting ready to tour next April," Sharon shares. "Three years this Christmas, [he's] clean and sober." Dr. Phil comments on the tumultuous journey that Sharon chronicles in her new book Extreme. "You’ve climbed a lot of hills. You’ve done a lot of things that most people wouldn’t stand up to," he says. "I’ve been in a lot of holes too," Sharon admits. "Big, deep holes trying to get out." When Dr. Phil asks Sharon about her numerous cosmetic surgery procedures, she rolls her eyes in mock exasperation, then concedes. “I’ve had my boobies done twice. I’ve had a face-lift, neck done. I haven’t had anything done to my eyes or lips," she confesses. "Arms cut and lipo'd. Legs lifted and lipo'd, tummy tuck. Bum lifted and a little implant put in." “Doesn’t that hurt?” Dr. Phil asks. "It hurts, but then again, there’s no gain without pain," Sharon says. "Nothing comes without a price." "So, you’re, like, 50 percent new,” Dr. Phil teases. “So, is there anything you did that you wouldn’t do, if you had it to do all over again?" "The boobs. It’s such a pain," she says. "And you never get it right. One’s always different." Dr. Phil reveals that Sharon is considering removing the gastric band that she had installed in 1999 to lose weight. "Why are you afraid to take this band off? You have anxiety about that," he says. "I do, because I know myself. I know that the first thing I’ll do is eat, eat and eat," Sharon replies. "You’ve been wrestling with this since you were 14. You say you float from size 8 to 22. You said, ‘I go to bed every night thinking about what I’m going to eat tomorrow,'" Dr. Phil points out. "Oh, sure. I go to bed and I have these menus floating in my mind,” Sharon admits. “I’m pathetic.” "What you’ve said is that you think about food all the time, and that when this [band] comes off, you’ll now be able to eat all of those foods without all of the side effects. You’ll gain the weight, but without all the acid reflux, and that sort of thing," Dr. Phil notes. "You’re going to manage it now with, I think you said, therapy. Lots of therapy. But you don’t need lots of therapy. I can tell you how to do this, where it doesn’t have to be an issue in your life ever again.” "How can I ever go past those drive-thrus without looking and smelling and thinking, 'Oh, here I am. I’ll have a large fries and a shake’?” Sharon wonders. "You Celebrate with food. You comfort yourself with food. You entertain yourself with food. You companion yourself with food,” Dr. Phil points out. “Food is tied to every emotion.” Sharon agrees. "I’ll even pick the spot where we go on holiday because of the food," she says. Thumbing through his copy of Extreme, Dr. Phil says, "There was a point in this book that really stuck out to me. You said that you were actually attending a family session for rehab, and you said, 'They just told us like it was. Their father was a drunk and their mother wasn’t there for them. It was unbearable. I didn’t cry. They would only have been tears for me.’ But that was one of the most painful moments in your life to hear that. Why?" "I suppose I had a big thing in life that I wasn’t connected with my mom. I felt my mom didn’t love me. She wasn’t mean to me. She didn’t hit me. She didn’t do anything to me. That was the thing," Sharon reveals. "I just would hear other people in these group sessions talk about their moms and dads and I couldn’t breathe. I had to run out of the place.” "But the truth is, you’ve lived your life for your children. I know two of your three children,” Dr. Phil says. “They are connected to you in an amazingly close way. So, that had to be surprising to hear [the counselors] say that, and then you think, ‘Are they feeling what I felt with my mother?'” "I always tried to not make the mistakes that I felt my mom made with me,” Sharon says through tears. "It seems like you’ve always kind of thrived on crisis. There’s always been crisis in your life, whether it was the kids or it was Ozzy," Dr. Phil observes. Sharon says, “I was born into crisis. The family where I came from, there was always drama, always a crisis, always a whirlwind going on. You’d get carried up in it." Dr. Phil mentions some life-threatening incidents that Sharon has endured. "You’ve had the battle with cancer, and you never blinked. You just kept moving right on through it. Then Ozzy’s accident on the ATV. He’s in a coma and you don’t know if he’s going to wake up," he says. "Then the kids and the drama that they have brought into your life. Is the silence going to be deafening now with the kids gone? It’s just kind of you and Ozzy at this point, and that makes me worry that you will start using food in a way that will blow you back up. And I’m not just worried about how you look in the mirror. What I’m worried about at this point is your health. If you gain all that weight with your history of cancer, you don’t want all of that weight on you." "My body was failing me before I had the band on. I couldn’t move. In the morning to get out of bed, to put my feet down on the ground, it would be two, three minutes before my feet would stop hurting," Sharon says. "That’s no way to live." In Extreme, Sharon details her often volatile and violent relationship with Ozzy. "What did you hit him in the back of the head with the day that he broke your two front teeth out?" Dr. Phil asks. "A bottle of gin or vodka. I know it was some white stuff in there,” Sharon recalls. "It struck the back of his head.” "That could have killed him," Dr. Phil points out. "I know,” Sharon says. "That’s why when people go, ‘Oh, you were abused,' oh please! I gave as good as I got. I know how to stick up for myself.” "You told me two years ago, and you have it in the book too, that you guys have moved 27 times in 25 years." "Oh, don’t be shocked,” Sharon tells the audience. "You say you’re getting ready to move again." Laughing, Sharon says, "Do I have a problem?" "No, people do that in everyday life; they just call it camping,” Dr. Phil jokes.You said something that I thought was really interesting about empty nesting. You said, ‘The kids were such a big part of my life and now they’re gone and they say they need me, but that’s just bulls**t,'" Dr. Phil says. "I need them,” Sharon says. “I think I need them more than they need me." "That’s not necessarily a bad thing," Dr. Phil says. "I think it’s sad,” she says. “It sounds very sad to be at 54 and say, 'You know, I call my kids 10 times a day each: ‘Where are you going? Who have you been with? What’s going on?’ I think it’s sad. I should learn to back off.” "You didn’t tell me you were calling them 10 times a day," Dr. Phil teases. Dr. Phil warns Sharon that when the gastric band comes off, she needs to put something in its place instead of food. “You’re going to wind up with the same results if you don’t change your entire lifestyle about this,” he warns. “You’ve got to make a decision that this is something you want to do for yourself, not for somebody else, and it’s got to be a lifestyle. You’ve got to change your thinking. You’ve got to change your feelings. You’ve got to change your environment. You’ve got to change your impulses.” When Dr. Phil tells Sharon that she needs to exercise as well, she says, “Oh, shopping! Running to the store.” “If there is a way that I can set up for you to go through this, where you don’t have to diet, and you don’t have to be hungry, and you don’t have to suffer, and you don’t have to eat carrots and broccoli all the time, would you do it?" "Yeah," she replies. He and Sharon shake hands.

AMEN!!!!! Good luck on your date. I'll be waiting to hear how it went. I dated online for a couple years. Met some nice guys. Met some that were only one date wonders. But it all was a learning lesson. I posted full size pics on my profile because I didn't want someone responding to my add that didn't like heavy women. I also put on there that I was Large (the biggest size) and I still met my husband and we've been married 2 years this coming Monday. I hope you have a GREAT time. I put on my profile "I'm a fun loving woman and even if we're not attracted I'm sure we'd remain friends" and I have remained friends with some of the men that there was no attraction with.

You guys are awesome. I'm just not motivated right now. Sorry

we're falling off the MAP! AHHH!!! I couldn't find the thread for a minute. So I'm trying to motivate myself to start an exercise routine. I've been dealing with depression and it's hard. It's dark when I leave for work and dark when I leave work. Plus I feel like I'm missing my mom a lot more this year. Last year I think I was just in shock and now I feel really lost without her. I'm still bouncing around the 30 pound mark and I don't know if I should get another adjustment or not. I get a LOT of stuff stuck and I think I am ignoring when I'm full or just plain eating too fast. am I alone?

Alex... Don't be too hard on yourself. Hearing the word Cancer can turn your life upside down and even after the prognosis, etc. it still leaves lingering effects because it shocks and scares you to your very core. Hang in there. You'll get back on the wagon. You've done a great job so far. Just give yourself a little bit of mental/emotional recovery time.

Josette is my actual first name. Most people call me Josie though. Hello everyone! My mom got Josette from the 70's soap opera Dark Shadows.

Hilarious!!!!! I have everyone at work doing it.

Dr. Boutt in Port Huron at the Lapband Center of Michigan

I have PCOS and have a lot of symptoms of it. weight gain in the midsection instead of the buns and hips. darkening of the skin around the neck and underarms. hair growing on my double chin. I hate it! Plus periods that were nonexistant. Since surgery in august I have lost 30 pounds and got my period on my own for the first time in my life. I see the darkening on the skin fading also. I'm very happy.

you know it girlfriend!!!!

I was 393 when I got the band. You're not too heavy. The choice is purely yours but if you don't want gastric bypass then don't do it! GOod luck hon!

I know I'm a little late but here's my big hug for my sister!!! Love ya! *************HHHHHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGG************

how the heck did you do that???

I love the color BLUE! All the orniments were gifts from family and friends. We had a christmas wedding so we asked for orniments for gifts. Got a bunch of em!