janesays

AWESOME JOB!! You are kicking ass and taking names with your pre-op diet. It definitely does get a lot easier the last half of the diet, since your stomach is so much more used to eating less. If only I could start losing again, now.... haha. First fill in two weeks! Couldn't come sooner!

hey banded twenties... I'm just curious. My doctor and his nurses keep talking about how it's different for people our age to be banded because we get a lot more peer pressure to eat, drink, etc. So far I haven't encountered any problems eating because everyone is home for Thanksgiving break. But that is changing pretty soon. I know I can avoid going out to eat for a while, but eventually someone will wonder what's up... birthday dinners, tailgates, lunch with a friend between classes, parties, dinner dates (heh- few and far between), winter/spring/summer break vacations.... all of these include social eating or drinking events and I wasn't planning on cutting them out of my life completely! Any tips here? How do you hide eating and drinking in moderation when people are used to the old you? Has anyone had any problems (someone saying something, pressuring you, etc) and how did you deal with it?

what! thats crazy! my 6th grade teacher would have told us alcohol was an abomination.. well, that changed a few years later i guess. her daughter is one of my good friends and senior year of high school i went over to her house, and there was my 6th grade teacher, drunk and walking around in her underwear. mind blowing.

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haha did you learn that move from coyote ugly? i swear, that movie taught me many life lessons

haha you go kristylynn!

i've been drinking socially since i was about 16, and proud to say i've never thrown up from it (well, except for that one time when we had really gross mexican food afterwards, but i'll always blame it on the food) .... i have been a little nervous approaching drinking now that i'm banded. i guess we'll see how i do... hopefully i'll have my body figured out by the time i have my 21st birthday in march! my 110 pound 5 foot 4 roommate did 21 shots in 21 hours... i have a feeling i'll be getting a lot of pressure to drink a lot because of that...

yeah, my thanksgiving was a little lonely too but today i am alright with that! because i just had my surgery too, my mom and step-dad flew up to be with me this week instead of the usual all of the kids flying or driving home to meet at their house. but i couldn't sit with them at dinner-- it would have been too hard! while they ate a delicious thanksgiving feast at the hotel they are staying at, i went to my apartment and watched the john and kate plus 8 marathon on TLC. i watched it for like.... 5 hours! but they are soooooo cute, so i didn't really mind. after they finished eating they brought me up a taste of mashed potatoes that i can handle, but i definitely got VERY full off of that. mostly i just stuck to my Protein supplement all day. i don't think i lost any weight, but i DEFINITELY didn't gain any! next year will be better... and even if i don't eat that much at least i will be thinner! :w00t:

please let your daughter know about the twenties thread on this forum! it is probably one of only 3 places i visit on this forum regularly, but it is sooo nice to talk with people my age going through the same things. i am 20, and there are a lot of people there 18-26ish so we all can kind of relate with a lot of things. it looks like she has been emailed by a few people so i don't want to bombard her with emails, lol. now that she has gotten a few hopefully she will come to the site and see how helpful it is. if you would still like me to email her, let me know and i can. i started out wanting to be all anonymous and alone but i really got into it after a few months, pictures and weight updates and all. it really helps to know people have got your back. please let her know she is welcome to come find me on here! or i can find her! and feel free to private message me if you two need anything. you sound like you are a good mom, by the way! i always complain to my mom that she is hovering too much or that she needs to let me be independent... but secretly deep down i really like it. shhh.. don't tell my mom! i hear she reads this site too! (hi mom!)

thanks scarecrow! yeah, before surgery i was able to find the most AMAZING Protein supplement in the world, jay robb's whey protein isolates (chocolate or vanilla), but he also makes a soy protein version so i think i will try that next! i could only find it at one grocery store in town, but they also sell it online if that store stops keeping it in stock. but seriously, it tastes sooo good, the vanilla mixed with sf vanilla pudding and a little skim milk tastes like cake batter... the chocolate mixed with sf choc pudding tastes like brownie batter! haha and the best part is the nutrition value! i had to bring it in to my nutritionist to check it out because i just couldn't believe that something could taste so good yet be so good for you. 25g of protein a scoop, so before surgery i was getting in like 70-80g of protein a day and now i am getting in about 50g of protein a day. (though i struggle some days-- it just makes me so full! but i really am trying on this one). and thank you SO much for the advice on the scars! they still have the steri-strips on, barely, because the doc said to just take them off after ten days if they haven't fallen off on their own. it's been 8 days. they are starting to scab over which is good... but sometimes it just gets sooo ichy! i scratch around them but never on them. i have a bad habit of picking at things so i will do my best to stay AWAY from them! except for when i wash them every day with regular soap and Water when im in the shower.... im guessing that's ok to do. thanks so much for all the advice!