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alright katiebug, ms. LBT inspiration 2008-09! if there were an award you would totally be getting it....

by the way, i see you got a new hair color-- very cute!

aw oh no i'm sorry! i haven't pb'd yet... hopefully never but i'm not getting my hopes up.... a little early for me though.

feel better!

aw thank you laurita! good luck, i hope you get approved. if you dont, fight them-- i wish i had fought mine a little harder... think of all the money i would have saved! but nevertheless, i am sooo happy i had my surgery. my life is completely different now. i DO have a little bit of loose skin-- mostly on my arms and lower tummy. it bothers me, but wearing clothes you cant tell AT ALL. and i think i have had a better result by exercising-- interval training, running, lifting weights and the sort. it took a lot of hard work and it will be a few months before i am finally ready to "maintain"... but if i stopped where i am right now i would be totally happy!

keep in touch and let me know if you have any more questions

aw yeah, no fun. but its over soon! you can have christmas ham... broth. haha

progress is good! losing again, slowly. i got my first fill wednesday! yay!

AWW you are one of my bestest lapband buddies! so what happens if your blood work comes back saying you have a clotting disorder? try not to let it get to you too much, i know its hard but you're right-- at least now you know you can do the liquid diet! and hey-- its so much easier to do only liquids after you've been on it awhile, so you might as well lose weight while you're waiting around for those slow utah-ians!

MERRY CHRISTMAS CHELSEA! you are awesome! i would have cried for weeks so clearly you are a stronger person than i am

chin up m'dear

bek! i just saw your post about being too tight-- im soo sorry and i hope you went to the doc and got that figured out by now! i had the same problem in late march-early may, although i was at 7cc (and over those 2 months i got multiple small unfills down to 6cc with no progress). it was awful throwing up everything, eventually i couldnt even get down liquids! i definitely lost a lot then, but in a really unhealthy way and i wouldnt do it again. it seems pretty obvious to me now that my band slipped! after they unfilled it, luckily it was early enough for my band to just go right back into place. i have 3cc now, but that is pretty much nothing for me since my doc put my band in me with 5cc! but i am so much happier not getting stuck all the time or being worried eating in front of other people. still losing weight, just through some newfound willpower, eating right and exercising.

anyways, hope all is getting better! and still waiting for my bf/trainer to arrive in the mail...

does your insurance not let you have the surgery if you go under a 40 bmi while on the pre-diet? i know a lot of insurance companies allow it (some have restrictions that you cant go below a 35 bmi) as long as your doctor has documented your high weight. i would find out if i were you, the more weight you lose before the band, the easier and faster your journey will be for you! i lost about 20 pounds in the months before my surgery.

either way, definitely stay strong during these next few months! you can do it! do your best to at least not GAIN any weight, because i know how guilty i would have felt in the first month or two of being banded just trying to get back down to the first weight!

and besides, its always good to get in the habit of things before you actually have the surgery. all it does is make life easier for you!

good im so glad everything went well! yeah its funny that the hardest part of the post op diet is getting ENOUGH food! total 180 for us, right huh? haha well once you heal you will get hungry... which is what happened to me until i got a fill. my first fill was a day before it hit 4 weeks. that helped me stay full until i slowly started needing more, so my next fill is at about 7 weeks post surgery (this coming wednesday). my surgeon's office does things differently and schedules fills ahead of time, so my 3rd fill is at 10 weeks post surgery, and i have a 4th fill at 12 weeks if i need it. hopefully in the next few months i will find the perfect restriction because right now i am trying realllly hard not to eat.. but my stomach is growling! time for an adjustment, definitely.

let me know if you have any more questions!

haha it might be good to experience other places... briefly. and yeah sometimes i forget that other states didn't learn about their state history for an entire year, but then again, they don't have as much awesome history as we do.

oh and, six flags? there were only 6 flags flying over texas, there were never six flags flying over.... missouri.

haha well i read some astrological stuff in magazines, and apparently us pisces girls have full lips.... true for both you and me so far.

thanks so much! in addition to the weight i lost over the past few months, ive lost about 15 lbs since surgery 7 weeks ago, so about 2 pounds a week on average. just where i want to be!

haha you got me. when i read your wall post i was like "i don't think i said anything funny?" so i had to read what i wrote again, and yeah. texas is the best state. its serious.

like i said. jealousy. its no big deal, we get it all the time.

hell yeah we do! i'm feeling about 97% today. when do you start your pre-op or have you already started?

and i had a pretty non-existent thanksgiving this year, haha. how was yours?

hey chocolate snaps! ive been keeping an eye on your progress every now and then, and i just thought i should tell you straight up that you are doing AWESOME!!! you are definitely one of my motivators here haha, and i bet you didnt even know it. do you have any update pictures? i'd love to see how much hotter (if that's even possible!) you have gotten since 8-4-2008, the last time you updated your pic albums.

hope to "see" you soon!

-Jane

hey girl! im doing well how about yourself? sorry just saw i didnt reply to your last message about 2 months ago! if that exercise tape you were talking about is anything like jillian michaels 30 min shred, then you are right! its a good way to get in cardio if you can push yourself through the whole 30 minutes! i love it.

how is your fill? hopefully you still arent too tight.

hey hey! well today was a little rough.... felt a bit sick all afternoon and wanted to throw up but of course couldn't.. haha. It's all good now, but I think I'll stick to jello and pudding for the rest of the night...

how are you doing?

hey isabella! just wanted to say great job, and thanks for posting your update pictures! i remember looking at your pics almost a year ago or so, and it gave me so much hope! now that im losing about 10lbs a month on average and about halfway to my original goal, it helps to see your "after" pics again.

anyways, just wanted to say hi!

hey katie! how you been lately? i just read somewhere that you said you are from frisco! i go to college in missouri now, but i was born in dallas and grew up in plano. park and preston intersection area, if you know where that is.

anyways, just saying hi! see you around the forum

hey thanks for the pic comment! i work out a lot now, but that was a gradual change in me... im totally addicted now! i started working out lightly before surgery (but i guess on and off i had always been a little bit active). about a month after surgery i started working out hardcore 5X a week, but things got busy with school about two months later and the only real exercise i did for feb-beginning of may was a lot of walking every day. for the past two months though, i have been working out anywhere from 4-6X a week, this last month i have worked out with a trainer for 2 of those days each week. i needed to wait until i was ready to put my everything into exercising... now i LOVE it! cant believe im one of those people... haha

good luck to you! you have made amazing progress already in your pics! let me know if you have any other questions

hey thanks girl! you know ive just still been counting my calories everyday, and im eating around 1000 net cals a day (so more if i exercise). but im eating kind of like a bird-- so like 4 or 5 smaller meals a day.

and just walking everyday, but i need to get back in the habit of some hardcore exercising everyday... bc im losing all that muscle i built up a few months ago!

hey thanks!

ok so seriously!?! no april fools? i saw that relationship status change on facebook about you and your friend but based on your comments about it i thought it was just you two playing a trick on your friends or something.

so if you say its legit then thats AWESOME! who cares if you plateaued for a bit if you are in a happy relationship! so when are you moving to texas, and to where specifically? you know how much i love my home state...

hey! are you going to the support group meeting tomorrow? (er, tonight now i guess! i'm a night owl haha)

hope to see you there!

Hey! I'm doing really well, thanks for thinking of me. I have about 15 lbs to go to goal, which will be slow but I think I can definitely make it by the end of the year. That's all I want.

How about you??

hi chelsea's mama! i can see where she gets her natural good looks from

great job on all of your weight loss! im glad LBT has gotten me to meet you and your daughter... she is pretty awesome!

hi regina, my name is jane, ive been watching your profile and think you would be a nice person to talk to!

......just kidding..... but where have you BEEN?!? update pretty please

hiii! thanks so much for the compliments and for checking in on me. you are so sweet! i saw your before/current pics and my my you have changed! so proud of you for all you have accomplished and for your drive to continue!

hope all is well