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Hi Teresa...Congrats on your successful banding and hope you are recovering well! What is your hubby's name so that we may be praying for him? Thanks to him and you for serving our country in the most noble way! And as you need it, we are here for YOUR support, the least we can do while hubby is away. Please make sure you do take the time to take good care of yourself...wow, the new woman hubby will come home to! I understand the Senior thing as my son graduated this year, and one more as a Sophomore! Blessings and safety to you and family! :wink_smile:

December Week 2 2 B Banded...we are up! Thank you to all the week 1 'Bandsters' for coming in with reports and great tips/hidden hints, we could not learn from a book! You go Kerry, our forerunner of the week, and all other 12/08/08 surgeries! Keeping us all in prayer for continuing speedy & whole recoveries as well as wisdom to start the Bandster lifestyles! By the way, on the Wii Fit, it is a great interactive tool to use in starting out any kind of program, and also, helps you to continue to work the core...while learning balancing. It tracks your BMI & weight, while helping to set goals. The step and boxing are actually fun to challenge yourself in, and that does get the heart rate up! I lost inches & weight on it w/o having started any dieting, and it is so fun to try different activities! Just my 2 cents worth, I am looking forward to the J. Micheals Wii Fit version next! Have a blessed day!:biggrin:

Welcome back Pete! So glad you came through it well, and that you had company! Great job in the walk walk walk and water! Hope you have a safe journey home and hear from ya then! P.S. Get some flowers for your wonderful wife, too!

Welcome back, Joann, Mike and all of week one! Joann, so glad you are doing so well, was looking for you, and found your first post! Hope the healing and recovery are quick and whole, with less and less pain and gas! Thank you for coming back in with every report, helps to keep us on the right track with many added hints to make it simpler along the way! Please keep them coming! Hooray for our December Forerunners that are shining from the rough (Diamonds that is!) December Week 2, we are up! The countdown is on, and the serious nesting begins! hehe, Here we go!!!:thumbup:

Hi Veronica... maybe our name should be... 2shy4pics! I am right with you on that, want to have something to show, (like some room in the ole pants, lol) for all this hard work.... also with you on the after...have been doing the heart/head work for over a year now... I just remember it is our tummy not our brain being banded! Have a great pre-op day!:tongue2:

Yeahhhhh Pete, what a great report before your surgery, and you are about to give one tooo! Tell your wife congrats...and that this is gonna be better than before! How exciting! And too cool, that she will be off next week to be your main support! It is going to go well! Will see you on the other side!!! Thank You Lord!:whatchutalkingabout

Welcome back Vickie! So sorry to hear it is a rough go, how is your BP and rate now? Have you been able to walk? Did you call your Doc about the pain? Just curious on how to take care of these things, sure hope you are dong better! And yes, you did the right thing! (Please share that with me when my time comes, lol) Please keep us updated on your progress!

Welcome back Veronica! So glad you are joining us again...I am set for the 10th, but check the other threads...a few have started already and are doing well! Good for you, not giving up and staying the course...as we learn to work with this tool, we'll be a jumpin this hurdle altogether!!! Have a good healthy pre-op day!

Hi rstroud100...congrats to your wife...how did she do? We have a group, December 2008, under monthly groups, if you would like to bring her in there..it is a monthful of Bandsters, that just started this week, til the end of the month! Great support and all can identify with each of the steps...we have had 3 great reports of surgery already! Message me, if you cannot find it, and bless you for being there with your wife, immediate family/friends - the best support we cannot do without!!!:cursing:

Thank -you, FPete, Trina & Bandtastic, anyone else who has gotten out there to walk & move! Perhaps we will do another one after everyone is banded and healed, ready to start moving again! I just wanted to share, I have not been as faithful as I would have like to been, to walk everyday, but I did get in 90min+ per week, and when I went to Home Depot yesterday(large store to get around in) I could actually feel the difference in my back and legs, stronger and energetic! So we are allll walking into surgery with ready hearts to get healthy and then walking the lbs right off!:cursing:

Hi Tamra, so sorry this has happened, will be prayin for your leg surgery, and then STILL the band! Please know our thoughts are with you, and we will be looking for your leg surgery report and the band! You are still one of us Holiday Hotties...cause there are Holidays in Jan & Feb! Go 2b-banded...and don't change that name!!!:cursing:

Yeah Doxie! Welcome back! I can certainly identify with 2 lovable pups, we have 2 Doxie/Chiuahua girls, and know how they enjoy cuddling and burrowing! I will def enjoy petting them while down. Glad to hear you are feeling/doing well and with great support to boot! Will def ask for c. broth from DH when home. You go girl!:cursing:

Amen, with Joanne (and for you), keeping in prayers Mike, Pete and all 2b-banded this week! Our great forerunners, we are a blessed month of Decembers...cause miracles are happening, now! BTW, did you all see our Poster Guy Pete..the brave hearted guy on the Home page? You go Pete, I am still shy bout doing that! lol Just keep the kind heart going, and now getting it healthy! :cursing:

Welcome back Sue and Sooverit! Sue...so glad you are still doing well, and thank you for the reacher tip(I am short 2, lol), I will have that by my bedside! Sooverit, Yeah, you go, another forerunner, and more lbs. biting the dust!!! I am fortunate that I am a planned stay over, hospital 2 hours from home, yes, still Kaisers closer (just in case). It is so cool getting the reports, helping our prepping...one week! And for one of our fearless leaders, JoannMarie, blessings to you, quick healing and recovery...as she is prob banded by now! BTW, did you all see Florida Pete's pics on the home page? You know he has the biggest of hearts! Have a blessed day in preps, surgery and recovery!:cursing:

Hi Sue, another forerunner you are, cool, sounds like you are doing well! Thank you for coming back so quick with a report, helps us still in the 'pre-op' stage! Also for the hint on the hurts...had 2 C-sections, so that encourages me, and will remember to keep on top of pain (even if its nasty medicine - like Bugs Bunny said! hehe) Have a blessed recovery!:smile2:

YEahhhh Trina! Our first Dec bandster, the forerunner! Thanks for posting so quickly, am hoping others will too. Good job on the walking, you go girl! Glad to see you starting us all off well!

Cool...hey I will even be thankful for 10!!! I know, I know, how about the threederland, twoderland, onderland!!! Yeah!!! Ok, guess I am getting really ready, only a week away, so stamina, endurance and hope to all who are being banded this week!:cursing:

Thank you for your creativity Pete! I even added my date!!! We pray that the kindness, and time you give to others will be returned back to you during your time of surgery, travel and with your family! So what is the next art creativity...25 lbs lost? hehehe Have a blessed day! :cursing:

Hi Ladies, just wanted to check in and see how everyone is doing, am starting a Lean & Green Pre-op today (2 shakes, 1 meal). Is everyone having jitters like me? 1 week to go, before I go down to San Francisco, and so much to do to prepare, nesting! Hope everyone is WELL, not getting sick at all and ready!:thumbup:

2b-banded, will be a prayin for you...you have worked so hard for this! Please keep us updated on your surgeries... Say Pete, is it possible to post some kind of calendar? Been writing them down (from Do you have a Dec Date Thread). Would be cool to have name/state perhaps? Thanks for the siggies, gonna go get mine! Hope pre-ops and a walkin are going well! :thumbup:

Go forth December Bandsters...will be a praying for each of you this week, for steady handed surgeon teams, no complications and kind nurses! Will be excited to see your stories! :thumbup:

Hi December Bandsters! Don't like to do stats, but it is a good measure before, then for the after I suppose! 48...want to be Phat for 50, 12/10/08 Dec Diamond in the rough, Kaiser, South San FRancisco, Sunny California (but NOT sweating the recovery...literally!) Started at 230, now bout 213-210... so we will seeeeee! Have a blessed rest and Pre-op with steady handed surgeon teams! :thumbup:

Thanks Fran & Pete for the encouraging words. Welcome, Bandtastic! As Fran said, I believe ANY exercise we get moving in now will help with the surgery, just getting the muscles and blood a pumping, if even to help our body relieve the stress we can be going through in preparing for the surgery! I am so amazed at how my blood pressure esp. just DROPS from walking consistently. Something I am surprised at, I am now looking to park a few more spaces away, instead the very front one, because I CAN walk more steps because I want to! The challenge goes on with us as a team, and preparing all over for the new life on the horizon!:rolleyes2:

I did it! I did IT! Today was our 5K Mercy Ministries Run/Walk (of course I walked) and did 19 min miles, with a 60 min time! It really felt good, last year I did it at about 20 lbs. +, and came in very last place. This year, I jogged in the last quarter and wasn't last! Amazing what 20-25 lbs lost can do...excited for it to be more, but in slow, steady and sure phases, why the band!:thumbup:

Hi Mjenkins! Am right there with you in the Pre in Pre-op! Did you happen to see the 21-30-51 challenge? The 30 is for those who are about 30 days, lil less now, for 30 min challenge before surgery! I have done it on and off, but now I am challenged (have since Mon!) to do it for the 27 days left til our week of dates! Please join us! Esp, if we don't, Florida Pete will win, and we can't let that happen, he is a guy! hehehe, Just kidding Pete...lead the way (only cause his wonderful Wife is helping):Dancing_sorry:!