justduckie

Hello -- I'm new to this board and I was banded on May 1st. I like this thread because so many people are going thru the process the same time as I. One week post-op and I feel good. I mean REALLY GOOD! I'm not sure how much I've lost since I don't trust my home scale, so I just took a guess at what my weight is now. I know I've lost quite a bit....I can feel it in my clothes. But who wouldn't on just liquids?! I'm finally drinking soup and protien drinks and I think that's why I feel so much better. For those that have just had surgery, my biggest downer was only eating broth and jello. Yuck! How can you not get depressed eating just that? I counted the HOURS till I was able to get off that "diet". The big three keys to weightloss according to my dr. was get your protien (Check!) Exercise EVERY DAY (Check!) and drink at least 64 oz. of WATER every day (Check!!!!) I'm trying very hard to stick with it and right now it's not hard since I took vacation for my surgery and haven't been back to work (go back dayshift on Friday). But I must say, so far, so good!

I'm a self pay and I took out a loan against my 401K to pay for mine. As for withdrawing.....call your plan administrator and they should be able to tell you if you can withdraw or not. I know the government has laws on what you can just take the money out for, but I don't remember if medical bills was one. Good luck! I know it was the best $17,000 I ever spent.