Libbyjane1976

Hi Carrie!!!! Yea i haven't been on here in forever either!!! I'm doing good. Got my weight to under 200 lbs for the first time in my adult life. Just kind of been maintaining my weight lately. Work is going good. Home life is going good. Ditched my boyfriend. Been out on a couple dates since but haven't found anyone. Just weirdos! lol. Are you still in Illinois? Hows that going?

Welcome to LBT and congrats on making the decision to change your life for the best!!!

Just remember the lap band is a tool to help you lose weight. It doesn't prevent you from shoving the wrong foods into your mouth. You have to control that part but it will do it's part for you! I was 315 lbs when I started out and today I'm 194 ish. I still have 50 lbs to go but I will get there and so will you! Good luck!

Welcome to lbt! I know this seems like the hardest thing you will ever do in your life. You can get through the liquid diet. After a couple of days you are fine. The surgery itself wasn't that bad. I was in and out of the hospital in the same day. Recovery was sore. I could not get comfortable at all. It was uncomfortable to sit, laydown, etc. After a few days you heal and it gets better!

Hey Carrie!!! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you. I'm still doing good. Gained 2 lbs but what the hay it's the holidays so i'm going to enjoy them. After the 1st I will get back on the health bandwagon again. Me and my boyfriend broke up last month. I'm doing good though. I'm moving on. Losing weight sure does boost the confidence in the romance department!!! ttyl.

Carrie carrie carrie how ya doing????? How's life in IL? I'm doing great. I'm at my sweet spot i'm under 200 lbs for the first time since I was 18 life is great!!!!!

Hey! I see you are from Holly. I'm not too far from you (I grew up in Lake Orion). Recently banded huh? Congrats to you!!! I will be 2 years out come January 28th. It was the best decision I ever made. As your band gets tighter you won't be able to eat as much just make sure what you are eating matters. It's going to be a hard journey. If there's any questions you have feel free to msg me

Hey Carrie! My summer's been great so far. I've overcome my plateu and have officially lost 100 lbs. I feel so great. I went to my doc 6 weeks ago and she gave me a fill that put me at my "sweet spot" and since that time i've lost 10 lbs.

I had a great 4th of July. I went to my mom's house in Allegan, MI and we spent the whole time at the beach. It was great!

As for you the reason why you are probably continuously getting stuck is because you are upchucking (for lack of a better word) too much and the area has become inflamed. Have you tried going on a liquid diet for a week or so (while you heal) and then tried going back to regular foods? How many cc's do you have?I notice that humidity plays into things alot. on those hot and humid days I have a very hard time keeping food down.

Hi Carrie! I haven't logged in here in a really long time. I'm doing great. I've hit a plateu but I went and got a fill and since then i'm starting to move past it. Hopefully the rest of the weight (last 78 lbs) will melt off me! How are things with you?

Thanks Carrie! I really appreciate it.

yea I know. I've been very bad about getting on this site lately.

Heck yea it is on January 28th!!! I can't believe it's been almost a year. By then I will be down 90+ lbs!!! Gone forever!!!! Thank god.

Hey Carrie! I'm doing great! Glad the holidays and all the "tempting" foods are gone!!! How was your New Year's? I went to a party in Sterling Heights. It was fun.

Did you have a good one? I did okay. Had a little bit of turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy and 1 roll. I pb'd up a little bit of the turkey but that was it. I had 1 slice of apple pie with vanilla ice cream later in the evening. That was it. I did pretty good. Just had a little bit of leftover turkey today and that's been it. I'm hoping I lost a couple lb's this week!

Hey Carrie! Hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Welcome to LBT and congrats on getting your surgery date!!!!!

Oh yea Halloween candy. That's hard to resist. Yea pass out stuff you don't like. Don't stress out over Thanksgiving. If you have good restriction it shouldn't be a problem for ya!

Every year I take my 3 nephews trick or treating. So I'm pretty excited.

I'm not so much nervous about Thanksgiving as I am about Christmas. Christmas there always seems to be more cookies out and I love cookies. I figure Thanksgiving I will fix my plate with my small portions and eat slow. Turkey is pretty healthy for you so it's the extras you gotta be careful of. Just make sure you make a salad to bring to go with it. Or if you like jello, make it with sugar free jello instead. There are so many things we can do to make our Turkey dinners a little more healthy. We always go to my mom's that weekend and way over eat. We end up having these really fattening pies there. I'm just gonna have to tell everyone they can only bring the pies I don't like. If that doesn't work then I will have to bring my walking shoes and bundle up and take a long walk!!!! lol.

Wow 65 lbs!!! You're lookin' good too!!! Isn't it just amazing how great you feel and how happy you are? I know I am! I am down 75 lbs and these last couple of weeks i've been holding steady but I think the scale is getting ready to start moving again. As my doctor puts it you go through phases where you drop the lbs on the scale and phases where you shrink. I'm at the phase where I haven't been too careful what I eat and haven't been able to exercise regularly so that's alot of while my scale stopped but i'm getting back to it! Hopefully I can be down about 8 lbs by the time Thanks giving rolls around. Good luck with your doctor. If you need to switch doc's certainly don't feel bad about it. You gotta look out for yourself!!! Take care!

Hey Carrie!!! How are you? I'm good. Been kinda busy lately. You find another doctor?

Cool. You will like him and his office. He's had it done himself so he knows what he's talking about.

Carrie,

I LOVE my surgeon. He's right at Crooks and Big Beaver. His number is 248-643-4646 and yes it's easy to get appointments. His name is Dr. Gazayerli. Good luck!

Thanks Carrie! I appreciate the vote of confidence!!!! Take care!!

Hey Carrie!!! Was just getting ready to send you a message! Life is great. I cannot believe how much of a happier person I am these days. My weight loss is coming along slowly but surely. I am coming up on 75 lbs gone forever! I see you changed your picture. Lookin' good!!!!!

That's not too bad. I wish you the best of luck!!! If you have any questions at all along the way don't hesitate to ask!