Chooky

Know exactly what you mean, I got to goaland now am really sabotaging myself and dont know why? good luck

Hi, I am also in perth & have had band since may 28 09, have never regretted it, had tummy tuck april this year and have lost 65 kgs in that time. I went through Dr Padovan for both surguries and highly recommend his team , very friendly and fantastic support before during and ongoing. good luck to you on your journey.

Chooky

exactly!!!!!!!!!!

chooky

4 me it was low blood pressure and low iron.

Cheers Chooky

Comming to the end of my wieght loss with the band I am beginnig to realise just how all consumming my food issue's were. They just filled the days and nights with little or no room left over for anything else, this is where the big now problem is...

There is this huge void in my life, if anybody had told me at hte beginning that I would feel this way I would of laughed and said no way, but after a life time of having this constant wheel running in my head for it to be gone has actually left me depressed and I need to fill it some other way, but with what.

Sadly I come to realise that I have no real interests, the main one was food, then diets then food, then lapband, but at the end of the journey, I have found I have the blah's big time, cos now I should be getting on with just living but I don't think I actually know how to do that after a life time of living for food. Pathetic but it is as if a friend has died or something, and it's no good trying to explain this to people cos they think your nuts

Cheers Chooky

So I booked the tummy tuck and thats all fine and am happy with the decision until i dream repeatedly that i am in a magicicans show and am in one of those box'es where they saw you in half:sad: It's not like I will cancel it or anything but....... geez

Cheers Chooky

Well i am from australia and had laband surgery 28 may09 and have lost 50kg and am loving this new life, i am past goal and booked for a tummy tuck on 13 april 10. The support of my surgeon and his team which are like a family have made this journey as successful as it has been, without them during the tough times i may of giving up.

cheers chooky

everything on the above comment and remember.....

Men give affection for sex.. women have sex for the affection, maybe just ask her straight out whats going on here/

cheers Chooky

Eat the dessert!!!! I had this same discussion with my kid's and really its just passing on your extremes to the next generation, have a bit and enjoy it.

Cheers Chooky

I used sleeping pills to get thru the night.

cheers chooky

:thumbdown:I was sitting at the breakfast table this morning and my son asked me "whats that?" Turns out he has never seen my collar bones before. lol

Christmas here was great and was under my goal of 100kg and as it stands now am 88kg which is 7kg under my original goalso thats a total of 44kg lost in 7 months. No more fills for the forseeable future and picking a date for the tummy tuck is next.

What a journey this has been and now the next phase has started.

Cheers Chooky

Yep its a crap (HA AH) time definatley a laxitive and on the fibre drinks now, but stilll........

cheers chooky

Trust me you will get over it. I now bake and cook freely and the family experience so much more and eat sensibly because i can no longer eat the whole lot. Today I made a dozen mince pies, that s enough for my lil family for a few days, before i would of made 5, 6 dozen cos i would eat them all, now i dont. This is a stress free xmas for us, because my best friend food isn't running the show I AM>

GOOD LUCK

Chooky

Funnily I agree with most of the things you have said,and am banded 7 months and having a great journey with all it's ups and downs,but......

Like childbirth you can prepare for it , talk about it do everything you can but.....

Until you have done it and walked it those shoes wow its a very different thing.

Hope you don't have to eat your words. Would they go down? lol Good luck on your journey

Chooky (spell check????)

forgot i chew gum its nice to just chew something

this gets easier and harder .... I make sure I have something for me, nice coffee or juice something i wouldn't normally have, soup. last night cooked prawns for hubby and kids could of cried they looked so good... its up and down, one thing though i bought heaps less and everyone is eating heaps less and there is no eating quick and eyeing off the plates to get more, the greed is gone from all of us. This small thing you have done is making a huge great future.

Good luck Chooky

Nobody ever said "Hey you are getting really fat these day's".

If I am honest I wouldn't of listened anyway but........ Holy Sh***t when did it happen???:thumbup:

What has brought this on? Well the whole house is asleep and not a creature is stirring not even a mouse, except for me who was lokking for a book and then started looking at a couple of old photo albums and it has left me in shock. Fat engagement , fat birthdays , fat weddings, (mine and others) fat look at my new baby's , fat on a camel ( i am so sorry but I had lost weight!!!):frown:fat in the pool, fat on holiday.. fat fat fat.... HUGE . My poor baby looked so tiny, I look miserable in all the photo's, I wasn't it was just the way the fat pulled my face down.

I feel such sadness looking at this person, which is strange because it's as if I am grieving for someone or something I don't even know. Really its just horriffic to see myself like that and know how bad I felt all the time.

7 Months down the lapband track and lost 40kg I just think of all the hate and anger I carried around all the time, it's like as the wieght has gone that has too. But how do I say sorry to all those people I hid from, or lashed out at because I couldn't stand being me so made up all sort of irrattional ways in my head to excuse myself from the situations or pick at the slightest faults, to hide my huge one, how do I get back those lost years with my babies, who just annoyed me with thier demands for my time and making me do things other mums could and I couldn't, not because of some terrible thing but because i was fat, I can't get it back. How could I of loved food more than them???

I feel truly sorry for that woman who has wasted so much time and hated herself and so many around her for so long and I am sorry for her stupidity because those people still love her and the shame is a killer, but....

I've written this with out a real connection to her, its as if I am looking at someone I knew a long time ago and strangly feel as if I am grieving For Her???????? Moved on and away from her, n ot feeling confused because I am happy and sunny days are fun, not looking over my shoulder for something all the time and wondering whats missing. Well it's her and finding those photo's made me realise it, she's gone and I am moving on and it's sad but it's good, I am done with her and her crap so is my family.

I feel everyday I am finding something in me that was always there but I wouldn't look for and its peaceful, its not confused and angry its just nice, there are a lot of butterflies in my garden I never noticed them before but they are everywhere and I just sit and watch them, they just resonate calm, they have always been there year in year out I got told, go figure hey I just noticed them.

Peace + calm to you all

Cheers Chooky

Switch off the computer!!! or just keep away from the negative sites.. This will change your life. We all have down days and people will vent it gets it out of the system. Overall my bnad experience has been great. Everyday brings something new that I can do.

goodluck

Chooky

What can you expect???? From my experience... A whole new wonderful Life.

goodluck Chooky

I go thru these phases too.. Check my blogs, highs and lows. But 6 months down the track and the lows are less and the moods are evening out some. This is a huge mental undertaking and I always say the band is not around my brain. Hang in there. Have a great day. Cheers Chooky. Like lucky I have also lost over 70lbs

I did the same thing, all I can say is it meant I had more to lose...... Think about it... before you munch, then if your like me you will munch anyway.

Cheers Chooky

WOW you must be so tight if tea is not passing straight through for you!!! I had this problem last fill, had .5 of aml put in and went back and got .2 taken out and its better now. Cos as soon as anything came back i closed over and couldn't even swallow spit. Hey my date was 28 May and am now under 200.....

good luck

Chooky

Be soooo careful.... You want to heal well, it only takes a crumb to rub and bam you swell closed.....

good luck chooky

I have noo idea how to cope with the mind games that go on in my head. The food side is easy its just not possible but the rest????? I just ake each day as it comes and work thru the hard moments by doing something else or having a breakdown whichever way I go I have to pick up again and get going. Its a lot easier now and and the act of wanting to eat more is a battle I am winning. Try using a side plate for your meals this way its full not tragically a huge expanse of crockery.

Good luck

Chooky

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but they have no right what so ever to ram it down your throat. You can only tell mil, keep the basic facts excactly the same and your reasons for the choices you are making simple and try not to get emotional, everytime it comes up use the same facts and reasons. Some people will never accept it, that is their decision and you have to respect that just as they must respect yours.

good luck Chooky