lifelongband

Thank you so much, I hope it works.

I am hoping this works. I guess we will see.

Can anybody tell me how to put a ticker into my page?

Hi there! I was just banded yesterday!!! 9-20-06. I am so excited. I lost 16 pounds before the surgery on the Medifast drinks. I have been this little since my pregnancy about 6 years ago. I was really getting up there in weight. I started losing weight last year and lost 41 pounds and now I am down another 16. That makes me feels so good. I didn't know my face could get skinny and pretty again. LOL. My doctor was Dr. Robert Michaelson. I am still trying to figure out how to put in one of the tracking devices. I would love to share that with you too. If anybody can point me in the right direction on how to add one. I would appreciate it.

I see that we have the same starting weight, Smeeper. :rofl:

I was also sexually abused as a child, I was also beaten by my father. I lived a life that was not so good. I have overcome a lot of that. I am more stable than all but one of my brothers and sisters. My baby sister is very responsible and has had a job since 17. :rofl: My problem is the eating. That is where I became unstable. I am ready to overcome this problem, I know the lap band will be the right thing for me. :biggrin1:

In my family I was about 10 or 11 years old when all of a sudden I was taken to a nutritionist and told of a new way to eat. I didn't know why. My mom never told me. She changed everything. The whole family had to change everything. I was deprived of things that I loved, I snuck food and never understood why. My parents are both fine in the weight category. My grandmother on the other hand has always been overweight and she had the nerve to tell me I was "fat" and "getting fat" all of the time, then she would feed me bacon, eggs, hashbrowns and toast for breakfast every morning before school, even after having cereal at home. We ate it because she would give us a guilt trip if we didn't. I was told that for many years. I didn't even know how skinny I really was until a couple of years ago when my mom gave us our pictures of growing up. I was so upset, I told her that I was skinny and I didn't understand. I thought I was so huge. :rofl: I was devastated. I had no clue. I became pregnant at the age of 17 and had my first child at 18. I taught myself how to cook and I went back to the way my mom cooked when we were growing up. We didn't have much money and I would cook casseroles, mashed potatoes and hamburger gravy, anything I couldn think of that tasted good. I ate what I wanted, not what they told me I had to eat. I became an emotional eater. I asked my mom why I had to go to the nutritionist and she told me that my cholesterol was high and she told me that the doctor wanted us to go and that she changed our eating habits for that reason. She was so distraught in her marriage and life in general at the time she didn't even realize that she never told me why. One day my grandma was doing the same thing to my baby sister, about the same age I was when she started in on me. I flipped out on her and told her that she had no right to do that to her and told her that if she wanted her to end up like me then she was pretty messed up. I looked at her and said, "THANK YOU FOR THE SELF ESTEEM PROBLEMS AND THE WEIGHT!" I felt better and she has never done that to either of us again. I am now 333 lbs. and I have lost 39 pounds in about a year. (I quit drinking Diet Coke) I realized that when I became pregnant with my second child I was about 100 lbs. lighter. I had gestational diabetes and started drinking Diet Coke instead of Coke and ended up with full blown diabetes after having her. I am not such an emotional eater these days as an I have to have it until my tummy hurts eater. I know that is horrible, but I have a hard time with that. I will hopefully have a surgery date by next week and I do have to have a psych eval on Tuesday. I am not looking forward to it either. I know what they are going to ask me, because my surgery center has given me a list of the questions for my psychologist to ask me. Well, that is my story. Thank you for listening :rofl:

I am so proud of each and every one of you! I have been overweight for many years. I am pre-op. I should be having my surgery in August and my mother-in-law told me about your sight, she had her surgery about 6 months ago. I am at a current BMI of 56. I have lost about 40 pounds in the last year (I quit drinking diet coke). I have never been able to lose weight. I bounce withing 10 pounds either way. I have been practicing eating protein first and then eating veggies. I can't believe how fast you go to the carbs. I am just waiting on my psych eval and then I can schedule. I thank you all for your comments, it really helps a lot.