HeavyK44

Thanks I guess looking at my history yea I could have lost the weight but never keep it off. I would do exactally like you, oh a little will not hurt and then just a little more until I'm back sitting at the drive though at some fast food ready to super size me!

Thanks everyone, I really can relate to what you are saying. I quit smoking 15 years ago but that was all or nothing, food can't be like that soit is so easy to slip back into your old ways. I'm ready for my new plan and the tools to get it done!

Was banded yesterday July 30, when are you truely "out of the woods" as far as the real possibility of death (I hear like 1:5000). I saw articles of the Dr and the woman in Chicago Dying like 3 weeks after the surgery. I know that there is still a chance (band erosion, band slip), but when can you say you are relatively sure no infections, DVTs, etc. Thanks everyone and I am excited about this and the start of the new me. :crying:

Hi Everyone, I new to the group and just got banded yesterday July 30 and have a few questions maybe some of you lapband vets can answer. First is that instead of constipation they said would happen I have the other issue (plus lots of gas). Called and talked to Dr Nurse and she said normal and switch to lactaid milk or soy for shakes (but never had an issue with milk on the 2 week liver shrink). Only took 2 pain pills because it really isn't that bad just like I did 200 situps (which I could never do in the first place!) Second my upper throat still hurts, May just be irritation from the tube. Three, I lost 17lbs on the liver shrink (down to 265, ideal is 185 or less for BMI 25). I'm thinking that if I really dug down deep I might have been able to do with without the band (even though I have failed with the diets before. Anyone else felt like that after the surgery, like what have I done? Thanks everyone for helping this newbe!