BayougirlMrsS

it will... keep the faith. did you get your approval yet? If so, when is your band-day?

I hope i can inspire someone the way you have me...

you guys are so wonderful to me and always so uplifting.... Thanks thanks thanks

most important thing to remember is... the band will not do it all for you. You have to have a complete life style change. Watching everything you eat and how you eat it. Exercising at least 4-5 day a week. And im not talking a stroll around the block... i mean going till you get your heart rate up. You will not go in, have the surgery and wake up skinny.... And i not trying to be discouraging or mean... but there are sooooo many people that think LB is a magic bullet. It's not... it's a tool to HELP you with your hunger and over eating issues. Remember some people lose slower than other. I was one of them. So many people come on here and say.... i got banded X weeks ago and i have only lost XX pounds. I say if you are one of the ones that wants to lose fast go have the Gastric bypass. But, if you want to lose and learn how to eat right and exercise.. than LB all the way... If your in a relationship, how is it going? WLS has a high rate of divorce. Some people come out of their shell and feel they deserve better.... Some partners can't handle the "new" confidence that weight-loss brings. Not saying that this will happen to you, but i just wanted to mention. If your relationship is not good now, losing weight may make it worse.. but in some cases it has made it better. I'm not trying to discourage you at all. LB surgery was the best thing i ever did for myself. I would do it again tomorrow if i had too. But, it has not come without struggles. Struggles with depression...over the loss of my best friend.. food. Struggles with getting off my ass and moving... My husband had and still has a hard time with the NEW me. Even though i was 100lbs when we met. He says my attitude has changed (and it has) and has even said to me that LB was the worse thing i ever did. But i didn't do it for him, i did it for me. And then to really piss him off i had a Tummy Tuck... lol. He got over it.... Dana... i wish you all the luck in the world and hope you find all the answers you are looking for. I'm here if you want a truthful straight forward answer.... and all the encouragement you need...

try being on your pre op diet while on vacation..... now that was hard.

terry.... same here...

i still have mine.... 3.5 years later. Not always... but enough.

Few things... deff. call your insurance carrier. You don't want to waste your time if they don't cover your WLS (which ever you choose). If you do go to the seminar they should give you a packet. In the packet should be a question-air Parts of what you should as your insurance provider. I knew mine did because my friend and co-worker had it done the year before. I didn't have to finance my LB, but i did charge my Tummy tuck. The year before my husband had eye surgery and got a Care Credit card. It was only $1800 so it didn't take long to pay it off. When i looked into using it for my TT, i saw the interest rate....WOW it was high. So I went to my bank to get a personal loan. My friend (Paula now works there, she and i got laid off on the same day from our other job) said why do you want a personal loan... Chase is offering a Slate card at 0% int. for 15 months... So that's what i did... i put the $8800 on the card and i pay on it each month. Shop the options.... and good luck

Houma, La. My doctor/nutritionist/RN gave me that information. I have kept it and have passed it along to banded and non banded friends. Full of great information and tips to succeed.

hope this helps

did your LB Dr. or Nutritionist give you the rules too follow? If not, i did post some a while back and would be happy to share them with you... Of if you have question, are just need to talk... we are all here for you...

I have not always needed you.... and one time in my life.. i was a "normal" person. Size 0-3... weight a whopping 100lbs. Back in my single day... then one day you meet a wonderful guy and you fall in love... ahhh things are great. You get married and have a beautiful son. and life is good.... but then you notice that your not happy as you use to be. some days are worse than others... you find the strength to get up every day and go to work and live a "normal" life. Things are good at home... but something is missing... that spark, that feeling you use to get when you and your spouse were together intimately .. and you notice that those time have gotten further and further apart. and you think, what is going on? and one day the reason is staring you right in the face... the mirror... but in that mirror is someone else... surely it's not me... I don't look like that... that's a ugly fat girl... i'm not ugly and i for damn sure am not fat. Can't be... i told my self years ago i would NEVER like myself look like... those people... but then you look closer... and closer and there.. i know those eyes.... those are my eyes... but why do they look so sad. I have happy eyes. and i see, i see the real me. the one others have been seeing for years.... how did i not see this... how did i let myself get like this ... how did i become that girl that now had to shop at the plus size store... when just yesterday i was a size 3... How did i become the girl the skinny girls are not looking at and saying... i'll never let my self look like HER... and i'm the HER. this feeling takes the very last shred of self-confidence and stomps it into the dirt and spits on it. and you think...i am ugly i am fat i am unworthy of love.... unworthy of feeling good. and you start to eat... more and more and everything keeps getting worse. you stop taking care of your self, stop dressing up stop wearing make up and fixing your hair.... stop putting forth the effort at all... You are now sitting in a deep dark care, alone and no one or nothing can show you the light.... But one day... you open your eyes expecting to see nothing... complete darkness and there it is... a speck of light.... it's tiny, but just right there in front of you. and you squint to see it.... making sur its really thee. that speck was my friend Paula... she had lb surgery and everyday we talked and everyday my light grow brighter.... I went to the doctor and did all the test... did it all and the the news that i was approved... OH ... JOy. I looked in the mirror and saw a glimmer of hope. But as the days grew closer... I started to think... WHAT IF... what if i die on the table, what if i fail at this too, what if i stayed fat forever... Then i saw this site...trolled for a long while. I didn't want to sign because, well what if someone knew me... the horror... Then i saw all the successive people... the beautiful woman and handsome men that in their before pictures looked so sad... sad like me. Then i saw the after pictures.. and all the happy smiling faces... people who were bigger than me... now wearing size 6 jeans (lellow)... and i thought.. i can do this i can get my life back.... I will be happy again. so on November 10, 2009... i awoke.. was re-born. and i did do it... i lost 80lbs... it took me longer than most, but i don't care. I have donated all the 12-14-16 & 18 and moved in to my own size 6... On Feb 15, 2012.... after a long hard fight.... i won and awarded my self a tummy tuck... i deserved it. I earned it.... so to my band... thank you... for sticking with me and always keeping me on track. and too all you out there thinking about doing this.....search with in your self and be happy again... which ever way you choose..... blessings.....

amen... Elcee... too show you all how long a stick can last..... one night... not too long ago. I attempted to eat Popeyes chicken... dark meat... ate half a thigh... but didn't stop there... oh noooo i thought, one bite of red Beans with rice won't hurt... Right... Wrong... stayed stuck... would not come up no matter what i tried.... finally the next morning... yes 12 hours later... after the meat tenderizer... it came up. Looking like it did when it went down.... I know that was TMI... but goes to show you how long it could last.

wonderful news. I also was going to suggest you call your dr. But everyone beat me too it... another thing to consider. the weather..sometimes when it gets cold out, my band gets tighter. Not saying that's what happen, but it has happened too me a few time when i realized that when it gets cold out, my band gets tighter. Also, do you think it's possible that in the days before when you felt like you had no restriction that you laxed a little on your rules and maybe ate too fast or attempted something that maybe you didn't chew just quite enough...? Reason i'm asking is not to skole you, but because i have done this very thing. I got too comfortable and attempted to ate steak... got the worst stick EVER... and sometimes when i eat and i don't pay attention, i will revert back to eating too fast and not chewing good.... and well we all know what happens. 3.5 years out, but it still happens....When it does i do a few things... i start with a heating pad on my stomach.... not hot... warm. this next line will make people mad, but.... If that does not help, i try to get it up with soda... the carbonation helps it come up... and if that still does not help... lemon juice, Water and meat tenderizer..in a shot glass.... drink and it will deff. come up.

just be honest.....

im pissed... why did i not get invited....

because.... for the men... now that they have lost the weight they can see their "friend" again.... and for the woman.... now that we lost the weight we feel sexy again and want to see their "friend" again...and get re-acquainted.... lol see how that works...

she won't do it .... but her sista will.....

me too.... you guys are great 42 pages just because we all saw the word Penis.... lmao

exactly what was your process when eating? Did you eat, wait 30 min. then drink your juice? Are did you eat and drink at the same time?

I agree with mis73.... go see your doctor.

i have a hard time deciding what to order at dinner .... how and hell am i going to decide on a tat that will be on my body FOREVER.... I like them... except when they are on a womans upper chest or neck. Sorry if i offended I admit... i'm chicken-****..... But i am going to get my belly button done.

mine was not the pain.... as a vet. of surgeries... too many to count. I take the time off to just rest. The Anastasia is what gets me...

i eat sugar. i just don't eat a lot of it. And i make sure it's good quality. If i'm going to eat it, i'm going to make it worth it. Example: I buy these: http://www.ghirardelli.com/store/shop-products/collections/bars/gourmet-milk-coconut-rendezvous-bar.html or: Lindt White coconut I eat one square and one nip at a time... I don't deprive myself of things like this. After all i have given up, chocolate won't be one of them. I'm lucky, i can control it with one piece.

I too sat at a desk. I had surg on Tuesday and was back on Monday