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I use little tiny spoons and forks.

I have a blog! The link is in my signature.

I had my surgery on a Saturday and went back to work on Wednesday. I'm a teacher and was pretty exhausted at the end of the day. Thursday and Friday were much better though.

Oh man, I have to say that I don't envy you and having to deal with Korean in-laws and weight It was bad enough when I was teaching adults and the women were always either giving me diet advice ("Eat rice! Don't eat so many hamburgers!") or just flat-out commenting on how fat I am. I guess one good thing from all of it is that it's made me really see myself how others do--I'm fat! I think living in the US kind of made me put blinders on and I really didn't see just how fat I'd gotten. This is one reason behind the name of my blog.

Unfortunately, no. His Korean site is http://cafe.daum.net/lapbariatric though.

A couple of years ago my cholesterol was over 200, and my doctor prescribed Zocor and lots of exercise. Well, I followed doctor's orders and exercised, ate lots of oatmeal, and tried to avoid red meat and shellfish and within 2 months my cholesterol went down to 111. Lots of good advice here, but remember that medication is not the end of the world.

Hi all, I just found this thread--glad I can be a part of it! I just got banded on the 30th, so not much to report yet. Mostly just soreness and some pain. I can start mushy foods tomorrow (hooray!) and I go back to my doctor on Saturday for my first fill (things are obviously done a little differently in South Korea). I hope everyone is doing well in their post-op stages, and I'm glad we're in this together :wink2:

Well, I'm not to the point where I need to get new clothes yet (I was just banded yesterday!) but I already know that for some of my better-quality clothes I'll definitely be getting them taken in. I've got clothes from the last 6 years ranging in sizes 14-24--at one point I gained weight so fast I wasn't able to really get a lot of use from some of them.

I know it's the 10cc band. I was armed with a list of questions when I talked to him and that was one of them :sneaky: Thanks for the encouragement, I'm getting kind of nervous now that it's so close. Also, I just got a cold yesterday so now I'm worried that it will interfere with getting the surgery. I'm sure it won't, but I really just want to get my lap-band already!

I'm not sure what band exactly, I know it's by Allergan though. My doc is Dr. Kwon at Yedain Clinic near Apgujeong Station. P.S. I've read your blog, congrats on all the progress :-)

Hello, I've been lurking around the boards for a little while and now that I've got my surgery scheduled I thought I would finally make a post. My husband and I are Americans living in Daegu, South Korea (about 4 hours south of Seoul). I decided to have lap-band® surgery here because it's only about $6000 to get it here, and you don't have to jump through nearly as many hoops to get it. I had my first consultation on October 23rd, and my surgery is scheduled for October 30th! My doctor only requires full liquids for 2 days post-op, then mushies for 5 days, and my first fill can be a week after surgery. He also does unlimited band adjustments free for the first 3 months after surgery. I was a little shocked at first to hear all of this, but he's performed over 1000 procedures in Korea and last year he received an award from Allergan for performing the most lap-band® procedures in Asia. He also showed me many before/after pics of his patients (a few foreign patients as well). It really makes me wonder how necessary everything that American docs make you go through really is. My only concern is that there's not a nutritionist meeting, so I'm really having to do my research on foods to eat and calories and whatnot. Thank goodness for this forum! You guys are a wealth of information and such an inspiration!