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Oh and I slept in a recliner for nearly a month. Couldn’t lay flat bc of the pain. After that, improved rapidly. HW 356 CW 267 GW 180 RNY 01/22/18
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Dr Krish in Dade City? any thoughts please
SlimerJim replied to kuchiegrl1's topic in Weight Loss Surgeons & Hospitals
I had my surgery with Dr. Murr in Tampa st because he is one of the best surgeons doing barbaric surgery over 1,500 procedures along with many revisions of botched surgeries. Secondly he is one of the only preferred providers in the area for my insurance BC/BS. I went to Dr. Grossbards class before you start your surgery process I we didn't "click" . I waited over a year to find a surgeon that I did like. The one I found was really good. if you are not comfortable with your surgeon look around there are many good surgeons available to you. Hope this helps Jim -
Saying goodbye to food/Night time eating question.
JinTx replied to LisaJane's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Who is in your house? The reason i ask is bc if the bad food never comes in then you cant eat it. Dh and i made a deal. He goes to the store and buys his own junk and then it goes into a solid colored large container in the pantry. I cant see it and i dont open it. I havent even seen him eating it so i think hes doing it when im not around. At night i have sf jello and then i go brush my teeth. And i also felt the need to have all of my fav foods. I decided about 2 wks ago to get into band mode as i am getting banded next month. -
Will I still be able to get rough and wild?
TulipStar replied to Leather's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
You can be as rough as you want. You won't even know u have it except for when you eat. My dr said that after the band has been there a while, there is tissue that grows over it, but not in bt the stomach and the band. Meaning that your body forms a protective layer over the top which can actually help it stay in place. The only reason I asked this question was bc I was worried about my body "rejecting" the band or trying to attack it bc it was invasive. -
Mood swings can be normal post-op. I'd venture to guess you've got some crazy hormones going on due to the lack of bc and possibly hormones that occur post-op. I hope it passes quickly for you! ~Kat
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Hi SarahBeth - I'm still pre-procedure but I do have a lot of experience with BC as well as fertility drugs. Sounds to me like you've got a double-whammy: your body is adjusting to a major surgery as well as re-aligning your hormones to compensate for no BC. I think you should cut yourself some slack and realize what a big accomplishment you've achieved. Don't worry about the dogs - they have unconditional love for you Why not try a hot bath and a good book or some really bad reality TV? I recently bought my kids a bracelet-making craft kit and I am surprised at how much it relaxes me to do. What do you like? I have a ton of authors I can recommend or some really fun Apps. I know you're still recovering or I would suggest you take a walk. Feel better - you're doing great!!!
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Girl, you know I love you. But I have 3 sets of company this weekend. My sis and her friend come in tonight (staying with me.) Trish from LBT is at the Paris waiting for my call, and our friends from Lodi, CA that drive a race car are here for NHRA. That means you should freeze a LARGE batch and Fed-ex for Saturday delivery. I'll PM you my Fed-ex account number. Thank you so much, you are so kind and generous. xoxo much love
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Almost 2 years post op and have gained weight
annwal posted a topic in Tell Your Weight Loss Surgery Story
Hello!!! Next month marks my 2 year post op mark. I have done amazining well with the sleeve until this past 6months have caught up on me slowly! I actually hit my goal weight within 10mo post op and have maintained it well being able to enjoys foods I like and just staying in portions not over eating. Well for the past 6months I have found myself eating too much junk bc I think I got 'too comfortable! " I have slowing gained 12lbs! I am not terrified and feel disgusted. All my weight goes to my belly so its even worse. I have began today to start a 5 day re-set. But any advice from others that I have thru this or struggled is appreciated. I need to get these 12lbs off and stay on track. -
Hi All, I haven't been on this app in years. I was sleeved (after having my lap band removed) in 2013. It's been a while. I've had to reconnect bc of weight gain, oh yeah it's real. I'm 5' 9" HW: 259...left: 170 cw:201....when I saw that number over 200 I almost passed out. I just came back from my nutritionist and that was hard bc I've had to relive my worst fear. I will not go back. I've signed up for several 5ks, 10k's and half marathon over the next year. I'm currently walking on an incline on the treadmill bc that burns the calories the fastest. I've paid for weight training and hot yoga, which I will implement over the next few weeks. I will not go back. I've come way too far. But I need support. So if anyone has advice, pls share. My motivation is here bc of fear but I'd like it to stay bc I'm comfortable with how I'm challenging myself. Please join me MyFitnessPal: treciagesq99 Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App
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You know, I started it, got side tracked, went back to it a couple times, but never finished it :huggie: I thought it was worth a try, and I wish I had...I know I'll regret it forever. Kinda screwed me up that I moved out of province a few months later, so I'd be in for even more of a hard time, trying to hassle them from here. All I really said was my story, about trying to better my life, trying to keep/get myself healthy to live out my life (in beautiful SK... haha, had to get that in to try to make them think they need to keep the youngins in SK), that it was unfair to make people wait 5-7 years, and only offer one option (bypass), and not even have a surgeon in the province (anymore), so in turn, relying on the few bypass surgeons in the west to handle the entire flow of overweight people in BC, AB, SK, ans MB. Luckily AB is covering it now (to an extent) and that takes some of the weight off (haha, pun!), but the Lapband in AB is just going to turn into how the RNY/bypass is... a several year wait! Ok... that turned into a rant. I think you should just state your case, tell how certain provinces cover it, why you're doing it, how you'll be less of a drain on healthcare with ____ lbs less that you'd be if you continued to inevitably gain, an get more and more unhealthy. Sorry I can't be more help. :phanvan
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How can you tell how much loose skin you have?
ebroms17 posted a topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
Hi everyone! I'm 8 months out from my modified DS/SIPS surgery with Dr. Roslin at Lenox Hill in NYC. As of today, I'm down 91.8 lbs from my surgery date (7/17/2017) and 98.8 lbs from my HW. I'm currently 5'2" and 168.8 lbs. I know BMI is a little bit of BS, but according to my BMI at my weight and height, I'm still in the obese category - and I don't look obese anymore. I'm actually fitting in a size 8 / medium for the most part. I know the high end of health weight for my height is around 135, so that's my goal, but I've been wondering if I need to aim higher based on how much loose skin. I definitely have a nice little pooch and very intense chicken wings. Is there a way to tell or guesstimate how much of your excess weight is just loose skin? I want to make sure I don't lose too much and readjust my goal appropriately. Thanks in advance! -
How nice your reply is Bandista. I appreciate it. Perhaps you are right. I will "act as if" you are right. I was not ready before. I thought it was a magic pill. I had a friend who went to Mexico and got her band 2 years before me. She dropped weight fast and hardly ever ate. I made up my mind to pursue it once our ins. started covering it. I thought my path would be the same. In fact, ppl were amazed I was going to have it done....b/c I thought, and they thought thru my explanations, that I was essentially giving up eating more than like a 1/4 cup of food 3 times a day. I somehow really believed that was my future when I went in the day of surgery, had wrapped my head around it and embraced it. I was gonna be skinny for once in my life! Well, that has not been my story. I never expected to get hungry. I also didn't realize I was such an emotional eater before. So, do believe in the changes I need to make now, and am willing to start those ODAT. I guess I should look at my band as a tool. I honestly never wanted to tell anyone before I have one. I'm very guarded still at who knows. BC I feel like a lapband failure. I have all along. I have resisted it and denied it, and thought it just didn't work for me. Maybe it will work for me now. I am thankful to have found support here. I think that also, is a big part of it. I don't know anyone else near me or even personally, who has a lapband. So, support has been lacking. I think it works just fine. I do not think I need a fill. I had tohave some taken out a few years ago, bc I could not swallow meat, and other solids. I think if I will use it and eat like I am supposed to, it might just work. Thanks for the support!
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Insure Nutrition's Liquid Vitamins
Tootles1975 replied to Tootles1975's topic in Protein, Vitamins, and Supplements
@@Rovobay Sorry to hear that! I'm very surprised a federal insurance plan doesn't cover it. I have BC BS of Massachusetts through my husband's company (a private engineering firm). -
Janice. If you came to Surrey, BC, it would only be 13,000 (less if you don't require a night in the hospital - some people don't) and fills are free. 2 years is a long wait. Implement the loan in with your other payments maybe? That's what we did; consolidated everything. It would be so worth it! Good luck to you, Kat.
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Hi I’m from NY, but no where near you lol. I’m out near Buffalo. I am almost 3 months post op from the sleeve. Best decision ever! I go out to eat on occasion. I usually just check the menu before I go and then order whatever I feel is safest. I sometimes just order and appetizer. You really can’t fit much. For example I often order a salad with chicken on it but ask for a dinner salad instead of the big salads bc you can literally only fit about 6 bites. I have so much more confidence and in general just feel so good! Hope you have an amazing experience!
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starting to get depressed
Nessarae replied to cindyboo1974's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Hi! I had my surgery oct 15 and I feel the same way. I just had an appt with my dietician and she assured me that ANY liquid I'm in taking is considered part of my "water". I was stressing bc I couldn't get all the protien shakes and all the water down in the same day. One day I did notice I became very dehydrated and felt very light headed and had to try to down my water as quick as I could. -
New to this and can't decide.....
BetsyB replied to gateacher's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
This is where you're absolutely, positively wrong. In the short-term, gastric bypass patients do lose weight, pretty much no matter what they do. But after the honeymoon period, this can--and often does--reverse. The body gets VERY efficient, with its new machinery, and if not fed appropriately, weight gain is not only possible, but more common than not. Look, whatever surgery you have, you're going to have to change your lifestyle dramatically or you WILL have difficulty reaching and/or maintaining goal. If you want a magic bullet, you're not going to find it. Anywhere. -
I was always a big meat eater, and I'm about four months out from surgery. My tastes are changing quite significantly. Not only am I highly concerned about where my meat products come from, but more and more I feel disgusted by them. It is not a moral decision: I'm not going to eat meat because blah blah blah, bought an intuitive body response telling me that I don't need to eat very much of it anymore, and what little I do we absolutely must be organic and grass fed, preferably total free range. I eat so much fruit now. None of us on this forum came to needing the surgery from binging on grapes and oranges LOL. That is what my body asks me for now, one before surgery it was always a big fatty meats. Lately, even if I'm just having some chicken soup or something, I find myself thinking… "How long has this animal been dead? How old is this dead animal flesh I'm about to put in my body? "
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i love disney world! i've been 4 times and can't wait to get back. right now we're planning on going down next november or december. i should be banded by then and am hoping to be able to jog around the EPCOT jogging trail (think that's what it's called) that goes around the EPCOT resorts. quite ambitious of me, i know. what's everyone's favorite wdw memory? mine would have to be when i was 4 and my brother was 11 months. we were waiting to go into a character breakfast and he started crying. suddenly eeyore appeared and tried to cheer him up by dancing around and stuff. when that didn't work he took a bottle out of the diaper bag and fed my brother. eeyore kneeled on the ground holding the bottle for him and rubbing his head. tigger came over too and the two of them played with my brother, tickling him and hopping around while he had his bottle. we've got it on video and it's one of the nicest, cutest things i've ever seen.
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I will eat most any meat, poultry or fish. I try to get grass-fed beef and the best quality poultry and fish. Sadly, the most difficult part of paleo is finding quality Protein. I also eat fresh and frozen veggies. I try to eat protein the size of typical hamburger patty. I have started using a dessert plate as my dinner plate because I can eat a huge salad! It is a very simplistic way of eating, but my family is pretty happy and I feel great. Sent from my iPad using LapBandTalk
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Anyone With Diabetes Prior To Surgery?
TheNewSusie replied to jamari's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
My preop was a mix of clear and full liquids. I drank a lot of Water and sf drinks like crystal light. (Which I hate now) I always have glucose pills in my purse just in case it drops, but I used a lot if skim milk and glucerna shakes (for diabetics) to keep my bs leveled. I also cut back on insulin and kept track of my bs levels. Any thing I can help with let me know, . My a1c before surgery was 11.4, now it's 7.2 according to my blood work last week. Good luck! U will do fine! -
Feeling Awful, Emotionally.. Suggestions?
AshleyIrene replied to AshleyIrene's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Thank you to all of you for your uplifting advice and comments. I stopped taking my bc until I go to appointment next week and see what other options are out there for me. I also saw my counselor today, who gave me a lot of good advice and helped me figure out my triggers through out this process with WLS and myself. This community is so wonderful, it felt like the only place I could go to feeling the way I did. I appreciate this site so much and the people here. So thank you all so much and best wishes to you and your journey! As far as the boyfriend I'll just have to see how it goes.. I've invited him to join the process with me since he is very over weight himself. But he's declined. Change is hard for anyone and you can only change yourself. Xoxoxo. -
Crushed by today's weigh-in
ShelterDog64 replied to White Sale's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
@@White Sale It's SO HARD when you know you're on plan, following your surgeon's advice to the letter and still NOTHING on the scale to speak of. But, as others have said, it WILL come off. WLS failures aren't people like you, who do what they're supposed to and just lose more slowly than others...I know that you know this! I'm in a dead stall at about 6 mos out and I'm irritated by it and fed up with it...I know it's going to end and the scale will start moving again, but I'm just peeved. We can be mad together, break our stalls and Celebrate it together Hang in there! -
Sept Surgery Date?
melonpie05 replied to Uniqueladybug's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I went today and got my phys eval very easy simple questions she sliding even talk to me a hour get my edg on thurs and do a weigh in on 22 which I HAVE to lose a little over ten pounds Bc of insurance and I have my nutrition eval and last weigh in sept 14 hopefully I can them get a sooner date then November 8th I wish I could have kept sept 18th date but they said just wasn't enough time still makes me so mad -
How much did you weigh when you got pregnant?
bellavida replied to eep1616's topic in Pregnancy with Weight Loss Surgery
Hello just wanted to tell you not to lose hope, just like ur self I was trying to conceive for 5 years with no luck ???? doctors kept telling me it was due to my pcos and weight problems..anyway so a friend who had the same condition had the wls and boom! She got pregnat a year after she had the wls. she now has 3 kids???? ok long story short I had the gastric sleeve june this year sw:299 and got pregnat september at 235, Im currently 220 at 3 months pregnat and everything is going well .WLS was the best thing ever just like ur self I thought I was never going to be a mother stay positive and pray , pray , pray???? remember after wls we have to wait at least 9 months before trying to conceive I didint believe I could get pregnat this quick so I really didint care for bc???? best of luck dont worry you will be preggo when you less expect it????
