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Just had mine done 6 days ago , pain is gone , getting use to eating so little of a Protein shake and being filled up. Lost 15 LB already . Can feel the difference. Off all medication for diabetes, blood pressure . Great move - you will love when you lose weight . Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App
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averaging 2.85 # loss per week over last 8 weeks
Chris P Bacon replied to djcatoe's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
You and I seem to be losing at the same pace. I'd say that much weight loss Is damn good but try not to compare yourself to others. Personally I can't compare with the majority that post here because one, I'm a very tall guy and Although theres is a world of knowledge to be learned i need more calories than most of the ladies on this board and we lose at a different pace. And two I drink way more protein shakes and other supplements than a lot on this board because I want to gain muscle. But great job with the weight loss!! -
Thanks, I hope so. I need to gain a few pounds to hit the 35 bmi. TIA
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I'm officially half-way to my weight-loss goal! I'll be four months out on Feb. 14th. Hoping to give myself a Valentine's present of moving to One-der-land. Will update my ticker when I get there...
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Sue, Were you able to get information on why it was denied? You will want to specifically address their reason. I was denied 4 years ago by Med Mutual. They didn't give me a reason except I didn't meet the criteria, but nothing specific. I didn't appeal at that time because there was just too much going on for me to deal with it. And I was requesting approval open RNY then and couldn't have gone through a surgery at the time. At the time, very few facilities were doing lap RNY and lap band wasn't covered by my insurance, I don't know if I'd even heard of it then. So it was disappointing, but in the end I'm glad it was denied. I lost some weight, regained it, I think a couple of times during that period. But this last time was the last straw, so I decided to see if I qualified for approval for lap-band with BCBS since the place I work had switched in the meantime. You can bet this time I would have appealed and fought all the way but I was fortunately approved without that. I'm sure others who have had to appeal can help you out. At least this bumps it up.
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Did anyone else see the news about lap-band being approved for lower BMI patients? Here is a link to one of the articles: http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/bf0ef1ec-62b7-5f8e-adec-5151c1de71b5.html I suppose it is good that BMI requirements are coming down for some weight loss surgery, but as a lap-band revision hopeful, I am really concerned about how the news media is covering all this. The article says there are only 2 weight loss surgery options: lap band and gastric bypass. I don't know, with all the lap-band billboards and this news coverage, I am really frustrated that there isn't more real information out there. I am so glad this board is here - it has given me hope of a better option. Have a great weekend, everybody!
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Tried caffeinated coffee and a 6 week update
SoccerMomma73 replied to MyTimeToLose's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
coffee has always had a laxative effect on me...welcome to my party! HW 312, pre-op (lap-band) 294, pre-op (RNY) 251, surgery date 2/11/13, goal weight 154, current weight 251 -
HELP! (and I didn't know where to post this sorry)
OnMyWay2Thin replied to susidivah's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
Susidivah, don't feel bad, I think I've done this three times so far! I now have the PIN saved so it automatically fills in when I go to the ticker web site! How nice being able to update that you have lost weight, now that's worth taking the time to create a new ticker! Congrats on the weight loss! -
Menstruation After Lap Band Surgery
jennilamb007 replied to *~*Free2Bme*~*'s topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Not to be gross, but lucky me I started mine on the DAY of my Surgery right after they wheeled me back to my room. Yeah, never mind I was already a week late it couldn't hold off any longer I guess. I am 40 so I am not surprised it is off kilter. I agree with what someone said above about weight loss and gain and how it will affect your periods. Jen -
HELP! (and I didn't know where to post this sorry)
Ponderer replied to susidivah's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
This is from the Ticker website and I am sorry to say it does not look good unless you have the PIN. "What is the PIN? TickerFactory.com does not use any registration system or ask for any personal identification (such as email address). Tickers using data that needs updating (weight loss, exercise...) only require you to know the ticker web address and the PIN protecting the modifications to its data. The PIN prevents unwanted modification of the ticker while allowing you to keep the same web address for your ticker. The weight loss ticker also provides an additional setting which allows you to protect the historical data by your PIN for extra privacy. Please note that if you lose your PIN we will be unable to provide access to your ticker data as we do not ask for identifying information as part of our privacy setup." -
Don't obsess about how much or how often you get a fill. You will know what is right for you. You haven't been banded very long. Learn to listen to your ever changing body with the weight loss. My surgeon explained, as noted by another bandster, that as you lose body fat, that includes fat in your abdomen and fat around your organs, including your esophagus. As you lose the fat, your band gets looser because there is less fat for it to fit like it needs to. Listen to your doctor and your own body. Good luck.
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. Hey all: Last time I posted here it was October 1, 2011, and I was nonplussed because my rate of loss was really slowing. I said, tell me I am not stuck at 219. Update: I was not stuck at 219. Today I weigh around 210. That means I'm averaging about five pounds a month now. To me, that is outrageously, unjustly slow but it did renew my faith in the universe.I was hoping to get under 200 by Christmastime and I probably won't, but I'll be *close* and the greatest part about this is that I did it without obsessing *or* dieting. But it is funny how your tastes change. Pre-sleeve I had been starved for carbs for years, and I was sort of a candy, cake, wine, garlic bread type of person. Now I can't imagine that. I can't quite express why Cake is so dumb to now but there you go. My cravings have really diminished and now I find myself wanting food. Every once in a while I'll have popcorn or a muffin but really a week of eating junk makes me feel so gross I will actually stop myself and think okay, kid, THAT is enough of that -- not because it will make me fat but because it makes me feel slow and sick. I'm an adorer of Soup -- especially potato vegetable, I went through a baked potato and vegetarian chili phase and I still drink Sobe Lifewater 0. I'm eight months in and I have 50 pounds to go and I think making it there might be possible. But for a yo-yo dieter like me five pounds a month, while unsexy to the extreme, is a perfect rate of loss.But mostly what I'm happy about is that I am sort of proving my hypothesis, which is that once I refused to obsess about this and just live my life, plus the restrictive action of the sleeve -- I started to crave good nutrition and lost weight without putting myself through emotional torture over what the scale said. Down eighty pounds in eight months. Not dieting. Still going. It might take me another ten months to lose the next fifty pounds but by the end of it I will have learned how to eat like a normal person and for once in my life think about something else. Hallelujah and Happy Christmas.
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What Will You Do With Your Extra Time And Energy?
Lissa replied to chicagochic's topic in Tell Your Weight Loss Surgery Story
Let's see: what do I do with all my extra time and energy these days? I spend a lot of time here on VST. I ride the exercise bike at least 30 minutes a day. I'm enjoying the hot tub at our community center daily, sometimes I swim in the pool as well. Lots of dates and extra time spent with friends. Shopping!!!!! Marketing my small business a lot more, and accepting a lot more work than I did pre-surgery Walking, through the mall, around parking lots, around the block, anywhere I feel like walking sorting through clothes that are too BIG What I'm not doing these days: sitting in front of the tv mindlessly eating gaining weight making excuses about why I can't exercise. The gym is 5 minutes away. No excuse is good enough. munching on junk food -
Well guys it's been the ride of my life since being banded 28th March! I started IVF the following week and was monitoring intake. First fill was a non-event and ended up having to be done by X-Ray, only got .5 fill which wasn't enough, by the time I got back in to see my surgeon to tell him that that .5 wasn't enough he realised the port had unhooked itself! so I would have needed to go back under the knife, only problem was .... we had a positive pregnancy result! so Ultrasound was my only option for a fill. But I would wait until the next scan to make sure, and as bad luck would have it the pregnancy wasn't looking good. So I waited for the next scan, and again not looking good so I put of the ultrasound for fill again. Sad to say that we lost the pregnancy and I'm now booked in for the readjustment next Friday for a repair to the port and hopefully a bloody good fill. The it's round two for IVF! Basically at this moment in time I can eat pretty much anything I want to, just not as much, but I feel very little restriction which bothers me NO END! So fingers crossed girls, fill and adjustment are successful, I lose a bit more weight, get back into exercise and IVF round 2 is a winner! hopefully we are back on track!
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I'm putting my scales in the trunk of my car
grannyk replied to 1-4-Many's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I agree with putting the scales where they are hard to use. I don't have scales at home, but I work in a clinic where there are scales in every exam room. I have one specific scale that I use for my "official" weight and it is not always available. Not to say I don't get on it a couple of times a week, but I officially weigh every Monday morning and that is my guage of weight loss. That is when I update my ticker. It is about health, but I've been skinny and I've been fat, and skinny is better. I can't wait to get there again...not skinny, but much smaller than I was Kathe -
HAS ANYONE JUST ATE ALL THE WRONG FOODS FOR A WEEK STRAIGHT?
Godsfavoraintfair posted a topic in Tell Your Weight Loss Surgery Story
I am stressing a little because I went on vacation for a week and ate everything that I used to eat prior to being sleeved in 1/11 and the bad part was I didn't get sick, it was good and now I have to truly start all over! These are the habits that kept me fat all my life! I didn't stuff myself but I did eat more than three times a day and I gained 2 lbs. Anybody been there and how hard was it to get refocused? -
8 Months Out...i've Altered My Stomach, Now How To Alter My Mind?
KellyL replied to luvbugz's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I find that the hardest part is the constant social situations that put tempting food before us. I do fine as long as I am at home, I only bring in stuff that I can have except for a few things my family might want occasionally. But when out and about, besides the fact that there is much more available in the ways of tempting food, other people are constantly offering (carb pushers!!) stuff like breads, desserts, potatoes, etc. These things are so much a part of their lives, that we are literally surrounded by it. For the most part I can resist, and have no problems. But due to the simple fact of getting bored, sometimes these foods sound so appetizing. So its a constant struggle to stay on the right path. I imagine it's worse for you than myself, due to being in college and having even more of a social life. You are doing so well with your weight loss, let it continue to inspire you to make good choices. And if you make a not so great choice, then maybe only a taste of a bite or two will be enough to let you resist a bigger portion. Good luck and congrats on your amazing success!! -
Hi, Please could anyone help or explain something regarding my weight loss. I had the band fitted July 07 and had had two fills by Jan 08 this year. I had only lost about 8 lbs in total and was obviously a bit disappointed. In Jan I had my gall bladder out and was told that some fill had to be removed from the band. I then had serious complications with Gall bladder operation and after being rushed back in to hospital for surgery and I am now just getting over the operation but did lose some weight in hospital going from going from 92.5 kilo to 88 kilo, but this went back up to 91 while waiting for my fill. My consultant recently said its OK to go ahead with my third fill which I have just had on May 6th. I have had very good restriction and am still on liquids like Slimfasts and mushy food. I had a little Shreddies and salad and yoghurt's yesterday but nothing much else and am trying to eat regularly. My problem as always, is that I got weighed this morning and have put some weight on and am 92.9 kilo. Could someone please explain a reason for putting weight on when I am literally eating next to nothing. I am still working as normal. Is it my body shutting down because of lack of food, because I could understand staying the same for a short time , but... NOT PUTTING WEIGHT ON. How long before the reserves start to be used up and the weight starts to go. If you don't eat, do you put weight on or what??? Sorry for going on a bit but I am very frustrated Any advice or explanation would be grateful Jeannie....:confused2: :tt1: :Dancing_wub: :Dancing_wub:
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Hooray, I Was Not Stuck At 219
feedyoureye replied to crosswind's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Crosswind! You are back girl!... and 80 pounds lighter! I had surgery a couple months before you, and at 8 months was losing around 3-4 pounds a month. 5 is NOT outrageously, unjustly slow... its losing and will take you to where you want to go. When you get to goal, it will feel just a sweet if it takes 6 months or two years and it will still be goal. I figure my last few pounds(9) will take at least 3-4 more months, and could even be longer. Its time to get into the ZEN pleasures of S-L-O-W weight loss. Glad to see you back, you always contributed to this site in a unique and enjoyable way. Cheers and congratulations on your weight loss the size of a not so small child in less time then it takes to gestate a baby! (and you are stuck with them for 20+ years after!) -
Oh Honey! Coming from a culture in which it is just plain impolite to turn down food or not clean your plate, I can surely understand what you are looking at. Try this: "Thank you so very much! Is it ok if I take only half? My doctor wants me to start a very strict diet on Monday so that I can quit taking so much medicine. The medicines are soooo expensive and he says that I won't have to take them if I lose that weight." Very small portion taken, don't eat it if you can avoid it...but a tiny portion is not a catastrophe Blame it on the doctor Strict Diet Starts Monday...not today, so you don't turn them away Lots of meds (even if not true) Meds are expensive This leaves them with their dignity and expresses your appreciation while preserving your efforts too. If the language barrier is greater than you can get this message through, consider going through the younger generation. If a younger person comes by the office, or meets you on the grounds, give the story almost as though you were "complaining" about your doctor. Good Luck!
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My husband & I both have our surgery dates!
weho replied to dallasmom's topic in Tell Your Weight Loss Surgery Story
Wow, you "won" a surgery!?! That is awesome! It is so cool that you and your husband are going through this together. Even though my husband didn't have the surgery I feel like it really pulled us together. Once I "survived" surgery he became really excited about my decision and has been cheering me on ever since. I think he understands now how desperate I was to lose weight. Obviously you have a great surgeon with Dr. Kim! Keep us updated. -
Does Your Mirror Lie?
Felicia replied to Ms skinniness's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I have a horrible self image. I ALWAYS see a fatter girl in the mirror. I also have a hard time believing anyones compliments. I know in time I will see myself as thinner, but for now I still see a fat girl. Sometimes I do see a thinner me, but it doesn't happen very often. I guess this is due to me always being overweight and it's going to take a long time before my mind understands that I am different. If I get down to my goal weight and I am still seeing a fat girl, it's time for some professional help LoL. -
Great post. Keep it up! The BEST 'cure' for dehydration is to dring a LOT of liquids. Try the "squirt" flavorings. Try it warm... but get it in. I fully believe that you NEED the liquids to lose weight, so make that an extra inducement! This might help: http://www.caloriesperhour.com/tutorial_water.php
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what happens when you reach your goal weight?
Sunwyse replied to jewels41's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
You don't get unfilled. You will need to go back once every 6 months or so for a minute top up, as some of it can leak out over time and if you don't get those top ups, you can end up with less restriction and put weight back on. Once you reach goal, you do something super special to Celebrate and then get on with living the life you always told yourself you would when you lost all the weight. Some people even give consideration to cosmetic surgery. -
I have been using the body bugg for 1 month. I love the information that it gives me but here is the problem. My average calorie deficit a day is 800-1100 calories and I have not lost any weight. I take in about 1100-1300 calories a day. I usually burn about 2100 callories per day without exercise. 2400 with exercise. I heard that if you are closer to your goal you can have a large calorie deficit. Is that true. I weigh 168 and my goal is 145. please help.
