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Today my doctor told me some people name their bands :lol:. She logs the name and asks how "enter name here" is doing during appt's. Now for me to find a perfect name...

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OMG This is hilarious you posted this because I was just telling a friend of mine last night that I am still wrapping my head around the fact I have a band in my stomach and so I feel if I name it then I will feel like we can then move forward in our bonding expeirence! I just cant think of a name for mine. I feel its a female tho...:P

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I can't decide if I want to name it Bandy, or Mr. Bandit, something along those lines.

However, I bought a pillow pet to help me through the surgery and I named him Mr. Lappy Bear.

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I call mine Bandit. She's my best buddy. Lol!

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Her name is "Smidge" because she only lets me eat a smidge of this or a smidge of that at any given time. :lol2: I love being banded, it has been such a wonderful blessing.

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:lol: hahaha those are great! I'm thinking of something along the lines of a great ruler. Controlling, but great. I'd say Caesar but I don't want food to stab me in the back. Oh, what the heck, Caesar is great.

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Today my doctor told me some people name their bands :lol:. She logs the name and asks how "enter name here" is doing during appt's. Now for me to find a perfect name...

How about ... Lucinda? you are going to"lose so much weight or your clothes are now to loose! :D For the the lapbanders who had surgery in Mexico, one could name the band "Luz".

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I also chose Bandit for mine because he was being a bad band at the time and stealing my meals from me!

So DH and I refer to him in the third person. How's Bandit today? People think we are talking about my dog.

One of the best names I've seen here is Ralph!

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Mine is referred to as shameless. due to his ability to be shameless about hogging the limelight at meal times! After all it is about him

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I have never been very original. We had a chocolate labrador named, Cocoa. rolleyes.gif

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My daughter named her's Faith because she has faith it will work.

Mine is named Hope because I hope it works.

One of our best friends named hers Love because she loves her band.

So we have Faith, Hope and Love!

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