Just wanted to say hello to all my neighbors! How is everyone doing with their bands? I'm 16 days out and feeling pretty good! Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend! :eek:

I am new to this site and hope to have my band in a couple of weeks. I will be going to Mexico because I have such limited coverage with BCBS

insurance.

How are you doing? Feeling good? Weight loss so far?

Robin:cool:

Hey there Robin! Won't be long before you are banded. Are you getting excited? I'm a month out now and am so happy I had this done. I've lost 25 lbs since surgery and a total of 36 lbs including pre-op diet! I feel really good these days. : ) Will you be in Mexico a long time? Do you have to lose any weight pre-op before they'll band you? Hope to keep in touch. Angie

Hi angie-

Did you get your band in CT? I'm a traveling nurse and am moving to CT this July and need a good doc for fills and checkups. I got my band in Arizona so i'm not worried about a doc not taking me under his wing but I would like a good reference. Thanks nora

Doing well banded in 1/28/08 loss about 90 living in wethersfield

Good morning! I'm in CT too. I was banded on 9/4/08 by Dr. Neil Floch @ Norwalk Hospital. www.endtheweight.com. They were/are a great practice. Always availabe when I need them!

Okay.. so I have a small concern and wonder if this happened to anyone else...

On the preop Optifast diet I lost 12 pounds and another 5 in the week after getting banded. But now I've lost nothing since then. I'm walking everyday.. drinking lots of Water.. can't figure it out. All I can think is that it's too much milk in the Protein drinks and its slowed my system??. Maybe once veggies are added and things start moving I'll start showing a loss again. I'm trying not to worry too much about it at this point. My main goal really is just to make sure I am getting enough protein and liquid at this point. I think the rest will just fall into place. Any thoughts?

Hi! this happened to me also. you will begin to lose again. I was banded on 9/9/08. I lost 20 pounds altogether so far. The first week, I lost 16 of them, then I lost nothing, then 1.5 the next week and so on. your body thinks it is in starvation mode, and is holding on to all it has, but it will give eventually.