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What did "outsiders" tell you before Lap Band surgery?



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Everyone has an opinion....thats what makes us human. I was wondering though what did people tell you before surgery that either had you worried or made you upset even though now after surgery you've found was not true. As we all know, everyone is different. These cookie cutter opinions are not true for every one. My favorite thing that everyone told me was that I was going to completely loose my breast. I was a 38 D before surgery and here I am, six months and 75 lbs down and my bra size is still a 38D. My butt on the other hand is COMPLETELY gone but no one warned me about that. The other thing everyone "warns" about is skin...if you read enough of these forums though you know, the skin monster is not as terrible as people make it out to be.

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I was told the lap band doesnt work. I would have all kinds of complications. And the best one - If you just buckle down and watch what you eat you wouldnt need wls.

Lynn

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be careful as (people die).....yeah and just last week someone in china walked into an ostrich pen to kill himself......what does being obese mean? that i may die if i dont......risk i took....

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Outsiders didn't tell me anything ,b/c I didn't share with anyone who I thought wouldn't support me.

Worked out nice!

roflmao " you'll shoot your eye out kid"

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I was told it would never work for me because I was "too fat".

I have 2 friends that got Gastric Bypass around the same time I got the band. They both repeatedly told me how stupid I was for going with the band instead of Gastric Bypass like them. They said I wouldn't lose nearly as much weight as they would.

Fast forward...one the friend who got Gastric Bypass has lost about 60 pounds. The other only 30. Neither changed their eating habits at all. I, on the other hand, have lost over 180 with the Lap Band. Needless to say, neither dare say a word how "stupid" I was to choose the band over Gastric Bypass ;)

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One person told me that by getting wls showed how weak I was... And that I was never going to be happy or that I was going to become an alcoholic or drug addict because I was already addicted to food ... Anyways and all this coming out of the only two ppl I trusted enough to tell them about my plans ... Now looking Back I think it was all jalousie because they are also fat!

Now we don't talk!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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