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I have been waiting for years to finally start this journey and I am so excited! Yesterday I was in alot of pain, today it's mainly discomfort. Before my pre op diet I was 243, yesterday at the hospital I weighed in at 229! So far so good!

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Congrats! Many blessings on your new journey to be healthy!

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Congrats! Many blessings on your new journey to be healthy!

Thank you!

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Great job and glad to hear your feeling well. Welcome to the Lap Band club!

I had my revision & plication yesterday also and so far I am doing well...just feel like I've done a ton of sit ups and am pretty tender. Unfortunately, my surgery had some complications and my surgeon had to remove a ton of scar tissue/adhesions from previous abdominal surgeries. So excited to have a working band again and get full on a few sips of liquids!

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Great job and glad to hear your feeling well. Welcome to the club! I had my revision & plication yesterday and so far am doing well...just feel like I've done a ton of sit ups and am pretty tender as my surgery had some complications as my surgeon found a ton of scar tissue/adhesions from previous surgeries he had to remove. So excited to have a working band again and get full on a few sips of liquids! Praying the extra weight I gained from having a non working one for a few years will fall off quickly!

Good luck!

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Congratulations!! Keep us posted on your progress.

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How are you feeling today? Holding up and enjoying your Protein shakes? What are your diet restrictions and plan?

I'm sick of 'sweet' already so we went grocery shipping last night and picked up some Tomato juice, chicken broth, sweet potato puree, pudding, ricotta cheese, grits, Noosa Yoghurt, and a few other things for the future as my diet progresses.

Even after having had a band for 10 years especially with not having any great restriction in the past three years up until now just looking at the size of my Noosa Yoghurt has me overwhelmed as it looks like way too much food! Hope my head and my stomach stay in sync and I can continue to be in that same state of mind for a long while to come!

Hoping your doing well!

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Today I start my "mushies" I'm really nervous that I'm going to get nauseous from it

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I just had some strawberry Jello and I made it through the cup without freaking out! So happy right now. Later I'm going to have done Greek yogurt.

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