I would like to hear from some Texarkana Bandsters about their experiences. re: doctors, pre and post surgery, and how things are going for them now. I am considering the lap band.

I should be there tonight. Hubby has the flu, so if he's feeling bad I may stay and help. If not, I'll be there right after aerobics.

Hey everyone!!!!!!! I hope everyone is doing well. I haven't been on in awhile. Have been keeping up with all of you. Everyone seems to be doing great. My weight has been so slow that the turtle is in the lead by miles. But I started excersing 2 weeks ago and I think I have lost 4lbs. I'm getting up at 4:15a.m. and walking/running on the tread mill. It is the only time I really have. Going for a fill on Thursday. Valentines Day of all days. I'm definately telling Dr. H to fill'em up. I hope everyone has a great day. :cursing:

Hello everybody. I'm very new to the board. Betty called me Monday with the news that I had been approved for the band, so I actually start my pre-op diet Tuesday (uh, today......I work nights). My band is scheduled for Feb. 22nd. Have a great day.

yea plain. good luck, let us know how you are doing, preop can be frustrating but you will get thru it, we all did !!! I didnt exercise much, but i did walk a little bit. be safe today.

i didnt go to the meeting last night, how was it? I sure hated to miss getting my pin !!!

Man! I can't believe I missed the meeting last night. It was on my list of things to do, I lost my list and for the life of me could not remember what the last thing on the list was, which was to go to the meeting. I had five 50lb bags of horse feed to unload before it rained last night and that's all I had on my mind I guess.

I had a bunch of errands to run yesterday, including 2 doctor appt.'s and one was with Dr.K. I lost 2 pounds and got my 4th fill, which I definitely feel.

The second dr appt, had me losing 4 lbs and I know I have lost because I'm wearing almost 2 sizes smaller than before surgery.

It was a long meeting, but helped me realize that I'm probably not getting enough protein with all the exercising I'm doing and that's why I'm losing like I thought I would. Amy said that if you work out for an hour or more you should try to get a little more that 60 grams in a day.

I will try this and see how it works and let y'all know.

Morning yall!

Sounds like a very productive meeting. Julie, unloading horse feed is a work out in itself. lol I know bout that too. You do realize that even though you might not be losing pounds, you might be losing inches (then the pounds catch up)

Yall, I hate to say this. (you know I do, lol) I am going to have to go get even smaller jeans. The smaller ones that I bought in the last week or two.... I pulled them off last night WITHOUT unbuttoning or unzipping. Just slipped them off. I think maybe they are sized wrong. lol Yall know I'm being funny, right?

Hey plain. Congratulations. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Good luck with the pre-op diet. Hang in there, it gets better when you can have the salad. We will be here if you need someone to cheer you on.

Oh, Teresa. I did get out and walk this weekend. Forgot to tell yall. I haven't had the energy to do much lately. Got some liquid vitamins (that taste yucky, by the way) that have seemed to help.

Yall have a good day and if you have lost that box or yours, find it and get back in. You too, Susan. lol :biggrin:

lisa

Sugarbear, you okay? Haven't heard from you in a while and didn't see you at the meeting.

I'm managed to almost go a whole week without going to the gym! Geez....the flu is going around school and hubby has it and I've been running, running, running to get everybody at our house some tamaflu. Hopefully, I'll get to go tonight!

Hi Lo2us and everybodyelse. Welcome Plain and good luck. Stay in touch during your journey, we are glad to be of any help.

Been really busy the past week or so. I am on my way to Houston as I speak. I hated to miss the meeting but I had an apt. that morning and late a.m. my mil had an apt. that I had to get her to and didn't get out until 1:00 and had to be in Texarkana at 2:00 to see Dr. K for a a fill. Then did some last minute errands, got back home about 5:30 and was too tired to turn around and drive back. First one I have missed. Will have to get you to fill me in if their was something new. I will be back Sat. or Sun. Things should get back to normal then. Take care everyone.

so how is every one with your new fills? I go monday, dont need another one this time. I am still tight. Waiting for more pounds to fall off !!!! I exercise and then i gain... that isnt fair LOL. Way to go lisa. I went down a size too. One more to my little jeans i have hanging up on the closet door. I want a pretty dress to wear for my daughters wedding in october. Ya'll let me know how you are feeling with your fills ! When i slime i worry !

Hello everyone. We are home and glad to be here. Weather wasn't to great comming home. It is cooler here than in Houston. Rainy too. I think I am doing well with this fill. Only got a small one. I slime pretty easy now so I didn't want to push it. Only did that once this week and I ate too fast. Really tired now, so I'll check back in tomorrow.

Tpagrn sounds like you are doing well. Just take care when you are chewing and eating. You may be like me, eat to fawhen you are really hungry.

didnt get a fill this time. She almost took some out. I am tring to remember to chew and chew. I have gained a couple of pounds back. My ticker will just stay there until i lose more and catch back up ! Can anyone drink cold water at their current fill ? I might try the sippy cup. Does that work for anyone? LOL. Still... LOVE MY BAND. have a great week, hang in there you new ones.

Hey Everyone!

How's everyone this morning? We had a hum-dinger of a meeting last nite. That's the only way I know how to discribe it. lol Very good.

Glo, just so you know..... the stuff in the "test tube" was not bad at all. Of course, it wasn't fantastic, but it was tolerable. Mine was cool melon splash. It doesn't have a really bad aftertaste. That's important to me. I'm not good with yucky aftertastes. Now, I don't know what to do with the "virtually unbreakable" tube. I said I was gonna put in on my desk, but I work in a place that is mostly men. You do realize what kinda comments that would bring up. lol Oh brother!

To clue everyone on things, last night Jamie was our meeting "leader". She brought the Profect protein beverage tubes and we had a drawing for "door prizes". Well, guess who won one of those door prizes? I don't ever win anything, but last night I was one of the lucky ones, if you wanna call it that. Jamie started it! lol Anyway, lets just say that we had a little fun out of it. I don't know if the men will show up at the next meeting. lol Glo's might. I saw him giggling a time or two.

Better go. Yall have a good day and ............................ do I have to say it? STAY IN THE BOX!

lisa

Lisa, it was good to see you last night. LouAnn brought her "test tube" to school and believe me she's going to have much fun with it. LOL

Yes, Dennis had the best time. He said "I really enjoyed my(his) mtg last night". Guess he didn't understand I was the one with the band. LOL

The lady on the end had him in stitches.

I think I'll try the test tube thingy. I LOVE the whey protein. Lisa, thanks so much. I wanted to try it, but I was afraid and I didn't think you'd lead me wrong and you didn't. I shared some with LouAnn this morning.

Okay, for all of you that were not there, we were talking about the lack of magnasium (sp) and LouAnn has something (Health food store) thats called Calm. It has magnasium and it helps with stress. I love the whey with vanilla light milk, yum, yum.

I am going to try and stay in the box, but last night I let it slip that I got out and had ice cream:redface:. Well, it's another day and I'm in the box with my yummy protein shake.

Be blessed