This group is for weight loss support for lower bmi bandsters (of course anyone is welcome!).

For encouragement, tips, accountability.... Give stats, helpful advice, etc.

How much weight you have lost, how long it took. etc.

In some case I have found it takes a lower BMI patient a lot longer to lose the weight.

Introduce yourself and jump on in!!!:welcomeB: :welcome2:

Audree

Silry, or anyone know a good loan company for bad credit I know it will be high interest but it dont matter. Anyone know let me know. Thanks

paperwork is filled out. deposit is in. airfare is reserved. time off from work is requested and approved.

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now i am panicking. it's all SO REAL. i keep having... moments of, well, freakingoutness (new word!). so many questions - am i doing the right thing? will i lose what i need to lose? am i making an almost $9k mistake?!

but i'm also really excited. i am READY to make this change. i'm ready to change my life.

i just wish i knew for sure if i was doing the right thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I remember feeling just like that! But, just so excited thinking my life was about to change and I would no longer be a slave to my giant appetite for food!!!

You are doing the right thing! You will do great!! And we will all be here waiting for you when you get back! When do you leave?

Silry,

I remember feeling freaked out too. I told myself I could walk away from the surgery up to the minute that I was knocked out.

It is all very exciting, and scary... and exciting!

Hey! Check out my South Beach thread!!! Man after writing all those meal plans and recipes,I am starving!!!

Silry, or anyone know a good loan company for bad credit I know it will be high interest but it dont matter. Anyone know let me know. Thanks

unfortunantly i do not. :cry we first applied with surgeryloans.com... they gave us a 14% interest rate. i have horrible credit (darn those student loans) and he has impeccable credit but that was the best they would give us. luckily he has discover card with a very low interest rate so we just charged it.

i'd do a google search for bad-credit loans. also, it doesn't hurt to try to repair your credit in the meanwhile. there are lots you can do on your own. you can apply for a few credit cards as well. my doctor is letting us split payments b/t 2 cards. if you get 2 with a low introductory rate... you could use those!

GOOD LUCK and *hug*. sorry i don't have more to offer.

Audree,

I agree with Serious. I think you should weigh yourself when YOU are ready.... even though we are all dying to know. I like your attitude about it though... that you are trying to do something different.

I feel that everything I am doing is different right now so I totally relate. I always try to keep no food in the house except what I am eating that day because I am afraid that I will eat it all. Now I just have food lying around. Well, it is put away in my kitchen but I am not eating it.

It is so weird to me to be sitting here, not having eaten for 4 hours and not even remotely hungry. I am not restricted really but I am really not eating a ton of food. It is really hard to get my mind wrapped around it even though I am doing it. I keep waiting for it to somehow end even though intellectually I know it won't.

Thanks Silry

I am thinking of waiting to get the fill for a little bit just to see how things go, to kind of get used to where I am now. I am for some reason ambivalent about getting the fill, even though I don't think I am losing that much weight. Of course at the same time I am not eating or wanting to eat as much as I did.

does impeccable mean good???

Yep... means he is the one that gets the 0% interest rates, etc.

He was dying to know too because he says that I look so much thinner. I told him no because don't we weigh more at night???

He told me he wouldn't tell me unless it was really good. I got on the scale 4 different times and..................

I started my pre op diet at 190, went down to 186 surgery day and tonight I am 175!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

So, does that mean in the morning I will be less!! I just ate and had a bunch of water too!!!

I just thought I'd let you know!

Thanks BikerGirl for the suggestion!!!

Audree,

That's good, but keep in mind, that you may gain some of that back initially. I stand by what I originally said, ( I am a critical care nurse), you are still in the healing phase. I think it's important to not get caught up in the weight loss right now, because your weight is probably going to flucuate....( some of the weight loss is water weight, the surgery caused edema, and that is some of what is being reflected initially, also, the deprivation caused by the pre and post op diet). I just don't want you or anyone else to get discouraged. The weight will come off if you follow the bandster rules. I have read too many posts on this and other sites about people saying the band didn't work. Sometimes, it's not the band that is not working, it's that they had unrealistic expectations and did not fully understand how the band is designed to help you lose weight. Of course, we got the surgery in order to lose weight, but with the band it is a set process. I think focusing too much on weight loss during the early stages sets people up for failure, especially since the weightloss may be reflective of other physiological adaptations, and thus not a valid number.

Genius,

Get the fill when you are ready...I can't over emphasize how this is not about weightloss at this stage of the game. Step one: you got the surgery, Step two: you heal from the surgery, Step three: you adapt to the bandster lifestyle, learning to eat the bandster way, learning to recognize when your pouch says you are full, drinking your water and getting in your exercise. You get the fill when your body tells you it is time; you are not satiated on portions, you are not losing weight after following bandster rules, and so on. It is an individual response based on your body signals.

audree!!!!!!

awesome woman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

Audree!!! That is FANTASTIC!!!!!

Keep it up! This is just the beginning!