SHRINK'N VIOLETS

Hello all... I'm Tracy and I'm starting this thread because I just found out that I'm scheduled for Surgery on April 26, 2007.

fffffffffffffffffffast forward to April 30, 2007

SPRING HAS SPRUNG!

We made it to the other side of bandland and now we are set to support one another while we shrink our booties and grow into our new smaller skins.

All are welcome to join in and post, but we are not a group that bickers..... please be supportive as we all have different paths to follow... but the journies to the more healthy self beckons....

Let the losing begin!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL Tracy!! I can just imagen you spraying him with disenfectant!

sara

It changed that is for sure, I couldn't get on all day, I was getting frustrated. Oh well, I'm here now so that is good.

Hello everyone, I was banded on April 5th (13 days ago) and I feel no restriction what soever, it is hard to eat pureed food when you know you can eat anyting you want as long as you chew it up well.

I am not schedule for a fill until May 25th which is so long to wait. I would like to be losing weight now and without the help of the band I am concerned that my inability to diet on my own.....

Is anyone else not feeling any restriction?

Tracy.. I picture you with a surgical mask on, rubber gloves and a can of disenfectant at the ready!! Great visual!!!:biggrin1:

Thanks Jennifur, I thought it may have been me imagening it!

Dave I dont have restriction now (I was banded on the 2nd), but Im sticking to the quanitity that I had after surgery, about 1/2 cup to one cup of food per meal x 3 small meals a day. I can feel hunger, but I just keep drinking fluid.

My fills not until the 12th May, we'll get there, try and stick with it, and just think in 4 weeks it will be restricted. Its not bothering me at the mo, as much as it used too re wanting to eat food.

LOL Teach!

Hello everyone, I was banded on April 5th (13 days ago) and I feel no restriction what soever, it is hard to eat pureed food when you know you can eat anyting you want as long as you chew it up well.

I am not schedule for a fill until May 25th which is so long to wait. I would like to be losing weight now and without the help of the band I am concerned that my inability to diet on my own.....

Is anyone else not feeling any restriction?

Dave.. no restriction here, but that is normal. The band should be empty while the stomach heals from the surgery. You will feel restricition at your first fill.. or so I'm told in my research. I had my surgery on 4/10 and will not have my first fill until 8 weeks out. I still have three more weeks of liquids before I can even think about mushie food. And believe me, I'm looking forward to the mushies. I'm doing it by the book and will not do anything to jeopardize all I went through to get this band. I'm workin' the tool baby!!

All you newbies...........

WELCOME TO BANDSTER HELL!!!!

As of April 16, Im banded. I feel good. Just wanted to let you all know. Just got home from hospital. May be back on in a few days. Thanks for all the advice.

CONGRATS ARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See ya when you feel better.

Ok this was taken the other day, we went to the zoo and my eldest took a pic of Dh and I.....ok Im still fat...but Im a stone less than I was!!

P.s the 1st time I tried to upload a pic it was one of a Rhino (you would have wet yourselves laughing (re above quote!)

Sara x

Dont know how to make the pic small?

Sara,

You look great. It is very nice to put a face w/ the name. Afterall, I come to consider you, Terri, Tracy, and a few others here as friends, and I could never tell what you looked like from the little pix. I will try to upload a pix soon. I got a new camera in March, and haven't figured out how to upload yet. Anyway, that is great, very nice to "meet" you!!!

Dave, my dr. gives 1st fill 3 weeks post-surgery. Isn't it strange how the doctors orders are different from each other?

Sara, I downsized the pic for you.... you should be able to copy or save it then re-paste it into your post if you want. Then I'll come along and delete this post.

You're GORGEOUS!! Can't wait to watch you melt and get even gorgeous-er!!

Too funny .... you have longhorn cattle in your zoo (?)....and we have 'em ALL OVER THE PLACE here in Texas !! I drive by a whole pasture of them on my way home from work every day.

Aw thanks Pam,

I must say after I posted the pic, I thought OMG...LOL..its massive on here, I'm gonna scare away all newbies with a big smiling moon face, lol. Oh well thats me!

Must say look at the before n after pics and I think Ooo Id love to be slim like them, I think I'll get Dave to take a pic every month, so in 12 + months time I hope there will be a vast difference!!

Speak soon,

sara x