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PJkitty    139

PJkitty
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I haven't been on here for a couple months and just wanted to give an update. I was banded on August 19, 2013. Since my surgery, I have lost 54lbs and lost 9 inches off my waist. I have gone from 257lbs to 203lbs....from a size 22 to a size 12. One-derland is so close!!!!! Hope everyone else is doing good.....I LOVE MY BAND!!!

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B-52    7,113

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Congratulations....This Thing DOES WORK...in spite of all the people who complain and are unhappy!!!

I looked at your profile....you're 5'3", and yet you set a goal of only 160 pounds.....

Don't sell the band short!!!! It is a lifestyle, not a diet.....

A diet we can start and stop whenever we choose, perhaps at the weight we desire....but this is SURGERY...forever changing the way we eat...a new way of life.....

having said that, our bodies will continue to loose, as we eat a new way, and our bodies will stop loosing when it feels like it...when it settles out to a NORMAL, HEALTHY place...where is SHOULD BE but was unable because of the bad habits we had....but with this new lifestyle, we have new habits...permanently!

The only way we can ever gain any weight back would be to start overeating again, and that is impossible to do with a properly adjusted band....

Most stories I hear of people gaining weight back are usually associated with getting Fluid taken out of their bands....

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kll724    3,055

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Doing great pjkitty! You are really close to onderland!! New you by the new year! Congrats!!!Karen..aka..kll724

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Congratulations on your hard work and weight loss.

Best wishes and Keep the Faith.

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Bandista    7,466

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Hi PJ, thanks for the inspiration -- you are rocking this thing! So happy for you. I am a couple of months behind you and love knowing what is possible. Best wishes!

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So encouraging :)Im 7 days out and have gained 2 pounds. Is this normal? Am i eating too much cream soupp at this stage? Confused?

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MyHighway    52

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So encouraging :)Im 7 days out and have gained 2 pounds. Is this normal? Am i eating too much cream soupp at this stage? Confused?

I'm 10 days out. had the same thing was losing ok... Not great loss but ok... then I went up and have been there for 4 days. I've been eating all Protein and low fat so I don't know if it's your cream soup; maybe just something this stage of the game. I know we're going to hear not to weigh ourselves and focus on healing... But easier said than done ;-)

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Bama53    214

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I haven't been on here for a couple months and just wanted to give an update. I was banded on August 19, 2013. Since my surgery, I have lost 54lbs and lost 9 inches off my waist. I have gone from 257lbs to 203lbs....from a size 22 to a size 12. One-derland is so close!!!!! Hope everyone else is doing good.....I LOVE MY BAND!!!

That is awesome!! Congrats! Thanks for sharing. A real inspiration!

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The Icy One    518

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Congratulations on your fantastic progress, so far. Onderland! So close you can practically taste it. :D Yay! You! :D

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PJkitty    139

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I am happy to report....I reached one-derland yesterday!!!! YAY!!!!! It may not b by much at 199...but I made it!!!!! :)

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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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        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.

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