Hello everybody. This is my first post. I just joined today. I started my pre-op diet this week. So far so good. I nearly at my dog last night I am a bit nervous, but look forward to the operation. Glad I found this place to talk with others who have been where I am now.

Phil

Hi Phil! Welcome to LBT!!! There is a strong, active April bandsters thread---look them up, and get aquainted. You will be glad to have the support of others facing the same things around the same times. It is called April Bandsters Head Start on Spring---I think---I never can keep all the exact titles of the threads straight!!!

Pull up your keyboard and tell us about you!

I am an April 06 bandster, had mine almost a year, and by far one of the best decisions I ever made for myself! I would do it again in a heartbeat! I just know you will be happy!

Well, look up your fellow April 07 bandsters, and hang out & visit with us!

Kat

Kat,

Thanks for responding. I am kind of new to navigating in a sight like this. Well after a year of investigating I am looking forward to it I think. I am about 80 lbs over weight. Because of an auto accident four years ago, not only has the weight kept coming, I have not been able to control it. High blood pressure, apnea, and a few other complications has required me to go this direction. My wife thought about joining me in doing it, she is now nervous about the side affects concerned she would have things begining to sag. So I am on my own.

In the top center of the home page is a SEARCH button, click it and type in April, it will give you a list of all threads involving the word April---you will find the Head start on Spring thread, and can just click on it.

I am going to have some excess skin issues, not a lot, mostly through the belly. My belly was always my problem, my hips and legs remained pretty normal sized, so they will be fine. I might look into a mini TT after the next 35 pounds. Not the big surgery, just the skin removal---I know my clothes would fit better, and I would like it better. I do understand her concerns over the sagging skin---but I figure I am going to sag anyway---I will just do it much thinner than I was!!! I had a lot of weight to lose. Now less than 40 pounds to go!!!! YEA!

I had more to lose than you do----in fact I have lost more than the 80 you need to lose in this last year. Imagine, by next year this time you could be at your goal weight, and have all those health issues behind you!!! I too had high blood pressure---took 2 different meds for it, and high blood sugar, took 1 med for it---and have taken NONE now for over 9 months! My BP runs about 118/72 now!!! My Dr. is so thrilled!

My DH (Dear, Darling, Damned---depending on the mood----Husband), and I are now weighing the same! Soon I will be smaller than him for the first time in many years. He has lost weight, simply because I do cook differently and he is ok with that. We walk together, and have begun a light free weight lifting program we do every other night together. It has been good for both of us.

I hope you 2 can find ways for it to work as well for you!

Banding has been a blessing to me. I have hit a plateau the last couple of months, the weight is sloooooow coming off. But I do not diet---I eat everything in moderation, so in a way this plateau has been comforting to me, I realize I can live and eat normally and maintain without issue! So it relaxed than concern I had. Now I need to get active and get the last of this weight off!

Good luck to you!!!

Kat

Phil, congrats on getting banded. You will do great. Julie