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Lucky # Sevens- July 07 Bandsters

Evilah

By Evilah, in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums

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dmtjet    0

dmtjet
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Jessica, We love VA Beach, we go there nearly every year for vacation! It is the most beautiful state! I always say if I ever retire, I would like to move there. It would be my pick!

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dmtjet    0

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Really, Lynette, is he being helpful? If so, I would make it last as long as possible, lol!!!

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Dini    0

Dini
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DO I MIND YOU ASKING ARE YOU CRAZY LOOK WHAT WEB-SITE WERE ON ITS ALL ABOUT THE WEIGHT AND SUPPORT!!!!!!!

I'M 195LB AND 5'4'' I CARRY IT ALL OVER BUT MY TUMMY IS OK. JUST A BIT WOBBLY FROM HAVING THE BABY NOT TO BAD. I'VE GOT THAT MORE BROAD SOLID BUILD, GET ME???

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Lynette617    0

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Heck yeah, he's doing wash, and dishes, picking up around the house. He went night fishing tonight with the kids and my FIL, so I've got the house to myself. He has been good this week.

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Lynette617    0

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Dini, I know what you mean. I have the broad build too. No one believes me when I say I weight 232. They guess me around 190.</p> <p>I wish. But I have the tire thing going on around my waist and lower

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Dini    0

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Heck yeah, he's doing wash, and dishes, picking up around the house. He went night fishing tonight with the kids and my FIL, so I've got the house to myself. He has been good this week.

isn't it well for some. i'm staying at my mothers house today cos i dont want to be around adam. i'm afraid i'll throw him off the balcony. actually i couldn't do that it would make my band slip and i wouldn't want that would we!!!!!!!!........

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Kathybad    0

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Nice question Lynette! :D

My screen name? :heh: Kind of obvious, but I'll relate the story behind it.

I can't recall how I stumbled over the forum, but I reading over it and hadn't yet registered. Looking for information on my impending surgery. All the paperwork had been sent to the insurance co. a couple of weeks earlier. I'd taken a break and went to check the mail. There was a letter from the insurance co. denying me because it was deemed "not medically necessary" :)

I called the number on the letter and was given the number for the person who actually made the decision. I was furious at that time and couldn't believe my luck at being able to talk with the ass who didn't know what the hell he was doing.

Apparently I wasn't fat enough. My BMI was 36 and I believed because of my PCOS and insulin resistance, I was on the fast track to diabetes and more if I couldn't stop the pounds from piling on. He said I hadn't had an official diagnosis of diabetes, so I didn't qualify for co-morbidities, plus the fact I was only on one medication for it and they required I be on two. Was he serious?

I was astounded!:omg: I asked right out "So I'm not fat enough or ill enough to qualify and I have to WAIT until I am?" He said, "Yes, pretty much." So then I asked him what I needed to do. He pondered for a while and said "Well if your BMI was 40, you would qualify without the need for co-morbidities." *blink* "So I need to get fatter in order to be able to get thinner?" He responded with "Yes, but there's no way you could gain that weight.*chuckle*" I don't know what bugged me more, the fact that all it would take would be to gain more weight, or the fact that this moron thought I couldn't possibly do it.

I saw it as a challenge! I hung up the phone, had a good cry, complained to my hubby and got him to calm me down. Then I came online and was feeling "Frustrated" by the whole experience. The rest, as they say, is history. :D

Hi Frustrated... my band date buddy. I'm so sorry for your experience with the Dr.

6 years ago my girlfriend was banded. She was one of the first in Canada at the time. Her BMI was 35, and the surgeon wouldn't do it unless she was 40... so she did the exact same thing... ate her face off for 3 months. Today she's 100 lbs lighter and in great health.

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Dini    0

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no-one knows my weight. not even adam. if they were to guess they would say around 168lb ( 12 stone) even adam thinks around that.

did i tell you i can feel 2 parts of my part its really strange i feel this round thing then a line then another round think!!! i think i need an xray to make sure all is ok

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rrkeithsgirl    0

rrkeithsgirl
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Jeanie,

It is pretty here. I do not go to the beach much b/c I am crazy. long story short-I am use to the white sand from the gulf and the sand here just looks dirty to me. Isn't that nuts? LOL

Dini-the bouncing is funny LOL

Lynette, I think I will be posting alot here as well. I am finding the reading entertaining and educational. :)

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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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        I hope your surgery on Wednesday goes well. You will be able to do all sorts of new things as you find your new normal after surgery. I don't know this from experience yet, but I am seeing a lot of positive things from people who have had it done. Best of luck!

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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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      1. summerseeker

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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.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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