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Just banded 062507 !!! newbie!

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banditgina    0

banditgina
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So excited, am 3 days post op and doing great! really look forward to the upcoming weight loss journey... thanks to all of you for the great posts and encouraging stories, not to mention the helpful tips, hints, etc.

gina

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MsPris    0

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Congrats and Good Luck on your upcoming journey ! Hope to join the 'bandits' later this month or early next. Pris

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DawnG    0

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Hey Gina! I was banded on 6/25 also. I am still feeling a bit sore around my port site, but otherwise I'm doing great! Lots of luck on your journey!

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banditgina    0

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my port it sore around it, have one spot that feels like a "stitch" occaisionally that pulls... otherwise I am doing fine. how are you doing with your intake?

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jamiev    0

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i was also banded on the same day and my port is sore as well. Not having any issues with intake, just feeling weak but have gotten some new protien and Iron sources. Good luck to you as well!

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Hi My name is Colleen and I was banded on 6/27/07 by Dr Noel Williams at The University of Pennsylvania and the deVinchey robot. Breband I weighed 230 my goal is 150 lbs, I'm dooing pretty good, surgery was a little rougher than I thought it would be. I'm very sore at port site but I stopped taking the pain meds, just taking Tylenol. Looking forward to the journey.

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peggy1011    0

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I was banded 6/25/07 as well. Today I feel pretty good! Was able to add cottage cheese, mashed potatoes and hummus to my intake. Nothing ever tasted so good! Good Luck to us all....

Peggy

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NowUCme    0

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I too was banded June 25th, I am doing great. I am starting to get hungry though. :hungry: I've lost 10 lbs so far. :) I am very excited about my new journey. Good luck to all of us!!!!

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Bamalama    0

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Hey Collieh, I was banded on the 27th as well! I have been doing great other than nausea the day of the surgery I have not had gas pain, port pain or anything really. The scales say I have lost 15lbs so far... Thats what liquids will do for you. Good Luck keep in touch! Beverly

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Congrats. I was banded on 26th. I am not hungry and I feel great. I have lost 8lbs and actually made it through a weekend at the lake and didn't feel deprived that I wasn't eating and everybody else was.

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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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      Alisa_S

      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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