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Good morning all,

Joyross, glad to hear that everything went great. Take care of yourself,

walk, sip H2O, walk, sip, walk. Do you have anything for gas? If not get

something for the ride home and if you have some discomfort when you

sleep, lay on a heating pad. Be blessed. Continue to let us know how you

are feeling when you can.

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Praise God joyross. SO glad all is well. Everything is beautiful. Cold... but beautiful. Things are looking up, slowly in my family but in God's timing. My lapband process is progressing and for that I am very grateful. God is good. I went and had my EKG and chest xray today. My Blood pressure is back to normal but my PCP wants to monitor it for 2 wks. My psych eval is next Wed. So when I have all my paperwork in to the surgeon, hopefully soon then we will see. I am very excited to have it done although then the waiting game begins. I am trying to focus on work and working on preparing for surgery, eating less.... but sometimes its hard. I love reading this site it is so refreshing.

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Hello wonderful women, and men of God. I have been thinking and waiting to hear from Thor. She had her surgery at 12:00noon Friday and I just pray that the joy of the Lord is her strength and would love to hear form her real soon I pray speedy recovery for her and a blessed new begining.

God Bless you all

Mrs. Peace (one who love Jesus)

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I just found this thread and am so glad to have come across it. I am a Christian and have been saved since Dec. 10, 1978. I was so blessed to be able to have the lap band done, I thank God every day. I,ve only lost 28lbs. but I have faith that more weight loss will come. I had it done in Oct. but just had my first fill this month Jan. I had my surgery done in Mexico and was able to pay for my daughter to have it done with me, because it cost so much less over there. God is just good that way. We had to search for months for a doctor hear to do our fills. God Bless You , for starting this thread.

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Hi everyone. Step of faith, I went on a couple of eating binges in between knowing I would have the surgery and the final countdown after the date is set. I was so afraid of the liquids phase, but I actually did allright. Because I have someone looking out for me.

And, Holy Cow, when was your surgery? I'm losing a little slow, and was hoping that I would have done better, but my dr. told me last week a pound a week was good and I was on track. I'd RATHER have two pounds a week, but I'm not really excercising and could be cutting back more on calories.

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welcome HolyCow!!!!

Give yourself some time. You've just gotten your first fill. The restriction will come and you be amazed at how that will help :tt1:

Hugs

wombat

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Back at ya candy. Get back on the "band" wagon and good eatin habits. You are going to do so well. I am losing a little, very little but a little so I am doing ok. Keep reporting on your progress

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And, Wombat -- saw your pics the other day on the before and after page -- you really looked good, big change! And, nice to see a face to go with the name.

Thanks candy :hurray:

It's very hard to post pics. I am so critical of myself and I just cringe when I hit the button to post. I guess I expect everyone else to be as critical as I am about how I look. :biggrin:

wombat

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Good morning all and Welcome holy cow. Losing is losing anytime we are not gaining.LOL, I think that we can be soooo hard on ourselves. God allowed us to have this surgery and grateful we are. Look at it this way, you had surgery in Oct (You didn't say the date), but 4 weeks Nov=4 lbs, Dec=4 lbs,

Jan=4 lbs =12 lbs if you were losing 1 a week, 2 a wk=24 lbs. You are doing great.

Wombat, where are your pics? I looked, but could not find them. Wombat, do you know where Lapbandfan and Hollyberries is? They haven't posted for quite some time.

Yes, I wonder how is Thor, she's probably recuperating.

Joyross, how's things going?

Stepoffaith, one day at a time.:biggrin:

Have a blessed day!!!!!!!

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Hi everyone. Step of faith, I went on a couple of eating binges in between knowing I would have the surgery and the final countdown after the date is set. I was so afraid of the liquids phase, but I actually did allright. Because I have someone looking out for me.

And, Holy Cow, when was your surgery? I'm losing a little slow, and was hoping that I would have done better, but my dr. told me last week a pound a week was good and I was on track. I'd RATHER have two pounds a week, but I'm not really excercising and could be cutting back more on calories.

Candy8360,

I was banded Oct. 20th, 2008. I have finally felt some restriction. This is soooo encouraging.

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hi everyone iam new to the christian thead .ihave been banded since july7,2007 and i was going to a fill dr.in missiour and she has been missing my port every time.i didnt know until i went back to mexico .dr.compos had let me know what was going on. so i am asking for prayer to find a good fill dr. close to me.iam in west tennessee but i am willing to travel 200 miles to see agood fill dr. thankgod,missionnary1:smile:

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hi everyone iam new to the christian thead .ihave been banded since july7,2007 and i was going to a fill dr.in missiour and she has been missing my port every time.i didnt know until i went back to Mexico .dr.compos had let me know what was going on. so i am asking for prayer to find a good fill dr. close to me.iam in west tennessee but i am willing to travel 200 miles to see agood fill dr. thankgod,missionnary1:smile:

Try this website:

http://www.asbs.org/html/about/membersearch2.html

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I'm doing well, Praise God, and thanks to all my brothers and sisters in the Lord. Walking, sipping, walking, sipping just like you said 2bmeagain. My wonderful hubby is doing the laundry, I'm going to put together a meatloaf soon for my family then have a Protein Drink. Both choc and vanilla Unjury are really good!!

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Joyross, I'm happy to hear that you are feeling well. How long will you have to stay on liquids? Then will you go to mushies? Take care of yourself.

Hello and welcome Missionay. Sorry to hear about the fills and I hope that you can find a dr near you.

Be blessed everyone.

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2bmeagain they are on the before/after pics. Well, mines really a "during" pic. I don't know what page it is so I'll post them here ....

My beginning pic is at 206.6 pounds :frown:

My second set is at 158 pounds. I've lost 10 more since then :frown:

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