Hi there peoples ....

i have been lurking around your site here for a while, reading all your stories and feeling very inspired by your successes ... so given now i know so much about you'll ... i thought it would be rude to continue on without introducing myself.

My name is Tracy - 32 years old - from a little old place down under - New Zealand

I am joining your bandster club on 11 Dec - so i am excited/nervous about that.

My story of how i got here is the same as most everyone elses - yo-yo diets until i got to the weight i am now.

It is nice to read your stories and to listen to you'll blow off steam - i feel the EXACT same frustrations - i strike the same types of selfish thoughtless people in my day to day life. As cliche as it sounds - it is good to not feel quite so alone.

I have read about all the positively disgusting things - PB's - which quite ironically makes me vomit a little into my mouth thinking about. hair loss - thats scares me. Post-op pain - well i am planning on being at work 6 days after so i am hoping i have one of those nice stories to relay post surgery about my quick recovery ... and the list goes on.

However none of it phases me.

I want to grow old with my beloved hubby - and at the weight i am at - that just won't happen.

So - that me - i look forward to reading more of your successes and being able to share my own very soon.

Tracy

Welcome Tracy. I was banded on Thurs, 1 Nov and am slowing but surely recovering at the moment. Still at the fluids stage which has been okay, haven't been feeling hungry... just the occasional twinge when I see other people eating (definitely head hunger). I was very anxious prior to the op and found myself over indulging in everything I could find for about 2 months. Now that I'm here, I'm just taking it a day at a time. I decided to go back to work today but because I can work from home. I can have breaks throughout the day and then go back to the office next week. I was just like you, yo-yoing up and down with the weight. Every new diet, eg, LitenEasy, was going to be the one for me but after losing around 15 kilos or so I would find myself going back in the other direction, even if I kept it off for more than a year. After looking into this, I realised it is for me because after losing the weight I'm more likely to keep it off. 4 days gone and the rest of my life to go !!

Hi Sades,

thanks for the reply - wow it sounds like you are doing great so far! how has the pain been - like on a scale of one to ten. i am such a baby when it comes to pain.

Oh yeah and i have been totally doing the "last supper" thing ... i feel dreadful!!

tracy

Welcome Tracy! I was banded 9-20-07 and had my first fill Nov.1. I'm not feeling any restriction right now but I go back on the 15th for another fill. Congratulations and Good luck.

Thanks for the kind words - all very best to you also!

Hi Sades,

thanks for the reply - wow it sounds like you are doing great so far! how has the pain been - like on a scale of one to ten. i am such a baby when it comes to pain.

Oh yeah and i have been totally doing the "last supper" thing ... i feel dreadful!!

tracy

My pain has not been as bad as some Tracy... I stopped the painkillers 2 days after. Of course any surgery is going to be sore... on a scale of 1-10 I'd say I'm around a 4 right now. It only hurts when I move around in bed or when I have to stand up. I didn't get the gas pain that everyone's talking about except maybe my back when I first came out of the op. Of course when I first woke up I was in extreme agony but was ok after they gave me pain killers. Anyway, good luck with your journey... it will come sooner than you think.