If you had your band placed by Dr. Bagnato - let us know who you are and we can all chat together!!!!...

AND if you are having your 1st fill (or 5th) on Nov. 26th and want to get together to say hey and put a face to the screen name - speak up!!!

A few of us are planning on meeting up that day - lets get together and chat!!!

Amy

Hey Amy. I was banded by Dr. Bagnato on 9-20-07. I would love to meet up with you guys but I live in Moultrie and I am a stay-at-home mom so I won't be able to. Which ones of you are meeting up? If something changes, I will let you know. I would love to meet you guys, so maybe another time?

Georgia Girl - I wonder if I have met you. When I went for my preop, there was a nice lady who was there for her 1 week follow-up and we spoke a little. She was a homemaker from Moultrie and was with her husband. Do you have black/dark brown hair? I was there with my husband and am quite a bit older than you. If it was you, both my husband and I thought you looked great for one week out.

Looking at your results, you seem to be doing really good. How did you survive thanksgiving?

I would like to meet the others, but won't be in Albany until the 29th for my first fill. I'm over in Douglas.

Georgia Girl - I wonder if I have met you. When I went for my preop, there was a nice lady who was there for her 1 week follow-up and we spoke a little. She was a homemaker from Moultrie and was with her husband. Do you have black/dark brown hair? I was there with my husband and am quite a bit older than you. If it was you, both my husband and I thought you looked great for one week out. Looking at your results, you seem to be doing really good. How did you survive thanksgiving? I would like to meet the others, but won't be in Albany until the 29th for my first fill. I'm over in Douglas.

Yes, I remember you. How are you doing since your surgery? Your weight loss is going great! I absolutely love my band. I haven't had any problems so far (knock on wood). Thanksgiving went really well. I didn't count calories or anything that day, I just ate a little spoonful of a lot of different things. And I completely stayed away from the sweets. That was an accomplishment in itself. I'm so glad you posted this and maybe all of us who used Dr. B can get together one day and chat. I hope you are doing well and take care.

Georgia girl - you have lost soo much weight!!! I am soo impressed (and jealous) but I will get there.

I have a very good friend of mine that lives in Moultrie (she should be giving birth any day now... I will be in the delivery room with her, she is single now.. and better off for it!) So I will be down that way often to help her with the baby.. maybe we can meet up sometime when I am down that way!!

Talk to you soon,

Amy

Keep up the great work!!!

Amy, that sounds great. Maybe you could PM me when you're going to be in town and we could meet up. Take care.

Hi all.

I was banded by Dr B on 11/16/07. I have my post op visit on 11/26 and would love to meet some of yall if you get together. I have enjoyed talking with some of you already on here and would love to be involved in a support group of sorts. Take care and please let me know if some of yall decide to meet up.

Hi Everyone, I was banded by Dr Bagnato on Oct 4th. Love him. I live in Tifton. I have already had my first fill and don't have another until Dec 3rd. I would love to meet the other Bagnato bandits. Look forward to meeting yall! Please let me know of final plans to meet.

Let's plan on meeting at the Obesity Center (where we get our fills at - across the street from Bagnato's office) at say 1PM?? My fill is scheduled for 1pm so I know I will be there (nice 3 hr drive to get there too... LOL).

I plan on popping my head in to say Hi to the gals at Dr. B's office right before my fill (promised them I would) and then I will be where I get the fill. Another girl that had it the same day as Me is going to be there by 2pm. So she will get there early enough to meet with us too...

What do ya say? See ya there???????

Amy

Hi all.

I was banded by Dr B on 11/16/07. I have my post op visit on 11/26 and would love to meet some of yall if you get together. I have enjoyed talking with some of you already on here and would love to be involved in a support group of sorts. Take care and please let me know if some of yall decide to meet up.

I agree, I think it would be a wonderful if we could start a monthly support group and meet once a month. I do not know anyone personally who has the band, so it would be nice to have people to talk to, face to face, that are going through the same things.

Hi all!

I am so sorry I couldn't get away to meet with those of you that got the chance to meet up today. I hope you all had a nice time together. I had my first post op visit with Dr B today and he said I could go ahead and start on soft/mushy foods. I get my girst fill on 1/3/08 so I have to focus on keeping my calorie intake low enough to keep losing weigh by will power until then. So if any of you have some good low calorie soft food ideas please pass them my way. Have a good evening and take care.

Hello Everyone! I am meeting with Dr. Bagnato on Monday to do my pre op assessment. I am self pay so I have been told I can schedule my surgery pretty quickly. I am from Moultrie. Any tips suggstions etc?

Congrats Mia. I was also a self-pay with Dr. B. You'll really like him and his staff. They're great to work with. Once I went in for my preop and paid, my surgery was 2 weeks later. Just long enough for the 2 week sugar busters diet. Good luck and let us know how things go.

Thanks! How was the sugar busters diet? I am invisioning it in my head as being really hard to stick to and utter hell, lol. I realize the importance of sticking to it and really hope that I can. I just am sooo hungry all of the time and it seems like such a large amount it takes to fill me up. What exactly was the procedure like? How soon could you resume normal activity like work etc?

I managed fine with the sugar busters. Just stay away from anything white. One thing that really helped was that I wanted the procedure soo bad and the fact that I wasn't going to risk not getting the surgery. He says the reason for sugar busters is to reduce the size of the liver and that he has refused to do the procedure when someone's liver was too big. I wasn't going to risk that. I also think that when we are self pays that its a bit of extra encouragement to follow the plan exactly. Who wants to waste that much money? Not me!

As far as the procedure goes I was in and out the same day (he also repaired 2 hernias during the procedure). He asked me if I wanted to spend the night, but no way. I wanted my own bed. I had mine on a Thursday and went back to work the next Tuesday. The first couple of days I only worked 1/2 days and it was a little rough, but by the following Monday I was just fine.

Hope things go well for you. I'm soo happy with my band, I'd do it again anyday.

Thanks! How was the sugar busters diet? I am invisioning it in my head as being really hard to stick to and utter hell, lol. I realize the importance of sticking to it and really hope that I can. I just am sooo hungry all of the time and it seems like such a large amount it takes to fill me up.

The Sugar Busters Diet wasn't that bad for me either. I still ate bread, just made sure it was whole grain bread. Like nip50 said, just stay away frome the white stuff. Good luck!