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Just wondering how others are doing? I'm feeling great physically no gas and finally slept on my side last night but I'm feeling pretty hungry...How are you guys?

Feeling hungry yet?

How are your incision sites?

When is your first fill?

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I was banded on the 30th, does that count? I am doing o.k. This liquid thing is pretty difficult, but not much more time. My incisions are still somewhat swollen, but o.k. I go back to the dr. on 12/19 and don't know that a fill will be considered or not. I am just concentrating on getting in enough liquids.

Is anyone exercising yet. I am only one week post op and wondering when I can get on a treadmill...

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I was banded Nov. 19. I am feeling so much better this week. I was able to start soft foods and it's so nice to be off of the liquid diet. My port site really doesn't hurt anymore, and my incisions have almost healed. I can't believe the difference a week makes. I was walking for the first 2 weeks post-op, but I have now been able to start exercising on my "gazelle", which is nice since it's very cold outside here! I haven't lost any weight since my first week post-op, but I can tell a real difference in the way my clothes feel. I am a little worried about the lack of weight loss since I eat less than 800 calories a day, but I guess that will come with time and the first fill.....

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Hi Tyman, yes the 30th is considered congrats on the surgery, I hope your swelling goes down soon. I've read that a couple of people have started walking right after surgery up to 2 miles a day even. I wish you the best inyour recovery and weight loss

Hi Crispy98a I can't wait till I feel as good as you. I was told there is a big difference from week 2 to weeks 3 and 4. I'm at week 2. After surgery I lost 6 lbs but started drinking more Water and gainded 3 lbs so no real progressive weight loss. Maybe after the 1st fill. I just started soft foods today and am so happy I can't believe how much I missed chewing LOL.

Well I wish you the best and keep in touch

Banded 12/3

pre op 205

12/7 194

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Hi crispy-I was banded the 19th also and have had absolutely NO problems-I lost 25 lbs. at my last Dr. visit on the 6th so I'm happy. I haven't had the "full" feeling some people talk about but I'm not starving either-I'm just happy to have had this done at this point. Good luck to all of us!

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It will come... I hear that you may not loose any "numbers" for a while and then loose 7 pounds in one day... I had problems with an incision and hope to start exercising next week! I'm a little slow.

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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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      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

        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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