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Hello! I was banded on 11/15/07 in Houston, TX by Dr Richard Collier. Everything as gone good so far. I have only lost about 15 lbs. but people are already saying they are noticing and encouraging me about my weight loss. I have 100 lbs to go! But I'm on my way! I am excited about this and believe I have done the right thing with getting the lap band. I have had some pain with the healing process but not too much. I get my 1st fill on December 17th. I have been reading what other have said about getting fills. I hope I don't have problems with the fills. I don't believe my Dr is very aggresive about the fills. He wants his people to lose slowley. I will be reading and asking questions as I go. I know I NEED HELP!

Thanks in Texas

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I'll give you the three things that have worked single handedly for my success...however, everyone is different... this works for ME.

1. Go out to someplace like SparkPeople or FitDay and join and log ALL your food, and I mean ALL the food you put in your mouth....every day. It quickly becomes a habit and makes you VERY aware of what you consume.

2. Many people do NOT do this, but I weigh EVERY day, at the same time, in the buff, on the same scales, and I LOG it on my FitDay account, every day. I can look at my food consumption and cross-reference to my weight and see exactly why I am LOSING or NOT losing and WHY.

3. Set many many many MINI GOALS. Like, I am 163 now and I would like to be 160 by Christmas....well, that's what, three weeks away? That's what I mean by a mini-goal. Something that is ATTAINABLE in a short period of time. Don't project a goal from now to May of next year....or say something like "I want to lose 25 pounds in the next two months..." but do a three week goal, or a one month goal, or whatever. If you are a weenie about these things, make them easily attainable and when you hit your goal before your due date you will feel great about yourself!

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wifemomteacher    0

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Kacee,

I was banded on 10/30/07 and will have my first fill on 12/13/07. I appreciate the information on what has worked for you. I am going to try it. Right now I have no restriction that I can tell, and have not lost any weight yet. My doctor warned me that I probably wouldn't before my first fill after coming off just liquids, but it is still a little disappointing!! :tired

Have a great week!

Cindi :ranger:

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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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        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.

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