Congratulations to all bandsters! May we all have continued success this 2008.:tongue:

It is a happy new year for me... I am down 100 pounds! There are many of us who have met this mark, and we continue on our journey.

Cheers- here's to us, and the many "losers" that came before us, and to those who shall follow. :wink:

IF YOU ARE EVEN THINKING ABOUT GETTING A BAND, GO GET INFO NOW NOT LATER..

My Mom was scheduled to get her band Dec.19th 2007- she instead had a triple bypass heart surgery, followed by many complications, blood clots, bad reactions to meds, etc.. and results are that the triple/bypass needs to be completely redone when/if she gains enough strength back to make it through such an ordeal -again.

I will continue to count my blessing, I have had the opportunity to lose 100 pounds... before her story, became mine.

Keeping you all in my thoughts daily, Kimberly

hmmm... for some reason, i cant rename from here - will do so from work.

I didn't see you online..so I mentioned it to Alexandra too...? Hope that doesn't mess things up... I wasn't sure if you had to be a mod/admin. or mod.? Sorry:redface:

Hoping for surgery in April maybe sooner. I have to do a 3 month supervised diet per dr's office. (ins waived it) Waiting is so hard to do. You all are doing so good.

A big Welcome to CheckersMom! Join right in here.

hi, i just changed it.

Awsome job on changing the name!

So why are you thinking about delaying PS?

I have a question for someone...anyone who can answer...

I am having trouble eating since my last fill...and to think it was only my second fill ( I am at approx. 5.5 cc in a 10 cc band)

...I have tried everything I can think of... even most Protein shakes are too much in the mornings.

Any suggestions???

Hi smilin_apple,

Sorry for such a tardy reply. I have run into the same thing. I just had a fill last week and for the first three days, I could not do anything before 11:00 except tiny sips and those had to spaced out with several minutes between. Day four I was able to do some Soup in the evening and some refried Beans with piacante to thin them at about 7 pm. On day five I made an amazing discovery...If I have a SF popsicle, I can eat a little something for about 15 minutes to follow. I deduced that my stomach is swollen around the band (happens every time I get a fill and happened for three days following surgery). It took a bit for me to get it, but the cool from the popsicle gives some temporary relief of the swelling. It is usually enough time to get in a Protein Drink or if I crave hard food - cheese, beans or cottage cheese.

Right now having a protein drink called nectar - Syntrax brand (Search Results - VitaminShoppe.com) very fruity and tastes really good (over ice helps it go down) and aspertame free. Comes in several flavors, just thought I would share

I hope it helps!

Cheers,

Mary

Hi CheckersMom,

Welcome, please keep us informed on how it is going and when you receive your approval.

Cheers,

Mary

Hi all,

Sorry to be off for a while. I had my first plateau and I did not handle it the best. I kept gaining and losing the same 2 lbs for about a month. Finally a fill seems to have broken it.

Funny thing, I thought I had dealt with my head issues. I started to get tight the day before my follow up appointment (I had no intention of getting a fill). Then the day of the appointment, I just woke up in a bad mood. Then the office kept me waiting which gave rise to a worsening mood. The PA talked me into a fill, I stressed that it needed to be tiny (remembering the last one that was .4 ml made me miserable for quite some time). Then the PA did not even bother to read my chart to see I have a tilted port so my fills have to be under floro (she prepared to do it without, which I quickly corrected). Well we get in and I am this new PAs first tilted port fill ever (can you say guinea pig?). She did deaden the area (usually I don't have this done) and man am I glad she did. Finally after trying for several minutes and failing another PA had to get the needle into the port and things progressed fine. I do wait for a half hour in the waiting area sipping drink. Unfortunatly I got a little ambitious and took too big a drink and PBd...ugh. Then I had my PT and was in a bad mood, usually my training remedies that, but not this time. I usually have between 32 & 40 oz of Water during training (very imporant to hydrate during to help the muscles). To my dismay I had about 2 oz of Protein drink and 2 oz of water, both of which I PBd on...Ugh. I was miserable. Finally, after training, I called my little brother. I was a littl mental and needed his wisedom to talk me down. He discussed that 40 years of habits don't change in six months and that I was once again having to renegotiate my relationship with food. I cried, talked with him and realized the wisdom in his words. It still took a couple of days to feel better, but I am happy to say that it feels like I have made some more headway. I hopefully will look forward to the fills, instead of dreading them. This one in particular broke my plateau. I am just a few lbs away from twoterville - one of my major goals. It feels good to be on the cusp of this monumentous goal.

Cheers all!

Mary

Today is a day of days. I have finally broken the 300 mark. I stepped, with fear, upon the scale today and I am at 299. I have been anxiously awaiting this day. Come Monday, my trainer will take my measurements again and I will get to know what the scale lbs. represent (fat loss vs muscle gain).

Anyway, tomorrow will be my seventh month of being banded and I have rid myself of 93.5 lbs, I am very close to being half way to goal as well. And have arrived in twoterville.

I am soooo happy to be here :w00t::thumbup::ohmy::present::tt2::smile:

Cheers,

Mary

WOO HOO MARY!

That is so awsome!

I cant wait till I break the 300 mark.

I am going on a cruise in December and One of my goals is to be able to go riding on the beach with some of my friends...but you have to be 270 or below to ride. I so want to do it. Ahhhhh

I hope I can make it

Mary- clap clap clap.... way to go -feels great? Keep up the good choices!

CONGRATS Mary!!!! Awesome job. You must feel wonderful. I'm so glad that this thread exists as I am above 50 BMI myself....UGH!!!! I'm looking forward to being part of this thread. I'm new to this whole process too. Had my first visit at the Doc's last week and they say I'm looking at 4-6 months and surgery will happen....YEAH!! I've been started on a diet and they gave me 4 guidelines to follow. One involves cutting my caffeine intake from 10 cups to 4. Which, by the way, I did, but had a severe headache two days later for the whole day and just felt horrible. I'm fine now. I've now completed my first week of my supervised diet. I have to say that I am finding I have more energy.

I know, however, that I will have to deal with "head" issues as I hear others put it. I'm am an emotional eater so need to work on that. Right now I am taking it day by day. I usually snack at night, but my Dr's. office stopped that too. The first night I found myself drinking all of my Water late in the evening and being on this website chatting to help get me through. The hubby was upstairs making popcorn and I could smell it.

Kudos to the person who started this thread. What a great idea!!

Hi everyone! I just stumbled upon this thread and thought I'd join in.

My BMI is right around 50-51...so, I suppose I should belong to this thread. Anyway, I am 20 and hoping to have surgery this summer (Bariatric Center of Kansas City--Dr. Hohen)...if I jump through enough hoops. Hoops aren't new to anyone as most of you know, I'm sure. Being a college student in Springfield (roughly 3 hrs from home, things get complicated). The latest hoop involves the time of my surgery. The psychologist I'm seeing wants me to be home for 6-weeks after surgery...and I won't be finished with my 6-month supervised diet until late June. Then, if I allow up to 30 days for insurance approval, that puts me into August...thus, the psychologist wants to push surgery back until Christmas break...the problem with that is that the break isn't 6-weeks long...so I'm not sure what is going through his mind. Anyway, I'm sure I'm rambling...so I won't bore those of you who are reading

I look forward to meeting all of you in this thread and congrats to those of you who already had surgery and have lost fabulous amounts of weight! :smile2:

Lauren

Today is a day of days. I have finally broken the 300 mark. I stepped, with fear, upon the scale today and I am at 299. I have been anxiously awaiting this day. Come Monday, my trainer will take my measurements again and I will get to know what the scale lbs. represent (fat loss vs muscle gain).

Anyway, tomorrow will be my seventh month of being banded and I have rid myself of 93.5 lbs, I am very close to being half way to goal as well. And have arrived in twoterville.

I am soooo happy to be here :mad::mad::mad::mad::sad:

Cheers,

Mary

:mad::hurray::mad::hurray::mad:

:mad:

:smile2: :sad:

That's GREAT, Mary!! Congrats!! I remember when I crossed that line, too!! It was a great day!! Now I'm about to dip below 260 and can't wait!!