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By Chrisann, in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums

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LindaGail    0

LindaGail
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My good thoughts and vibes are with you Gigi. I'm one week behind you, I'm scheduled for August 4th at NYU. Let us know how your doing.

LindaGail

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mamanmidwife    0

mamanmidwife
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Hi linda, I'm well how's it going for you? I'm so close to 299 I can practically taste it. I'm very grateful that i haven't been hungry relly, but boy can my stomach make noise (it growls all afternoon)

Thanks for asking

Gigi

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LindaGail    0

LindaGail
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Hi Gigi,

Glad you are doing so well. It seems you and I are pretty close in weight. the day I came home I weighed in at 299, as of this morning I was 291. I am a very slow loser so I am thrilled, although when i start solid food I will be very happy with 1 or 2 pds a week. Yesterday was my first day on soft foods. I hope I don't forget how to chew. Which hospital were you banded? i was banded in NYU.

Take Care,

Linda

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mamanmidwife    0

mamanmidwife
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Hey Linda,

You are doing great. I was losing about a pound a day, but of course once i started on soft food - nothing, but i'm going tostart upping the exercise (i.e. stop getting the girls to walk the dog and do it myself lol) and I'm sure it will start getting better. also with soft foods came a bit of hunger, but Thursday I'm getting my first fill. I got banded @ Lenox Hill, just really clicked with the surgeon, and I love how the office is run, I can actually get in and out in 1/2 hour which allows me to do it while @ work (shhh). Keep up the great work, I'm so waiting to see 299, and I'm sure that's part of why I stalled.

Gigi

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LindaGail    0

LindaGail
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Hi Gigi,

I started soft food thursday and the scale went up a .4 and I didn't over eat or eat anything i shouldn't. I think that's normal when starting food, at least i hope so. I haven't really been exercising either, I'm going to try and walk as soon as I get home from work. Keep in touch, let me know when you hit the 299, that's a big one, I've been there.

Take Care,

LindaGail

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chocolate_snaps    3

chocolate_snaps
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Wow, you are doing great, I would be thrilled if I could do as well as you the first year, any tips for us newbees.

I wish their was a secret but there isn't. I eat less and move more. I haven't had the stability to take up a specific sport or activity so I just hit the gym. I usually do 45mins on the elliptical.

But there where some things that gave me an edge like I don't eat red meat, I hardly ever eat fried food, and I actually LOVE veggies esp raw broccoli and spinach. I NEVER diet. Diets imply that they are temporary and thusly set you up for failure, its a lifestyle change.

Now if only I could stay away from Cookies.:wink2:

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tripi    0

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I'm from Park Slope and I'm getting banded in Juarez, MX on Dec. 29. I'm a bit nervous about going there to do a surgery. The doctor has accreditations out the wazzoo, but I keep flashing forward to a Dateline special about me becoming a cautionary tale of organ theft. Assuming all goes as planned down there, I hope to meet some of you in the new year. I'd also love to find a good post-op place to have my fills. Ideally, I'd like my physician to do a post-op package in case anything (slippage) happens, or I need more fills. Do any docs do that? I don't want to deal with paying for things per visit. Yeah, not going through insurance. Grrr. But hey, at least I'll finally be in shape again!

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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

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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.

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