Hello everyone i'm new to this posting thing, but excited to be here. I received my approval letter yesterday and scheduled my surgery date today.I am to be banded on april 28th. I had hoped for something sooner,but i have waited this long so six more weeks will fly by. I have been browsing this forum for a couple of months now and am very encouraged by all of your successes. I hope to be sharing my own in the near future. For now i will continue my Quest to defeat the "DONUT KING" and his army of cheeseburgers, but soon with a new weapon on my side.

Thanks and congatulations on your losses.

Hello everyone i'm new to this posting thing, but excited to be here. I received my approval letter yesterday and scheduled my surgery date today.I am to be banded on april 28th. I had hoped for something sooner,but i have waited this long so six more weeks will fly by. I have been browsing this forum for a couple of months now and am very encouraged by all of your successes. I hope to be sharing my own in the near future. For now i will continue my Quest to defeat the "DONUT KING" and his army of cheeseburgers, but soon with a new weapon on my side.

Thanks and congatulations on your losses.

congratulations to you!!!! I am so glad I got the band, I hope you will be too!

banded 12/28/07

Dr. Michael A. Snyder in Denver

Bigdaddy:

Congratulations. Don't worry about that tummy of yours. You men take it off so quickly that you make us women jealous. I think of my band as my belly cop. There's been a few times that my belly cop stepped in and stopped the traffic to send the food that shouldn't enter back out. I love my belly cop, because I was 324 pounds without it.

Good luck. Remember, any weight you can take off prior to banding makes the surgery safer and recovery easier.

Sue

Congrats on your appointed time with destiny (lap-band)

Congratulations, BigDaddy!

Got my approval last Friday. I could have had the lapband surgery next Tuesday but couldn't get the pre-op done this week, so I am sheduled for the 22nd. I guess that is good since it gives me some more time to do the pre-op diet.

I will be doing some Protein shakes from the doctor's office, nothing fancy like Optifast and they don't taste too bad, but boy do I get hungry in the afternoon.

I got mine on april 15.....

and I am laying around the tv and walking

and doing slim fast low carb..

:biggrin:

Bigdaddy...congratulations ! I can tell you a DONUT is one thing I definitely can't eat with the band.... doesn't go down well. But they sure do smell good!

Dave

I hope i lose the donut lust, but i am sure they will always have a warm place in my heart, just not in my belly!:blushing:

It's great hearing all of the experiences you guys have had, but i'm sure there will be some lessons that i will have to learn the hard way. Less than one week til those lessons begin.

Thanks to everyone for your replies.

Eat what you think you will miss after the band, because what you eat will never be the same. I find myself missing a few things here and there. Every once in a while I wish I could eat a cheesebuger but that feeling goes away. The band and everything you have to give up is soooo worth it. The hardest thing I have found to give up is drinking while you eat. Well Good luck!