As a newbie to your group, I am enjoying getting to know all of you wonderful people! What a gold-mine of information this forum is! I am getting close to the end of my pre-surgery requirements and am getting more anxious every day...as I see many of you are. We are truly a group united by our past, present and futures.

Not knowing you well, yet, I would REALLY appreciate it if everyone would expand their signature area with: date of surgery, or if not yet done, add that info, any other surgeries, any other interesting statistic you'd like to share as part of the "YOU" package.

Some of you show beautiful weight loss per your ticker, but you don't say how long you've been banded...or even IF you've been banded.

I am SO curious to know your whole story!

Thanks, and hugs to all!

Hi Lynn,

Thanks for the suggestion. I have been meaning to do this for awhile, though not with a lot of information just yet. Still early in the process, and I will add more as I go along. It is surprisingly hard to put all that out there right now. I think it will be easier for me to share when I feel I REALLY have something to share... You are right, though - it is helpful to understand where we all are in the process.

Hi! I have the date I was banded, and my start/current/goal weights and where I was banded. I had to do a 6 month diet for insurance, and lost 10 pounds on that. Then the surgeon put me on a liquid diet 2 weeks prior to surgery (ended up being 3 weeks because I caught a cold and they postponed my surgery a week--not enough time to stop and start again, so I stayed on it an extra week). It included a small amount of lean protein which I ate at night when I would tend to overeat the most. I used unbreaded chicken tenders (Costco) and hard boiled eggs. Four days before surgery just liquids (broth, protein shakes, sugar free jello/popsicles, skim milk, tea, cream soups). Lost 25 more lbs on that, so I was down 35 lbs by surgery. Then 2 weeks liquids, 2 weeks mushies, now on regular food. The rest of the weight (40 lbs) has come off since surgery.:tt1:

Lynn how did you cut and paste your ticker in I have tried several times and continue to just get words? Must be cutting and pasting wrong thing, I need to update and cannot remember how

lkgrubb

After trying and failing several times at adding a ticker, I found that the forum has a tutorial! On the Home page under Forum listings there is a forum Frequently Asked Questions, that takes you to a list where you'll find "General Forum Usage", which takes you to a list where you find "Adding a Ticker". Easy, once you know how! :smile2:

lkgrubb

Hmmmm....I didn't read your post very carefully, did I?

In order to update you ticker, just click on your ticker, which takes you to the Ticker website, enter you PIN number and click on "update your weight".