Several people have suggested a place to post on a regular basis to save time going from one thread to another! I thought this would be a good title. Like reading the daily newspaper!

We are all banded now, and I will still update the line up when new people discover this site.

I look forward to hearing from everyone as we transform!

Hey long.. I am feeling better.. thanks sweet cheeks!!!

I just saw a pic of a girl on here who had a tummy tuck and let me tell you she looked awesome!!! I am not sure but it looked like maybe she had a thigh lift as well. I showed my hubby and said this is what I want.. he said "you can't buy people allie" uggh he is sooo funny. NOT lol.. but anyways it made me so excited that she had such great results because her tummy pre tummy tuck looks just like mine!!!!

have a great night junies!!

addy: I have the Realize band and I think they are all the same size. I think my band will hold 9cc and I have 7.6cc now. I read that the type of band I have is softer so it takes more fill to restrict. The good part of my band is is has less chance of slippage and a lower profile port.

Hope this info helps. This is the first fill I have ever really felt restriction. The others I only felt it if I ate too fast. Now I really feel full for a long time. I also get full really quick!

Hi there, just looking to talk to people who have had the lap band put in and what their experiences are/were like. Both good and bad. I want to know all the stuff that doctors don't necessarily tell you. I'd like info from real people who've done weither it's good or bad.

Congrats all you 100 pounders. I'm so happy for you. I can't wait to get there. I've been stuck for about a month at 86 pounds. However, for that month i've been doing 30 mins of weights and 30 mins of cardio 6 days a week, man i'm beat!! The scale hasn't moved, but I think its because i'm building muscle. I'm hoping it starts moving again soon, otherwise its time for a second fill.

Thanks Cathy, that does help. I am thinking about just calling and asking??

Katies, I just finished a nutrition class and she explained to use that although a pound is a pound, muscle is thinner than fat. Which explains why we lose inches and not pounds. We are replacing that bumpy fat with thinner muscle. Sounds like you need to measure, you may be quite happily surprised. I did that for awhile, lost inches not pounds.

Hope you all had a good day,

Allie, I hope you get to have that date, it sounds wonderful! I need to vote again :thumbup:

addy

Hi Junies,

I just had an AHAH! moment :w00t:. After looking at what ya'll eat, I suddenly realized that I drink coffee, every morning, per dr. office, to "open" up my band. Only one of you listed coffee or hot drink. For us (In T town) it is "stay in the box", a list of rules, that we are suppose to do daily. Well today I just got up and ate breakfast without drinking coffee, I ate slow only 1/2c. and I feel full and satisfied. :eek: Usually I am starving. I know I am not at the sweet spot yet, but!! At least maybe I can start to control my eating. I think that since I am not at the sweet spot, the coffee was opening me up even more and no restriction at all.

Well, psych 101 I feel like I learned something else from this site, you guys are great.

Hope you have a great day, gotta go to the college and take tests. Have a blessd one!

addy

hey addy - question - did you put sweetner in your coffee? i find that when i do that (not coffee for me but tea) i am way more hungry the rest of the day - particularly artificial sweetners vs. plain old sugar.

just a thought.

hi Mike, i think most of us if not all of us would say it's the best decision that we ever made for ourselves! for me, losing weight did not work before the band for at least 10 years - on many programs, with tons of exercise. i have insulin resistance big time and this has helped a lot. i'm off 3 medications and i feel very fit - tho still fat but working on that.

it is not all a picnic - it is a serious thing to do - surgery was not fun for me (i had a hernia fix at the same time). but once healed, it was amazing to see the scale go down consistently! you absolutely have to watch what you eat, how you eat, when you eat. it is not an 'easy way out' as some say. but it WORKS!

caution - overfills (if you get an adjustment and it's too tight) do NOT help. they can bring on acid reflux which has stopped all weight loss for me now and is causing issues that i need to address with a gastroenterologist - which i am doing now. then i hope to get back to losing the rest of what i need to lose.

good luck to you - someone who was banded before me told me 'it's an individual journey' and that's very true. and yours will be different from everyone else here.

to me, the benefits far out weight the risks. i eat less, i never feel too full or bloated anymore, i move better, i feel better, i look better, i'm healthier, i do things i haven't done in years (like ride a mountain bike again) and i no longer feel invisible to the world. i'm here and happier and still working at it. the band is a life changer - no doubt!

thanks Lucy and Addy (there is so much posted here it's hard to keep up)! i feel better right now - the endoscopy test is wednesday morning. have to get all fluid out of the band on tuesday afternoon. THAT scares the heck out of me but the promise they'll put it right back in soon after and that they do this all the time when people need tests like this. i'm hoping they find an easily treatable issue and that it is NOT the band - maybe it's just aggrevating the issue and isn't causing it. we'll see. i'll let you know. thanks for your support!

addy, i had a hernia fix too at the time of banding - i think maybe the band is irritating the area that was fixed? or maybe there is scar tissue? i have no idea. i'm glad the dr. is going in for a look!

I think I finally figured out how to post a picture so if it works here's a night before surgery picture and one at 95 lbs, still haven't taken a 100 lb one. In the 95 lb one I am holding out the jeans I am wearing in the before.

long, that is absolutely amazing! WAY TO GO!!!! congrats to you! you look wonderful!

mike 11 --> this is what it's all about!

ps i like your purple shirt!

Hey Long great pic, thanks for sharing.

Oh, I don't think I could give up my coffee. Well, I guess I could but I don't want too. I have come to love my coffee in the morning :redface:

Well, I think I might go get a fill this coming Monday. I had one at the begining of January, but I'm not sure it has done much. I have bounced between 207-204 since Christmas. But to be honest, I know I have been eating too much junk....chips, cookies and candy. I really need to stop but I'm having trouble stoping!!! What is wrong with me?!!?!?!??!

Well, have a good evening everyone.

Here comes the June Bug that got left behind!

Hey Junies!

I opened my mail today and found an approval for my surgeon to reband me (plus any of several other procedures), so now I need to get my head back into the game and decide if and when I want to do this again.

I definitely want to get rebanded, but the timing is a little uncertain. My DH lost his job a few weeks ago, so he's seriously under-employed, which could be good because he'd be here to help the first few days, but also sucks, if he gets a new job right before and can't take off.

Hmmm. I'm off to pick him up from his pt job now, and plan to tell him about the approval.

So yeah! and hmmmm.

Always

Hunzi

ready to get skinny

Wow! Long! You sure have had a change! you look GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love before and after pics!!!!!

HUNZI! It is go good to see you back! Congrats on the approval! I remember your troubles and it so good you are ready to get back on the band-wagon! I say go for it, things will work themselves out!

Greyhoundmom, good luck on the test. I hope they get you straight soon! I thought I had and over fill at my last fill, but it is much better now a week later.

addy, I drink a cup of coffee too....I wonder...

Katies: 86 lbs is wonderful...

Where is Apples and Strike? and all the other June bugs for that matter?

Have a great day everyone!

Hunzi, it's great to see you back! And congrats on getting reapproved. I pray things go better for you this time and no more infections! Any idea of when surgery will be??