Hi all! I had my surgery on Friday. Yesterday was rough. Besides the normal pain, they really messed up my ?uvula? (the hangy down thing in your throat) with the tube in my throat and it was hurting and gagging me all day yesterday.

I am so excited! Tricare Prime was great! The hospital, doctors, and staff were great!

Someone suggested that every month on my anniversary date I take a picture just for myself. I can't wait until 9/22. I think I am going to go in there now for todays picture since I didn't take one on surgery day.

Hey I just wanted to see how your progress is so far. I was banded on August 28, 2008 and feel great. Let me know how you are doing.

Take Care,

Angcal26:thumbup:

Thanks for asking! I would love to hear from you as well. I am loving this band. I love my doctor but I wish he wanted to go a little faster. I started with about 3 ccs and he added .5 ccs with my fill on 11/4/08 and told me that with the weight I had already lost he didn't want to do another fill until January. I am feeling very little restriction and losing very little weight; maybe I am just discouraged because this week is PMS and I always have lots of water weight gain.

On a brighter note, I have lost about 30 pounds and when I exercise, I am still losing. I am so glad I did this! I am never going back only down! I have not really had any problems. I have had a couple of experiences with "nothing" going down but when it happens, I can tell you exactly what I did wrong. My hair and nails are not in good shape but I think it is just because I need to work harder at getting protiens and eat less carbs. I am eating prunes or taking fiber every day.

I started a challenge for New Year's. I really want to weigh 225 by New Year's. If you look under "August 08 Bandsters", you can see that. Lots of people of joined me in this challenge with their own goals of course. I have got to be serious about what I eat from now until December if I am going to do this but I really would like to.

Rachelle