Hi there, i am new to this forum.

I did everything required by the insurance (Aetna) - it took some time as my first visit to the info session was in May and then I had to collect a small pile of papers. But it is all done, Aetna approved, and it is scheduled...

Recently I started to read forums here and at OCC, and... oh well... I started to feel nervous and getting cold feet about this whole thing. A sizable minority complained it did not help them. Many said plug was sore for a long time. Any words of wizdom from the forum?

By plug do you mean the port? If so mine isn't sore and hasn't been and I had my band placed 8/29. The band works if you work it. If you eat around it, don't deal with your head or emotional hunger, it won't help. Period. If you are ready to change how you eat, it will help you get slimmer and more healthy, but its just a tool, not magic! I think a lot of people don't really get properly educated by their surgeons preop and think it will be effortless, and it's not. But if you are committed to using it as a tool to help you, it will do the job.

Thanks! Yes, I had 'port' in mind. I already feel somewhat better that i started to see that only a very, very few people had band not working.

I am going to make all the efforts to make it work -- having done Atkins before (and very successfully until I was not doing it...) I am not afraid of life on high Proteins / low carbs.

By the way - am I gonna be in Ketosis when on the post-surgery diet? Did it happen to anyone here?

-A.

yayy im getting bander the 24th too. i know what you mean when you read stuff and there like i have lost 20 pounds in 6 months lol. i think if we just use the band as a tool and follow what the doc says and workout we will do fine. i read a new post today about a girl that lost 100 pounds in 5 months crazy... i cant wait for the 24th

I was in Ketosis on the preop diet but not post op...liquids initially didn't have enough protein to make me that way. I probably will be again once I can eat what they call "solids" or "hard" foods

I think you'll be very successful!

and the beauty is, once we have lost our excess, we can eat more "normally" but it will be so much less. :thumbup: