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I'm back, I'm banded, I'm thinner and I feel incrdible!!

Jen

By Jen, in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums

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Jen    0

Jen
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I haven't been on the board since I had surgery 2 weeks ago and thought I would update everyone ( and I have to shar this with someone - I'm going crazy cause only my mom and two friends know what I did! I am down 22 pounds!!! I feel amazing. My scars are so faint that I think they will be totally unnoticable with in a month or so - right now the only one that is noticable is the port site! I have been excersizing and playing with my son and was back to work immediatly! (went in on thurs the 16th and was at work on monday) I am still on liquids (for 2 more weeks - yuck) but the doc gave me some appetite suppressants and I feel really good now!! I am so excited! I have been overweight for so long ( 6 years) and have lost and gained back SO much ( as I know most everyone here has) but it is so incrdible to finnally have hope again! my divorce was final last July and I will be thirty this next January- my gift to myself (even before I started thinking about doing this) was to not spen one day of my thirty's overweight! I am well on my way!!! thanks for listening!

Jen

Highest 235

before surgery 218

day of 215

two weeks out 196 !! YEEHAW!

goal 130-135

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the best me    6

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Well done Jen! You got down below 200 in a jiffy! I got myself stuck at 208 after a start weight of 223. So I'm still struggling to get into Onerderland...I'm so jealous! :D Yeeehaw for you!!!

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Yay you!!! I was banded a week after you. You are amazing to me! You went back to work so fast!! I took this full week off and I'm SO exhausted! I worry how I'll do back at work being so gosh darn tired.

Congrats on your success so far.

I've lost 11 pounds since surgery and it kind of scares me to lose weight this fast! Yikes!

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mousecrazy    2

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Is it common practice to get appetite suppressants after band surgery? No one's mentioned it before...remember, I'm really new, so if this is something everyone knows, I am ready to be informed! Congrats on how well you are doing! Cindy

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Thanks Guys!! I am really excited!

Cathy- My doc wants me on liquids for a month and knowing how hard that is with the minimal restriction I have ( no fill yet) his patients have much better success if they take them. Honestly - they have amade all the difference - They are much more mild than even the dexitrim and stupid herbal crap Ive taken before. However, they totally work - ALL DAY! They just take the edge off.

Jen

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the best me    6

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Hey Jen, what's the name of your appetite supressant? Just curious. I thought I'd never have to worry about all that again, but I agree, it may help on those high stress days, and especially as I'm waiting on a fill. I might have it in my med cabinet!! I'd love to know the name of it if you don't mind...thanks!

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Madeline's mom    0

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Kathy, I used to go to a diet clinic and they prescribed Phentermine (Adipex or Ionamin ). I will take one every once in a while if I feel my eating is getting out of hand. It does help. There are several other kinds also all falling in the same class. Phendimetrazine, diethypropion and mazindol.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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