hi, looking for anyone that has had or is intending to have lap band surgery @ Maples Surgical Centre. I'm hoping for early 09.

Good Morning People I am posting this as i have found a great deal of sucsess using a product from Popeyes,

i have been banded on September 15 2009 and i have lost 101 lbs using a high protien diet ( eggs chicken and tuna) along with a protien powder called Intra pro, i am mixing my shakes with water and they are great but with milk it is like drinking cheese cake (best is strawberry)

Intra pro has 155 calories with water and 25 grams of protien, the best shaker cup is the one with the metal wisk in the cup, put half the liquid in and shake like hell then add the rest of the liquid

popeyses will let you try the protien shakes in the store but watch out some of the protein powders are high calories

good luck:tt2:

Hi everyone, I got to meet with Danielle last week, wanted to get my eating back on track. Terri arranged this for me. I didn't even know we COULD see her again after the initial consult. Lesson number one, take advantage of the available resources! I was happy to find out I haven't fallen as far off the wagon as I thought!

updating ticker :devil_smile:

i am now under 300. I love my lapband.

i am now under 300. I love my LAP-BAND®.

Congrats to you!

How is everyone else doing? I've hit a plateau and haven't moved past a 2 pd up and 2 pd down stage in almost 2 months!

Hi Moonbeam, I find myself in the same boat up and down the same few pounds.....trying not to obsess about though

Me too. What's with that? Mind you inches and a changes in size are occurring but I want pounds to go! Have we hit the 80% never to budge again that books hint at?

down 62 and holding.

First off - huge congrats to Fish - that's so amazing!

As for everyone else at a standstill - it's frustrating, I hope you all break the plateu soon!

For me - things have been moving along well... that is until summer hit and I became OBSESSED with ice cream LOL

I just want to check tho - over the last about 2 weeks - suddenly I seem WAY more restricted then I was, and I haven't had a fill or anything. Has anyone else had this happen? I'm going to try and get in to see the fill nurse in Regina in the next few days, but I can't barely get anything in without getting stuck, and Water comes up all the time because it won't go down. It's out of the blue, and really strange, so I thought I'd see if anyone else has ever had phantom restriction.

I agree. I think it's the heat. I read somewhere that could make you feel more restriction. I who have never PBed or vomited have experienced both twice!

heat could do it. I've had months now playing with restriction going up and down by .25 of a cc. Feels too tight, too lose, and it changes in-between. Sometimes ice cream won't go down and sometimes a doughnut does. There doesn't seem to be a magic number for me. Going to buckle down hard in the next little while and break this darn plateau! 9 pounds away from goal, geez! I have to do this already!

Interesting fact...I had a gascroscopy and colonoscopy yesterday. (All went well.) In preparation, I had an almost total defill done so that it would make things easier for the scope to go down. (Mind you, Dr. B said I actually didn't need to do that as he's done gascroscopies without defilling, but my gastro doctor and I felt it would be better.) What was noteworthy was, I still felt restriction this one week of the defill. Next week, I'll be filled up again.

Hint: If you ever are scheduled to have one of those, be sure to take 2 Gravol before you take that 4 litre colon prep!

Is anybody out there interested in getting this site going again? I will be banded at Maples on Oct. 12 and would love to hear from fellow Manitobans on how you're doing either pre or post op.

How are you doing Grams? You won't ever regret doing this.

Wish You all the best Grams. Not much happening on this web site lately.But we have now a support Group right here in Winnipeg. You may wand to check it .

Band Together Winnipeg!!!

Hi again everyone!

Not sure if many are popping in, doesn't seem it, but thought I'd give it a try.

I ended up going and having a bit taken out after my last question of sudden tightness - seem to still be doing ok, although I certainly have been trying to get 'back on track' again in the last couple weeks.

However, last night and today I've had another issue I thought I'd check with y'all on. Suddenly last night, my port area started to feel really bruised on the inside. It's not red or swollen or hot, but when I move wrong I really feel it, i even woke up once last night rolling over because it hurt. does anyone know anything about this? Or have had it happened? I think I'm going to kind of see how it is today and tomorrow, and then i might call or msg the maples to see what they say. I REALLY don't want to have to drive to Manitoba just for it, but will if they want me to. Just hoping it was that i moved wrong or something somewhere along the way.... i didn't even get crazy at thanksgiving dinner last night, so I can't blame that!

Hope you're all doing well!