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Lori_K    0

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Just wanted to update you all that two days shy of my 1 year mark I weighed 199 this morning! My goal was to be here by my bandiversary on Sunday and I can hardly believe I made it! That 203 stuck around for a very long time, so I had almost given up hope of making this specific goal. I also just got a fill, so that helped. Here's to reaching my goal in year 2!

WOOT! :confused:

Congratulations SHM, welcome to Onederland!!! You've been working so hard, I'm happy to see you made this goal. :thumbup:

I'm sure you'll reach your final goal this year!

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Lori_K    0

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okay. you are all such an inspiration to me. I am only 1 week post-op today! Very new to the site. Any advice you guys - who have all done AWESOME - can give? please do. Thanks..

Welcome to the Lap-Band talk forums Kimmie, and congratz on your new life with the lap-band! Feel free to hang around and ask questions when you need to. I'm sure the people here can give you great advice - the best advice from me would be to hang in there during the tough times (you'll have good and bad days, just like anything else), do exactly what YOUR doctor and nutritionist tells you to do, and remember you can do this! It takes time and hard work, but remember the saying - what's worth the prize is always worth the fight. Don't give in to cravings (although we all do it at times), don't let food have the power, YOU take the power over food (i.e. I'm not going to eat that, it's not part of my new life). If you do slip up, just get back on that horse, and keep on going. My inspiration during this journey - Just Keep Swimming! borrowed from Dory the fish in "Finding Nemo". :confused:

I wish you all the best!

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Thanks for the great words of inspiration. I am trying. I just realized everyone thought I was taking the easy way out! and I just realized that I didn't.

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Lori_K    0

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Thanks for the great words of inspiration. I am trying. I just realized everyone thought I was taking the easy way out! and I just realized that I didn't.

In my humble opinion, anyone that tells you this is the "easy way out" is just ignorant (lacking the proper information). There is no easy way out of obesity. To me, the lap-band is like a friend - it's there to help you, it's your tool, but it's up to you to do the work. :confused:

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LilMissDiva Irene    3,282

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Just wanted to update you all that two days shy of my 1 year mark I weighed 199 this morning! My goal was to be here by my bandiversary on Sunday and I can hardly believe I made it! That 203 stuck around for a very long time, so I had almost given up hope of making this specific goal. I also just got a fill, so that helped. Here's to reaching my goal in year 2!

CONGRATS TO YOU!! You have done really well and maybe I'll get there by my second Bandiversary. I'd love to !!

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Dang girl, you look fabulous! Congrats on your weightloss!! You are a good example of how this band can work for folks! I'm very happy for ya!

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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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      1. summerseeker

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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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