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Guest Ms.Tiffany

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Guest Ms.Tiffany
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I am scheduled for banding October 10, 2005. I am excited about the procedure, however I am extremely scared of failing. Can anybody provide details following the surgery and the amount of weight loss within the first month?

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coyotegirl    3

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Hi Tiffany, Welcome to LBT. I have been at this for 10 months and have lost almost 70lbs and I am STILL scared of failing! I don't know if it will ever go away. I just keep telling myself that "I CAN DO IT"!! It has not been easy and I still have to work hard at losing, but I think it is still the best thing that I have ever done for myself.I would do it again if I had to!

What details do you mean after surgery? Pain? I was not in a lot of pain at all! Went back to work (preschool teacher) in a week after surgery, could have gone back sooner but the school was closed for Thanksgiving. BUT everyone is different!!!!!!

As fo the amount of weight loss within the first month? Well I lost 11 lbs the 2 weeks of liquid diet before surgery and then about 9 lbs 2 weeks after.(still on liquid diet) Then started on the soft food stage. Not really sure amount of weight loss then.

again, EVERYONE is different! Some lose a lot and some are slower!

Where are you having your surgery done?

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nickie456    0

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Welcome to Bandland. It's like Coyotogirl said we all scared that we will fail. I'm 6 weeks out I've lost 29lbs, and everyday I still worry whether I wil succeded at losing all the weight.

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PinkMary    3

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Ms Tiffany i understand completely about the fear of failing.. i think i was afraid that more than the selfsame operation!

i have done (like everybody) thousand diets, i had spend million to institutes to lose weight and the results were only GUILTIES for myself that i could not control my weight..

so when i did this operation i thought that maybe will be one more failed try...

so far i have lost 18 kgr. and day by day i feel that this time it will not happen again..

i guess is a psychological fermentation...

Good Luck on your surgery at 10 of Octomber!

i start to believe that even if you try hard to fail in this one you just can't :rolleyes:

lovz

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fee    0

fee
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Hi Tiffany.....welcome to LBT

Congrats on your surgery date

i hope you have a speedy recovery

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Jammin & Losin    1

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Hi Tiffany I was only off work 1 week after my surgery and the pain those first few days is all worth it now to be banded and losing weight. I've lost 66 pounds in 7 months time. The first month of being banded I lost 14 pounds. every one of us is so different and some lose faster or slower than others. You can do this.Your band will give you that extra push you need to succeed. I now your worried right now and that is completely normal but you will not be sorry once your banded you will be glad you had it done. Good luck and best wishes for success with your weightloss!!!!

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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.

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