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Tamiko's Journal
 

Today I start over

Well I have been going to my counselor for about two visits know. I go into day at 1:00. I am feeling better about myslef but I refuse to take those darn prescription pills. I don't want to become addicted to it. Know I will refrain from weighing myslef everyday and do it only on monday mornings. I also will start drinking these knew protein shakes and having one meal a day. probably when I go to work. I will take it one day at a time. I will try to exercise twice a day 30-40 minutes in the morning and an hour in the afternoon for the first week. to see how I will do I will weight myself know to see how much I weigh -365- is what it says on my weight watchers scale I really can't go by it because I weigh my self but nekid. I have to weigh my self on the scale at work to get close to an accurate weight. That's all I have for today I will put in more tommorrow.:hungry:
Tamiko

Tamiko

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My Lapband Journal
 

First heard about WLS

I first heard about the gastric bypass in the year 99 or 00.. It was on Montel. I knew it was the one thing that could save me, the only thing.   About a year earlier I had gave up the notion that I could ever lose wieght on my own. I hadnt stopped trying, but because I was becoming worse off physically, I knew I would not be able to do it on my own.   I needed medical intervention. I knew it. I now knew it existed.   So I began research. It was like 50,000$ and not covered by my insurence (though it had been a few years prior). I was poverty striken.   I was so close once. I had found a bariatric surgeon to talk to and give me information and send me stuff.. He said that IF I had Gallbladder problems (symptoms are heartburn, yes I had that) that the gallbladder work would be covered by insurence, and while he was in there he could do the gastric bypass for 3500$ AND I could make payments. I was sure that he implied that he would make sure I got a diagnosis of a gallbladder problem. His and his nurse seems in on it, cariing for us.   Well,, My ins said that I would have to see the gallbladder docter in my coverage area, BUT he wasnt a bariatric surgeon. I could only go out of my area if we didnt have one, but we did.   I considered moving to the coverage area. BUt I was in college. I Had a job where I only had to work two hours a day for like 800 a month and it was the only job I could physically do and it was a hard job to find. Plus that doctor stopped taking payments AND I wasnt so sure he would say I had a bad gallbladder and the consult was prohibitive in cost for me. I kinda started to think, I just cant make this work.   I decided to wait and see if anything might turn up in the future.   At least I knew there was some HOPE that I might not be obese until I die.
Nykee

Nykee

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liberty2003's Journal
 

02/12/2006

Wow...I actually am feeling a little better about this whole thing. :biggrin1: I must have been depressed due to PMS. Tdy i took my neices sleigh riding. OMG..1 1/2 hrs in the FREEZING cold and it was still snowing. I had SOOOO much fun. I ache all over the place. I got plenty of exercise tdy. I still would like to work on the treadmill tonight..I haven't touched that thing in 3 weeks. I am happy i have lost 57lbs. Going up and down the hill sleigh riding was easier then it would of been if i was still 334.lbs. I found it easier to breathe. I got winded a few times but that was because i was chasing my neices around. :eek: I am going to do this!!!! ONE DAY @ A TIME!....I can't wait to get weighed in march! I want to be down @ least another 3 lbs so that i can make it to 60lbs lost. More would be good.   I bought salad and soup for the week for work. I really need to focus on my food and exercise!   Exercise is the KEY!!!   so..I just got back from using the treadmill...I did 48 min and 30 seconds. I burned 240 cal and walked 2.06 miles...WOOOHOOO This is the Longest i actually got myself to walk at a time. I don't know something just kept pushing me...I found a comfortable speed and incline and the rest was history. I feel great!!!!!!!
liberty2003

liberty2003

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lianna's Journal
 

Feb 12

Sunday Lazy sunday so far, doing about 6 loads of laundry,lol. I have bought at least 15 cute summer tops and had to get rid of 4 trash bags full of stuff that either doesnt fit, doesnt look good, or I that I just dont wear. I swear I have too many clothes. I cleaned out both my closets. Chris and Cory invited us over to BBQ later.   breakfast.....3 cups coffee, Splenda, sugarfree Caramel Vanilla creamer lunch.......bowl of stew, picked out the potatoes snack.......some pistachios supper......dont know yet..update: 2 glasses of Sauvignon Blanc premeal, 2 ribs, small piece of fajitas, some guacamole, 2 bites of beans, about an hour after dinner a cup of coffee and half piece of cake
lianna

lianna

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Heather Joy's Journal
 

Alright, Feeling Better Now.

Sorry about my last entry, kinda depressing,but I am feelin better now! Last night me & Matt went to a friends art/photo studio (VERY famous one), to take pics of his band & record a few songs. Afterwards he took even took some pics of me & the singer,me alone, & me with Matt. And OMG!!!! They arre absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!!! I was shocked!!!! Once I have them trust me yal be seeing 'um when I get them!LOL=) I MUST get my before pic up too,thats the real shocker
Heather Joy

Heather Joy

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chameleon's Lap-Band Journal
 

I cant wait....

I am very excited abou the work shop on Wednesday. I am hoping to get a surgery date during the Easter break...that may be unrealistic...I don't know how far into the future my dr.'s are scheduling right now. I have found that some of these journals inspire me like Lynns and some make me nervous. There are a number of people who seem to cheat all the time and others who listen to their bodies and stay on track. I hope I am in the second group. I would hate to go through all of this and fail because I am weak willed and I wnat to challenge the surgery to fail! oops I walked away and now it's the next day....more time to post later...bye:heh:
chameleon

chameleon

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Dawg's Lap-Band Journal
 

2/12

Dropped to 270.5 this week. Thats a loss of 3.5 for the week and too fast.   I have added in oatmeal and will also add fruit to try and slow the loss.
dawg

dawg

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lianna's Journal
 

Feb 11 208 lbs

Saturday   Double crap. I started my period today. I hate to be home on the weekends I get the munchies so bad. I am sticking with my plan and not using PMS as a reason to derail. We stayed in tonite and watched Mr. and Mrs. Smith and The Island. John poured us a glass of wine, which hit the spot and finally took the edge off my PMS crankiness, lol.   breakfast... Atkins shake lunch......... meat patty with mushroom gravy snack .........6 little meatballs snack......... 2 sugarfree life safers snack.......... some pistachios.....not "some", A LOT.....I need to get a grip snack..........4 more meatballs supper........4 glasses of Chardonnay
lianna

lianna

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Nickysmom's Lap-Band Journal
 

Bought some liquids

WEnt to SR today and bought liquids for first week or two. Snapple, juice to water down and sports drinks. HOpe Eric and Nick don't drink them all. I am going to make my favorite pizza tonight for dinner. I won't be able to hav it again fro quite a while. So nervous about missing food. How do people do this???? I can't stand it but I have to do it. The thought of it makes me crazy. Expecially the liquid and mushy stages for a few weeks not days. Then I won't even lose weight until my first fill from what I read over and over. Will see.l
Nickysmom

Nickysmom

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Julie*'s Journal
 

February 11

I weighed myself today and I am hoping that this is the highest weight that I ever see for the rest of my life. Mark is going to take a picture of me later in my bathing suit and I'm going to jot down my measurements tonight when I take a shower. This way I know exactly where I am starting from.   I am very hungry- slim fast is just not that filling. I am just trying to work my way through each minute. Mark is being great- he's grocery shopping with Emily right now so that he and the kids have food and I don't have to even think about it.   I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that I am having surgery in 9 days. It doesn't quite seem possible.
Julie*

Julie*

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mychevygirl's Journal
 

Baby Steps

Will I am taking the steps to my new life, and you always start with baby steps... Yesterday I made my appointment with Dr. Srikanth in Tacoma Washington. A few weeks ago I went to the seminar with my husband Rick who is so supportive of this with me.. I could not ask for anyone to be more than him. :clap2: I have had a weight problem since birth.. OK not birth lbs but three weeks after birth tripled my weight ( thats what mom told me ) put on a diet at three weeks old.. can you believe it! I have never been skinny... :angry I now am going to be. I just found out that my insurance will not cover it at all... gee what a surprise... maybe if was a smoker or drinker they would cover help with that but not weight... I don't get it.. anyway I will pay for it my self.. I'll show them.. it will be all for me.. So now what? whats the next step to starting my life over.. I think its getting my mind set that I will have to over come the little bad person in my mind saying get up and get FOOD.. even when I"m not hungry.. I don't even know if I really know what hungry is... I have been really doing some soul searching and find that maybe my mind is scared of me being thin.. what will It do for her... I told Rick the other day I don't want praise for this because I can't take it. As soon as someones complements me i turn to food. what is that about... But with prayer and support I will find the strength to accept it and turn to something like a thank you! So I can't wait to meet with Dr.MS ( he said we could call him that for short.) at the seminar I met two sisters who had done wonderful.. neither of them had lap band but their sister did and was doing great.. she was at her mountaineers group going to climb Mt.Rainier.. together they had lost over three hundred pounds. they were so inspirational for me.. Will I will post next Saturday .. I might get brave and go to winter bandster.. it here in town why not..... DeAnn
mychevygirl

mychevygirl

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SKBishop78's Fight For Self Confidence
 

Day 3

OK, so I weighed today. I know I said I wasn't going to but I did. I have LOST 7 LBS!!!! I was so excited. Although, I feel like I am starving. These protein shakes don't cut it for me.   I can't wait until I have a smaller stomach and don't feel the hunger pains!
skbishop78

skbishop78

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SKBishop78's Fight For Self Confidence
 

Day 2

I am still starving, but not as bad as yesterday! I got through the day a little better. I want to weigh so bad, but I think I may try to weigh next week sometime, maybe 7 days from start. I can't wait until surgery, although I am scared.   I almost licked the Peanut butter off the knife from making Kaylee's PBJ, and I hurried up and rinsed it off. I could have eaten the whole jar! I was good though. :clap2:
skbishop78

skbishop78

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Confessions of a Nervous Bander
 

Losing Confidence in Office Staff

:faint:   I keep being told by the staff at my surgeon's office that they don't have the results for tests I have had done.   SO I have had them re-faxed to them TWICE. They still say they don't have them. I finally spoke to someone else today and she says they DO have them. But it seems the surgery coordinator doesn't.   (??!!)   SO I'm thinking I have it all straitened out and today I get int he mail that the recent blood tests they had me do show I am low in B12.   WITH another note saying they have not gotten the test results for this blood work.   YEESH! I had that test done 2 weeks ago, and how would they know I was low in B12 if they didn't get those test results?   I called and left a message saying just that.   All of this is really making me lose confidence in the office staff and am worried about the surgery coodinator having all the facts of why I need this surgery before submitting to insurance.
NeenBand

NeenBand

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lianna's Journal
 

feb 10

Friday Saw 208 this morning! Hope it stays around or goes down one more! Went to Pizza Hut tonite with a couple we hang with.   7:45 Atkins shake 10:30 handful of peanuts Lunch Taco salad, skipped the shell....no dressing, just some salsa 5:00 Atkins shake...starving waiting for John so we can go out 7:00 3 wings, small salad, 1 slice thin crust supreme pizza, 1 Michelob Ultra
lianna

lianna

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Julie*'s Journal
 

February 10

I had my pre-op appt today and it went well except that it lasted for 3 hours. :help: Most of the time I was waiting to see the different people that needed to see me so it was really tedious. I am all set though and unless something significant shows up in my blood work (which I can't imagine it would!) then the surgery will be at 10am on 2/21.   I start the liquid fast tomorrow and have decided to let go of all of the anxiety that I have surrounding it. Yes, I am going to be hungry, yes it's going to be hard and yes I am nervous. BUT I can't let it rule all of my thoughts over the next 10 days. I am going to focus on the fact that I am preparing for a new life and it's time to start learning how to shake the grip that food has on me.   I am ready to take off the fat suit and find me again.
Julie*

Julie*

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My Lapband Journal
 

experimenting

Feb. 10th I took 60mg last night and it worked some because I was able to take drinks of jucie all through the night every time I got up to go pee. I was able to eat a few chewy carmels so far too.. its 11:30 am. I havent tried any hot soup or milk or anything yet... (since 7am or so) All the prednisone is going to do if I take it day after day is open me up all times of the day,.. meaning at night I will eat even more than I do now. Well the point of that was to be able to get a fill.. But I think its unwise to count on the antinflamitory to keep me from being way too tight in the AM.. I dont need to be causing problems.. and it all seems like one big problem. THE Real problem is I NEED TO DIET.. I NEED to diet a little bit. I HAVE TO. I have to DO SOMETHING.. Last night I had over 3000 calories again. I MUST do something. The band has made it alot easier to diet, but I still cant seem to do it. I have cut out so much.. My habits have changed soooo much.. BUt fact is, I get in over 2500 calories like every single day.. THAT cant be worth much more weight loss for much longer.
Nykee

Nykee

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Confessions of a Nervous Bander
 

I HAVE A SURGERY DATE!

March 13th!!:omg:   I'm excited, but also nervous as hell too!   Couple of things though, this date is tentative because they need the results for certain tests. The surgery coordinator is not getting the faxes of the results that they need. They wanted a barium swallow test and also a copy of a recent endoscopy I had done. I personally faxed over the endoscopy, and the hospital said they faxed over the barium swallow test already. I don't know if it's their office or the staff or what, because I'm getting confirmation that the faxes went through, so I'm not sure how to get them this info.   Also, I have some vitamin deficiencies. Iron and B12, so they need me to get that up.   I could have had my surgery on the 3rd actually, but someone here told me to have it done at Morristown hospital, and not the one they offered me on the 3rd. I told the coordinator that it was recommended I go to Morristown and she didn't say anything, but I hope I didn't offend anyone by that.
NeenBand

NeenBand

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Kim's Daily Food Log Journal
 

02/09/06

Thursday was a decent food day. I will say that the Chick Fil A people tried to sabatoge me though. I pulled up and ordered my Chargrilled Chicken sandwich, extra pickles, low fat mayo. The snuck a large fries in the bag. I checked my receipt and I didn't pay for them either. Well, I was strong and ate 1 of the fries and threw the rest AWAY! I was so proud of that moment since normally that would have been cause for Happiness, but I took care of it without blowing my diet!   Breakfast: 100 calorie pack of Cheese Its: 100 calories Lunch: 1/2 chargrilled Chicken Sammich/extra pickles, low-fat mayo, 1 waffle fry: 220 calories After school snack: tall caramel mocha frappachino, no whip: 350 calories Dinner: 100 calorie pack of popcorn: 100 calories bad habit: 3 pecan halves: 25 calories   Total Calories: 795   Exercise: 30 minutes on the Gazelle while watching Grey's Anatomy: -284 calories burned baby!   I drank all 4 bottles of my water today...woohoo   Lost 1 more pound!
kimalicious

kimalicious

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liberty2003's Journal
 

Goals----->

OK...Since i am having a really hard time getting back on track, I am going to make a goal list and list of what i want to do when i get to my GOAL WEIGHT OF 150lbs...   Goals Updated (02/15/06)   Lose 75lbs or more by 5/10/2005= 12.5 lbs to go Lose 100 lbs or more by 08/10/06 (1 Yr)= 37.5 lbs to go Lose 130 lbs or more by 11/10/06 = 67.5 lbs to go Lose 180 lbs by 8/10/2007 (2YR)= 117.5 lbs to go   :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2:   What i want to do when i get to goal!!! 1) Get a new wardrobe 2) Get a Tattoo 3) Go on a very nice cruise or vacation to the Carribean 4) Pay off bills So i can shop til i drop 5) Get Glamour shots? 6) Party with friends and family 7) Go to lots and lots of concerts 8) go Swimming without shorts and a tshirt on 9) Go camping for a long weekend 10) Go hiking 11) Hot air balloon Ride 12)Go to Disney with family! 13) Go to a spa and get an all day Massage 14) Go to high school reunion and not feel ashamed 15) Love myself for everything that i am and not be afraid to look in the mirror 16) Take Salsa lessons??? LOL Yeah right*its a dream* 17) Go to the City and see a few broadway shows!
liberty2003

liberty2003

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