I have a blog elsewhere that I have had for literally YEARS of my life. I'm not even kidding you when I tell you that I've consistantly blogged (at another site) for longer than I've been married (7.5 years).

I have some amazing friends there, but I fear that they may be getting tired of hearing of my surgery. I can't blame them, I've never been one to talk about one thing repeatedly (except maybe my child or my husband).

But anyway, here I am blogging here to keep my other blog friends from being annoyed. lol

A bit about me:

I'm 29 years old. I have been married since June 2002 to an AMAZING man, David. He's in the Army and very soon heading out on his 4th deployment (but first time to the big A). We have a 4 year old son, David Paul. He's vivacious and fun and gorgeous and the love of my life. He never fails to make me smile. We also have a 4 year old boxer named Horatio who stinks. lol.

I'm originally from Georgia (GO DAWGS!) and my husband is from Virginia (GO CAVALIERS!). However, we currently live in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Hoping to be here for about another 2 years then head off somewhere new, not sure where though.

Weight stuff. I've been overweight my entire life, but never horribly overweight, until after I had my son.

When I was pregnant, I ate and ate and ate and ate and ate and hardly gained weight. I remember once, I sat down because I was STARVING and ate 3 big macs and 2 large order of fries. It was SAD. lol. After my son was born, a healthy 7 lbs, 12 oz...I lost most of my 27 lbs that I gained during the pregnancy.

But I didn't stop eating the way I did when I was pregnant. I still ate like crap. Add on the fact that my husband was deployed, I just didn't care. I ate what I wanted, when I wanted.

I gained all the baby weight back..plus 16 extra pounds.

At the date of surgery, Dec 1st, 2009 (1 day after my 29th birthday) I weighed 216. Today, a week and 4 days later...I am 199!

Yay. I love my band!

I'm still sometimes sore with my incisions...and last night I had those awful terrible gas pains (in my shoulder). But mostly I'm just fine. And lovin' life right now!

-Miranda

Welcome! You can be sure we won't get tired of hearing about your lap-band journey! I am not banded yet, am doing the weightloss program required by my insurance at the moment, and so love reading about the people ahead of me. I hope you enjoy the blog area of this site as much as I do!

I find I hold myself back from talking to family and friends about my band also. I mean I do talk about it but I WANT to talk about it continuously. Here you can do that. Oh, btw, my husband is retired Air Force. We're finally settled in one place (but once you were military, do you really settle anywhere permanently!?) so I can relate to the time raising the kids alone and the moving. It's a great life but sometimes lonely. Congratulations on your band, you'll never regret it

I love to hear how well people are doing on the band. I can't wait for the day I reach under 200 lbs. Atleast now I can see the day coming. I have a five year old son and can't wait to be able to take him places and not be embarassed of my weight.

Hello!! I also am here at Fort Campbell and am going to be having the lap-band surgery done within a month or two (i think). Which doctor did your procedure?