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So do any of you miss just being able to go out to a restaurant and pig out? I've had this "sadness" just a few times since my surgery. I do really great during the week because I'm so anal about planning things out and being prepared. However, on the weekends, my husband and I like to go out to different restaurants. As a bandster, I still can eat out, I just choose much healthier options and when my entree arrives, I have the waitress bring out a box with the meal so I can portion out my food I will eat and the rest I save for leftovers. My husband is not the most romantic, but he suprised me with a date Friday and took me to the Hawthorne Inn in this little out of the way town called Labadie. Apparently the whole town of Labadie decided to go too, because we waited for 45 minutes. I chose the salmon with baked potato and it came with a salad. So the salad came and although I enjoyed a few bites, I stopped because I want to save room for the $21.95 salmon. I LOVE salad. I know its not a protein though and I have to get that in. Which brings me to the point of why I got the band to begin with- SO THAT I WOULDN'T EAT LIKE A PIG. But, every once in a while I get mixed emotions about my band. I thank God everyday for my band, because I was really becoming unhealthy. On the other hand, I sometimes have a pitty party for about 2.5 seconds and just wish I could finish my WHOLE salad, my WHOLE potato and MY WHOLE salmon. Funny how my band, Prudence brings me back to sanity though. Once I'm "full" then I think, Maggie you're a weirdo. What a strange thing to miss. You feel great, you are full off of a fraction of what you used to eat and you've lost 32lbs! Like I said, I don't get bummed out a lot, and realize that I had a very unhealthy affair with food. Glad my relationship with food is changing, but it is an ongoing struggle everyday to change.

I had my sleeve on Feb 1st and the surgery went great. The surgeon described it as "textbook" and I was only in there for a little over an hour. The pain was not severe, well as long as I didnt try to bend over to put my underwear on (but thats a whole nother story lol). The pain medication more than manages the pain. I didnt have any problems with nausea while in the hospital, the pain thing I noticed was stomach spasms. From the time I woke up from anesthesia I kept feeling this sensation in my upper abdomen that felt like I was hungry. I kept telling my surgeon "I think Im HUNGRY!!?!". She just smiled and explained to me that I was feeling stomach spasms. Cold water has been my only enemy since my surgery. Even little sips of cold water cause slight discomfort/nausea/spasms. The odd thing is, if I put crystal light in my water, I dont have the problem. So for now, I drink crystal light and try to drink room temp h20 as often as I can. Like I said though, ice cold or even cold water has been the only thing I have a problem ingesting. So far my incisions have healed up nicely. The discomfort in my abs with exertion is pretty much gone now, and I must say, I feel like my old self. Right after the surgery my "bathroom habits" were very frequent, which my surgeon said was to be expected. That has even regulated itself now. Im glad to be posting on here finally, I think I had been putting it off because it all seems unreal- like "yeah, this happend!!". I can honestly say that I still feel that way, like I am shocked that its all over with and im safe and healthy at home.

Hugs and Kisses, Sleeve Family, Spiritual Vitamins are good for what ever is ailing your soul! Today is vitamin F: FAITH Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. When we first decided that this procedure would be the one to help us finally win our battle with obesity, we really had no idea how our lives were going to change forever. I'm sure if you are like me, you probably googled, researched, read, and watch every resource of information you could get a hold of, to try and get a more better understanding of what was going to happen and what the outcome would be. We also researched physicians that specialized in this procedure. Now, after all our careful research, some of us got nervous, "cold feet" and started thinking if we were making the right choice. But, our desire to be healthier (skinnier, LOL) made us push forward. We finally selected the physician we thought would be the best for our individual needs and we put our "Faith" in him/her that they would be successful in performing the surgery and help us get on our way with this journey. We did not have the slightest idea at all, how any of our procedures were going to turn out, but we "Hoped" they were very skillful and that all would go well. Now: Think about this, we put so much (our lives) faith and hope in physicians who are men and women just like us. But in actuality, they are just the "avenues" that our Father in heaven "utilized" to get us to this point! As children of God, we should never put more faith or hope in any man/women or even ourselves than we put in our Father. This is why, we should talk with Him through prayer everyday and through our "faith" and "hope" in Him alone, shall we wait to receive our increases in life!. God utilizes whatever He needs, to take care of those He loves and those who love Him! "Faith and Hope in the Lord, are our avenues to having a blessed, and successful life!" Feeling strong in the Lord, Diamond45 (a.k.a. Blessed)