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My Answer is for the last question: yes. you are over thinking. I suggest that you think about how much walking and exercising you are going to do. How excited you are that you have the lapband and are going to be sucessful with it. Didn't the office give you more information about fills, pre and post surgery rules? A relationship with your Dr is the most important thing. Relax. and good luck. no bread.

Oh, the struggles. I have had a rough couple of days. I have been VERY busy at work (140+ hours in 2 weeks) and it is getting to me mentally. I am tired and stressed and in my past life : ) this meant that I needed to hang out with my friend FOOD! So I am trying to work through this and I feel like a drug addict trying to kick a habit. I know I shouldn't be hanging out with my user friend bu I JUST WANT TO. I want to surrond myself with a table of FATTY food. All the delicious things I find comfort in. I feel like it is progress that I have identified my trigger, which helps me to try and work through it. I have eaten some bad things but not in the quantities I used to. To try and get back on track I made sure to excercise today and stick to my healthy packed lunch. So yes I did struggle through the weekend and Monday and Tuesday but I think things are looking up. I think these are the important parts of the journey to be succesful in long term results. To learn and alter my behavior.

Yeah for LL! Congrats and best wishes everything goes well.

Congrats!

Following the advice of one of my replies, I called Melissa Jenson at true results and she reffered me to a different Dr. She was great. The other Dr office called me the very next morning. (Dr.Snow). And she already had my insurance co change to him. She already had me a surgery date, Aug 9. and the best thing is they are only charging me half the co pay that Dr carter was charging, and they take my credit card, and no money up front. It will be longer before my surgery,but this just seems like a better deal all the way around. Not trying to be ugly, but I think Dr. Carter is alittle greedy.

Yes, you are overthinking this. My liquid diet post-fill was 48 hours. A fill will make your band squeeze your stomach more and can cause some inflammation. If you try to pass too much food through your stoma you could cause more inflammation and even create an ulcer. He's asking you to ease into your new stoma(portal) with caution. tmf

I get banded tomorrow too. I feel the same way you do. We can do this. If we have gone through all the disappointments of past efforts with no real results, we can do this and get the results we want. Good luck to you. =)

Good luck. I know that I was so nervous when that day came, but all went well. I'm sure it will for you as well.