Tropicalbird07

Hi Karen, Gigi and Julie, Thanks a lot for your kind words of support. Karen, am UK not Oz, but hello anyways. And congrats on the weight loss - 25kg is great! Julie -40 lbs is great - it really is inspiring:) Gigi, it will get better - promise! Yesterday we even had friends over for dinner - needless to say I had Soup - but am getting back into the swing! Ciao for now and keep in touch amigos:) TB07

Cath, wow! You are a superhero! Because I had mine on Friday -26th and there is no way I could be at work after three days. Had a really bad time - lots of pain!! :sick Yesterday was the first day I felt (marginally) better! SeeMeBeMe2, I would plan to take more time off. I work in a bank too and had planned to be back on Monday - worst case Wednesday and that really was wishful thinking!

Hi,:typing: Just thought I'd intro myself. Banded on 26th of Jan. Weighed 116 kilos. 256 lb. (Gosh, this talk of pounds is very confusing for me!) Have lost some weight, about 10lb and was really happy with the results - but a bit disappointed that it really doesn't seem as much as much as some of the guys on here,who got banded at around the same time! :pout: Also, had a really rubbish time of it. Before op, thought it would be a quick in and out - back to life in 2 days - job. But I really went through a LOT of pain. Yesterday was the first day I had some semblance of normalness. The tummy incisions were excruciating and the gas and chest pain has only just gone down:sick . Have had to be off work the whole week... (which isn't that bad, I guess!:evil: )... though hubbie is the only one to know the reason why... What I seem to have learnt in reading your posts is how different we all react to the surgery - in terms of pain, time- off and rate of weight loss. Also, diet wise am ok. Am actually not hungry, which is too cool! The regime of eating is different to a lot of the posts I read - i.e liquids only for two days. two weeks of slop and 2 weeks of soft food and then hurrah hurrah solids. Btw, baby food is yum! :baby: Would love to hear more about how the newbies out there are doing and what your experiences are and also some success stories from the fantastic awe-inspiring slimmers out there. Ciao, TB07