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Ohhh this is great, Im so pleased you think its a good idea, let me know if you have any suggestions too with incentive rewards! (thats the bit I'll love I think best lol) Pam, Oooo that car sounds lovely!! Take it easy on the exercise thing, I'd try it x 3 weekly for 30 mins to start with, I havent done any exercise yet as such apart from walk, Im a bit apprehensive to tell you the truth, but once I start Im sure I'll get into exercising again Hey and I'll check out that person too that you mentioned, it will be intresting to see what they suggest (anything/ideas that will help is a blessing). Catch ya later folks! P.S My reward for the 1st 14lbs (stone) is the braclet :biggrin1: ....in 2 weeks time or less (?) Im hoping for my 1st charm (Im gonna get the silver red enamel heart for my 1st one! ) Sara xx

Hi guys, Well I think were deserve something special, this journey might be tough at times, and Im gonna look down at my braclet (& charms, lol) and its going to be my special symbol, and when I look at it, its gonna be a real acheivement to me personally I'm pleased you like the idea! I thought it was really cool when someone mentioned it to me too. Well if youve got lots of 7lbs to lose, you can reward yourself with loads of things!! lol :biggrin1: Sara xx

Hi All! Good Luck to all of you having surgery again this week!! (Bubbles and Jill) let us know that your back safely and everythings ok wont you! I wonder how there others are doing? Teachlady and everyone, hope theyre all ok. Well yesterday I made a lasanga for my mum n dad (as they are back fron there holiday soon) and I made up one for hubby too, anyway I succombed! I had too small bowlfulls, I felt really naughty (it was sloppy but calorific or what!!!!!!!!) I wont make that again, its just too tempting, but oh my it tasted divine!! Ok (for us ladies :biggrin1: ) well someone gave me a fabulous idea to mark my weight loss and journey over the next coming year(s) until I reach goal. Well someone suggested a charm braclet and every 7lbs I lose add a new charm. Well, several months ago 2 work collegues bought these sweetie braclets (sliver ones) and they are just goegeous, so I looked up who made them and discovered they do charms too!! :rofl: So on Saturday Im gonna go and buy the braclet, they stock them in a nice designer jewelry shop about 30 min drive away in a country town, and then (HOPEFULLY!!) every month go back and buy a charm, what do you think, I'll show you the link!! It is a bit expensive at £98.00 but Im worth it!! LOL http://www.linksoflondon.com/online-shop/women/charms you can even play around on this web site and design your own design I love it!!! Whats everyone else going to do to mark each step of their weight loss journey? Hugs Sara

Cool :biggrin1: We could set up a sub mini group........hope we can still look round the shops too! :dance: Hugs Sara :confused:

Hi SaggiJ Its fine by me, the more the merrier :biggrin1: !! Were gonna do a bit of shoping too, well a nose around, I love bath! Were meeting up on the afternoon of the 18th of May (Friday afternoon), I'll let Louise explain where, as Im not that familiar with bath!! Speak soon, Hugs Sara :confused:

Bandme Welcome to the April group :clap2: !! Hey your surgery went really well! I reckon the pain on one of the areas you are describing is where they've put the port? Mine still aches a bit and I was banded on the 2nd, but every day it gets easier :biggrin1: Hugs Sara :confused:

Michelle, dont give up hon, do EVERYTHING in your powers to get a re submission. I feel so sorry for you, the frustration must be awful. Just keep going with it, heck even get past diet leaders to write letter on your behalf! Laura, ooooo man that steak just sounds too good to be true, Ooo I wish I could be eating steak right now with salad, with a glass of red wine...Grrrrroooaaaannnn......do you want to swap for cottage chese?? Kat, thanks for the recipie ideas, I'll give it a try. Terry I looked at your journel today, wow you have loads of information, I hope you dont mind, as you suggested it to Pam to look at for dietry ideas. Tracy, gee you have really been through the mill with the drains problem, I would be tearing my hair out by now, 2 slices of pizza, Id have eaten the whole thing, and more by now if I'd have been in your situation, so youve done amazingly well! Jen, welcome to the group! The time will fly by this month, and the 27th will be here before you know it!! Take care all, Hugs Sara :confused:

Hi everyone, Well I'm getting back into my report writing from home today, and boy oh boy is it painful (mentally taxing!)....Aaaaaaaa!!! Panda: You look so pretty, your gonna WOW em all, your hubby will have to fight the blokes off you! Pam: Well my dietry intake is about 650-700 cals a day, and quite frankly the mushie stage is Boreing...but its better than just fluids, so I cant complain. I think my trouble is Im not adding enough varity into my diet, everything is liquidised, or very 'watered down' into baby kind of food. Typical day looks like this so far: Breakfast: 1 weetabix with milk & sweetner OR 100-150 mls of porriadge OR 1 yougart Lunch: Small tin of soup OR Small pot of cottage cheese with pinapple (yum) OR scrambled runny eggs made with milk too & a bit of greated cheese on the top OR Mullar low fat strawberry rice pot Dinner: small amount of mashed potatoe & carrots & cottage cheese OR Soup again :think OR liquidise what my family are having, into a soup Snack: Low cal yogart with a compot (stewed fruit) So you see its really boring, do you have any suggestions?? Im on this for another 3.5 weeks!! Hugs Sara

:omg: Pam, your gonna get up at 04.30am to get to the gym at 5am oh my goodness....that is SERIOUS DEDICATION GIRL!! I'm off this week (2nd week) my consultant signed me off for 3 weeks!! But I'm only gonna take 2 weeks off work. I get up every Monday at 5.30am for work, then get back home Tuesday 7pm at night (as I work on the Isle of Wight every Monday & alternative Tuesdays) and every other Tuesday I work away and get back on Wednesday nights, its gonna be hard fiting in exercise, I just hope losing a bit of weight will give me more energy cos all I normally want to do when I get home after work is flop. This is where Im going too have to change my behavioural patterns :paranoid Still if your doing it Pam already I ought too, the longer I leave it the harder (emotionally) it will get for me. Laura: Just think that person eating McDonalls right now....its going straight onto their hips girl! :heh: (& not ours!!) Well, I got to tell you all this, my hubby is begining to moan to me about talking about this lap band...he said 'Sara its all you talk about, your becoming obsessed!' so I burst out laughing and said well hon your married to me and my lap band now.....LOL...its only been a week Im bound to be talking about it arent I??? :rolleyes Well guys, look after yourselves xx Hugs Sara

:omg: Pam, your gonna get up at 04.30am to get to the gym at 5am oh my goodness....that is SERIOUS DEDICATION GIRL!! I'm off this week (2nd week) my consultant signed me off for 3 weeks!! But I'm only gonna take 2 weeks off work. I get up every Monday at 5.30am for work, then get back home Tuesday 7pm at night (as I work on the Isle of Wight every Monday & alternative Tuesdays) and every other Tuesday I work away and get back on Wednesday nights, its gonna be hard fiting in exercise, I just hope losing a bit of weight will give me more energy cos all I normally want to do when I get home after work is flop. This is where Im going too have to change my behavioural patterns :rolleyes Still if your doing it Pam already I ought too, the longer I leave it the harder (emotionally) it will get for me. Laura: Just think that person eating McDonalls right now....its going straight onto their hips girl! :heh: (& not ours!!) Well, I got to tell you all this, my hubby is begining to moan to me about talking about this lap band...he said 'Sara its all you talk about, your becoming obsessed!' so I burst out laughing and said well hon your married to me and my lap band now.....LOL...its only been a week Im bound to be talking about it arent I??? :paranoid Well guys, look after yourselves xx Hugs Sara

Dear All, Well I braved driving the car today for the first time, its a car (very low to get into), so I was a bit nervous getting in it! Anyway drove hubby down to the supermarket, and walked to the sea front (there was even people swimming in the sea, the water must have ben freezing??? its amazing what a little bit of sun does to people, lol). Jullee71, Teachlady & Christy & Tracy: Thanks for your encouragement, once you have your op, you'll just be amazed how your not hungry, and the weight will soon drop off you! Teach & Angie, good luch tomorrow you are in my prays, just think in a day or so's time you'll be back home again, please let us know how your doing ok? Tracy, Im pleased your ok,we were all a little worried about you hon x Mdrai: I sure hope you get your date soon, it is frustrating waiting, I hope you here real soon. Shineone: I pleased your feeling a little beter today. Pam: wow you have done SO well doing 30 mins on the exercise bike, I havent tried exercise equiptment yet, did you get any pain in your port area, or was it ok? Rvingdi: Hi!! I'm so pleased youve joined us in here, this group is awsome, and everyones so supportive. Wow well done on losing 15lbs thats GREAT!!!! Sherri: Hang on in there the 30th will be here before you know it!! We'll all support you through the waiting game, I know its dissapointing, you'll be super-ready by the 30th Kat: I hope your allergies let up. Oh my, how lovely though your hubby buying you a housefull of beautiful lillies!! He must adore you! Well, I hope your all having a lovely day xxxx Hugs Sara

Terry...you lucky thing.....drool.......you ate food....UUggggghhhhhh...

Dear All, A BIG HUG to all of you that are getting ready for tomorrow for your ops it is nerve wracking when your unsure whats a head of you, all I can say 7 days post op, I feel better and better, and much my old self. Do rest after the op, thats what will heal you, but do walk about too, as that will get rid of the gas quicker in your abdomen. By day 7 I took off all my steri strips on my tummy, and it feels sooooo much better :biggrin1: the scars are so tiny, the port one is about 1.5 inches long, but the others are no bigger than the lengh of my little finger nail, and there all healing nicely!! Tracy, I do hope your feeling better today, its emotionally hard sticking to a liquid diet, facing your family who are eating what ever they want, when ever they want over a holiday period, and psychicing yourself up to get through until your band day, you'll get there hon, only another 2.5 weeks!! I bet youve lost loads of weight too!! So keep going were all here for you xx. Well after 1 week after surgery folks I can now reveal my first weight loss Da na na naaaaaaaa ...........13 lbs Lost :humble: I wish I could put it in flashing lights!!!! LOL, but unlike you guys I didnt do a pre op diet (& I should have done) But after 1 week after surgery all I can say is: Its the BEST thing I've Done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and not 1 regret!! :clap2: Hugs Sara

Hi Louise, oo thats good to know re fills, I think until youve had the first one, its an unknown quanity!! Well done on losing 2 stone in 2 months though, thats what I'm going to try an aspire too aswell!!! Speak soon, Hugs Sara

Hi Louise, Bath is about 2hr drive away from me (I live just outside Corfe Castle in Dorset), and Id love to meet up, can we look round the shops too I love Bath, its a beautiful place! Fancy meeting up in May?? I might have lost more weight...who knows??? I've got my 1st fill on the 12th of May...bit worried about that, did you find it ok?? I'm mightly proud of myself tonight :biggrin1: I managed to cooked a full blown Easter dinner for my family, & I had a 100mls of pureed veg and meat! & they were all eating chocholate too!! Hope you had a great East day, Speak soon, Hugs Sara

Dear All, A very Happy Easter day to you all xx Tonight Im cooking a full on Easter dinner of roast lamb and all the trimmings! Me? well I'll just be blending up a small dinner (100-150mls) of the same as my family are having in the blender! Terri, re depression, I'd heard the same, from my boss actually he said his friend had had it done etc and had depression after it, I think we'll have to exercise and exercise to get our endorphins pumpin to counteract it? GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU BEING BANDED THIS COMING WEEK!!! TeachLady - 4/10 TracyTX - 04/11 ElizaJo - 04/11 Bubbles - 04/11 Bwaydiva - 04/11 KCQ -04/11 TinyBelle - 04/12 StaceyLynn - 04/12 Lucy22884 - 04/12 Horns10 - 04/12 Ihomeschool4 (Christy) - 04/12 Ross (husband to Christy) - 04/12 Tater Bug - 04/13 MS_Jen - 04/13 ChicaChula - 04/13 My payers are with you all, you will be a bit sore the first week, but honestly you'll get through it, and all of us are here to talk too if you need to talk xx Hugs Sara xx

Hi SaggiJ & Louise, That must be tough for you Saggi re the underactive thyroid, and I agree with you the difficulty of changing your eating habits of a lifetime quickly. I too thought of this pre op, I thought I'll see how I go, but I might enrolled with somebody to get NLP therapy re diet/lifestyle, but I'll see how I go....Also thanks for the advice about how easy it is to put all the weight loss back on onceyou start solids again, I'll have to try and be really careful, I now write down what I eat each day and what the cals total up too, but once Im really back on the ment I am going to have to make myself do exercise. I do love it once Im doing it, its getting back into a habit again Hey Louise thats a great weight loss 4.5lbs this week, wow I'd love to loseweight like that. I got on the scales again (lol) this am and Im down 12lbs now, but tomorrows D-Day 1 week after the op, so what ever that says tomorrow will be my first marker. I see you had your op done in the Bath clinic, I had mine done with BMI in Winchester, even though I live in Dorset. I'll have to try and be disaplined and only weigh myself every Monday am too......but the first week was just tooooo tempting to do it every day! Have a lovely day folks Hugs Sara

Thanks for getting back to me Terri re what your eating. At least I know Im not the only one hardly eating anything! lol...and your right...hunger will be a-lerking around the corner! Night Tracy ...Night Terri...Night All.. Speak in the morning...I hope I dream about shopping when Im slim....Oooooooooo bliss Sara xx

Hiya all, Terri thats FANTASTIC news re weight loss!!!!! Were all on the way now on losing big time :girl_hug: I cant remember if it was you that said when youd got back home your weight had increased, mine had too, I was 248 on the Sunday morning on my scales (on the hospital scales I was 242) then when I got home I was 249!! Anyways....were on a losin streak now:clap2: Hey I checked out that shopping mall, and I said to dave and sophie (my youngest) that I was going to have a end target, when I reach my goal I want to go to America shopping, I'd like to come just before Christmas when its all pretty (so I guess it will be Nov/Dec 08!) - Sophie was impressed....dave wasnt though...LOL he hates shopping! Pam, Hi hon I hope your shoulder gets better, I did have some pains (not as bad as my tummy though) and used a wheat heat bag around my neck the first few days after the op. I'm feeling heaps better, have been practicising the breathing technquic today. Also I walked up to the village shop with Dave (took me 40 mins there and back - I was quite proud of myself) then we drove to our local garden centre, and bought a small Bay tree for a pot outside the front of the house, and some lavender for a front boarder, plus my brother came up for a chat so its been a really lovely day Betty I am so sorry to hear about your hubby's and sons op, I hope they are both ok now? It must have been such a worry to you. You and Kat are an inspration to us all. Tracy- sounds like you had a wonderful day, I remember when my girls were tiny tots learning to ride a bike, your baby is at such a lovely age. Well I have a question to those of you who have had surgery this week: Ok here goes: The first 3 days I had to follow a liquid diet, then I started on sloppy food. This is what my daily intake is like: Breakfast: weetabix biscuit with milk and sweetner Lunch: scrambled egg with a bit of cheese (today I had 2 eggs!!) Dinner: soup (veg and chicken) Snack: low fat yougart and fresh fruit pureed coolie I made and added honey to it. Drinks: water/tea/coffee.... This lot totals to 650 cals....how many cals are you all having a day, is this normal? After reading Bettys post, it may appear our appietite may go back to nrmal next week (week 2) so I guess we'll have to be careful..... Whats everyone else eating post op? Ohhhhh and Lunasa....tell us how your holidays going, I'm pleased your mum was ok with it. My mum n dad come back from holiday on Thursday, I'll be pleased when there back as Im missing them, especially this week Speak soon, Sara xxxxxxx

Hi All, Happy Easter folks! Im feeling tons better since the op on Monday, still a little breathless, but soooo much better :girl_hug: When I got back home I did get on the scales, and Id actually put weight on, lol, I know it was only Fluid, but still :paranoid anyway today I got on the scales and Ive lost 9lbs, (yep I know its only fluid coming away) but it gave me a real high this am, I dont think Ive ever in my entire life lost weight like that. I'll weigh again on Monday and see what it says after a week. How often do you all weigh? Also, when does the weight loss slow down, after the first month? You all have a great Easter! Hugs Sara

Terri & Kate, Thank you for the breathing technique suggestion, I am DEFINATELY going to do that. Last night I couldnt sleep, probably because Ive slept so much after the last few days, so I found that video on Google on the lap band surgery itself, it was amazing actually seeing what they do inside you (not for the squemish :phanvan ). Lunasa, wow your in America on holiday? Lucky you, Ooooo the last time I went there was with my mum and brother about 3 years ago (mum treated us), we went to NewYork and visited all of the sites, I LOVED IT!!!!! OMG the shopping malls you have are to die for, I remember going into this mall and shopping till I dropped...lol I have a picture of my brother surrounded by shopping bags looking thoroughly feed up, Oooo lucky you, may be that should be my end incentive after I lose all of the weight, to go to America again but with hubby this time and my kids :girl_hug: Well I know I shouldnt get on the scales every day (and its not until Monday Im a week post op) but OMG.....I am down now 9lbs in 5 days...YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, promise I wont weigh again till Monday (that'll be a week then) I know its only fluid going, but it still feels good Have a great Saturday!! Sara xx

Keep on postin Terri, I love reading all of the posts on here. You know, you guys have been such a support on here, I think Id be so lonely and lost without all of you going through this, nobody really understands what its like until you start the lap band process. Im really looking forward to the coming year and next April, we can all look back and be so so proud of ourselves. :high5: Sara xx:huggie:

Blimey Dave your down 30lbs? Way to go!!!!! Cred pleased your surgery went ok, wow your back to work Monday too, I wish I felt as well as you do on your 2nd day! Well, got the Easter eggs :tired non for me I hasten to add! Got my brother a huge Galaxy one & my hubby a Cadbruy one (eggs in side of eggs, different huh). He bought me a DVD 'Happy Feet' I thought it loked so cute with those little penguins Bit breathless again tonight I dont know why though? :rolleyes Sara xx

wow you are a start losing 10lbs Tracy, thats incredible!! Congratulations!! :clap2: I just had a lunch: 1 eggs, bit of cheese and milk, so runny scrambled egg for lunch! I think for dinner I'll go with soup. Not feeling hungry at all still (which is a good thing!!) Catch ya later folks!! Sara

Dear Terri & Maiziemommy, <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p> Well had a shower today, gosh I feel so much better, actually got dressed today and put on some make up! My hubby is relived in looking more normal again. I must say I look pregnant though, as my stomach is still swollen, I took 4 dressings off today, and changed the one over the port area as it’s a bigger incision. <o:p> </o:p> Going to go for a small walk into the nearest town today, need to pick up some easter eggs for my family, as its good Friday today, so everyones off for easter. <o:p> </o:p> Can I also suggest to all to get a small bowl, as I had some porridge today, and ate too much, I felt really sick after, I had a 150mls worth instead of 100mls, so im going to measure any food I eat now (liquidised) into a small bowl now J <o:p> </o:p> Have a lovely Friday all, <o:p> </o:p> Hugs, Sara xx