peculiarway

Excellent post, and very informative! I had my second fill last Thursday, and am down 5lbs since then. I lost close to 50lbs in the six months before my surgery, but gained 4lbs back in the month between the surgery and my first fill--very nervewracking and discouraging! I honestly didn't notice a ton of restriction with the first fill, but lost a few pounds...so it must have been doing something. I'm REALLY feeling the restriction from this fill, though--having to figure out what exactly I can and can't eat all over again, and having to be extra careful that I chew properly. My portion sizes are noticeably smaller as well. I was a little nervous the first couple of days that the band was too tight, but I think it's okay now. I'd just gotten lazy about chewing and had slipped back into eating convenience foods that were not ideal for me, and this fill snapped me out of it. Looking forward to great things in the months to come!

Hi everyone, I'm Aimee and my surgery is at 7:30am on January 20th. I've been lurking on the forums for a couple of months, but finally created an account and wanted to make my introduction before my surgery tomorrow morning! I'm 24 and work in pharmacy, and see every day at work the impact that obesity has on your long term health. I've gotten a bit of flack from friends for pursuing bariatric surgery in my twenties, but I think it makes a lot of sense--I want to get healthy before I have the chance to find myself on cholesterol, blood pressure, or diabetes meds! My dad was banded three years ago and went from being on insulin and multiple other medications to taking only two meds a day. He's so much more active than I ever remember him being, and it's been great getting to see the change in him--it gives me a lot of hope that the band is the right choice for me and my own personal health. I weight 262 lbs at my surgical consultation in June of last year, and weighed in at 226 earlier today, seven months after giving carbs the boot. I'm very excited to finally get banded, although I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous as well. All the talk about the pain from the gas has me worried, I'm a bit of a wuss about that. Any tips for dealing with post-op pain? I've spent a lot of time over the past few weeks trying to wrap my head around what my body will look like if/when I hit my goal weight. I've been overweight since childhood, even when active in sports in high school I weighed right at 200 lbs. My goal is 160 lbs, but that number just sounds so...fantastical. I've lost just over 30 lbs already, but it just seems so hard to believe that I could feasibly lose that much more!