purplegirl1818

alright, thanks. haha, ill be sure to tell you when i get it

im getting mine in July! the FDA is going to pay for it because im a guninne pig (yes and i have horrible spelling) for banders under 18.

thank you all, it really helps, i guess im justin going to have to see what happeneds

haha thanks, did you just get banded?

thanks julie :-)

ok so i have some questions for you banders out there How much does a fill hurt, if at all? about how much do you lose a month if you follow the meals, etc? how is the post op diet? ok so im going to be a senior this coming fall, and i wouldnt go to prom my junior year because i was way too embarrissed, im getting banded in July, and have high school swimming (which is about 13 hours a week plue 1-2 meets) prom is in may, how much do you think is a good idea to think i would possibly lose?

thank you so much, that really does help :-D

its in chicago, im 16 and im actully getting mine payed for by the government or something. im a test subject lol but im like the 30th teen to go through the New Hope Program:)

this is an excerpt from my life weight story: After season finished, I swam spring season and did Water polo, and during the summer there is never a day you can't find me in some body of water. In addition to swimming I began taking shakes as a meal substitute. Again no results. The following year, I began taking Meridia, a pill designed to help with weight loss, I lost around 12 pounds, but again gained it back. This trend continued until this past fall, fall 2006. During the first part of swim season we always run. The day we ran the football stadium stairs (this consists of running ¼ of a mile and running up 14 stairs, and back down three times, and repeating this around 4-5 times) I was at the top of the bleachers and couldn’t breathe very well, I began to get light headed and returned to the ground. By the time I got back to my coach, I was crying from not being able to breathe, and the frustration that I had that I knew that I could do this but my body wouldn’t allow it. In the middle this season I was diagnosed with depression. I knew it was my weight; my whole life has revolved around my weight. At this point I am out of ideas; I'm frustrated with my weight to the point of tears. In my freshman year we went to Cedar Point in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Sandusky</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Ohio</st1:State></st1:place> for the national physics day. That year I finally get the backbone to ride the Millennium Force, all of my friends and I got in line. I decided to sit in the chair outside the line to make sure I fit. Well, I didn’t. At the age of 14 I couldn’t fit on a roller coaster seat. Not just this ride, but many others too. This fact still taunts me, especially because my high school’s honors choir is going to Disney this spring, and I am scared that I will lose the Disney experience because of my weight. When I shared my fears with my mother this past January, we decided something needed to be done. After a lifetime of failed diets and gyms, a lifetime of frustration and just wishing on every start that I could be ‘normal sized’, I am finally taking my first steps toward a healthier lifestyle, and a new me.

im 16 aqnd am getting one this summer

i am really hoping my shoe size will go down when i get the band on. this thread just made my day!

Ok, im from michigan, but i go to chicago each month to a program at UIC that is for banding. The program is for 13-18 year olds, its the only program out there that anyone knows of like that, and im only 16 does anyone else out here go there?

can yall who have had this done tell me about how much it cost? i really need a benchmark, i dont go for my meeting with the doc till late march or else id ask him

thank you, i know im under 18 and this clinic is the only 0one around that is specially for teens

if anyone out there has had a band on for more than 2 years, could you please help me out. i need someone to talk to my father because he doesnt believe that it will be healthy after you done using it... :help:

i know the liquids part is kinda what im apprehensive about, i havent been banded yet. but still, even i do go crazy in the weeks following, ill just keep weighing myself... fight hunger with... lower numbers!

thank you guys, you are all so much help. i really tahnk you. i think im going to try and scedule my surgery at the beginning of this summer. and disco, my dad currently is overweight, but he didnt become this way until he was an adult. he told me he could eat anything he wanted, and never gain a pound. of course with me it seems i look at somehting and gain 5 pounds lol

ok so first off, i am only 16. I am an avid swimmer and swim up to 4 hours a day on top of running. I swim distance and I have the endurace to do a lot, but no matter what i do, the weight stays. i weigh about 265ish. theres a clinic in chicago that does teens in my situation, and my mother knows everything ive been though, shes always been the one ive came home from school crying to everyday i was made fun of. but my father (my parents are divorced) is very single minded and says that he did research on the band and says he doesnt support me in anyway doing this. he says its wrong thati am wanting to have this surgery, but all i can think of is being able to be... well normal per say. i want to be like all my friends in terms of having fun at the beach and wearing shorts etc. but they reason im scared is because of my father i guess, he wont even go to the meeting with me and the doctor that will do the surgery. so do you guys have any advice for me? :confused::help:

ill be sure to look at these site. thank you all for all the support, it really is reassuring. i go for my consuiltation on the 22nd of this month. im super excited, i just got the info packet in the mail today

thanks liz, im gonna have to i guess