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Bubblehead, your not even aware of the situation, your making assumptions and passing judgements on people about situations that you weren't involved in and you have no first hand knowledge of. DO I NEED TO TYPE OUT A VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT EVERYTIME I WISH TO EXPRESS A OPINION OR FRUSTRATION FOR YOU TO ACCEPT WHAT I'M SAYING?! I think not. Did you even stop to think that the reason I am so frustrated was because I approached the server, and the manger with dignity and respect asking for consideration and was shown none, not only that, at one resturaunt they made unreasonable demands that I would need to purchase an entree if I wished to continue to stay seated with my wife (THAT"S RIGHT, I'M A DUDE SO I'LL LIFT MY SHIRT WITHOUT WORRY, TAKE YOUR "CLASS" AND BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASS, FIGURE OUT WHO YOUR SPEAKING TO FIRST!) at the resturant. Anyway, your both idiots. You want to start off calling people names on the internet because your cloaked in anominity just like every other person who wants to flame another person on the net. Either way, I'll go to a resturaunt for dinner tonight and place a order for a healthy appropriately proportioned meal. If the manager wants to bust my nuts about it, then I will let him/her know where they stand, over in the corner with you. I have absolutely no patience for knowitall busybiddies.

screw you. If you think it's ok for resturants to push unfair policies on people then fine be my guest but don't attack me personally on this board for expressing my opinions. Stand in the back while the rest of us take a stance. Baah Baah.

BE YOUR OWN ADVOCATE! I've used the card and I've been hassled about it so I make a big stinkin scene. 1. Einstein Bro's Bagels I explained my surgery to the guy at one end of the line my requests, he agreed so I orderd a scoop of chicken salad and a cup of chicken soup. The girl at the other end tried to charge me 8.95 for a chicken salad sandwich. I said no, I just got a scoop of the salad, not the entire sandwhich. After some dadeetdadeet moments and me raising my voice saying "YOUR TRYING TO RIP ME OFF, I'M NOT PAYING 8.95 FOR A ICE CREAM SCOOP OF CHICKEN SALAD" another dadeetdadeet came over and settled my bill for me. 2. Olive Garden This was the best, I was already in a bad mood, same old same old, resturaunt policy wouldn't allow me to order from the kids menu, then when I said I would just share with my wife, they said that wasn't acceptable either, I would have to order a entree even after I pulled my shirt up to show the manager my scars. So I ate what I could then accidentially dropped the rest of my entree all over the floor. I should have gone and pee'ed all over the bathroom floor too. I'm not takin it anymore. RISE UP AND FIGHT THE POWER! BANDSTERS UNITE, WREAK HAVOC AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

Hey Gang, My wife and I are going to join the local ymca and I'm really excited because they have a indoor pool. I want add swimming as a regular excercise but since getting the band I've got ALOT of excess skin. It never bothered me before taking off my shirt in public cause I was just a fat guy with man boobs, like the rest of the america, but now, I'm a sorta fat guy with wierd lumpy rolly polly bulges with bizzare saggy flappy man boobs. Sigh, I'm proud of it, because I know what it truly means (loosing weight) BUT.. I'm afraid children are going to point and laugh at which point I'll have to bang their heads on the cement. Soo.. aside from wearing a wet suit top in a indoor pool. (now that will look goofy) does anyone have any suggestions? What about those swim shirts, do they conceal cling?

A guys turn to bitch. I caught a burglar in our garage on christmass eve, we sold our house and I alone got to pack it all up and move it since my wife was pregnant with twins, get to the new house, tons of crap ensues getting the electric turned on, the well ran out of Water blah blah blah, twins came 10 weeks early, suprise, i was banded to tighltly the entire time, could barely drink water while she was in the hospital, now were all home, kids won't sleep, sick of hearing advice on what to do, I swear if one more fwackin child care know it all parent tells me to cram this holistic goop down there gullet or asks if they are sleeping through the night or trys to share any fwacking piece of advice that they have not been directly and personally asked for, I'm gonna start whackin people. LET ME RESTATE THAT, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANY OF YOUR F@CKIN ADVICE ABOUT INFANT CARE AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME. Add sleep deprivation onto a having to disassemble the engine on my wifes car and rebuild it between evening feedings, giving up my suv so she has something reliable to drive the kids around with, drinking to much just to settle my nerves because I walk in and she and the two infant daughters have all gone ballistic, alcoholic mother won't sit the fwack down and shut the fwack up you looney repressed psychoctic demented old bag, pressuring myself to stop drinking cause it's just unneeded calories and you don't want to end up acting like your mother, eating around my band regularly because I'm searching for the littlest something to help alleviate the stress and pain. Having coworkers whine to me that i need to be nicer and not so angry all the time, (they are all so close to being beaten they just don't know) a go no where job where idiocracy and inefficiency ooze at every turn, no time to ride my motorcycle to try to sooth my soul, trying to excercise on the elliptical but now i've develop a agonizing knee pain 15 minutes into it. Great, my knees are gone at the age of 33. FWACKIN PERFECT. What does it all add up to? Jumping on the scale and finding out I'm up 12 lbs and continuing to look dumpy in my clothes. AAAAAAAAA$RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm in md.

Ok, I haven't been on a amusement park ride in almost 10 years. So, my question is, I'm down to a 44" waist, how much further longer should I wait before I could pop over to hershey park and go for a ride on the comet? IE, how big is too big to get the lap bar down for most rides? It's a loaded question really, I guess I'm asking "what do ride designers think is normal and do I fit there yet?" :cry

<p>I FIT COMFORTABLY INTO A SIZE 44 JEANS TODAY! THATS DOWN FROM A SIZE 56. </p> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/whoo.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Whoo" smilieid="339" class="inlineimg" /><img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/whoo.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Whoo" smilieid="339" class="inlineimg" /><img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/whoo.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Whoo" smilieid="339" class="inlineimg" /><img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/whoo.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Whoo" smilieid="339" class="inlineimg" /><img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/whoo.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Whoo" smilieid="339" class="inlineimg" /><img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/whoo.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Whoo" smilieid="339" class="inlineimg" /></p> 88lbs down Oh yeah, go putz go putz it's your birthday it's your birtday

Don'ts: Rice Any type of dough Shrimp Carbonated everything. Lima beans Natural skin hot dogs. (WHICH SUCKS BIG TIME, MY UNCLE OWNS A OLD WORLD GERMAN BUTCHER SHOP)

I struggle with it still and I'm 5 months out. It's a game really. When I get head hungry, I gotta remove myself from the house. I find it easier when I'm on the go to ignore it except for those snack packs of peanuts. I gotta do better at substituting fluids for head hunger and going outside away from the food. I recently picked up fly fishing and the stream is right down the street from my house. I hope that it helps.

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Hate to be a party pooper but yeah, Limewire is bad news. I am a IT professional and cannot tell you how many times I've had to comletely blow away a operating system and reload it because something was downloaded from a peer to peer that wasn't what it was supposed to be.

So yeah, I've noticed upper jaw pain near my molars. I used to get this pre band and thought it had to do with grinding my teeth subconsciously when I'm stressed. I really catch myself doing when I'm in traffic. But now I've noticed a definate increase in jaw pain. I've been sliming alot lately due to some up's and downs recently so I'm wondering, do saliva glands get swollen?

I gotta get this off my chest and this is the only place I think will understand. So about 3 weeks ago I got my first fill. Doc gave me 1cc. I was tight but not too tight doc said "see ya in two months but come back if you think something is up". Ok, So about two weeks into it I notice I can get down about 1.5 to 2 cups of food at a sitting. Humm. I decided to head into the office to get a fill. The doc added .75 cc's on thursday week 2. I lept off the table and headed back to work not stopping drink some Water before leaving. I pick up a cold slimfast on the way back to the office had a sip and it felt it gurgle through. Took another sip and it got stuck. Humm. Ok, give it some time I said, toughed it out for an hour at work pb'ing and sliming the entire time. Apparently, I was so tight I couldn't swallow my own spit. Literally. BUT, I had to go home to meet the moving estimator as I'm going through the nightmare that is selling and purchasing a new home in a different state. The entire time the estimator is there I'm pb'ing and sliming into a cup. I felt so bad for the guy, he was genuinely concerned about me because was I was really writhing in pain but I had to get this estimate done. I called the office and headed back to my doctors for a unfill writhing in pain as I drove the 45 minutes to get there in rush hour traffic. He unfilled me completely and said come back in a week after things settle down. Soo.. I got a week of shore leave with no restriction. Yes. I indulged a little. Ok, fast forward to this past thursday, I go in for a fill, he adds 1.5 cc's. This time I sit in the office and drink some water. I can tell almost immediately it's too tight but thankfully I was still there. So he takes out another .5cc's. Now I'm back to where I was. The then asks me how much do I chew my food? I say as much as possible so it's a sorta a chewey slurry before I swallow. He tells me I'm chewing to much which is why I can eat more than a cup.:phanvan :phanvan Huh? Ok fine. I head out the door. The next morning I try some scrambled eggs. I don't chew as much. Some of it gets stuck. I pb for 3 hours before I say phuck it, leave work and start heading for the emergency room because he is in surgery. I'm writhing around in pain on the baltimore beltway when I cough real real hard from deep within my abdomen, all of the sudden up comes a chunk of egg and all is better. I swallow my spit again. I get to the er, cry on my wifes shoulder who met me there and go back to work without a unfill. I was able to get through this past weekend. Things definately feel tight, I can only eat about 2-3 bites at a sitting but then 2 hours later and I feel like I can gobble food down without issue. Feel like I'm back to mourning the loss of food again because I had a week of shore leave and I haven't been feeling satisfied. :faint: is exactly how I feel. Also, does anyone else notice jaw pain when they pb or grinding of teeth during the day? Is that a ex smoker thing? d@mn I'm tired.

Man, I can't even begin to count the crappy things people have said to me but the one that sticks out in my mind was a month before being banded. This moron pulls up next me in traffic while I was on my motorcycle and says "your to big for that bike". I have a large cruiser style motorcycle. I looked back at him and said "get out of the car f*ck nut and find out how big I really am". I ended up just driving off. But I didn't ride my motorcycle again till just a few weeks ago. Even now 45 lbs down I'm still feeling self conscience on it.

I've realized that I'm quite the gardener/landscaper. I also have a motorcycle and came to the realization that I would prefer to get a sport motorcycle (aka crotch rocket) vs. the cruiser that I have. I think I never looked at them before because stomach wouldn't fit nicely over the gas tank.

Just as a side note, I use a powder called Anti Monkey butt. It's for motorcycle riders but it's such a great product. It's very absorbent, doesn't clump or get gooey and keeps me feeling dry all day and stops chafing all day. http://antimonkeybutt.com/

I had my first fill yesterday. 1cc I noticed a little restriction but it's wasn't what i was hoping for. I'll give a it 3 weeks then call the doctors office to schedule another fill. I just ate and hour ago and I'm already starting to feel hungry again. But otherwise, I'm down 35 lbs too.

Hey Angel, sounds like your kinda in mourning over food. Like your going to lose your best friend. The coolest thing about the band is that it helps you to recoqnize that "your favorite foods" weren't helping you and really didn't bring you that much enjoyment, and what little enjoyment they did bring were quickly dashed by the pain you felt when you went to try on clothes or looked at the scale. The whole point is for us to not eat "normally" again. Why? Cause us eating normally wasn't normal to begin with. The depression will pass, you will find new things that bring you more joy. At least, this has been my experience and of course, I'm not forcing my opinion on anyone, just sharing my thoughts.

How about some pictures ladies!!

Yeah I had a fatty liver too. 5 sonometers to large. My surgeon wasn't too concerned about it, he said do the two week liquid and everything will be fine. Then my butthead pcp go wind of it. Decided I needed to see a gastroenterologist, the gastro sent me for a full blood work up, all the of the tests came back normal but come to find out the lab forgot to test me for hepatitus a/b. Now they want me to go back for another blood test (mind you, I'm 3 days away from surgery now) or have a biopsy done while my surgeon is doing the band. All the while I'm telling them I don't have hep, my wife of 10 years was screened for all of this 6 months ago for fertility treatment. I ended up blowing off the gastro and not returning the phone calls. Some may agree, some may not, but I am a firm beliver that you have to control these doctors and use common sense with your health care or the doctors will run amuck. If you have ever had to work them professionaly in a setting where your not a doctor, you quickly realize that common sense is something is generally lacking in the medical profession. The end result was that after my two week liquid diet, my liver shrank, my surgeon said it was perfect and that my surgery was textbook.

So how is everyone doing? I was banded on the 9th of feb. I did the two week liquid pre surgery, I'm comming up on the end of my mushy phase, get to go back to solids this friday. I've lost 33 lbs. I'm back to a regular work out on the elliptical machine, upper body strength training, and I'm even doing a moderate ab workout. I'm down two pants sizes and 1 shirt size. Other than general muscle soreness I feel pretty good. My only concern is that since starting the mushies, my weight loss has really slowed down, almost stopped. It may be possible I'm trading fat for muscle at this point. I go in for my first fill in 3 weeks. How is everyone else doing?

Actor: Oh the agony of it all. Oh the sorrow, Oh the humanity! (spin spin spin, place hand to head, fall down on floor, and twitch..... twitch................ twitch........................ deep gasp and upheaval then final slump and now motionless. ) LOL!! They should make a animicon for this. LOL!!

Sounds like someone who wants to wallow in their misery and can't stand to see others happy because of how ugly they feel. At least this dude was considerate enough to not bring you down with him. You didn't need that kind of sh*t around you anyway.

I copied this directly from the power point presentation that my doctor has posted on his website. Best Outcomes are seen when: "When surgery is not the starting point but an event in the patients attempt to lose weight. "When you leave all the excuses and get the job done. i.e. change eating habits and exercise. "You are proactively involved in your care i.e. when you do not say ³nobody told me that!² Empower yourself with the knowledge needed. "When you are frustrated, desperate and angry with your weight. You can then channel your energies to achieve goals.