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canned beans are good. it is better to blend it up tho to begin with and adjust the thickness. i started eith refried beans and added a little taco sauce.

Yeah that was a typo! 250lbs. Wishful thinking I guess. The first place said I had to lose 75 lbs for them to work with us. The second place didn't blink. I highly recommend second opinions. The second place did have a weight requirement for stuff retrievsl but my sister is a healthier weight so no problems there. Good luck to you!

I had my lap band put in on June 12 th. It was a long process. I finally decided to pursue it after being rejected by a fertility clinic due to my weight which at the time was around 150 and because I was 40. I started going through the process of getting the surgery authorized when I decided to get a second opinion from another fertility clinic. They were willing to work with us. I am using my younger sister's eggs. Thank you sister! Any way because I was fearful of failure of either procedure failing I went through the process of both without informing one of the other until I knew for sure. I had to go through several appeals and hoops to get the lap band approved and as luck would have it they both were coming to fruition in June. So it was time for disclosure and Decisions. I went first to the lapband team at park nicollet in mn. I had had a very brief conversation with a nutritionist ptior to my second opinion and eas somewhat hopeful. The response from the surgeon once ascertaining my reasonings for waiting was that life is complicated, that the main concerns with bariatric and pregnancy is directed at nutrition. My surgeon noted minimal nutritional issues with the band, that the females bodies put needed nutrition to the baby first, and that people in poverty have healthy births. also noted was the majority of healthy births to women with lap bands. It was also pointed out that with the band that less weight gain during pregnancy the healthier. The fertility doc didn't care as long as the surgeon stayed away from my pelvic area. So. Surgery was completed and I am feeling geat and in about 7 days I will ( hopefully) have my Ivf implantation. I wanted to share my story to give a different experience or prompt new conversations with your treatment team. I wish you the best. Sorry for the length of this. I just ran across this site and was so excited.

I ate alot of fatfree popsicles and fat fee jello recovering

My surgery was on the 12th. I get better every day. The worse for me was the shoulder pain. It was worse when I ate/drank something warm. Also everytime I sneezed from allergies I thought I was going to die. My big mistake was not realizing what a huge surgery this was. I was able to do it out patient and the feedback I got on how many days I should take off was so vague I only took 3 days off. Huge mistake. But like I said I feel 100% better. Incisions healing, little pain