Jacek

I've never heard of this before, I think I'll look into it.

I'm 3 years out and feeling the same. Gained back 30 pounds and trying my best to get on track again, but I started to get hunger pangs about a year ago and they have been terrible. I'm still restricted with how much I can eat at a time, it's still not completely "normal" but it's too much....trying to "reset" my pouch and thinking again starting this week, but it is HARD. I don't know where I fell off the wagon but I need to get back on hoping I didn't mess up too badly. Anyways I just wanted to say that you're not alone, and that we can get back on track. It's going to be hard, but I bet we can do it <3

My surgery is on Monday the 23rd this month at 10:30AM, I'm so excited! I've lost about 40 pounds preop and am very excited to lose even more post op and finally start living!

Hey there! Sorry I didn't reply sooner, I've been pretty busy at work this last week! Since I made this post my dietitian actually gave me a call and told me she doesn't want me to start the liquid diet until we know my surgery date for sure(we're still waiting to hear back from the insurance company and I am sure they will be delayed due to the holiday), and then we'll do a two weeks full liquid diet. In the mean time, she wants me to be on a 800-1000 calorie a day meal plan. She sent me a pretty awesome meal plan with Breakfast,lunch,and dinner plotted out for each day of the week, for 4 weeks so I have quite a lot of options to choose from. I admit I got a little crazy this weekend with a bit of the "last meal" thing going on and I tell you...I think I got that out of my system because the foods I ate just made me feel awful! I'll be buckling down starting tomorrow on this meal plan to prepare for the path ahead. I didn't even think about the risks being put under can hold for being bigger like myself! Something to think of while doing this for sure. I wish you luck on your journey and it will all be sooooo worth it in the end!

Hi there! It has been a long while since I have wrote on here, but since then I have been on my journey to get my Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass! I've completed my 6 months of seeing a really awesome dietitian and just today I met with my surgeon, Dr.James McGreevy! I'm still really excited about this, we're submitting the insurance claim tomorrow and hopefully it'll be approved (he seems pretty sure we will have no issues with it) and we can schedule my surgery date. However... Dr.McGreevy has said I need to be on a liquid diet for 4 weeks, starting tomorrow. Right after my appointment with him my dietitian came in and told me she doesn't think that is right and that he never tells anyone that they need 4 weeks of it...so I want to know..have any of you been told and have had to complete 4 weeks of a liquid diet before getting your gastric bypass? I've been given a sheet of all the things I can eat, which is not too much really. I was already nervous about doing this for 2 weeks, but now 4 has been very nervous....I appreciate any feedback from your experience of what your opinion on the matter is! Also as a side note, I picked up Protein powder, EAS Complete Protein, which wasn't on the list of powders they provided but looked like it had most of the same stuff and 23g of protein. However, I noticed it also has 13g of carbohydrates and I feel like that is too high. I've not opened it yet and I have about a weeks worth of Protein Powder from my dietitian so should I return it and get something else? I shop at Target, what do you recommend? I'm sorry for being so all over with my questions but I have a lot of them right now! lol

Hey my name is Ashley and I'm new here like a good amount of others in this thread. I want to get lap band surgery but I am just at a loss where to even start. I attended a meeting for people who would like the know more about the surgery with my mother (who had gastric bipass about 10 years ago with huge success) but I just feel at a complete loss on how to go about getting this going in the right direction. I'm 23 and weigh 400 pounds. It is taking a toll on me and I finally have come to accept that all the pains I am feeling now are because of my weight, and they'll only get worse in time if I don't act now! I wasn't always overweight. I was a very energetic, athletic child growing up until my father left. It wasn't due to depression on my behalf of his leaving, it was my mothers. She wouldn't cook anymore, so she would just bring us home fast food each day. My body was used to it, and craved it, and I kept those bad eating habits into my adult life. I've tried dieting time and time again with little results and I feel getting a lap band is the right direction for me to go in my life to get the kick I need to live healthy. With the results I saw from my mothers gastric bipass, I originally wanted to take that route, but I have not heard the best of things about it in the long run. So here I am, looking for help in finding the path I need to take on getting my life back. I'm only 23, there is so much more in this world I should be enjoying. Not being in pain each day, not out of breath walking the few stairs to my house. Hopefully that wasn't too terribly jumbled of a mess. I look forward to meeting the lot of you and hopefully getting some good information as well. Thanks!

Hey sorry for the delayed reply back. I have the joys of working 3rd shift so I don't get a chance to be online all too much anymore. Thank you so much for all the warm welcomes! I have enjoyed reading everyone's stories on their journey so far! I'm going to a seminar for Dr.William M Rupp the 16th of next month to learn more about it and hopefully go from there! I am however, having a pretty hard time understanding how insurance works and what the best insurance for me to get to cover this surgery. I have insurance through the temp agency right now, but it's very limited. I am thinking of switching to Blue Cross Blue Shield, but I am not sure how long I need to be enrolled with them before they would cover this kind of surgery, or even how much they would cover. I know it's kind of silly questions to ask, but I've not been on my own for too long and I was just so used to my mother being the one to take care of all of that lol So just looking to get pushed in the right direction. Anyways, I do look forward to learning more and hopefully getting this surgery done within the next year. I already have had a sleep study done (about 5 years ago) where it was confirmed I have sleep apnea. And I also have acid reflux which I was told was another one to look for. I've been overweight since I was at least in 6th grade, and it has only gone up steady from there no matter what type of diets and work out routines I have tried. I feel that getting banded would be a very good tool for me to use to help me get my life back on track and get in shape. I'm tired of hurting every day, I'm tired of the pain pills just to get through work, the expensive plus size clothes (I mostly just wear graphic tees, but any jeans I get seem to be $45+ and only at Layne Bryant or Fashion Bug or something. And it is SO hard to find a bra in my size!!!) and I'm just tired of feeling drained and sick each and every day. I'm so glad I found this forum because reading through here, I have found such hope when I was feeling so hopeless about my life. I'm so excited that I wrote a list of things I want to do once I am healthy and losing weight. Silly I know, but it gives me the motivation to keep going with this! Go to Valley Fair! I have not been on any rides at an amusment park since I was in the start of High School. The embarassment of being told I could not fit into the seat of the ride safely and to leave the area (in front of all my classmates) was too much for me, I never felt confident enough to go back. Learn how to ride a bike! I never had the chance growing up to learn how to ride. It looks so fun and like it would be a good workout. Ride a horse again! I wouldn't dare to put one through that at the weight I am right now. I used to love horseback riding as a child, so I can't wait to do so again. Sorry this post is a bit long and jumps around a lot. I just have a ton going through my mind about all of this and wanted to share lol. Thanks again everyone!