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Hello would anybody like to be my sharing buddy you can email me at Saldanasfam@gmail.com I'm a 28 year old female from New Jersey and looking forward to hearing from somebody!!

If anyone has any protien their not using please contact me text or email 7329480145 or Saldanasfam@gmail.com thanks!!

Yeah I'm just talking about any powder or protein shakes the stuffs expensive and I know some people who don't care for it once they've tried it and now are stuck with protein they aren't gunna use so id pay for shipping and whatever... Hopefully that's a little bit clearer on what I ment lol lol

Hi I didn't get any email or anything to get set up to exchange with anyone one :(

You've come a looong way keep up the great work I've lost like 75 since last sept almost a year and I'm 186 my goal is 160-50 but I'm Also in therapy and you make me wanna Print ur pic as encouragement you look stunning! Best wishes!

If anyone will consider mailing me what your not using please text me at 7329480145 thanks!!

Hi everyone!! I have been lacking my protein a lot and I wondered if anyone had any extra powder or shakes that they weren't drinking .that I could gladly take of your hands I will pay for shipping of corse and whatever you want for the product please email Me at saldanasfam@gmail.com letting me know what you have shipping info... Thanks a ton!

I'm fine with open

that's ok I'm fine with that

Saldanasfam@gmail.com thanks!

With the hiatal hernia repair, it was much more painful n sore for me cause I know other people who just got the band done and were in obviously much less pain then I was I think I was feeling much better around day 10 I was very discouraged and miserable thinking why did I ever do this bla bla bla but that was just my brain telling me jesus why would you ever do this to your body?! I went back to the doc and he sad you to remember you just had MAJOR surgery and almost all of your organs were poked around and moved and as with any healing process it will take time and by this time next yr you'll be coming back in here saying " YOU WERE RIGHT DOC " but I'm telling you once I healed nicely and a few months passed by and people kept seeing me and I wanna say just from pre liquid diet for the week before surgery and the 2 weeks after surgery I dropped 25 lbs like that!!!!!!! I got lap band in September 16 2013 and I am 80 lbs lighter!! If for any reason they told me my band failed ( I'm just saying, figuratively speaking not saying it would or will ) I would re do the surgery in a heartbeat over and over!! If you LISTEN to your doc and do everything your suppose to everything works out exactly the way it should and again with the hiatal hernia it will be more painful and sore then just having the lap band surgery it's self and remember a hiatal hernia is your stomach starting to come up through your esophagus because the stomach is so big it's pushing right up against your esophagus and has no where to go but up so they pull it back down where it's suppose to be and put a few stitches in to make sure it Dosent go back up. Which now I can recall not being able to drink a wine cooler or a carbonated beverage like a mikes hard lemonade and always having that feeling that terrible pain ie: acid reflux, indigestion. Ever burp and taste that pukey taste? That's partly from the hernia. Now though, having the hernia fixed no more pukey burps no More pain in chest area of acid reflux or indigestion I can drink a mikes lemonade no problem now ( which I am NOT a big drinker) but it's nice to be able to go to a party and have a drink like any other normal adult and not hve the feeling I wanna go unbutton my jeans and curl up into my bed with my arms across my stomach right underneath my boobs and wine like a little baby case it burns lol!! This lap band system is the best thing I could have ever ever done! It's well worth the little bit of pain ull have after surgery ! Cause you'll be looking and feeling so good about yourself so soon its gunna be like a new you!!! Like I said I'd do it 100 times over again!! hey if u wanna email or text or pen pal let me know!! Ur gunna do great!! Xoxo

I was on a bunch of pain linkers cause I also had a hiatal hernia taken care of too when I had my Band put in so I couldn't push when I had to go to the bathroom (so I didn't) and there for I got really constipated to the point that suppositories weren't even working so I had this little bottle with like a sports cap on the end of it and filled it with hot water to use when I was on the toilet to help with discomfort it suuucked! But def incorporate some Metamucil into ur clear liquids, and also I was in discomfort for about a week and a half in the belly area I used a heating pad and ice packs alternating and my hubby made me laugh and it hurt to laugh so much lol I used a wrap around back brace to like "hold me in" ad he helped tremendously!!!! Even for small stuff like bending over HUUGGGEE life savor for me!! And either silky pjs or sheets on the bed or both even, helped me turn from one side to another! But the back brace was great cause your guts are litterally all touched and moved around and everything has to have time heal and get back into place and stuff when I wore it for a while the took it off it literally felt like EVERYTHIG was all over the place it was nice to put it back on not too too tight though just enough to where it feels comfortable! Good luck honey girl you'll do great!!

I'm 4 days out of surguery and I been drinking water like a dog and the doc and nutritionist is saying that he wants me on liquid diet for the first week then the following purred foods and then the following week I can begin solids!! But I'm Effin starving I can't take it when I cook for my family I put things in my Mouth and chew it up and sadly spit it out in the trash!!!!' This is freaking redicilious and I know there's no fluid yet in my ban until 6. Weeks post op, but damn the surgeon still says my stomach is now the size of an egg with out being filled yet!!! Then why am I so freakin hungry!' As much pain as I'm in still I still feel starving!'anyone????

Thanks for all ur replies everyone I appreiachate it I'm trying I guess it's getting better I'm down 6 lbs since surguery and that's what I needed to see the doc said weight loss will slow up a little until u get my first fill in 5 weeks! The protine shakes are nasty as hell for me too and so I just been drinking water and taking my vitamins I feel like damn if I kept this up I wouldn't have even needed surguery! But I probably would have just gained it back lol and I know u can't just live on water either but since the pre op diet and about one week outta surguery I've lost like 24lbs!

First of all by back feels like its blown out second they keep telling me to walk so I can move the gas around and burp but that's not working I keep feeling like I have so much tightness in my chest I'm beginning to regret this any advice? Pain killers are not working cause I am a past methadone user... I'm only like 3 weeks off

I am just really regretting this and I have 0 support system

Also they removed a hiatal hernia in my stomach

On my way! To the hospital for surgery! Going under by noon!! Yaaaay.... More excited then nervous! ::::)))))

Oh my god I am hurting like MF' er I can't take it !!b

Someone please help me I am scheduled to have surgery September 16 tomorrow I go for my last nutrition class and then everything will get submitted to the insurance company for approval except all of a sudden now I think I'm having some second thoughtsor cold feet I have been waiting for the surgery for the past five months now my husband is telling me I don't even want you to get the surgery I keep hearing all these complications that I'm really trying not to pay attention to so many people are telling me that I am taking the lazy way out I am 26 years old I have two beautiful children and I weigh 258 pounds at 5 foot three although I do carry my weight very well the worst part of me I feel is my stomach I wish I could post some pictures of me where people could see and actually tell me the truth about myself I really don't know what to do everybody keep saying you don't have that much weight to lose you can do it yourself and everyone also says that I am being lazy and taking the easy way out my husband says do you realize anything can happen you could die from the surgery I said it's major surgery anything can happen but I don't want to live this way and I know that it's him being truly concernd out why now why now I'm so closeI'm starting to think am I really being lazy can I take off 80 pounds by myself I'm seriously having inner turmoil over that and I just need some real answers or suggestions or comments I don't need anything negative I just want to hear from outsiders point of view thank you so much

I'm schedued for sept 16th!! They just submitted my stuff to the ins co, and they said they shouldn't and or be any problems I can't Effin wait!!! The weight is OVER baby!

Thank you everyone for all the feedback to my other postvbut there is one other thing I'm wondering, when you started losing weight, did you actually feel it?? (Of corse you felt it, lol) I mean feel like you were walking around Better feeling like it was easier to get up off the couch and walk, walk longer distances and bend down easier climb stairs ect..ect...? could you do more activity how much more did your energy levels increase and also when did other people start noticing your weight loss or did you wait a certain amount of time and then do like a grand unveiling??

Thanks pretty thick you said it well I do need to put everybody else's opinions out of my mind and just do what I feel high blood pressure diabetes emphysema COPD that all runs in my family and the older generations I don't want to be prone to that because of being overweight I want to be healthy for me and my children and my husband I want to be around without any problems and I mean anything can happen at any time but if I can try to avoid it I am going to and as far as soul-searching goes I have been looking into this for the past two years Myette got the lap band six years ago she's not doing so well with it now she gained some weight back but that's her own fault because she didn't listen to the doctor I have been doing my homework and tons of research on this so it's not like I'm just go rushing into something because I think it's a quick answer to weight-loss surgery it's just people that are around me and I love the most think that I can do it without weight-loss surgery and I'm not one to mope around and say I can do it I can't do it I can do it but I really feel like this is something that I cannot do on my own I mean 30 pounds to take off by yourself I don't know let alone the hundred I want to take off and keep off to do that by myself I just don't think it's something that I could do and keep that off by myself

By negative I mean that for the people who have been unsuccessful with lap band surgery and give me every reason why I shouldn't get it because they have had a bad experience

I already know what I want and I really want to have surgery. I do feel that IM a big girl although when I look in the mirror I'm not really disgusted with myself because like I said I carry my weight ok but also at this point i cant even imagine myself thin cause ive been this way for so long I'm very well proportioned but right now I'm wearing a size 18 I want to be able to walk in the store and pick up a size 9 and put it on them feel good and I just don't think that I can do that on my own no matter how many times I got up and went to gym the matter how I do and research and calorie counting and then you have my "" female friends who say you don't really need to lose weight just start eating healthier and work outand really that all sounds well and good but I'm not seeing results and I'm not seeing them fast enough and even if I did okay I fluctuate my weight 15 pounds take off 15 pounds 15 pounds back on get my"." And I feel bloated I feel disgusting I just can't take it anymore I guess I'm just thinking that I want my husband to be okay with it and he keeps telling me that I haven't tried hard enough for him to be okay with it and he says God for bid you develop any problems further down the line what will happen and tell him that's what the doctors are here for and I'm going to follow all the doctors rules and guidelines and kiss it up to God and hope for the best I don't know I mean I've always been 200 and now I am 258 actually seven years ago when my husband and I met I was like 185 and now my ideal weight would be 160-150 and we're still young I want to have fun with my kids I want to be up to runaround I want all that