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Christy’s Gone for Good Club June Challenge Score Card Points earned for Rule 1 For each day that you drink a minimum of 64oz of Water, you earn 1 point. You may earn a bonus of 5 points for a perfect week. 5-31__1__6-01__1_6-02__1__6-03_1__6-04__1_6-05__1__6-06_1__6-07__1__ Bonus_5_Week's Total__13__ 6-08_1_6-09_1_6-10_1_6-11_1_6-12_U]1[/u]_6-13_1_6-14_1_Bonus_5_Week's Total__13__ 6-15__1_6-16__1_6-17_1_6-18_1_6-19_1_6-20_1_6-21_1_Bonus_5_Week's Total__13[/b 6-22__1_6-23__1_6-24__1_6-25__1_6-26__1_6-27__1_6-28__1_ Bonus_5_Week's Total__13[/b Grand Total___52____ Points earned for Rule 2 For each day that you exercise for a minimum of 30 minutes, you earn 2 points. You may earn a bonus of 5 points for a perfect week. 5-31_2__6-01__2__6-02_2___6-03_2_6-04_2__6-05_2__6-06__2__6-07__2__ Bonus_5_Week's Total__21__ 6-08_2__6-09_2__6-10_2__6-11_2__6-12_2_6-13_2__6-14_2__ Bonus_5_Week's Total__21__ 6-15_2__6-16_2__6-17_2__6-18_2__6-19_2__6-20_2__6-21_2__Bonus_5_Week's Total__21__ 6-22_2__6-23_2__6-24_2__6-25_2__6-26__2__6-27__2__6-28__2__Bonus_5_Week's Total__21__ Grand Total___84____ Points earned for Rule 3 For each day that you do not eat foods that contain flour or sugar, you earn 3 points. (sugar substitutes are allowed) You may earn a bonus of 5 points for a perfect week. 5-31_0_6-01_0__6-02_3__6-03_0_6-04_3__6-05__3__6-06__3__6-07_3__ Bonus___Week's Total__15__ 6-08_0__6-09_0__6-10_3__6-11_3__6-12_0_6-13_3__ 6-14_3__ Bonus____Week's Total__12___ 6-15_0_6-16_0_6-17_3__6-18_3__6-19_3__6-20_3__6-21_3__Bonus____Week's Total__15__ 6-22_3__6-23_3__6-24_3__6-25_3__6-26__3__6-27__3__6-28__0__ Bonus____Week's Total__18__ Grand Total___60____ Points earned for Weight loss For each pound that you lose during the challenge, you earn 1 point Beginning weight 5-31: 384 Weigh-in weight 6-7: 374:clap2: Weigh-in weight 6-14:379 :angry Weigh-in weight 6-21:374:hippie: Weigh-in weight 6-28:374:hippie: Total lost during challenge:10 lbs:clap2: Total points earned for Rule 1:52 Total points earned for Rule 2:84 Total points earned for Rule 3:60 Total points earned for weight loss:10 Total Challenge points earned:206:clap2:

Thanks guys! Jack:heres a copy of a post i did on the gone for good group thread that kinda explains my story..enjoy: i was banded by Dr J rod. I was Originally banded in july of 2004 I had no issues no pain no nothing,,,,nothing,,,,i lost 55 lbs the first month and started getting humgry so i went for my first fill on my one month mark..when doing the flouro it apeared that the band was not in its position correctly. I went to my primary care doc and he ordered an upper GI. In watching it we all saw as the barium would run right past my band...my band WAS NOT on my stomach but floating around. I called dr rod and he had me come to Mexico for and endoscope.and once i awoke i was told he was going to fix it. I awoke bandless.=0( he came in and initally saId i Eroded..(in one month???) but after all my investigations over the past year ive found MANY things that could have happened. I weighed 378 when he did the first one and i believe that either it either it was not fastened well and came off or was fastened around fatty tissue mistaking it for my stomach. Either way the band was not on me ..I HAD NO PAIN..(which with erosion I should have especially if it happened in one month AND by the pics from the endo scope i had NO DAMAGE..it would have been a ghost going through without damaging hahaha) and it was removed on september of 2004. He told me then to wait 6 months and we would reband me. I was devastated that this happened..i looked into everything i could to explain it. I have come to the conclusion that this was a mistake not negligence by any means. All doctors have a precentage of error rate..well i was part of the very small precentage of his. And I'm ok with it. I know of lots and lots of people who have been banded by dr j rod and they are doing great! My mother for one..she was banded a year before me. She went with me this past trip to have her port checked out and he gladly did it for her. So i went on may 12th 2006 and got rebanded by DR JROD! this time he used the larger band. I weighed 397 the day of banding. I had No issues with the procedure. The hospitol and staff were curtious and clean as always. Dr rod was very sure that I was comfortable and all was right when i left. Ensuring me that the procedure went well. I have been baned one week and have lost 15 lbs! I loss very fast right up front..guess cause of my size cause everyones different. Million dollar Question: Would i do this again? Answer: IN A HEARTBEAT! AND WITH DR J ROD!! He is a great doctor and was very helpful with all this whole saga! I spoke with him on and off the whole year i was waiting to redo it. SO im starting my journy all over! I am NOT doing this for pure cosmetic reasons..i just want to live alittle longer and enjoy all in life that i want to do. Smaller people tend to take for granit the things they can do..they can walk into any resturant,theater,sporting event,job place,doctors office,airplane and sit anywhere they want..they can ride roller coasters...they can buy clothes anywhere..drive any car they want..sit in a average bathtub...walk through a turnstyle..these are just a small grouping of things I TOO want to be able to do..am i complaining...not really...im just stating the facts and all heavy people i know will agree with me. So i guess you could say...Im Adapting..i want to enjoy life to the fullest with my family and friends and not have to worry about all of the issues that come with my size when going somewhere or the issues of health..and getting smaller and looking even hotter that i already do..well thats just the extra advantage that comes with it all! hahaha

Thanks Pnut! Ive been on here awhile but was waiting to get rebanded before i joined up with yall but i need the encouragment yall have!! hehe heres a bit about me for those who dont know me: i was banded by Dr J rod. I was Originally banded in july of 2004 I had no issues no pain no nothing,,,,nothing,,,,i lost 55 lbs the first month and started getting humgry so i went for my first fill on my one month mark..when doing the flouro it apeared that the band was not in its position correctly. I went to my primary care doc and he ordered an upper GI. In watching it we all saw as the barium would run right past my band...my band WAS NOT on my stomach but floating around. I called dr rod and he had me come to Mexico for and endoscope.and once i awoke i was told he was going to fix it. I awoke bandless.=0( he came in and initally saId i Eroded..(in one month???) but after all my investigations over the past year ive found MANY things that could have happened. I weighed 378 when he did the first one and i believe that either it either it was not fastened well and came off or was fastened around fatty tissue mistaking it for my stomach. Either way the band was not on me ..I HAD NO PAIN..(which with erosion I should have especially if it happened in one month AND by the pics from the endo scope i had NO DAMAGE..it would have been a ghost going through without damaging hahaha) and it was removed on september of 2004. He told me then to wait 6 months and we would reband me. I was devastated that this happened..i looked into everything i could to explain it. I have come to the conclusion that this was a mistake not negligence by any means. All doctors have a precentage of error rate..well i was part of the very small precentage of his. And I'm ok with it. I know of lots and lots of people who have been banded by dr j rod and they are doing great! My mother for one..she was banded a year before me. She went with me this past trip to have her port checked out and he gladly did it for her. So i went on may 12th 2006 and got rebanded by DR JROD! this time he used the larger band. I weighed 397 the day of banding. I had No issues with the procedure. The hospitol and staff were curtious and clean as always. Dr rod was very sure that I was comfortable and all was right when i left. Ensuring me that the procedure went well. I have been baned one week and have lost 15 lbs! I loss very fast right up front..guess cause of my size cause everyones different. Million dollar Question: Would i do this again? Answer: IN A HEARTBEAT! AND WITH DR J ROD!! He is a great doctor and was very helpful with all this whole saga! I spoke with him on and off the whole year i was waiting to redo it. SO im starting my journy all over! I am NOT doing this for pure cosmetic reasons..i just want to live alittle longer and enjoy all in life that i want to do. Smaller people tend to take for granit the things they can do..they can walk into any resturant,theater,sporting event,job place,doctors office,airplane and sit anywhere they want..they can ride roller coasters...they can buy clothes anywhere..drive any car they want..sit in a average bathtub...walk through a turnstyle..these are just a small grouping of things I TOO want to be able to do..am i complaining...not really...im just stating the facts and all heavy people i know will agree with me. So i guess you could say...Im Adapting..i want to enjoy life to the fullest with my family and friends and not have to worry about all of the issues that come with my size when going somewhere or the issues of health..and getting smaller and looking even hotter that i already do..well thats just the extra advantage that comes with it all! hahaha:p Thanks for listening and lettign me join your group!:clap2: Love yall Christy

i wanna join the gone for good team...how do i?

WOWOWOW I soooo love this thread! lol:clap2: OK my run down: at banding i was 397 dont know what bmi was. I am 5'8 and now 2 weeks post op i am at 385 my goal is 180 but i have lots of little ones in between lol I cant even remember the 100's!!!! SO when i hit 199 ill prolly pass right out!:faint: haha im losing mine so i can "adapt" to society lol i am tired of having to miss out of things in life i want to do..tired of havign to worry about where i will sit when i go out..my health is ok FOR NOW but i have lots of illnesses in my family that i dont want my weight to help move them to me faster lol I am beautiful and always have been very self confident too much sometimes it drives my daughter nuts LOL but i need to be smaller to make sure i can full fill everything in life and stay healthy!:cake: Oh and BTW i have a digital scale that goes up to 440lbs! AND!!!! IT TALKS TO YOU! so i dont have to try and look over my belly and see weight! It will say "hello" when you touch it then "im ready" when its set for you to get on..then it will tell you your weight and when you step off it says "goodbye" lol my cats set it off alot! ANyway i got it off ebay for like 30 bucks! its called "MYWEIGH XL440" and it can read KG's for those who use that. Ive had it over 2 years and its awesome! it gives you like 387.6 in readings so you have exact weight not just the main number. Good luck everyone! Love christy:kiss2:

well the old saying is "everyone is entitled to their own opinions" so i guess that applies to this thread. Most of you know the experience i had with my doctor but he made everything right. It was a MISTAKE...And ALLLLL doctors can make them no matter what part of the Globe they are from... ALL DOCTORS! Witht his band as with ANY surgical procedures there is a risk factor....SOMEONE HAS TO BE THAT RISK....I was one and i know there are others amongst us. Its easy when your angry to point the finger...but does it solve anything? No..might make you feel better for a second but that too passes... Good luck with your weight loss and i hope the tool (the band) you recieved to do this aids you.

Ok all Im new to your site but need all the help i can get! I went for my first fill on friday and watched as the barium passed right by my band!! they filled me completly up and we redid the baruim...again it ran right passed it as if my band was opened. The doc says he thinks its eroded but ive only had it one month..doc who did the surgery says its not eroded but has no clue why it did that...we are talking of doing a Endo scope this week.... Has anyone ever heard of the band being OPEN? I have pics of my xray attatched to this. Please any input you guys have will be apreciated!! Thanks! christy;)

Ok all i have an update!!!!! Dr Rodz has agreed to reband me! I will get back with you all with the dates. Everyone around me is worried about it and to be honest so am I BUT i cannot afford to do it here in the USA and he wants to make it right so i feel i should give him that chance. All surgeons have some error % i just happen to be part of his. LOL So keep your fingers crossed and thanks for all your help! Christy

Ok heres my info: Date Banded:...... July 23,2004 Country:...... Mexico Doctor:...... Dr J. rodriguez Erodoed: thats what i was told, that i eroded in one month. Date Removed September 24,2004 Reband date: TO BE ANNOUNCED!!

First of all..WOW!!! I was shocked by all the responses!:wow2: Thanks very much for your support! OK let me see if i can answer some of this all.. Don't get me wrong when i first found out that it was not on my stomach i was scared at first at the thought of erosion but was puzzled since it had only been exactly a month when i went for the fill. and had no pain at all from day one! Seriously NOTHING! So i called the doc in Mexico and explained to him what was going on and he asked if i would come down for the scope and see what we could find. We did the scope and I was told he was going to go in and fix it. I was grogy and was wisked straight to surgery. I awoke with my mother at my feet with a sad look on her face and was told that it had to be removed. I was devasted!:faint: He came in and explained to me how the band had worked its way from the back to the front and was resting on the outside of my stomach. went THROUGH AND THROUGH with no pain?? I was furious that he had taken it out. If I had known he was considering doing that i would have came home and gotten another opinion but wasnt given that chance.I have seen the scope video and there isnt even much redness let alone damage from somthing closed around my stomach working its way through. unless i healed up that fast..lol so..he told me to wait 6 months and he would do it again. But id have to pay for it.:faint: So I came home and started looking and searching for any other cases of this happening and found NOTHING. I called inamed and sent them copies of everything. They agreed that it didnt erode but hadnt been put on aound my stomach. I saw a doctor here in us right after the removal so he could examine me and make sure all was ok and he too saw the films and agreed..no way to erode and heal up that fast with NO PAIN. So..i gained back the weight i lost PLUS. And am waiting for a miracle. Thanks everyone for your replies and I truly think this was an accident but what can i do...its out of our country so im stuck. I did everything i was suppossed to to the T. And lost weight but im sure thats from the liquid diet i was on and the fact that i soooo wanted this to work that i wasnt about to mess it up.:Cry: well Im back at the drawing board LOL Ill make sure and check back and see what you all say! thanks again!!!:hug: Christy

OH and as for the films,,,you can see the band to the side as the liquid flows right past it. when i did the upper GI it was alot clearer and you could see the band alot clearer and watch as the barium flowed right around it.:think thanks again

hey yall, Sorry it took so long for me to come back and reply there has been alot going on this past year... I went and had the scopes,the upper gis and all and they all showed it was not closed around my stomach that it was in frount of my stomach closed but not closed around anything and had been rubbing up towards my lower esophogus. I got with Dr J Rodriquez and i had to go back to Mexico and he scoped again and removed it trying to tell me that i eroded in ONE MONTH..i had no erosion i saw the tape of the scope the band you can see clearly sitting on the outside of my stomach closed and pressing against my outer lining in a perfect circle. he removed it. I have no band now and no clue how i will pay for the next one but i will have it done here in usa. I think he may have attached it to fatty tissue and thought it was around my stomach, i dont know but it was definatly not around it. and the makers of the band and 2 other lapband doctors viewed the tape and said the same thing that they saw no erosion and that it apreared to have been closed but not around my stomach. I have NOTHING agains Dr ROD he has done tons of procedures with no issues this aparently was a fluke but it just happened to be me it happened to =0( My mom had him do hers back in 2003 and she hasnt had any issues. I would SOOO do this again but have no funds to do it so im dieting the hard way and HOPE for a mirical lottery winning to get the band or insurance to finnally step up and realize they should pay! LOL good luck!!! Christy 397/389/185