Lynette617

Welcome coltonwade. You made it over to the new thread. We're excited to have you join us. We have a great group here, about 70 of us already, and growing everyday.

Well Hello my little Dini girl. Good question you've brought up today. I sometimes think I am embaressed by my weight. These times would be when I have to bend down in public to pick something up and fell like everyone is watching me, or in similar situations, I do feel embaressed. But on a whole, I know I'm an active person, and I'm not lazy. I know my co-workers know this, my family know this, etc. I'm not embaressed by my weight when I'm around them, but being in public is another thing. These people are the ones who judge me before getting to know me. They don't know what I've been through, or how i've tried to lose wieight. They don't see that I do take care of myself, I excercise, etc. So how are you feeling today Dini. Did you let Adam stay last night?? Hope all is well.

tengal and coltonwade, welcome. Please come join us at the thread titled Lucky #7 bandsters- July 07 bandsters. We've got a great group going there, as this thread combined with the other thread about a month and a half ago. Hope to see you there.

reconciler, thanks for sharing your story with us. It is amazing how we've all come from different backgrounds, different everything, but have so much in common still. Hearing anothers story always makes me feel more human, because for so long, I felt so alone. I would of never believed there were others going through the same uncontrollable eating issues as I was. It's nice to know I'm not alone, and I can find all the support I need to get through this right here, with all of you, that are having the same issues in life, and trying to overcome them. So I'm having my first real protein shake today.:whoo: I started with 2 oz of skim milk, 1/2 scoop of chocolate powder, 1/2 scoop of vanilla powder, and some ice. Blend and um,um, good. The chocolate powder is a little overwhelming, tried it in chocolate pudding yesterday, so I decided to use the vanilla to even out the taste. It is very good. Later I'm going to try a vanilla.:clap2: So the liquid diet isn't that bad, but remember, I had no pre op liquids, but I think the key is to keep it interesting. With my protein powder, I add in anywhere from 23 to 26 grams of protein to a meal. I'm allowed 3 meals and 3 snacks a day. So in reality, I'm only adding powder into 3 items a day. The other items I can eat without the powder.:clap2: Today I'm eating pudding with no powder.:biggrin1: Yesterdays chocolate pudding with chocolate protein powder was just a little too sweet, and runny.:phanvan But I did take a chunky vegetable soup and added in a scoop of unflavored powder and blended in magic bullet. It was yummy. I think I actually felt satisfied because the soup had potatoes, and corn, and peas in it. But I blended it to a liquid consistency, and ate it slowly. Tasted great. Hope everyone is having a great day.:mad:

gladster12 and grammarocoquette, welcome to the Lucky 7's. We're excited you've found us. Lots of support going on in here so beware!!! Cherrybomb, I sent a shout out to you last night before going to bed for best wishes on a speedy recovery after surgery. Hope you saw it. We couldn't forget you and LWesson for today.:mad: Felicia, just wait until he sees what you have to do after this surgey. liquids for so long, mushies for so long, excercise, weight training to name a few. None of this is easy. Give him a chance. He may be just recalling what others may have said to him about the surgery. It's a whole new game when he sees you at home, drinking your meals, and leaving him to go out and do you excercising. Don't ever expect an apology from him, becasue you probably won't ever get one, but expect him to change his tune a little bit at a time. Mommiranda, Happy anniversary to you.:clap2: My 5 year is coming up in October. We have a trip planned to visit my grandmother in Florida. Can't wait. dmtjet, I'm not on any time releasd pills. The only thing I've taken so far is the pain pills and pepcid. Sorry I can't be of more help to ya. ckbw, you finally have a ticker. Love it. wrangler, I remember those earlier childhood days.:cry I was always bigger too, but athletic, always stayed busy outside playing. Just wasn't enough. My spouse smokes too. Wish I could get him to quit. Hope to hear from our other July 3 banders today. I know Laurend had to travel to get to where she was going for surgery, so maybe she'll be back home today. I haven't seen Abbey12477 post in a while. Hope she's still around.

peaches9, I feel amazingly well. I've been home since Monday about 6pm. Dr. said I was doing well enough to go home. He gave me a perscription for hydrocodine for pain. I've not had to take that many, and I haven't used any liquid tylenol yet. I've been able to swallow the pain pills once I break them in half. I've been out walking up and down the street to ease the gas pains, 3 times yesterday for about 20 minutes and twice today. It helps a lot. I just got my 3 year old back from my MIL, so I'm going to go get him ready for bed, and head there myself. G'nite all.

Cherrybomb and LWesson, best of luck to both of you as you enter into bandland tomorrow. Let us know how you're doing as soon as you feel up to it. You have my prayers for a quick recovery.

Dini, we have biofreeze over here too. I used it frequently while training for my marathon. Just a thought, but if it's lower backpain, and you haven't had a bowel movement yet, it could be the culprit.

Dini, is it in the upper or lower back? If it's in the upper back, it can still be gas trapped from surgery, or stress. It it's lower, maybe you bent down the wrong way and didn't realize it. Have you tried some Tylenol, or maybe put the heating pad on it for a while. Sorry Adam is being such an ass to you. You don't deserve that, and I'd make him apologize for it.

Oh Dini, I have tears in my eyes just thinking about your daughter kicking you. Are you OK. I can't even imagin the pain you must have been in. You poor thing. We know she didn't mean it, but it doesn't make it feel any better. I'm sure he could of stuck around for a bit to see if you were ok, especially since you said you had a hard time breathing. She very easily could have knocked the wind out of you. I just think my DH was trying to be nice, I'm just thinking how could I have lost any in my legs. I always lose in the chest area first. I had shorts on, and all he could see were my calves, which are pretty muscular. He's just trying to be funny, and make me laugh.

Kathybad, I am self pay also. About $16,300 after all is said and done, but I think it is so worth it. I'm worth it. It's an investment in myself. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I'll probably be paying on mine much longer, took out a second mortgage, but at least I'll be around to pay for it!! And the way I'm going to look and feel will be priceless, and I'm ok with that too!!:clap2:

Indiogirl, I'm glad to hear you CPAP machine is working well for you. I don't know a lot about it, but wondered if this is something you will need after surgery also? I didn't have a sleep study, so I'm not sure how it works. I'm a pretty confident plus size woman from the outside:), but boy I feel way different on the inside:cry. I think I try to be the jokester of the group when I'm out, trying to divert others attention away from my weight. I can see myself becoming a very confident smaller size woman also, outside and in, but please don't let anyone tell you that you took the easy way out. This is not easy. It's a tool. It won't do it for us, we have to work with it for success. And DAMN right, we will be hot mamas and papas someday, and I think we all can be a little proud and cocky about it once in a while. It will be healthy for us!!! Sorry if I offended anyone, but we're going to work our butts off to be healthy, and if we feel we want to be a little cocky about how we look and feel, then more power to us. Wow, did I just type all that. See, I'm getting a little cocky already. Must be the meds I just took,:paranoid or the comment my DH made about my legs- refer to my last post to Dini.

Bobbets Mom, you're home. I'm glad you're doing so well. I haven't felt hungry either, I'm having a hard time decifering between gas pains and hunger pains, so i just figure it's gas. I'm having a hard time with the burping. I can walk up and down my street 5 times and only burp once. It's getting frusterating, but at least I have no gas pain in my shoulders.I remember that from my gall bladder surgery. Glad to see you're doing well. Check back in with us later. Welcome to Bandland. Dini, Happy 4th to you also. You'll love this one getting back to the conversation on support of our partners from yesterday. So my DH and I are standing in the kitchen about 5 minutes ago, and he steps back and starts looking at me. I say to him, what's wrong. He says nothing. I asked what he was looking at? He says, "you're legs are getting smaller already!!!" See, they just don't understand. They try, and my DH has always had that sense of humor, but sometimes, it's just not funny. So now, would I even think to ask him how he thinks I look say 1 month post op? No. He thinks he's funny, but he just isn't all the time. Oh well, I let it go, and he's gone now, so I'm going to enjoy my evening alone. It's raining here in Kentucky, with thunderstorms and tornado warnings. My DH just left to go watch fireworks with friends. He's going to have a wet night. He wanted me to go. I guess maybe he thought he could talk me into it. Not. Especially after the leg comment!!

Sunny, I've been with my company for almost 13 years now. I have 15 weeks of medical leave I can take a year, but I have to take a week of vacation before I'll get paid 67% of my pay. So this week is my vacation week, only taking 4 days due to the holiday pay I'll get for today, and then I'll take 3 weeks of medical leave. I want to get through the liquids and mushy stages before returning to work. So I figured I have the time, I may as well use it. I'd like to stay home 6 weeks, just to have some extra time with my son, but I'll probably be ready to go back after 4 weeks off. I figured I'd need the time to mentally prepare myself for the rest of my life with this. So I am going to use the time wisely.

Good Morning to all my Lucky 7 Band Buddies. Happy 4th to all. Welcome to ReneeMarie and AppleBlossom. As you can see, we have a great support group and we're excited you've joined us for your your lap band journey. MrsHorne, glad you're doing well. I too did the vomitting after surgery. I remember a nurse saying my name, and I moved my head a little bit and there it was, the nausea, and then it came up. I really wasn't even awake at that point, and I told them before surgery that it would happen, but then I felt so much better afterward and started answering all the questions they asked me. I wouldn't worry about slippage at this point. I think you have to do this many times before it will occur. Congrats on your success, and keep us posted on how your doing. Wrangler, I don't know anything about the sugar thing. Wish I could help, but I've never had low bloodsugar. I'd keep your Dr informed on how you're feeling though. Just because he says you shouldn't be feeling that way doesn't mean you don't. Don't ignore your body. Talk to the Dr. Caolin and Sunny, I feel honored to be your Lapband Idol. Just wait until next year, I'll be petitioning to get my picture up there on the top of this page!!! HA-HA. JenniferNaz, I'm glad my experience is encouraging to all and I hope everyone will have the same experience with their own recovery. So I slept real good last night.:notagree Up only once to potty about 3am, and went right back to bed. Getting up I was a little sore, but once I get moving I feel great. I stood and washed dishes this morning for about 15 minutes, and I'm getting really good at picking things up with my toes so I don't have to bend down!! My sons coming home today from my moms and then is going with my MIL for the afternoon, so I'll get to see him for a few minutes. I miss him so:cry, but I know I needed the time alone to get through these last 2 days.

JenniferNaz, sounds like you have it all worked out, you just needed to get it all out of your system, and that's where this support group comes in. We all have things to get off our chest, and no one here is going to judge you for anything you say. I'm happy you've got the date moved up. I'm sorry to hear about your grandfather. Hope everything will be ok with him. Welcome peaches9 to the Lucky 7's. Felicia and Marcy, this is what happens when you get banded and are off work. I'm at home by myself, my son is at my moms, and I get on here to see how everyone is doing. Just think, once a few more get banded there will be way more than 3 pages a day to keep up with!! I'm bored at home, and I can't eat anymore. So this thread is my new addiction!!!! Have a good night all. Turning in for the night.:notagree

G'night Dini. We'll hear from you tomorrow. Remember, I'm at home for 4 weeks, with not a whole lot to do but keep up with all my band buddies. Sure hope to hear from Breefy Irish soon. His surgery was yesterday. And hope to hear from our Banders from today still. Hope they're doing great!! It's dinner time for me. Will check back in few.

Chimboree, you are GORGEOUS!!!!!!! What a hottie. Sunny, I too am sorry for your losses. It's a hard thing to go thru, but you seem to be doing the right thing for yourself and your kids. My heart goes out to you. Dini, I saw your picture too, and you are an amazing young woman. Can't believe there's any cousin prettier. Give me a few days and I'll post some pics of me. Don't really feel up to it now, but I will soon. I get one of my little man and I.

Chimboree, very good question. My being fat stems back to when I was young. I was addicted to carbs at a very young age. In my senior year I joined Diet Workshop and lost 30 lbs, so that put me at 150 lbs. That's the smallest I ever remember being. I was 17 then, and I had kept it off until in May of '91 when my father passed away unexpectedly. My life has never been the same. We were so close, and I still miss him so. I began to eat when I felt I had no one to talk to, food was there. When no one was there to support me, food was there. I've never had a close relationship with my mother, still to this day we're not as close as I'd like for us to be, but in the last year she's learned to respect my decisions, even if they are not decisions she would of made for herself. I married the first time around in Feb. 1994. In October 1994 he was in a motorcycle accident. Very lucky to have lived throught it, but was never the same person. He started cheating, and we seperated. Got back together, and my nerves were always so bad, that I started eating again. We divorced in 2000. I haven't really gained that much since then, figuring I was around 200 when I met my current DH. I gained 25 lbs when I stopped smoking 2 years ago. When I gave birth to Hunter, I weighed 226, 2 lbs less than the day I found out I was pregnant. So I've been a very emotional eater. I've ate for every reason under the sun. I've never known what it was like to eat for nourishment. And that's my story of why I believe I'm fat.

Danny, I think it's great what you're doing, and at 33. I know in the classes I had to attend all the men were older, in there 50's, even 60's looking to me. Then on the other end, the women who were half younger, and half older. I know I'm glad I did this at 35. I don't want to waste anymore of my life away. I'm a mother of a 3 year old, and he is my insperation to be the best I can be. Having had him later in life, it puts being healthy and being there for him in a whole new perspective. In the last 3 years after he was born I tried everything to take of the weight. Nothing worked. I have hereditary cardiovascular disease in the family that took my father at the age of 43, and took my fathers father at the age of 40. I couldn't stand to think I could be gone in 5 years, and never get to see my son graduate, from elementary school!! So I know what you mean about wanting to be a healthy father for your kids and wife. There is no better insperation for us. Best of luck to you on Monday.

Dini, I'm sorry you're not feeling support from Adam.:cry I know this will be my DH in a few days, but I do think they care, maybe they just don't understand the support we want.:straight They should have a support thread for spouses, partners, etc. and I think there is one, but would they go?? They probably won't be able to get us off the computer so they can get on. HA-HA.:biggrin1: Don't be afraid to tell him what kind of support you need, or that you want. Remind him you are doing this for yourself, as well as your family. Best of Luck to you. Hope things get better.

Dini girl, you are too funny. I'm getting mine done later in the week. Maybe I'll have IRISH DINI written acrossed 9 of my nails, and put the 4 leaf clover with the 7 in it on the last nail!! How's that sound? Or maybe I'll choose ten Lucky 7's and have their name painted on each nail. Then if I do my toes, I can choose 10 more!! Just kidding!! Well, I'm heading to the shower. I think it's time. Then I'm going to get out of the house and walk around the block a few time. I'll check back in later.

Nighty, night, chimboree. Sleepy good!!

dmtjet, thanks for the kind words.

Dini, make my poms PURPLE and you've got a deal!! Oh yeah, I'm not even looking forward to the first poo. I finally passed a small amount of gas today since I've been burping a lot, and it wasn't nice. I didn't get stitches. I was glued, and then they put this dressing over top of it that will eventually fall off. And I just counted and I have 5 incisions. Different Dr.s do things diferently. I got a 4cc band, and I know there are other sizes out there too. No fill yet, have to wait a month. I just made my 2 week post op appointment for July 17. Sunny, so sorry to hear your "Aunt Flo" died, but you're probably ok with that aren't you!!! dmtjet, I know I'm not allowed in the pool or a bath for 2 weeks, but ask your Dr. I didn't think I could take a shower for 3 days, but that's where I'm headed right now because they said I could shower today.