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Welcome to the Banded Gentry KH!

Welcome Teresa! Yeah, the first few weeks were not much fun, but by the second week you will be enjoying a whole new world of soups! I didn't really have a difficult time with gas, so I'm not much help. Many folks have found great releav with a heating pad, not sure why, but I didn't have much troubles! Hope you have a speedy recovery! (you too DallasDoll!)

Welcome Celeste! I haven't planned anything special for myself during the process, but this is a great question! This would be a great topic under the Lounge area! You should start a thread there with this question! We have had a recent thread about what we want to do to reward ourselves for reaching goal, but I haven't seen anything about during. (I'm a full time student, and when I finish school, and before I go off to surve I want to take one of those extreem driving courses, like spys or stunt drivers do.) I love your idea about renting a bike in New Zealand! We have several members in OZ...

Hi Ashlyn, yeah, like Kathy said, liquid in, liquid out. This is perfectly normal and to be expected! Welcome to LBT

Hey Longhorn, welcome to LBT! We can eat anything we can tolarate in little bandster bite and bits. The general rule is to get your Protein in first, then your veg, then if you have room, your carbs. And of course, no drinking while eating. I don't know what the rules are for the different by-pass patients, since I never even considered that route. Hope that helps, and again, welcome!

Monday I walked for 50 minutes (okay, I stormed around for 50 minutes) Tuesday walked 40 minutes, rode horses for 2.5 hours. (try saddling a horse in a thunderstorm... I'll bet I burned a jillion calories just doing that) today will have walked 40 minutes

what a marvolous NSV!

I think it would depend on what the occasion was, and how special it was for your SO. If he just wants you to hang out with him, I would say, "thanks, but no thanks."

thought I would revisit this tread. I don't know who said it, but it goes something like "you cannot achieve what your mind cannot concieve." If we cannot reallistically picture ourselves at our goal, how can we acchieve it? This is true for those of us who don't really know what we look like, ever. I wonder if there is a software package that will cause people to "loose" weight? I mean there are software packages out there that will age people, these are used by law enforcement agencies that track lost or missing children. (I watch a lot of true crime tv ) So, it makes me wonder if there is any software that will reduce someone's picture? I can see this being a very big seller for bariatric doctors...

Jenna, BAD COP! No dognut! (sorry, couldn't resist!) Dang! why is everyone so hard on themselves? (Yeah, I know, I'm hard on myself too...) I've been hard on myself becaue I am *only* loosing one pound a week. I was banded 5 weeks agao, and just transitioned to solids. I want it now!!!! I want the pounds to just magically melt off! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! I finally had to write in huge letters accross my bathroom mirror "this is the time for healing!" just to remind myself. I don't get my first fill untill after I get home in late May.

bump-bump-bumping

I've been thinking about this thread. I wonder if it is a case of letting go of something we know and feel comfortable with? I know how hard it is to travel uncharted waters, and that is exactly what many of us are facing when we find ourselves out of women's sizes. (Although I still can't quite picture that fully ) It is really hard to move outside our comfort zone. I believe that is one reason my husband won't let himself get below 400... too scary I started a thread on a similar subject, about wanting to hoad my big clothes on the support forum. Let me find it and bump it.

That's the spirt Penni! Don't let socity define who or what you are! Don't forget, since you are becoming an athlete (in addtion to being an internationally renown spy and celebrity pharmasist {Dangeresque, Dangeresque!}), so the BMI will have no bearing on your weight. If I had done what I was told, I would be very unhappy and would have never been able to achieve all that I have. I would be miserable trying to be someone else. ( I know, I tried to be someone I wasn't for my ex-husband...)

Sue, you will do just fine! And good for you for planning ahead to keep yourself busy!

It is one of the things that, by consensus, all Bansters should have on hand. I don't have any, but I've got some tablets. (yeah, I know, wrong end ) But I'm one of those people with a "cast Iron stomach." Hey Mike, I'm sooo sorry you are feeling so punk, but it does get better. Take your loritab with something nice and warm, it really does help!

I don't know Penni, but I've noticed it too. My nutrishonist said my target weight was some insane number like 115. I don't think so.... My current goal is about 170, but I want to be a size 12... I worked with a personal trainer for a while and I finally got her to tell me her weight and size.. she was about 170 and wore a size 12.... On the last supervised weightloss thing I tried, there was a woman who weighed over 300 pounds. She said she could never be happy unless she weighed 105 pounds. I thought how sad! She'd obviously never had her body fat measured. There is no way she could be healthy at that weight... she was tall, about 5'8" too. How sad for her. I think it is all the BMI chart's fault. But like any scale, it lies!

ah ha ha ha ha, my band Doc said to drink chocolate milk when I took my meds while on the liquid phase. I got some yummy organic chocolate milk....

I guess I'm just used to working for companies that care what happens to their employees. After all, when they hire me, they are investing a lot of money to keep me happy and and to keep me from leaving. I am used to working with professionals. But the last time I was in school I was the lab manager for all of the computer labs. I had been frustrated by other lab aides who thought they wre all high and mighty becaue they worked in the computer lab. When I took over, I made sure that the lab aides knew that the only reason they were there was because of the students. I know I have to finish my degree. I know this. It has been a dream for a long time. Yeah Kathy, I know I should leave my mother out of this, but it is hard when I hear her tapes telling me I'll never succeed, that school is for loosers. Stupid wolves. Tina it is so funny you said that! It is the same thing my son and his friends said. Or pretty close to what they said... Terran said "Great, just great! Now I HAVE to go to college, I can't let Speeny's mom show me up!" My son also decided that if I could go back to school at my "advanced age," then he could too. Gotta laugh at boy-ohs... So today begins another round of this battle. I will use the full force of my charm to sweet talk the various clerks and secretaries into helping me get what I need. There is no such thing as a "little person" just little minds.

..."and there was much rejoicing!" I'm so glad this is getting resolved for you kathy!

Thank-you everyone! I know that I can come here an get support. I feel much better, but I have a headache hang-over. (not from drinking, but from the terriffic headache I gave myself from all the crying I did. Things still haven't resolved, but I'm getting closer. Stupid inefficient place. I would be so much happier if the university was run like they gave a damn about the students. Sorry, I'm still really stressed over this.

I lost one pound. One week, one pound. Three weeks, three pounds. I know that I'm right on target, but I sure was hoping to loose faster than one pound a week. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, quick being so hard on myself because I'm right on target! Slow and stead wins the race. But geeze, can't I be a little more glamourous than a tortus? I wanna be something sleek like a cheeta! Or a leapord! yeah, that's it!

Tomorrow will be five weeks since I’ve been banded. I haven’t really written much lately because I’ve been in a contemplative mood I suppose. Trying to figure out what is going on with me and my new symbiote. A couple of days ago, I moved to solid food and feel like I can eat anything, even a cheeseburger. I haven’t had a single PB or a sliming event, so yay! for me. I haven’t attempted a cheeseburger yet, but I’m not anticipating any problems. I’ve had ground beef, and have had no issues with it. Mike can’t do any form of ground beef, except taco meat texture. People have been talking a lot about mourning food, and Jessie suggested that was what I was doing. I’m honestly not mourning food. I did that when I was on the 20/20 program, and I’m not doing that now. I suppose that part of it is because I see everything that Mike eats, and I know that I’ll probably not have difficulty eating either. One of the benefits I gained from the 20/20 program is knowing what foods I’m sensitive too, and another benefit was getting off breads and carb-loading. I used to eat a lot of carbohydrates, but after the program, I understood how bread really messes with my fibromailgia. I know a lot of bandsters are not as fortunate as I am, in that they don’t have someone who is just a head of them in their journey. Mike has done a great job of breaking the way for me, but he does a great job of that at company functions! LBT is great because it provides such great support, but it just isn’t the same as having a local person as opposed to a virtual person. I suppose that is why support groups are so very vital—there are people in all stages of their journey. Because I don’t have access to a meatspace support group, Mike is so important. I’ve come to terms with my lower calories, but since I’m breaking 1K everyday, I feel much better than when I was only at 800 calories a day. After a month of 800 calories, I was starting to feel weak and a bit out of sorts. I’ve also given myself permission to have ice cream when I just can’t get my calories up past 800. Not a huge bowl mind you, but a sensible 4 ounces. It isn’t that I feel hungry on 800 calories, but I’m worried that I’ll shut down my metabolism. Mike and Jessie are convinced that I’m obsessed with counting calories. I suppose at some level I am, but not in the way they think I am. I am not trying to limit my intake, I’m trying to figure out how to increase it in a healthy way. I track my calories on the Cereal with peaches. This snack would help me get up to the target calories, it was yummy, gave me all the Fiber I needed, and as an extra bonus, my sweat smelled like peaches! I find I am having a heck of a time getting my fiber and my Calcium in, so this would probably be just what the doctor ordered. Here are my assorted and collected NSVs: This is a gi-normous NSV. I haven't used my inhaler in 25 whole days! My starting BMI was 47 and it is now 41.6! This is so exciting! I can run up a flight of stairs with my 20 pound book bag on my back and not even be winded when I reach the next floor . It doesn't hurt to stand at the sink when I do the dishes anymore. I believe it is because I can get closer to the sink because my tummy is smaller. My old "Chick shirts" fit One of the women in my math class wanted to know how much weight I’ve lost. “You’re looking good! How much have you lost?” My purple robe fits me! My jeans slide off my butt!

Denise, we are sure odd aren't we. I'm not mourning food, but I am morning the future loss of clothes. Funny that.

Water aerobics is a great start! And if my DH went at his full 600 pounds, you surely can too! Pilaties is also very good--no impact

Hi Erica! Welcome to LBT! My husband (DH) started with a BMI of over 80-- like 86. We were both banded at the Northwest Weightloss Surgery center in Kirkland by Dr. Watkins http://nwwls.com/ 425-899-4610. Dr. Watkins and Dr Montgomery are the absolute best. They are very experinced laprascopic surgeons, and have been doing the Band for a few years. (My DH was done almost 2 years ago.) To date, Mike has been the highest BMI they've done, but well, there just on't get much higher. Your BMI is an issueand the port might need to be placed on your sternum. This is the standard place for European DRs to place their ports. It sounds like the surgeon you spoke with is not very experienced. Please give them a call to talk to them.