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Ah jaysus, I only gave a way a bag load of stuff a few weeks ago. I would probably dress like you, im 28 and ususally shop in Dunnes or New look or wherever I can find stuff that will fit me. Im into 16s now, although I havent bought anything in ages. I have no winter clothes. Im going to start a thread for size 16s. If I find anything thats a 18 I will pm you with a pic and description. Good luck

Pm sent to lil.

Hi everybody, howis you all doing? I havent gotthe time to read all the replies since I was last on "hi from Ireland" thread. WEdding stuff!!!!! So four weeks and two days I will be a married woman. Scary. I went for my first fitting on thursday and my dress had to be taken in loads. It was a great feeling. Thye knew I had lost weight when i walked into the shop. Wooo hooo. I was reading one or two of the last pist on HFI thread and i am also pissed off aobut not being told about the fills in Dublin. I have rang twice in the last two weeks looking for a consultation/fill and my only otion was to go to Belfast, the girl said I was on the list for when they got a surgeon in Dublin. ANywho............... Whens the next meeting? Im up for one anytime anyplace.

hey guys, would anybody be up for a meeting soon in or around Dublin. Loads of stuff to give out about but cant do so on this website. ACS arrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhh. Did you guys know Debbie has a lovely new practice on Pearse street. I havent been reading the thread in a while, just thought id let yous know. PM if anybody would like to meet say next week anytime of theday would suit me. ttfn

Hey guys. Havent posted in ages, been very busy and all. I would defo be up for a meet soon. PM me to let me know date/location. I am coming up to my 1 yeat bandiversary. 27th July and to date I have lost 3st 7 lbs. I havent lost any weight in the past two or three months probably because I am a champion at cheating!!!!!! I just had a slice of fresh white with butter and jam. I know im eating all the wrong things, but oncethe scales is not going up. I need to start exercising too, im getting so lazy. I have been on to ACS/Hospital group and got the usual blah, doctors getting registered and all that shite. I need a slight fill, id say half would do me. They told me my one year aftercare would be extended by how much, they didnt tell me.

Hi All, Im back. Havent posted ina long time but have been lurking. I rang ACS, or whoever they are now, yesterday, to confirm my app for Thursdaya nd yes they told me all appointments have been cancelled and that they will contacnt me in June for a new appointment. If am sick of this now. I havent seen anyone in ACS since I got a fill in January. Now thank God I have had no problems but I want to get a small fill and a review and I want to ask thema few questions too. About our aftercare. WEdding was great, we had a ball. If we meet up soon I will bring the photos along and maybe Allure you can bring yours too. I wouldnt have made it last Saturday. Let me know when the next meet up is. Talk later

Well I am very flippin pissed off . They havent contacted me and im on the list. Its a bit late now for me to get a fill this close to the wedding. I hope them at ACS are reading this coz I cant be arsed ringing them again. They can ring me. Im going to book one for after the wedding. Thats if they have any appointments. Their customer service leaves alot to be desired. :cursing::confused::cursing:

Hey all HAvent been on in ages. Havent had a minute. SO will someone PM me if there is anything going on with ACS, I rang there just after i got m letter looking gfor a fill.. They told me to ring back ina week or two when they got a new surgeon. Thank god, the lbs are starting to come off again. My toe is getting a little better but not much, havent been back to gym yet. Im going next week for sure :smile: . Any sign of Allure?? Might be up for a meeting Thursday afternoon. I will be in town for my first fitting for my wedding dress . Pm me the details if its going ahead

Hey guys, im still here. I dont have the time to post all the time but i have been keeping up to date on the thread. WTF is going on. ACS has been sold.........:confused2: What next. I didnt get any letter off them, in saying that my post is shite here. Well I have to share my latest news with you all. I have been doing great, had a great hen weekend, came back in one piece and didnt get too drunk. Then just last monday I broke my toe from stubbing off my bed. IT was basically snapped in half. Went to the VHI clinic, paid them €180 only to be sent to Tallaght Hospital. When I got there I was seen straight away and they strapped it to the next toe and sent me home. They could have done that in VHI. Oh and I had to pay Tallaght €66 too. Anyway im eating rings around myself at the mo. I cant stop. Anything that will slide down im having it. I even had a bowl of coco pops the other day. WTF. And I cant do any exercise as I can hardly walk. Its just not fair. Im getting married in 7 weeks and 4 days and i hope i dont put on any weight. I have been watching the scales this past week and it has moved up a 1lb. I dont know what to do, im so bored. I went to a wedding on Friday and my heart was broke i couldnt even get up to dance, i love dancing i does. What am i going to do??????

Hey Coco, Give Allure my love for WEdnesday, and tell her I said well done. After her lst post i though she had given up altogether

:thumbup: Way to go kermie, keep up the good work twin. Siepie, if you in or around Dublin wo do meet up, keep checking the thread or else we will personal message you and let yu know. See the top right of the screen where it says messages, click in there and check. Coco, I have found that I can hardly drink alcohol at all. I used to be able for say two bottles of wine on a good night, now its barely the one. This has happened only when I reached my sweet spot. Anywho too many calories so Im trying to lay off it until next week, when I have my hen weekend. It will be my biggest test yet. Im a bit nervous about eating. Somebody actually asked me the other day was me and my SIl, you know who she is, where we on some secret diet that we told nobody about:eek: . I just brushed it off. Jesus I just read back what I wrote I sound like a right dipso, i promise you im not (now). Elsie, woo hoo. Im so happy for you. Good luck with the op and we will meet up soon and have a good natter. Allure, where are you??? HOw are you getting on???? When is the wedding. Twinkletoes, where are you too??????

just a quick one, jusr checked my BMI and I have gone from 34(obese) to 29(overweight) GO me

Hey all, well done to everyone on the wieght loss. Im not doing too bad myself at the mo. I weigh myself every day and I can still see the needle dropping. I got banded at 15st 8lb and im now down to 13st 3lb. Wow. Its a brilliant feeling so it is. Hey Kermit, band twin, good to hear you are back on track:thumbup: Coco, I agree totally with you. I have had no major problems with my band but I cant help feeling a little anxious as to what the hell is happening with our aftercare. I hope I dont have to go back for a while as I think im at my sweetpot. But I do want to go for a slight defill just before I get married and I hope I can get a prompt appointment. Why dont we, as a group write a letter to ACS outlining our concerns and see what they come back with. Its worth a try and we have nothing to lose. I will draft up a letter and maybe we could have a meeting ourselves in a week or two to discuss our wonderful weight loss and our concerns, and maybe Helena herself might like to join us!!!!!! Talk later

Yo Dini, hope you are feeling better today. I feel exactly like that too. I dont think my bands slipped though i think it may be too tight. I just had a fill last week and its probably just settling in. Last night for example I had a quarter of a crab cake for dinner and i was pbing. Oh and about two slices of carrot. Im hesitating about having my pinhead oatmeal know as Im off to the gym (see Coco I joined) and I dont want to be pbing into my towel. Yes yes coco you gave me the last push I needed to get my Breakfast roll over to the gym and join. And I thank you for that. The day I joined I done a spin class. Woweeee. My butt cheeks are still sore from it. I done one the following day to but I could hardly sit down:lol: . I had my assessment on Monday and I told the guy I was planning on doing the spinning and he advised me that the spinning isnt the best option for me at the mo. He said in a spin class you reach whats called the fat burning stage for only about 10 mins whereas the programme he gave me will have me in that stage for most of it. I hope he is right but I am still going to done 1 class a week. Better bo off to my gym now and lose some more lbs. Oh yeah btw im down 14kgs as of 10 secs ago. Woo hoo

Hi Guys, I would be up for the northside meeting but I want be available that day but if you lot are meein gup again count me in. I love the inspiration you get when you meet other bandsters. Allure, Elsie, and Coco. Lovely meeting yous and I relly enjoyed our chat. I look forward to the next meet up. Anywho I got another fill yesterday off Jan of 1 so that brings me up to 5.5 . After my last fill i had restriction for about wo weeks and then it went, not totally but enough for me to pig out. I didnt put on weight but I feel if I had have gone on any longer I would have. So fingers crossed that I hit my sweet spot very soon. Im getting married in May and I so want to have to get my dress taken in by loads, I would be so chuffed as that would be a first for me. Well I am down 13kgs since July 27th. :frown:I think that it is not enough. It works out about 1lb a week. The scales are going the right way but not quick enough. I would like to get another 10-15 lbs before the end of February, my hen weekend. I need to get off my fat lazy Breakfast roll and get out and walk or swim of something. Whats making it worse is that im out of work for a while and the food press is my best friend. After my fill now I hope I will find a new best friend, like the receptionst at the gym where im saying im joining the last few weeks. . Anywho got to go. TTFN

HI all, myself and Terry are up for tomorrow too. What time?

hey all again! I went to ACS on Friday and I got a fill of 1ml. Boy can i feel it. I have 4.5 in my band now and I hope its my sweet spot. I have great restriction. I just had one ryvita witha dip of hoummous and i can feel it sitting in my pouch. Is that too much restriction? Im feeling hungry and im not sure if its head hunger. I hope it is coz if im full one one ryvita I will be defo getting my wedding dress taken in by about 3 sizes. Dini, thanks you very much. I have to say i like it myself so does my finacee. You lookin good too, i had a sneaky peek at your bebo, wow weeee. Terry is here now says hi. Kermie, your doing great, keep up the good work. Hi all to new bandsters and lurkers, we know you are there. Im still on for meet up, anybodyafter Christmas.

hi all. Have been reading post but havent posted in a while. I had an incident of apeice of ham getting stuck in my band and for htree hours after i puked so Terry brought me out and Jan seen me and gave me a defill of 1.5 so Im going backwards at the mo. Im a bit down over it. But Ive had 1 ml last month and im getting another ml (fingers crossed)on Friday so hopefully I will have good restriction. Not feeling much at the mo. Im down about 23lbs so far which isnt bad but I recently ordered my Wedding Dress and I want them to have to take it in loads!!!! So it looks like if we were having a meet up it wont be until after Christmas. I would defo be on for one. Anybody else TTFN

Congrats to all you losers!!! Hey Kermit, im ok, the lbs are coming off gradually, my scales are all over the place, i dont know which one to trust. The one at home says ive lost about 14lbs. the one in work says ive lost 7lbs since 14th September, god knows what ACS's say. But i can feel it in my clothes so thats all that matters really. DOtn talk to me about the wedding, I have a bit done but i havent got a dress, im trying to put that on the long finger until i get a few more lbs off, plus i havent had the time to go looking! Im promising myself im going to go out on Thursday and Friday and have a look in a few shops. I went to one a few months ago just before the op and i felt like a big fat frumpy oul one. It looked lovely from the front but when you turn around and look at where theyve pinned you in and all the sausages falling out the back of the dress made me wanna puke. Hopefully i will feel a bit better this time around. So how are you? How are you getting on? How may fills have you had, sorry if youve said already, i cant keep up with this thread only get on this pc once or twice a week. Gotta go, talk soon,,,

Hey guys, did anybody read the Irish Mail today. If you didnt get a copy now.

Jebus, half a grapefruit this morning and i was full:whoo:!!! Yay progress at last. Have to go, talk later

Hey guys quick update from me. Went to the meeting on Saturday great to talk to other people about the band. I have my sister in law Terry who also had the band done she was there too. Had a good laff and shared some experiences which gave me a boost, which was what I needed. I had my second fill on Friday evening and I think i can feel it. Coz ive never really felt restriction before the feeling now is weird. I thought i had restriction before this but I dont think so judging by what i can eat before and after. Finally i can see some progress only slighlty though, but im still early days yet. I dont feel to well at the mo, and im not sure if its the band. I am very very bloated. I had to leave work early yesterday it was so uncomfortable. I thought my belly looked about 6 months pg. I think I may have a little bug too. Enough about me how is everybody else, Dini, Twinkletoes, Kermit?

Hi all. I would be up for a meet on the 29th too. Really need some support. I feel as though ive never had the band its that bad at the mo. EAting like it was going out of fashion!!!!!

Hey Kermit, Hugs for you!!!! Try not to fret too much, im in the same boat as you. You should ring the surgery and explain your situation that you cant keep orgainsing the time off work and then rearrange everything when THEY cancelled. Its not fair, I mean we paid them alot of money. Tara done my first fill maybe if you ring up and say you wouldnt mind Tara doing your fill. Oh and im sure they do fills on the weekend. Im going to go in next week and look for another fill. I dont feel this has worked at all. I need to start shifting asap as I have to get a wedding dress for next May and i wanted to have it picked and ordered by December. I can still do that but I will proably only down 1 or 2 sizes:help:. Ill see you on here during the week!!!!!!

Hey Kermit. yeah got my first fill today. It was fine getting it no pain. But Jerome wasnt there, Tara done it which was fine with me. She did weigh me ona different set of scales and according to that one i have lost nothing . I was a bit upset but she said not to worry as it could take one or two fills for me to start feeling restriction and she stressed that everybody is different so try not to fret that it might happen to you!!!!!!! I ate more than ever today since my op, i think its very wierd. I think it might be in my head though. Im hoping now with the kids back in school, me out walking and im also back in work next week after been off for 3 1/2 months, I will get myself into a routine and fingers crossed i will start losing. Im getting married next May which is only 8 months away and i want to be down a few dress sizes by December so I can start looking for a dress. Can you not see Jerome in Galway, I though he travelled around the Country? Enough about me, how is you? Do you know what you are down. If your not down though dont worry, its only been six weeks on Friday, seems longer though!!!!!!! Ok better be off the me leaba now for some well earned sleep, im knackered. Nighty night