Esmeralda

What is bodybugg???

I work in Fullerton thats very close to Santa Ana and the Angels stadium maybe we can meet for dinner or something???

Even when I was a lot bigger I have always like it but now when I go I can dance all night, I don't get tired and I always meet new people. The funny thing is that when I was bigger I got alot more attention and danced alot more, my friend told me that maybe because I am smaller and she said that I look alot prettier than men get intimidated and think I am going to reject them how funny I never in my mind thought that I would make men feel like that.

I recently separated and since I have not been going to the gym because he use to take care of my kids for me to go now if its not one thing its another, the one thing I do like and do often is dance. I love to salsa dance I go at least once a week the only thing about it is I have a few drinks in between and I should'nt because of the calories. I notice that I get a buzz with 2 or 3 drinks does this ever happen to anyone?? I now the band has alot to do with it and also I don't eat much.

Has anyone since loosing weight and getting there confidence back has become a flirt??? I separated 2 months ago and since I started going out but I notice that since I have lost weight and I am single that I am becoming a big flirt. I also find that men notice me a lot more and I don’t know how to handle it, I go out every other weekend I am always meeting new people and I can’t find to stick to one because the attention feels good. Anyone share the same experience or am I becoming a “Band Ho” for attention.

I would'nt say that I had no self esteem but the thought that I was so much bigger I myself didnt like me most of the time but I sure did have attention since I have always been a social person, but the difference now is that I feel prettier than before and more attractive. The other problem I have is that I can't see myself smaller because besides the flirtting I feel like I am the same person and I can't except a compliment very well. I now I tend to be hard on myself.

I don't like the attention I get I feel like I am the same person that I was when I was fat why all of the sudden I can be "really pretty". To be honest with you sometimes I feel like I liked my self bigger for some reason and I am very uncomfortable with the attention I have been getting because I still can't see myself thinner. It's a mind thing I guess but how can I make myself see me for what I am now?

I am in Lakewood (near Orange and LA County) if anyone wants to meet or just chat I am available. I also just recently separated and I am in need of freinds to go out with. (you tend to loose all your single friends when you marry).

I loved the experience, he is a great doctor and is always available when you need him. He also does all my fills.

Anyone in my area, California near Los Angeles, I want friends so we could have our bands in common to start off with!!!!

I would love to meet people in my area even just to be friends and to talk and go out, I am a single mother of 3 and I live in Lakewood California.

Thats what my doctor told me but out of experience its very hard to be pregnant and not think about gaining weight, I was so upset for the first 4 or 5 months that I could'nt eat and I was feeling depressed, I had already had 2 children and wasnt expecting anymore so I took it really hard when I found out I was expecting number 3 that I felt like my surgery was ruined (selfish of me) but I love my baby to death and it did take me about a year and a half to get back into it and now I am ready to get to my goal.

When I found out I was pregnant I had a partial unfill I went from 2.2cc in my band to 1.1 and I only gained 23 pounds. I was also luckey that I didnt get morning sickness so I didnt throw up much but I refused to let the doctor take my entire fill he also thought it would be best that I kept some fill so that I wouldnt gain all the weight back. Good luck

I was banded in January 7, 2005 and I am still not at goal, since I have had a baby but it took me over a year to start get motivated again. Who is at goal who had surgery around this time?? How much did you loss?? What was you start weight and you weight now??

La Bella were you referreing to me?? It has taken me a long tim to lose the weight because 8 months after my band I got pregnant so I also have a band baby that is 16 months old and it took me after he was over a year old to want to start lossing again, its harder than when we first have the surgery because its all by will power and the motivation is gone because of the weight gain with the pregnancy. I went back in July (7/19) to get a fill and I was 191 and as of today I am 177 I am starting all over and feel great. I am also happy about my separation because it was just full of problems and I was unhappy for a long time before I made my decision. Thanks for the support everyone.

Hi Everyone, I am officially separated, nothing to do with the band but I feel better about myself and felt like I could do better now that I am down about 79 pounds from my hightest weight and also my husband had this thing that he didnt want me to lose more and he kept telling me that I looked fine and I should'nt lose more because my face would look ugly. I think we should start a club for separated or divoced banded people, anyone interested????

I don't think its about all the extra attention I think the problems where there all along and the weight loss did help me feel better about myself but my husband wanted me big because I notice he has this thing for big girls (he meet me at 250) and the problems we had where associated with him being so irresponsible not about either one of use having an affair. He did meet 2 women 2 weeks ago when I left for vacation but I don't think he had the time to have an affair because I left him as soon as I fould out. (He could'nt behave for a week).

I really don't feel that my band had anything to do with it but I feel that as the weight comes off you notice different kinds of attention coming your way and I really like it, at first I felt odd because I wasnt use to all the comments that I even took it offensively but not anymore. So I guess the band may have something to do with it after all hugh.

I guess nobody is interested in this topic!!!:rolleyes

By the way I am now officially SEPERATED, I don't now if its an age thing but I have had an older and a younger man and it didnt work out (maybe its me???), anyways I am officially single again and I hope it stays like this for a long time. Also I am in need of friends to talk to or even to go out, any volenteers????

It feels good to here about someone with the band for so long, especially since lately alot of people have been worrying more and more about slippage and erosion. Why did you have to have a revision??? Are you at your goal??? What was you start weight and you current weight??? Sorry so many questions.

<p>I went in May to get a fill and I ended up getting an un-fill because the doctor said that my esophagus was irritated and the I was really tight, I didn’t feel like I was tight but that weekend I went to Vegas and drank, drank and drank which I think caused the inflammation, I was at 2.2 and they left me at 1.5 the doctor told me to go back in 6 weeks so I decided to go back 11 weeks later instead that way I give my self a chance to get better, last Thursday (7/11) I went to get a fill and the doctor told me once again that my esophagus was irritated and he didn’t want to give me a fill, finally after I talked to him and explained how I can eat anything with no problem he told me he would give me a very small fill and that I would have to follow his rules so he did give me a very small fill (from 1.5 to 1.8) and told me to take Prilosec 2 times a day for 7 days and to stay on liquids for 3 days, well I stayed on liquid for 4 days and have been very cautious about what I try to eat, yesterday (Monday) was the first day that I tried to eat and I could get very little down, know that’s not a problem because I started my period yesterday and I always tend to be tighter on that time of the month I figure I can stay on soft foods and liquids for a few more days, my problem since Saturday has been that when I lay down to go to bed I wake up chocking on what seems to be water or something like that and it even comes out of my nose, I don’t eat at least three hours before bed and I have been doing mainly liquids but I am not sure what it can be. I even started taking the liquid Olive Era to help with the healing. Has anyone else experienced this before??? May I be too tight?? Would this .3 fill make that much difference???? I need help!</p>

The reason why it comes out of my nose is because I am asleep and when I start coughting instead of coming out of my mouth it just comes out through my nose and the Prilosec is to treat the irriated esophagus. I had never had anything like this happen before and I have never had gastric reflex.

I think it's a man thing because unless I tell him exactly what I need done or how to do it he seems to be retarded and can't do anything on his own, the sad part is that I have one child with him and I don't see myself staying with him long term. Maybe I just need to stay away from men period!!

The training won't work believe me I am 32 and my busband is 26 and I am ready to divorce him, the muturity level is way off and I just can stand him anymore, I have 3 kids and with him it's 4. My first husband was 10 years older and it was much better but we divorces because he was in the music industry and he was always gone which I did not like.