Lynn_Marie

I could probably sit here and list everything that has gone wrong and right over the last 3 years and make excuses and try to explain why I am not losing, but the fact is, I am at the place where none of that is neither here nor there. I just want to get back on track and I need information to do that. I didn't receive much information about what to do and how to do it when I was banded and what I did have I have long misplaced or lost. SOOOO....I am reaching out to all of you to REMIND me of what I should be eating, how much, etc ... Please! Thanks!

Hi everyone! It's been a long time since I've posted here and long overdue. I have gottten WAYoff track and need your help getting my head back in the game. I'm 3 years post op, had lost 60 pounds at one point, but have regained some of that. I've forgotten most of the rules (guidelines) and I guess I got pretty lax with everything. You know, you get to feeling better, having more energy, get rid of some health problems and next thing you know you accept where you are at instead of working towards the original goal. I know the band is a tool that is there for me to use, and I believe if I can just get my head back in the game I can lost what I have regained, plus go on to my original goal. Any and all advice welcome!!!

I've traveled in the states and abroad since being banded and I wouldn't consider emptying it because I want to use it for the tool it is. Besides, since being banded food is no longer the focus for me, people and places are. I get so much more out of everything I do now! It's great!

Well, I don't know if you were interested in hearing from someone who went to MX for their surgery or not, but that's what I did because my ins wouldn't pay. It cost me $7,700 plus airfare and it was well worth it. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. There were four of us who went and no one has had a single problem. We've all lost and are satisfied. One of us had been 'jumping through the hoops' for almost a year and had spent A LOT of her own money on all the tests, etc...and the psych was still telling her she wasn't ready. Well, Miss Not Ready Yet has lost about 80 pounds since August 13, 2007!!! and is doing GREAT!!!

Four of us went to Monterrey and had surgery with Dr. Arturo Rodriguez....no complications...no problem finding after care in the Kansas City area...YEA DR. MALLEY! But there were several others we could have chosen from in the KC area as well as Topeka, etc... Insurance wouldn't cover surgery and it was a heck of a lot less in Mexico where they have been doing them MUCH longer than here in the states. I also liked that the doctor we chose had not only done thousands, but is also a member of the AMERICAN BARIATRIC SOCIETY as well.

Before you spend the money you might want to research The Zone by Dr. Barry Sears. Maybe get the book A Week In The Zone and see what happens if you follow it for that long. I checked it out from my local library pre band at the request of my endocrinologist. It was the ways he wanted me to eat for metabolism and to keep blood sugar levels even....and it worked wonders!!! Eventually I plan to follow it again WITH my band, too! Check it out!!

You'll have on a hospital gown and nothing will be uncovered until after you are asleep and won't know it anyway. Besides, the docs have seen every shape and size of body there is, male and female, and really are more focused on where to make incisions and doing their jobs right. I've had LOTS of surgeries, and compared to the others this one was a piece of cake. But not to make lightly of it, it is still surgery and you definitely want to do everything asked of you. :smile:

Allergan has a new commercial that just started running within this past month or so. They are the company that own the LapBand System. Could that be what you are referring to?

I can swallow my meds ok, but not all in one handful like I used to both am and pm. Now it's one pill at a time over an hour and a half in the morning. One of them I break in half. Not because it's too big to swallow, but because I have a little trouble with them disolving and then wanting to come back up just a little if I don't. I can take the evening ones faster because the band seems to be looser then. Hooray for this though... I don't have to take 2 diabetes pills a day or 2 shots of Byetta either since I got my band!!! WOOOOOHOOOOO!!! Looking forward to the day I can be like Gayle and take NO MEDS!!!