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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. This year as I divorce, I am going to be surrounded by family of choice. I am hosting and cooking. I love this idea of expressing what each person at the table means to me. This is my first Thanksgiving banded. It will be very different from earlier years.

Welcome to the other side! Your new life begins....

Lentil soup for breakfast. Easy and no issues. Whew!

Feeling better this morning. That was rough. Let's hope for an uneventful day. I'm starting with liquids and we'll see how it goes.

What a miserable day. It's four pm and I'm still only able to sip (not drink) liquids. I had two protein shakes today and had to drink them very slowly. Misery. I really irritated my band. I think the blockage may have finally moved sometime today but I'm not taking any chances. Liquids today and tomorrow. I didn't even eat that roast beef quickly. But I just knew it was going to be a problem as soon as I started chewing and boy, was it ever. Decaf coffee is going down okay now. Medium sips. What a long, miserable day.

I'm a bander but I'm cold too for the first time EVER in my life. It's only November. Yikes.

Welcome to Bandland !

Interesting video!

When, when, when am I going to learn that I should not eat after emotional stress????? Major stuck episode tonight. I've been stuck for the last hour and a half on dry roast beef. Stupid choice after a stressful conversation but it was dinner time and I was hungry. I thought I chewed my small bites enough but it didn't get past my band. I suffered for ten minutes then PB'd. Ugh. I thought it was over. Half an hour later I sipped warm coffee. Nope. Not over. Half an hour after that I sipped again. Nope. Not over. I apparently now have trouble with roast beef. This is new. It was very dry, so I should have been prepared for a problem, but sheesh. What a miserable evening. The band is still blocked apparently. It doesn't hurt but I'm not attempting to drink anything else tonight. This just has to work its way down. Tomorrow is a fasting day. At least that's the schedule. But if I wake up hungry because of this missed dinner, I'll just have a protein shake for breakfast and then my lunch. I don't want to be ravenous at my one meal tomorrow. Flexibility, right?

I'll keep this brief because I'm headed into a support group meeting. I got WLS because I needed to take control of my unmanageable life. I had to get out of my food fog and make some huge changes. I did and I have. WLS saved my life in more ways than physical. Great post, Lisa.

Wow wow wow! Amazing! THIS is what it's all about, people!!!

This article is so good! I'm blessed to have the support of my daughters and my mother. I want to show them this because it explains so well how important that support has been to me. Thank you and bravo!

I never weighed before WLS. Then I weighed daily, enjoying the dropping numbers. Until it stopped dropping so fast and my mood was fixed at 6am based on my number for the day. In September I started weighing weekly. Much better.

Thanks and you too!

@@gowalking I deal with those deserving issues daily as my divorce begins. It's a challenge daily to keep my head in a healthy space. I pray a lot. I never used to but I do now. I've also been seeking out emotionally healthy people to be around. Also new behavior for me.

@@enjoythetime, where have you been girl? Missed ya!

Thank you for your service!

It's a difficult but temporary time. It helped me to have my protein shake and nothing afterward for half an hour even though it was all liquids. Protein stayed longer and satisfied longer. I was on liquids for six weeks post op. First fill was at six weeks. I lost 50 pounds before my first fill, so that was very encouraging.

@@maygoddess hang in there! You've gone through a lot and you're doing great. I hope the next month flies by for you.

Approval is insurance related so you will probably have almost no wait. I have insurance and first consult was in September and surgery was in March.

Every party has a pooper.

When your bony ass hurts sitting too long on a hard chair.

Here is my NSV. This upcoming weekend I'm helping my nieces move furniture into their 3rd floor apartment. Why is this an NSV? Never in a million years would I have been able to climb the darn stairs, much less cheerfully volunteer to carry furniture up three flights! I can't wait to be around these twenty-somethings and get some good exercise! *cue Urkel* "Did I say that!?!"

Congrats! I want one !

I thought that too! Thank you to all of our veterans!