coolcrystal

Congrats!!!! I can't wait to have that feeling one day as well! Best wishes.

_________________________________ Thank thee m'lady!! I swear to thee that I will try to keep my "coolness" at all times and resort to the forums to get answers to silly questions I may have, especially about weird poops, slimey things, insurance questions that have been asked many times and things of this nature

:cool: I know, I don't really think ya'll are snobs.. I was just picking back from a "newb" point of view. And, actually after reading through this site for the last two days I have also seen the same questions asked over and over again, so I can imagine the frustration, but I think some new people just get so excited and nervous and they are eager to post and ask without searching around... But again, I'm just a newb with what, 7 posts or so. LOL. Some of ya'll have like 4,000 posts, so I can imagine the frustration of seeing the same crappola over and over again.. Oh, and I looked up PB and Slime. LOL. For a brief moment I actually believed Mark ( I think is his name) when he said it was President Bush.. now that is funny! :clap2: Ya'll are some cool cats. Hopefully Once I get a few hundred posts under my belt I'll be part of the cool cats club too :-)

I hoper her insurance approved her. My friend said that her insurance approves it if the skin is causing pain and issues. And, judging from that story, it sounds like the extra skin definitely causes issues.

Eek.. I'm a newbie and I'm officially now scared to post on this board. LOL. You guys are lap band snobs... LOL. You've lost so much weight you think you can be mean to the newbs... I see how it is :-) But seriously, setting joking aside, I'm definitely gonna try really hard not to post stupid questions that will annoy everyone, and even though I have been researching the lap band for a long time and also wondered what the heck a PB is, now that I know where to go to look it up, I will do that and that question will never come out of my mouth, along with that slime question that was mentioned.

Thanks Whosyadaddy! Actually, I do rennaissance festivals and this is part of my garb that I wear. I dress up as a saucy wench! This is why I dont want to get down to super skinny weight with the lap band. I would love to just get down to about 180 and I'd be super duper happy. Even 200 honestly. LOL. I want to keep my curves, as most of the people at faire are bigger folk and when I was 125 everybody picked on me for being too thin. So, never again.

I have noticed, going through these boards, that many end up getting a tummy tuck afterwards. My husband lost 100 pounds naturally, and he drank a glass of o.j. with calcium everyday and he said that made his skin elastic. he had no hanging skin and his stretchmarks were barely visible. I need to lose about 130 pounds (I want to keep some of my womanly curves), so hopefully I won't have the hanging belly too.

Curious, will he go in and fix it for free??

Hi I'm new to this website.. But, I have been looking on here ALLL day. I've looked at before and after pictures.. Scar pictures.... I've even looked up the two doctors that I'm trying to decide between. Though I'm not right at 50 BMI, I'm at 49 BMI, and I feel too big for the small BMI'ers, so I'm going to be in this grouping. LOL. I'm almost 300 pounds and actually hide my weight pretty dang well as most poeple think I'm about 240, so luckily I got my mom's hourglass figure that helps me to hide this weight. I'm almost done with my 6 month doctor visit thing and just getting prepared. Wanted to join a good group.

Aubrie, why did Aetna not approve you? Did they finally approve you or did you switch insurances??