Lana24

Mammalovell,

Don't give up, sometimes even doctors reallly don't understand this weight is not simply a problem of glutony but a serious problem with the hardwiring of some of our brains...forgive him for being absent minded and for that moment just realize he was careless. Continue your journey knowing that you are your only and best advocate. You can do it, no matter which path you choose. Best of luck

Lana

I am almost there, any encouragment would be great about now...

chickie,

:confused_smile: :crying: :eek: too damn funny for words...

Jimbo,

It is not advisable to smoke before surgery, just in case it interfers with the anesthesia...I admit I did the night before and all went well. And it does help with nausea as well... best wishes

HI everyone,

I haven't been to OA for about 4-5 years, I am planning to start with a meeting and a sponser here in Sac this week. Wish me luck!

Hi Leanne,

Welcome and congrats on making the steps to getting banded...

Lana

Really? When I used to smoke in my younger days (when I had to talk to school 10 miles through waist-deep snow:biggrin2:) all I wanted to do was sit on the couch and watch cartoons. My stoner friends and I would turn the sound off and make up our own dialogues. You actually can work out after smoking?

I wonder if they sell doobies at Curves? In the vending machine next to the cigs?:biggrin:

LMAO, if that were the case I would never leave the damn gym!:frown:

Congrats Jax on your success, I am right behind you... I can feel your excitement

i Second That Emotion, Well Said

Thanks for this thread! I found this forum 2 days after I was banded (5/29). I actually had to get my BMI down before I was eligible to have this surgery. Thanks to MJ, I was able to force myself to aerobicly burn off the access weight. I can physically push myself farther when I'm high. Thanks to weed I lost about 50 lbs. in 2 months, before even being banded!!

I am SO trying that!!!:biggrin::teeth_smile::thumbup:

Hi everyone,

I was diagnose a few years back with Fibro, and I am glad to say I have had zero problems since the surgery...all healed and ready to go! I wish you all the very best of luck with your surgeries.

Lana

No problem here, couldn't take motrin before the surgery needed something to take the edge off. It worked!

damn now I really don't have the courage to try gum, LOL thanks for the info.

I was told by the nutrisionist to avoid frozen meals because they contain too much processed food and lack the necessary Vitamins and minerals. Good luck looks like you got some great feedback.

Toke On, Life Is Too Short To Be Smokeless...

Steri Strips anyone? They are like glue...lol

my doc said 6 weeks or whenever your ready...good luck with the sexin' everyone I hear it only gets better as the weight comes off!

Wow Kiki,

That really was a wonderful story thanks for sharng and I wish you nothing but the best with your journey

Well said Vegas Grace,

I enjoyed his resent work and he will be greatly missed.

Too Funny Tracy !

Wow this is wonderful and graphic...lol congrats on the loss!

HI everyone,

I did a lot of reading before I had the surgery, I felt I truly understood what was expect of me and what my new responsibilities to self were but after getting home and feeling that hunger, not head hunger, physical pain hunger willing to eat your own young kind of hunger (lol). I am hungry but I am hungry to this degree because presurgery although overweight I was starving, my body was simply not getting whatever it needed. And now that I have had some Protein and some Water I do have some clarity... my advice is take a multi Vitamin, have a few swallows of protein and then a little later have some water... the whole world seems different when your body is getting what is actually needs and not what it actually craves! Good Luck fellow band wagoners!!

Lana

I have never heard of a binder either, like a control top or waist cincher?

I am right with everyone else I am just hungry!

glad I stumbled in here, great info... I personally am just starving...from the time I got home from the hospital I am friggin hungry... I want to nawg off an arm for the sake of saiety!