Froggi

Thank you so much for sharing this. I am sorry for your loss. God bless.

Welcome to LBT. I wish you great success!!!

Congratulations on starting your journey and welcome to LBT!

The lapband is not a con, you gotta work. I suggest you get counseling or goto groups etc.

When I read this thread it makes me feel like forevertry only joined this forum to down talk the band. Lots and lots of people have had great success with the band. It takes disipline and eating certain foods and not eating certain foods. You have to work at it. Me being someone not banded yet I don't really like hearing people calling the band a hoax. I have learned everything there is to the band and I know it's not a miracle tool...maybe some of you on here don't realize that or had a doctor who didn't explain stuff he should have. You're going to be hungry at times but if you keep your diet balanced and eat Protein, drink lots of Water it wil help plus it's head hungry too. The thing with the band is it makes it to where you can eat smaller portions and feel less hungry than before when you ate a ton and still felt hungry. I know the band is going to work wonderfully for me when I finally do have surgery. I have willpower and I am controlling myself now to try to eat less and more healthy foods and stuff that fills me up better. But I don't think anyone should ever come on here to a forum where people are coming to get advice and trying to change their lives and say that the band is a hoax or even think it's a hoax. I say if it's not working right for you, you need to goto counseling and learn more about why you eat etc. The band is a tool and will never be a miracle.

I had tried everything in the books too for losing weight. Never kept track of it though. My insurance decided to put me on a 6 month supervised diet. So far I am done with 1 month and it's actually going by quickly. I'm eating between 1200-1500 calories a day and exercising, drinking lots of water and I've already lost 8.5 pounds. I think the diet is going to be a huge plus because during this time I can lose some weight, possibly shrink my liver some, and then the 2 week pre-op diet too won't seem so bad. Losing this weight during the process is making me feel a lot more motivated and I know everything is going to be wonderful. Don't fret about the wait, if you do have to wait it will go by quickly. I should be having surgery in November! GOOD LUCK.

Congratulations I hope everything goes well and welcome to LBT!

Hope things work out.

Glad you're starting to feel better. Hope the healing process goes well.:thumbdown:

I was told chewable flintstones vitamins

Congratulations!! Keep us posted.

I wouldn't go with gaining weight, I'd fight it though.

:hurray:Good luck you two!!

Congratulations!!

congratulations.

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Mmmm, M&M's now I want to buy some:w00t: BUT I WONT sugar = evil lol:blush:

wow congrats I hope i can be as good as you with my weightloss

Mine is supposed to be around 17,000 I dunno if it includes fills or not.

I agree with that. If the doctors are saying they should go straight to solid foods they are stealing their money! My doc wants me to do mushies and doing the diet and going back slowly is the only way to do it safely. I cant wait until I am at surgery time:thumbup:

Well it will be in oct or november. Unless when I call the insurance on wednesday they tell me they found out something to make it shorter.Either way it will be eventually :thumbdown: Thanks for the conern.:smile:

Good to hear your surgery went well. Hope you feel better soon. :thumbdown:

I have a ton of stretch marks already and I'm still over 400 lbs I think it's just gonna be something I have to live with lol my tummy is covered!! lol

LETS ALL BUY SOME SKIM MILK hehe

Hmm, I know several people around 60 who have lapbands...I dunno why it would be a problem. I'd ask different doctor's etc. I guess it depends how much older than 60 you are.