Allison

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Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats the day before me!!!!!!!!! Let me know how everything goes!!!!!!

Hope everyone banded today is doing well, good luck to everyone being banded tomorrow, there sure are a lot of you!!! Makeupqueen, Mely, Ellen, Pix, JRFAN88, Brenda, Chelsea, Sufina, Srowland2008, Shelly, notsotinydancer, new jewel, Dawn Michelle, Katieann, Robin, Nomoretwinkies, PattiC, Egank895, and anyone else I missed!!!!!!! Best of Luck!!

Oh I definately agree, it might not of brought me to tears, and I HATE Elvis songs, but I though it was really beautiful, I actually liked both of his songs, Stand By Me is my favorite song of all time, he mixed it up a little so it didn't have the same tune as the original but I still liked it

I definately agree, the remaining four are so dissapointing! I don't love any of them!!! Jason, was just awful tonight, as a college student, you can walk around the quad on a sunny day and see 40 different jasons sitting around, playing the guitar, drinking starbucks, and having REALLY red eyes lol ... So, I'm not sure where I stand, I mean, Syesha's alright, but I don't love her, I totally miss her awesome afro!!!!! It was adorable! Bring it back!!! David C's pretty good, but so cocky! And David A's cute and talented and all, but he's so corny!! Like I've said, he totally reminds me of a young, lame Donnie Osmond lol! Where are all the talented people you see in the audition tapes... sigh. Oh American Idol what is going on...?

Ooooh that sucks!! Just take the time you need to get over the infection, it would suck if you had surgery with it and got some kind of bigger infection inside you! Just hang in there and the extra time will be over before you know it!

Wow that was only yesterday!! Glad to know everything went well! Wishing you a speedy recovery! P.S good luck tomorrow FragileFeline!!!

Hey rosesarered, I'm from Attleboro, where are you getting banded??

Ahh Mely only 48 hours?? By now its even less!!!! Good luck with everything!!!

Good luck to, Shawna, Jemo97, Cherj60, Jaylow, Californiamarty, angelic 1, and Libby H and anyone else geting banded later today!!!!!!!!! Best wishes for you all!!!!

I'm having surgery on a thursday, I'm taking off the next week, but I start school on June 2nd, which is 5 days from my surgery... so I'm hoping I'm feeling better by then

Thats my goal too! I want to go on a cruise when I graduate college in 2 (and probably a half) years, and I want to wear a bikini!!!

Congrats to all the ladies being banded today!!!!!!! Happy cinco de mayo!!!!!!!!!

I've actually heard that most people can eat popcorn, you can just get the fat free kind or something.

As most expectant mothers do prior to giving birth, I'm in this crazy nesting phase! I'm in the process of cleaning out my whole room and throwing tons of crap away. I feel if my room is clean and neat and I know where everything is then I will be a healthier person. I'm going to be getting rid of some pounds so why not get rid of some crap! I also need to start buying all sorts of stuff prior to my liquid diet and surgery! I know I need to get Protein shakes and stuff, but I'm getting so overwhelmed!!! I need like, a straightforward list of everything I should buy or do prior to my liquid diet start date of May 19th... Please help me create my list!!!!! Any ideas or suggestions about what you guys have been buying and such would be greatly appreciated!!! :thumbup:

Oregonrose I have my pre-op meeting with the surgeon on the 12th too, but its not a class or anything, just one on one, I think the only time you are involved with other people is at the initial seminar, which I went to in like, September, and then the monthly support groups, which I have yet to attend. Good luck with the pre-op diet! You're brave, if I didn't have to do it, I probably wouldn't, or at least wouldn't for longer than a day or 2! Kudos!!!!

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I'm really struggling with telling people right now. The only people I have told are my mom, my sister, and 2 close friends. Everyone but my sister is supportive. When I told her she just started at me with this evil look, I was so taken back, I had to say, "isn't that exciting?" Just to break the silence. She replied with, "no, thats f**king stupid, you're so f**king lazy, get off your fat ass and do it yourself." Needless to say I will never discuss it with her ever again, I live with her so it will be hard but I was so hurt by her comment. My mother has told my father, he is obviously not supportive (he and my sister are both athletes and best buddies, gag me) but, as with most situations in my life, he just ignores them, and me. I told a few friends when I started all the research back in September. I had mostly negative responces, but then again most of my friends are between ages 17-22 and have never struggled with their weight. The only 2 that were supportive are the two that I am confiding in now, one is a childhood friend who is an athlete but the biggest sweatheart in the world, and is also a biology major who wrote a paper on the positive outcomes of Lap Band before I even mentioned it. The other is my narcisistic gay male friend who I think is just super excited about me being able to go shopping in designer stores with him hahha. When it comes time to tell the other couple friends, and I really only plan on telling about 3 more people, I'm going to be really blunt about it, "so I've been doing a lot of research the past few months and I finally decided to get my stomach banded. I've been gaining so much weight lately I really think this is the right decision and will help me in the end." I don't want to have to explain everything in detail, but I don't want to be a liar either, I have a couple weeks before surgery so I'll use this time to prepare for everything, including telling people.

I'm the type of person that when I have chicken noodle soup, will eat the soup and then dump the remaining broth down the sink. I'm eating some right now and I'm trying to get used to the idea of eating, well drinking the broth, in a few weeks this will be the only "real" food I get!!!