ralph45

hey guys getting banded in june been nervous as hell lately...saw a good website..that does a lot of good explaining..everything wish my dr had one like this,,i don't no how to link sites but here is the site www.drsimpson.net,also has a site just for men www.azlapband.com...pretty good site can watch seminar video ,better than the hundred people i was in with

yes well i thought getting married was a good idea too,,just joking but do we really no what we are getting into,,nobody really knows untill the deed is done ,,thats why i have looked at th ups and downs,,and if i have to start exercising why don't i just do that now,,i have;nt done really all that much,,but if i have to why don't i just do it now,,and forget the band,,well i don't eat right now,,thats why i'm overweight,,what makes me think i'm gonna suddenly do it with the band,,,like you said this is a tool,, and this is why i'm having these questions,,,i've passed all the tests and supposedly i'm a great canadate,,but i'm really starting to struggle,,with these questions i have for myself,,i'm 10 days away from my band date and i'm wearing 3 pairs of insulated socks if you no what i mean,,this is really some soul searching we all have to do,,man can you imagine what the early bandsters went through when they didn't have this wonderfull support group to just log on and get all this great support,,,it is all wonderful,,but i can't help to wonder if i will get buyers remorse,,trust me i'm totally normal i think,,lol i just wonder if most people have felt this way...thanks everyone

you no what i struggle with the same thing,,do i really want to worry about what i eat,,when i went to my nutrion class and consent sighning they stated that in 1200 lapbands my surgeon has never had to revert to an open banding from the laproscopic,so they said follow the pre opt diet so you don't have to be the first,,got me to thinking ain't no possible way everybody followed that diet to the letter,,just can't be statiscally possible,,my son is an actuary,,he figured this out,,lot of docs don't require a pre op diet,,,but most of the dr use the pre surgery weight in thier statistacs,,like when you first went to get weighed you like weighed 300 then the put you on the pre op diet and you lose 20lbs before banding ,after the banding they use all that weight you lost plus the post op diet in there statistics,,that boosts their numbers in the weight loss category's.....this is big buisness..i get banded in june,,maybe

what is actually ment by no restriction,,does it mean that you can eat like you did before the band i'm talking like pizza burgers etc,,just curious..because if i get the band and decide it's not for me if they unfill it would i be able to eat like before not that i would plan on it, but just in case