gg2007BandSTAR

I take good old paracetamol, if the pain is really bad i take it every 4 hours. I also make sure i drink plenty of Water. seems to do the job for me

Hi all Welcome to my first blog entry:thumbup::biggrin2:…over the next few months I will blogging my lap band journey. A bit of background first though: Im 25 and have been overweight since I can remember, I have done all of the fad diets, starving myself, drinking protein shakes only, diet pills, reducing my portion sizes, slimming clubs…you name it ive done it! My problem is I have no problem in loosing the weight its just keeping it off. This year I finally decided to do something once and for all about my weight and am going to be banded. I am trying to get banded on the nhs (national health service) but I will have a few hoops to jump through first. Even if I am excepted im not to sure how long the wait is going to be. So in the mean time I have found a private surgeon who will do the op and have provisionally booked it for sept. Hopefully by that time the nhs will have gotten back to me and I will know what is what! Im currently 392lbs (cant believe im telling you all) I normally the kind of person, if you ask me what I weigh I will start going into one and have a hissy fit, it none of your business blah blah!! Lol lol But im praying to God that it wont be seeing that number for much longer. Because I am so heavy I am embarking on a diet to try and loose as much as I can before the op. I will be doing a pre op diet from the 4th august to skrink that sexy liver of mine lol! So if you wanna here me cuss and complain stay tuned for that one lol. At the moment I am trying to make healthier food choices and step up my exercise. The exercise part I am struggling with, (any excuse lol) part of me thinks get your lazy ass up and do it and the other half thinks, ahhh …..the pain. I find it really hard to walk at the mo because of the pain in my joints but I have taken up swimming since last sept and do enjoy it. I only go to one class a week but that can defiantly be stepped up. Since I have decided to get banded I have been having some funny dreams…..in one im prancing about in a bikini, in another ive got ripped abs!! Ripped abs??? lol lol I could give you a six pack roll of fat right now…lol But in all seriousness , I know that this is the best decision I have made and whether it be down the private or nhs route, Stay tuned…… GG!!:cool:

Hi Welcome to the forum, how are you finding banded life so far? Did you get it done on the nhs or private. xxx

I would recc taking a good multivitamin suppliment aswell.

Well done on resisting!!! I think that is one i am going to find hard, especially going round to other family members house's, they always offer food. Sometimes in the past when i have refused food, people seem to think that there is something a matter with me!....how stupid lol lol I dont eat 24-7! lol lol

LOL LOL if only it was that easy lol lol:lol:

I use pure coco butter or shea butter on mine, and i have found that they have faded them out a lot, you can hardly see them. I would show you, but i dont think im brave enough to show my big belly on the forum yet lol lol

the doctor took it out 4 you???? :teeth_smile:

hey hun! welcome to the forum!! congrats on getting ur surgery date, wish you all the best xx xx

Hi! ive not been banded yet so cant answer all of your questions but as for the Water one, i would suggest drinking little and often. Small sips, its important that you dont get dehydrated. As for your goal weight, if you google a bmi chart and track your weight against your height it should tell you what weight you should be for your height. In the uk my bmi should be between 18-25. (slight annoying as i have 3 stone to play with. But untimatly i not going to go according to my bmi but on how i look. :teeth_smile: xx

lol i take it his current gf then is now is ex..lol lol lol :biggrin:

i told you froggie lol lol heres my proof: (leave more poor lil laptop screen alone)

living proof it works lol lol

I have decided that lap band surgery is definatly for me, goodness knows how long i have been struggling with my weight. Anyway i went to my nurse as advised by my doc to talk to her about loosing weight. As soon as i mentioned lapband she just went off on one: "i have known so and so person who has had it done and it hasnt worked for them", "its not a quick fix to loose weight" (which i tried to explain to her that i know, ultimately i am the one who has to loose the weight, but controlling and managing what i eat) but did she wanna listen...ohh no!! "surgery doesn't work" i told her to come to this website and thousands upon thousands are living proof it DOES! even when she was telling me about the stories of how it went wrong, i had to correct her half way through and tell her that the person she was referring to had gastric bypass and not banding. By the time i came out of the office i felt so small, and was on the verge of crying my eyes out!! why is it always the people that have had no issues with their weight and dont have a clue, what it is like to be over weight, are always the first one to shun surgery?? I have researched for years and making the decision to undergo surgery is not one that i have taken lightly. But staying the way i am now, is pushing me towards and early grave, and i refuse to walk that path any longer and have taken the stand to do something about my weight. As mentioned i have spent a very long time doing my research and am not naive, i know that things can go wrong and they do go wrong. But if i stay the way i am, i not even giving myself a chance. I have seem both the positives and negatives and have made an informed choice. When i came home i was so upset, but i am STRONGER than that, i know 100% that the lapband is what I WANT and its people like her that convince me EVEN MORE SO that i know im doing the right thing and pushes me to go further and prove them wrong! So i say not only for myself, but for people that have had people trying to talk them out of the lapband, if you know that it is for YOU. Go for it, and don't let the haters stand in your way! The more people hate the STRONGER I GET!!