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I eat to much plain and simple. I am Italian and love food. I am not a cake and cookies kind of girl, though sometimes when we go out to dinner or we are on a cruise I enjoy a decadent dessert. I also enjoy ice cream, but not in huge amounts. A pint of Ben and Jerrys lasts me about 4 sittings. I am a meal eater. I eat meals in large portions, and I love food, that is why I am fat.

I did not have to do a liquid diet before my surgery I just had to lose 15 pounds by following a healthy diet. I have not followed the clear liquid diet for 2 weeks as I was supposed to. I had cream of potato soup for lunch today. I pureed it and added skim milk to reduce the thickness and cut down the salt.

I am sick of soup, jello and protein drinks! I never thought I would look forward to regular food in a blender!

I was about 300 when banded last week.. i don;t have anyting to say obviously regarding speed of loss but I know I look forward to loss of size. i currently am a 28 in some clothes. Others a 28 is too small.

I am one week out today and I feel pretty good. My incisions are healed for the most part. My port pain is minimul. I took my kids to the beach today with a friend of mine. We left at about 1:15 and I had to come home and take a nap but other than that things were great. I am hungry and not very motivated to drink meals anymore. I am down about 10 pounds since I had it done last week. I meet with the doc and nutritionist on Friday. I cannot wait. I want to go to the next eating stage.

:help: I was banded on Monday. For the last few days I have been having some pain when I am sitting or standing up. If I am laying down I am fine but if I stand up I feel like I have a huge burp trapped. It is really uncomfortable. :cry I am hoping nothing is wrong. I am on clear liquids until next friday. Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Well here is hoping that this gas gets out of here soon. That and moving on to mushies! I am dying with this liquids crap!!! I want to kill people who can eat real food! :hungry:

I have told very few people. My DH, parents, brother, a select few friends, and just recently my mother in law. Nobody else from my family or my husbands family knows. I just had it done last week and will see if I change my mind as I start to lose weight. I will probably go with the seeing a nutritionist, eating right, excersice thing. i dont think I would lie to someone if directly asked if I had surgery. I was very lucky that my family was very supportive of the LAP band. It would not have been such an easy thing if I told them I wantd RNY. They would not have supported me on that.

I have not been here in a bit but I was banded on July 10 by Dr Rebecca Shore.

Hello there, My name is Candice and I am 31 years old. I have 2 children that are ages 1 and 2. I am almost 5'8 and am around 305. I am going to the required informational session tomorrow night at Saints Memorial in Lowell, Ma to start the process of banding for me. I am not doing this to get skinny, I just want to be more healthy for my children, and being in a size that will allow me to shop in any store will be a nice added bonus. I look forward to all of the insight and advice you have to give! Candice