Eficka

Hi Marsha, I have the swedish band and here in Europe they dont use any other type. Im satisfied and without any problems:-)

isnt this more for patients with RNY or other treatments that cut their intestins?

4-3: JenRN - 263/257/223/150 - 40 total 4-3: jenn28 - 282/265/229/165 - 53 total 4-3: Picardy3 - 298/300/257.5/150 - 42.5 total 4-3: tipper - 300/290/259/165 - 41 total 4-4: Sugar1 - 311/289/231/150 - 80 total 4-4: DeltaDawn - 358/202/179 - 156 total 4-4: Dak – 255/251/205/150 – 50 total 4-4: Angels - 264/255/235/? - 29 total 4-4: Harpseal Al - 327/295/220 - 34 total 4-5: Boo - 208/203/165/132 - 43 total 4-5: siestaqh - 180+/177/117/110 - 63 total--NO MORE BAND :-( 4-6: Disneynut - 290/287/260/125 - 27 total 4-7: Guysis - 234/170/134 - 64 total 4-10: JulieNYC - 358/216/180 - 142 total 4-11: Vickie1177 - 320/297/267/137 - 53 total 4-11: tellymelly - 240/235/143.5/140 - 96.5total 4-11: Fel0816 - 307/284/265/to get under 200 - 42 total 4-11: dsrjrr - 231/230/210/130 - 21 total 4:11: truckinmama - 262/234/160 - 28 total 4-13: Nursekathy2u - 358/356/335/175 - 23 total 4-13: NJgirl - 248/230/188/140 - 60 total 4-13: Miper70 - 217.5/187/145 - 30 total 4-17: Amourette - 22.5 total 4-17: Jeepergurrl - 242/192/140 - 50 total 4-17: MelAnne - 245/207/150 - 38 total 4-18: KAYBEE-284/198/180 -86 total 4-18: Danaclark2 - 270/260.5/266/150 - 4 total 4-20: TrustUfirst - 210/205/177/135 - 32 total 4-20: Omamoon - 220/211.5/179/130 - 41 total 4-20: KimInMD - 288/288/228/156 - 60 total 4-21: Yoda - 273/257/199/150 - 74 total 4-21: kristielynn - 310/302/237/150 - 73 total 4-22: alisonb - 286/270/176 - 16 total 4-24: Eficka - 125/117/95/69 - 27 kgs/66 lbs total 4-24: Ceparano- 255/270.5/201/170 - 69.5 total 4-24: Kat - 289/281/203/165 - 86 total 4-24: hlj25950 - 262/257/206/160 - 56 total 4-25: momof2boys - 270/266/237/145 - 33 total 4-26: Bostongurl - 264/244/184/150 - 80 total 4-27: tinaj - 226/221/210/150 - 15 total 4-27: lookingout - 185/178/165/101 - 20 total 4-27: flowergoddesstn - 214/204/190/130 - 24 total 4-27: Dimples0323 - 284/284/241/145 - 43 total 4-28: Susan4794 - 283/229/150 - 54 total 4-28: bluehill - 333/228/150 - 105 total 4-28: Irish Girl - 225/214/150/135 - 75 total 4-29: Momofsixkids - 238/188/140 - 50 total

Hi Eva, yep I got the stitches as well Im almost year out of surgery and the marks after stitches arent almost visible just the actual scars.So dont worry it will be ok:-) Eva

I hired a personal trainer its the best thing to do, because he/she will teach you different excercises plus you always have someone who will check if you do it right.Also my trainer is so positive and trust in me that she highered my motivation by 200%. You can always hire a trainer for 10 sessions just tell them up front, so they know they have to teach you all that stuff plust they will do training plan for you.Plus they give you some food tips. I was always scared of sugar, but she told me to eat something sweet for Breakfast cause it starts up the metaboism and during the day you burn more calories.It really works!!! Hiring a trainer is definitely the best investment I have made in years:-)good luck to you!! oh just my two cents, as Christel said some of the fat will transform into muscle and other will be used for energy. I feel that my metabolism is much better, cause I was sick with flu and didnt excercise for two weeks and I not only didnt gain weight I also lost some!

I arrived to hospital day before surgery and left two days after surgery so all together 4 days.I know that in the USA the stay in hospital is very short, but I was pretty happy to be there especially after surgery cause the beds are much better and ara higher so you dont have any pain while getting up from your bed. I didnt have any nose tubes or anything just the funny stockings(is that the right word?) so I wouldnt get embolia:-)

yep I agree with Jachut Im doing pretty well without Protein drinks, although I drink them twice a week after weightlifting with my trainer. What I do is add frozen strawberries or some fruit and it tastes much better. WATCH OUT: dont mix the powder with milk (skim milk too) or any other protein (ice cream etc) Because then your body will not use all of the Proteins declared in the Protein shake. Why? It has something to do with protein digestion and the enzyme (pepsin) that helps to digest and use the protein. Sorry my English isnt that good to describe the process:-)

Tracy, I knew it:-) yep its my case. I was told all of this but couldnt cancel on the vacation I tried to put bandages over the incisions but they were coming off all the time so after two days I dindt bother with them anymore. Yep you can see the scars on the other hand my belly is full of stretch marks so 5 more scars dont do the difference:-) I think they can minimalize the scars with laser. But I will wait till I hit my goal and see if I need surgery (TT) or not and then I decide about the scars. Just to everybody else, yep with the sun its really true and my scars are purple/red so if you can dont go in the sun or cover yourself:-)

Bluehill: welcome back!!! Im happy you are doing much better!!!

I woke up in a lot of pain with gas mask in ICU I asked for more pain meds and got them I was also very tired. After an hour I wanted to take a walk so I wouldnt get the gas pain, but the nurses and docs were shocked cause they havent seen anyone trying to walk so early after the surgery:-))

Hey all I will get a pic of my scars, Im 10months post op and my scars are very visible and purple. I guess its cause I went on vacation to Greece month after the surgery and you are not supposed to expose the scars to sun for more than one year (thats what my surgeon told me). I didnt use any vitamin e or any ointments for heeling, cause I was told that nothing can change the way your skin heels, they said everything depends on the type and the healing ability of skin.I must say that probably my skin is bad because I have stretchmarks everywhere:-(

Hi Katie, Im a smoker as well and my doc knew about it and the only time I couldnt smoke was like a day before surgery and then while staying in hospital.while in hospital you wont even care about cigarette:-) my doc even agreed that it would be too much stress for the body to lose weight and stop smoking at once.of course he doesnt support smoking.

Fiona, I couldnt be friends with a guy I fancied (at least for some period of time), it would hurt me to see him around.It sucks, but you will be fine in no time.call some of your friends have a coffee with them, go to the beach or just do something that makes you happy and you will realize that even without that guy you have a damn good life!!!:-) Luv Eva xxxx

yep I think its normal and Im cold as well all the time,but its aslo great isnt it?:-))it just shows that we have lost a lot of weight!!! Im also tired a lot,but Im willing to pay that price:-)) lets celebrate!!!!

Fiona, babe I know its hard you just need relax and live with it, because you being sad wont change it, its impossible to make someone love you (and I tried it but just doesnt work that way).you need to give him credit for being so open cause most of the guys just wouldnt return your calls and hide. You are beautiful,clever,charismatic and caring young woman so there are gooing to be lots of guys just right for you. Hey it might take while to find "the right one" but Im also waiting and not that I dont have any guys who like me Im just a bit picky cause I want the best:-) (Im changing definitely before I would be happy for anyone who would be interested in me:-) Dont worry girl you will be fine and the right one is there for you somewhere!!! Luv

Boo, Julie, Fiona, Guysis, Kat, thank you so much for your advice. Im letting her go, but I cant just stay her friend anymore, cause it exhausts me and I wouldnt be able to trust her again. You all just helped me so much cause you told me what I just knew deep down :-)Thanx again. Ok better news, today Im officially 30kgs down!!!! yipeeeeee!!!!:-)

wow NJGirl I had a fill once so I dont know what is it about to be that tight but maybe you should get an unfill? to get more cals so your metabolism starts to work properly?

Julie, thank you, I kinda feel that you are right, it just seems rediculous to me,she has known me fat and Im changing now, but Im still the same person although more confident and less submissive. No more tears about her. Lets go to the gym now:-))

oh I forgot to ask if any of you want to join me on my holiday in Greece-Zakynthos you will be more than welcome. Its like 450 US dollars/appartment,airfare and all fees included/ for 12days 1st-12th June, flying from Prague Czech Rep. also if you want to stay in Prague you are more than welcome, you can stay at my place:-)! just an idea

more update-guys honestly if you are fed up with that drama just tell me and I wont write about it.but it helps to hear your opinions and to vent a bit. so Steph wrote me an email saying that she thinks we are competing.hello I was never competing with her, like ever I have always been supportive and I would also say a bit submissive,but maybe she feels that shes competing with me, but that would be her problem right? she also mentioned our last holiday, on the second day of our holiday she slept with a bartender, who told her before they even kissed that he has a girlfriend,wants to marry her, but if Steph wants to sleep with him, that he is ok with it.So she did sleep with him and in the morning he literally kicked her out.She was so humiliated that we couldnt go to that bar ever again,and since it was the beggining of the season that was the only bar opened!!yes I was upset with her and told her the reason-we had no place to go to anymore and that its not only humiliating for her but for me also. Today she tells me that she remembered how angry I was over the bartender,suggesting that I wanted him and thats why I was mad.She stated this as another reason why not to go to that freaking holiday. Now other reason she gives me is that George Michael is going to be in Prague at that time and she really wants to see him.how lame is that???? so I wrote to her that I feel upset and wouldnt ever expect her to cancell holiday just because of some concert and that I respect that she likes G.Michael but still take it as betrayal.No response from her and trully said she disgusted me so much that I dont think I would be able to go to holiday with her anyway. So I guess the friednship is over because I wont be able to trust her ever again. Now when Im reading it, this whole drama just feels stupid maybe I should just dont care about her anymore and forget it all.its depressing though

I also lost a lot of hair, I agree with Jachut that its more about the shock than not enough of protein. But the good news is the body will get used to it and I can say that the hair loss has stopped.Im 10months out:-)

Kat, Boo, Julie and all the girls, thank you so much for your support. It helps cause theres more to come and I will tell you later:-) I know that the guy is a jerk if he sleeps with her just because she offers it and that its not only up to her. But if Im drunk, and yes it happened to me that I was very drunk few times I still know about my actions and wouldnt do anything like that to my friend, but I guess it might also work the way that she really didnt know what she was doing.still I think I have the right to be offended and hurt.I dont care that much about the jerk but about what my friend has done. Ok so with that friend (Steph is her name) we are supposed to goo to Greece in June, we are putting down money in four payments.So yesterday I wrote her that I will send her the last two payments in one. She writes back that shes afraid she will have to cancell the holiday because some of her friend is getting married. Ok so now Im pissed I tell her that my guess is that its all about what happened not about some wedding. She writes back that Im right and that she thinks that we are so fed up with each other that the holiday would be a disaster (Ok this is a friend who I have known for 6 years and we know everything-really about each other)??So I write back that we should get togehter and talk and that the holiday is in June which is quite far. She doesnt write back. So in the evening when I was watching some chickflick I was upset and wrote her that I think we really should talk and that I value our friendship and dont want to lose her over some stupid guy. No answer. I know that the last message was probably a bit desperate and that Im not the one who should be apologizing but she is/was my friend. Now Im upset with her because I feel that she wants me to apologize (dont know what for???) and she is kind of racketing me cause of that holiday.Right now Im so pissed at her that if she doesnt contact me I wont, or I will have to cause of that holiday but thats it no friendship anymore, although it hurts...why the hell is she acting like a child that cant admitt a mistake or just talk about it???? On the other hand this whole drama helps me with my weight loss:-)) I couldnt get almost anything down yesterday:-) My mom knows all of it cause we are very close and she says that she might be jelaous of me:shes 32,overweight and Im 25 making the same money,losing weight and have,great family and Im regaining my confidence back (finally). Something might be right about it. Again I know this might look stupid but its taking up almost all my last 4 days.Thank you for listening to me and your great advice!!! luv you:-) :bananajump:

Hello, I know what you are talking about, been there and done it.first of all great thing is that you realize that you have a serious problem.now you need to work with it. just convince yourself that the food doesnt run your life its you who runs your life.to start with just not to overeat that often, everytime you dont overeat although you want to is your small victory-reward yourself (of course not with food:-) and see a therapist they can help you with medication and finding out why you are addicted to foof. good luck to you!!

hi everybody:-) Im up for that challenge althoough Im afraid 19 excercise sessions is bit to much:-) although if walking and shopping (I mean walking from one store to another) counts then I might actually do it:-) I had a rough week, we went out with my friend and she got so drunk (she does that a lot lately Im afraid shes an alcoholic) and she tried to seduce the guy I was flirting with and it worked both ways(seducing-not in some soft way she was like all over him trying to kiss him and her hands everywhere) .I was so mad because in a long time it was a guy I liked and he liked me!! there was no point of talking to her because she was so drunk that she wouldnt get what I was saying from her ears to her brain. In the end they decided they want more drinks, I didnt join them cause I had to go to work next day and also didnt want to deal with shitfaced friend (excuse my French:-)so the next day I found out that she took him home and slept with him!!!yep she spreads her legs while saying hi to a guy.I know I sound bitter, but I guess I am. I always told her not to sleep with random guys like hours after she meets them-cause of her safety and health (nope she doesnt use any protection except for a pill) but she didnt listen and I thought ok she knows what I think and shes an adult, but now her behaviour is actually affecting me! Shes 32 she should have a brain and know how to use it! I told her that I was upset with her, but all she said is that she was drunk and doesnt remember anything. Now what Im mad about is basically that she spoiled my chance to get to know that guy better and find out if we could see each other more often. I really liked him and he liked me, but I guess since his alcohol level was going up he went from hating Stepanka (first he was disghusred with her)to ok maybe I could sleep with her, hey its for free and he is a man. Sorry for bothering you with this but I had to went it out.thanx for reading:-)

Oh and I forgot to say that I have finally reached my first goal!!:-)