Midnightwitc6

I'm a Tiger...sweet. I love cats! I believe in reincarnation, I always have. My next life I'm gonna come back a size zero, huge boobs, and blonde. hehe I've already put in my order.

I love Bud Lite, there I said it! :bananadoggywow: The only good thing is now that I'm not eating so much with the band, I have become a real cheap drunk. hehe I myself dont have a problem yet with carbonation, but I have another fill on Monday (thank goodness!) Glad to know that someone else has issues with going out and drinking. Thought I was the only one. :Banane20:

OMG I almost peed my pants! That was so funny guys. I have tried just about every bra from every "big girl" store. I have pretty good luck with Lane Bryant too. At least they dont look like my grandma would wear them. Most are shaped so you dont have either the 2 torpedo look or the one continous shelf across my chest. I have 2 boobs, can I please see 2!? Oh and I guess I'm cheap (or poor) but there is no way in hell I would pay 75 bucks for a bra!

I was diagnosed with PCOS about 10 yrs ago, with failed attempts at the evil metformin/glucophage. I simply cant take it. Remains to be seen if I'm a turtle or a rabbit, I have a funny feeling I'm gonna be a turtle.

My very first thread all, I'm so excited! Where I work there are 3 people I work with that have had the banding, and all have had amazing success. Seeing this success a friend of mine and myself decided to get the banding for ourselves. We started a Lap-Band mini support group of our own and things are going well. I mention this, because you all need to know that I had NO choice on whether or not to mention my lap-band procedure to the 130 plus women I work with. My lap-band procedure even made into the news-letter! Today was my first day back after the surgery. From pre-banding till now I have lost 30 pounds. Great one would say?! So why the heck am I freaking out!? Who would have thought that 130 or so comments on my surgery would have been so overwhelming? All the, "wow I really see the weight loss in your face" or the "How do you feel?" Instead of taking these, what I am assuming are compliments, I'm thinking.."Well, what the hell did my face freakin look like before??!!" Eeegads! Or..." I feel fine now, I felt fine 30 pounds ago too, did I just get over radiation or something?!" I have never been great at compliments, and yes I am lucky enough to get them from time to time, but I dont know how to handle all this. I had this surgery because I was tired or being in pain, after back surgery I thought this was a good idea. But I just might implode if I go out to a bar and men start looking...holy moley! Of course, everyone knowing about the banding puts incredible pressure on me to actually loose. I think if someone see's me walking around with a cookie I might get lynched. :eek: Hmmm that might be fun! hehe Well, thanks all for listening to my mini-freak out. Dont know if this is going to make any sense for anyone but me, but I feel a bit better now.

Thank you all for your advice and you are all right. Today I was actually extremely grateful for the support I have from the people at work. I tried eating a hard boiled egg for breakfast, and well it got stuck. Everyone was awesome about it, with me pacing back and forth with nice hot flashes. Took FOREVER but it finally went down. All this before my first fill! Cant wait till I get one. lol Someday I will be able to except compliments, and I will start giving more. I liked that advice. But as someone who is stopped on the street by strangers who want to draw my face, or photograph me, I was never invisible, and yes thats with the weight. Yes I find that strange too! hehe

Hello there. This is my first post/reply, thanks, but this is a topic that I was just discussing with someone at work today. I had my banding 3/3/06 and have lost 27 from pre-op diet till now, I am finding the compliments a little strange, but I always recieved compliments from friends, or strangers, even if I never could figure out why. I have known people who have lost weight, and I was one of I guess the bad ones that never complimented, commented on their weight loss, but for a reason that hasnt been mentioned. I did not want them to feel that their weight loss was a big deal to me, I found them beautiful before the loss and after. A person I work with said today, after finding about my own surgery, that she too never noticed when someone lost or gained weight because she looked at the person themselves and not the size of their ass! lol So I guess what I'm trying to say is that everyone who doesnt mention your weight loss may not be jealous. Though I wont discount the possibility, and that change in any shape or form can just make people down right uncomfortable. I'm looking forward to see what reaction, if any, I will get when (not if! hehe) I loose this weight.

Good question, I dont have a clue either