LeAnne19

I know I am not quite 20, but I live a different life than a teen, live on own, fulltime job. Anywaysss.. Anyone from Indiana??

I work in Carmel! =]! Are you banded?

I was born at 8lbs 14oz and 23 inches long. In kindergarten I was a head taller than every other kid. I have always had a round face, and I was mildly overweight all threw elementary school, mainly just very tall. I was never a short, round kid. In middle school I had some severe emotional trauma on a few different levels. I was about 5'10 and 220 in 7th grade. So above average weight, but very tall, not gigantic. In 8th grade The emotional traumas became more than I could handle. By 9th grade I was 270 and 6'0. At this point my mom forced me on DeproPrivera Birth Control. By 11th Grade I was 336 and 6'0. The birthcontrol, combined with emotional issues, starting a riot at my school, and overall depression took me to my heaviest. The summer before my senior year I met a new group of friends, my life was forever changed. I got down to about 310, healthy ways. I began to back away from my school and just hang out with people not from school. Janurary of my senior year I got into the wrong crowd, Started heavy drugs. I am not talking about smoking pot and drinking booze. I got down to around 280. The summer after I graduated I cleaned up, because I had a full ride to Purdue university. Between August of 2007 and August 2008 I had gained 40 pounds, was upto 320. In that time I went to Purdue, came home because my long time finance had leukemia, lost my fiance to leukemia, and dealt with the grieving process.

Sooo, I had my first fill today, 1.5 cc in my 10 cc band. It wasn't bad at all, Dr. McEwen got me first stick =]! He also does a numbing shot so you really don't even feel it. The Doctor's Office told me clears for 24 hour, full liquids for another 24 hours, then play it by ear. I feel a little change already, It may just be my mind. I was already feeling restriction I have cut my food intake by like 75%. That kind of got me introuble last week at the dietician. I had been eating so little she made me add in some more stuff. Just making sure I have meat, more calories, more protein. I am sure I was probably starting to go into starvation mode. So between now and my appt 10/11 I gain a few pounds. Still getting less that 1,200 calories, so my body is probably just adusting. I started a silly yoga routine at night. It is off my OnDemand, but it is a 20 minute workout I can handle. Also working to build up more time on my elliptical everynight. Walking 1+ miles a few days a week. Over all I think I am doing everything right. I have lost a good amount. This surgery was sprung on me very fast, I wasn't even thinking about it before my first appt 8/27. Surgery 9/18. When driving back to work after my fill appt I really was thinking about the surgery. I walked in that morning not really understanding the full extent, not seeing this is now the reality of the rest of my life. I remember laying back on the operating table, my heart rate sped up. It sank in at that moment, right before I was out for surgery. Before I could comprehend or think. Just a split second of seeing the rest of my life. Now here I am, and I would never take it back either. I feel great, am losing(besides past week or so), excersizing. I know my goal weight is coming sooner rather than later. I can see and identify my day to day mistakes, and I am curing them all.

Congrats on Banding!!! =]

Congrats on getting first fill! I go today for mine. =]

I was 18th too =]

I take them, they are so horrible.