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Thank you Rebecca, I will go get some of that yogurt stuff and try it for lunch. Our drs dont want us doing Protein shakes. In fact the only time we end up back on Protein is when we are on stage 3, mushies, then that is ALL we are basically allowed. There is this Protein powder im thinking of picking up you add it to ur meals.. im thinking ill go dish out hte 40 for it now, since i wanna feel better. Thank you

Good Morning Ladies, Christine I am sure you will be at goal:) I think the gown weighs maybe 3 oz, just dont put the cape on till after u weigh. I cant wait for your surgery! Tina you should be first, the nurse and dr baggs told me they normally only do one band a day and then 2 rny. Reggie do you weigh every day? I am betting you are at goal also!!!:grouphug: Riley i now see why you put off eating to drink! Its like the only way to get in the fluids... You know ladies i think i know why they don't want us doing major workouts any time soon.. We are truly weak. The good part is we loose weight very fast right now. I am not sure why they said not to weigh for a week afterwords!?!?! I weighed this am on my scale and I am 212.4!!! When I weighed on my scale Monday I was 218.8 What is crazy is last week i was 222 for the LONGEST time! I hope everyone is doing well and reaching their goals!!:welldoneclap:

My tummy is making SOOO MANY NOISES! It is like mad at me or something lol. It is really not liking this 1/4c thing. i was better off before I started doing 1/4c. My menu for the day: Bfast: 1/4 c Cream Of Wheat Lunch: 1/4 c V8 Broccoli Soup Dinner: 1/4 c creamy potato soup (no potato chunks) Exercise wise i walked around the mall for an hour... till i lost energy.. For the fluids i worked more on Water today, and i had a sf popsicle still cant get down more then 30oz liquids it seems.. I did finally take tylenol around 7:30.. but im all drugged again.. so im gonna try not to take any tonight:) Tina: yeah she is very against the Protein stuff, but if you calculate the cals of what i had today it is under the cals of 1 Protein Bar. So I see why they say empty calories.. The gum one is just dumb, all during preop they were supposed to knick the habbit. Gum is addicting.. oh well hopefully they didnt go buy more. Smart thing to bring in ur crystal lite packet:D Yay my dinner settled and i feel satisfied.. Ok ttyl:) Hope you are doing well Tina! Enjoy this time, eat what u want!!

Have you gone back to counting calories, and working out so that u loose weight on your own again?or is it harderafter the band? Is our first check up with dr baggs for a fill? We have all heard different things about this.. I couldhave sworn thats what he said at the hospital. Do you know?

Im not on bp meds, but maybe after my energize nap ill go to walmart and check my bp.. Riley how are you doin g?!?!?!

Hello ladies, Time for my check in:) Today I am in bed, i feel very drunk i guess. Dizzy tingly. Mike says its the medicine. So I am going to really work on no drug meds.. I got to have bfast.. it was 1/4 c of cream of wheat, and girls i must add its actually a lot of food. Atleast when ur not hungry its a lot:D I bought this really nice measuring cup, absolutely love it, Evrimeasure Measuring Scoop - Large by Evriholder Products <~ that's it! My pain level is like 0 while not moving and a 1-3 when im walking or getting up. So ladies dont worry about the pain:) My body was very strong before surgery i think, cause I started finally getting weak last night. Tina! GUM TO CLASS are you kidding me!!!! How about any starbucks cups? I do not get the nerve of some people! I bet it totally pissed liz off too!

That is AWESOME Reggie!!! You could be in surgery come next month!!! You go girl!!! I cant wait to see less and less of all of us:)

My port is ok, its just like a stinging and a lil bit of a burn. I did need to take the narcotic tonight, for some reason the pain hit me all of a sudden, christine thinks its because its night time and my body is tired.. Audrey is kinda pissed off.. she is used to mommy holding her and lifting her etc. and i cant do any of it.. What is very nice is like this am i was laying in bed heard her woke up and said "babe can u get auds and feed her and stuff" he then jumped outa bed shut the door for me to rest and got her and fed her. This is the nice part of her weighing more then 20 lbs but being a toddler:D The hard part is she doesnt understand. Reggie what is going on with your journey?? Any new news?

Lol yeah i was a rarity:) I was so rare that they let my hubby come into thepost op area and wait with me. Since however i was there from 7:45 tll 4 pm... And I was the only one in there for a pretty long while.. How funny what did he say? I guess normally they only do one band a day, and with the double banding it screwed up their schedule. When liz called today she seemed very relaxed.. at 3pm.. What were the issues?? Just busy? I am glad he is telling people that it is possible to be there all day now! Good thing to warn people:w00t: So i was thinking why dont we all set up a meeting for Post op... lets do like something that is 3-4 weeks post op from the last person being banded. We can like go feed the ducks or something? I need a pedicure anyone wanna meet up this weekend?

Tina! Yes we all think she had lap band, but we asked in a nonchalant way and she wouldnt admit to it. Yes my scale is not up woo hoo thank god. How high were u able to get the spirometer??? I am at 1500 right now, and can push myself up to 2000. I don't remember my before surgery number... They do less bands then they do gastric. But I am glad I choose band. Gastric is just very serious. At our preop class it was even between band and rny. Isn't dr baggs awesome:) I went for a walk tonight, and boy I am getting week, i am tired pretty often now. So i am excited to start eating somewhat tomorrow. Maybe then i wont be so sleepy. :confused: Oh yeah Tina you prob wont even see the gastric lady, the nurse told me that they do 1 lap band in the morning, and then 2 gastrics. Mine was rare she said where they do 2 bands. So the only time you will hear her is when she is supposed to be relaxing before surgery.. but you wont even be 100% aware. Or even better she will be the 2nd gastric:D SO glad ur class went well!

Check In time:) Ok so its been 48 hrs since I got released from the hospital. And I have weaned myself off the narcotic. Onto just liquid Tylenol. I am much more sleepy today, but i feel a lot better. I did get pretty dizzy this am, but I think I was going to fast, tylenol then shower.. not a good mix:) I heard from liz.. i get to start my next stage tomorrow. I told her I don't know if I am ready and she said I dont HAVE to start tomorrow, but I will probably be ready. I am so glad I did this, and I swear on self talk and walking, my gas is only in my back and not very bad. When it does hurt i just turn on the heat pad. And it goes away. My bruises are basically non existant there is a tiny one around one of them other then that just the one on my arm. I have started a journal, been kinda slow on it but I am excited for when i have the energy to get caught up on it:) Im going to have a goal page where u cut out magazine words etc.. How is everyone doing today?

I had my surgery on Tuesday, and id say my pain scale is anywhere between 3-6.. not too bad, the worst is standing up from a siting or laying position. Dont try to tough out the medication, they were rx to you for a reason! They will prob make you tired. Oh yeah and WALK WALK WALK, i love walking. My gas has been very limited. I only get it after sitting, but when i walk it goes away. Good Luck. If you have had a Csection, it is a lot like that. Just different.. :wink:

wow christine talked me into stepping on the scale!!! and it said, get this 216.3!! omg! And im still full of gas and fluids! Cant wait till its all gone!

Hi! Well, i woke up at 7 or 6:30 cant remember but boy I wanted meds. Then i went for a walk around the hotel. Came back and tried to go back to sleep but that Idea didnt work. I then got my nurse call, and the ok to up my drugs... Something that was awesome, today i was laying in bed and said to myself OUT LOUD "I am feeling better and now i can breathe" then i took a breath and it came true, not like pain scale 1 but definitely a step better:) Now im sitting here with a heating pad on my tummy and waiting till 11 for my next dose of meds then my walk then bed.:wink: Im so glad i did it, and i cant wait for us all to be banded and start our new journey together!!!

thank you ladies! I pretty much have been on a plateu for a month so im super excited for my tool!!! Excersize my dr says this breathe walk walk walk and more walking... to help with the gas pain. And that is when immediately discharged... So last night when i felt a ton of pain u know under the ribs, i walked and walked and finally got on the treadmill set it at 1.6 and moved it up to 2.0 for a couple min, did that for 45 min while watching biggest looser. Didnt feel any pain at all, burned almost 160 cals! But my gas pans are very minimal, i do however have considerable port pain, but the nurse said that is norm especially since my drug dose is way low, So she uped it. GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF US! Lets keep in touch;)

Hi Ladies sorry SSF is so slow:confused: I had orientation Nov 4 reached goal by psych appt in december xmas eve infact;) then saw my surgeon around the 31st. Then my case manager was on vacation got to see her about a month out, then since i went to vegas had to wait till 3/31 for surgery so that was my big wait BUT it went fast, Now im in the hospital room waiting for my dose of meds;P SO happy for all of u! Feel free to c ome on the kaiser richmond thread we discuss everything!!! And there is a support group we all attend in sacto, GOOD LUCK!

yay im banded!! Woot woot:D Glad to join you all:D

Go ahead ask away:) I am staying in San Rafael. We did since its a 2.5 hr drive home from richmnond,... i live in marysville by beale. Then tonight was because we had my mom to babysit, and my kid is 16 months and will NOT understand why mommy cant pick her 28 lb butt up.. You will be fine, just ask them for some pain help RIGHT before u leave. Get somethuing that radiates heat, a electirc pad, or like i had my hot heart massager i thik they have stuff like them at the store so youc an use it for comfort. Do 2 pillows one for ur back (gas pains) one for ur front:) And if u want head:) Also you will be chilly from the iv water so bring a blanket. I couldnt IMAGINE going home today, the bumps killed me. Just remember to stop and walk.. it really helps, i didnt realze thattill the gas pain really hit me this eve.. then i went for a mile walk on the tread at 1.6 and the pain subsided.. Jello, dont stock up on it, warn someone thy get to go shopping if you like it..yo9u can have mine.. want it?? It made my tummy not to happy.. I LOVE chicken broth though:rolleyes2::seeya: They said its not normal that i got out so late.. normally they do 1 band a day and 2 bypass, well today they did 2 bands and 2 bypass. And i was the second band.. so i bet you will be out early! Both the bypases were out before i left!:thumbdown: I cant wait for us all to be banded and instead of going to food we can meet up at the park:thumbup: Hi REggie!!! Dont worry about the surgery, you can ask Christine probably 4 times i was gonna cancel if not more lol... yesterday i slept sound, today i wasnt nervous, ok i lie going thru the doors i got nervous, but then i thought about bein healthy and no pain, and i got excited:D

I went thru the lasts, i had my last crab puff, and my last serving of pizza this week. However i didnt gain anything,m oh and i had my last deserts while i was in vegas. I talked to my nurse and she said when people followed the diet eating real food that the peolpe bounced back easier because of the energy we got fromn the stored food. But i know some of ur drs dont allow food, your on a strict fluid diet.. OH and my liver and gall bladder were named perfect from my surgeon:) Agains are wonderful, my problem with that is i dont know me smaller, so imn gonna start saying I will never be over 2oo again or need a booth. Agains are smart! Good LUCK to everyone!!! Cant wait to have everyone go with me to the post op side!

Ok ladies and gents, i posted my story! The pain is setting in:redface: they numb the area of the port, well that is now gone.. and i am having to wait 20 min for more drugs... But its still not tear breaking. I love my heating pad. LOVE it!! Gosh im sitting here watching Biggest Looser, and the old guy that had RNY is in the hospital with blood loss.. they are blaming on his surgery!!! ok so im gonna head outside.. hope to har from some of u..

HAPPY LAP BAND DAY TO ME!!! So today was my surgery day, yes i am crazy im online lol, ok so I got to the hospital at 7:30 went to the restroom then went to check in, then sat till 8. My nurse ICY came out and basically told us what happens and how they will get mike right when im ready to leave, and then I had to leave him there in the waiting room:( I proceeded to get dress in my gown, sox and cape! Got on the scale and was told my goal was 239 and i was 218!!! So she was super happy for me:rolleyes: We go over to my recliner and I sit down, they ask the million questions gave me the shot for blood thinning, and took an anti nausea med and this nasty lil drink. Then i got my IV. And she did a bolus, meaning a bag of fluids as FAST as possible, so within 20 min that drained into me.. here comes the potty breaks lol. So after meeting with the surgeon, nurse, anestisiologis, i got walked back by the anesthsia guy. Got in the room and it was big bright clean, and the surgery table looked fantastic, very comfy!!! Got up on it, and scootched back then laid down. Looked at the clock saw 9:45.. listened to them talk, then did the memorization, and next thing i know is "Nicole, Nicole, wake up..." So then I woke up.. and I forget what they said lol, but i asked dr baggs about my Liver, and he said it was beautiful, and so was my gal bladder. Then i ask if i can go back to sleep lol. Then the wait begins.. the xray dept decided to close, so from 11-1 they werent there so I had to wait... Then at 1:30 they put me in a wheel chair and got me to that, made the nasty shake and took about 4 sips ,and was done with that, went back down to post op and they put me in a recliner, and i sat there tillo 3:30 when Dr baggs had gotten out of his bypass surgery. He Okd Water so I drank my 2oz andthen saw my pictures and xrays, and you can SEE THE RESTRICTION!!! WOO HOO, yes our drs put a fill in it right off the bat! So then i got dressed and got checked out! My things that I recommend, stay close by! Im at the Four Points at the Sheraton, and then Stay afterwards, I could not imagine driving home right now!!! Be as happy as possible! Even if in pain...Hot blanket is my friend right nowm, and tea! Only thing i like. Pain: isnt as bad as my Csection at points.. The pain with a C is lower though, this oneis more up top and hurts to breath sometimes... Feels like a knife is stabbing u, or maybe ur getting punched in the gut... I just went to the store andf got brothYUM, and i took some gasx and its helping with the pain also.... Well thats basically what i remember!!! God Bless everyone! And Talk to you all on POST OP:D:lol:

IM ALIVE!!! WOOT WOOT!! OK so im the only lame one that after surgery calls everyone then gets right online lol... i got there at 7discharged at 4... i will explain in my story at this second im gonna go pee then start typing that out in the surgery stories:D Add me to ur messengers or_Eo17 for yahoo and i can caht on there too:) i will post again when im done doing the post:D Thanks for all the well wishes!!!:biggrin: