gillian

Hi TC!..hope you had a great weekend in york, its lovely isnt it..did you do the night ghost walk!? scary! suppose there were the christmas market and craft stalls were there?..hope you are eating well in the run up to new year cos well be on the liver shrinking low fat diet after!..im making sure i get my fill! its one of reasons i booked for mid january!. I love my xmas meals! isnt everyone doing well whos been banded!..we will be doing well soon too, not long, that january is zooming up! I cant wait to get it over and done with and know ill be nervous when it comes nearer..I just hope i dont run out of the hospital exit!!..sure big sister and wishfull will hold me back!..I hope i go in first, or i might be off when i see them come back from op!

thanks for your reply! I am looking forward to bending down even with a little bit of pain...with my rolls of fat i havent been able to bend down for ages, cos i can either bend down...or breathe,but not both at same time!..breathing always wins!..but hopefully i can get my shoes and socks on easier when i have shifted some of this weight!...well done anyway, your doing great!

Hey fox your giving some really great advice here..its good for our preparation, and appreciated!..thanks, Gillian x

what do you mean wishfull!!!..Im the ladies darts champ at our local!!...so just bend down and ill go for the bullseye!!!. Gillian X

Hi Wishfull, the euro is really depressing me at the moment..Dunno what to do for the best, change what i have now, or wait till last minute?. its not getting any better is it?.it was only 3 years ago in zante when we were getting 147 euros to the £ ! hope your well anyway...only just over 4 weeks now!..its flying!..just want it over and done with now.Gillian x

That info about the euros is good, thanks..Im starting to look at the rates in shops...and every day i wish id bought them the day before!!..terrible isnt it. still trying to get my cash together at the moment...I will by hook or by crook!.Gillian x

well done bytheseaside!!!..your doing great!..hope i do that well...do you have much pain still?.Gillian x

Hi Garry and welcome...read this forum from page 1...it will answer just about any question or worry you have..also read the other thread..Dr de bruyne christian. the link is at the bottom of this page..we are a great support to each other on this forum..and it was because of this i went ahead and booked...good luck anyway. gillian x

Hi Fox!. Im so glad your feeling a bit better...things can only look up from now on!!..well done on your weight loss..(I have at least 6 stone to lose,maybe more..depends on how the skin behaves!) i can imagine your getting bit bored with your soup?..what about those yogurt drinks YOP is it?..or the V8 soups are very nutritious (ive heard)..might taste like old socks!..have you got a smoothie maker..david has bought me one for xmas in readiness!...I will be having fish n chip smoothies!...no only kidding! i will try my hardest to be sensible. thanks for all your honest advice and tips you have posted for us..they are a big help,they really are!..I am taking it all in so any more advice or info is greatfully received! I am remembering what you said about the airport, you feeling wobbly and light headed..that was good advice, i will try and get something down me for the energy..as i get to feel like that anyway after not eating for half a day. so hopefully I can leave the wheelchairs for bigsister and wishfull!!..only two blokes going anyway to help push em! I will be walking proudly in front in my lovely new posh XXLL jogging bottoms! anyway your doing great, hope you get feeling better and better every day..Im sure youll feel fantastic in another few weeks with even more weight off and all healed up x

Bigsister has found out about somewhere where you can get medical travel insurance..Im gonna go for that for myself as our normal insurance wont cover us for anything if they know weve been for surgery abroad..think she said her online quote was about £28? ..Ill let you know. Im bit worried today as the pound is on par with the euro today..making what started out as a 3k op...now a 4K op..hubby got not much work on..and my hours cut at work straight after xmas. if i had to cancel, Id just die. its my focus at the moment..gonna have to sell the family hierlooms on ebay!(if i had any)..whatever..owt to get there..I will have to do it now, Ill be paying for it for years to come, but hopefully happy to pay for it cos ill see i got my moneysworth...so feeling guilty and selfish today..I will put lottery on for tomorrow..you never know, even a tenner would help!

Yes im gonna take loadsa photos...but cant post em on here..so ill have to put em somewhere else! darent put em on facebook!..no1 knows im going for it on there and ill give the game away!!..not brill on a computer, so if anyone has any ideas..wonder if i could set a false name up on facebook and post em there?! Im intending on taking one photo a month in just bra and knickers!..how lovely!..but wanna see the effects! did you see what fox said about being hit by a bus!?..watch me get hit by a real bus in my XXXLLL size joggers, baggy grey bra and big mamma knickers...just my luck!..Gillian x

HI FOX!!!!..Glad your back and your all banded and dusted!..well, this is it now, you will be getting smaller and smaller by the day..and although your in a bit of pain now, Im sure like all the others next week youll be saying it is well worth it when you get on those scales. hope you just feel like youve been hit by a van today? car tomorrow, motorbike the day after?!..how are you coping with the injections are you doing them yourself? anyway talking of crazy women in your room...ill have 2 there with me i reckon, what with wishfull and bigsister!..nice that well be together though for support, hope your feeling more up to it very soon,and are telling us it was all worth it!!..im sure you will! and all the best of luck with all the weight your gonna lose!! just think of you next year in those little clothes!!..(by the way the one who said your shouting...is a man) Gillian x

thanks for the tip about the bras...I have my old maternity bras....bit grey and bit tatty and very soft and comfy!!im gonna look great, especially with my lovely joggers on too! gillian x

Got mine already off moor market in Sheffield...they are XXL gorgeous and so classy!..cant wait to outshine bigsister and wishfull in my lovely joggers!. they were a whole £5! might even go and get some more, they will be so jealous!. Yes your ok then if your a wine drinker!..im gonna have to convert from lager now...I shall be in the hotel bar in my lovely joggers and stilletos, sipping a nice chiante the day after looking a wow! x

Hi Wishfull...like that about the plane being balanced out!!:tt1: ooh its getting closer!!..OMG :whistle: did you see that prog about women going to turkey last night for good times with toy boys?!! trip cost her 3K..well i think that spending 3K on this is better investment!!! dont feel guilty anymore!..I gave David a choice..i could do this trip or Id do that if he still didnt approve!:tt1::whistle:..! x

Hey Bigsister....I am actually the bigger of us so your name is not apt!..hope wishfull is a good referee in the hosp!..you and wishfull can sit either side of the plane and ill get put in the hold...I hope that the plane manages to get airbourne!..Biggerlittlesister

HI mmm!..like your name!..reminds me of chocolate! mmm!..no gillian stop it!...no more talk of chocolate.(im getting as much in as i can before band though!) anyway welcome to the forum!..you have had great experience already of your daughter having this op..I hope it has worked well for her?!..I thought about the balloon too but found out it can only be in for 6 months (is that right?)..I have dieted myself for 6 months and kept it off loads of times, and then i just get back into my old ways and pile it on..plus another stone!..decided the band would be more suitable for me..Chris is GMC registered and i have heard that he is the second busiest gastric band surgeons in the world and certainly one of the most experienced. I was also told that the first band was invented in belgium..and their surgeons trained ours in the UK anyway. In UK it would have cost me 8K..in Belgium 3K. I am happy with the research i have done anyway, and the amount of success stories on this forum made my mind up..It would be scary for me going I think if I wasnt getting support from this forum! Its great! I feel very guilty at times as we cant really afford the surgery esp at the moment with work being thin.. and I am getting a loan(well abig overdraft arrangement actually!)..I have saved up half the cost with items i have sold on ebay over about 3 years..I have a tummy account that i transfer paypal payments to! This is just something that I have got to do for myself..I keep saying to myself that I dont smoke or drink much..I deserve summat for me! (oops.except that chocolate addiction i have!) anyway, I read this forum and the other..youll find link at bottom of page (Dr christian de bruyne) back to front before i nervously made my decision..hope you find it usefull too in making a decision..Gillian x

ALCOHOL!!..yes you can still have it but think it will affect you more quickly..just like when you drink on an empty stomach suppose?..but a woman i work with who was banded in july, still drinks her gin and tonics but slower and she stirs it around with a straw and adds a little pich of sugar from a sachet in her bag....as fizzy drinks can repeat like mad and hurt a bit as they go down..if you like wine and spirits your fine..just watch the fizzy drinks she reckons!..I shall test this theory out well after i have been banded myself, and report back my findings...all in the name of research obviously! x

Im sure youll find someone who is going same day..he seems to do 3 or 4 a day i think..just keep asking on this forum and on the other thread....(anyone know of dr de bruyne chris)..youll find link to it at bottom of this page if you not been on it allready. tell me when you book and when for when you do wont you?..Ill look out for someone going at same time then x

Thats amazing! i had a big tooth took out yesterday(top back left) too so am on soup today too!! as well as paracetamol and nurofen!..I saved it and put it under my pillow last night..i was hoping to get a refund of the 44.60 it cost me to have it out!!..x

Its gonna cost you...taking that chihuaha on board the plane you know?! has it got a little matching armarni jogging suit?...this is just getting silly now...no one will want to speak to us...now get sensible and talk about stitches and anaesthetics and stuff like that...this isnt facebook or bebo you know! youll get us chucked off! be sensible like me.

LOL!!..SHE CAN! Hope shes ok anyway, looking forward to hearing from her..not long now TC!! ooh my butterflies are turning into birds now and nearer the time, ill be posting UPPERCASE too! x

Hey Wishfull, and bigsister will have booked the all butter penthouse hospital suite with swimming pool etc!, and shell be club class on the plane drinking champagne and caviar smoothies!

Hark at her Wishfull?, she thinks shes good dont she?!. she will have to have a vicky pollard or waynetta slob jogging suit on like us...only thing shell get hers from juicy couture or summat! (or at least M&S). I have got mine already off the market..I am going to look stunning on my reveal day!!

sorry bigsister I should know better! Youll be having not just a band....but a bestest silicone and quality belgian plastic finest gastric band?! ha!..Ill just have a yellow Netto one. it'll be R8!.