Lady Lap Band

The only thing I have left to do is see my dietician one last time before she gives the ok to schedule me a surgery!!! I see her on 3/23 so I am praying for an end of April Surgery! Keeping my fingers crossed! Oh and the letter is in the mail from Aetna to see if insurance is going to cover me or not! Anyone else near this point in the journey!??

Hi lulu! My name is Breanne, I am 22yrs old and I am being banded on June 19, 2009. What is your date? I live with my mom, dad, and husband, and they are the only people that know about my surgery. I plan to tell no one else. I started this Journey back in December of 2008. At times it has been so hard not to blurt it out to a few certain people. Especially people who I relate to on weight struggles with whom I always chit chat with about dieting. But I am so thankful when I walk away and have not told them. Every bone in my body says don't tell anyone, they will not get it. So I am trusting my own instincts on this one! Thank the lord for this website, had I not been able to talk about this non stop here I am sure I would have told someone. I am telling you, use this website non stop, when you want to tell someone, come talk here instead! I don't think you'll regret not telling! Keep in touch!

My surgery date is 6/19/09 and I am having it done at Lahey Clinic in Burlington. Dr. Sillin is my surgeons name.

I live with my mom, dad and husband, so those are the only three people who know. In the begining it was really hard not to blurt it out to people. But now that my surgery is almost here, I am really glad I kept it to myself. A lot of people who have this surgery also have a hiatled hernia, so that is what I am choosing to tell work. Those are the only people I have to give some sort of explaination to. Other than that I am telling everyone else nothing. You have to work hard with lifestyles changes even with the band, eating right and exercising. That is what I plan to tell people when they ask what I am doing!

I love this idea! I get banded 6/19 and I will come up with a name by then!

From a political standpoint I believe it should be able to be done in public with modesty. I think mothers should take into consideration making people around them uncomfortable. From a personal view, I am really really grossed out by it. I don't plan to do it when I have children, and I get sick to my stomach around people who are doing it. I know it's great for the baby and all, just trying to keep it real and be honest!

I totally respect her for saying what she actually believed in and not saying what she thought people would want to hear, that is extremely commendable. This is a tough subject because for the most part it's the 2 extremes, either you think marriage should be between a woman and man, or you think anyone should be able to get married to whomever they want. There are a few who just don't care, but I think for the most part it is the two opposite ends of the spectrum. I'm a christian so of course I believe that marriage is meant to be between a man and a woman only. I don't pretend to understand those who are gay, because I don't. I don't know if they are born into it, or the choose it. I think it may be different from person to person, but like I said I have no clue.

I do not think it should be legal. It's possible it would open the door to being able to sell your body for anything if it were ever legalized. I think if it were to happen we would be putting many people in what could be potential danger. I think the world goes round just fine without it being legal.

Hey congrats that is soooo exciting!!!! Did you say the 1st or 11th?

oh my word, that is a good question! You just made me think and I pulled up the calendar to calculate my birth control pills and I will def be on mine too! eeks I am thinking about tweeking the pills so I can skip that week!

I have Aetna and was approved very quickly. I think they will approve you. If you are just missing one year, and you had a BMI of 40 or more the year prior, chances are they will assume you didn't loose a drastic amount of weight within one year to drop your BMI and then gain it all back within the same year to get back to the BMI of 40 or more. I think you'll be ok! Call your doc, they probably deal with this kind of thing all the time and will tell you what they think! Good luck!!!

I told you Aetna was a breeze to get approved! I had the very same thing happen to me, they approved so fast! Congrats! let us know when you get your date!

Hey Danielle! Congrats on getting your date! I am getting banded on June 19th as well! I'd love to keep in touch and share each others progress!

Hey Everyone! So all of us are averaging about 1 month till our surgery, some a little longer and some a little less now that it is May 2nd! But I thought we could all come up with an exercise challange for ourselves this month. I think we should all create a challenge for ourselves and post what it is here and periodically come here and update each other on how we are doing. Let's keep each other accountable so we can really get this weight off!!!!!!!!! My challenge: 2 hours of cardio 5 days a week!!!

Hey that is awesome! Don't be overwhelmed with when your surgery date will be because I promise the time will fly by!!! I currently work nights so I have not ever been able to attend any of the support meetings! I wish I could. I assume you have attended the seminar??

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ummm......I went to my seminar on 12/8/08 and was lucky enough to get someone who canceled there evaluation a few days later. So the eval is no biggie at all! You sit with the psychologist, nutritionist, and then Pam O'brien who kinda heads up the whole program. If its not Pam then it will probably be another Nurse Practitioner. You will probably be there like 3-4 hours. Before you even see any of those people pam sat down with me and another man and went into futher explanation of the procedures. I had to do a 3 month supervised with my dietician...from start to finish I started in Dec and my surgery is in June

I've always been overweight, but I got fat when I fell in love! I was 5'5 and 190, my boy friend (now husband) was 6'4 280 and I thought for some reason I could eat everything he ate, and the same amounts. Needless to say that is why I am FAT!!!

Hey Tiffany!!!!! Congrats on getting your date! My date is 6/19! I was watching Dr. Oz today and he said if you can't do anything else just commit to walking 30 minutes per day! They showed someone he helped that lost soooo much weight doing that!!! You can do it girl!