Marmite_crumpet

So the food comes back through your nostrils ??!!!

I had the band at the beginning of Feb this year. Everyone has different things that get stuck and there are plenty of threads discussing it. Generally though, bread and dry meats are common "stickers". I suppose my title was misleading - I didn't mean "unstuck" as in bringing the food back up. I meant that jiggling around sometimes pushes it through. Sorry for that. :scared2:

I would have liked a "couple of times a month" option as "once a week" is a bit too much, but "once a month" too little.

(Fast forward to 5.00mins) :thumbdown:

(cross-posted to the general "Introductions" Forum) Hi all Been reading through these forums and found lots of very useful/helpful information. I first saw my Consultant - Shaw Somers - June 2007, where he said I would be a good candidate for WLS. It has taken a further 6 months for me to decide that I want to go ahead. I phoned the unit in Chichester on Monday and yesterday they told me I could have the op on 31st Jan - 3 weeks away. They initially said I could have 17th if I wanted, but there is too much for me to sort out for that deadline - plus it seemed too rushed. Anyway, I have lots of reservations, still, about all this but think it is the right choice when I weigh everything up. Today, after the initial excitement yesterday, I feel depressed that it has come to this. That I am a failure and rather pathetic that I can't use will power and just stop stuffing my face! I am disgusted that I am electing to have surgery when I am healthy, because I choose to overeat. I see sick and dying people in my job who would give anything to be in my position. Yet here I am, choosing to go through a surgical procedure to "be normal". Sorry to be such a misery, but I thought I might as well be completely honest from the start. All comments, negative and positive, are very welcome. Did anyone else feel this way?

All the time.

Aw, sorry to disappoint. When I said "launch", I was using poetic licence. I suppose I meant that I didn't slow down too much for them and it was enough to "shake" the food through the band :biggrin:

You poor thing. What a nightmare! :biggrin:

Tell me about it! My boss - a very slim woman in her late 40s - is getting more and more obsessive about how much I eat. Luckily I only see her about once a month (I'm in medical sales, on the road), but she cannot leave it alone. She always comments "Oh, is that all you're having?", when I am having more than she is ... e.g. I always choose Soup when we are out, to avoid PB. The soup is nearly always a thick, creamy sort, so probably laden with calories. She chooses a large salad with a couple of olives/shavings of cheese. My soup will contain far more calories than her pathetic salad! She is getting more and more uncomfortable with the attention I am getting from colleagues re the weight I have lost. I think she was happier when she was the only older woman in the team to be slim.

Or, unless they are your colleagues who are all thin and obsessed with food i.e. not eating it, but focussing on what everyone else eats! I've just had 2 days of that on a training course with all meals provided. Misery

I posted this link in another thread in "General Lapband Surgery Discussion" TV presenter Jay Hunt on her gastric Bypass Read some of the comments (click on "view all" to expand) following her successful story. :thumbup:

...about having the band. This story about Jay Hunt, a television presenter in the UK, had the bypass last year. Excellent read of her diary and the accompanying photos all make a fabulous success story. All good so far. Now scroll down to read the comments from readers... TV presenter Jay Hunt on her gastric bypass :thumbup:

I know a lot of people have received nothing but support for their decision to have WLS and I am pleased for them. I just know how my family and colleagues are: family are judgemental about everything (and ignorant/bigotted!) and I am surrounded by skinny colleagues who are obsessed with competing to be the thinnest girl in the Company! I have told my children (who have been fabulous), my partner and 2 close friends. I don't think it is only people who've never struggled with their weight who make nasty comments either. How many times do we read threads from people who had WLS and their overweight friends make negative remarks?

It has taken me over 6 months for this "lightbulb moment". Now that I follow the rules - and work with the band, rather than fighting it (then sulking about the outcomes of not losing weight, pbing from not chewing enough), the pounds really are falling away. Start following Jachut, RestlessMonkey and Jack. They talk sense and tell it how it is.

I literally laughed out loud at: :thumbup:

Can I ask what happened to enable you to get past it?

case in point :wub::thumbup:

Full story here This made my blood boil. :thumbup::cursing: This woman is the poster child for who NOT to offer WLS to: I can't afford to eat healthily' says £600-a-month benefits woman who weighs 22 stone By Eleanor Glover Last updated at 8:40 AM on 29th July 2009 Laura Ripley receives £600 a month in benefits, weighs 22 stone after a gastric sleeve operation, and is deemed fit to work but has no plans to find a job A 25-year-old unemployed woman who was given an £8,000 operation to help her lose 16 stone is complaining because, as well as her weight loss, her benefits have been reduced. Laura Ripley, who has never worked, was given the operation on the NHS to help her slim down from 38 to 22 stone. But the 25-year-old, who receives £600 a month in benefits, is unhappy because as a result of losing weight she can no longer claim disability allowance amounting to an extra £340 a month. This, she says, means she cannot afford to eat healthily - causing her to pile the weight back on. 'I can't afford to buy WeightWatchers crisps and Cereal bars any more so I eat Tesco's chocolate bars and packets of Space Invaders crisps, sometimes four of each a day', says Laura, who spends seven hours a day watching TV. 'People ask why I don't snack on an apple - they're cheap, but emotionally I don't always feel like an apple.' The disability allowance money she used to receive was spent on gym workouts, healthy food and having her hair highlighted. She adds: 'Without my disability allowance I'm left with just £210 incapacity benefit which I get because of my depression, and £100 income support I receive every two weeks and out of that I have to give them back £70 towards the cost of the £500-a-month flat I'm living in.' Since the extra allowance stopped Laura has put on a stone in just three weeks and claims she is being treated unfairly. 'It's heartbreaking that after all my hard work losing this weight someone's come along and ruined it.' Laura has been offered another operation on the NHS, which would normally cost £12,000, to remove the saggy skin left behind after the dramatic weight loss, but only if she sheds a further five stone, and until then she has no plans to find a job. Morbidly obese: Laura, then aged 15 and weighing 25 stone, Snacks on crisps and chocolate because she says she cannot afford healthy food 'I'm not even applying for work at the moment because I'm only going to have to have lots of time off when I have more surgery.' Speaking from the two-bedroom flat she shares with unemployed boyfriend Simon Hawkins, Laura describes how she was shocked into embarking on the weight loss plan after her mother Doreen died of obesity-related complications on Christmas Eve 2005. 'A doctor told me that unless I lost 20 stone I wouldn't live to see my 25th birthday. He recommended I have a gastric sleeve op.' Prior to the surgery Laura lost eight and a half stone by cutting out junk food and drinking diet shakes and has since lost a further seven stone after her stomach was shrunk by 75 per cent. However, without the extra benefits Laura is worried she'll put the weight back on and says she can feel her stomach stretching after binging on the unhealthy snacks. 'I sometimes feel guilty about all the taxpayers' money that's been spent on me but I only want an extra £100 a month, that's all', says Laura.