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Boob job is already being planned. I'm short, not even 5', and since kids have never been below a C, usually more like DD or more. i want to be a D, bigger than that on my short self, would look way too much, but less than that and i will feel lost! I've gone from a 42DD to 36D's that are too big! hubby is definitely a boob man and he notices every little bit that is disappearing! Full Tummy tuck and boobs are already being planed for March of next year!!!

I guess i'm considered a low BMI'er too. I was under 40 but the day of my first consult, i went to my PCP and had a BP of 210/116! I KNOW i was very worked up about not quailifing for surgery and i also had been having migraines A LOT. but, whatever worked! it qualified me for surgery through my ins. (my BP meds were gone before i was 1 month of out of surgery!) I didn't have to do ANYTHING. no classes ahead of time, no shrink visit, no nutritionist.... they called to schedule my surgery 2 weeks later (when they got the approval letter from my INS) for a little more than a week later (enough time to do a liquid diet for a week)! I had a hiatal hernia repaired at the same time ( i had no clue i had, but he showed us the pics! YUCK!) we ended up paying a little more than $3000 for what they charged $26,000 + to the insurance! I remember my Dr. telling me i was a 'light weight' and i almost cried because i thought he was telling me he wouldn't do it. he did not mean that, he just wanted me to know that i'm not his typical patient and that he understood i didn't want to keep going up. Each visit i have been to, he has been more than pleased with my results. i really thought i would lose slow because i was a lower BMI, but that has not been the case. i have good weeks, GREAT weeks and slow weeks...sometimes i don't lose...some times i'm up a few ounces. the thing is it's no where near what it used to be! I was banded on 3-3-2009, i started at 191. 4 1/2 months later, i am 141! 50 pounds gone! I am only 4'11", and from a very tiny family....i weighed 96 pounds before my first child was born! there is NO WAY i could ever get that small again without looking deathly ill. i had gotten down to 120 (you know, for all of 4 seconds) 6 years ago, but, well, you all know....gained it all back, 2 pregnancies added to that, and gained even more! i can also remember the night before surgery thinking, SHOULD I DO THIS? then, i looked at my before pics again....OMG, YES. NO. DOUBT. ABOUT. IT! this IS the best thing i have EVER done for myself! I'm now only 18 pounds from having a NORMAL BMI...only 4 1/2 months after surgery! I'm 22 pounds from my original goal of 120, and even my OMG goal of 115-110 doesn't seem impossible!! I have set a goal to reach my goal by the end of OCT. i will turn 38, and i hope to be in the best shape of my adult life! sorry this post was ALL over the place! one thing i have noticed is that my ADD/ADHD has definitely showed up again!! not only does my body have more energy to go go go...so does my brain! lol good luck ladies! we can do this...with the HELP of our band!

I got my pics up, and it made me realize i need to not delete any pics that someone happens to snap of me ( i didn't have many from surgery to now! I'm always behind the camera and hide from it the rest of the time!). I ended up calling the Dr. because of being tight. it did losen some though. I was able to eat turkey chili yesterday and had my shakes just fine. i was only able to eat less than a 1/2 cup at a time but they said that was fine. i question it because only eating that much and only eating 3 times a day, there is NO WAY of getting the calories they recommend in. although, i'm not hungry if i drink Water in between. yesterday, i also added a protien drink in between because i would have had less than 500 calories! I'm doing MUCH better with the snacking (NOT doing it!). it had gotten way out of hand, and i cannot let myself do that! since my period stopped, i have had a migraine EVERYDAY! boo hoo.... i even went to my regular Dr.'s office yesterday to let them take my blood pressure JUST incase that was the problem. it was fine, a tiny bit elevated for me, but the migraine probably was the cause. I pray it doesn't come back today. we are going out of town Sunday night. Spending the night at my parents, spending Monday with a friend of mine that lives out of state but is coming into town to visit her family. i haven't seen her since i was preggo with the littlest one (he's almost 2 now). we will leave the littles with my parents, the older boys will go to thier dads, and hubby and i are going spend the night in New Orleans...alone! WOO HOO! we are staying right next to CHEESECAKE BISTRO! YUMMY! i told hubby i will order a piece of cheesecake as soon as we get there since it will probably take me 2 days to eat ONE piece! LOL we will be doing lots of walking, so i'll walk it off, not concerned about that! i also checked for a curves and while hubby does a webinar, i will go work out (if i can get to the curves without getting lost or scared to walk N.O. alone! LOL) yesterday hubby ordered me 2 bikinis from VICTORIA SECRET! they were having a clearance sale on them, plus i had a code for more off, so they were SUPER CHEAP! he was going to get 3 but by the time we went back to order them, they had sold out of the top on one of them. I went with Medium (i find they run small) knowing right now it's NOT going to fit. My plan is when i go for my consult with the PS, i will have a guide of where i want my scar to fall (hiding it under a swimsuit will be my goal). we have a boat, and i dream of the day to wear a bikin PROUDLY riding out on the front of the boat, without worrying about hiding when we passed other people (some skinny minny 20 something year old!) watch out cause next summer i WILL be sitting out on the front of our boat in my itty bitty bikini catching some sun! and last but NOT LEAST.....i have lost FIFTY POUNDS! i had hoped by the 5th month to lose 50, and i did it already! 2 pounds to get to the 130's 18 pounds to have a normal BMI-no longer overweight 21 pounds to get to my goal then i will see how much more i want to lose. i will make my PS consult when i get to 120. that will give me a few months to lose more if i want to or the surgeon thinks the results will be better!

If you hav enot already canceled your surgery, i would go through with it! I think we all doubted doing it before, and even AFTER we did it (the first week ...and the during bandster hell). I did, and now.... i wish i had done it sooner! the night before surgery i looked at my before pics because i was rethinking going through with it. I was never so sure of needing to do something about my health! good luck!

WOO HOO!! congrats on the 5 lbs, onederland, and JUST overweight!! what a great day for you!! i hope you are over your migraine. i'm a sufferer of them also...this has been a BAD week for me. i've had to take imitrex 4 days in a row.

you look fabulous! it will come off, just keep at it!! as for your waist....at curves, they have us bend at the waist, side to side. put the tape measure in the bend and measure there! the inches are going down! you will get there!!

I said i would NEVER post my pics either...and i didn't look at them for a very long time. guess what i did today (before i read your blog too!)....put my pics in my profile. YIKES! to think the night before i had the thought that maybe i DIDN'T need to do this! yeah right.... who am i kidding? I should have done it long ago! I am also always behind the camera, and run from them. I LOVE the timer on my camera because no one but me (meaning hubby doesn't even) sees them!! i started on liquids today because i've been going nuts with junk and snacking (grazing) all day. i was SO on track, but after the 4th, my teenagers b-day and hubby's b-day (that's tomorrow and i'm NOT giving in to temptation even though there will be cheesecake here) have just made me bring things i normally wouldn't have in the house...and eating it! protien shakes and water for me for a couple of days so i can get used to 3 meals a day again! I hope i can bust through a couple of pounds too since i've slowed down!

thanks! you know how it is though. when it slows, you want it to go so much faster! I really need to get back to my eating healthy again! funny thing, i haven't had a fill since April 23, and i'm so tight today that i have to really make sure i take even liquids (i'm doing protien shakes all day (and water) to snap myself out of this snacking/junk food trend i have started) SUPER slow... i felt like i was going to start sliming on Water earlier today!! My period just ended yesterday, so i would have thought i would have been tight right before or DURING that time...but NOPE. TODAY, the day after it stopped! strange!:thumbup: i don't know if i have to do anything to let you see...after my goof-up today. let me know if i do!!

oh wow, i thought you were all set to do your surgery. so, is a lower body lift a cut all the way around the body? what results will you get that you wouldn't from a Full TT? i don't know what the LBL does. I have so many things i would like done.....but for now a flat belly and the girls back to were they go is what i will do!

OOPS! i was taking off names that i didn't know from my friends list and i unchecked you instead of the one next to you....i'll see if i can add you back, if not, or if you have to do anything, could you please re-add you to me, or me to you.... SORRY!! going do the pics now! edited to add: i uploaded my pics! ack! i did 3 different albums. before, during, and family

I bet that was LOTS of fun! a crash right in front of you...wow! i bet the crowd went nuts! that is awesome that you were able to lose while gone! isn't that amazing! no way we would have done that before the band! I'm working on uploading my pics....it's scary! i still can't believe my size and that i thought for a half a second that maybe i DIDN'T need to do this....i should have done it a LOT sooner! I am down another pound. 47 pounds gone.... so close to 50 but i seem to be slowing down. of course with all the snacking and junk that has been around the house....I only have MYSELF to blame for eating the way i have. today, i am doing liquids. my Protein shakes (carnation essentials with egg whites for added protien). I need to get myself out of this rut. i wasn't even craving junk anymore, but now that i have let myself eat it, i want ONLY that. on to NSV....i had hubby get down the box of clothes that was put in the attic when we moved since i was pregnant at the time and figured i would not fit in them for a while....then the 2nd pregnancy...and now the 'baby' is almost 2 and i have no excuse to still have 'baby' weight. it was labeled 'clothes i won't fit into for a very long time' box. it had a mix of sizes from 8's down to 4's....the 8's ALL FIT!!!!! i was SO excited that i went through my closet and tried on pants.... my 8's fit! i even had a pair of 6's fit! (ok, it's old navy and for me, old navy runs big because when i bought that pair of pants, all the rest of my jeans were 8's)...but OMG did that feel GREAT!! of course, it didn't stop me from shoveling the crap into my mouth! I'm joining a running club with my neighbor this weekend. I hope this boost my motivation, beats my slowdown of weight and makes me stop and think before putting the junk into my mouth!!!! ok, the pics are on my computer...i'm going figure out how to upload them to the site.....shield your eyes...it's NOT a pretty site! ACK!~

I just told my hubby the other day that i need to get a ring guard because my ring is so lose i'm afraid it's going to fall off and i won't notice! It's insured, but it still wouldn't be the same having to replace it! I'm not ready to have it sized down....i had it sized to be able to wear it, and i don't want to do anything to it until i KNOW it won't have to be sized again!

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i hope you had lots of fun on your trip! I bet you will end up enjoying nascar....I'm sure 'being there' is much different than 'watching cars go round' on the TV. LOL I guess it's a man thing, because i don't get it either! i can imagine it was great and FUN buying new clothes for the trip too! as for pics, i need to take some. i have befores.... oh my goodness, i cannot believe i let myself get to that point. Is there a way to load them and they don't show up for the world to see? you know how on the home page they show the 'latest' pics uploaded. i don't want the world to see them, since i'm one of those who hasn't told the world i've had this done. I had gone down another pound, but between the 4th and my period about to come, i'm up a pound. I usually want to eat everything in site the week before (although that is still MUCH less than i USED to eat) but USUALLY lose a couple of pound as soon as it starts. I hope i didn't screw that up with all the snacking i did over the holiday and the last few days! I threw most of the stuff out and the kids finished the rest, so i just won't bring that kind of stuff back in the house. Oh....well, this coming weekend, my oldest is turning 17! he's having friends over and doing pizza, Snacks and cake....i'll have to stay away from it and make sure everything is GONE when they leave! that shouldn't be TOO hard with a bunch of 16-17 year old kids here! can't wait to hear about your trip!

I started at 191, i'm only 4'11". I have a (first goal) of 120 which is 71 pounds to lose. (i would LOVE to get to 110, but i will see when i get closer) I had surgery 3/3/09 and i am down 46 pounds. Before and after surgery, i would occasionally walk, but NOTHING consistant! I told myself after 20 pounds gone, i would start exercising, but i didn't. I hit a plateau about 1 1/2 months ago and stayed there for 3 weeks! I KNEW what needed to be done. i started going to curves. i'm losing great again. I want to reach my goal by the end of this year (i'm hoping for my OMG goal of 110-115). I would REALLY like to reach it by my birthday that is at the end of October. If i keep losing at the rate that i am going, i think i will get there by then.

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THANK YOU!! i swear i replied to this....but i don't see it! so here i go again! I hope Dec 18th gets here QUICK for you!i bet you are SOOOO excited!! I am now 46 pounds down!! 4 pounds to losing FIFTY POUNDS! WOW!!! 6 pounds to be in the 130's! 10 until my Labor Day challenge goal (135!) We went to New Orleans this past weekend...i LOST WEIGHT while gone! WOO HOO! I worked out while gone, ate good at most meals, but ate what i wanted when we went to a nice place (cheesecake bistro!) and i STILL LOST!! I was so worried i wouldn't be able to eat, or would get stuck, since no one knows i've had this....and it was all fine!! of course not one person said a SINGLE work about me having lost the weight.....50 pounds was not noticed? REALLY? :rolleyes2: oh well.... I haven't lost it for THEM...i did it for ME, and i feel SO MUCH BETTER about MYSELF!

another 2 for me! five pounds away from 50 pounds gone!! our total is over 120 now! WTG everyone!!

It's now 16 weeks out and i'm down 44 pounds! out of the 150's! no longer be obese! 12 pounds to my labor day challenge goal (i hope to beat that!) 17 pounds to be the weight i was when i got married! (would love to meet THIS for labor day!) 27 pounds to be the lowest weight i've been since having childern and my 'goal' weight. 32-37 pound to my OMG goal! My birthday is at the end of Oct. and i would LOVE to be at goal by then. it would take a lot of work, but not impossible! It's a little more than 18 weeks away. that's an average of 1.5 pounds a week...that's doable! Then i could maintain my weight (or get to my OMG goal) until the beginning of the year, when we would be ready financially for the cost of PS! I had to go to the DR. (my lapband dr.) last week because after 16 weeks, the incision for my port was irritated and had infection! he said it was on the surface, and not to worry, it would be ok and not cause probelms. it's already doing great. he said it was probably the suture knot being rejected by my body....i had the same thing happen for one of my sections. he was impressed with my progress, and said no to a fill. i wasn't there for one, and really didn't think i needed one since i've been steadily losing again. I will definitely wait until my next cycle is over to decide when and if i need a fill. The Dr. really thinks i'm at my sweet spot. some days i think yes, others, not. some days i think i should be able to eat more, others, i'm thinking i need a fill! LOL I finished a month of curves, and i am pleased with the results. I lost 8 1/2 pounds and 10"! I sent an email to a Plastic surgeon my SIL used to ask questions about WHEN to start the process of PS. I wanted to know when i should go in for my first consult (if his waiting list is long...i don't want to wait 6 months after i have my appointment if i'm ready to have surgery. i rather go 6 months early, find out what i will have done and the cost. and put it off if i'm not ready...rather than be ready and have to wait! ) I can't wait to hear back!! i read that you will have your surgery in Dec! that's AWESOME! I know you are so excited to have a date!!

This was a great poll to see! I'm at 3 1/2 months now, and sometimes get frustrated that i'm not seeing the scale move (during plateau's). when i look at the poll results, i remind myself that at 3 1/2 months out, i should be proud that i have lost 43 pounds! from the poll results it looks like the highest average is what i have lost already....and the poll was for SIX months out of surgery!! I haven't done my measurements in a while but i'm sure on the weeks that the scale doesn't move, that the inches are still coming off..... I can't wait to see where i will be at six months!!