TracyinKS

City: Have you started your pre op diet yet??? LOVELY Congrats on your date its fast approaching.

Congrats on a most WONDERFUL NSV!

HOLY CRAP that is FAST! Woooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo INDEED! :confused:

I love checking this thread to see where I will hopefully be at 6 months... Sunshine you have done simply AMAZING! and Audrey I had wondered where you went after the wedding.... Sunshine did it feel weird when you were totally filled? I just got fill #2 on Monday and now am at 2.75 and I can definately tell a difference.. I just hope the scale follows. Thanks everone for continuing to post........ :confused:

You are awesome! Thanks so much for continuing to hang around the boards and give us newbies advice and inspiration!

Can we get a HELL YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TGIF :confused:

amen sister

Another person just had a problem with pork last night......... haven't tried it yet.. take tiny bites and chew chew chew. Good luck!

Haydee: You are doing great... you are due for a WHOOOOOOOOOOSH I just know it! Judy: LOL about your daughter.. WONDERFUL on the inches lost! Jennifer: TIME FOR MAMA TO PLAY! TracyK: Hope you are feeling better! Terry: OK you were on my mind at Price Chopper.. I came home with Shrimp, and that Tilipia fish to try... (I am not a fish eater, but you have inspired me to at least try it) Dbf can not tolerate fish or pork... so him being gone next week will allow me to experiment without listening to him belly ache.......... Either you or Judy posted a good way to cook it a month or so ago... please will you either post it again or PM me. So far today I've eaten those almonds and about 7 bing cherries and that is IT. I stocked up on good quality food so that I will make wise Bandster Rules abiding choices.. I did get some sugar free fudgsicles for treats.......... I'm making taco salad (me) for dinner but dbf had a special request for my fried shells for him to make tacos....... spoiled brat... I KNEW I should of never fried taco shells in his company! LOL Time for some more water.......... back in a sec

Hello everyone! I wanted to pop back in and add that my step mom works at Olathe Medical Center where Dr. Harlan Opie works. He started doing the a year or so ago, and she says he is very nice. There is also a doc in Leavenworth that has started doing them.. a friend of mine works for him part time.... there is a wide variety of people who use Hoehn at Shawnee Mission Medical Center......... If you are self pay and in the KC area, you might want to trot on over to Topeka to Tallgrass where they do bands for around 11K....... KU girl: I will say that MAKE SURE you check and see your doc 1 time a month every 4 weeks and have them note it on your chart. If your insurance is demanding a 6 month diet, they are obviously picky. I am a regular over on the GENERAL Discussion board on the Shrinking Violets thread.......feel free to pop in and post.

Malley Patient and BCBS! the problem is that Menorah is the BCBS hospital a person must use, and they are booked through Christmas.. apparently, Menorah only schedules a few days a month for the band. Dr. Malley does surgery on tuedays and thursdays... I had the approval letter in my hand by the end of January but couldn't get in to Menorah until April 26.......... and the wait is much much much longer now. He is a very quiet but funny guy........ He has a lifesize cardboard cut out of the band Kiss in his office.. I can easily imagine him to be the very SMART, QUIET, ROCKER Guy/student at KU. His requirements are what YOUR insurance requires......... except you DO have to attend HIS seminar before Darlene will make your consultation appointment. I asked Darlene on Monday (the date of my 2nd fill) if I should keep quiet about our little jewel of a doc and she said no.. cause the search is on for another Doctor to join the practice.......... I think any doctor he would allow to join would have to have the same mentality of the entire staff....... The woman dr is Wanda Kanowski or something.. look on the doctor/insurance board and you will find out more.

Congrats Tom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK.... I'm shoveling a handful of almonds in my mouth as I'm reading Terry's post about waiting to see if things go down........ damnnnnnnnn they are now feeling a bit stuck... chew chew chew.. but its too too too late! CRAP yup restriction is here

I fully believe that your body loses in cycles.......... the weeks you don't lose pounds you will lose inches. It takes a while for your body to catch up with itself! As for the three pounds in a few days.. could also be water.. when i don't drink enough water in a day my rings get tight and my feet swell. (and I know that the scale will reflect it too) I actually gage my water intake with how easily my ring slips around my finger.

You will only need ONE! Congrats!

My doc allowed me coffee before I even left the hospital... I drink coffee every day, so no problems there.. the ONLY thing he said we have to give up is WHITE DOUGHY BREAD, due to the gluten level. The one thing I can not tolerate is refried beans.. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY. Each doc is different. He even gives us our pop back after the first month.

GOOD MORNING!!!!!!!!! I am just a hair under 5'5", I carry my weight pretty evenly.. my problem area's are my arms.... I know that I have a at least a couple pounds of fat in each batwing.. LOL... I need to get my water in today... I've been slacking on it....... I think I have restriction.. so I'm hoping that I drop some weight now, but then I think that 243 is a far cry from 272 because I would of been even heavier by now had I not stopped the insanity. Have a great day!

First.. BooBoo Kity: I think you husband knows your awake but is insecure enough to take the chicken way out by the "OUT" of you pretending to be asleep... (does that make sense?) He figures that you'll answer when your ready to end the silence.... Silent treatment drive me INSANE, as I am a venter... Dbf is a runner and that pisses me off... it all boils down to some crap ass sense of insecurity on all parts.... In my old life I would of dumped the spaghetti on his head, but if I did it to dbf he would leave and never come back and I would be stuck with the bills and broken hearts (both mine and my sons) The mother issue.................... I started my period at age 9 but didn't tell my mom til I was 11, because I felt she would embarass me by telling EVERYONE... I am heavy like her.. and a classic yo yo dieter going up and down the scale just like she has always done.. and she is one of the hardest people on me about it..... I love her dearly, and we talk daily via phone and email, but I can relate... I do hold her at more of a distance in some respects and that I know is hurtful. I just pray that I don't alienate my own child so that he hold me at a distance in his adult years............... Oh yeah......... Dbf would never agree to counseling about our lack of sex... most likely he would turn it around that it was my fault... (again a sign of insecurity) going to bed now.........

Happy 5th of July! CUTE salad, and it looks very tasty.. and congrats for hitting the 220's! Jenn: HOLY CRAP BATMAN YOU ARE A HaWTIE.. that dbf better shape up fast before someone better catches your eye! Congrats on the Levis too! KAT: that is so scarey about Kinsey.. HUGS go out to you. I believe Michelle (MDRI) is on vacation this week. EVeryone else.. HIYA! We had a busy long day yesterday and today felf like Monday.. YUCK lots of running around before and after work.... but drumroll......... I have restriction........ Today I have 1) Nibbled on a grilled burger 2)about 5 bites of a small side salad, Toppings off 3 pieces of pizza (I did try the hard part of the crust ONE bite and NOPE wasn't gonna go so I only ate the toppings) and I am still full... 4 hours later! PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!! I didn't do very good on my water today, but I hope it keeps up and I start catching up to everyone! I DID however wear a pair of size 16 levis today... (old/stretch) and they were tight.. but DBF said my butt looked real good in them! So I shook it at him..

Bumping! Waiting for a post!

Thanks everyone.. I kind of put myself out there with that..... I have asked him why, and he says he just doesn't know... he's tired, he's stressed... he did grow up overweight before puberty but once it hit he shot up to 6'4" and although he has gained some weight in his gut he still wears a 36-38 jean........ this is kind of sad... but once early on in the realationship he let it slip that he and the ex used to fight about sex, well not really fight .. he quickly added and then changed the subject.. I always thought it was her not wanting it but I've come to realize that it must of been the opposite. They never had sex without a condom unless they were trying to concieve...... anyway I don't want to dwell on it any more tonight it is a fact of my life and I know that overall its not the most important thing....... but I would like to remember what it was like.. had I known the last time would be the LAST I would of tried to remember ... and maybe I would of went out with that massuse just one more time........... I will be looking into the self help books.. great idea

I am not updating my pics because I look fatter now than I did then! SAd but true.. maybe by my next fill July 30th I will be lower than my last pic post.... Judy: Glad you and DH made it back! I had about a cup of runny spaghetti sauce tonight for dinner.. I really wanted the cheesy garlic bread dbf made but I KNOW it would of been painful so I stayed away...... (ok so I licked a piece when no one was looking and then scraped the cheese of one) but it was gooooooooooooooooooooooood

Do I post? Do I continue to keep to myself on this subject? what the hell.. I'll post...... I can't remember the last time I had sex with dbf, and we've only been together for a little over two years.... the person who says we have bills and kids in common.. I second that.. a lot of bills and a lot of kids.. same morale ethics, same family goals..... but no sex and the most physical contact is a simple peck on the lips at night and in the morning before work..... things started slowing down immediately in the sex department literally a few months into our relationship he started pushing my hands away and it has gone downhill since (and I was in a size 10/12 at the time) God love my mother but she once teased me that he wasn't interested because I had once again REGAINED all my weight.... geesh thanks mom.... anyway my issues go way back with sex.... I was "devirginized" by my exhusband who was also my highschool sweetheart.. we were together for 17 years.. I'd never even SEEN another mans privates until I got divorced LOL... (he cheated on me and left me via note one new years eve) I had no clue, and was devestated.. I though our lack of sex for the 3 months prior was because of his depression over a friends near fatal accident... ANYWAY I swore that I would never go that long without sex again... because had I given him more maybe he wouldn't of cheated... never really liked sex that much.. wasn't adventurous and it was always quick.. (happens a lot I think when two kids grow up together and never learn anything new) OK.. so got divorced immediately hooked up with the rebound psyco loser that immediately cheated on me and got this formerly infertile girl preggers.......... a baby later I finally booted his abusive loser ass to the curb and THEN I WAS REBORN!!!!!!!!! at 34 I was free to date and have fun... I lost 80 lbs and looking good, feeling great, and anxious grandma's to babysit on weekends the miracle baby... I discovered that indeed I did LIKE sex..... I bought books on learning to give myself an orgasm... (because I've never had one) to this day I have no idea what its really like, or if I've had fleeting moments of one and don't know it... I'm almost 40 and don't know what all the talk is about....... sad but true.... yeah I've faked it.. yeah when guys found out they wanted to be the first.... so I let them think it....... but I honestly don't know if I have or not..... OK.. so I had a year of dating around and having fun... and then I met DBF and at first we had sex every day........ and then it was every week, then it was was a couple times a month........ and now I don't know... I do know that I quit buying my BC Ring in december because it was a waste of money...... it hurts my feelings to be denied so I just quit asking or initiating... I've tried to talk to him about it and he just gets pissed off....... I kind of blew up after my band was put in, I lifted my shirt and asked him to feel for my port.. he said NO it kind of grossed him out.. I said WHAT???? He laughed and said that the thought of a port freaked him out and it was gross to him...... TEARS, followed by exclaimination....... "GREAT! NOW MY BAND GROSSES YOU OUT.. WE ARE NEVER HAVING SEX AGAIN ARE WE???" he replied... "JESUS TRACY! Not this AGAIN!" and stomped off to the living room to watch TV. I was left in the kitchen crying and the subject has not been broached again........ (btw his ex wife cheated on him and that is why they are divorced.. I'm guessing he has always had a low libido and yes he wakes up every morning with impressive wood, which I have literally tried to take advantage of and was jokingly swatted away) I have increasingly put on weight since the rejection started happening.. About October of 2005.. he also cooks and would get upset if I didn't eat what he fixed.. the women in his family are heavy.... I know he is deeply insecure about stuff, but extremely macho to the world and even to himself. The problem is that he is a great guy, we don't have kids together but our blended family includes 4 boys that love each other.. he is my sons dad in every way but biology and the same with his boys. We are all about raising kids and doing things as a family and growing old together and yes getting married......... but in my minds eye.. do I go ahead and get married knowing that I will most likely NEVER have intercourse again. I guess my self esteem. I was suprised when he supported my decision to have the band.. he said that he loved me no matter what but he knew that the weight gain had been depressing me...... he did however want to know how it would affect him, and for me to know that I shouldn't expect him to change the way he eats..... he has been pretty good about it.... as he is with most things.. except sex....... and I do miss it... I feel that at 37 I am too young to give it up, especially when there is a very avaible WORKING piece of equipment hooked to the man I love... its not fair that he doesn't want to spend the energy to use it. I do have toys, and I swear some time I'm going to take a day off work to be alone with myself! LOL

snackasorus!!!!!!!!! good one

seminar in Jan.......... insurance approve by Jan 28, surgery scheduled for April 26... Self pay the wait would of been 2-3 weeks, because I could of had it done at the doctors hospital