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Anyone who would like to meet we are meeting at Starbucks across from Baybrook Mall this Sunday, Februaury 28 at 2:00 pm. Anyone is welcome to come in any stage, banded or not yet banded, Or any other WLS feel free to come. This is very informal and just people getting together to talk, We have no leader or guest speaker just people, Come if you can. Feel free to bring anything you want to share. Cheri

I watched Dr Oz on TV and he said peppermint tea was good for UTIs. I have been drinking it a couple of times a week and so far so good. I had an infection that just kept coming back over and over and this has helped. And it is good on a cold winter night

Jesus knows your real heart. What if you spend your whole life doing whatever you want waiting till the end to “believe” and that time never comes because you die in an accident. If you are a Christian and you know people who do not believe it is for us to tell them the “Good News” and then leave the rest up to the Holy Spirit. I feel as Christian we will be accountable for people who we could have reached out to and did not as God had instructed us to do. We are not instructed to drag them to the foot of the cross. Just share, care and pray.

I take lexapro and have had no problems. I took Zoloft for 5 years and you should have no problems.

I saw my surgeon before surgery in Hospital and everytime I go for a fill he does them and talks to me. The hospital did call though.

Medifast has snacks and bars, if you just one of them a day it will help you and they have the same calories etc. as shakes but just one a day. Maybe eat ½ in afternoon other ½ for night snack

I am 8 months out and down 56 lbs. For the last 4 months I have been a a new med for my thyroid Synthroid and was so worried it would hinder my weight loss but my Doctor assured me it would not. I just went back for other blood test to see if he needs to increase or decrease dose. I was down 21 lbs since starting meds. I too had a rough time during holidays. So don't worry if anything it should help you lose once they find the right dose for you. Cheri

Kristi99 I did not even look at the name when I responded. You will be fine. Did you go to a support meeting yet? I went for fill on Thursday and picked up a schedule. Support is really important to keep you feeling normal. Please don't let yourself get stressed you are going to do fine just give it some time. I pretty much think I am a slow loser but slow is better than nothing and over time it all adds up. hang in there!!

maybe you are just worried and stressed and scared that when you eat it will happen again. Getting something stuck can be scary and maybe you just have not forgot that and it is in the back of your mind.

There are a lot of people with positive experience so don't let yourself get stressed out. Just think positive and follow all the rules.

I would be happy to talk to you I am 8 months out and down 54 lbs. Starting weight 251, I am 49 with a grown son and 2 grandbabies, happily married 29 years. No problems with the band. My e-mail is crodriguez17@comcast.net.

I would be happy to talk to you anytime you can private message me or e-mail me at crodriguez17@comcast.net. I am 8 months out and down 55 lbs have had to problems. I am 49 with a grown son and 2 grandbabies married 29 years.

Dr Spivak is a great Doctor and his staff is really nice. He has a great website Dr. Hagar Spivak. I really like him

Congratulations on a surgery date. I would be happy to talk to you. I am pretty new myself 6 months post op but I have had no problems at all. Sometimes people just do not understand what is feels like. My husband is very supportive but he weights the same as when I married him 29 years ago. So he understands but at the same time how can he really? I have lost 51 lbs in 6 months, I did not have to do pre op diet. A couple of women I met on the boards here started our own support group we meet once a month for coffee. So if your Dr has a support group I would start going now. It helps so much to find out things that seem hard or strange to you are normal because other people are going throught them too. Feel free to private message me or e-mail me at crodriguez17@comcast.net. I would be glad to support you unless you would perfer men it won't hurt my feelings. Many people this board and are so supportive they have helped me a lot. Hang in there it is all worth it!!!!

You would not want any girls like that anyway. Just let it motivate you but let the anger go they are not worth it. You sound like a very nice person and muscles sound good. My husband married me when I was overweight and we have been married 29 years. People who are all about outside instead of inside will be dissappointed in a few years when middle age set in.

I still have free-will given by God to make my own decisions. Just wondering what you think happens when you die. Just death or something else? Also I did not mean to say you are anyone else is hopeless. I deal with depression everyday and I have hope but being a Christian is not always an easy journey. Things happen to us we do not understand. If I sleep in on Sunday I do not fill guilty, God didn't say you had to be in service every Sunday. It is a day of rest you know.

What you said could not be more true. Unless you expereince the love and forgiveness and the one on one daily relationship with God it is hard to explain what it is really like. But for me it is never being alone again in my life and knowing that one day I bow down to my Lord and Savior and be totally amazed. How do you live without hope? Knowing that there is a Heaven and a Hell and taking the chance that you could end up in hell. Our God is a merciful loving God but His Word lays out the facts for living HIS way. I that is what He wants His Way. Nobody can live in this world and not believe in evil. It is everywhere. satan is as real as God is. He knows the name of Jesus as well as I do. If you have a choice how can you not believe? Hard for me to understand. But if you put your faith in God you too will never be alone and one day be with Him.

Did you think I was being too loud? Or were you referring to Miss Patty?

Sorry to hear about your problems and the scare of cancer. Must be terrible.Your weighloss is something to be so proud of. It shows that you are a strong person. My brother just die a month ago from an overdose of vicodin For the first week I would not even let the thought in my head to return to my best friend, my comfort . . . food. But in the past 2 weeks I have longed for the comfort that I think only food can do for me. I have let myself break some rules. But we both know after the food goes past our lips it is longer comfort but guilt that results. Someone told me of a book called “Feeding the hungry heart” about emotional eating. You can buy it on Amazon for $10 new or less for used. I am going to order me a copy. Maybe it would be a good book for you too. As far as counseling goes someplaces offer free or reduced price counseling. I did 2½ years of counceling with a Christian Counselor about 5 years ago and still return when I feel it is needed. I just started 2 weeks ago again because I do not relate to death as normal people do. Can't find a counselor find a friend that has time to listen to your worries and thoughts. Or write them down anything to get those feeling out once they are written or spoken they are not that scary anymore I do believe in prayer though and maybe you do to. I will be praying that God will be with you on this journey you are taking and that He will wrap His protection and love around us and comfort us in everyway. That He will remind us and show us we are never alone. I will pray that He will heal your body from any form of cancer. That you will be worry free as you rest in the knowledge that He is taking care of you. Please keep in touch and let me know how you are doing. my e-mail address is crodriguez17@comcast.net if you need to talk

I don' believe the God that I believe in wants people to try force other people to changes their minds about what they themselves believe. But He does tell us to go out and tell the Good news of what we know or believe then it is up to God to do His work and you either respond or your don't. So simple.

I took Zoloft for about 5 years, then switched to Lexapro and I have been banded for 6 months and have no trouble taking it. I drink a cup of decaf coffee in the morning and then take my pills. No problem. If you have to switch lexapro is very much like zoloft with no bad side effects for me.

Oh I love it! Thanks!!

I get the hiccups from hell whenever I eat too fast. maybe you are drinking too fast or too big of gulps??

“Weight Loss Surgery for Dummies”, “Lap-Band Companion”, “Weightloss Surgery with the Adjustable Gastric Band”. I bought these off amazon and like them. They will be really good for you if you have not been banded yet. They explain the whole process. Hope that helps.

Throughout history there have been many gods, but they are all dead reproductions made out of cement or other materials . . . BUT I serve a living God, the Creator of all, one that come to earth and became a man, Jesus. Died for our sins return to Heaven and sits on the right hand of God. God is real and He lives within my heart. God is the best 3 in one- God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I would not want to live one day in this world without Him. If you do not know Him you do not know what you are missing.