janetsjourneytoslim

Best Wishes for you. Happy New Year and New YOU! Had my surgery 7/29/2009, best health decision I ever made, no meds since the surgery. I feel as if I were re-birthed the say of my surgery. After a few weeks you will be a pro at this. Any Questions feel free to contact me!

Best decision you will ever make. Five months ago and 60 lbs less, I take NO MORE Metphormin or Celebrex for pain caused by Osteoarthritis (being overweight). Great! Keep in touch.

Yes, because due to your surgery, your stomach is swelled causing the tightness! As you heal, the swelling will go down and you will get hungrier! Then you will go in, get your first fill in and you will be restricted again, enjoy while you can!

:wink:Let the Ball drop and the New Year commence! Come on 2010~~~~LapBand losers will win! We are going the distance in the New Year approaching. I have been heavy (FAT~Let's just say it) all my life on and off again. This is the year it will all end. There will be a normal person emerging from within with the help of our little band. If you have been on the fence, not making the decision to go forward~~all I can say is Wait no more!!!! Do it!!!! The best move I ever made and as of yesterday, I hit the post band mark of five months! And with 60 lbs lost, I am super hyped and excited to go forward with this effort to acheive my goal. I keep thinking of how I will look, feel and what size I will wear by July 2010 my one year anniversary date. I see others here wearing size 8 and 6 and even 4's and I have NEVER been in a size 8 since I was 16 years old. But hey, I'm game! I get bolder and willing to try anything one time~even sliding down the Carnival Cruise Ships slide~the curly one(screamed the whole way) and it was FUN! I don't know about you guys~but I am ready to experience FUN ~ not just watch it happening from the sidelines! I am not a WILD person (or am I?) but I want to have a little FUN before my days are done. My children are proud of me, but don't quite know where to put me. No I will not be the babysitter anymore and sit home! Don't know what I am doing yet for New Years Eve, but by tomorrow night, I'll get a plan, and it is NOT to sit on the couch and watch that Ball Drop, Just let it drop in Times Square! Tell me about it later! LOL Let the New Year Begin for us Bandsters~~The best part of our lives is ahead of us! Come on 2010:wub::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

Wait till after your checkup with your Doctor! They will clear you for exercise, but walking some right now around the house is a start. On the fourth day after surgery I felt so much better, then about the seventh or eighth day I had to get out and start walking, just to the end of my driveway and back a few times, and that is the beginning of my exercise journey, now three times a week at a full gym, Zumba, and Body Pump Classes!

I had a hysterectomy in 1997 and was cut from hip bone to hip bone, I have a lot of scar tissue there now and some of it is causing me pain. I have lost 60 lbs, five months out. I am going to wait a year and then have the scar tissue removed, they may be able to tuck the tummy within this surgery and cut off excess skin where needed, my insurance will pay for this one, but a Tummy Tuck or any type of surgery is painful and serious, so I will have to reconsider and may just live with a little skin, the exercise is tightening it now! Try to do some exercise every day! The sooner you get started the better, Happy New Year and best of luck friend!

I was also concerned about the EXCESS SKIN~ I had a friend who did the Gastric Bypass, she lost over 200 lbs and FAST too. She could not sit down for the skin on her back and butt area had become a drape! Finally her insurance company was persuaded that this was harmful to her and gave in for the removal of it and the tummy. She had skin hanging everywhere! I had not seen her in years till the other night and she has put back on a lot of weight! Why in the world would anyone do that after all that surgery. I liked food, but do not love it enough to sacrafice my health like that! God Forbid~I would pray everyday for strength. EXERCISE is a MUST! I joined a Gym~ paid for a full year and go at least three times a week and I love it! I never did this before the LapBand Surgery. I go at my own pace and no one pushes me except me! I can see my skin going back now and I drink lots of water.

Happy New Year to you as well, love your posts! keep them coming in 2010! You have done exceptionally well and look amazing, so inspirational.

The Choices that I make today affect my WORLD tomorrow! This is a creed all LapBand patients should carry with them everywhere. 2010 will be the year of changing our lives~~~IF we make the right choices! Good Luck and God Bless! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!:biggrin:

The Choices that I make today affect my WORLD tomorrow! This is a creed all LapBand patients should carry with them everywhere. 2010 will be the year of changing our lives~~~IF we make the right choices! Good Luck and God Bless! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!:Dancing_wub:

Heading on a cruise to Mexico, Cozumel to be exact, going with 7 other couples for a Thanksgiving Cruise. I am very excited about the cruise, but very nervous too as I know I will be put to the test with ALL that food on the ship. I have determined to eat only lean, high protein and good carbs. If I do slip, I'll hit the Gym and the exercise class! Anyone else have this happen? I am only 15 weeks post band, down 51 lbs so far and want to hit Onderland by Christmas. So I really have to prepare to say NO to MYSELF!:cool2: