XBIGJIMX

Good Luck!

Figured I'd put a link to my blog since i got inspired to document my adventure http://xbigjimxtoxmedjimx.blogspot.com/

Not sure how many of you are blogging your adventures but I am if your interested http://xbigjimxtoxmedjimx.blogspot.com/

It's hard to not just go wild and eat all the things i can before the surgery. I am sure i will go to a few places to eat before the week before

Got the official word today. To be banded on 11/17. Can't wait , best part is the doc does not require a "liver shrinking diet" so no liquid diet before hand whoo hooo

Let me know how you do with skating. I am getting banded on 11/17 and i play hockey and i am wondering how long i need to take off

Got the official word today. To be banded on 11/17. Can't wait , best part is the doc does not require a "liver shrinking diet" so no liquid diet before hand whoo hooo

Well i am almost there I assume. 6 month doctor diet check, mental health check, meeting with doc.. check and check. Tuesday I go in for a throat scope while my final paper work is processed and my date will be set for surgery. So i am guessing i will have surgery before mid November can't wait !

I am sure there is bad apple or 12 but it is the internet so there bound to be around I am excited. I have always been big but I so looking forward to being back to a young weight:)

Well we all have made the decision to loose weight and we have the means to do it so..... What is one of the things your are going to that you could not do before you lost weight or how will you reward yourself, you get the idea

THis friday I go for my first meeting / consultation with the surgeon Dr. Bryce E. Schuster in Louisville, KY. Ahhh the first date who can forget the excitement the nervousness the anticipation!! but I am sure it will go awesome even if i dont put out hahahah How did anyof you first meetings go?

You know there are alot of things I look forward to doing (tucking my shirt in, not working around my gut when putting my skates, looking down and seeing my dick, the normal things hahahah) but i have to say the one thing i want to do is Stage dive again. Growing up in a punk rock hardcore music world stage dives were one of the greatest things in the world to do but i realize there is a weight window for these things and i have long passed it, but if i get down below 200 i am going to do it and not see the look of a bunch of horrfied faces of people going noooo the big guy is going to crush us

i love to read about people wanting to loose weight just to make getting around eaiser, not because they feel "fat" just because you are big never means your not beautiful good for you

I got news back from my insurance company and found out what hoops I have to jump though. I have to do a 3 month supervised diet and a psyc eval which is not to bad. I really just want to get this done but, i realize this is the waiting game everyone talks about. I think as i start the process i will do pics and weights before the supervised diet though just to have a highest starting point

That is pretty easy. I just wish i had to submit my weigh ins instead of the supervised diet. just cause i don't want to wait 3 months

They may or may not of wanted some of those for me a as well but I was already diagnosed with Sleep Apnea and had high blood pressure so those were taken care of. You know I am curious what they look for in the supervised diet. Do they want to see if you can loose weight or that you can't thats why you need the lap band

When I started telling everyone my plans to get banned I got alot of people telling me "THat such and such died and blah blah blah" My response was look at me I am one all you can eat buffet from a heart attack. I WILL die if i don't loose this weight" that usually shuts them up

Welcome! I think the lap band/ weight loss is a better idea then the breast reduction to start. My daughter had a breast reduction when she was 16 (she was a GG she reduced to a C. she is now 19 and back DDD/F) I think he weight may be playing into this a lot cause we all agree that is just to much boob for one person to get any way if you have to do the diet don't be crushed. Think of it is just one more game you have to play to get to your goal. Plus it will be a basic training for the life style change for when you get the band.

I am hoping i can use the time when I was in radiation theropy as part of the supervised diet. I had to go in daily for weigh ins and had a diet i had to follow. I must admit it was the funniest diet ever... Doctor: " do you like milkshakes?" me: "Like diet shakes" D: "no fully leaded icecream kind" me: "Look at me of course i do" D: " well i want you to drink as many as you want" M: "ummm thats the first time i heard that in a diet" D: " Trust me if you can get em down drink all youlike" yeah i could not drink em after the 2nd week so i lived on ensure shakes ... damn the cruel irony

Hello!!! So my name is Jim and how did I get to this point...well I like food which I guess is obvious. But why did I want to loose weight? I have been big most of my life just like the nick name BigJim says. I am 6'2" and about 280 at the most I have been 300 which is not the worse BMI in the world but lets talk about health... Have any of you ever had your blood pressure taken and the nurse or doctor looks at the machine and then looks at you and they have the look of how are you still alive? Thats me so I got Stage 2 Hypertension Type 2 Diabeties and Thyroid Cancer the later is actually how I ended up here. Let em explain when I was going through my radiation food tasted bad i mean really bad but smelled wonderful which is a cruel trick. but in those 8 weeks I lost 45 lbs. and I had never felt better about myself. just dropping those extra pounds and i felt amazing. THe doctors were not happy about the weight loss they actually threatened a feeding tube and I was like are you high I got cancer and if if the only good spot is some weight loss i am taking it. But go forward a year the weight has slowly came back. It stayed out for awhile but as i stretched my stomach out again I just ate more and well you know the story. Portion control has always been my biggest issue. But any way I go in to my consultation 11/9 with my wife ( we are both having it done) so wish us luck and hello!!! And a hello pic