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Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi, Let's get together for exxercise and support and fun! :clap2:

Hi! Let's talk and get together for exercise and support!

Hi Jessica, How are you doing? When do you need to do the little camera capsule? Hope all goes well. If you can find aloe vera juice where you live, drink it along with another juice to mask the flavor. Alose vera is very healing for the digestive tract. When they tested you did they make sure you had not eaten any red meats///beef, por,k buffalo, etc? also spinach and beets should not be eaten when checing for occult blood. Keep us posted! Good luck!

Poodles..you made my mornig with the threesome story...cute!!!!!!!! Jack as always you are a wealth of information and so fun to read! I am not banded yet...just a few more days... but this is so good to know. I have been doinfg lots of research and have tried to eat in the last few days as if I was banded...hoever it is hard when you are not because i am always hungry! I do however have some suggestions.... If you can find unsweetened almond mild where you live (Whole foods, trader Joe's) or health food stores...it is simply delicious!! Better than soy milk and with lots of Protein.... anyway...use almond milk vanilla or chocolate, add Stevia a natural sweetner...no artificial stuff... and your favorite frozen fruit, put in the blender not too much almond milk just add slowly ubtil you reach the consistency of a very thick shake that you can eat with a spoon....makes a yummy ice cream substitute, healthy and delicious! It has good protein already, but if you are in need of more you can add some powedered protein to it. You can get stevia in liquid drops or little packets. a little goes a vry long way!!!!!!! Take care!

Hi! I am also on my space and I think I might be one of the oldest bandsters to be there! www.myspace.com/atrumbauer By the way the pics there are about 20lbs ago and for some reason I look much thinner than I really was!

HI, I travel back and forth between Marin county in CA and Austin Tx. I need exercise buddies in both places. My surgery will be Nov. 7. I will be in San Rafael, CA beginning Oct. 17 for 2 weeks...would like to meet a bandster there. Then I go to MX for my surgery. Come back to Austin Dec. Thanks!

Hi Everyone, I am a bit concerned, my doc says liquid for just a few days before the surgery,(depending on your BMI) and I guess I understand that after placing over 4,000 bands he knows how much is really needed. But for post op apparently it is ok to be on full liquids in less than a week. You can blend Soups, smoothies etc, just have to be sure it is not chunky at all. Sounds good, but so ,many of yoy talk about Clear Liquids for 2 weeks!! and then full for another two? Anyone out there, especilly Dr. R in Mexico patients know? If you did full liquids after a few days how did yoy feel? Any problems at all?:help: :help: Thank you!

Thanks Chrispy! That makes me so happy also, because i will not feel like I am starving!!

:update: nightgown/pajamas slippers robe lip balm * toothbrush and toothpaste :brushteeth: little bottles of shampoo and conditioner cloips etc. for your your hair cell phone :mobile_phone: *****for those traveling to Mexico: :plane: passport or driver's license and birth certificate* money in small bills 5, 10 and 20's very comfortable clothing to fly back home and for the hotel after surgery. Calling card purchased in Mexico...ask one of your docs helpers about how to get one your cell phone might work, but check how expensive it is :phone: Packets of chicken broth Protein shake powder? ***please add to the list anything missing....:confused: :funscale:

Hi Jessica...Welcome! Good luck with your tests! How do they know you might be bleeding from somewhere? Could it be your diet was just very low in the nutrients needed to not be anemic? I hope it someting simple! MAke sure you are taking your B vitamins...B6, B12, B Complex, and Folic Acid and also enough foods with iron...green veggies especially green leafy veggies. Have they said anythiong about giving you iron? Is it lack of iron or is it a low red blood cell count? Very good luck,,, and keep us posted!

Hi! I am getting excited more and more everyday! Somehow it feels like a dream... does anyone have daydreams of appearing to people you have not seen for a while....and they were not nice to you due to your weight...and just appear when you have lost lots of weight and looking gorgeous and seeing their jaw drop?! Is it just me? Have a great day!

OOOPS!!! here is the linl for the enneagram! http://www.enneagraminstitute.com

Hello all of you out there who feel like an outsider. I know exactly what you feel as I have always been the outsider, since I was a child. Weight makes it even more difficult to go beyond. For many years I learned and now help clients with many issues. One of the tools I use which helped me figure out myself a bit better, ana also helps me figure other people out, is the enneagram. It is a personality type test, except you can't really figure out your type through testing...as these are not very accurate yet... but through reading about all types and figuring out which one you are. Once you get really good at it you can figure out your friends and family, without telling the...and then you can better understand where they are coming from. You will find that all personality types are good...but one is more peaceful, but keeps stuff inside, one is a reformer or teacher, one is a lover, one goes for goals but can be superficial and somewhat dishonest, one is loyal, one an adventureer, etc. It is fin and you will learn so much!! I finally figured out why I felt like an outsider and partly it has to do with my personality type... the other is that some personalities out there, especially in this superficial world we live in...are or can be superficial and cruel and totally miss what beauty of the heart and spirit mean. Anyway...sorry for the long story... below is a link to a website about the enneagram. ennea means nine, gram is for hoe the 9 personlaity types are diagramed (you will notice lines and arrows in the middle of the circle)

AZA///Welcome!!!!!!!!!!

Kim, Eggs are fine in moderation. get the free range Omega-3 eggs. I will also have to figur eout how to post a picture!

Kim, Just make sure that the Atkins you go on uses only lean proetin this time around. Skinless chicken, fish. The reason is that they want your liver to shrink before surgery so they can get to the site easily...fatty foods increase the size of the liver.. So enjoy Atkins, just this time go for lean meats only! :-)

Kim, Great! I am also going to Mexico, Dr. Rumbault. He has done 4000 plus surgeries in Monterey, Mexico and has docs here in the U.S> doing fills. Find out if your doc has docs near your home...at least in the same state. How many days of liquid diet do you have to do?

Congratulations Chris!!! Welcome!!!! Where will you get your surgery? Just to update you, we NOV bandsters have been posting our weight our goal, and later post a before pic. It is so awesome to have support...you will find that because we are all in the same boat, we understand exactly what each of us goes through...

I know I am ashamed of my photos also...and that is what finally...in addition to being rejected by someone I really liked, who initially seemed to like me for me, but then I guess thought it over.. :angry ....anyway seeing my Amazon pictures, :faint: made me sure I wanted the band!

OMG!! Terrible, I have had similar experience with an ER for soemthing different.. I have been in medicine for 2o years and let me tell you, the one thing you need to do is report both hospitals to JACHO, call youe TV station and tell them the story...they might pick it up, and get a lawyer! You could have bcome severy ill or worst due to their NEGLIGENCE!!!!!!!! Sorry for the bad experience.... hope you are better now...

WOW! I have been drinking a smoothie with Protein in the mornings and on occassion at night instead of dinner and drinking Water or tea in between when I feel hungry...the result is I have lost 3 lbs!!! in one week! That is so rare! i have tried to cut back on portion sizes as much as possible, and chewing a bit more slowly... imagine what will happen when I finally get my band! :clap2: I am howver also not denying myself a few things I know I will not eat for a loooooong time....yesterday I had yummy Indian food, other little things I want to eat before surgery are...I have had a yummy big chocolate chip chubnk cookie, thai noodles, I will have a slice of tres leches cake from Whole Foods...the BEST cake I have ever had!!!!!! Anyway...I guess the cuttin down on portion size and the Protein shake has let me enjoy these few things before surgery without gaining weight!!! 225/222/150-140 Anyone going to post before pics anytime soon?

Hi November bandsters.... So I am confused...some bandsters say they were told to be on a clear liquid diet for 2 weeks after surgery, then other liquids like cream soup.... when i talked to one of my docs reps they say clear for one week, and any othe liquid the next...then soft diet for 2 weeks. Any comments?

Here is thread fro the Nov. bandsters! http://www.LapBandTalk.com/showthread.php?t=24306&goto=newpost

Hi therr is a thread already started of November bandsters...there are several of us! Good luck! Mine is Nov. 7. Look for the nov. 7 bandsters!