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Hello everyone,

Happy to find this forum! Banded 11/20/06, just before TG! Rough but made it thru. Very happy with results thus far.

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Hi Carol!

Welcome to Band Land and Welcome to LBT!

I hope you find your banding experience to be as easy and helpful as I have!

Hugs!

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I just came back from my first appointment post surgery, 10days, still alittle sore at port site and still get tired by end of activity. Lost total 19 pounds since pre-liquid/preop period. Excited. Met a mother/daughter pair of lapbanders in office, they looked great and almost at their goal. I can't imagine myself that slim, but hope to view it one day.

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Hello everyone! I am so happy to have found this site! It is so nice to BA able to talk to other "banded" people! I often feel like people who are not banded think I am nuts if I try to talk about my band issues!:) I hope to be talking to you guys soon!

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Welcome Carol

it is a very exciting time... Most of the time I just love getting on those scales... It is so great to see it go down some each week...not so good when you plateau but cross that bridge when/if you come to it.

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Thanks Fabuless,

I know what you mean, plateauing, after my MD appt and excitement of losing 19#, I started to plateau , or so I thought, but woke up this morning to another exciting 2# loss. As long as I see progress, I know I can do this. I haven't started exercising yet, hope to start next week, and the lbs will probably start coming off faster. My MD stated that might happen, the plateauing, but to be patience and stick with it. So I encourage anyone who reaches a plateau to not give up.

Fabuless, you were banded in Australia, do you also live there?

I hope to visit there one day with my son, it appears to be a beautiful country.

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Hi NewLife06

I am an aussie chick really but at the moment i am temporarily in NZ (Even more stunnning than Australia) ...Just here to heal after the breakup of a messy marriage in Australia...I have two kids too...one has just turned 3 and the other is 1. :o

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Hi NewLife02,

Glad to see someone close by. My mother and I will both be bannded on January 23rd. We are from Raceland, La. Good Luck to your New Life!

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