eastern washington banders

[Cookinmom 0]

Today is day 10 of my pre-op high Protein mostly liquid diet. I've done pretty darn good up until 3 hours ago. I've lost 11 pounds and have truly stuck to this except for two bites of hot dog 2 nights ago. Tonight we went to some friends house and I forgot to bring my Water, my Soup and an Optifast drink. I wAS craving normal food so bad that I just ate. I didn't over eat but I ate. I ate 2 chicken drumettes with terriyaki sauce, some homemade mac and cheese, 2 chips with salsa, and 1 bite of a bratt dipped in mustard plus a couple glasses of red wine..... Is this the end of the world????? I hope not......How does a person just give up food completely....I m a cook who loves to cook this is the whole reason I am going for the lap band instead of the gastric bypass...if I want a glass of wine I should be able to have one....I don't want to live on warm cottage cheese the rest of my life.... I want variety...just in small portions. Day 10 of my liquid diet has been a complete failure..... but.... is it really? Has anybody else ever slipped off their pre-op liquid diet? I need some support here

Thanks in advance

Heidi in Eastern Washingtn

[MOTOMOM 0]

Heidi,

Don't sweat it. You still ate protien, and a little mac n' cheese won't kill you. Don't beat yourself up. You still watched what you ate and did not over indulge, make today a new day and get back to it.

Lisa

[Alicia99 0]

Any updates from E. WA banders? Any successes?

[renee3846 0]

Hi All,

I am looking at getting banded in late Sept. I will be at the informational meeting on 9/3/08 at Dr. Trotter's office. After a fairly long battle with Group Health (it was an exclusion) I have now turned my energy in paying for it myself. I was looking at the total bypass before but now that I have to pay, the band is more affordable. I have read the threads since December of 2007 and really thought what a great group of support on this forum. I am 43, married, mom of 2 and grandmother of 2. Thank you for the opportunity to read your thoughts, encouragment, advise, frustrations and words of support. I hope to meet some if not all of you as I continue on my journey to become healthy again!

Renee'

[freeskye 0]

My name is Jean. I was banded Feb.2007 in Post Falls by Dr.Pennings.

My weight loss has been slow, but pretty steady. I had type 2 diabetes

that is gone! My b/p is much better and I feel like a new person. My energy levels have gone through the roof. I am just sorry that I didn't have the band placed sooner. It is good to see other people from near my area. I am in the southeastern corner of Wa. in Clarkston.

Jean

[summerbushnell 0]

There is a lap-band support group meeting the third wednesday of every month for bandsters in the Spokane/North Idaho area. We meet at 7 pm at the Starbucks in Liberty Lake, WA.