male only Approved to remove the belly!

[bigdaddy 0]

Hello everyone i'm new to this posting thing, but excited to be here. I received my approval letter yesterday and scheduled my surgery date today.I am to be banded on april 28th. I had hoped for something sooner,but i have waited this long so six more weeks will fly by. I have been browsing this forum for a couple of months now and am very encouraged by all of your successes. I hope to be sharing my own in the near future. For now i will continue my Quest to defeat the "DONUT KING" and his army of cheeseburgers, but soon with a new weapon on my side.

Thanks and congatulations on your losses.

[Shoeaddict 0]

Hello everyone i'm new to this posting thing, but excited to be here. I received my approval letter yesterday and scheduled my surgery date today.I am to be banded on april 28th. I had hoped for something sooner,but i have waited this long so six more weeks will fly by. I have been browsing this forum for a couple of months now and am very encouraged by all of your successes. I hope to be sharing my own in the near future. For now i will continue my Quest to defeat the "DONUT KING" and his army of cheeseburgers, but soon with a new weapon on my side.

Thanks and congatulations on your losses.

congratulations to you!!!! I am so glad I got the band, I hope you will be too!

banded 12/28/07

Dr. Michael A. Snyder in Denver

[Sue Magoo 71]

Bigdaddy:

Congratulations. Don't worry about that tummy of yours. You men take it off so quickly that you make us women jealous. I think of my band as my belly cop. There's been a few times that my belly cop stepped in and stopped the traffic to send the food that shouldn't enter back out. I love my belly cop, because I was 324 pounds without it.

Good luck. Remember, any weight you can take off prior to banding makes the surgery safer and recovery easier.

Sue

[Loprofyl 0]

Congrats on your appointed time with destiny (lap-band)

[Fenton 3]

Congratulations, BigDaddy!

[saj192 0]

Got my approval last Friday. I could have had the lapband surgery next Tuesday but couldn't get the pre-op done this week, so I am sheduled for the 22nd. I guess that is good since it gives me some more time to do the pre-op diet.

I will be doing some Protein shakes from the doctor's office, nothing fancy like Optifast and they don't taste too bad, but boy do I get hungry in the afternoon.

[morganfrmn 0]

I got mine on april 15.....

and I am laying around the tv and walking

and doing slim fast low carb..

:biggrin:

[DavidB 0]

Bigdaddy...congratulations ! I can tell you a DONUT is one thing I definitely can't eat with the band.... doesn't go down well. But they sure do smell good!

Dave

[bigdaddy 0]

I hope i lose the donut lust, but i am sure they will always have a warm place in my heart, just not in my belly!:blushing:

It's great hearing all of the experiences you guys have had, but i'm sure there will be some lessons that i will have to learn the hard way. Less than one week til those lessons begin.

Thanks to everyone for your replies.

[Texas_Mom_5573 0]

Eat what you think you will miss after the band, because what you eat will never be the same. I find myself missing a few things here and there. Every once in a while I wish I could eat a cheesebuger but that feeling goes away. The band and everything you have to give up is soooo worth it. The hardest thing I have found to give up is drinking while you eat. Well Good luck!