cschube
Wow!!
Oct 20, 2008
Okay, it has been over two months since my surgery. I have had one fill, and my next one is this week. I have now lost since early August 38 pounds. None of my cloths fit, and I am not bothered by this at all. I have already bagged up my "fat cloths" and they are out of here!! I literally have one pair of pants that I can wear (size 18, I was busting out of my 20's before the surgery) which I just bought at Target last weekend, and they are already getting loose. YAY! I hope to never see size 18 again. I know with the lap-Band you still have to use self control, b/c you can eat high fat,sugary foods, such as ice-cream, cake, etc... I did have a bad week last week with food. I have been really stress out lately (due to school, marriage, kids, etc...) I did not beat myself up about it. I just started over, now I did not loose that much weight (1 pound) this past week but the scale did not go up. So I believe that is a victory for me.
The hardest thing for me is to remember to not drink for 1 hour after I eat. It seems I have this urge to drink now after I eat. I never thought that would be my problem. I do not drink that much during a meal, so not having a drink after you eat seemed to be an easy consequence of the WLS. No, I am constantly catching myself taking drinks, sometimes I think "Oh, one little sip won't hurt," but I know that is a bad habit to get into.
So far I am extremely happy with my surgery, I am working on exercising more regularly, and eating healthy. I now weigh less than I did on my wedding day, which is a great feeling. I hope one day to actually be able to re-new my wedding vows, in a dress I feel like a princess in! Of course I would like a new set of boobs to go with that dress, but that is a whole other story to tell! 
Revise
Sep 01, 2008
better late than never!
Aug 30, 2008
Well I am 11 days out from surgery. I do have to tell you that I have moments of "what have I done." But then I tell myself that I will look back at those moments and wonder why I did not do this sooner. The day of surgery I was in pre op asking for drugs! LOL Mainly because I was worried if they did not give me something, I was going to run out of that hospital. (they finally did give me something) I was very nervous! I knew I wanted to be banded but as the surgery was staring me in the face, I got scared! I can remember opening my eyes after surgery and being in a lot of pain. But I am a big baby when it comes to pain. They put me on a morphine pain pump (thank God!) and that soon took care of the pain. Of course I was calling everyone, and have no clue what I was telling them. This became apparent to me after I got home from the hospital. (how embarrassing
) In the hospital the nurses were great, and the food was terrible. (not that I wanted anything to eat) I did have some nausea but not to terrible, it was mostly the pain. The doctor wanted me to stay in one more night because I was in so much pain. But I felt like I could sleep better at home. I just asked him to send me home with good pain medicine and some nausea medicine. So I am home and it has been 11 days since the surgery. I have had some pain and some nausea. But this is to be expected I did just have surgery. I have since started school again. So my life does not have time to stop for a little pain. I have followed all the doctors and the nutritionist instructions and I have lost a total of 17 pounds. Ten pounds is prior to the surgery because of the liquid diet they put me on 2 weeks before the surgery. So in 12 days I have lost 7 pounds.
I have also started the soft foods diet now. I can have tuna salad if I puree it. I can have yogurt, cottage cheese etc.. So I am happy for now. I am sure I will get tired of this food but I was just excited that food would be come a passing thought for me. What I mean is that I hope that I will have to tell myself to eat to maintain a healthy body, rather than being obsessed about what I am going to eat all day long! I can not wait until that moment.
