So this is me from last Wednesday, May 28,2008. I'm 5'3" and at the time my weight in the picture is 272. Hopefully it has gone down some but I'm trying to go a week without weighing myself since I tend to jump on the scale several times a day and that's not good behavior!

Anyway, I'm wearing scrubs since I'd just gotten home from work (I work for a pathologist's group processing surgical specimens), so excuse the extremely bright red pants.
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Bjornsyouruncle

i was banded on 4/24/08.. first fill was on 5/22/08... my problem is that when i eat i can still eat as much as i did in the begining.... is there something wrong... not gaining no weight .. working out once a day in the gym.... any suggestions will help so much...

nicolefroemming

I thought about having this done several months ago, but I knew there was no way my insurance would cover it, and we don't have that kind of money. Hubby and I are paying off medical bills from his 2 knee surgeries last year. So I put it on the back burner..... waaaaayyyy back. I had decided it would never happen and was starting to think I would be obese and unhealthy the rest of my life.
But my Mother approached me last month and offered my Dad's bonus from work to pay for it. Could anyone...

lotzasunshine

June 1, 2008
So why is my husband more afraid of this surgery than I am? :confused2: I am the one who will be going under the knife, not him! I asked him what frightens him so much and he said he's afraid I will get skinny and meet someone younger. I keep telling him I an content and not looking. Even if I got as skinny as Nicole Richie I wouldn't go cruising for a new husband. Sheesh! It's taken me 25 years to train this one! LOL!!! I am too old to join the dating game and train a new one!...

GramaLisa

Hmm... I am only two weeks and one day into my weight-loss journey. On May 17, 2008 I attended the little seminar and then saw the surgeon. He sure was one self-absorbed little so and so. He seemed VERY impatient, with ALL of us. He said that my BMI was only 37 and my ins. prob. wouldn't cover the surgery.
May 23, Julian the ins. coordinator called and asked a ton of questions. I swear, if they ask me ONE MORE TIME do I pee when I sneeze, laugh, or cough and do I want surgery...

GramaLisa