A thread for super-sized bandsters - starting BMI over 50?

waterlily1072 · 05-21-2006, 12:31 PM

Yay Joyce!

Well I keep slowly losing, I wish I was losing fast but without any restriction that is hard to do. I have the VG so right now the 21lbs I have lost is all me. I start beauty school tomorrow which will take me from sitting most of the day to standing all day so hopefully that combined with a fill next week will start to pick up the pace. Either way I am on target for a 100lb loss in the first year. I know why I am losing slow, I have days where I totally eat the wrong things, but I am getting better at it. Boy I hope that first fill is an aggressive one.

CLOE · 05-21-2006, 01:46 PM

I havent posted a reply in this thread for a while. But everyone seems to be having great success. 4 more days till I'm banded, getting really, really excited! I've been doing straight Opti-fast for 17 days, AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I just keep concentrating on the four more days part. Keep up the good work everyone. Wish me luck on Friday. Big Paul - loved your thread, love to hear it just the way it is! Wheetsin - I posted a thread a while back about my pop-up problem, and your reply helped out perectly, I just couldn't find the thread again to thank-you, so thank-you!

lady29bug · 05-23-2006, 11:11 AM

Way to go JoyceGA! Rock on! :rockon:

I'm getting banded in a few days and I have to lose about 230 lbs. I know I can do it too!:cheer2:

Thanks for sharing your success! You're an inspiration to me!

Trip2bme · 05-24-2006, 06:51 AM

You all ROCK!! Thanks for the inspiration...JOYCE...WTG!!! That is incredible!!!

I hope there's room for me to squeeze in here and join all of you cool losers! This appears to be a great thread for those of us traveling south together from UP NORTH.

I have not fought the battle with much courage these past few days. But reading your posts have given me a fresh desire to be successful today. Thank you. I have started my morning out right. I plan to be successful through the evening hours as well.

Have any of you experienced this?? Following the first 3 weeks of surgery i was cooking for my family every breakfast and supper, and never had one temptation. But other people were uncomfortable eating around me because they thought I was struggling. Finally one evening, I can up the fight, and began eating...still only a fraction of what I used to eat, but I did move into solids too fast. (I'm not blaming my decision to make the wrong choice on others, but that was one of the factors) So, I was wondering how you have dealt with others feeling uncomfortable.

**Wheetsin** · 05-24-2006, 07:17 AM

I've only had the impresion people were uncomfortable a few times, but I wouldn't say uncomfortable so much as wanting to make sure I'd be taken care of. Pre-op when we'd visit my parents we'd always take them out for dinner, and during our first post-op visit when we got there, they'd taken out stuff to thaw because they weren't sure I'd be able to eat anything. I've found that in my case, it was just a matter of educating them a little - helping them see that I could eat just about anything, I'm jsut going to eat a small amount of it. Now when we visit, they just ask, "Where can you eat?" :)

**Wheetsin** · 05-24-2006, 07:22 AM

Weighed in this a.m. and 4 more pounds gone, which put me at 314. Very soon only single digits will separate me from the 2s. :dance:

Oh yeah, that's per my home scale, so who knows!

waterlily1072 · 05-25-2006, 08:33 AM

Grats Wheetsin!

Well, I am very much due to have my first fill, but my new school schedule won't allow it till the monday after memorial day :(
I am going to school for cometology so I am going from sitting at my desk all day to standing and moving all day! BIG CHANGE! Also, when at school, I can't snack and lunches are too short to overeat and breaks are too short to eat and water is more important than food, so, my calories are plummeting and I am very hungry. When I get home I am too tired to care. Only reason I am getting enough protein is cause of my morning cottage cheese andmy wonderful hubby who always has chicken waiting for me when I get home. Then I crash for the night. So hopefully I will start losing faster even before the fill. Can't wait for good restriction so I can stop feeling hungry.

BTW someone fax me some energy K? I have gone from 10 hrs of sleep a night to 6! Tough transition.

**Wheetsin** · 05-25-2006, 10:09 AM

Waterlily, I've never tried it, but I've recently read on here about a protein drink that comes in a small bottle, only takes about 3 swallows to finish, and has something like 20gm in it. Something like that might help you meet your protein requirements. Lunch too short to overeat -- that's a good thing! Can you fit a nutritious meal in though?

**Wheetsin** · 05-25-2006, 10:24 AM

So I'd been feeling really frumpy lately, because all of my work clothes (sz 28) were pretty much hanging off me, and I do make a lot of effort to look nice at work. My pants would catch on my hips and that would keep them from falling down, but I had to constantly pull the legs out of my shoes and the crotch was hanging to my knees - thug style. Even my tops were getting really questionable - I don't think twinsets are supposed to hang straight down like t-shirts! :tired

But at the same time my next size smaller pants were still just a tad too tight to wear... a little too pulled on the rear where, what I refer to as my "shelf", as located, and a little too taut in the thighs. So for the last two weeks I opted for the saggy baggy look over the "Just because I can get it on does not mean it fits" look.

This morning I'd had it. I did not want to go to work looking frumpy again. For me, how I appear really ties in a lot with how I feel, and I just don't feel good when I look messy. So I figured F'it, I'll put on the pants and maybe they're a little too snug, but by the time I wear them for an hour they'll be stretched out a bit anyway, so I grabbed a pair and put them on and they fit really well!

Now - I had to retire most of my 28s because I was afraid that if I sat the seam would literally rip out, which put me into a what - snug 32, comfortable 34? Something like that. I'll go with that. The pants I have on today are still size 28, but they are the same size measurements as my other 26s, which means...

I met my first mini-goal! Granted, they are still a little snug when I put them on, and it's 13 days past the date I'd set for my goal, but who cares? They're on, and it's still in the same month!

SRaeM · 05-25-2006, 08:41 PM

I am so excited tonight. I had a goal to be in the 2's by the 4th of July (huge family & neighbor camp out), but I had been stuck at 326 for a couple of weeks. I went into the Dr. today and was down 11 lbs. Now I think my goal may be possible.
I still have very little restriction (only in bite size not in amount of food consumed). I think going on liquid pre-op diet for a few days (not to mention getting the flu) really helped. I got out of my slump. You will too!

waterlily1072 · 05-25-2006, 11:21 PM

Thanks Wheetsin, I will look into that :)
Yes I have enough time to eat a healthy lunch, but I am afraid to eat anything that may not agree with me while at school. The hard thing is that we can't drink anything outside of the break room, so I have to go hours at a time without water, then I have to drink it all at once, making it hard at lunch time to drink and eat :( , I will figure it out though, this is only week 1, and I have a year to go. Grats on the size change by the way, I can finally wear my 30's comfortably :) yay, next stop 28's

waterlily1072 · 05-26-2006, 08:39 AM

Wahoo, the scale is moving a little faster :D

Down 3lbs since school started, so a pound a day :D

One more pound to my wedding day weight and a full quarter century :D

Can you tell I am excited :D

Hehe, have a great day everyone :D

shackdog · 05-26-2006, 09:34 AM

Good luck to all out there, I started at 411 bmi over 50 and currently at 350 bmi 46.7. I have taken all info gathered on this web and from my Doc and have put it to work for me

tinalondon · 05-26-2006, 09:35 AM

OK, I'm 51 will be 52 on july 2. Whated so much to get all my wieght off with in a year. Don't look like I can loose 30lbs in 2months. If I hear one more time "when you are older it takes longer"...Dear God ..
I also feel like I look old...the skin saging thing. I can were a size 14 bathing suite but I have skin everywhere. I can't were a sleevless shirt at all. I'm looking for a dress for a wedding and I don't want to were a "mother of the bride dress" I have a 5 year old son!!!

BeckyinTexas · 05-26-2006, 02:49 PM

I have found that reading this thread picks me up when I need it the most! I can't say enough how much it helps to know that all of y'all know exactly how I feel and where I'm coming from about every part of this lap band journey. I was told by a lady recently that she'd "heard" that the lap band doesn't work for extremely overweight people and I proudly told her that whoever told her that was full of....well you know what I said. I watch this show every morning called "I Lost It" and most of the stories deal with people that start their weight loss journey at a weight that I can't wait to get to! They talk about how horrible they feel and how depressed they are and I think, man I still weigh way more than they do and I can't believe how great I feel! When I get to that weight I'm probably gonna be dangerous!!!! I just thank all of y'all for always being here when I need a little boost!