I am so excited to be back home and all done the surgery. Today was the day I told my family dr and my mom. Neither were surprised by my decision and were really supportive. I am healing nicely. I am hungry (Dr Miranda warned me that this would be in my head and I really wouldn't be)and the whole liquid thing is getting to me. I am 3 pounds down already My experience at the clinic was excellent I would recommend OCC to anyone.
What I look forward the most is three weeks from now when I can st
hello! i'm feeling excellent! been on a super healthy working out going strong kind of high! i don't see myself stopping anytime soon. got into huge fight with gio but i'm done with him. he wants to go this time and guess what i'm not stopping him. nope not this time. there's no way this kid is going to bring me down this year. gave him 2 years of my life and he ruined every chance he got. my family hates him my friends hate him and he pretty much hates himself. not going to be his savior anymor
had a really good birthday totally partied hard that night and pretty much the whole month of december. i must confess something but i was heading down a dangerous path of least resistance to alcohol and pills. i mean nothing too serious or that i couldn't easily "control". i was stressed and really annoyed with everything including my weight couldnt understand how i gained 30lbs back and couldn't just lose it. so in the process i lost everything you know like control of pretty much anything and
I was very groggy. I was aware that the surgery was over. I should have been feeling sadness and grief or maybe even relief, but instead felt shy and embarrassed. As I walked the hall, I would pass him and look away. I was definitely not fully awake and my mind seemed to be swimming through muck. But even through the muck, I was picking up a recent memory of myself saying something and his verbal response. I remembered thinking how unusual it was to feel embarrassed and shy. I’ve not felt
This past year has been something...a lot of new things happening...lot's of adjustments to my life...and the band has been there through each step..learning to live through things without turning to food and all that that entails has been a huge lesson in itself. I really need to think about that and how for the first time in 25 years I was not stuffing emotions down with food..this was a painful lesson, it meant that I had to sit through, feel, and deal with what was really going on..I have to
I have always been heavy. I have always worked very hard in my own life to make sure that everyone else was 1st, that everyone else was happy and had what they need.... and all of my life I am the only person who has had to suffer the results of that 1 sided thinking. As some of you who have read my blog may remember I started this journey to 2savemylife over a year ago, the decision was made then that I would be banded at the occ . I was saving and saving and with my tax return I would have eno
Well here I am during transition week. I am so thankful that my first holiday season as a banded person is almost over. Overall I have to say it went pretty well, the emotions were high but I managed them. It was so interesting just how much the holidays brought up topics. This was a very trying time but I am proud that I made it through without the overeating that usually goes along with it, the band did its job. Another thing I had to face was my aversion to exercise and the reality that I am
I am reading the forums and blog entries. I am excited and nervous all at the same time. I am good when I don't think about it lol. I had planned to run a half marathon in Phoenix the Sunday before surgery but am not now. Being on the pre surgery diet will not work with a half marathon I don't think. I will enjoy being in Phoenix and just will have to suck it up when everyone goes to eat lol. There is great shopping there and I will be with great friend so... oh yes I am talking myself into all
Hi all I just wanted to post on my Gastric Plication Surgery that took place on Dec 14th. It was an experience being in Mexico. The staff was really nice and the surgery went well. I have one suggestion is that if you can afford one extra day in Mexico do stay because what got me was the long flight home which was over 8 hrs. I also figured I would talk about the Plication because there is not many people on here that i could find to talk about it with me about. Ok day 1 after surgery I was tak
Hello all.......I'm looking to book soon with Dr. Ortiz to have the gastric plication done. I'm not quite sure when but soon. I'm going to document my tropical wls journey on youtube as well. I believe there's only one person on there that made two videos of her plication so I feel like other people like us will be able to get information on this new surgery.
I ended up having to go back to Tj for my fill ..My port flipped to the side and the doctor here could not do my fill ..Dr So Easily did my fill ..and showed me my lap band ..I have now lost 43lbs not what I wished for but I stepped up my workouts recently... I am never hungry so the band is working ..I have realized I need protein to lose weight . and now my hair is falling out like nuts I have looked this up online and realize it will not go on forever . and its normal . I go back to Tj in J
My plication procedure took place November 29th with the days preceeding consumed with excitement, fears, preparations and of course, shopping through the Thanksgiving weekend. By Thanksgiving morning I had met my 5% pre-surgery weight-loss goal. Friday morning I had to lose 1 pound over again but the two day liquid diet easily covered that pound and another as well.
I have to be honest that I had moments of sheer panic, thinking that I was actually insane for taking this path to weight los
Never in my life did I think I would be a size 6, it started as a rough journey with a gastric band weighing 230lbs then it got easier with a gastric sleeve. I got banded with another doctor in Tijuana and I was always very tight and dehydrated. 5 months after, my band slipped and got it repositioned and yup it didnt work. I switched physicians and again he left me super tight, I had acid reflex for about two weeks, he said it was normal to sleep sitting down and gave me meds. Finally my brot
Well here it is first holiday season with the band..I wanted a place to write down my thoughts as I work through this...So I am trying to work on three things:
1. Meet my mini goal by my 50th which is one week after the holidays
2. Learn to deal with stuff without food
3. Work through the first holiday season at home without my husband (passed away three years ago)
First thing I learned is that I need a plan for the next four weeks. Yesterday I learned (after the fact) to look up calories of
I have my surgery 7 weeks tomorrow. I am not telling anyone in my family. My husband will be the only one who knows. Why? I have tried so many weight loss programs and failed that I just want this to be my thing. I have so many questions--- I will share as I go my journey!
Until next time...
J
going to my first thxgiving eve dinner...i am hungry but i know to watch myself. worked too hard need to work harder if i want to be goal weight by summer.
i totally forgot but when i was in the mall the other day a model agent came up to me and wanted me to model for them she exchanged info with me. i only remembered because they called me. i don't think i want to do it. i don't know why probably because i don't feel confident enough for that type of exposure.
just wanted to say that I appr
why do i have 2 blogs? and how do you change the dates on some of these blogs they are out of order..anyway it took all my strength to not weigh myself this morning. I just want to see if I lost some more weight because i'm feeling EXCELLENT! but i know i need to just wait it out till sunday at my normal weigh in time and then i will feel even better about my success! i just hate not knowing and waiting and waiting and waiting
hahaha i re-read some of my old blogs and couldn't believe the jou
my mom asked me how i lost 9lbs in a week and i told her you really want to know the secret?????? she was like yeah please tell me! i said you really really want to know???! she said yes yes please!..!!..??..!!! then i said veggies and fruits and lean protein. eat 2 servings of veggies and a fruit. she said everyday? i said before EVERY MEAL then she made a face and was like ugh. i was like well that's the secret mom its up to you if you want to lose weight or remain a chub chub. i explained to
started back to eating healthy again. high protein, veggies, fruits, whole grains, and definitely no white carbs or processed food! of course most importantly no TEQUILA, whiskey, gin, rum, or vodka! i only went clubbing with gio and he still hasn't contacted me. i think it might really be over..i mean i did tell him to get out of my life and gave him his belongings in a bag..ugh i can't think like that. his mom thinks this is like any of our other fights and it will blow over i mean he was mad
I've made the decision...to go to Mexico for my surgery. I made the decision to have the surgery long ago.
I imagine we all have similar stories that brought us here. Considering bariatric surgery that we elect to pay for ourselves and thus find ourselves medical tourists because we either don't have health insurance that includes bariatric surgery or if they do you must be very sick first.
We are tourists who are seeking not the thrill of the local scenery, the exposure to the culture a
Has anyone else had major mucus attacks. I was fine the first month after my second ajustment. However, recently subject to these violent attacks late afternoon or early evening. The pain comes as if overeating then to the barfing for relief. Problem is I barely had a bite of dinner before the attack. Also,vomiting for me comes in several sessions in one evening of nothing but mucus looking phlegm in the toilet. The one episode brought me to tears and dry heaving. My doctor has prescribed an
i am so miserable i keep on gaining weight and i go like on week diets but of course i get off when the weekend comes around and i drink up a storm and just go crazy. this is terrible! i can't help it i just want to have fun and drink then i get really hungry and eat late at night then go to sleep. of course i'm still with gio...but right now we're not talking same thing blah blah he'll be calling me in a few days though i already know this. well i hope he does..he was really mad this time and i
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