any lap banders out there?

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  • jetscreaminagain
    jetscreaminagain Posts: 1,130 Member
    OP good luck. Glad you've apparently got lots of medical folks on board, and I'm sorry to hear of your other health problems that are making weight loss harder.

    FWIW. My ex was obese, likely in the morbidly section of BMI -- don't know as he isn't my problem any more. He also had high cholesterol, uncontrolled diabetes, a tendency to have an external locus of control and to view a meal as a challenge as to how much he could put away. He was a sloth.

    I don't think you are any of these things. This man is unique and always surprising, I'm just painting a picture of someone with a lot against him healthwise.

    Last winter he was ordered to find a job or risk jail. So he got bronchitis. And pneumonia. Not a job. He laid around even more than usual. Then they were about to go to court to enforce the job or jail sentence order and within 2 days he's being admitted to the Mayo Clinic with congestive heart failure at 39 years old. He says there's viral myowhositwhatsit that caused it. He's gonna be discharge the next day so he has a stroke that night. Because he's at the Mayo Clinic (on the taxpayer dime btw) he does not die but is partially blinded cannot get his words and their meanings straight and is slurring speech and unable to walk. Daily therapy from three kinds of therapists and a couple of seizures later he's released, rehospitalized and released again. Lots if outpatient therapy and the DASH diet.

    Here we are about 8 months later with him applying for Social Security and trying to get me to pay child support because he cant work. But thanks to medical miracles he's still with us.

    Medical miracles sure. And that DASH diet. And daily walks. With that, this guy taking handfuls of meds each day has managed to lose probably 80 pounds. Just diet and exercise. And that guy will probably live for years. Joy.

    So do what you want and good luck. But don't underestimate what diet and exercise can do.
  • Fastima_Jones
    Fastima_Jones Posts: 2
    Hi, I had lap band surgery on March 28, 2013, my starting weight was 318 pounds. So far I have lost 85 pounds, my goal weight is a 145lbs I am hoping to reach it before my 41st birthday. Since the surgery I c an tell you I feel so much better, health wise and confidence wise as well, I exercise daily( something I never did before) now it nothing for me to get up and get active. My next goal as the weight continues to shed is that I want to start running, I just don't know how to get started. I am afraid that if I just start jogging I might fall dead of a heart attack: :laugh: at this point my body is not use to that much movement. The one exercise I have come to LOVE is boxing :heart:. helps me feel controlled on this chaotic life I am in. I hope that all you lap banders are having much success with your weight loss journeys.
  • harlanJEN
    harlanJEN Posts: 1,089 Member
    For the love of everything in the universe DO NOT have a stupid lapband. My parents signed me up to get one at 17 and I spent years unable to keep down so much as water and my own spit. I would literally throw up my own spit. I wish I was kidding. Yeah, I lost. But I also went nearly a week at a time without being able to keep down anything. You go, get a fill, $100. Too tight, you puke. Unfill $100. You can eat too much, get a fill $100. Too tight, puke, $100 to unfill. I had my unfilled and still could not keep down water. There was NOTHING in it.

    I lived off of soup/mashed potatoes every THREE days because that's about how often I could keep food down.

    -116 later, BY MYSELF.

    It's awful, seriously.

    Stop eating crap food and move your *kitten*.

    ^^^^ THIS

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