Introducing Myself

I don't know who posts recipes but it's not me.  I'm the Seattle Sutton girl.  I try to stay out of the kitchen as much as possible.  I don't like to cook, don't want to have to prepare anything, measure anything, count anything or weigh anything.  I just can't take the pressure.

My bad Tali...lol... Sorry for all the undue pressure....

Hi Bridget, So sorry to hear that you also lost your Lap Band. I finally lost mine on 6/5/07 after my second slippage. From the beginning of my journey I had 4 surgeries and 6 hospitalizations and I followed the Rules to the letter being a Healthcare Professional/Manager of Laproscopic Surgery/Operating Room. Dont listen to others that say we dont follow the rules and eat thru the band like what I have read on the Lap Band message board. Stress played alot for me losing my band but then with my life=job who wouldnt be under stress. I actually changed jobs to a Surgery Center PAT Coodinator position the day before I had emergency surgery. Second day on the job and I passed out in the locker room with knocking over the cart with hospital scrubs and that afternoon I was being operated on where my stomach had turned blue and dying from the Band. I have joined the gym and am stubborn myself that I will not gain the weight back even tho I must say that I have gained 5lbs back and I vow to lose that with smart food choices. Now at my post-op visit on Friday I was taken back by the cold responses and being quickly esorted thru the office (so not to speak to other WLS patients I guess) and being told by the skinny surgeon to ''do what I did before surgery like WW and go to the gym''. HUH? I was fat before the surgery and thats how I was approved with the insurance to have the surgery. Oh yeah, she said call us if you need us. DUH, I work with surgeons on a daily basis even tho they dont do Bariatrics (many reasons there LOL). I hope you are feeling better each day and get your strength back. I know I am still tired from surgery and it has been 3 weeks. Keep taking your vitamins. Feel free to PM me if you like. Take care..............Sharon

Oh Sharon...I'm so sorry for all you've been through.  I agree that stress is a major player.  I had a son in London studying for a semester, my mother was dying, I was in grad school.  Just too much!!!   I'm so glad you are well now.  I intend to get back to my former self...only BETTER!  I won't let the BBs (Bariatric B*stards) keep me down.  Any doctor who won't support me is history!  *I* am taking control of the wheel now...and LOOK OUT!

You tell 'em girl!!

You go girl!!!!!!!

Bridget welcome.   I'm so sorry to hear about your mom and your emergency surgery.  Glad you're on the road to recovery. You can definitely keep the weight off.  You got a jump start on it with the band, but now you can do this without it.  Just work your eating and exercise plan and you'll do GREAT. Glad you came over to our forum. 

I have an eating plan that many would NOT agree with.  But it works for me.  That is to take 8 bites per meal/snack.  I can eat every two-two and a half hours.  And I'm rarely hungry.  Really with 3 meals and 3 snacks, I get all my WW points in.  It's amazing how much eight bites really are!  Now...about that exercise plan.....

8 bites per meal/snack huh?  Interesting concept.  Too much concentration and counting for me though.  But I agree, if it works for you and you're getting everything you need nutritionally -- GREAT!! We all have to find what works for us and just do it, whatever it is.

I keep seeing more and more people coming to this board because they rejected the LB.  I had been seriously considering the LB because of the more normal lifestyle but I would hate to spend 15k or whatever it costs just to have it fail?   Anyone know the statistics on lap-band failure? How does it erode??