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  1. Just wanting to know if anyone has tried Isopure? It has alot of protein and is sugar and carb free. Just wondering if it sounds too good to be true?
  2. IM BEING BANDED ON THE 27TH!!!! but not in Mexico, in Colorado. But it's nice to know someone else has the same RE-birthday as me!!!!!!!!!!! =D>
  3. Hi ladies, and thank you SOOOOO much for responding back. Only addicts like myself understand what this process is like. That's really cool 2 of you are getting banded almost the same day I am, but I am going to be going to a town just a few hours away to get banded, so I won't be able to meet any of you in person. ( But I ABSOLUTELY want to keep connected throughout our journey together online. This place has been a a lifeline to me, and I haven't even been banded yet!!! We are all breaking up with the same boyfriend (food)... so we know his tricks and how he has led us all into a false sense of security. It's amazing to have other women on my side and know exactly where I am coming from with out judgment or question. And the same goes here. No judgment. I'm sure at some point we have all done things we look back now and kinda think we had lost our minds, but it's always nice to get it off your chest and see that there are other people out there just as nuts as you!!!
  4. Ok, first of all, I am so incredibly glad that I have lapbandforum.com and lapbandtalk.com for support. > A month from today I will be banded. March 27, 2008. It's all kinda sinking in, because for the first few weeks after you have made a decision there is ALOT involved as far as paperwork, loans (if you are cash pay like me), and just getting loose ends tied up. When something life changing happens whether it is good or bad, for the most part shocking. I don't have any idea if my rambling will help anyone, but if it does, great. If not, well I had a little therapy session for myself. lol So here goes... Hi, my name is Sofi, and I am a food addict. By the time I was 9 years old, I was wearing a size 12. By the time I was 16, I was 200 lbs. I am now at 268, and I am 26 (on 3/14). My whole life has been one diet after another. Each time, my hopes high, and ready to lose the weight I had desperately wanted to rid of for so long. Looking back, I honestly believe each diet and every attempt took a part of my hopes and faith in myself and ripped it in shreds. As silly as it sounds, I actually TRIED becoming an alcoholic and tried to become a heavy smoker in hopes to transfer my addiction from one to the other so then that way I could actually lose weight. (That's logical right?? ) I had 2 boyfriends tell me over the years that I was too heavy to have enjoyable sex, and my body was just not easy to move around with. I was crushed. This past Thanksgiving I went to be with some of my family. My grandfather, who I hadn't seen in over a year, barely spoke to me but did long enough to ask "when I was going to start my Thanksgiving diet after all the food I had eaten." I thought he was joking, because in our family, food is like the WHOLE POINT of getting together! But then he started rambling about what he and my grandmother eat and how much they exercise, and that I could do it too if only I would put my mind to it. Holy crap... if it were only that easy. Point of all this...I want a life change. I want to look back at my life right now in one year, and not recognize me. I have accepted that I have a love affair with food, and have my entire life. And like any great love, it's memory is with you forever. Sure you may move on, but you'll always be attached to your first love. Food has been there for me in good times in bad. It has never judged me, and so therefore I have a soft spot in my heart for going to food when something in my life isn't going right. Food let's me forget about the world and all it's problems. Although temporary, (as with any person with addiction), while it lasts it feels great. But I am to a point in my life where I have a decision to make about what direction I want to go. I found out the other day I am borderline diabetic, my blood pressure was up, I was put on a SECOND anti-depressant medication. I hate that my life has come to this stage. I don't enjoy living. And it's so hard to say that, because I have a TREMENDOUS amount to be thankful for, which I am. My mom and step dad are wonderful, and I have several friends that are so incredibly supportive. But I am tired all the time, I have no motivation for anything, and I am on the medications of someone in their 90's at age 25. I don't know that I truly ever have enjoyed the physical side of my life. I have felt so crappy for so long, I don't know that I ever have really tasted life's sweetness. If ya ain't got your health baby, ya ain't got nothin'. Thanks for reading if you have gotten this far. It feels great to let this out.
  5. Just wondering if there were any fellow banders here that have had the Lapband surgery done by Dr. James Smith in Pueblo, CO. My banding is going to be March 27th!!! Very excited and incredibly nervous ....
  6. I have been reading about people that have problems with allergies and mucous/ drainage, get really sick with the lap band and end up throwing up the drainage. Not only does that sound gross, but scary because of band slippage. Any suggestions or experiences would be great! Thanks!!!
  7. I am wanting some tips and advice on what to eat (or drink rather) when I am on the liquid diet for a few weeks post op. Does anyone get hungry?? If so, what do you eat??
  8. I was reading on a forum about people that are on Zoloft having SEVERE trouble with acid reflux after they were banded. Has anyone had any experience with this or know of anyone who has? My other question is if anyone was able to get off their anti-depressant (of any kind) after they had the lap band surgery and began losing weight? I am on 2 antidepressants and birth control (for PCOS) and my hopes are that a few months after my band is in that I will be able to get off of ALL 3!! Thanks for all comments! =D>
  9. hey Maggie- would you mind posting your homemade soup recipes? they sound yummy!
  10. I was wondering if anyone here either has or knows someone who has had the band for more than 3 or 4 years. It sounds like there are lots of people that are successful for the first year or two, but I have not really talked to many people about the long term. Anyone have any comments or suggestions? :-?
  11. thanks so much for the advice! i have a few things to fnish up before i schedule my surgery, but i am trying to get prepared and find out as much as i can about anything and everythingbefore the big day. :-? so anyways, the best of luck to you in your surgery and though your new journey!!
  12. Hey everyone- I was wondering what everyone was doing for that extra protein since lapband people have to have 50-60 grams of protein everyday. Are shakes with a scoop of whey protein the only option to get that much protein daily? #-o Any ideas would be great!!! Thanks!! Sofi
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