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    Four, 4, vier, fire, cuatro, chetiri, quattro, yon, quatre

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    Four... no matter what language you say it in... I just fit into a pair of size FOUR jeans... yes, me! I love thrift store, bargain hunting. Its a huge thrill to me to find something that i love for less then $10. From my amazing, full length wool coat for $8.88, to my wool peacoat for $6.88 to my Ralph Lauren cords for $3.33 or my Stuart Weitzman pumps for $4.50... I love a bargin, but I have to admit, pulling those 4's off the endless jean rack and looking at them and thinking "no way" - t
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Lap Band Blog

The Awakening

Following a very strict liver-reduction diet and five days of post-operative mush, I am a quarter of the way to my ideal weight. At this rate, I will be at my target of 14 stone (196 lbs or 89kgs) in about two months. Now, obviously I am not stupid enough to think that this is a) possible or entirely healthy. But it makes me determined that this thing is going to work.I have another 24 days left of the puree diet (yes, I am counting the days) and I think I may well burst into tears of joy when
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Lap Band Blog

Sliced and Diced

So, here I am a day after surgery. Guess what! I made it through in tact. With a few scars, a little less hair and a lot of learning to do.The day went as planned. I arrived at seven thirty as instructed and was in my gown, support stockings and rather fetching paper knickers by eight. The formalities were taken care of - a couple of signatures were needed on well-guarded legal papers ensuring I wasn't able to claim for damages in the unlikely event of me failing the post operative "aliveness te
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Lap Band Blog

Time for a Change

Well, the time has come for me to right my final blog as an unaided dieter. I will hopefully be signing back in soon after the operation at the weekend to update the few and far between people that read this that I made it through to the other side (well, not that other side...this side of that side!).I don't have much to talk about myself in this "instalment" - instead, I would like to focus on others.With the operation being so close, I have had to disclose details to a couple of very close fr
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babymk's Blog

trouble

sometimes i'm really really stupid...i'm going to stop now. gio and i made up. i started to be more pleasant and more like myself. i guess it worked because it reminded him of why he loves and wants to be around me in the first place. sometimes he would say something rude or try to be mean but he realized i wasn't being rude/mean back or being pouty. but i did get upset once last night because he said i smelled so i walked away from him then he walked over to where i was standing and said oh wh
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Lap Band Blog

Addicted to Happy

Before I lose the ability to eat fourteen rhino ribs and a bath full of potatoes in one sitting, I figured it was probably the best time to do what I do and analyze myself once more and explore one of my most confusing behaviours. To find out why eating so much makes me so damn happy, whilst knowing that the result of eating so much makes me so utterly miserable. I suppose the first thing to do would be to pin-point any psychological anomalies that could be ear-marked as a place to start huntin
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babymk's Blog

"stupid girl, i should have known"

i feel so low right now. completely crushed. gio just told me that i have a pouty attitude and that i'm too needy....omg that's the killer. its just i love him so much and he knows everything about me. of course i'm going to need him...but i guess he feels suffocated or something???? i try to leave him alone. like i won't call or text him and he always calls and text me and wants to hang out. but i guess when we hang out i haven't been the most pleasant person. he thinks i take him for granted a
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Lap Band Blog

Morbid Morbidity

From the outset of my decision for surgery has been the nagging fear that everyone has, especially when they commit themselves lay bare-chested in front of a man (or woman) with a big scalpel who would rather be on the golf course with Cecil Snr and Farquah the Third. The nagging fear is of course..."am I going to die?"!For people having this procedure who listen to their surgeons before-hand and do some research on the fact, the figures for death caused as a direct result of laproscopic surgery
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Lap Band Blog

Pre-assessed and Pre-approved

Being woken at 3am to the sound and feel of my daughter throwing up into my excessive chest hair started my day in a less than pleasurable way.It was the day of my pre-assessment meeting with the hospital, before my surgery next week. This is where the nurse checks to see if a) it is likely that I would suffer a slight death under anaesthesia and if I did, what blood type would they need to try and pump through my tightened arteries in order to try and revive me from aforesaid inconvenience.I w
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Lap Band Blog

Killing With Kindness

Whilst sitting in the "green room" waiting to be called on set (actually, the name was quite apt as we were sat in a stuffy snooker room in the back of an old gentleman's club...baize green everywhere!) I had another moment of diving into people's psyche concerning us fatties (for those of a sensitive nature, scrub that and read "bariatrically challenged" or "those of a less than slender approach").The moment that sparked my grey cells was when, as usual, I preempted the jokes and jibes that cou
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Lap Band Blog

My New Hobby

Whilst laying awake last night, I started to do a bit of self-analysis (keep those gutter minds out of the sewers please!) and examine my psyche a little bit. It's amazing how overworked my mind becomes when I go to bed ("hit the sack" for all you States-side peeps out there).Amongst many other world-changing theories and famine-busting mental dissertations, I stumbled across my new hobby - which I believe will be a good enough one to serve as my emotional crutch when my "eat the food, eat the p
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Lap Band Blog

Who am I and why am I here?

Hello to all visitors; casual and accidental browsers or well-directed people with interest.As my first post, I thought I should explain who I am, why I am blogging and what you should expect to see here.My name is Ben. I am overweight. In fact, I am told - morbidly obese. Lovely.I have taken the decision that on 27th February 2009, after many years of being on the roller coaster ride to early retirement from life (actually, forget "roller coaster ride" and make that "wheelchair ride" - I can't
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babymk's Blog

good news is always followed by bad news

good news- i lost 2 more lbs. bad news i'm really 5'5 and i have small bones. i got an x-ray and went to the doctors yesterday. i'm a small frame so technically my goal weight should be like 110-120lbs...ugh how annoying and this whole time i thought i was getting almost to my goal weight and this happens. i'm set back once again and it's frustrating but at least i know the truth now. anyway i'm looking at this chart and it said 130 is still ok for a small frame 5'5 women so maybe i'll just l
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babymk's Blog

i would lose 2lbs after eating a donut.

so weird! last night i ate a krispy kreme boston creme filled donut, tortilla chips, chocolate, bubblegum, and a taro boba which is the equivalent to a starbucks frapp because it has 3 scoops of vanilla icecream in it..and I lose 2lbs!?!!!!!! what is going on????!!!! i can eat for a whole week straight of good healthy food, salads, fruits, yogurt, lean protein, good fats, like nuts, etc ..and the scale will not budge! but the week i eat everything junk i lose 3lbs that refused to come off for an
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babymk's Blog

Aware

yesssss 1pound lost today!!! and all it took was me to eat a plate of 7layer bean dip and chips, cup of noodles, 2 cups of juice, dark chocolate...see basically nothing but junk and i lost weight?!!! and i only ate all that food because i was at work. i think i emotional eat at work because i hate HATE it there...i'm just over it and i don't want to be there anymore. but i'm too comfortable to quit and get another job because i have "seniority" and i'm not going to find another job that pays tha
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babymk's Blog

just a little late

i'm starting to think maybe gio was right about me taking 2/3 years to lose the last 84lbs...i've seriously been stuck at this weight for like a month now..i am so beyond frustrated. but i did lose half an inch from my chest and waist if that means anything. i don't know what is wrong. i think maybe i do need another fill. i probably should. and another thing is i'm not gaining weight, but i'm not losing either. i eat whatever i want and i don't gain. that is so weird because usually if i eat an
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skinnyagain's Blog

Day one

Day one to my adventure..The pre op diet is killing me...Hungry hungry.. but I will live, lord knows I have a few fat cells that my body can use for energy...Bought plan tickets, deposit is made, so we are on like donky king! I am so excited to get this band put in. I can't wait to be healthy again... =D> So besides begin hungry I am ok, a few headaches today, but with good medicine they are gone. Update on my road to Mexico tomorrow. KC Day two--I starved BUT I didn't go off plan! D
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kimkendra's Blog

Sore stomach, even after a protien shake

I have had my band in for almost 2 months. My first fill was 2 weeks ago. This past week, I emotionally overate for about 4 days in a row. I ate when I wasn't hungry. I started to get heart burn and food stuck as it went down(lots of pain), but I never threw up. Now, I am trying to get back on track with eating only 1000-1200 cal/day, but I can only eat soft foods and my stomach is in a lot of pain whenever I eat. I am constantly hungry and thinking about food. Do you think I could have stretche
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babymk's Blog

brother and sister means forever :]

me and gio just got back from california we were in san diego then decided to drive to LA! yessss i love LA. i so want to live there! it was lots of fun! i worked out in the fitness room for the hotel. walked and jogged on the treadmill for 40 minutes, 2.2miles, and burned 200+ calories or so the machine says i was going to go swimming in the pool but everybody decided to go out to the pool so i was like uh nevermind. anyways i've been spending all my money on new smaller sized clothes of cour
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MissManagement's Blog

Ok...I'm tired of the liquids!

Ok so my surgery was on 1/12/09, and did a strict Optifast pre-op diet for one week prior. I lost 10 pounds on the pre-op diet, and only 5 more pounds in the two weeks after surgery. I still have one more week of liquids left before I get to eat real food again, and I am really looking forward to that! I am a little perplexed as to why I haven't lost more than five pounds in the past two weeks...I have only been on liquids, but I guess I have to feel the restriction from real food to really
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stormy's Blog

Second fill

Wow this second fill got me. I got .55 of a fill and though that was next to nothing but I sure can feel it. I can not eat the way I was. Sometimes I feel things go down and it is painful. I really need to work on the chewing issue and not eating so fast. People at work say I am losing but the scale is not reflecting this. I am concerned that my stomach is not shrinking. I really am not sure I am losing. Maybe my scale is wrong. I dont know. I may have to get on my eliptical machine and really g
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babymk's Blog

"but i don't have to make this mistake"..

i need another fill. the weight loss is slowing down severely. one pound a week is not going to cut it. i can eat wayyy too much again. yesterday i ate this huge huge plate of salad with three eggs, a whole tomato, like 4 ounces of mozzarella and after eating it i was still hungry! can you believe it!?! gio wants to go to sd next weekend maybe i can do it then, but i usually go with my mom and well i don't know...i mean i just don't want to be like oh hey gio by the way i need to hop on over
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babymk's Blog

it feels weird being "alone"

so me and gio just got back from san diego. it was lots of fun but very tiring. i got two speeding tickets great now i have to go back to barstow...we got a nissan murano and that car is ridiculously fast like really fast. i was clocking over 100 and i didn't even realize it. each time the cops were so mad at me and made me get out of the car because they thought i was drunk but of course i wasn't. i know all of you guys are going to think i'm really stupid for driving so fast and being complete
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LaWanda's Blog

END OF WEEK 1

WOO HOO ! =D> I DID NOT FEEL LIKE I WAS LOOSING ANYTHING ON THIS LIQUID DIET FOR POST-OP UNTIL I STEPPED ON SCALE THIS EVENING.... I HAVE LOST 10 POUNDS IN ONE WEEK - UNREAL - I HAVE NEVER LOST THAT MUCH WEIGHT IN A MONTH..BUT IN A WEEK I HAVE NOT HAD A FILL, JUST CHANGED MY EATING HABITS TO FOLLOW THE RULES OF MY POST-OP LIQUID DIET WHAT A GREAT JUMP START, I AM SURE WEIGHT LOSS LIKE THIS WILL NOT CONTINUE AT THIS RATE SO I AM GOING TO CELEBRATE IT WHILE I CAN. I AM SURE ALOT OF THIS
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