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I finally got my gastric bypass! - Surgery was 4 days ago. I spent two nights in the hospital. I can't believe it's finally happened! Something strange - when I got home on Wednesday (1/16) I weighed 10 lbs more ...

A week away! - My doctor wanted me to get my weight/BMI down before surgery but it didn't happen. I hope he'll still go through with it. He doesn't like "high-risk" cases, I guess because it s...

I Got A Date! - January 14, 2013 at 7:30am.  George Washington University Hospital Dr. Frederick Brody I can't believe it's really going to happen!

Here I go again! - Just got the call from my hospital's insurance coordinator today that my surgery (RNY) was approved by my insurance company (United Healthcare). I find out Monday (3 long days) ...

Admitting defeat, weaknesses and changing course - As I've said in previous posts, I never felt restriction in terms of portion size with my lap band. I only felt like it was a goalie - kept certain things from getting past to my s...

2011- The Year of "Coming Down Nicely" - Everyone where I work has been so supportive. I work in a building of approx. 500 people, so it is usually a few months between sitings of many of them.  When many women at work se...

Keep on truckin'. - So I'm down to 263 lbs YAY. My band has been overfilled for months now and it's slowly working. I don't each much - usually Odwalla/Naked drinks and whatever vitamins go down, some...

Had I only known then... - So I'd had no weight loss since my band over-fill as they removed a bunch of saline and then replaced it but not completely. I'm finally back on track and have lost 7 lbs since my ...

Band over-fill. Scary feeling! - Just got a fill 36 hours ago and I've been unable to swallow even water. I'm calling the hospital now to see if someone can see me to get some of the saline out of the band so I'll...

Took so long to get lap-band going, but halfway to - It's been a long, slow process with the lap-band. If my insurance would approve, I'd switch to gastric sleeve, but they won't. So I decided to just maximize the lap-band by gettin...