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Topic: RE: An Honest Persons Version of their Lap band Experience Versus Sleeve

Thank you for sharing....however, I have to say that my experience is completely different from this young lady's experience.

One, I did follow the rules and I did workout regularly when I had my band. I continue to workout with my VSG.

Two, in many ways, my VSG is so much better than my band - mostly because the restriction is constant and present from day 1 (no fills, no back-in-forth to the dr until you hit your "sweet spot".) My restriction always fluctuated with my band - depending on my menstrual cycle, level of stress, and the time of day.

The second reason my VSG is so much better than my band is that I can tolerate veggies, eggs, and fruits now, which means that I have a very balanced diet.

Also, in my experience, the weight has been easier to lose with the VSG, although I am six years older and way closer to 40 now. Usually, weight loss get harder as we age and I actually changed my goal down because I think it is doable now with my VSG. I am averaging 2.5 pounds per week with my VSG and I was around 1.5 pounds per week with my band. Best of all, I am not hungry with my VSG and I faithfully try to eat "under my sleeve." 

So, while I am sure that some people may have contributed to the demise of their band, I am not one of them.  And, I am so grateful that I was given an opportunity to heal from the damaging affects of my band and convert to a surgery that works much better for me.

 

Topic: RE: Wouh what happened to this forum?
Thanks for this post!!! I just started visiting because I'm considering band over bypass and was looking for some band education, good and bad. I've met a few VERY helpful people, even with bad experiences, but negativity seems to dominate a lot.
I'm so Leary to say anything because I know how sensitive the issue is, but there are pros and cons to every WLS. I'm proof! I had a successful RNY, buy because my tool has left me- no restriction, and I'm still a food addict, I'm gaining. Plus I just found out I'm majorly anemic as a result if the surgery. Would I take it back? No. Others with RNY have horrible dumping, leaks, etc. likewise several people with bands get erosion, stricture, etc. that stinks! I wouldn't wi**** on anyone but this is all full of risk.

It's so hard to make an objective deduction. I've been reading "I could only eat 500 calories", but with RNY that's all I could eat for six months. Anyway, I'm hoping to learn if people can make it work even with obstacles, and to learn from people supporting others who went through similar problems. I hope you stick around to help!



Highest weight 250ish/ SW 233/Current weight 147/First goal 135/Crazy goal 130

Topic: RE: It's my 8th aniversary!
Yaaayyy!!! Someone with good band news!!



Highest weight 250ish/ SW 233/Current weight 147/First goal 135/Crazy goal 130

Topic: No foot stepping Nana just need this - Write Your Saturday food & Exercise Tracking Here

Hey Naomi forgive me, it's getting late and I need to keep my promise of tracking publicly so Here goes!

 

What ya eatin'?  How ya movin' today?

 

B:  4oz of soy milk, 4oz of coconut almond milk, 2 teaspoons of cremora With my coffee.  1 banana, 1 lite laughing cow cheese

L:  bunless cheeseburger w onions, pickle, & ketchup

S: cup of green grapes 

S: ummm 19 bald mini pretzels w. Teaspoon of peanut butter

D: baked chicken w. Frozen collard greens NOT!  Yucky feeling about meat so had 4oz of 1% cottage cheese,  later granny smith apple - peeled & teaspoon of peanut butter

No more snacks!

walked 5 miles

20 minutes on bike

Good day peeps ;)

Gonna try my usual Daily staple - boiled eggs. Every once in a while I get yucked out by the smell of things.  Let's see!  Gotta get back to my protein filled diet.  I'm eating a bit crappy

 

 


3/30/2005 Lap Band installed  12/20/2010  Lap Band REMOVED  
6/6/2011 Vertical SLEEVE Gastrectomy

Topic: RE: Happy people?
Like everything out there it's just a "tool". Feel free to check out my profile,
I am 5 1/2 years post op, and feel free to pm me.
Prek3

Nov 10,2009 I reached GOALL BYE  BYE  130 POUNDS! It wasn't about the FOOD, it was about what was eating at YOU!  Time for a Head adjustment!    **July 2011 Plastic Surgery Lower Body Lift

        Exercise    is not a LUXURY!

        Exercise  is a  NECESSITY
 

Topic: RE: An Honest Persons Version of their Lap band Experience Versus Sleeve
Hi Star!
so glad you are doing well! you may want to Check out the newly released book,"Obsessed" by Mika Brezinski interesting read and I am not done with the book yet. It was released this past Monday. Eye opening and honest
! ***a ill surprised guest from our forum mentioned in there too.

Prek3

Nov 10,2009 I reached GOALL BYE  BYE  130 POUNDS! It wasn't about the FOOD, it was about what was eating at YOU!  Time for a Head adjustment!    **July 2011 Plastic Surgery Lower Body Lift

        Exercise    is not a LUXURY!

        Exercise  is a  NECESSITY
 

Topic: RE: An Honest Persons Version of their Lap band Experience Versus Sleeve
My Band has made me be more in tuned to my body, getting "Fills" I likened to air in a cars tires. Too much or too little and it won't work properly. It's like car matience, you notice every bump on the road. And those "bumps" have made me "pay attention" , listen to my body, and be "present". "Present", omg, I never could appreciate that word, but I do now, lol! I have learned to "fine tune" my body, and that is very important to me, definitely more work involved with the Band, because you have to pay attention, and I am fine with that as I wasn't paying attention to my body before.
PBIng is not normal or acceptable. Sadly people think this is o.k., and they may not be paying attention to what their body is saying. As formerly obese, I wasn't listening to what my body was saying, and so the concept of eating until "satisfied" was soooo foreign, and now I am learning what it looks like and feels like to eat until satiated.

"Satiated" is a word that these surgeons do not stress enough and so some people don't understand because all they hear from the surgeons is "fast", and so many of us , if we are honest, want it off yesterday! So we focus and hear what we want to hear. Once again "satiated" is foreign to us, we get numbed out on our foods. Maybe they should require we attend professional counseling after surgery on an on going basis, and if we don't then we have to pay back the $$$$. Because the work is not completed once we get to "goal", its only begun.
My oppinion my thoughts,
Prek3

Nov 10,2009 I reached GOALL BYE  BYE  130 POUNDS! It wasn't about the FOOD, it was about what was eating at YOU!  Time for a Head adjustment!    **July 2011 Plastic Surgery Lower Body Lift

        Exercise    is not a LUXURY!

        Exercise  is a  NECESSITY
 

Topic: RE: Friday: Tell the Truth, What are you eating today and how are you moving your body?

I just added Matrix to my list of go-to protein shakes about 6 weeks ago. I wanted to try something different after drinking the same protein drinks since 2007. I was very pleasantly surprised with the taste. My favorites are cookies & cream and mint cookie...YUMMY, especially with almond milk,

Topic: Happy people?
Hi all!

Looking for all angles. I'm looking to get band over bypass. I'd love to hear band success stories. What made you successful? What was your average weekly weifht loss? Total? Anything else?



Highest weight 250ish/ SW 233/Current weight 147/First goal 135/Crazy goal 130

Topic: RE: 4 weeks out
Your body burns up the glycogen stores in your liver with WLS shock. As your body rebuilds the stores and transitions to fat versus carb loss, you stalk. It'll start again!



Highest weight 250ish/ SW 233/Current weight 147/First goal 135/Crazy goal 130

Topic: RE: An Honest Persons Version of their Lap band Experience Versus Sleeve

I just want to say I think I am metabolically challeged as well.  I am tired of watching people inhale plates of food and not gaining any weight!!!   

Ok..I'm done venting now too!!!

 

Oh and interesting video...

Topic: RE: Local fills?
On May 16, 2013 at 10:02 PM Pacific Time, pineview01 wrote:
On May 16, 2013 at 5:19 AM Pacific Time, aphillips631 wrote:

I moved almost immediately after surgery and just called up the bariatric surgeon I see now. He is my mom's surgeon, and did my cousin's fills even though she had her surgery elsewhere as well. He was happy to take me and do fills, he just got all of my records from my original surgeon. I'm really glad that he had no problems taking me because he is a wonderful surgeon, and especially now that I am awaiting my revision (slipped band), I didn't have to search for a new doctor. I have heard that some doctors won't do fills on patients that they didn't do the surgery on, but I had no problems with it. BTW the only reason my cousin went to him for her fills was because her insurance only paid for surgery, but not the fills so she was paying out of pocket. Her original surgeon did fills WITHOUT the barium and x-ray for the same amount that this surgeon did fill WITH it. And they had no problem taking her, even with her original surgeon in the same city!

Why would you want your fills with the barium and x-ray?  I try to avoid as much as possible and would only want a fill that way if there was a problem.  Which our center did if there was and issue.

 

I always had my fills done under fluoro, it was far easier.  One stick and they are there.  That is when I was fat, after I lost weight my port stuck out like a tumor and then fluoro wasn't needed.  But for people that still have a lot of belly fat or flipped ports, etc., fluoro is a wonder.  

Topic: RE: Friday: Tell the Truth, What are you eating today and how are you moving your body?
I have been doing intermittent fasting. There are several ways to do it. I allow myself a 6 hour feeding window each day, although the weekends are more lax.


  LapBand Surgery 01/10/08, Revison to Sleeve 04/03/12

Topic: RE: An Honest Persons Version of their Lap band Experience Versus Sleeve

My honest experience - my stomach sleeved could not be more excellent.  I won't even entertain this video or person.  I want to be healthy NOT damage or risk my life.   When I had the band I was afraid to eat late and so I did not.  The fears helped me tremendously.  That's honest.

Being sleeved is so different FOR ME.  There is capacity but not In your face, whip your arse restriction.  In fact when you undereat Your stomach capacity, you can't feel your bottom at all. I Iive by that because I don't want any issues. At 2 years out, I don't know what hungry feels like anymore.  Sometimes when I am with someone I'll say "I'm starving" and then realize oh man, that is so not true I just want food like Crazy.  And my stomach sleeved fails to convince my rock headed brain.  I want food more than the average person because let's face it, that is the way I'm wired.

People are always going to be ignorant.  People are always going to want a free ride.  Let's put our energy into getting out bodies fit & heathy.  

Ideally I wish I had never had issues with eating and obesity so that I would not have needed any WLS at all.  But since I did, really I am glad to be blessed with a sleeved stomach.

And can I vent!  I swear,  I am metabotically challenged!!!  Ugh!!!

Back to the grind.  I am getting in my Yoga pant to walk the park.  3.5 miles.

 

Good day :)

 

 

 


3/30/2005 Lap Band installed  12/20/2010  Lap Band REMOVED  
6/6/2011 Vertical SLEEVE Gastrectomy

Topic: An Honest Persons Version of their Lap band Experience Versus Sleeve

I think this explains it all............why this persons band slipped and how she has to work MUCH harder with her VSG than her Lap band, however she feels more normal with her VSG because the food does not get stuck from being too tight with the band.

I also think this explains how DANGEROUS the band can get if you use it incorrectly and PB daily to keep the weight off, she admitted she never exercised with the band, because she heavily relied on the band to do it all for her, but she has to exercise with the Sleeve to see weight loss. I find this very interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ffxpsJt_1I

Original Lap Band * 9/30/2005 * 4cc 10cm band*,  lost 130 pounds. 7 Great years! 

Revision surgery to AP small lap band *11/13/2012*, due to large hiatal hernia. I am hopeful about continuing my band journey uneventful and successful. I loved what my old band did for me and I am looking forward for my new band to Keep my weight downsmiley

Topic: RE: Friday: Tell the Truth, What are you eating today and how are you moving your body?

Yep, getting ready to leave now, I will do lots of walking on the board walks today hopefully to minimize the damage of eating any unscheduled ice cream or fudge..........Enjoy your weekend too!

Original Lap Band * 9/30/2005 * 4cc 10cm band*,  lost 130 pounds. 7 Great years! 

Revision surgery to AP small lap band *11/13/2012*, due to large hiatal hernia. I am hopeful about continuing my band journey uneventful and successful. I loved what my old band did for me and I am looking forward for my new band to Keep my weight downsmiley

Topic: RE: Friday: Tell the Truth, What are you eating today and how are you moving your body?

I need to try Matrix protein shakes, they sound yummy, I've used Unjury so long it's hard to change up.

Original Lap Band * 9/30/2005 * 4cc 10cm band*,  lost 130 pounds. 7 Great years! 

Revision surgery to AP small lap band *11/13/2012*, due to large hiatal hernia. I am hopeful about continuing my band journey uneventful and successful. I loved what my old band did for me and I am looking forward for my new band to Keep my weight downsmiley

Topic: RE: Friday: Tell the Truth, What are you eating today and how are you moving your body?

Hey Chickie - good to see you , what are you doing starving yourself? Remember you don't have to do heavy exercise, just start with small brisk walks, you can do this, this will speed up your metabolism.

Original Lap Band * 9/30/2005 * 4cc 10cm band*,  lost 130 pounds. 7 Great years! 

Revision surgery to AP small lap band *11/13/2012*, due to large hiatal hernia. I am hopeful about continuing my band journey uneventful and successful. I loved what my old band did for me and I am looking forward for my new band to Keep my weight downsmiley

Topic: Getting excited about the OH 2013 Conference!!! Register now and save $25!

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Exciting news: 8 new speakers added to the Conference line-up, Early Bird (Save $25) extended for 10 more days and another great giveaway added on for the Early Birds!

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Topic: RE: For those want to work their tool and get support and "Cheered" on your journey...follow m

This is a great post Naomi! Glad to see you trying to pull this board back to a support forum for all. Good jobangry