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weigh under 200 lbs!

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To Loose 150 pounds!!

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not shop at specialty sized stores

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lose 100 pounds

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Excersize at least 3 times a week

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Gerald Kirshenbaum
Dr Kirshenbaum performs lap-band only bariatric surgury. primarily cash-only patients. I came to him for the price (under 10k), but this does not lack in quality. He put me on a low-carb diet. Make sure you follow it! he explained what he was going to do to in surgury to prevent lap slippage and his program is awesome! He seems good at explaining what is going to happen and the surgury went without a hitch. see www.lapbandrockies.com for his website. His aftercare has been great. He is good at getting you at the right place on fills and he has a great staff.rn
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Hello, I'm John...Pre diet 8/6/07 360 lbs, lap surgury 8/29/07 346, current 182, lost 178
lbs 

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need unfill
on July 30, 2010 5:58 am
Thoughout my years of having the band, i have never needed an unfill.   Well....i think i need to get an unfill.  I noticed at night i was coughing and burping alot.  it was eventually getting so it was keeping me up at night.  i think i have some acid reflux too and it is making my night unpleasant.  i have an appt with the doc on friday. 
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Living life to its fullest
on December 14, 2009 10:50 am
Hello!  I havent got on this site very often.  I really have plataued to a weight...i think if i really wanted to loose those last 10 pounds, i would REALLY have to work it to get it done.  The last pounds are definitely the hardest.  I have gotten used to working with my band. i know what i can or cannot eat.  I cant believe im saying this but eating is more of something i HAVE to do and not something i always WANT to do...dont get me wrong...i do still love food, but now food is not my overriding priority in life.  well...see ya for now!
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sorry havent posted in forever!
on November 23, 2009 12:01 pm
i guess i dont get in here very much.

im still hanging around the same weight....i go up and down on weight and end up hanging around 188-192 range..

thats ok....im happy where im at.....i really need to excercise more to see if i can tone up a bit, but otherwise im good!
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OmG!!! relapse
on July 13, 2009 8:04 pm
im going the wrong direction!!!!  relapse time...  i gained 5 pounds since june 8th!!!!!
im not following the rules and ive gained a few pounds back! 
i know what to do...i need to get excercising again and quit eating around the band.

time for a big kick in my pants!!!!
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Only 13 pounds to go in my journey!!!
on June 8, 2009 4:05 am
im now only 13 pounds to go in my journey!   im 187 and want to make it to 174.....im so close!

it gets harder and harder to loose weight....but who cares!  i will eventually get there...no rush!
im so much happier than when i was 173 pounds ago!  its amazing!
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My Story

yes...like many of you i have been fat most of my life.  I have been on every diet imaginable.  one time 
i lost about 85lbs with a low carb type diet...and like many eventually gained it back...im always good at
loosing weight but much more efficient at GAINING weight. Like many people my size, we are professionals at
 loosing weight, its the maintaining that weight is the problem..well...now with this surgury im on a one way
train to a better life!  my goal is around 175 but would be thrilled to get under 200.  i started at 360

My primary reason, of course, is health...  with all of the weight i have no energy like i used to.  i have 
sleep apnea and cant sleep without my bi-pap.  i have somewhat high cholesterol and some hypertension.
i broke my leg 15 years ago and now have arthritis problems in my anke.   The arthritis is preventing me from doing heavy 
exersize activity.  Loosing weight will help my arthritis.  I am hoping loosing weight will reduce or eliminate some of these 
problems. 

progress      weight                  comment
8/06/07           360          0           start low carb diet pre-surgury
8/29/07           346         -14         surgury date                                                   (avg weekly loss 4 lbs/week - pre surgury diet)
9/13/07           331         -29         going strong! pre-lab band first fill             (avg weekly loss 7 lbs/week)
9/19/07           328         -32                                                                                   (avg weekly loss 3 lbs/week)
9/24/07           329         -31         chalk gain as bandster hell week
                                                        today get first lab band fill                            (avg weekly gain 1 lbs/week)
10/5/07           324         -36         just got back from vacation and lost!!!       (avg weekly loss 3.1 lbs/week)
10/12/07         317         -43         just got my 2nd fill so i can loose more!!  (avg weekly loss 7 lbs a week!!!
10/29/07         312         -48         hangin in there                                               (avg weekly loss 2.1 lbs a week)
11/16/07         306         -54         got my 3rd fill today (this one is much tigher!)    (avg weekly loss 2.3 lbs a week) 
11/26/07         299         -61         made it to two- derland!!!                              (avg weekly loss 4.9 lbs per week!!) 
12/10/07         293         -67         still loosing after 3rd fill                                 (avg weekly loss 3 lbs per week)
12/24/07         289         -71         merry christmas!                                            (avg weekly loss  2 lbs per week)
12/31/07         286         -74         Happy new year!                                             (avg weekly loss 3 lbs per week)
01/10/08         284         -76         slowing down a bit - time for fill!  fill 1/11   (avg weekly loss 1.4 lbs per week )
01/30/08         278         -82         hangin                                                              (avg weekly loss 1.9 lbs per week)         
02/20/08         274         -86         slower - time to get my butt excercising     (avg weekly loss 1.3 lbs per week)
03/10/08         266         -94         wow!  got past a plateu!                                 (avg weekly loss 2.9 lbs per week)        
03/25/08         263         -97         im excercising more - but slower loss       (avg weekly loss 1.4 lbs per week)
04/15/08         259        -101        finally hit my century goal!                             (avg weekly loss 1.3 lbs per week)
05/06/08         255        -105        still going slow but goin                                 (avg weekly loss 1.3 lbs per week)
05/27/08         250        -110        wow..memorial day past                               (avg weekly loss 1.45 lbs per week)
06/30/08         243        -117        half of 2008 is over                                         (avg weekly loss 1.44 lbs per week)
07/29/08         237        -123        11 months banded                                         (avg weekly loss 1.4 lbs per week)     
08/21/08         232        -128        if i loose 1 to 1 1/2 lbs a week im happy    (avg weekly loss 1.52 lbs per week)
08/28/08         231        -129        1 year anniversary                                   (avg weekly loss 1 lbs per week)
10/13/08         224        -136         got a fill which helped a bit but still slow   (avg weekly loss  0.8 lbs per week)
11/17/08         217        -143         hey as long as im still loosing still good  ( avg weekly loss 1.4 lbs per week) 465 days
12/03/08         210        -150         good loosing spirt here- like the old days (avg weekly loss  3.06 lbs per week) 483 days
01/12/09         206        -154         holidays...gaining then loosing                   (avg weekly loss 0.7 lbs per week)  523 days
02/11/09         201        -159         hard to get to that onederland                     (avg weekly loss 1.1 lbs per week) 553 days
02/20/09         199        -161         i made ONEDERLAND!                                (avg weekly loss 1.5 lbs per week) 562 days
03/20/09         196        -164        slow but sure                                                   (avg weekly loss  0.7 lbs per week) 590 days
04/04/09         196        -164        not loosing right now                                      (avg weekly loss 0.0 lbs per week)  605 days
05/11/09         190        -170        didnt have a fill for 7 months..small fill helped  (avg weekly loss 1.13 lbs per week) 642 days
06/06/09         187        -173        going slow- need to exercise more             (avg weekly loss 0.84 lbs per week) 
07/14/09         192        -168        OMG im going the wrong way!!!!                   (GAINED 5 pounds in last 5 weeks)
08/30/09         188        -172
12/16/2009     186       -174         its hard to loose much anymore
07/30/2020     183       -177         actually went down a bit...im too tight at the momement and need unfill