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Goals

Be able to shop in Misses section instead of the Plus Size section

11 People
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12 People
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be healthy and off all medications

9 People
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4 People
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Fit into a size 12 pant

10 People
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5 People
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weight 180 lbs

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Buy a house

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Surgeon Testimonial

Philippe Quilici
What was your first impression of him? rnDr.Quilici is very straight foward and he knows waht he is talking about.rnrnHow did your impression change over time? rnTo the better now i know i choose the best this guy have a magic hands God bless himrnrnHow would you describe his office staff? rni did have a bad experience with one of the girls in his office it was over the phone she was very rude. but beside that everybody else have been very good.rnrnWhat should future patients know about him? rnthere is out pocket expenses. be ready with your questions?rnrnHow much does he emphasize aftercare?rnhis stuff will be on charge of that any problem they will see you asap.rnrnHow did he address the risks of surgery? rnthere is a very informative document that they provide to you.rnrnDoes he have a structured aftercare program? rnyes he have and is excellentrnrnHow would you rate him overall?rnthe best of the best.rnrnWhich is better, surgical competence, bedside manner, or are both great?rnfor my experience both.
theskinnybinsideme's Journey

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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
very upsetting and i give up dieting was so hard, will work for couple of weeks and then i will get discourage
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  • Comment by Jennifer Keeney on 5/26/09 6:27 am
    Hey my friend! I wanted to stop by and send you best wishes, thoughts, and prayers for your big day. May your surgery be uneventful and may your recovery be speedy. I know you are looking forward to being on the "loser's bench" and there is a warm seat waiting for you! I look forward to hearing from you after your surgery and reading lots of updates!!
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01-01-2010 major set-back
on January 4, 2010 7:25 am
well my last fill was on 12-14-2009 1.0 cc everything was fine i drank the water went Through, got home. i try to have some broth it came back, water, anything was coming back next day call the doctor went for an unfill.050 cc, it felt much better immediately, well holidays came  along and i admit i ate stuff i wasn't supposed to , but on Sunday morning(12-27-09) my father in law came home with breakfast i was starting with a piece of meat and i got stuck awfully i could not eat not more, i throw up four times in an hour my stomach hurts  a lot .went on liquids the rest of the day and took it lightly the next day by Wednesday (12-30-09) i start having acid reflux at night but in the morning went away ,not on 01-01-2010 , suffer the whole night with acid reflux and wake up like that the pain or should i said the burning was unbearable at 11:30 a.m  call the doctor  office for the doctor on call, she instructed me to go to the pharmacy and buy prevacid, i did took one pill immediately ,went home an sleep for one hour when i woke up i was in horrible agonizing pain and burning ,call the doctor again and told her what was going on , she instructed me to go to ER, which i did got there, first they order x- rays , then they send me for a CT scan, they send me back to the room
 wait for the doctor no body came to say anything ,next thing this nursed came in  and ask me if they explain was going on i said nobody has said anything, he said well you are going to get admitted it in the hospital , we are taking you to you room, but i don't know nothing  else. i think i look so worry that when we got to the room the guy said don't worry if the doctor is not here ASAP is probably for observation.
well the nurse get there and told me so nothing by mouth, are we preparing you for a surgery i said i don't know you tell me, she said the doctor will be here tomorrow morning she will explain, i start preparing for the worse
 finally after a long night and the agony of the unknown she got there around 10:00a.m and said the it look like i have something stuck in my esophagus and the band was preventing it for going thought, so she took all the fluid out my band and say they were doing an endoscopy, they did thank God everything was o.k
I'm still bloated up and light headed but hopefully it will get better
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another fill and unfill
on December 21, 2009 10:00 am
well lets see i been neglecting my blog so  I'm doing a major update

first after my unfill of.25 on  11-02-09 and oh boy it help so much, no acid reflux  was a relief.
my next app.was on 12-14-09 and they did a fill of 1.0cc i drank the water i went fine got up the office but the time i got home water ,soup everything was coming right back up, have the most horrible night ever ,when back to the doctor on 12-15-09 have an unfill of .50cc which make a  difference and so far the weight is dropping.

on 11-26-09 was six moths since my surgery,no doubt about time flies 
and the journey continues and i feel bless                                                         
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11-02-09 unfill
on November 2, 2009 12:41 pm
well i went to the Dr. today for this acid reflux and they did an unfill of .25 cc so hopefully my tummy gets better
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11-01-09
on November 1, 2009 7:36 am

well times fly. i can believe we are so closed to the holidays, well anyhow, my weight loss has been very slow lately 3 pounds in 6 weeks, and lately i got acid reflux I'm seeing the doctor on Monday, too see what is this thing about, my hair still falling and exercising  religiously hope the scale move soon

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10/05/2009 4th fill 1.cc total 7.6cc
on October 8, 2009 11:09 am

well is been 5 month since surgery
on 10/05/2009 i have my 4Th fill ,1cc making a total of 7.6cc
and i don't know what the sweet spot fill like but I'm full longer and i can eat less ,have loss a total of 40.7 lbs loss 4 size of pants and 2 sizes of shirt, able to wear my boots,losing a lot a hair which I'm hoping it will stop soon. and I'm wearing size 8 now,have to change all my grannie panties, now got some sexie undies

love my band, love it love it

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My Story

Well here it goes the history of my life,I'm from El Salvador  and as i never was skinny i wasn't this big i went thru diets lose a little bit and then gained all back and plus, when the whole phen phen hype went out i was there taking it and it did work i went from 150 pounds to 116 pounds and size 4 it was awesome my first time skinny. but i lose the weight so fast in a month that i got kidney stone and had to get surgery Ouch!!!
after that  i start gaining  more weight about 20 pounds still o.k but i start dating who is my husband now and ahhh.happiness = eating and cooking for him,start to get me plum plus i started using depo-provera for 9 months at the end of the period i was 185 lbs, i tried diet of all different kinds will lose 5 to 20 pounds the most and later they comeback and plus until i creep to my highest ever 228lbs , diabetes came along and i decided that this is not a good life like this,so i started my journey to weight loss surgery after so much research and thought  surgery will be  may-26-2009
see you in the loser bench,,, bye bye fat zone