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OH thread locked, so answering here. -   Thank you for the information. This is not going to affect me as I have now removed anything from my signature and avatar which could identify me and I have made my profile priv...

Sticking my neck out.... Happy bandsters, please s -  I am fed up wth being told that my surgery is inevitably going to fail me. Please note that some who post warning against the band do not say it is inevitable, just likely. I may ...

Dr. Curry? -   Newcomers may not know this, but Dr. Curry used to have a wonderful sticky at the top of this page and we could ask him questions and he would give us his comments. These were p...

Band over sleeve??? - This lady wants a band over her sleeve! Is that possible??  http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/lapband/4492561/Thinking-of-getting-banded-any-thoughts/#37177885

My Secret Santat is AMAZING - Hislady!!! - I know it is Hislady!! Hislady, you ROCK! My favourite Starbucks coffees ( we can't buy packs of all those different ones over here!!), turkey jerky, which I have never tried! Fr...

More lightweights getting banded? -    I am noticing more people in the UK getiting bands with relatively low starting weight. One women posting today saying she is having surgery tomorrow and  a current weight of u...

Reality bites! -   Back to good band living! Just eight weeks until I go on a six week trip around The Malay Peninsula and Borneo.  None  of this air conditioned coach rubbish - trekking  through ...

Giving up.... -   ........ on my Secret Santa! Got home today from my Xmas away and nothing waiting for me! But I really, genuinely don't mind as my own recipient was BetteB whom I have actual...

Ridiculously excited SS -  Didn't think I would be! Having no idea what time of day it is where Bette is, I am checking every hour to see if her OPEN NOW thread is up! Not that I have  anything to open ye...

The magic of food - People sometimes ask if they will ever be able to eat normally with the band. Well last night I went to a first class restaurant. As always in such places, the pace was leisurely a...

Bette - the Santa Protocol? -  So we open prezzies on the 19th, depending on our varying time zones? Do we all then declare ourselves or do we maintain anonymity forever? I realise my recipient will know t...

Vibration plates! xPost -    On principle I distrust all fad diets and disbelieve the benefits of all miracle machinery. I therefore assumed vibration plates were an expensive, ineffective gimmick! Bu...

Vibration plates -  On principle I distrust all fad diets and disbelieve the benefits of all miracle machinery. I therefore assumed vibration plates were an expensive, ineffective gimmick! But g...

Entirely my own fault -  Here I am, at 1.38 in the morning, feeling yuck and too uncomfortable to sleep! I am too full! Not in the "above" the band way, just good old fashioned full stomach! Mind you, it ...

Re-defining my comfort zone -   For the first two years after deciding I needed to stop losing weight,  my comfort zone was 145-148. But it was hard to stay there! So I upped it, first to 148-154, then 154-158...

Nausea at night anyone? -   This is what I think is happening..... Any similar experiences? I have catarrh, not bad, not a full blown cold, not blowing my nose, just mucus in my head. I very rarely get ...

Xpost OT advice on plantar faciitis? -    DH has just been diagnosed. Given all instructions, advice by his doc but, like all these things including wls, shared experiences  from fellow sufferers can be just as, if not...

OT any tips for lving with plantar faciitis? -   DH has just been diagnosed. Given all instructions, advice by his doc but, like all these things including wls, shared experiences  from fellow sufferers can be just as, if not ...

Positive feedback -  Although I paid to be banded, the UK National Health Service has now taken me on and so I get any treatment I need totally free. Yesterday I had a routine 6 monthly appointment ...

Now this, makes me so very CROSS - Venting - so cross I am shaking!! Earlier today, someone posted to ask the usual sleeve v band question. As all regulars know, I usually  join in wiht lots of comments but, ha...

Keep an open mind! - A note for people new to this board. From a band vet of five and a half years who is by any measure successful and loves her band. Pease read everything on here with an op...

Remembering Pepsi/Sue - I met Pepsi about three years ago whole in New England. Lovely lady! She sent me her recipe for meat loaf ( much more of a US thing than a UK thing). I served it to friends who a...

maintaining Kate-style - I quite often get PMs from people asking for my experience of this, so I thought I would share. I am linking the points to questions I have specifically been asked. Please note ...

OT Makes me sick to the stomach. XPost - Not sick as in fed up but literally made me feel sick! I know all the arguments about corrupt govts and military etc.. But I feel sick to think there is on this planet a huma...

OT makes me sick to the stomach - Not sick as in fed up but literally made me feel sick!  I know all the arguments about corrupt govts and military etc.. But I feel sick to think there is on this planet a h...