Adjustable Gastic Banding

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Hi! Everyone.

I am new to this site and need a few abbreviations explained. RNY, BTC,

VBG, PCP and what does flaming mean?

I was unaware there were so many different types of gastric banding

surgery. Mine is a silicone ring with an expandable balloon inside which

the doctor injucts fluid to either loosen or tighten the balloon. I am

getting it tightened again next week as I feel the food is slipping past.

You have all given me so much strength and hope. The food is still very

much an issue and if I am not eating I am thinking about it or dreaming

about it.

No-one truly understands the obese and their relationship with food. It is

a love hate one and I spend more time on it than I do with my kids and

husband. Some days it is not a physical problem although at any given

moment of the day it is in the back of my mind at the very least.

People tell me they know how I feel because they can't go past a piece of

chololate. These same people can keep a opened bar of Toblerone in their

fridge for six months. I can't because the chocolate keeps on calling out

my name and I don't mean in a whisper either.

I have Australian size 10 friends who insist they have fat tummies and I

scream out to my higher power for patience (yes I spent several years in

OA. I love that organisation and it helped me a lot) because I feel they

are being patronising. I did tell in no uncertain terms one friend who is

lovelier than Aniston that could she please not goon about her

" fat " because if she felt she was fat, what did she think of me???? It

didn't stop her though!! I give up.

It is amazing how easy it is to bypass the surgery to get the calories

inside. Surgery makes dieting easIER not impossible as it was pre-surgery.

To all those people on the emailing list who is awaiting surgery or

approval. I hope it happens for you and soon.

Regards

Neale

Western Australia

pre op 4th May, 1998 - 120 kilos

post op 24th September, 1998 - 105 kilos

Height - 5' 6 1/2 "