another thing....

I didn't mention this in any of the previous post (i just posted a VERY LONG POST catching up on my recovery)....
before surgery, i went get an unfil.  i forget what he said i had left, 1. something....because i was SOOOOO scared of throwing up after surgery. 
well, thank goodness the tightness of the muscle repair makes me feel like i'm full quickly beacuse i have NO RESTRICTION WHATSOEVER!  let's just say we went to a buffet place and i had an entire plate of full (a few bites of a BUNCH of things) and i FINISHED it. THEN, went to the dessert bar and did the same thing...bunch of bites of a bunch of things and FINISHED IT!

i don't feel hungry very often, but it is SCARY if there is food that i really like or want to eat, there is NO LIMIT to what i can put down.....bread, pasta, ANYTHING! 
SOOOOOO, Monday i have a fill appointment! LOL 

I want to go eat chinese SO BAD TOMORROW....like a last supper before i can't eat like that again!  LOL  thank goodness i've learned something in this year of being banded.  FOOD is not the most important thing.  i don't have to have it ALL right now.  i CAN go out to have chinese and have just a little and be satisfied after my restriction is back. 

also, all that salt would make me really swell and i LOOOOOOOOVE seeing my flat belly, i don't want to CAUSE it to swell!!! 

this is with my compression garment on at the end of the day, so there is swelling.

THOSE are little girl sized shorts!!  Shirt, size small.

24 days PO

 FLAT BELLY!

scar flattening & lightening

belly button covered since i'm still treating it.

my PS did the scars on the inside of it and it takes a little bit for it to 'dry' up

i LOVE MY BELLY BUTTON!!!

4 pregnacies made my old one HUGE and DEEP...it's TINY now!

i have a waist NOW...It doesn't show as much in that pic with the evening swell, but i now have a waist that goes IN instead of straight down my sides.

Wanna B thin again...is almost there!