From Fat Bondage to Lap Band-age. Healing the pain and renewing my life.

This is my personal journal of my trek to "Get My Skinny On" using the tool of gastric banding surgery. I was banded on August 18, 2010. I am determined to shed this excess weight.

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  • Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
    Grilled Eggplant Parmesan
    1 day ago
  • Phoenix Revolution
    Lasublimexxxcom
    2 days ago
  • Vee is getting healthy ramble-blog
    May 15: Dinner Last Night
    5 weeks ago
  • Debbi Does Dinner... Healthy & Low Calorie
    Air Fryer Grilled Cheese
    11 months ago
  • Jack Sh*t, Gettin' Fit
    Stella Virgin
    2 years ago
  • Weight Watchers Blog
    Tummy Tuck After 80 Pound Weight Loss
    4 years ago
  • theworldaccordingtoeggface
    Christmas Joys: Sugar Free Italian Ricotta Cookie Recipe
    5 years ago
  • Once Upon A Time...In the Land of Cheese and Sunkist
    Bullshit and Some Truth
    6 years ago
  • Amanda's Waning
    2017 Update
    6 years ago
  • Chronicles from Band Land
    10 Year Check-Up
    6 years ago
  • Irresistible♥Icing
    5 Ways to Love Yourself This Valentine’s Day
    7 years ago
  • Losing Weight, Gaining Tons
    Whole 30 Days 20 - 24... Trudging toward the end!
    7 years ago
  • Black Girl Gets Fit
    I Am Back!
    7 years ago
  • Big Girl Bombshell
    Hello world!
    8 years ago
  • Lap Band Gal
    Guess What Happened This Past Wednesday?
    8 years ago
  • It's just Me, Drazil & Sheniqua....
    I almost died. Sort of.
    8 years ago
  • blossom banded
    Sing Street (2016)
    9 years ago
  • My "NEW LIFE" Rules!!
    Sunday .... Supposed to be my FUNDAY!!
    9 years ago
  • Sally's Journey with Lapband Surgery
    Circle (2015)
    9 years ago
  • A Daily Dose of Dieting
    Lemons
    9 years ago
  • Losing the Fluff
    10 years!!!
    9 years ago
  • Tales from the Band...
    Confessions.
    9 years ago
  • How Did I Make It?
    Dirty Mind at Work: Tingling
    9 years ago
  • Six Stone to Lose
    12 stone 5.5lbs
    9 years ago
  • Pie in Progress
    Best Gazillion Bubble Hurricane Machine
    9 years ago
  • Simple, Sassy Sarah
    Week 20 - Putting it all Together
    10 years ago
  • Banded and Proud of It!
    Before Stats and Prom Pics
    10 years ago
  • The Anti-Jared
    I Was The So-Called Unhealthy Fat Woman At The Cardinals Game
    10 years ago
  • SKINNY ME!!!!!......coming soon :P
    Summer Kurti Designs 2015 | Lawn Kurtis For Girls By Dawood
    10 years ago
  • Love Meli Meli
    Pre-op appt
    10 years ago
  • Stop Spending All Our Precious Time
    Yep, it's a cliche for a reason...
    10 years ago
  • The forever diet
    Back Pain Update
    10 years ago
  • ...like a fat kid loves cake
    reboot
    10 years ago
  • Uncovering Food
    Crowdsourcing: Cooking Healthy but Inexpensively for a Crowd
    10 years ago
  • Lady Lap Band
    I have NOT run away again!
    10 years ago
  • Linda's Bandwidth
    Baby Update
    10 years ago
  • What you Lookin at Skinny??
    What's Up?? (Thankfully not my weight)
    11 years ago
  • ][Young, Black and Banded][
    Time flies when you're having fun...
    11 years ago
  • Cheap Healthy Good - Frugal Recipes, Food Tips, No Mayo
    Comfort Foods: A Free, Printable Cookbook from Grandparents.com. (Also ... Hi.)
    11 years ago
  • Band me Baby!
    4 years banded!
    11 years ago
  • Girl Meets Band
    Reboot part whatever
    11 years ago
  • Hawaii Bound Bandster
    I'm Still Alive.... :)
    11 years ago
  • Mine & Betty’s LapBaNd JoUrNey!
    Apparently...a grain is a grain and any grain...is a piece of shit!?!
    11 years ago
  • Taking Less Space
    Taking Less Space
    11 years ago
  • My Rescue IS Possible
    Back in the band
    11 years ago
  • My Big Fat Super Super Obese Blog
    Looking Forward
    11 years ago
  • ....My Journey with the Lap-Band....
    HOLY MOLY!! I miss you all!!!!
    11 years ago
  • Grace's Fat Chance
    A very trying 2 weeks.
    11 years ago
  • To be or not to be..."FAT" is the question!
    SON OF A BISCUIT EATER!!!
    11 years ago
  • Can't wait to lose it with the Band!
    Living Large in FL!
    11 years ago
  • Island Bandit
    Loose skin or scars?
    11 years ago
  • Fat Like Me
    It's Like Thunder... Lightening...
    11 years ago
  • i am in repair... Angie's Banding Blog
    Maintenance Life - Eating
    12 years ago
  • something something something Fat Chick
    Couple of things...
    12 years ago
  • A Journey to Embrace
    03/05/2013: History
    12 years ago
  • Adventures of Gastric Girl
    Anyone out there?
    12 years ago
  • Breaking Free From My Self-Imposed Exile
    Positive Intent
    12 years ago
  • My Lapband Journal
    TOPS Weigh In
    12 years ago
  • Lap With Me
    Better...
    12 years ago
  • The Blubber Blog
    Here is MY Story
    12 years ago
  • The Queen Bee's Lap Band Life
    We Made It!
    12 years ago
  • Repair and Renovation
    Chicago Recap!
    12 years ago
  • :: Volume Control ::
    BC3 Countdown!
    12 years ago
  • Big Girl in a Big World...my journey as a bandster!
    Broke Joke and MK
    12 years ago
  • Band Friendly Recipes
    Low Calorie Ranch Dressing
    12 years ago
  • Losing My Waist and Regaining My Mind
    Even if you don’t recognize me, I’m here!
    12 years ago
  • Tales from the Band
    Ten Things Thursday!
    12 years ago
  • What I weighed in high school....
    Still Banded and back in the Zone
    12 years ago
  • Life of a (hopeful) loser...
    Bet you never thought you'd hear from me again!?
    13 years ago
  • Banded and Blogging
    Fiesta Salad Recipe
    13 years ago
  • THE SWEET SPOT
    Third Bandiversary!!!
    13 years ago
  • This one time at BAND Camp...
    13 years ago
  • ...HotDogs N HamBurgers...
    13 years ago
  • a winning loser
    8 million years later..
    13 years ago
  • My so-called lapband life
    Another Bandiversary
    13 years ago
  • Alison's banded adventures
    39 years young
    13 years ago
  • My Bandita
    Cipro(floxacin) and the Lapband
    13 years ago
  • The Self Examination of a Butterfly
    AWESOME! DIFFERENT HIGHWAYSDIFFERENT LIFEPATHS --- Bellas carreteras
    13 years ago
  • Jen's Lap Band Journey
    Things they don't tell you in the seminar:
    13 years ago
  • magic cat purrs, banded at 50
    I found your commits
    13 years ago
  • A Little Bit Less of Me
    I am bad at this
    13 years ago
  • Getting my skinny on
    2 weeks of updates
    13 years ago
  • BAND TOGETHER
    rickswiththeband
    13 years ago
  • Better Banded
    First fill after 15 Months!
    13 years ago
  • Am I actually doing this? Heather's Banded Journey
    First visit with the new Dr.
    13 years ago
  • Skinny B---H!
    OMG I can finally eat!
    13 years ago
  • Cupcakes & Carrots..A Lapband Journey
    Pictures!!
    13 years ago
  • The Life of the Band
    Yay Me!!
    13 years ago
  • I'm with the band
    Quinoa-roni & Cheese Recipe
    13 years ago
  • My Life as a Bandit
    Obesity soap? Lather me up!
    13 years ago
  • Diary of a hungry black woman....just weight!
    I'LL BE BACK SOON....
    14 years ago
  • Barbie's WLS recipes
    Veggie Pizza Frittata
    14 years ago
  • girl,banded
    14 years ago
  • BamaBandit
    Didja miss me?
    14 years ago
  • Deena's Banding Journey
    One year and a little bit
    14 years ago
  • Life Is Beautiful.....
    Just a quick photo.
    14 years ago
  • Embracing a New Path
    2011 Can bite me.
    14 years ago
  • The formerly a fat girl blog
    WHO..me ???
    14 years ago
  • True Life: I've Been Banded.
    NSV - Cupcake jammies
    14 years ago
  • Sparkler's Story
    New Year...New Me!
    14 years ago
  • La Bella Vita
    BELIEVE
    14 years ago
  • "Band"ed Together
    4 months
    14 years ago
  • In the beginning
    Fall is here!
    14 years ago
  • My Lovely Lap-Band
    Bodybugg, where have you been all my life!
    14 years ago
  • The Banded Lady
    Losing Time and Getting a Fill.
    14 years ago
  • Does this make me look fat?
    The Answer...
    14 years ago
  • Life is a Highway and I'm riding it my way.
    Hospital Update
    14 years ago
  • * My Life in Lap-Band-Land *
    Back home from Vacation and a bunch of None-Scale-Victories
    14 years ago
  • Athena's Melting
    Feeling a little guity..
    15 years ago
  • The Misguided Adventures of a Five Foot Foodie
    Plateaus, Shopping, and Carnies
    15 years ago
  • A Brand New Roo
  • Finally Going to Finish What I’ve Started
  • Unleashing the Thin Girl
  • B.O.O.B.S.
  • Cute by Comparison
  • The Fat Theory
  • Previously Plump... in progress
  • Creating a Life I Love
  • Confessions of a + Sized Girl
  • Bigger Than My Body
  • My Personal Weight Loss Journey
  • *Bitch Cakes*: A Neurotic Glamour Girl's Weight Watchers Experience and Fitness Adventures
  • living large in C.C.
  • Have you gained weight?
  • The Band in Me
  • Words of Weight
  • Cindylew Who???
  • A New Me
  • tj's test kitchen
  • Jocelyn's LapBand Journey
  • Rockin with the Band
  • This Banded Mommy's Journey
  • Seriously, V?

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Lena
Northwest Florida
I love pedicures, ice cream, dragonflies, cranberry juice, classy perfume, flipflops, sushi, daisies, candles, lotions, stars, naps, Target, car air fresheners, but most of all - my military man, my children and my granddaughter.
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August 4, 2010 August 18, 2010
5'7 BMI 46.5
297 pounds 287 pounds
boobs - 51" boobs - 48-1/2"
waist - 43" waist - 40-1/2"
hips - 60" hips - 59"
right arm - 16 3/4" right arm - 16-1/2"
left arm - 16" left arm - 16"
right thigh - 35" right thigh - 35"
left thigh - 35" left thigh - 35"
right calf - 17.5" right calf 17"
left calf - 18" left calf 17.5"

DRAT....caught on camera July 3, 2010

DRAT....caught on camera July 3, 2010
I don't do cameras yet. I'm pre-op
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