Theresa's Gastric Band Blog

Gastric surgery to assist in weight loss for obese people is on the increase. It's a big step for anyone - here's how it went for me.... I hope you find this blog informative, helpful, reassuring and encouraging. Surgery date 15th November 2008. Tweet me @TheresaFarlow

Friday, March 21, 2014

The best thing since sliced bread

I recently received an unexpected package in the post. It turned out to be a free sample of a new cookie developed by Weight To Go. ...

Thursday, January 16, 2014

The pain in Spain….

….falls mainly on the grain. Basically, I'm in Spain for a week, working in the field. I was here at the same time last year and exper...

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

After 4.5 years it's finally working how it should!

Since my last post in November things have changed somewhat. We moved house in December, Christmas was upon us, and then I went on a field t...

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Getting more restriction now

Had another fill yesterday, of 1.4ml, taking me to 6.4ml now. I was pleasantly surprised to discover, when I got to the clinic, that the lad...

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Horrid fill experience

Two weeks ago I had my first fill after having my band completely emptied before that. As I anticipated, my fill was 5ml, the same as it was...

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Mr Tortoise gets a PB!

I was looking at my tickerfactory.com banner this morning and it occurred to me that I had selected the right icon - a tortoise - as the sli...

Friday, October 5, 2012

Patience - an important lesson

I thought I'd give you a little insight into how things have been for me in the last year. A year ago I had a small fill, taking my tota...

Thursday, October 4, 2012

An acid-free night!

I'm back on solid food today after my complete de-fill last Saturday. I've had no problems eating, but then I wouldn't expect to...

Monday, October 1, 2012

Slightly confused.....?

After my complete de-fill two days ago I've had a slightly confusing time. I had expected to be extremely hungry, but I haven't been...

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Scary times.....

Thanks Maria (you know who you are), for convincing me that I should get back blogging. Over the coming days and weeks I can fill in some of...

Friday, April 16, 2010

Sparkling insight

One of the comments on a post a few days ago, generously contributed by Sparkler , demonstrated incredible insight into some aspects of my p...

Monday, April 5, 2010

A few light snacks......

Here's what I went out and bought this afternoon to meet my 'needs' - a small buttons Easter egg (yes, there are still a few le...

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Back to bandland

Hello everybody - it's been a while! As I sit here wondering what to type, I look back on the past few months and ask myself what has ha...

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Ups and downs

Hello people! This has been the longest I've ever left it between posts - I'm writing a Masters thesis so working every waking hour....

Monday, February 1, 2010

Intertrigo, going going gone...

In 2004, I developed a horrendous, itchy, red fungal infection under the folds of my hanging stomach (I do hope you weren't eating anyth...

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Fat Man Slim

This evening I watched a documentary on Sky Three called Fat Man Slim. It was about an obese, 40 year old successful businessman who decided...

Saturday, January 16, 2010

How many calories per day?

Thanks to another bandit who posted on the UKGastricBand forum, I've discovered a web site called Calories Count. It has a useful tool f...

Monday, January 11, 2010

Predisposed to gluttony

There was an interesting item on the One Show on BBC this evening. They are taking a look at the seven deadly sins - one each day - and it w...

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Working with my band

Here is the essence of what I replied to an anonymous comment - you may find it useful: Stretching your pouch: If you eat very slowly, which...

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

A long Sunday walk

On Sunday we tackled what will be the first of many Lake District walks this year. We climbed the summits of five Wainwright peaks - Griseda...

Thursday, December 31, 2009

The 214 Challenge for 2010!!

As I hinted at yesterday, I have been thinking for a while that I'd like to take up a serious physical challenge in 2010. As well as he...

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Kerry (Kegs) and Mahhi

Hiya both! Thanks for your comments added to my last but one post - I had problems replying directly to those comments so have added my resp...

Seasons greetings

Hello again! Happy Christmas! We've just returned from a Christmas week spent on holiday in Tenerife. We booked it all at the last minut...

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Pre-band fears part 4: Eating cold food

Before I got banded, I read stories about bandits eating meals and taking an age over it. The thing that struck me, was the number of bandit...

Friday, December 18, 2009

Some advice to a potential bandit

After a previous post, a reader posted some questions to help her decide whether to go ahead and have gastric band surgery. I posted my answ...

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Pre-band fears part 3: Being called a cheat!

I suppose it was the 'outing' of Fern Britton that did it - she was 'found out' with the gastric band and called a cheat in ...

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Pre-band fears part 2: Being sick

Before I got banded I'd read and heard so much about bandits being sick that it really began to worry me. I got the impression, from var...

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Pre-band fears part 1: Eating out

I promised a couple of weeks ago that I was going to post a few articles exploring some of the concerns I had before I got banded - and how ...

Friday, December 4, 2009

The goodness goes on...

Wow! Not sure what is happening. Two more excellent days where my eating has been totally under control, I've felt real restriction and ...

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Having a better day - why?

I've had quite a good couple of days. On Sunday I set aside time to do some stepping, light weights training and stretching. I felt so m...

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