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wiggygiggy's Journal

A blog by wiggygiggy in General

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my bandit journey

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Wow

I am loving my band. Never before have I been able to lose weight and KEEP it off! Thats the greatest thing! I'm at -70 pds now, down to 210. I feel SO much better. I'm thinking that i need to cut back on my BP meds cause i'm having lite headedness - have a call in to the dr to see about that. Anyway - thats much an update. :bounce:

one year later

Wow am I ever a terrible journal keeper or what! Well, at least I'm here today right? I'm at 218 now. This has been a slow process for me, but I'm still losing so thats a plus for me. I switched to Crosby for my fills this month, due to Ryan leaving Abbott, and the 35W bridge collapsing. They are very conservative up there though so its going to take a while before I feel restriction. Yes, I said that I still have no restriction! 1 yr and 4 months later. So basically the weight I've lost

still nothing

I'm still maintaining the weight I've lost but haven't lost anymore! Hopefully things will start to move along in the weight loss department once I get that fill tomorrow. Right now I can just about eat anything and everything I want - but I do stop when I "think" I feel full.

Bumming out!

:rolleyes I need some help - things are stopped, and occasionally go up a few pds too - very disappointing. I can't wait to get another fill - this one did nothing for me! I started exercising last week - weights and treadmill - I need more motivation I guess. I need a swift KICK IN THE ASS!!

in limbo aka plateau?

I feel no restriction at all - I can eat every thing and anything I put in my mouth. I do feel full eventually, but not until I've eaten about as much as I use to. Fortunetly I haven't gained any weight - just maintaining at -38 pds. I'm going to try and do the 3 day diet starting tomorrow to hopefully kick things into action PLUS I'm going to go and work out at the gym starting this week. MWF this week, TTH next week, etc. I have to get things moving again. I want to lose another 12 pds h

WooHoo!

:clap2: I made my first mini goal today. It was to weigh less than I weighed when we got married 4 yrs ago (243) and today I stepped on the scale and it said 242! :clap2: I "think" I feel some restriction?? Its just when I take the first bite of food though. Its not a good feeling at all, so I need to be more careful about chewing my food, esp on that first bite!   I"m on a roll again. Next mini-goal is 230 pds, hope to be there by the time I get my next fill on Aug 7th.

First Fill today - 6/22/06 -35 pds total!!!

I had my first fill today and didn't know what to expect. He had a hard time locating the port hole to inject the solution into - that was grossing me out and making me nauseous. :faint: Other than that it all went great - I didn't feel any pain at all - just a few pricks when he was numbing it up - nothing unbearable. . I found out that I have a VG 11 band and it will hold 10cc's of solution. He put in 4 cc's today. Now I hope to see faster results and more restriction. I'm down 35 pds

stuck at -33

Well I'm still stuck at -33 pds, was actually up a couple of pds last week, and before that i was down a total of -34 pds - rather discouraging but I am hopeful that things will start to move once I get my fill on Thurs.   I can eat anything I want to so far- maybe I shouldn't have done that, but I wanted to see and so far so good - but maybe thats not so good either!   More later.

Moving down again

Well the scales started to move again this week. I'm down to 247 now (-33 pds) It was such a good feeling to move that 250 marker down to the 200 one - just think what it'll feel like to move that 200 one down to the 150 one! :clap2: I'm more in control now and that has helped alot I think. Once I get a fill then things should be even easier to control.   Best thing yet happened to me today - a dcm noticed that I was losing weight and commented on it how good I was looking! :clap2:

At a stand-still

but at least I"m not gaining! I'm stuck at -29 pds and have been for a week now. Of course I started eating soft foods a week ago too and that may have something to do with it - that or the fact that I haven't had a good SHIT in a week, LOL :cool: I would take a laxative but probably will wait until Sun. nite so I'll be home in the a.m. when things start to happen.   I have been being pretty good, other than last weekend. I sort of went crazy eating and sneaking stuff last weekend - l

One week out

Well I must say that I don't think it went TOO badly this week. Pain wise was maybe a 2 at the worst, but once I started taking the meds regularily for pain there was nothing.   Today I weighed myself and I'm down 23 pds since the beginning of March, and 9 pds since getting banded. I'm VERY happy with this. 257 today! :clap2: At this rate I"ll be under 250 in another week. I can't believe it! So cool - and I"m not even hungry ever at all! :faint:   I did develop some sort of reac

how did it go????

It went great! We came home last night. I virtually had no pain at all, just little soreness from the incisions. And was tired too so went to bed as soon as we got home around 9 pm. I was up just about every hour though going to the bathroom, and at 2 a.me. I was feeling little pain - like someone had kicked me in the gut, so I cut up a pain pill and took that. My mouth has been so dry too - just terrible!   If you want details - here yaw go ~grin~ warning...its long! We le

pre-op class

Well I kind of figured the pre-op class would be a waste of time, but I did learn that I have to drink this stuff the night before to clean me out - oh yippee. The class was mostly geared for gastric bypass patients but occasionally they would say something that was for lapband people. There were only 2 of us out of the 10 in the room having lapband. Man, I hope I"m making the right decision. I really feel that I am.   So far on the liquid protein diet - day 7 today - I"m down to 270 on

Liquid Protein Diet - Day 3/4

I started the liquid protein diet on Friday, April 28th. Friday night though I went out to eat and just watched what I ate. Its not been that bad at all. I'm not feeling hungry at all! I've been consuming between 60-65 grams of protein per day, and staying under 1000 calories too. Yesterday was only 650 calories! Needless to say I've lost four pounds. I sure hope it stays this easy. I can't say that I really am missing food per say, but I haven't been really tempted either. As long as I am not h

almost ready!

I am almost ready to start the liquid diet, starting it on Friday. I am excited to start, but at the same time I am a bit apprehensive. I'm afraid of failing - cheating - gaining weight - etc. I want to do so well on this, I want to acheive my goals, I want to lose weight! But I'm afraid it wont work for me, that I'll somehow manage to figure out a way to cheat the band and I dont want to do that! I can feel myself slowly getting more and more nervous about the entire procedure. I hope that this

FINALLY!

I have a date for surgery and things are gonna happen fast!! One month from today is my surgery date - May 12th - I can hardly wait. I drove to the conseltation by myself today :clap2: and home. Met with my surgeon, Crystal Schlosser. I'm not sure I'm "that" crazy about her, but she seems to know what she's doing. I got the feeling she was more for gastric bypass over lapband due to more weight loss potential, but I'm sticking with the lapband.   Now I have to schedule a chest X-Ray, a

Trying to be patient!

:help: I am trying to hard to be patient with this process, but really getting frustrated with all the hoops and BS that we have to go through. I can honestly understand why people go to Mexico now to have it DONE! I just found out that now I'll also have to attend a 4 hour pre-op class on a Wed. before I have the surgery. That means ANOTHER trip to the cities - oh joy!! Maybe I'll just have to switch our piano lessons to Tues. nites now until this is all done with?? Or Hopefully the

Bummed!

:cry And angry too! I had a pre-op meeting scheduled this morning at 10 a.m. with Schosser - had everything done prior to meeting with her, on my way to the cities, 20 miles away from the hospital when they called and cancelled - she was sick with the flu. So I turned around and drove back home and called to re-schedule and can't get in now until the 12th of April!!! FUCK! I had hoped to be banded on the 14th but thats impossible because they want you on a 2 week diet before t

update 3/24

Well after 3 days on the cardiac/tuna diet I lost 7.5 pds. Not bad! :clap2: I weighed myself this morning and was still down 6 pds, so hopefully I can keep it off over the weekend now and do it again M-W of next week before I meet with Schlosser.   I bought some foods from med-diet, and ordered some protein powder. Also got some chewable vitamins from Sams club. Getting ready for the big day.   Tonight we went to the Crystal for what will probably be the last time for me to eat nor

My Banding Journey

Today is 3/21/06. I am trying to have patience as I go through the process of getting a band. I started this process more than a month ago!   I had thought on and off over the past 2 yrs about seriously having WLS, but chickened out because all I had ever heard about was the gastric bypass surgery and I didn't want to go that route unless I had to. Last Nov. 05 I heard about the adjustible lap band procedure and looked online to get more information about it. Then the holiday hit and lif

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