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Blog 71190

A blog by kcweir in General

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Slow and Steady

It's been just over a year now since I was banded. The last month or so I've been in serious need of a fill, and I just had it done on Monday. I'm enjoying the new restriction and finally watching the scale go down again after stalling for six weeks. I'm now down to 171 pounds! I've lost a total of 70 and have 30 more to go, hope to have that off in the next year.   I'm really enjoying shopping now for the first time in years. I'm getting rid of all my big clothes because I'm very confi

I turned 40 in style!

I couldn’t believe my scale this morning, 192.4! I’ve lost a total of 49 pounds so far, only one pound from half way there. My last fill really did the trick for me, I’m comfortable most of the time and even though I still can’t eat a whole cup of food at one sitting, I’m held over after eating for at least four hours. This must be the sweet spot everyone talks about.   I had a fabulous vacation with DH earlier this month to celebrate my 40th birthday. We flew to Cancun and stayed at a gor

More realistic goal, and feeling some guilt

I spent the day Saturday with my sister, attending a baby shower and having dinner at my house. The conversation was almost exclusively about weight. I still haven't told a soul about the LAP-BAND®® except my husband, and I almost cracked under the guilt pressure I was feeling that day. I can say that I haven't lied at all about how I'm losing weight, but I am not telling about this one amazing tool that I had installed. I did tell my sister how much my weight had gotten up to (241) and she

5 1/2 Months Post-op

I made it to a 40 pound loss finally. SOOOO close to onederland! I had my best fill ever on Tuesday and I hope this restrictions lasts for a while. I have 8.3ccs in my 10cc band now.   I've planned a vacation with my husband for my 40th birthday in April. My goal was to be under 190 when we leave, but I don't expect that to happen. If I can make it solidly in the 190s I'll be happy. Part of the trip is going to be climbing a Mayan pyramid and doing a zip line through the jungle! I nee

Someone Noticed!

I had a great weekend in Las Vegas with my mother, sister, and all four of our kids. The first happy thing happened when Mom walked in to my hotel room and said, “You’ve lost a lot of weight!” Funny thing is, she saw me last week but she said that I was wearing more fitted clothes and now she could really tell. My Lap-Band®® is a secret, so I said I was eating more protein, less carbs, and walking on the treadmill. Not a lie, but I still feel guilt about it, especially when talking to my sister
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11 Week Post-Op Update

My weight is very slowly falling, I’m down to 215 now from my highest of 241. Not too shabby, but I think I expected to be below the 200 line by now so I can’t help but be a little disappointed. I definitely have restriction and still accidently don’t chew enough so I’ve had a few sliming and pbing incidents since my last fill two weeks ago. The problem is that I don’t stay full for 4-5 hours after eating one cup of food. I’d say I’m still at about 3-3.5 hours before I’m hungry and by 4.5-5 hour
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Nobody Noticed and My First PB Story

One side of my family has a Pre-Thanksgiving dinner every year the Saturday before Thanksgiving. I was really looking forward to it because I was able to fit comfortably in my second shelf pants (size 16) and was thinking I would get a little attention for it. Nobody noticed. Although I’m disappointed, I’m also a bit happy because maybe nobody noticed when I was barely squeezing in to my 18Ws. I think I became expert at hiding fat, this just shows me how good I was at it.   Another disturbing
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Second Shelf Pants and Other Developments

My relationship with my band has gotten much better since the second fill. It’s amazing how much less hungry I feel during the day. I struggle to get enough protein in, so I’ve been drinking an Isopure zero carb every morning before breakfast to give me a head start.   A few of the most recent developments for me:   I noticed yesterday that I can pull my jeans up and down without using the button or zipper. I have several pairs of size 16 jeans on my skinnier shelf in the closet, but they a
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Ladies and Gentlemen...We Have Restriction!

Fill number two was yesterday. I got to see the surgeon instead of the PA this time. I just love my doctor! He spent a good amount of time with me listening to how disappointed I've been, and that I can hardly tell I have the band at all. He said that I didn't have a lot of abdominal fat (I've got it other places!) and that the band was loose on my stomach when he put it on, that's why there were 4ccs in the band on the day of surgery. He put in another 1.5ccs for a total of 6.5. Holy Moly
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Hit the fast forward button!

I'm so inspired by the posts I see on this site. I especially love reading about people who are six, nine, or 12 months post-op. They give me reason to hope. I know I shouldn't weigh myself every day but I'm compelled to do so. It makes me so frustrated sometimes, and makes my day other times. I'm only 2 weeks 2 days post op but I haven't seen that scale move in the right direction in a week now. Yesterday, I ate a total of 750 calories, 60 grams of protein, and walked off 300 of those calories

Nutritian Class was Interesting

Monday I went to my “transition” class at the surgeon’s office to learn how to move from the liquid diet to mushy foods and beyond. There were only four other patients there with me, we were all banded on the same day. I was so excited to get away from drinking those shakes finally!   The PA went over what our typical meal should look like and had lots of great suggestions about how to prepare it or order it. She had fake rubber food in the right portion sizes so we had a good idea what a port

Ok, now I'm getting frustrated.

I'm sick to death of this liquid diet. I feel weak and tired and I want it to stop! I get hungry, but not crazy hungry so that's a plus. I can't wait until my Monday nutritian class, hopefully I can start on mushies then.   The thing that's frustrating me is that my weight has barely changed in three days. I can't understand how I can drink slimfast three times a day and not see a difference on the scale every morning. Meanwhile, my "weigh less than hubby" goal got stolen away when he didn't e

Woo Hoo, First Goal Accomplished!

This morning I weighed 224.6 and DH weighed 226.4, I am officially lighter than my man! Of course, he did eat nearly an entire pizza by himself last night, but I'm still counting it. Maybe he did that to help me out with Goal #1, if so, what a sweetie.   Next goal is to be under 200 pounds. When I get there, I'm going to reward myself with a spa day. Manicure, pedicure, one hour massage. I can't wait!  
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Feeling Human Again

Friday I left work at 10:30 with a 101 degree fever. I called the surgeon's office and they told me to see my GP. He said I have broncitis and prescribed some magical antibiotics and cough syrup so I don't hurt the new hardware that was installed. Now it's Sunday and I've feeling pretty much back to normal, but I still tire easily.   I still haven't really felt hungry yet, but I have had the urge to eat a couple of times. I'm scared of the band, so I didn't dare try anything. Next Monday I ha
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Surgery Day Story

Yesterday’s surgery went very well. I can’t say enough about Dr. Oliak, his PA Ally and the staff at Chapman Medcial Center. The whole thing really was a good experience, but didn’t go off without a hitch. As you may remember, this whole thing is a secret to everyone but DH, even the kids. My kids are only 5 and 7, so I didn’t think it would be too hard to keep them in the dark as long as I got home from the hospital before they came home from school. That didn’t happen so they ended up coming t
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My Evil Cold

I took Zicam all day yesterday like it was my religion. I still had some of the old nasal swabs from before they took it off the market. Love that stuff! I already feel better today, but my throat is a bit scratchy. I'll continue with the Zicam and get a good night's sleep, and I'm sure I will feel pretty good by tomorrow morning. One good thing about this cold, I haven't been hungry so it's been easy to stick to protein shakes.   This weekend my sister was over and saw all my protein shakes a
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Pre-op Diet Failure

My doctor was not specific about the preop diet, he just told me to lose weight before the surgery. I was down 7 pounds and feeling great about it, but then the weekend came. Saturday we had a family BBQ during the day, and then my husband brought home ice cream sandwiches at night. I got back on the wagon in the morning and did pretty well, but then got so hungry by dinner that I ate a chicken nuggets meal from McDonalds! I'm dreading the scale in the morning! Now I've only got Monday and Tues
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Yesterday's pre-op class

I took the whole day off from work yesterday mainly because I needed to attend the "office day" which was about three hours long. I was the first one there, given MANY forms including a thirty question true/false quiz about the lap band. The class had six people and the PAs went over the same information we were given at the seminar. After that, the doctor came in and rehashed the same stuff again. Honestly, I think I could give the classed myself at this point.   I can feel myself getting pr
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The Last Supper

I scheduled my surgery yesterday for 9/23/09. I'm very excited about it and hope to be one of those girls I see on this site who drops 100+ pounds and keeps it off. The key is really keeping it off, isn't it? I've lost lots of weight many times but have found that keeping it gone has been impossible for me. That's why I need this tool INSTALLED in me so I have no choice but to keep up the work.   I had to go to have my blood drawn this morning after fasting and was told I need to drop 10lbs b
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