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Try, Try Again

A blog by juno610 in General

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Three years out from banding and two pregnancies done, I'm ready to make this thing work!

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Restriction, Whee!

I cannot believe it, but I have some darn decent restriction going on with this first fill. I can't even finish a Healthy Choice meal. Scale is down 3lbs already, and I feel like things are moving along pretty good. Most meals have been around 1/2 - 3/4 cup, and I'm not feeling hungry.   Getting enough water in is probably my biggest challenge. With the time constraints around meals and my work environment, It's hard to fit in. I normally cannot have water with me during the work day, so whene

Fill Day!

Got 1cc in my 4cc band today. Whee! I go back to the doc in 6 weeks for more. I think I should do fairly well with this though. Believe it or not, I've never had more than 2ccs in this thing, and that was too tight! 1.5 seems to be a good working level, so that's what I hope to get to at the next appt.   For now it's liquids today and part of tomorrow, mushies, and so on.

Weigh-in

243.3 this morning. I managed to lose a few without even trying. Nice!   Mini-goal: 225 (pre-pregnancy weight) This will put me back at the 50lb mark too.   18 to go!

Three more days!

Three more days till I get my fill! I'm all stocked up with my liquids and mushies for the first couple days out. I'm getting excited!   My little guy and I went to the zoo today. I just had to take advantage of this lovely 70 degree weather we're having. Walked my tail off! I wish I had thought to grab my pedometer; it'd be nice to know exactly how far I walked.   I've been having a bit of a week long "last supper". It hasn't been total junk, just things that I know I won't be able to toler

My stomach is F'd.

This morning I had a gastroscopy. It was a follow up from a year ago when I was in the process of discovering that my gall bladder doesn't work. Things are still icky; to be specific, gastritis, ulcers, and the worst part: an irregular z line. The doc didn't say it is out and out Barrett's espophagus, but I got the impression he'll be monitoring it indefinitely. Frankly, it scares the crap out of me. The frustrating thing is that I don't get heartburn since I had my band. So, was this damage don

I forgot how much I liked moving.

Last weekend I took my toddler to a gymnastics gym for play hour. They open the gym up to parents and kids for an hour to play on all the equipment (bars, balance beams, foam pits, trampolines, you name it). For $5, you really can't beat it.   My little stinker was happy just running up and down the tumbling runs (springy!) all the while yelling "Ruuuuun! Ruuuuun!" in her cute little toddler voice. And I was running with her, of course, because the tumbling runs happen to be 2 feet off the gr

Starting anew!

I got my band January of 2007. I don't think I really understood what I was getting myself into. The first year, I made half-hearted attempts at following the bandster rules of eating, and allowed myself to be filled way too much. I managed to lose about 35lbs, down from my pre-surgical weight of 275. Needless to say, I was disappointed in my results. I got pregnant with my first child in December 2007, and only gained twenty pounds. This put me so uncomfortably close to where I had started, I w

Tuesday 4/10/07

Today my goal is to eat some veggies. I noticed I've been mostly eating fruit with my meat. I need some ruffage!   11am: 1/4 cup chicken salad, 1/2 cup corn   4pm: 2 hard breadsticks with garlic/cream cheese dip   7pm: 8 tortellini (meat filled) with tomato sauce     Exercise: Full body weight training, 30 minutes on the treadmill, 3.2mph/3.0% grade

2 months till I am in the Bahamas!

I'm setting a little mini goal for myself. I'd like to lose 16 more pounds before we go on vacation in June. I need to start looking a little more closely at what I'm eating, so here goes...   I'm trying not to label meals as breakfast, lunch, and dinner because I'm trying to get out of the habit of eating because it's "time."   10am: 5 bites of cherry almond chicken salad   1pm: 1/2 cup curry chicken salad, 1/2 cup grapefruit slices   6pm: 6 cheese ravioli with tomato sauce, 1 marshmall

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