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1 Month and 2 Days after surgery (Thanksgiving Week)

Yes - Life is great even though I have gained 2 lbs. Still having trouble sometimes trying to take to big a bites from food occassionaly causing some slim and a couple of golf balls but still learning. My NEW goal is to re-start my 3 times a day eating and 1 snack before bedtime and including alot more chicken instead of JUNK. Fish was a great addition before the holidays and maybe I will return to that but I do have a problem with the butter (I Love It) and thats not good so I will try that I can't believe its not butter stuff and we'll see. 315/290/210
TakinThePlunge

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Rules - Things I have learned...

First I stil Love my band. :confused: 1st - Protect the band (physicaly-against chldren) 2nd - No skin ever (apples-tomatos-oranges) 3rd -Never any sugar 4th - Never fight the pain when eating (just stop eating) 5th - Always eat with some sort of a gravy/sauce (lube-up) 6th - Always remember the rules 10-26-06 320-270-210
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1st Night Home

I realy was feeling great no real pain and a new learning curve for sitting and laying in bed but all was good. I consumed a little water and between the hours of 6PM and 11PM 1 small can of apple juice along with 3 or 4 oz of beef broth and also 1 (3.25 oz) jello sugarfree then it was bedtime.:drum:
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Week 1

:drum: Day 2 of my first week at work and I felt great all day.   am Began the day with Zinnep (I think this made a difference) 2oz chicken broth sipping Gatorade till 11 pm 2oz chicken broth sipping gatorade till 5 pm/home Zinnep 6:30 2oz chicken broth   hiccups w/o a straw so now I am using a straw and see if they stop.   Later I consumed another apple juice through a straw and found good results, fewer hiccups AND I had 1 choc, sugar free popsicle. Yeahhhhhhh :clap2:
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Day 9 after surgery

:clap2: I feel GREAT physically and mentally. I am not being restrained on getting in and out of bed or chairs, movement is just as normal as it ever was and thats a big plus. Thought I would have to pamper myself much longer. I now am eating mussie foods and I even had a 1 oz thing of cottage cheese with some pinnapple juice in it :scared:. I am still taking my Zinnet and little pills but I think thats more because I was told to . My wounds are all but healed and they are no longer covered, dry and healing great. Oh, did I mention. I LOVE my band HU (Hardware Upgrade) I do not mind being a borg. I believe that with a great Dr like Dr Lopez and the strength/power of prayer this has been better than a dentist vist cause I never could handle the dentist. I have a small elevation in the middle of my chest where the band is but I suspect that with a signafigant weight loss this will go down and set better inside my body. IN the meantime it really is not an issue. I ate supper with my family last night (mashed potatoes and gravy and that alone was a major accomplishment, course they laughed at my portion but I got full on 2 oz of potatoes and 3 oz of gravy and I was through. I even went to bed at 10pm cause I was excited about seeing tomorrow. Now, I just don't get why I haven't read or found in this forum more success stories like mine, I just hope I am not blowing my own horn too soon cause being the optimist I am also has a piece of me that is pesimistic waiting for the hammer to drop but I hope never does and I continue to have pure success.   315/304/210
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40 days after surgery

:biggrin1: I am at a loss for words cause all I can really say is that I LOVE MY BAND still. I'm healthy, carefull of what I eat and how fast I begin to eat cause I almost always have PB happening for the first few bites of anything but then when I overcome the initial pain and discomfort I can eat without any trouble. Now I am just trying to stick to the signaficant foods instead of junk or a waste of food space. Course, for some reason my mind and stomach are stil not in sync cause I catch myself thinking about food even when I know I am not hungry and sometimes its too late and I find something to snack on anyway (that sucks) but I will overcome and I am still losing just not as easy as it was last month and FOR SURE - NO SUGARS - thats the law and bottom line. 315/285/210
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Two Weeks after Surgery

Life is great and I could not have asked and received a better experience so far. Course I am a little concerned cause I have never eaten so little and lived, I am wondering if something is wrong. Wounds are all but healed and movement is probly back to around 98% without worrying am I going to hurt something if I do something wrong. Today is also the day that I have said goodbye to 300lbs and that has always been a personal goal and now its real, this morning I was 298, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Getting plently of water and nutrition from the shakes "high protien" and a wellness feeling of great. Can't wait "but I will" for the 100lbs lost, Life is all NEW again.   :scared:   315/298/210
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New Year Goal / under 200

Here I am again and I still love my band. I actualy gained during the holidays "12lbs" but I gotta say it as great to eat and eat most of what I know I shouldn't have. I am back home in Texas and back in control of my eating habits, thank God. Nothing but fear ran through my mind all the while I was eating crap. Being I am an extremist so goes my habits and I was on holiday :confused:. Holiday is over and my plan is to get back into the gym at least 2 days a week and a much stricter det plan for the under 200 goal. Chocolate is definately my weakness and I know it but that doesn't really help much. I pray I can be strong and God continues to bless me with good health.
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Life is Great

:whoo:Yep, I Still Love my Band :clap2: and I thought it was time to add more to this journal in hopes of helping others as wel as myself. Like I just read one my very first entrys and I laughed almost uncontrolably. Education for the future comes by understanding the past at all cost. Enough humor, Facts: I work out every other day, walking for 45 minutes and another 45 minutes in water and spa activities at the gym. I eat better than I EVER have, mostly cause my band insist this and time educated me. No fried foods-No Sugar-Water and Skim Milk ONLY Food is FUEL and NOT for FUN   Daily consumption goes like this habitually-4 cups coffe in the wake up-spicy tomato juice around 8am-lunch 11:30am "soup ussually with pieces of chicken in it (love cajun)-after work protien shake at gym-2 to 4 sugar free cookies with small mlk-snack on a handfull of nuts with water till bedtime. Then repeat, daily. Lots of water "interpetive" and not any one thing has got me here today. This effort of weight loss is successful only because of everything I do. And, of course. God keeps me and protects me with all is glory and blessings.   350 high 325 banded 119lbs lost over all
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2007

Still loving my band and I think it is educating me now. I am still where I was before the new year, but through all and all I am pleased casue I did gain and then lost again so thats OK. As I begin the new year I can say that without a hot drink prior to eating I am wrong cause I know I will have trouble like food rejection. I also am beginning to feel that I am grazing even though I try not to, I do (work in progress to fix). I am also finding that my g-kids are targeting my band cause everytime without fail they seem to elbow the band when climbing on me of course that just makes me more protective now of this happening. My new immediate goal is going to be to get on track with eating on time and just 2 times a day with a snack before bedtime. It never fails that when I eat say chicken for lunch I cannot get supper down and thats not good, my head wants to eat in the evening (sometimes at all cost) . I am healthy and improvements are minimal but progressive and as long as I am winning I feel successfull and thats all good.
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Erosion / Removed 4-7-25

It’s been 19 years me and my band have been together and I have lost over 200 pounds today. I weigh 239 pounds and that’s a far reach from 430. However, I recently learned that erosion is a medical term for hole in your stomach Caused by the band so it had to be removed. It’s been three weeks now and the pain, the discomfort, the inability to tolerate food as upon me again and it reminds me of the days when I first got home from surgery. I guess now I just need to learn to not eat for a while maybe I’ll lose another 20 pounds. Either way my band is gone. I’m alive and well healthy blessed and have much more life. God loves me. 
Louie
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