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tlatimo4's Blog

A blog by tlatimo4 in General

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Am I banded?

I hate the fact that I can eat anythinng I want. I dont feel like I even had the surgery. This is starting to really make me upset. I was hoping that I would feel some sort of restriction after the first fill. Nope nothing! I have been trying my best to stay on a tight diet but hey i was unable to diet before I got the surgery. Well I keep saying Im not going to give up but I keep feeling myself slide through the rules and contuine to eat whatever I want. Slap me on my hands! and lock my mouth.

My First fill!

Today I was able to get my first fill. I never ask the doctor how much she put in. I really didn’t care. The procedure was very simple and the office visit took about 1 hour. I had a very good lap-band technician who spent around 45 minutes explaining to me the proper ways to eat and the proper portion sizes to eat at each meal. She also went over with me my eating habits and my thoughts so far about my band. This was by far the best appointment I have had since the start of my surgery procedure

Its hard for me to Eat 3 Meals a day!

I am starting to set back in my old ways and it’s only been 5 weeks since the surgery. I really thought I could eat three small meals a day and drink tons of water. I can’t I am trying so hard to force myself to eat a meal every 4 hours. All my adult life I have only cared to eat one large meal and it would mainly be at dinner time or a late lunch. I worked so hard keeping food diaries before the surgery that I knew it would be a piece of cake after the surgery. Well I think I need to start bac

Incision

My incisions are not healing well. I am so upset! The largest incision has opened up on the end. It looks so nasty puss is coming out and the smell is horrible. Yesterday I went to Urgent Care and they refused to help me. The doctor suggested that I go see my surgeon immediately. Well I’m scheduled for my follow up appointment with her on this Friday so I decided to wait till then. My other incisions look good and I don’t think there will be any scaring from them after they heal. But this big on

Myoplex Original Protein Shake

Today I was able to move onto the next diet phase…. which for me is a Full Liquid Diet. My first food choice was a Yoplait Greek yogurt with strawberries. The yogurt was great! I was very careful with mixing the strawberries so I tried to keep it mostly plain. I must say I really enjoyed the yogurt the taste was bland but good for my taste buds. I only ate about ½ cup for breakfast. For lunch I tried Myoplex Cookie and Cream flavored protein shake. To my surprise it went down with ease and the t

Day 6 and I had to get outside!

Since my surgery I have been locked up in my apartment. I was so afraid to walk down those stairs outside. So today I decided that I would take a long hot shower curl my hair put on my eye liner,shadow and run outside lol. All went well with the stairs getting in the car was another story but really not that bad. My first stop was to the locol shopping center to visit my sister at ther job. Right when she seen me she said WOW you look different already! Yes thats what I wanted to hear lol. Then

Anticipation

I was banded August 18th @ Magee Women’s of Pittsburgh. I was so nervous before the surgery rethinking my decision a thousand times. Now that I am home I feel helpless and these gas pains are killing me. I have tried several techniques to rid the gas but I can still feel a lot of pressure inside my stomach.   I pray that this was the right choice for me. I’m so ready to try eating smaller portions I have 2 weeks of a liquid diet then I will be able to start soft foods. Currently I’m not hungr

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