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That is a lot to me for a first fill. I've been banded for over a year now and I'm just at 5.9cc. Admittedly I had to cancel a couple of appts to be filled but my surgeon has always been very conservative with fills. I think my first fill was 1cc. When I went for my last fill he threatened not to give me one because I had not lost any weight. The band is supposed to be a tool to help you if he doesn't fill me properly how is the band supposed to help? He accused me of sitting and eating ice cream and cake. I am not into sweets and am that rare one that does not like ice cream. I was very insulted . He finally gave me a tiny fill , less than 1cc. So I'm now still not losing because I can eat more, not sweets but regular food. I'm having to rely on sheer willpower just like any other diet I've been on and I'm really not losing like I should. I've been at the same weight up or down a couple of pounds for almost 4-5 months now. My next appt is on 9/21 and I'm struggling to lose a few pounds by then so that I can get a sizable fill and start to lose again. Very frustrating.

Theres a whole thread about C25K in the exercise forum. I was trying to get into it but I had to realize I just can't do it. I have an internally degraded left knee and it really started to hurt on week 2 . Then on top of that we had a car accident 2 weeks ago that aggravated everything so I'm gonna have to go back to Leslie Sansone walk away the pounds. The best to you on completing the program I hear it can be ver rewarding when you complete it.

I wish I had this option. My losses have been so slow since my surgery in 8/10. I just can't seem to find my groove. I don't regret my band but I'm now wondering if another surgery would have been better for me giving me more restriction. I feel like I'm just struggling on another long diet.

Whew!! My heart fell into my stomach when I read your thread title but now I see and oh the relief!! Nice way to put it in perspective. I don't know what I've lost ...well I guess so I have an 11 lb Maltese so I've lost 4 of her. Still striving to lose one of those skinny Hollywood starlets like Nicole Ritchie (100 lbs!)

I like it too. i got the Mango peach (?) flavor. I was pleasantly surprised by it. The taste was good and not an aftertaste .

Thanks for this post. I don't know about OP but it gave me food for thought. Very helpful.

I'm loving the Skinny Girl Margaritas. I buy the one by Bethenny Frankel but I ordered one at TGIF and they had berries muddled in the glass so that's what I do. I muddle some blackberries or a couple of strawberries in a glass and a little bit of Splenda with ice and it's good. I also like the vodka with one of my diet Snapple Iced teas. I have not had any carbonated drinks since my surgery and I will continue to stay away from that. I'm so glad to be out of my Diet Coke habit. Honestly though I need to stay away from alcohol altogether . I find that it stalls my losses and if I was not having the drinks on the weekend I'm sure I would have lost more by now. I'm like the poster up thread I can go for weeks without having a drink and then I see someone on Tv with a nice frosty looking cocktail and then I have one and continue that for a while until I decide to stop so I'm gonna stop now.

I was thinking the same thing.

I agree the billboard is the problem. A lot of people are ignorant as to what the band is and how it works and that you have to work hard to have success with it. Even though I did much research before I was banded. I still thought I would lose all of my excess weight in the 1st year without having to work as hard as I have on other diets. I honestly feel I have had to work harder with the band. I don't regret my choice though. That billboard only reinforces the negative ideas some people have about WLS.

My feelings exactly!!

Well, their not chemical drugs or medicine . They are a natural enzyme from fruit. So it's not like I'm chewing 8-10 Tylenols . If 4 would have helped me I would have stopped there. We all have to do what works best for us. I wish you well.

I bought my papaya enzyme from the Vitamin shoppe. I have 2 bottles, They are chewable and they taste good to me. When I get stuck which I try to avoid at all costs I chew a few of them and after a few minutes the stuck food seems to dissolve. Their called enzymes so in my mind they kinda eat away at the stuck food until it goes down. I had a bbq a few weeks ago and I got stuck on the 1 rib I tried to eat. It was horrible. I felt a stabbing pain in my back. I walked around. I did the chicken dance, held my arms above my head and nothing helped. I hate to throw up but I was desperate to throw up that day and nothing happened so I chewed about 8-10 papaya enzymes and after a bit I felt much better. I think their a good thing for a bander to have in their arsenal along with Gas-X and Pepcid .

Scaredy cat here. I was banded on 8/16/10 and my loss has been very slow. I expected to be down at least 50 lbs by now. It seems that every lb. I lose is a fight. I told my sister today that it seems that I lost weight easier before I was banded. I know in my heart though that I'm older now and I can do better with my exercise and the weekends are tough for me as far as eating on the straight and narrow. So yes, I am afraid of not losing and if I do lose and get to my goal. I'm afraid I will gain it all back and more. Dee

Wow, I loved this thread. I've been looking for an exercise that I can do and really work up a sweat and burn some fat. Also hoping for something that will become addictive and I will want to do it all the time. I just bought my dance Nikes because I tried doing turbo Jam today and my knees are aching now. I already have the Zumba DVDs and Zumba Kinect. Now I just have to find a class . I checked on Zumba.com and there is one within walking distance of my home. I hope they just let you pay for the class and not the whole gym membership. Thanks for the info everybody.

The thought of vomiting all the time made me delay my surgery for a long time. You can read some real horror stories around these parts. i hate vomiting. Since being banded in August I've only had 1 incident of bringing something back up because I let myself get too hungry and took that first bite of some dry turkey too fast. My neck looked like a snake swallowing a mouse!! It wasn't like regular vomiting it's more like a hard burp and that bit of food came back up. That's why they call it a PB = productive burping. Don't let that sway you from your decision as said above if you follow the rules it won't happen much or even at all. Dee