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I see from your chart that I am in the red zone. I am tired of the SLIM I can't drink am oz. of fluids and lots of night I cough and regurgitate even in my sleep. I think I will get some Fluid removed

i enjoyed very much ........reading this................

Hubby and I are doing good I can rap my legs...... and 50 more lbs I'm climbing on top SHHhh!

Hope thats not to MUCH to say ..........

Good going :wub:

I had a fill Saturday and I am hungry. This is a first for me. I keep geting a mouth full of salava. I eat and burp and up comes all the spit.... I am soo uncomfortable.......Up eating soup......

After reading I am copying and pasteing (LOL) good advise................

You can make a Jello mold to take with you .............You willnot be feeling well,I would stay home if I was you....I had gas pains or something I had to walk to make myself around the house to feel better ... Anyway this is a time for a new and beginning WHY STRESS YOURSELF....... STAY HOME AND HEAL.....................The years are going fast theres always next year.........

I had a fill last Saturday and somedays I can't even eat I just ate sm eggsalad and cracker and it got stuck what do I do for relieve????? WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU ARE STUCK WITH THAT LUMP IN YOUR THROAT ????

I wonder if I can lose 14 lbs by my birthday which is May 10th ....that will make me weigh 285 by my birthday.....CHALLENGE!!!

We know all the side effects from painkillers( IBUPROFEN, TRAMADOL, ect) , they are hard on our bodies , After my banding my Doc OK'ED me to continue taking my pain meds ... Tell your Doc about your pain. I know what you are going through I have osteoarthristis my knees hurt bad without my med ...Happy to report that after even a small weightloss I have cut my med in half. I am expecting after I get more weight off the knees I will be able to stop taking my meds for pain. But now you must focus on your new eating habits not pain....... Just my opinion................Please consult your Doctor good luck

hi..i've been banded on 17th march...all was well till my 1st visit to my doc....she has stopped all my painkillers...as they may form an ulcer....

and I have severe arthritis...and now walking is become so difficult....my legs are like lead....

does anyone have a similar problem..

I had that happen a few weeks ago. Mine is probably different than yours though. I woke up one morning, and everything I swallowed hurt going down. It turned out I had a prolapse.

A PROLAPSE????

what has been ya'lls avg daily weight loss since your band?

Its been 2 to 5 lbs a week....... and its still willpower.....

Soetimes when I eat it hurts going down. Does that happen to anyone else. I ate and all the sudden I hurt in my middle chest area. If I could drink something I think it would go down better I am still destubed that we must wait to drink. As a habit I like to eat and drink.

I was banded over a year ago. I lost weight during the first 6 - 8 weeks following surgery. Then I played around with the same 5 lbs for the next 10 months even though I was receiving regular fills. With each fill, I kept thinking, "this will be the one that gives me that restriction I felt after surgery." But it didn't happen and I started losing faith in the band and in myself. I started to think, I've failed again.

Then my surgeon told me he would give me a fill under fluoroscopy. This is how it worked. He filled the band completely under xray closing off the opening from my pouch to my stomach. I drank barium and it stayed in my pouch. He then began to slowly withdraw some of the fill, until the barium began to drain into my stomach, leaving the opening from the band at what he felt was good restriction.

It's been 2 1/2 weeks since the fill under fluoroscopy and what a difference!!! I have restriction! THIS is what I expected from the band. I'm finally getting the help I wanted and needed from the band. I haven't weighed since the fill but I'm feeling the difference already in my body. My husband was holding me and said, "You're losing weight!"

BUT .. over the past year, I developed some bad habits. I've had to go back and review and get my head on straight to work with the band again. I've gotten stuck several times, a couple of really bad ones with slimming and coughing. It hurts and works as a great reminder and reinforcer to do what is right. I really have to pay attention now and really slow down. I can't just eat whatever anymore and I can't eat nearly as much. I get full very quickly. I am now eating the recommended amount of food ... and very carefully.

I'm a happy bandster .... at last!

Good for youThin(ner) Guy... A friend told me I was slimming down well...It made my day.......

Now I found that when I follow the Adktin guidelines I loss weight ...I eat bacon and egg for Breakfast and just meat for dinner i loss.....

I pulled this from one of my favorite authors, Gary Taubes:

"Instead of thinking of low-carbohydrate diets like Atkins as deadly, which was formerly the case, nutritionists and dietitians (or at least most of them) now think of these diets as useful, just as other diets, low in calories or fats, are also useful. The idea now is that some people do well on carbohydrate-restricted diets and some people do well on low-fat diets, and maybe this is a result of whether they happen to be insulin sensitive or insulin resistant or maybe its just a product of their particular food tastes and preferences. And this belief, of course, is based on the notion that we get fat for reasons other than the nutrient composition of the diet – probably because of some combination of our genes, our tendency to eat to much and our sedentary behavior – and so the diet that works best is the one that allows us to most comfortably restrict our intake of total calories.

This was the conclusion, for instance, of a 2008 article by Chris Gardner and his colleagues at Stanford, reporting on a subgroup analysis of their famous A to Z study. (The trial is famous, at least, in the low-carb world, because the Atkins diet resulted in twice the weight loss of any of the three other diets tested, and it also did a better job of improving heart disease risk factors). In this follow-up study, Gardner and his colleagues reported that in each diet group — from the Atkins diet on the high end of the dietary fat to carbohydrate ratio to the Ornish diet on the low end — the subjects who actually adhered to the diet lost the most weight. Hence, their conclusion: maybe adherence to a diet is more important than the actual nutrient composition of the diet."

My note: Hard to argue with that last sentence!

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I haven't had a fill yet ,and I fill the same also HUNGRY... I am losing and thats what we want to do. I thought this lapband would make me full after eating 2oz of food....I WANT THIS FAT TO GO AWAY. QUICK......(LOL) Pray for me

Somehow I pulled a muscle and its very painful. All I've done is my DVD walking off the pounds. and now I can hardly walk. It is most depressing. We are paying the price to lose weight. But I'm encouraged it will be worth it.

Now the pain has gone right side to my left side... I cannot stand or sometimes sit .... Yall pray for me.(lol)

I've had gas and it passed from walking. I have never had an stuck episode ....all is well gets better as time goes on I'm glad I had this done..............

Hang in there my lapband-brother.being alone all week probably helped make you a little weak.You know that sometimes when we are challenged we want to eat. We must learn other things to do for comfort besides eating What I dont know .lol..We will get there together......[/

I was banded Jan. 5th 2011, and all is well ... I never would walk now i am walking ... watching what I eat, and feeling good about myself. Pray and believe you will succeed................... This is help from God.................Praying for you

I think you are both right nothing beats pure Water, But some need to put alittle flavor with their water. I am drinking crystal lite now ,but last year I stopped drinking it because my bladder did not agree with it . I was running to the bathroom freqently. So I am watching how much cry/lite I am drinking..................Do all thing in moderation.............YOUR CHOICE.............

I know what you mean I have my son also watching me ..Both men sat and watched me eat a peice of chicken. I guess they care. BUT THIS IS OUR JOURNEY AND WE MUST DO IT OURSELVES. DON'T TELL EVERYTHING YOU EAT.