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I am feeling pretty good about eating the foods. They seem to go down fairly good (except for one stuck on Monday morning) totally my fault though. Dont Eat and Drive I am just not hungery. This is the run down of my eating day today: 7:30 atkins Protein drink 11:15 3 oz chicken and about 2 oz veggies 4:00 Mcdonalds Fruit and yogurt parfait (no granola) 6:15 3 oz chicken and about 2 oz veggies and 1/2 piece of toast 8:00 1 bar of Honey oats granola bar I am doing my fitness pal on my phone to track. It says that is 762 for the day. uggg maybe I will have another Protein shake. I am at 75 carbs for the day, so I am in range for that. I am eating 5 times a day. I ate the granola bar just to get some more calories in. There are times when I have to make myself eat too. I dont think I will go in for my fill. I think I am good.

Since my fill last week, its been hard to get my calories in. its 6pm and I am only at 600 for the day. I dont think I can eat 600 for dinner. Anyone else having this problem. Im scheduled for another fill next week. Every two weeks for the next 9 weeks. Dont think I need to go next week.

Im glad u are happy with your choice. And it is our choice, no matter what reasons we have. I wish all of us the best because we are all after the same thing and that is to live life the best we can and so what if we nwed a little (or alot)of help. We can do this no matter what bmi we start out with. hugs to u as well;)

I am tall, 5'8", so I do carry my weight pretty well. most in my thunder thighs I dont think she was trying to be mean, thats why I wrote wierd instead of negative on my post. I agree with Dave, I think she didnt really see me at obese. Its just like how I see my sister. She thinks sheneeds to lose weight, byt I would kill to be a 10-12. Im sorry, I did open big can if worms. Would make good reality tv, morbid vs severely obese. Lol I will not take her comment to heart and when I see her I will continue to support her as I hope she will with me. She seemed like a very nice lady and I wish her the best

Weesie, your reasons are great. I know my reasons and dont question them. I didnt even go into with this lady. I just smiled and said "yeah, I needed it" and changed the subject. All I know is, my back and feet are already feeling better and are only going to get better the more I lose. Yea me! Lol

I know I did the right thing. It was just weird hearing it from someone that is suppose to be on my side because we are going thru the same thing. I did it so that I wouldnt get to a bmi of 40. Which is where I was heading if I did any more "diets". I finally feel as if this will be the end of it all. I dont really feel like I am dieting. Im not hungry, so I dont eat that much and although Im not losing that fast, its going down without so much frustration as all the other diets gave me. I hope that makes sense. I know im still early in my process, but it just feels good right now;)

When is your fill? I am always looking for stuff for breakfast also. My doctor said no more Protein shakes at all anymore unless it is the day after a fill. He said that i can do Protein Bars instead, just cant drink my calories anymore. At my fill someone mentioned a mini Quiche that you can make ahead of time. I will see if I can find it to post for you Good luck!

Hey guys, glad everyone is doing so well. I am down 21 total. I lost my stats that were on my phone, so I dont know how much was in April. I know that a bulk of that was done in the 1st two weeks after surgery. I have lost 7 pounds in the last two weeks or so. Note: I found stats on my ticker. I lost 6 pounds before surgery, then gained that back after surgery then lost 16 total for april, so i have lost 5 pounds in May. I would love to be at 200 by July 4th, but my initial goal is 10 lbs for the month of June

So when i was in for my first fill last week, I had a lady that had the procedure done the same day say a comment to me that I wasnt sure how to take. My surgeon does the post op class for "how to understand fill process" on the 6 week mark and all the people that had the procedure done that day comes in to the class and then goes and has thier fill done right afterwards. There were 4 of us that was banded on 4/14. So I have met these people twice in the last month and 1/2. Both at classes. This one lady is kinda big and walks with a cane. But I could tell that she has done well and she seems to be moving around better than she did the last time I saw her. Well we got to talking a little bit before the class and then again right after our fills were done as we sat next to each other while we were sipping on our waters. We talked about how the fills went and all that. Then she said "not to be mean, but why did you have the procedure done, you dont even look overweight" I wasnt quite sure how to respond. I just said that I definately needed it done and that I was happy that I had done it. My bmi was 37, which makes me severely obese. I would say this lady is probably under morbid obese. I kinda switched the subject after that to something else. Im just wondering if this is the norm on how people feel about someone that is not over 40 bmi having the procedure done. I hope I am not opening up a big can of worms asking this question. Either way, would not bother me because I am so glad that I did it. When she said it, I almost wanted to say "well why didnt you get the bypass done" But I didnt think that would be nice at all to say and I am not a person that would hurt someone just to hurt them. It is up to her what procedure she wanted to have done, just like it was up to me on having this procedure done. That was just a quick thing that went through my mind when I was trying to decide if I was offended or not by her comment. Anyway, was just thinking about it and was curious if anyone has had a comment like this before.

Sounds like a fill would help you with you hunger. Schedule an appt soon!!

Oh, I learned my lesson. Ive trying to be so careful since getting filled last week. But that was just plain stupid.

Im in for ten. My brother is visiting thst weekend. Hope I can do it!

Omg, that is awful. I have gotten stuck before, or so I thought, until this morning. I was driving back from texas this morning and wanted to get something quick that didnt have alot of calories, so I got a sausage burrito from mcdonalds. Figured I eat half of it. Took a small bite, went down fine. Took the next and tnat was it. Thought I would die, had to pull over and finally had to force myself to bring it up. Yuck. Never want to do that again. Should of know better than to have that anyway, and to do it while driving was not the smartest move. Ended up with just a protein drink for the rest of the drive.

Yup, it gets better. The first week is kinda awfu. Then each week gets better and better. Week 7 now and feel great. Just stick to the rules. Next phase will be platuea and you will be concerned about not losing. Normal also, which is frustrating. Hang in there.

How exciting for the two of you to reunite. My husband had to move to texas to work and I am down here visiting tbis weekend and it is amazing. The intimacy is so much better and I have only lost 20 so far. Enjoy, he will love you no matter what and u can show him some new moves that you couldnt do 100 lbs ago lol

Congrats! My hubby just moved down to texas to work for awhile and he is diabetic. He worked really hard to get himself off insulin and did that about 6.months ago, but since doing this new job where is walking around alot during the day and being away from the kids snack stuff he is numbers are continuosly below 100 and he is off all his meds. Congrats again. That is a great accomplishment

I went for my first fill yesterday and she put in 5.5 cc and I guess I already had 1 cc in there. But I could tell right away that was to much. I took one sip of Water and it would not budge. She took out .75cc out right there before I left and I felt much better. I can feel it going down, but it goes down without a problem. Mushies were today and did not have a problem with anything. Tomorrow I will eat normal and hopefully all will go well. I was not hungery at all today, just made myself eat every 4 hours or so. So I think I am at a pretty good spot for right now. That is amazing how so little can make such a big difference.

So I have noticed that my clothes are really starting to get bigger on me. The girls at work and my mother are making comments that I am really starting to show some weight loss. But I just chalked that up to trying to be nice and supportive. So one of my parents (i own a daycare center) commented today that I really looked like I was losing weight and I looked really good. That one felt good cause it was someone that I dont really see to often cause she comes so early in the morning and I always miss her. The other one came from one of my 5 year old boys. I was standing there watching the kids play on the monkey bars and he just looked at me and said "Miss Connie you are so skinny". Wow, havent heard that word used for awhile. Granted, ive only lost 20 lbs and need to lose about 60 more, so he is a little ahead of himself, but anyway, I will take it when I can get it. I think that one meant the most so far, because it has to come from the heart if its from a 5 year old. Right?

Glad you got it taken care of. I found when I went for my fill thst I had some Fluid in there which was why I hsd restriction also. But I only had 1cc. I cant imagine 3cc during recovery. Poor thing. Good luck!

I had problems with my two small inscisions also. The just started to feel better the last two weeks. I just got my first fill yesterday and was kinda tender all day yesterday, but doesnt feel to bad today. All is good. Good luck with your fill.

I need to get this down as well. Just had my first fill and am not looking foward to eating tomorrow. I still have issues with drinking while eating also. Im such a bad bandster.

Welcome to band land. Hope everything goes well for you. Congrats.

Im kinda scared to start eating. I havent really had a stuck episode as of yet. Things will sometimes go down kinda slow, but it seems like im gonna go frkm one extreme to another. liquids today and soft tomorrow. So we will see how friday goes. Sorry about all the posts, dont know what I did:)

The rn who does the fills has a lapband, so she says she is very aggressive the first time cause she knows how frustrating it is to not get to your spot quickly enough. So I guess I am lucky? We will see how it goes. She will only do tweeks from now on.

The rn who does the fills has a lapband, so she says she is very aggressive the first time cause she knows how frustrating it is to not get to your spot quickly enough. So I guess I am lucky? We will see how it goes. She will only do tweeks from now on.