sassyfrass

I also like the EAS ready to go ones. I also bought some Jillian Michaels french vanilla creme (something like that) powder Protein at WalMart and mixed it with ice and a few marachino cherries and some of the juice with a bit of chocolate syrup (sugar free) . Used the blender. It was like a shake. It was fabulous. I'm all about chocolate, so I got vanila so I could sometimes add chocolate, or other flavors to mix it up.

I have to agree that 1/2 cup is just not enough food; banded or NOT. I have followed Weight Watchers for many years and it pretty much has you do a formula to show you how many calories you need a day (per your weight, sex, height, etc....) much like the posters here have said about how many calories a day to use for energy, etc... I'm sure other weight loss programs do the same thing. I'm just using Weight Watchers as an example because I know it so well. I can't imagine the Dr. wanting you only on 1/2 cup too far out from your first stages, on any kind of program....again, banded or not. I am only trying to be helpful as well, not a know it all, so please don't take this post that way. I just don't want you to be malnourished. I can tell you that there have been some weeks that if I don't get my correct calorie count in (too many times) that I don't lose. My body thinks I'm starving it, therefore it holds on to my fat and won't let it go. Just try eating more to see how it works for you. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. Congrats to all of you on your losses. I am still wating to get banded.

Awesome read. I am so ready for this.

Ok.will do.Thanks.

Hi. I have not been banded yet, but I do know two people that have had their band slip, but the surgeon was able to rectify the problem by unfilling them for a a few weeks and it just slipped back into place. I'm guessing their slippage wasn't as bad as this one. The thought of that scares me. I hope all goes well for all of you from here on out.

I will be looking forward to your story. I hope today was more bearable for you with the liquids.

I will be looking forward to reading all about it

This post reminds me of a couple of years ago. My sister in law posted some pics and tagged me on Facebook from where our family. (Girls.) Had gone off Christmas shopping. We had rented acondo and I was standing at the stove when she called my name. When I turned , she snapped the camera. I saw that pic when I looked on facebook with My blackberry ( at the time) and was horrified to see it. I had previously lost weight just to gain most of it back. I was so devastated Ivwas in tears. I could not get to work fast enough to sign on FB and remove it. I didn't care if I got fired or not. I agree that a picture doesn't lie.I was ok with a few others cause our bags were hiding my body and a lot of the weight wasn't in my face. One day we will All like the camera ok again.

I sure don't look forward to that liquid stage. I have to prepare myself for that.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I already take a daily Vitamin and calcium w/vitamin D so I'm used to the daily thing with them. I just have to swtich over to chewables now. No problem.

This is an insteresting post. I'm glad it was posted that some follow Weight Watchers while banded, because I have been a Weight Watcher member for many years now and I do like how it teaches to eat healthy, so that's what I will try to do once I get banded and get past the initial stages. I like reading all these posts for ideas, knowledge, etc...

Thank you for such great info. I will definitely take into account what the doc says too, but this is good info. I appreciate your reply.

Just curious, if some of the bandsters can give us "looking into getting banded" some tips of things we may want to have at home, ready and waiting before the day arrives. I know that we will probably get some info at our pre op appts, but ....maybe there are other things we may not even be thinking of that you can help with, Such as.....changing our daily vitamins over to chewable ones. (I never would have even thought of that---until after. :-) Thanks for any info you can give.

Hi. Good to see more Carolina folks here. I hope you have great success on you band.

Hi. Good to see more Carolina folks here. I hope you have great success on you band.

Oh my. This post is funny..... however....it has my stomach in knots just thinking of this part of the surgery! And I don't even have my surgery date yet. Oh my!

I am not scheduled for it yet, but I'm using my time reading posts and asking questions, and getting really mentally ready for it. I sometimes, get fearful too, but after reading all the positive posts and knowing that I just need this extra tool to help me lose and keep it off, is what I need. That's where my thinking is right now, anyhow. I wish you well with whatever choice you make.

I will try tomorrow. Thank you.

Highland, I hope you have a great surgery. Sorry your ins does not cover it. I sure hope my new plan year will cover it better than my current one. God bless.

Okurt, thank you for your reply. I think this is the way I would like to go too.

I totally understand that feeling, as well. I would crop mine as well, if possible. but usually if it's a group pic that I would be in, i tried to get to the back so that my body (or at least most of it) was hidden behind others. My friend found a pic of me when I was at my highest weight of 289 and gave it to me (a year or two ago) because she knew I had come a ways from that. I am still down to 250 at this point, although I had gotten down to 215, so I have definitely been on that rollercoaster of just that part of weight gain for 2 or more years now. I refuse to ever get back to that weight. Pictures can be a wake up calll, for sure.

Wow, I can only hope that a boiled egg is all I'll crave. I look forward to hearing more about the plications bandsters' journey. I wish you welll and I'll be looking forward to your posts. Hopefully I'll be telling my own story in a few months.

BTW, did you know that Marilyn Monroe would be considered a plus size model by today's standards? What a world. Sad world we live in, huh? The models look very anorexic and there is nothing about that look, that's flattering, to me. Too skinny. I would be happy at this point, to be back in a 14 ( I haven't seen that since, geez....., about 23 years ago, or more. And even then, I thought I was sooooo overweight. I'll take that now, any day compared to this size 20 I have crept back up to.. I'm not sure what is a realistic goal, but as I've been a Weight Watcher follower so so so long now, I just gave myself mini goals, such as focusing on ten pounds at a time. It seemed so much for reachable than the overall BIG picture. I wish you well. I will look forward to seeing more of your posts, especially with the plication also. The more I read about that,t he better, safer it seems.