cheryl2586

Have you ever thought that you have lost your 40% of excessive weight and now you will have to do the rest. If you read statistics after the first year is the most weight loss then it slows down dramatically. The band is only guaranteed for 40% of excessive weight. If you lose more its just luck. Ive been stuck for 1 year and it didnt matter what I did. Finally the scale started moving again some times you just have to be patient and it will move again.

Buy yourself a good food scale thats what I did and you will be surprised how little 3 ounces is. Its the best present I gave to me.

But getting an unfill is not guaranteed you will get back to the right zone. I would say no to the unfill no matter where your going. Your band was not put there for you to take a holiday away from it. It was put there for life not to have it unfilled whenever you desire. If you get an unfill you may be sorry because you dont always have success of getting back to the right place.

I stay on liquids for a few days because I get a lot of swelling after a fill. I dont take vitamins because I am not vitamin deficient. I eat a balance meal breakfast, lunch and dinner and rarely eat junk my vitamin levels are fine. I think if your not vitamin deficient your just wasting money to have expensive pee lol

Your weight will begin to move again. How do anorexics become 60lbs if their bodies are in starvation mode they cant if you dont eat eventually you will lose weight your body will get the signal and start burning your own fat. It can only preserve it for so long then it has to use it. If you eat less calories you will lose weight that whole got to eat 1700 calories to lose weight is bull. If your body goes long enough with less calories it has no other option than to burn the fat.

I cant believe either that you are consuming regular food and sweets of all things. Why have the surgery if you were going to eat whatever you wanted at only a week post op. Have some constraint before you do some serious damage to your surgery. Your stomach is still healing and you should not be eating whole food yet. SMDH

Its called band erosion and it does happen.

Everyone hits a plateu and sometimes it will be longer than two weeks. You have to know that this will happen and just keep doing what your doing. The best advice is only weigh yourself once a week and yes I know that is hard but dont get on the scale everyday its a bummer

He was cheating well before you ever had surgery you can believe that. He didnt just do when you had surgery he's been doing it all along and the best thing you can do for yourself is get away from him and do better for your self. You deserve it.

Why are you waiting two hours after eating its only supposed to be 15 minutes before and 30 minutes after that might help you very much.

If you continue to wretch your band will slip and it will have to be removed consider that you will still need it removed if you continue down that path. Get some help and I hope you succeed in this. You conquered obesity you can conquer this too.

I drove two days after surgery with no issues

SMDH clothes all over in a public pic. WTH

Im sorry to hear that hope all gets better. Thats exactly why I dont understand people when they say my doctor said not to drink soda but can I. He said to not drink alcohol can I? He said not to do this or that can I? If he said not to do it then dont test your band. Its for a reason people. No one realizes also when you over eat you are forcing the band into the wall of the stomach which equals erosion. If he tells you drink decaf then do it. I dont miss coffee, alcohol, or soda. You have to learn its not about what you want but what is best for you. We all need to take a lesson from this and do what the doctor says to do and not ask everyone if its okay to do this or that when your doctor told you not tooooooooooooooo

I would have eaten the salad with dressing on the side and also may I ask why are you staying under 800 calories? Maybe if you add 200 of some good protein like chicken you would start losing. Chicken is very low in calories and you would at least be satisfied. When I have hunger issues I will eat half a chicken which is only about 200 calories for six ounces of chicken and it will make you full. Hardly no fat and I buy the tyson already cooked strips in the bag you can find it in the meat section and its not frozen I also buy the steak too which is very tender and you can eat it. I think your selling yourself short about 200 calories a day and yes you have to start walking the weight loss will come I assure you and good job on retraint it was worth it and now you know you can do it

I switched insurance companies after I got married because I was no longer working in the same place and had to relocate his insurance will not cover anything that has to do with bariatric surgery so I have to pay for my fills and of course finding another doctor was also a hassle but I have to pay a 200.00 program fee for what I dont know because I am only going there for fills but whatever and 100.00 for a fill so on January 4th 300.00 for probably a whole half cc because my stomach is too sensitive and cant take anymore than that at one time. Its ashame but most insurance companies if you switch and have to have adjustments they consider it pre existing and will not cover it.

Just because you can eat as much as you did presurgery why are you? Your not going to have restriction yet and this time is up to you to not over eat. Measure your food and are you even supposed to be eating real food at 12 days post op? But anyway if your chosing to eat regular food measure it and be done. Your going to be hungry thats the way it is you have to deal with it for a while.

Hair loss is quite common and may not stop til a year. I would check with your doctor about the other stuff though

Yes you have to sit up with the needle in so you can drink water and he can remove if he has too while your drinking. Every fill I have had has been sitting up with the needle in. Pain? No I never had pain where was the pain because the needle isnt in your tissue its in the port.

okay I had to come back to this thread. You havent even been banded a month yet are you even eating solid food yet? Is drinking for your birthday that important? Why didnt you wait to have surgery after you got banded? I dont think drinking this soon after surgery would be a good reccomendation maybe in six months but not at three weeks post op

But if your kids are causing you so much stress in the morning shouldnt you do something to help them stop acting like that?

Well let me just tell you my experience I was banded two years ago on the 14th of december and decided new years eve I would have a drink. My stomach hurt like hell for that feat so soon after surgery. If you want to try it then do it but if you have an ill effect from it then dont complain. I would say just because your birthday comes once a year what is more important? Sticking to your diet since it is so early in the game or having a drink and thinking oh well it didnt hurt I will keep drinking and then you are drinking empty calories its not worth it. I dont drink and dont miss it for sure they are calories I could have something else with but the ultimate decision is yours

I was down 42lbs with no pre op diet and just starting on regular food. My first six months I lost weight really fast but then it went to a snail pace for sure

I just look at it not worth the calories. I ate a piece of chocolate yesterday and said wth it was not good at all. So to me even though its tempting as all get out I wont partake of it and be those other 11 people saying at the beginning of the year I have 20lbs to lose from Christmas. I will not!

You have to understand the scale is not going to move every day and sometimes not for a few weeks its just the way it is just keep doing what your doing and it will move. You have to remember when your excersising your building muscle too have you thought about measuring yourself to see if your losing inches? All in all the scale is just not going to move every single day that is unrealistic. Your weight wasnt that high to begin with so it will take that much longer. Yes its frustrating but your body has to get adjusted to the food intake and say ok this is all Im getting time to start burning fat. You cant give up just because your not losing. It will come eventually. If everyone lost a pound a day then the whole world would be banded. It will happen