glowormvl

thinking i am going to make my own version of this recipe and freeze it for lunches.http://www.lowcarbluxury.com/recipes/recipe-combo17.html

I have been single now for almost a year. I dont go to clubs or bars to meet new guys. I pretty much dont look. I am 29yrs old female and am looking for a good man friend near my age that has the band or is at any point in their journey. I wanna be there for u and i hope u would be there for me. Maybe we could start excersizing together or something. I am just looking for a male friend right now if some thing happens then well something happens. I am not looking for a date just a friend.

I have to take lunch to work so i make a few meals at the beginning of the week and freeze em for lunches. I make meatloaf balls. I just make my regular meatloaf mix but i make small balls and put em in the baby muffin pan then bake em, i bake em about 15minutes on 400. cook em to about 150 degrees and take em out they will be very moist. I have only had 1 fill so not any restriction yet. I take 4 balls and about 1/2 a cup of cottage cheese with tad bit of grape jelly and i also take about 1/2 cup applesauce in case i get hungry. I lso make a butternut sqaush at the beginning of the week and divide it into 4 or more containers and take that in if i dont want cottage cheese or applesauce. I make jimmy dean sage sausage pan fry u know. then i mix it with prego and a but ton of italian seasoning and divide it up and freeze it. i dont have any Pasta with it. i t is basically just meat sauce. sometimes i make tuna salad also take along the cottage cheese or applesauce. This week i am tired of the same old same old so i am also looking for some good low carb ideas.

my port is just below my bra line in the center at the bottom of my sturnnum. I had a tiny roll there before but now in the ceenter it looks like a golf ball under my skin. I can feel it feels like a hard round lump. I walk around at work asking people to feel my port. its funny the looks i get. I love my band!

OMG i think the three of us dated the same guy because i know exactly what u are talking about. he would get mad too, glad he's gone.

I just had a fill 4 days ago. I am back on regular foods. was doing soup, cottage cheese, apple sauce, slider foods i guess. Well yesterday i had a few bites of chicken breast and the first bite went down ok but then the second one felt like i swallowed a golf ball. I guess it felt like it was stuck. no pbing or slimming but it hurt real bad for about 5 minutes. then it just went away. Is that what stuck feels like? I had 2 slider burger patties for dinner with gravy last night and everything was fine. could the chicken have been to dry? It did have a small amount of bbq sauce on it i mean small amount. I have a freezer full of chicken so i hope it is not one of those foods i just can not eat. Please help me figure out what that pain was. oh yeah. I was afraid of the chicken so i was real sure to chew it til it was practicaly dissintegrated. i only have 3.5cc in my band.

I am exactly the same way. I just ate a hamburger and i didnt have any problems with the bread. I am full though well not hungry anymore but not stuffed either. I have a fill 2mro and I am sure after the fill i will no longer be able to eat bread. FYI I dont eat bread rice pasta or potatoes. but I have had a little nibble here and there just basically expermenting to see what i could eat. I did have the bread tonight as a last meal sorta thing. basically saying good bye to bread. Will let you know how things go after my fill 2mro.

I am being banded on september 6th and i am looking for others who will be banded on the same date so we can be there for each other and talk and help each other through our journey. I am a self pay patient. My ins does not cover this procedure but i wanna be healthy and active again so i have alot invested in this and i wanna be as successfull as i can be. I have about 100 or more pounds to lose. I dont wanna be skinny when i reach my goal i wanna be muscley. lol. i plan to start working out as soon as i am able to do so without alot of pain. I am only at 270. but i have bad back problems and knee and ankle problems so i am hoping i can lose enough soon to be able to excercise again. So if u are scheduled to be banded on the 6th please friend me i would like to chat and support each other. thanks, Violet

My posrt is between my breast below my sturnum. there is about an inch and a half insicion there but the port is about a half in south of the incision. I like it there my bra doesnt rub it and niether do my pants.

It is part of the lapband. It is your port. The dr inserts a needle in there to fill your band.

Today begins my 4th week post op. I actually didnt do the mushie stage at all and i was only on full liquids for about 4 days. was on clear liquids for a week. I went in to see the dr 1 week post op and he said i was healing great and doing good and to just do full liquids until i felt like i could handle some regular food. I have not had any sliming or pb episodes. I dont have a fill yet. I go in for a fill in a week. I was really happy he let me skip mushies i was not at all excited aobut the baby food. My advice follow drs orders.

The other day my mother and I went to a buffet i got a small plate of food. It was wierd i had enough for a bite of everything i wanted on my plate. then got up and got a few more bites of a couple things i really liked. no bread rice pasta or potatoes. I noticed everyone had huge piles of food on their plate they ate all of it then got up for another huge plate full of food then got up again and got like 4 different things for desert. holy cow. they were eating alot well more than alot. it was gross. Then I wondered did i used to eat like that at buffets? I know i didn't eat to much ate home just a rather large plate full of food. now i use the small plates and it seems like i have alot of food but most of the time i cant finish it. I usually sit down with about 4oz of meat and a 1/2 to 1 cup of a green veggie and i cant finish it. FYI I am scheduled for my first fill on oct 4th. I dont think I am going to be going out to eat anymore. the amount of food these people eat is just rather gross. I see numbers of calories and carbs they ingest with every bite and holy crap.

I was very scared about anesthiasa. I talked to my dr. pre op and he said he couldnt give me anything to calm my nerves because i was already on so many pain meds. Surgery day finally got here and i was sitting in pro ep with my family the anasthesia dr came in and gave me a little cocktail. then immediatelly rolled me back for surgery by the time we got to or i was asleep. They put me under while i was asleep(i didnt even get to do the count down) lol. oh well. everything went fine and the next thing i new i was in recovery. It was great but i didnt get to do the countdown that i was looking forward to. I had never been put under and i wanted to experience it.

Is the pain a muscle pain and is it near an incision site? I was bent over yelling at the dog the other day an got a bad pinch by on of the incisions near my port and i am guessing i just probably aggravated the incision that is on the muscle. I am only about 2 weeks post op or a little more. i lost count already.

OMG. I was just coming here to post that i to was skipped right over mushies. I saw dr. today and he said i was doing so good i can start eating regular foods but soft ones. and to try eating meat. but chew chew chew. I am sitting here right now eating 2 tiny tiny hamburger sliders and about half a cup of mashed pots with gravy. I am so jazzed. I would be having green Beans to but dont have any. sad face. i love green beans. So far it is going really well. Congrats to you. oh i am only 1 week post op. GO US. totally awesome!!!!!

I am 7 days post op. Yea me. lol. Anyway, yesterday i started to feel like all i was doing all day was eating. I am hungry about every 2 to 3 hours so I eat about a cup or so of food. I am still in my full liquid phase. I know these are hunger pains because that wierd feeling pre band that gurggled up into my esophagus( like when i was really really starved) is happening. Is it normal to be eating so often in the full liquid phase? I go to my post op today so I am going to talk to the surgeon about it but just wanted to find out what everyone elses experience is first.

My dr has told me anything that can be sucked threw a straw i can have but do not use a straw. I just ate mashed potatoes thinned with chicken gravy. but thats all i know of. I will be watching this thread.

surgery day for me was great. I dont remember much but i was preped and saw nurses and some dr.s before then the anesthia guy gave me a cocktail told me i would be feeling better in a minute. they started wheeling me down the hallway and i was half asleep. by the time they got me into the or i was almost completedly asleep. they had me switch over to the table then they put an o2 mask on me and i fell asleep. next thing i know i was waking up in recovery. I never even go to do my countdown i was asleep before they even gave me the anesthia. in recovery everything went good and then theybrought my mom and my bestfriend in. I left the surgery center about an hour after i was waking from the anesthia. car ride home was good. I am doing great now. I am walking alot and drinking some water just sips at a time. My stomach feels weird when the water gets down there and fells that way for a minute then i am fine. thought i would share.

a little nervous, but mostly excited. thought i would share.

hi guys. I am home got home around 1 surgery was at 9am. I am feeling pretty good. dr said he got most of the gas out. so no real gas pains yet. just upper abdomin is hurting. liquids feel weird when they hit my belly and feels weird for a minute or so after. but its good. need help getting up from the couch and i have been walking alot to prevent blood clots and keep the gas pains at bay. will update some time 2mro

I am also scared to death of the gynocologist. LOL I know i am strange. I had a thought today. If I were to need to be put to sleep at the gynocologist for a surgery i wouldnt be able to do it. Like i tottally couldnt do it. The gyno even has to give me valuim 2 days before i go in or else i wont even go. I asked my surgeon for some valuim again he still said no. But now that i think of what I could be going into surgery for the lapband surgery doesnt bother me so much anymore.