brokenwings

Today i measured for the first time inches gone. And its 23 inches off my abd, hips, upper legs, upper arms and chest. Gone.... Thats nearly 2 feet of me that isnt there anymore. THat to me is pretty exciting!!!!

This has been a very very stressful week. Oldest daughter who drove me crazy as a teen has left her husband and moved back into my house. She is already back to her old ways. Money missing from my purse leaving her baby and staying out to after 2 am etc... I have been under so much stress, the old me would have by now caved and been eating my feelings. Instead been pushing myself harder at the gym. I have found that its a great ME time and a great way to get rid of some of the stress. I did add a new charm to my bracelet and picked out my next one. Which will be wings ( my thing is wings even my tattoo is wings) so this will be a major symbol for me and it will be for my 50 lb mark.

I put it off and put it off to. Then I decided i needed to do it. So went to a gym signed up and started going. So far just 3 xs a a week but working on 4. I been going before work and working out an hour and the shocking thing is i am starting to enjoy it and I feel soooo much better all day. Full of energy.

I went 3 weeks not losing a lb up one week down the next but right there at the same weight loss. I have started the gym and now i dropped 3 lbs in a week.. Keep your head up it will happen we are all going to get to goal.

Yay... Gotta love it... Long way from being called skinny but keep geting wow your losing... Such a great NSV for you

As of today i have said Goodbye to the 280s for i hope the rest of my life. And welcomed in 270s. Contiuning to push towards my goal. Also this weekend I cleaned out my closet all my size 24 jeans GONE GONE... and all my huge scrubs are also packed up to go. I went and bought me a bunch of smaller scrubs this week. I can now wear a size 20 jean.. Yes they are tight but they zip and i could wear them. I also just for fun tried on a pair of 18 and I can get them on but like a couple inches of zipping them. But the fact they go up over my hips is a good feeling. Wont be long till i can wear them I know.

Its easy for us to get frustrated. I know myself I thought i would be further along then i am now but then i had the whole month of July and half of Aug where i didnt lose much just was up and down on the weight the whole time. I do think this last fill did it for me though. I can eat very little and when i over do it then i end up having to go get rid of it. So I am still learning what i cant and can do. Would think 3 1/2 mos out would have this down pat but I know with each fill i gotta learn more. We can all do this. We are on our way to a healthy US. We just gotta keep the finish line in site and keep pushing forward.

Sounds like you have head hunger. I think thats the hardest thing to beat. We have used food for our friend and outlet for so long that to just give it up is hard and fact is we have to have food to live so not like a drug addict we cant just say we wont be exposed to it anymore. I know there are times i have something i know i dont need and shouldnt eat. Or i eat to fast or something along that line and become sick. This is a learning process none of us in this group have become an expert yet. We are all learning to help the band work for us. I say relizing what the problem is one of the first big steps. I wish had a way to tell you to get over this step but the only thing i can tell you is keep trying and try to advoid things (foods) that tempt you to eat to much.

Today i went for my 3rd fill. My dr told me and i agree i am not tight enough. I hope this breaks the barly losing cycle i have been on. I also think that cause i am so scared of being to tight and being so far from my dr that I play it safe on the fills. This time we put in almost a cc. He said he felt this would start things moving. On another note I went to a scrub shop today and tried on new scrubs. I bought one pair of xl pants and top and tried on some more. I was able to get the XL on in all brands but they was a little tight still .. but wont be long till i will need those. The xxl i have are now all very lose. It has been a long time since i work XL scrubs so i am excited by it.

As of today i have lost 30lbs since my preop diet and the surgery. That means i added my 3rd bead. But the most exciting thing today is i noticed i have lost 5 points off my BMI... now thats exciting a long way to go but Yay. I am a bit worried as of today i am on high dose steriods due to a bad case of bronchitis and that is a worry cause it causes blood sugar spikes and weight gain. So got to watch it..

Ok i got my 2nd fill thur and i have felt tighter since. This morning i tried to eat some bread for breakfest was to dense and after a few bites i was done with that. Then i had some peanutbutter on one slice of bread for snack that to didnt feel right and had a slight burp up of that. Then for lunch we had pizza here at work. I tried a 1/2 slice and that was like a brick. I had to go throw some of it up and learned what sliming meant. Then i tried to just eat the toppings and that felt like a huge brick in my upper abd. Was awful and it sent me to the restroom to get rid of it. Totally sliming didnt understand what that meant till now. I had had small times when i had pb but Never had something like this. Yea pizza is no longer my friend and i dont want to ever do one of those again. Still got slight pain from where it was. No Fun!

As i said i was going to buy a pandora bead for each 10 lbs lost... I got my first 2 today and hope to order my 3rd one by friday... so thought i would share it with everyone..

yay ELIZABETH this is fantastic

Hi Bigenuf. I had also had very steady weight loss till the last few weeks when i actually gained (Groan) But this week the extra 3-4 lbs i gained (not sure why i gained it) has went away. I am back to 285.4 my starting weight before the week preop was 313 and my surgery day May 2, weight was 305 I really thought i would be farther now but least like you i have lost. I have had 2 fills for a total of 3 cc. I felt this last fill did it for me for a week i had great restriction and i still have more restriction then before. I really think one more will do it for me. I am scheducaled to go back to the dr Aug 16.

I am 2 1/2 mos post band. I have had a two fills with a total of 3 cc in my band. I sometimes get a sharp tearing or cutting feeling right where i expect my band to be on one side. Its not there all the time and seems to be there more after i eat then any other time. Its also tonight it notice seems to be slightly relieved with burbing. I am wondering has anyone else experienced this pain and what it might be....

Both times my dr has had trouble access in my port. It does worry me as i am so new. He has got it both times but took alot of repoistioning the needle.

smaller bites and stop when your full... I know when i had my first one it totally scared me. I leaned over and it came up. Mine was pizza not been able to eat it since.

Pinkygirl Ty .. I sorta thought that was it. It seems to be if i eat to much or to fast that i get them. I am an RN and had ruled out gallbladder myself. Seems i have not had the pains in a few days. Trying real hard to slow down take my time and do this right to prevent the pain. The night i wrote this i was having them pretty bad and was scared i had messed up my band...

wrong side of the abd for gb its more on the left side of my band. Not there all the time. i see my surgeon on the 16th if it gets worse or does not get better then i am going to discuss it with him. Just was hoping maybe someone else had felt the same thing.

Its not during eating more after i am done... It does have me worried but i am not like having vomiting and i am keeping food down. Worried bout slipping but most of what i read say that your very sick with vomiting when that happens....

Oh i love that meaning. I wasnt a turtle fan till i stared this ... lol now i love them.... Whole new aspect of things.

Ok I keep having this occasional annoying burning at the place i guess my band to be. Its an odd pain so hard to explain it. Also seems sore there if i push in.. Anyone else still having any pain ?