violeteyes37

Hello Everyone

Its been a long time. I got an email alert that there was some new post. Im in the same boat as some of the others. At this point I have gained back about 40 lbs of the 110 lost. Im happy that I havent gained it all back but still very ashamed of the weight I have gained. I cant believe that I was given such an amazing opportunity and now Im throwing it all away. I cant blame the band for any of the weight gain. My band does the job it is suppose to. The problem is with me. I eat and throw up on a constant basis or just eat stuff that I know I shouldnt, not to mention the alcohol consumption. I didnt know that after all of this time that our band could still slip Nimblebean Im sorry to hear this has happened to you and wish you the best of luck. Maybe we all can start supporting each other like we use to do in the good old days when we were just starting on this adventure and had the motivation and desire to make it work.

I think I had the worst of sabotagers, my own family including my mother. Im three years out from surgery and have gained back 30 lbs. Im still very happy with my weight loss but upset at the fact that when I was thinner they constantly told me that they thought that I had lost too much weight and that my face was too skinny and that I just didnt look right. Now that I have put back on some weight they comment on the fact that Im gaining my weight back. Now its a fight for me to get back the motivation that I once had. Dont let haters get to you.

Its been two years now since I got my lap band and I'm so grateful for having been given this opportunity. Today I weigh 175 lbs which isn't the lowest I have gotten but I'm still at least 80lbs lighter than I was. Sometimes I get so upset with myself because I'm 20 lbs heavier than my lightest weight but than I have to remind myself how far I have come. The advise that I would give to anyone who is just starting is that its not a miracle cure and we have to constantly work at it. If we do what we are suppose to be doing our band will do its part.

Im in the same situation. In october I received a fill that I thought was going to help me. I finally have restriction but now too much. I have found myself eating bad things just because they go down and stay. Im gaining weight. From my lowest weight Im now up about 30lbs. I cant believe that Im letting this happen again. Im going to try so hard to make this work again. I have too. Im so ashmed of myself.

I just realized this thread is over a year old. Oh well it helps just to write down my thoughts to make me more aware. If I post where people can see than I feel as if Im no longer hideing from the truth.

Thanks. I keep trying to tell myself that Im better than what I was but its hard. Im sure you will make it too your goal also. We have to just keep trying.

Hello everyone, as you can tell I havent been on here in forever either. Im back now so ashamed. I was doing so good. I had gotten down to 154 and thought I had this thing licked. Im back today at about 175. Im gaining and dont know how to stop. I know what happened. I let people get into my head. I heard people telling me that I had lost too much weight. Can you believe that. How could I had lost too much weight. So I started to believe it and I started to eat and drink alcohol. Oh yea they had also told me that I was boring now that I wasnt drinking and eating with them every weekend. So I listened and fell right into their trap and known Im stuck and cant get out. Im so afraid that Im going to gain all of the weight back. Im hoping that by coming back on here and reading everyones post that I refind the motivation that I once had. Thanks for listening. :thumbup:

Im also glad to hear that Im not the only one in this situation. I have asked this same question and basically the response I received was that I should be happy that I can eat anything and still lose weight. Thats not the point, and Im so glad to hear other people who understand. I went for another fill on 3/10 which now puts me up to 10.75. My Dr informed me that he wouldnt do another fill, because the band only holds 11, and he doesnt understand how if I claim not to have restriction, how did I lose the weight. At this point I think he believes that Im crazy and that Im trying to develop some type of eating disorder. He doesnt believe me when I tell him that I can eat anything and in large amounts if I wanted too. But from what I have read on the board, it can be overfilled, and if he wont do it I will just find another dr who will. Like everyone else I feel like Im losing my will power and I was expecting the band to step in once that happened. With that being said I still love my band and as long as it doesnt give up on me Im not giving up on it. Im going to continue to do what I should.

I have the VG and Im currently at 10.5. Within the last week or so Im just starting to feel what I have been thinking restriction would feel like. On some foods I need to take my time or I guess it gets stuck. All of the weight I have lost has been without having any problems eating, most people think its a good thing to beable to eat what you want and still lose, but Im happy to finally be having problems getting things down. Now that I have lost weight its more important to have restriction so that I keep it off.

The plateau buster is basically like going low carb for a while. I have been thinking about doing low carb to hurry up and get to goal. It really shouldnt be too hard because most of us have already cut bread, rice and Pasta out of our diets anyway.

Me too. My computer was on the way out the window:biggrin: when I decided to look and see if anyone else was having problems. Like you said it seems to be just this website. Alex I think this may mean something. Sometimes once the page loads, off to the side as if it is a ad, I see a message that says 504 gateway timeout. I did a search to see if it was an error with my computer and found that it has something to do with the website.

Thanks so much for that article. This is actually what I fight with each day. For some reason I want to equate good restriction with no being able to eat food and to date I havent found anything I cant eat and Im now at 10.5 cc in my band almost maxed out. Though just like the guy in the article my weight loss has been great and Im almost to goal. I have to wrap my mind around a new meaning of what good restriction means to me.

Yea Im kind of doing south beach. I have been eating those darn little Cereal bars and now Im completely hooked. I promised myself that once this box is gone Im not buying them anymore because I cant control myself. There no longer a healthy low calorie snack if your eating 3 of them a day. :cursing:

Monica, I'm surprised you're unable to sleep on your stomach. Have you discussed that with your doc? That would make me too sad.[/quote

I have and you know what his response was. If it hurts to sleep on my stomach than dont. This is not the Dr who orginally did my surgery. A couple of months after my surgery I found out that my Drs contract wasnt extended and he had left the practice. I was hoping to just go to where ever my Dr had went but there was some kind of no compete clause in his contract that wont allow him to practice within 200 miles.

Im up to 10.5 almost out of room so Im glad that Im almost to goal. I just hope that once its full thats all Im going to need forever( which is a really long time).

I was thinking the same thing. My port is also visable. The other day I was trying to do a jump and jack and Im not sure if it was the lose belly fat or the band moving but something just didnt feel right. Also just today when I went to the gym and was trying to use some weight machine where its like your sitting on a chair backwards (cant think of the name of it) and you reach out and pull the handles towards you, my port was up againt the support thing and it felt like I was pushing up against it to hard. To this day, I still havent been able to sleep on my stomach.

Can't you just not drink warm coffee a few days and see if it makes a difference?

Thats a good question. I have never intentionally not had my coffee as soon as I got up. But if it will make a difference Im sure I could give it a try. :thumbdown:

Thanks for the resposes so far, just these few makes me think that maybe it could be my answer. May I could just drink cold coffee.

I know the question about restriction has been answered a million times, but I still need some answers, and hope everyone doesnt mind helping out here.

Ok, this is my situation. I have a VG band which from what I understand holds 11 cc but can be overfilled. I currently have 10.50 cc and just 1 day after the last fill can still eat without any problems. I know I need to clearify this statement. I dont want any problems, but it would be nice to know that if I ate something I shouldnt or didnt chew as well as I should, that there would be some type of consequences for my actions. For instance, I ate a bread stick and a slice of pan pizza from pizza hut without any problems at all. Im happy to say that I did get full and decided to stop at that, but this is where the point of the thread comes in. I hear everyone who has good restriction talk about not being able to eat bread and having to take their time while eating. This has never been a problem for me. At my last fill just a couple of days ago I demanded that the Dr give me a barium swallow to see what my band is in there doing. What a waste of time. All he said was that it was in the right place and that the liquid went thru as expected (no shit sherlock). Thats the problem, everything goes thru without any hesitation. I also want to make it clear that I love my band and wouldnt trade it for the world and it must be doing something because I have done what I would consider great on my weight lost. Its just that Im afraid that once I hit my goal, Im going to lose my focus and I just want to make sure that when I do my band is going to be there to remind me what it is that I need to be doing.

Ok so thats the background and this is what Im trying to figure out. I have read threads that talk about drinking warm liquids to open up the band. coffee is my Breakfast (I already know). Do you think that maybe Im opening my band every morning and thats why I dont feel much restriction? So please take the poll and feel free to comment one way or the other.

Hello everyone. Just wanted to introduce myself. Im a 38 year old female who had surgery on May 30, 2007. To date I have lost about 84 lbs and Im almost to my goal. In the last couple of months the weight has slowed down a lot but thats fine, Im in this for life.

I think I just figured out the answer to this question the other morning. Im 8 months out and keep telling my Dr that I dont think I have the restriction that I should at this point, especially since I have 10.25 cc in my band. Nothing had ever got stuck or caused me any problems until the other morning when I plopped two left over tater tots in my mouth and inhaled them without ever thinking about it. Minutes later I felt this pressure in my throat and chest that I had never felt before. It felt like I had just swallowed a golf ball. Just like other people have described. A couple of minutes later, I hacked up a bunch of slime. Ironically I couldnt have been happier. This was the first time that my band had ever made its self known. So to answer your question I do think that how well you chew or dont chew affects your restriction. Normally Im very careful about chewing my food, but this one time when I wasnt I finally got something stuck. So now Im trying to find the right amount of chewing to get the food thru without being stuck but at the same time not so much that it goes straight thru. I mean if you think about it it makes a lot of sense. At least I think so. :rolleyes2:

I have seen those also but wasnt sure if I should buy it or not. I liked that it is suppose to help with appetite. Have you felt any difference?

I've read that quite a few of you have really struggled with loosing weight with the lap band. Many of you have not been able to get the the "sweet spot" even after the bands are completely filled. :cry I'm not banded yet, but am worried that I will have the same poor experiences. Any suggestions to help me prepare for success?

Yes, think positive, dont focus too much on the negative threads and just keep telling yourself that YOU are going to make this work. I also struggle with finding what I would consider my sweetspot, but until I find it Im going to keep making good choices and quit eating things just because I can.

I also hate logging the food. Some of the most common things you would assume is there isnt. I think this week since I need to watch what Im eating more close anyway, Im just going to get everything logged and than just stick with the same meal each day so that I dont have to worry about searching and logging the food. Besides that, I love my bug it is showing me exactually why Im not losing.

Reading your post and the response that you received has helped me also. We were banded on the same day and our weight loss is about the same. Not only that but Im going thru the same thing. I have also plateaued and its driving me insane. I think at this point it has got to be just the bodys normal response to slow down. What we have to do is not lose our focus and remember that this is for life, not just something we are going to accomplish within a year. I have the rest of my life to get into shape and stay that way.

I wish I knew the answer. I go for another fill on Jan 3 and Im hoping this is going to be the one. I keep telling the dr that I dont have much restriction and he just looks at me like Im crazy since I have 10 in my band now which from what I read is suppose to only go to 11. I started to think that maybe it was just me and that I did have more restriction than what I admit to but I now know that isnt the case. Last night I ate a coney dog bun and all topped with sloppy joe and it all went down just fine. I know that I have to control my eating, that the band cant do it all but I do expect it to give me a little bit of help and at this point its not. The dr thinks Im lying because my weight loss has been good but i keep telling him that most of it had been due to will power and that Im running out of it as proven by my eating the whole hot dog. So Im looking for the same answer you are, "WHERE IS THIS MYTHICAL RESTRICTION?"

I hear this also from my family. I still weigh 174 and would like to get to about 150. My mom especially keeps telling me that I need to slow down that I dont need to lose much more weight that I look smaller than what the scale reflects. I have been told that if I lose 10 more lbs that Im going to look like skeletor ( you know the old comic strip). I cant take my families opinion seriously because these are the same people that didnt bother to mention to me that I was getting really heavy in the first place.