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Im there too. Went for my second fill today and though the Dr thinks Im doing great, I feel that the excitement is starting to fade and since the scale is refusing to move much, Im scared I might not get further than this. Some how some way Im going to have to get my butt motivated to work out like I should. I have been doing in home walking a couple of times a week but its just not going to be enough if I want to lose more weight.

Depending on what scale I step on Im either 206.8 or 205. My goal was to hit onederland by September 1, at this rate I dont know if it is going to happen. I brought a new digital scale thinking that it would give me a better reading but the thing seems to not be able to make up its mind. One day it has me lower than 205 and than the next Im back up. My old scale the one that has me at 205 (and has been staying the same) is a dial scale but it is right on the money with the drs scale. I go for my 2nd fill tommorrow so if it proves that the new scale is off (Im hoping it is) its going back to the store. I paid 50 bucks for that thing.

Thanks again for all of the responses. I still have not joined the gym because of money issues, but I have started doing a at home walking program that I enjoy. I know I need to kick it up but right now with my kids going back to school in a couple of weeks the money is too tight.

I use to have it a little before surgery but havent had it not once since surgery. I wish I had known that it was going to go away before I had my perscriptions filled right after surgery. For some reason my insurance didnt pay for the prilosec so I spent 65 dollars for nothing. I took the pills the first couple of days just because but than stopped.

Its my brother that is trying to force me to eat. I know that it is completely out of concern and nothing else for his reasoning. I think its kind of funny. I found out that he had actually went to our mother with his concerns. Since I had been on the preop diet and than was banded thru the summer holidays he really noticed that I wasnt eating at the barbecues. He knew I had the surgery but I dont think he realized how much my eating would be reduced and how dedicated I was going to be in sticking to the plan. My sister inlaw his wife is planning on having gastric in September ( I tried to talk her out of it) and told him that if he is worried that I dont eat anymore wait until she has her surgery. Her situation is going to be even worse than mine. Im able to eat if I wanted to but that she is probably going to get sick when she tries to eat. I joke with her and tell her that she isnt going to lose any weight at all because he is going to have a feeding tube installed so that he can force feed her.

My goal is to get to onederland by September 1. Im at 210 now and for the last week and a half the scale has been going up and down the same 3 lbs. I weigh in the morining and it says one thing and than I weigh in the evening and Im up. This is driving me crazy. I think I may have hit my first plateau. I hope this isnt so. I was really hoping that I would get to onderland before I started to plateau. I have been going thru my fitday logs to see if I can see where the problem may be. I think it is actually that Im not eating enough. My job is so stupid. I can have chips and candy bars at my desk but nothing that can be eaten with a utensil. The only time that I can eat is at lunch because my breaks are only 15 mins and the lunch room is a distance away. So if I follow the band rules and eat slowly, I dont have enough time so I just dont get to eat. Than since I dont get home until 9 pm its too late. Does any one have any ideal of what I can eat at my desk besides a protein drink because I have that in the morning for breakfast. :help:

It seems as if most of the medicine has codine. I told them that codine make me feel sick and they still gave me pain killers with codine. Taking the medicine made me feel worse than the pain so I just didnt take it. If I did it was at night when I was ready to go to bed so that thru the tossing and turning I wouldnt wake up too sore and that way I didnt realize the it made me sick.

I also love my band and doing gastric never even crossed my mind. I dont understand why people would choose gastic because they are afraid that they cant control themselves. I understand that we all had a control issue in the first place and that is what got us here. But the thing I cant understand is that once I made the decision to have surgery, I also made the decision that I was no longer going to use the excuse of not being able to control myself as a reason for why I was fat. As has been stated a million times and counting, this is a life style change and if your not ready to change your life you shouldnt do neither surgery.

My dr didnt say stay under a certain amount of calories so I just ate as much of the allowable stuff as needed to keep from feeling as if I was starving. I also ate every 2-3 hrs. That way I was eating again before I even had the chance to get hungry. If your not restricted to a certain amount of calories just eat more of what you can have. It seemed as if I was eating a lot but when I tracked the calories I was only getting about 1000 per day so I did still lose 11lbs post op. Good Luck.

I had the opposite problem. My drinking was one of the biggest contributors to my weight gain. I liked drinking the sugurey stuff. I gave up my habit about 1 week before starting the preop diet. It has been ruff because that is what I did on the weekends and now it seems as if there is nothing to do. Friday nights just arent the same anymore. :eek:

Thanks for all of the responses. Looks like so far the gym is winning, unless you have the equipment at home.

If this questioned has already been addressed, I apologize, I couldnt find the thread. I posed the question a couple of weeks ago that I needed convinced that I should exercise, and I was convinced. I have been doing some in home walking. My cable station offers a exercise on demand channel with various options. So far I have just done the walking a couple of times a week. I like it but I dont know if in the future I will be working out at a pace the is helpful. So I went to check out the local Victory Fitness Center. I really wasnt that impressed. There is a down payment of 116.00 and than it runs about 20 a month. Its pretty cheap but I was wondering if it was really necessary. So my question is this. Who has just worked out at home on there own, or have you joined a gym? And if you work at at home did you buy equipment?

Of course your joking. Right?

I would recheck your instructions. 2 weeks of clear liquids seems impossible to do. I only had to do it one day before surgery and just recently one day after my first fill. That one day was tough. :omg:

I know how you feel. I have always worried about running into people from high school. I wasnt so proud of the fact that I didnt go to college right away so I have taken care of that and went back and completed my degree about 2 years ago. Now the issue is my weight. I was about 135lbs in high school. I have avoided going to any reunions. But my 20th reunion will be coming up and I plan on attending that one.

Congratulations.

I use to enjoy drinking beer before I was banded. So I have had to give up two things food and beer. Im finding it hard to find other things to do. I keep telling myself to go join the gym so while everyone else is enjoying their beer and chips I would have something to do also. But going to the gym just doesnt sound like much fun. :biggrin1: But on a serious note, you are not alone. Some people may just find it hard to admit to.

If you decide to do it take a drink for me. I use to enjoy drinking beer on the weekend before being banded.:biggrin1:

For those who try to stay low carb, about how many carbs do you have per day. I know when I did Atkins the goal was to stay at about 20. Is that still the case when you are low carb with the band or do you have more.

I did great also. Yesterday I was able to add soft foods so I enjoy a piece of grilled fish (talipia) and drank plenty of water while everyone else had beer.

Same too you. I love holidays, plus I got to move to soft foods today and was able to have some grilled fish. Today was a great day.

Serena: My ticker also shows 11lbs that was from preop. I was considering changing it so that it shows only the weight from surgery but decided not to. I think I will though make a seperate line in my signature that is more accurate. I have seen others do this. 254/243/225/170. PSCG Preop Surgery Current Goal

I chose lapband because I couldnt deal with the thought that something might happen to me and my kids would be left without their mom. My luck isnt good enough to gamble with the odds of dying from bypass.

bigbaby: Have you noticed how skinny she is and she gets to help decide if someone will have surgery.

They are finally going to show a lapband patient on next weeks show. Also on this week episode a lady was having a revision and they said her first surgery was a malina band? What is that?