kah1213

I had a .25 unfill a couple months ago. For the first 2 weeks after I felt like I was eating too much and thought about going for a re-fill. However I think it was mental head hunger and soon I felt better. My tightness varies from week to week. It's so odd but I know related to stress and hormones.

Today in the shower I noticed I was able to shave certain areas with a lot more ease
I didn't even realize it until I was halfway done - that I wasn't struggling to reach places. My husband will be thrilled

Slow and steady wins the prize!

I have read and heard so many negtive things about the lap band, All I can say to anyone reading this is that It was the best decision Ive ever made. Yes It took some serious life adjustments and the "getting to know each other" period was rough. I stayed dedicated to making this band work. If you read my old post you will know this hasnt always been an easy road. In the beginning I thought I needed to have this band so tight that i couldnt eat anything, well 3 years later and I'm much happier having it somewhat loose. yes I can eat more than some would like but I am controlling my weight through diet and exercise. Its my comfort knowing that If I fall off the wagon and weight starts coming back I can have my band tightened up. Thanks to the assistance to the band I have lost 105 pounds. I started this at 310 pounds and currently weigh 199-205 depending on the week. at first that fluctuation freaked me out but I've learned to accept it. honestly some weeks I work out harder then others. This summer I completed the tough mudder course which was 12 miles of obstacles and running. 3 years ago I could only dream of doing something like this. My band experience- the band works if you listen to your body, put in the additional effort and dont over tighten it. If you get the band and stay on the couch and live the same lifestyle as you did pre-band, You will likely be dissapointed with your outcome.
just some extra info to ponder....(you may disagree with this, but it works for me)
just one example of one day...
excercise for 1 hour each day 5-6 days a week. 530am
Running- 1-2 miles each day.
weight lifting- 2-3 days each week.
dailey protien shake after work out.
Breakfast 8am...1 cup of light yogurt with granola added in to help thicken it up.
snack....10am hand full of raw unsalted almonds
lunch....12noon healthy choice frozen meal 9-11 oz meal
snack....2pm handful of grapes or cheese stick
dinner... 6pm 10-12oz dinner- chicken or beef or fish and vegetables.
I drink dailey- 1 gallon of water-(or more)

Hi my band has slipped also. My dr. Removed all the Fluid and waited a month for swelling to go down he said sometimes it goes back in place on its own. I waited and then I felt ok. So he's proceeding to fill it again little by little very slowly. 1 cc at a time. He wanted to remove it all to get her. And not replace it. Or adjust it. I said no way, can we see how I feel? He said ok so now I feel normal again and am proceeding cautiously
Sincerely
Oceanswaves
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Finally did it for the first part of my weight loss journey! I'm so excited. Today my husband said he could really see the difference . I feel so amazing . I took this picture and thought I was dreaming. I have been working out at 5 am like crazy and I'm not going to stop.
I have 109 more to go and I know I can do it. This lapband is amazing and I'm going to work it to the fullest .
Highest 2013: 331
PreOp: 319
Day of surgery: 306
Current Weight: 269
Goal Weight: 160
Height: 5'8

Hey everyone. One year out next week and im wearing a size 14 currently sitting at 92 which is 50.5kg lost since surgury and 63kg lost all up

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That moment you look at a cute pair of jeans, pick up a size you never thought you'd fit in to again and think... "There is NO way these are going to fit!!"......and then they do!!! :) On my surgery day (February 1st), I was comfortably wearing size 26W jeans. Not quite 8 months out, and I just bought a size 14 from American Eagle! I have to admit, while I love seeing the number on the scale drop, I love all the NSV's that come with this journey so much more!

So i have been waiting for this moment for ever it seems. I thought i would of seen it weeks ago but for the last 3 weeks weight loss was only about 1 pound a week. But then BAM i step on the scale today and what did i see......195 oh YEA finally and i weighed 200 last week so awesome!!!!

I was banded on 9/5.......most helpful things - ice packs, heating pads, gas x strips, papaya enzymes, milk of magnesia, genie bras, hand blender, magic bullet, Soups on the go, Greek yogurt, Isopure zero carb Protein Drinks, gummie Multivitamins and Fiber, Water, Biotin drops...........most importantly - a great support system to encourage you on the rough days!

My mandatory psych eval and dietician visit was done today. I just to have Labs, Chest Xray and EKG plus done. Along with Surgery Clearance from my doctor. Then lose 5 lbs by 10/11/13. I am almost there surgery date is 10/17/13. This really went fast for me. I am waiting for a glitch but none so far.

We've lost 88.9 lbs so far! Great Job!

You can do it! I just ran my 4th half marathon last weekend. It's hard, but worth it! Good luck. I used a beginner training program I found online. It helps you get up to the right mileage for race day.

You can do it! I just ran my 4th half marathon last weekend. It's hard, but worth it! Good luck. I used a beginner training program I found online. It helps you get up to the right mileage for race day.

Deciding who to tell about your WLS is a tricky business. Do you tell your friends, family, neighbors, hairdresser or dentist? What about all those coworkers? What (if anything) should you tell them?


Coworkers occupy a unique position in our lives. They’re closer than acquaintances, but not as close as families and friends even though we generally spend more time with them than just about anyone else in our lives.
Keeping your own private business private at your workplace can be a challenge under the best of circumstances, and it can be dangerous territory for someone having weight loss surgery. Any kind of medical procedure, from a root canal to open heart surgery, is so fascinating that it’s almost instantly transmitted via the office grapevine no matter how solemnly your good friend and coworker swears to keep it a secret. On Monday morning, I tell Amy about my upcoming band surgery in the hushed tones of utmost confidence, and she promises to tell no one. On Monday afternoon, Bud waves at me while passing through the hallway and says, “Good luck with your surgery!” How did that happen? Did Amy betray my confidence? No, not exactly. She called her husband Tim at lunchtime and told him because his mother is considering bariatric surgery, and Tim’s office mate overheard the conversation and called his cousin Dale to ask if it’s true that Jean’s having weight loss surgery…and so on and so forth.
Pre-op, who (if anyone) are you going to tell you’re having bariatric surgery? You’ll have to explain your absence (not necessarily in gory detail) to your immediate supervisor and/or a human resources person, and (depending on your employer’s policies) provide a letter from your doctor excusing your absence. You are not obliged to divulge the details of your surgery to anyone; a letter from your surgeon (preferably not on stationery imprinted with “The Hometown Center for Surgical Weight Loss”), stating that you are under his/her care and will need XX days off work to undergo surgery and recovery, should be enough. Be aware, though, that the employer who provides your health insurance probably has access to more of your confidential medical information than you might like. In these days of the Information Age, it’s quite possible that Michelle Obama and the Prime Minister of Japan could discover the details of your weight loss surgery (assuming they even cared). I have no idea how to control that and suggest that you focus your privacy efforts at the local level. If you tell your employer’s human resources manager that you’re having bariatric surgery and later discover (or surmise) that she told the payroll clerk, the receptionist, and her sister Maybelline about it, it would be appropriate to let her know (in private) that she violated the confidentiality of your medical information, but it might not be worthwhile to start a war over it, especially because workplace wars tend to draw curious crowds and foster the growth of the office grapevine. As my wise friend Miss Pat says, “You gotta pick your battles.”
Let’s look at a few possible pre- and post-op workplace scenarios.
1. You don’t tell your coworkers about the nature of your surgery, and/or the one coworker you tell keeps her lips zipped. Your cover story is that you’re having your gall bladder removed. Remember please that you have only one gall bladder, and if eventually the real one has to go, you’re going to have to come up with another story. Every other person in your workplace bends your ear with their own gall bladder stories and finally they all get bored with it and move on to the next burning issue, like the fact that Jack got written up for putting a photo of Beyoncé’s backside on his cubicle wall. You come back to work, life goes on, and everything’s fine until you decline an invitation to go out for pizza, or you sit down in the lunch room with a lunch so tiny compared to your pre-op meals that five observers jump to the conclusion that you’re on a diet again, and want to know all the details. Deal with the situation in a way that suits your style and doesn’t back you into an awkward corner. My response to the diet inquisitors would be something like, “I’m just trying to eat less and exercise more,” and then change the subject by saying, “Did you hear that (fill in the blank with the latest office gossip thread)?” or “Hey, when are they supposed to finish painting the lines in the parking lot?” or (as I recently told a coworker who exclaimed, “I don’t know why you even bother!” when she saw my tiny lunch), “Things must be mighty slow if my lunch is the most interesting thing you’ve seen all day.”
2. You’re like I was, so delighted to be having weight loss surgery that you tell everybody and their brother and their dentist and their mail carrier. Instant experts crawl out of the woodwork. Walking into the lunchroom gets to be like turning on the light in that ratty first apartment you had, where the bright light revealed an army of cockroaches swarming over the room. Before your surgery, the cockroaches (excuse me, coworkers) tell you every fractured and horrifying bariatric fairy tale they ever heard, tell you that they know you can lose the weight without doing something drastic like surgery, or proclaim that they would never do such a thing to themselves. If you are extremely patient (not my strong point), you can conduct your own personal bariatric surgery ministry by correcting the cockroaches’ misconceptions (I’m not sure that cockroaches even have ears, however). Or you can perform another version of the strategy outlined above and repeat the same phrase every single time they try to “educate” you. Say, “Thanks for your concern,” and change the subject.
3. After your surgery, you are no longer the center of attention. Life goes on, with occasional excitement when Jack once again gets written up, this time for repeating an off-color joke within the hearing of Mary Smith, the Senior Vice President of S.E.I. (Something Extremely Important). You gradually lose weight, pound after pound. You begin to buy new clothes, you change your hairstyle, you become more outgoing, and eventually several things happen:
a) You wonder why no one has noticed your weight loss. Can’t they see the difference now that you’re 40 pounds lighter? What kind of friends are they, anyway? Remember, they’re work friends. Very likely they’re jealous friends, or self-centered friends (and so am I – I care a lot more about my weight than yours), or distracted friends (they’re thinking about their daughter’s need for expensive orthodonture, for example).
You wish people would stop saying, “So how much weight have you lost so far?” You can answer honestly and deal with the feedback, or you can follow my example and say something lighthearted like, “20 tons!” or “Not enough!” or “My doctor’s thrilled with my weight loss.”
c) The next time someone says, “I hope you’re done losing weight. You’re beginning to look sickly,” you want to smack them upside the head. Instead you can say cheerfully, “I’m sorry to hear you say that, because I’ve never felt better in my entire life.”
d) Someone says, “You’ve lost 40 pounds? Really? I just don’t see it.” You run into the restroom and cry for 20 minutes. When you’re done mopping up mascara trails, march right back out there and give that jerk his or her comeuppance with a belated comeback like, “You have an IQ of 40? Really? I just don’t see it.”
e) A former eating pal says, “You’re so stuck up now. You never some with us for lunch at Pizza-Rama.” You can respond by saying, “I’m sorry you feel that way, but I’m trying to avoid pizza right now. How about we have lunch at Veggy Heaven today?” If that “pal” frowns at the very idea of eating veggies and the only way they enjoy being with you involves food, you may have to write her/him off. Don’t worry, you’ll find another friend sooner or later, one who can appreciate you for who you are, not what you eat!

Checking in 149.2 (GOAL)

Can't wait for this to be me one day! Congratulations!

I'm bursting with happiness & have to share that I am now officially overweight!!! You know those annoying height/weight/BMI standards??? Up until my official weigh in today I have still been in the obese range....despite losing over 110 lbs! Well, today a total loss of 117 lbs (so far) has finally bumped me down to being merely overweight. I assure you no female has ever been this happy to be overweight LOL

I had my surgery in April 2010. I weighed 581 the day of the surgery, and weighed in at 310 this morning. I was wearing a size 72, and just bought a size 48. The key is steady, and don't let a flat weight or a pound gain freak you out. Just keep it going, and it will work if you keep your mind on track. Have some fun, cheat once in awhile, and you will do good.I also work as a food buyer in a major retailer, so food samples are around 24/7. So if I can do it, anybody can!

One of the first things I was told by my surgeon was No carbonated beverages, No gum and no drinking during meals.. He said carbonated beverages cause too much gas and can result in band erosion or slippage and gum if accidentally swallowed would need surgical removal (I said Accidentally so don't give me that I never swallow my gum stuff).. anyhow if my surgeon told me to stand on my head and spit wooden nickels I will do it.. I trust him totally, he's done thousands of bands and has a great record of success.. I am so happy to have my band and will be forever grateful that I am on the road to better health... do whatever your Surgeon tells you if you trust them..

I have only told about 6 coworkers out of more than 50 I work with, wife, kids, mother-in-law know. That's it. I prefer to be discreet about it and if someone asks what's with the weight-loss, I blame diabetes and the hiatal hernia repair. The hernia especially if someone hears me struggling with being stuck in the bathroom. I figure that no one needs to know and the ones that feel conscious about their weight end up working out and becoming healthier on their own. Not hurting anyone by not sharing. Eventually I will "come clean" with every person I meet, but for own this is the way it is.

Name, real or screen~ kah1213
Goal weight for September 30th~ 140
Weight on September 1st~ 143.5
City/State~ NYC, NY
Dietary goal for September~ more Protein
Exercise goal for September~ half marathon
Personal goal for September~ donate old clothes
Date banded~ 5/29/12
Total weight loss since banding/pre op diet~ 81.5
Favorite Fall Activity~ football!

I started pre op August 8, 2013 and banded on August 23, 2013 and today on Sept 6, 2013 I'm down 40.4 lbs!!!!!! Loving this and haven't even gone in for a fill yet!