Daisalana

Congrats Panda, I know how hard you worked for it! You'll be a great mom

I ran to Publix on my sick day. Thought it would be nice to go when there aren't buttloads of people.. wrong. Lots of OLD people this time of day.. no one tells you these things. And old people don't move very fast. I had to come to complete stops the whole time, waiting, while they are side by side ignoring the fact that anyone else is there. I feel poopy and now hungry, but nothing sounds good. I bought some Quaker Muffin Bars, banana & oats. 130c per bar, I've eaten 1/4th of it and I'm full. Pretty good, wonder if they keep well if I try to re-wrap it up. I called Walgreens again today, they said they'd call me back last Friday, then that weekend, then Monday.. and so I let it go till today, so I finally call. The GM was there, said he was going to look at it, hasn't yet.. and he said 'We talked to the cashier, he said he put them in your bag'. And they're all but calling me a thief, so I'm gettin pissed off. I said 'Ok, well he was WRONG'. So guy went to review the tape (one person already did and said they saw them go in my bag). He calls me back.. he said 'The video shows he rang it up, then set it back on the counter'. AH HUH, I'M NOT A LIAR OR A THIEF! Stupid asses. He gave me a quick apology and told me I can come pick up my smokes. I hope cashier is reprimanded for lying, he got off 15m after he rang me up, which means HE had to put the carton of cigarettes back on the shelf since he left them on the counter. Then he lied. Then someone else watched the video and lied! It never went in my bag. HRMPH. So there, back to my nyquil and intervention

Are you newly banded? I guess so if you're about to have your first fill.. My doc moved my port from stomach to between my breasts, right on the bra line. It was uncomfortable for about a month, but now (3 months later) I do not notice it. Hopefully it will heal and won't bother you either

What are you doing? You should only be walking right now. Dizzy, sweating, weak is likely normal.. you just had a major surgery...and you posted you're only drinking water. You need to start drinking some protein shakes... like, now. You need some nutrition.

Congrats!! Keep goin!

I was banded in April, and by September I had 4 or 5 fills and felt nothing. So they did it under fluero, and when they filled me the saline just went SPLOOSH into my body. So they thought I had a leak, and they said Inamed isn't getting back to them. I e-mailed INamed myself from their website, and some guy called me back, we discussed the problem blah blah, he said he was sending my doc a packet to send information so they'd reimburse me. INamed really impressed me during all this. He gave me his direct line so I could call him anytime. Anyway, so Sept. I went in for them to find the place of leaking and fix it (they said if it was the tube, they could just cut off that portion of the tube and re-attach it). The problem would be if the port is leaking.. Under the knife they realized my port had just flipped completely 180 degrees. So under the fleuro they couldn't tell it was flipped. When they were filling me, it was just bouncing against the back of the port and floating off. Sooo.. they moved the port from my belly to between my breasts (Hard spot), and stitched it very well. Now it's right under my skin and not moving. It was going to cost $596 to replace the port, which INamed was talking about refunding. Ended up not needing it.. and my doc didn't charge me for the surgery. But the hospital & Anesthesia charged me $2,500 total to fix it.

Filet mignon, if you work it slooow and chew chew and it goes down with no problems.. seems to hang around for eons too.

Just trying to get you to see the logic of why you wouldn't want to completely open the band

When I finally was able to get a fill, they put 1.5cc in my 4cc. I was way too full, always throwing up and liquids were hard to get down. He took .5cc out *doh*, and I was back to no restriction. I went back in, and he put the whole .5cc back in. It was too tight, but I've adjusted with it. I'm slowly but surely getting to proper restriction. I don't know why he won't do smaller increments, but I fear if I go back he'll take the whole .5cc out. Ask your doc to take out just .2cc-.3cc.

I've been overweight since I came out of my momma. Since banding, I notice overweight people a lot more and feel the urge to tell them about WLS.. I want them to share the excitement, and get out of the rut. I see the pain and discomfort in public I was getting in the last few years. Now I'm overly confident in myself in public, I don't feel like the fat girl in the room. I'm not obsessed with food, but I do have times when I want to binge... and can't.. and I just have to deal with it. The mood does pass.

I watch his TV show, and is he the older one? Older one I love, I would have loved to have him as my band doctor!!! The younger one is too arrogant, don't care for him. Or the shrink, she is unsympathetic to overweight people. Woohoo for you

If I was starting my journey today.. I am 35 BMI and NO COMORBIDIES. I would NOT qualify for surgery. HOORAH!! :whoo::whoo::whoo:

I always get an unsweet tea in a to-go cup. I like restaurant teas, so I enjoy it later

Well the big question is, if it's so easy to maintain that weight, why did you gain 100lbs to begin with? If my band was completely unfilled, I can eat everything I did pre-band, but about 1/2 the amount. Hypothetically, you can completely unfill your band at goal. Realistically, you'd gain it all back.

Oh and just had to point out.. seems like only yesterday I was almost in the 250's and about to break a record for me.. now I'm almost 240's! WOWE!

And woohoo Jenn on the sexy jeans! We need to see pics!!

Morning everyone! Still sick, I opted not to go to work. I hate the dizzy lightheadedness of sick. DH is off at work, I went to kitchen to get a drink.. and my cat knocked pizza all over the floor and a lasagna dish. ARGH. I'm too tired to pick it up. Denise- Intervention hits home for me too, my bro was a meth addict and now addicted to lesser drugs, but when I see the people go crazy on meth it reminds me. I dunno why I like intervention, I always wait for the end, hoping for the happy ending. The update interventions, never sounds like it lasts. My sister is upcoming duplicate of my brother And lastly about it.. I have my best guy friend from HS.. we went on foreign exchange together, went on all our family trips together, we were straight A students, in band and key club, etc.. mom wanted me to marry him lol.. but I always saw him as the brother I wanted. After HS he came out of the closet.. and became a party fiend. He went off to go to college and works for Disney World, and last I heard he's moved his way up in their corporate world. But anyway, he came to visit a few months ago, and he's scary skinny, and balding, and looked horrible. And I asked if my smoking would bother him (my cigs.. I don't remember if I ever smoked around him before) and he said something that reminds me of slang for I guess crack or heroin (I'm not real versed in terminology). It threw me off guard, he was asking if I had some hard drugs. My sister was there too, and he was being a jackass to her, after 30m I finally had to find an excuse as to why he had to leave (like I had to go to bed), because it was so uncomfortable just being around him. Anyway, after seeing that Intervention on the guy who they found out had HIV, he reminded me of him. And my mom after friend had visited said it sounds like he may have gotten AIDS from what I explained to her.. don't know where I'm going with this, just something I've been thinking about since yesterday. I'm sick, leave me alone lol! Tracy you went from the mommy look to the minx look!! And Michelle that dress looked fantastic on you! I wish i had the girly curves to fill that dress out, I wanted to buy it a few years ago for prom.

I must have missed something. 8-10 veggie servings a day? There's no way I'd be able to do that. I barely get 900c a day unless I am drinking liquid calories. I do drink v-8, that's only 1 serving isn't it? Well, I'm sooo sick. I haven't been sick since pre-band so I forgot how miserable it is. Just wanted to say Happy New Year to ya'll before I go back to bed. And realized being sick if a food trigger for me. I want all kinds of crap. I had DH go to the store and get me funyuns, munchems, and 3 different gatorades. In 3 hours, I had 2 funyuns, a few munchems and 2 sips of gatorade. I want to eat so bad, I want all kinds of bad stuff, but the band says NO. I'll thank her later, but for now it just makes me feel worse. Waaah. No meds I'm taking seem to be doing crap for me. I'm watching "Intervention" marathon in bed. So yeah, got up to check e-mail and say Happy New Years to you guys! Make sure you eat a bite of Hoppin Johns for good luck in '08!

Hah hah thank you Derick. actually, I am going to tell him so I can say "See, there are men out there that care about this stuff!"

I thought hiccups were my 'soft stop' but in the past month or so, I realized hiccups means I just ate 1 bite too many.. And boy, when they last like wombat said, all the food comes up. I try to pay really good attention to my stopping signals, I HATE getting hiccups now. Turns into hiccup-puke-hiccup-puke. And makes the loud noise. I burp a lot, and I forget it's not lady like now.. I don't cover my mouth. I remember last time we went to the casino I was playing a slot that was crowded around me.. and I was drinking coffee, had a huge belch and let it all out.. and everyone turned to look at me. hah hah oops.

Oh yeah, Kat I do have weird tastes! I didn't say I hated all foods mwhaha.. I just don't like what I don't like I guess things most people like.. italian, pastas, pizza.. yuck yuck IMO. And burgers, I can take or leave them. I've never gone out of my way for one. But I love fancy gourmet-ish foods. When we go to the fancy steak houses at casinos.. num num.. lobster bisque, crab legs, filet mignon with bernaise sauce.. grilled asparagus, fried crab claws, and on and on.. Oh I could eat everything in those places (except the fish). I've been craving Red Lobster.. DH got me that gift certificate, but I gotta find someone to go with me. I have some friends coming over tonight like I said, she called and said she's bringing diet coke for the rum.. and some champagne.. Right now it looks like I'll be doing Nyquil shots

That's how I am. Without GOOD restriction my good intentions don't mean much. I know I can binge and will. With good restriction even when I want to be naughty the band is there to make it impossible.

Soup, and eat it slow.

I have an addictive personality as well. I know if I had access to pain meds, I would use them everyday (lortabs, hydrocodine, etc.). Kind of like the bad tempting foods, my solution is to not have them where I can get them. I could get pain meds for my back, but I know what I'd do with them. I never was a fan of alcohol fortunately, even though alcoholism is rampant in both sides of my family. I do smoke though, almost 2 packs a day now since banding (1 pack a day before). I am going to try Chantix soon. It's too expensive to be a smoker and since you can't smoke in public anymore, it's no fun.

I think I could have a shopping 'issue'. I've always bought junk I don't need (but do want at the moment).. but since banding, with the clothes sizing just a shrinking away, I buy a lot more, just because I'm thrilled to fit into them. Point in case, I just bought a $250 leather jacket.. most expensive clothing item I've ever bought.. but it was so cute, and actually on sale at that price. The next day I saw Victoria's secret having a sale.. and they had sweater-jackets on sale for $19!! I don't need more sweater-jackets since I just bought this coat.. but the novelty of the fact according to their size chart I *CAN* wear XL at VS, I was just beside myself. I had to get them. And I did.. wee. I am buying a lot more just because I can.. but I'm not correcting it, I'm enjoying it. heh.