Angie4b1g

I TOTALLY agree with that! The kids love going to the buffets but I dread it, and did before banding as well. There's just really nothing there worth eating. I'd much rather go to a sit down place, order what I like, eat what I can and then either take the rest home, or not. I'm not paying $15 for the plate of food, I'm paying $15 for the night out with my husband. How much I eat is irrelevant.

I had pork tenderloin a few days ago and no trouble with it. It was nice and juicy, though, maybe that made the difference.

Update! Angie4b1g ...... 237.8 ....... 205......... 222.4................ 17.4

I absolutely HATE flying, and every plane I'm on i just KNOW is going down. Every shake or rattle, and I'm preparing for my death. I really have no advice, though. I usually just white knuckle it through, and try to avoid ones that are longer than 3 hours, that seems to be my limit. Good luck, Vegas is definitely worth the trip! You might even find it not as scary as you thought! I seem to get MORE freaked out the older i get, no idea why. I've flown a bunch of times, you'd think I'd get over it. lol

A good reason for insurance companies to make this so difficult. I can't believe you'd have surgery without thinking it through FIRST.

My ultimate goal is to run a marathon. But as I've never run further than the end of the driveway, and right now I'm so out of shape that I can't even get up and down the stairs without gasping for breath, I don't know how realistic that is. Or where to start.

B: 2 hardboiled eggs, 1 slice WW toast w lite margarine L: Wendy's chili S: LF yogurt D: LF chicken and dumplings Much better day. :shades_smile:

I'm not sure I'd even ask. I'm the one with the problem, I don't feel as though they need to accommodate me. I make the decision if I want to pay X for a meal or not.

Oh whew! I thought you were going to say it got bumped BACK.

The fat demon has too many calories! Don't do it!

I hear y'all. My first fill is next week. I just keep telling myself it's just one week, I can do this for one more week. I do have some restriction, luckily, but I still bet I could put some food away if I tried. LOL. I've been trying to get as much protein as I can to stave off the hungries!!

AWESOME news!

Have you tried taking half a dose of the liquid meds? I took 1/3 after my banding (I know that's not as painful an ordeal, so I'm not trying to compare them...). The full dose knocked me out, 1/3 was just enough to take the edge off the pain but I was still able to function.

I definitely need one today, I'm in! My 8 year old daughter got not good news at the dr yesterday, my 3 year old son is not having a good time of it either, and my dh just backed out of the garage in my 1 month old van with the hatch open. Not a good week so far.

I have the AP band. I don't know that there is THAT much difference from one to another.

Ok so I've only been on the treadmill once. But I did get plenty of workout last night after my basement flooded. :rolleyes2:

I guess it wasn't THAT bad. At least not if you compare it to my old eating habits. I took my daughter to the doctor and the news was NOT NOT good, so we stopped on the way home for ice cream, and I joined her for some. I did make sure it didn't have anything crunchy... lol. Then we had pizza for dinner, and I had a slice. I didn't eat the crust, and I chewed the heck out of it, and it went down ok, and I was full after 1. But it's still not something I'm supposed to eat and I sure hope my band didn't fall off. :biggrin: Breakfast was 1 egg and one slice of ww toast, snack was CIB, for lunch I had a bean and black bean salsa burrito (well really a taco, they were the smaller shells). So, all told, I guess it wasn't THAT bad. :rolleyes2:

I know there's gotta be more of us out there! I thought it would be cool if we could organize a carpool and go down in packs for fills. I live on the west side of Cleveland, so it's exactly 3 hours down there for me. I've done it alone many times, and it's not so bad (I actually find the kid-free time enjoyable lol). Anyone else driving back and forth from Cleveland to Cincy?

I haven't had any problems getting things down (although I haven't exactly tried anything too ambitious, either), but I still seem to fill up faster! I can be satisfied on 1 egg and 1 slice of toast. Before I'd have 3 eggs, 2 pieces of toast, pancakes and sausage at the breakfast place. LOL

lol sorry!

I have this irrational fear that anything I eat outside of the guidelines my doctor gave me is going to slip my band, so it really hasn't been that hard for me. Fear is a great motivator. LOL

I had an EKG as part of my preop testing, but the 3 seconds of that came back normal, and that was that.

Well, if we're racing, I had one that was 11lb 10oz. :biggrin: That one I had an epidural for, as I did with the 11lb 1oz one. It was just that last one I didn't. And it definitely wasn't on purpose. :rolleyes2:

OMG that sounds like a horrible idea. I'm terrified of band slipping, I can't imagine vomiting any more than is ABSOLUTELY necessary.

We won't be talking about what I ate today. Today was a bad day not just food wise, but all the way around. :drool: