katspaw

I wanted to see if there was any interest for me hosting a weekly dial-in phone number where we could all talk and discuss our Success, Struggles and support each other through his weight loss journey. Let me know if you are interested and I will set something up because I personally need 300% support/help fighting my demons to learn how to be successful in weight loss.

What is the lapband card? That sounds great.

Thank you everyone. I was so down yesterday that he didn't give me options. Just said that obviously the band isn't working for me so I should do the sleeve and then started his staff on getting me info about sleeve and left. So he has never had good bedside manner but I ignored it because his surgical abilities were rated so high. But now I don't care how good he is listed as a surgeon because he just sucks! I will be looking for another surgeon to go to, to say the least! I just didn't that on top of all the other crap I have dealt with.

Well I went in to get a fill today and found out my port has completely flipped and I can't get a fill anymore. I am so frustrated right now. I just cried at the office. The doctor said it just means I am not meant for the band after all these years and I should do the sleeve instead because it has a higher success rate than the band. Didn't even offer me options to get the port slipped back. This happened to anyone else?? I am just at a lost....

Trying to get a idea on how people are controlling their eating. Do you count calorie's or just watch what you eat? I am unfortunately not one of the people who can adhere by the just "eat lean protein and veggies and eat as much as you want" as my doctor said. So I am open to how you guys have tracked your food consumptions hoping I can get some good suggestions from those of who have been successful!

Thanks for the great responses everyone this really does help me understand options I could use robe successful.

Hi everyone - I haven't forgotten you just had to go on the road for work. It looks like my best days to host a call due to my new project are Tues or Weds evenings at 6:30 or 7 on PST. Is that too late for everyone? I might be able to do mid day Fri as well but won't have that confirmed for another week until I get my new schedule worked out. Let me know what day works best and we will get this scheduled to start next week. Look forward to supporting each other.

I have had my band for 4 years and still have this happen ever so often so I assume it is normal. Mine goes away within 24 hours. I do know my port is stitched to a muscle.

Thank you for sharing your inspiring story. I am thrilled for you and hope to join you one day!

For the ones that are interested in a call can you send me a private message that has your email address listed so I can send you the call in information? I don't want to publically post it so we can keep the group to a controllable amount. Thanks!

For those that use MyfitnessPal - do you ignore their suggestion for calories? I have been using it for 3 weeks now and have gained weight instead of loosing. Mind you I know I do not have enough restriction right now (go in Tues for a fill) so that isn't helping my "feeling full" mode like some of you. I am trying to find something that will work and frustrated right now trying to figure it all out.

Yes I agree. I wasn't sure how many are even interested in doing this to begin with. If a lot of people responded I was going to do several options to keep things small and controllable.

Yes not video however. I have a conference line I use for work that we could leverage to help each other out.

So today I had an emotional day of eating because I had "only" lost 6 pds after my fill was done 10 days ago. For some reason I thought I should loose at least 10 pounds within 2 weeks of getting my fill due to the liquid diet we are on at first etc... My 5 pounds were in the first 6 days with around a 4/10ths of pound per day for the remaining 4 days. Because I can't seem to Celebrate the positive and focus on the negative.....I ate a chicken, bean & cheese burrito from Chipotle and I couldn't feel more miserable!!! I felt sp bloated and non-functioning that I just cried because I had been doing pretty good after my fill in 4 years. So being the type A Project Manager I am... I divided my 30 meals I have had in 10 days by my 27 successful meals I have eaten and my track record is actually 90%!! That was so more significant to me than the pounds I hadn't lost!!!!! 90% of my eating was successful in the last 10 days! That meant the world to me. I think I also realize the scale is a trigger for me and isn't healthy and I can't focus on it like most of you can. I thin I will have to focus on successful meals per week instead of pounds for a while. Not sure if anyone else has had to deal with this and found ways around it but I thought I would share just in case. It made me feel more proud of my accomplishments than I had been filling.

I couldn't agree more.. I said to my best friend today that I need to get out of my head because I am making this worse than it should be. But boy o boy is it so hard.

YES and day 2 and day 3 and....... until you can eat what seems like real food it is very hard (for me at least) then it is about getting out of your head.

That is awesome!

Speechless and inspired!!!!!

Wow...... Each if you are so inspiring to us just starting out on this journey. Thank you for sharing and giving us hope that we too will be proud to post if succeed here one day!!

Pls add me Katspaww. I have just returned to my band after 4 yrs starting all over. Just had first fill this past Tues and lost 5 pds do far only because of liquid diet but I will take the loss. Look forward to loosing and supporting everyone!

I just had my first fill in 4 years and struggle with the hunger I am feeling. I have a little discomfort in my stomach but am worried it wasn't a big enough fill because I can still gulp drinks/shakes with no issues. I accidentally did that oday out of habit , panicked briefly then was ok because I realized it didn't do anything to me.

Lela sorry to hear about your rough day. Anniversaries of death are so hard. I hope you had the strength to fight thru the wanting of comfort food. Thank you for being human and showing others about your struggles. You will be in thought n prayers of an easier day tomorrow.

I will go tomorrow and buy some to see if they help. Right now I am dieting from hunger on day two of liquid diet after my first fill in 4 years. This is so much harder than I remember it being!! I did sneak and scramble an egg this AM and only eat 2 tablespoons because I woke in such hunger and sluggish feeling. That helped ten but back to starving. Soft foods tomorrow so I hope that takes away that feeling. I sure thought I would be stronger this early in the process.