donna450

How do you post w/o doing a quote first? What do you press on the list that pops up or is it somewhere else? Thx

I began to eat popcorn very carefully at first bc of the "can't have" but it goes down easy. I just let it melt in my mouth then chew the crispy stuff til it's very minute. But I only have a small handful at the movies when we go. BTW that was with my 1st 3 cc fill. I've had another 3cc fill and haven't tried it yet so I hope it still goes down. Not having any other problems...actually less than with the first 3 cc. I thought for sure I wouldn't be able to get my pills down (about 25 a day) but with 6cc in me it's like a dream. The dr said now I should really start losing. YAAAAAA!!!!! Bout time. But I would suggest like everyone else is to take it slowly and make sure the one popcorn goes down w/o trouble.

Sorry couldn't find a subject to write in. I don't know how to start a new subject. Anyhow I am 7 mos out and I just hsd my 2nd fill. I have 6cc in a 10cc band. I feel great. My pills are going down great liquids. Today is the last day of clear liquids but drinking a protein smoothie because my blood sugar dropped to 56. So had to get some protein and carbs in right a way. It's going down very well. I am taking small sips and slowly. It's good. Dr said I would really start losing weight now. I've lost 30lbs in 7 months...so we'll see. Just had to tell someone.

I use to have long thick hair..but thyroid problems got the best of it...got the band and hair started falling out. I am eating more protein and taking biotin and using a product called Nioxin. Its a hair shampoo and conditioner that I'm using...fairly expensive...but beginning to see hair soft and fluffy in balding spots. So if I keep up the combo I hope it continues. Also got an eyelash builder to grow thicker and longer lashes. It says it's safe around eyes but haven't started it yet. Hope this helps. Good luck.

I'm almost 7 mos out. I've lost 30 lbs. I lose almost 4-5 lbs a month. I take about 25+pills a day and a few are weight gainers. So I have had onky 1 3cc fill. Iam seeing the dr and I want a fill...am constantly hungry..but I can hardly get the pills down now..so I'll have to live with only 3cc and maybe eat little more frequent meals. But I'll consult with dr. Since I'm diabetic I can rarely have bananas but when having a smoothies I use my bullets to whiz up some frozen strawberries with banana protein powder. I still get the taste w/o the sugar increase except the sugar in powder itself. So I don't have those too often also. Try to stick with protein and salads with homemade ranch dressing made with greek yogurt so I get very little fat, all the flavor and alot more protein. It's good. I may not lose fast like I want but I am losing...thats all that counts. I do have a problem eating somethings with sugar but indulge in a lowfat frozen yogurt I might start sprinkling or mixing with unflavored protein powder. We'll see. Good luck to all.

Hi I am almost 7 months out have lost 30lbs one fill in my 5th month. Might need another this time. But my interest is I have bipolar disirder and am currently inva very delicate depressive state. I take about 30 pills a day...only 10 are psych drugs but a couple are weight gainers. I am not sleeping good or hardly at all. No matter what time I go to bed I'm up between 2 am and 4 am. It's been going on for over a month. Whether it has anything to do with wls ...probably not. It has to do with my depression and yes I see my psych dr soon. But again another pill..probably a weight gainer. It's frstrating that I do try very hard and the weight is sooooo slow it seems impossible that reaching goal is no where in sight. My only other concern is I have a 10 cc band had 3cc put in and maybe another soon. How am I going to get all those pills down? Really concerned and thinking that another fill no matter how hungry I am may not take place if I'm too tight for pills to go down plus all the other problems compound my depression. Help!!!!!!

If I could turn my belly to my back and my butt as my stomach I think I would have a perfect body. Oh well that'll never happen. I am starting silver sneakers soon and rowing is one exercise I plan on doing for arms back and chest. My butt will need alot of whatever needs to be done. But I'm more concerned about my upper body. Very slim below my belly I look like a circus clown the way out of proportion I see myself. Hope my body responds the way I want it too. Will have to go slow so I don't hurt something. Good luck.

Wendy...I am almost 6 months out...slow loser and what doesn't help is sweets. I seem to always have several scoops of frozen yogurt, sometimes Cookies, it has to be at least once a day...I can't seem to break it......but I hear it's due to a lack of something...self control..yes...but a food or Vitamin or something that will help one to keep it in control. Anyone else know what it might be? Or tried?

I eat light n fit and I do shake mine up and store them in the fridge upside down. Also make ranch dressing with plain yogurt and skim milk ad seasoning. When I think if it I have a Protein smoothie I add a half of srawberry yogurt with frozen strawberries and banana Protein powder and whiz it with my bullet. It is like ice cream.. Anyone havw other ideas for protein? sometimes mine get old.

Too many calories....lol can't type either.

I think a food log is important and I am going to start today. I don't realize what or how much in calories I am taking in. I don't get enough orotein or Water. I take about 22-25pilks a day now and some are weight gainers . I'm post op 6 months and I've lost 30 lbs. My doc doesn't seem to be worried. I had 1st fill at 5 months and I think...I know I need another bc I am remaining hungry or eating too much to stave off the hunger. What is anyone suggesting to get in that much protein. w/o too many caks? I do need help . I am going up and down on a regular basis. I start silver sneakers at a nearby gym and I know that will help but intake of protein and water is a problem. Help!!!

I would have told her to mind her own business and ask her what her name was and what the managers name was and stand there out of any line just to let her stew in her own ignorance thinking we would go off on her and demand to speak to the manager. I think her thinking the worst thing...like maybe losing her job might be going through her head and then let her think you are going to come back and speak to the manager for her rude remarks and and does she comment on everyones purchase or is she prejudice of overweight people only? I'm not sure but I would think she would think again about expressing her opinion about anything. And before you leave stop in once more and ask to see the manager if he/she comes out I would complain but I would think she's already given herself a "what for" for saying anything. I know it sounds like you're taking up your time to persecute this ignoramous but you're trying to make a point w/o getting her fired even though you may want her to. I would say it would be a valuable experience for her and also you if someone else would make a rude remark.

I do pb right from the jar a tbsp and it goes down smoothly but not very often. My problem is finding different dishes with alot of Protein for breakasts...any receipes or suggestions?

I agree whole heartedly. And I agree that mj can be useful for those who need it medically. But I don't agree it should be legal for the general public. Even though I'm sure more than 75% of the world has at least tried it...I haven't. ...and w/o kids isn't all that bad...but when do you stop or how discerning can you be once you have kids or the smokers who have kids now? Among other things you mentioned taxes or paying down our debt by legalizing mj. My question is how can we regulate people when they are mentally impaied driving or if they have a mental disease and go on to harm other people. It's like the gun advocates...is it the gun or the person using it? That's an age old question what came first the egg or the chicken. So if you do mj I can't change your mind but legalizing it to pay off a debt is like putting spoiled food in front of a starving man. Making it easier to alter or mellow out a person isn't worth in my opinion the benefits vs the dangerous outcome. Right now we have so many pills that kill kids mj does kill but in other ways like smoking and driving a car. Alcohol come to mind onky because it also akters your mind reflexes etc. Maybe you're a very responsible person but not everyone is. Many teenagers don't have the mental or physical growth to not be negatively adversely affected longterm if they are into it alot. But bc of my stint of what happened to my daughter I am seriously adamant about using mj freely or legalized. I know I couldn't use it with my mental and emtional problems. And bipolar is a serious disease and if I didn't have to take the meds I wouldn't but spending most of my life on the edge or in complete darkness from deoression I need the meds so I can lead a reasonbly nirmal life. But smoking mj is a choice you make that alot of people ( except medically) cannot keep their wits about them. Being mellow is a part of me that I have to work towards like using more natural means. Tea to calm..not a threat, read quietly or sit quietly to calm my mind. I can find a number of things reasonably to mellow myself that doesn't include altering my mind with an illegal drug. You have your opinion and I respect you for it but I don't have to agree. Let's agree to disagree. I pray that your life isnt affected negatively while using mj. But think beyond your wants or needs in this respect where it does affect others in some cases a dangerous way that involves other peoples lives.

I'm sure you enjoy it. But I worry that altered states of mind like alcohol can have deadly effects. I have bipolar disorder and my unwelcomed altered states comecand go without a warning. So I don't partake. The really big reason that I'm against smoking anything on a regular basis...and mj is addicting but mind altering is that the air you smoke in is the same air your kids are breathing. We adipted two sisters...21 months old and 34 months old. The older one couldn't say a word besides gibberish. Her parents smoked mj and for fun would blow it into her face . It had alot to do with her mental capabilities. After 6 months with us she could talk and a pediatric psychologist said she had grown mentally 18 months in a 6 month time period. So smoke outside if you've got kids. It is a dangerous drug although if everyone else is doing it why not me? That's the mentality if most smokers. Health reasons I can understand but to smoke just for the heck if it sends a message to every kid that being a dope is ok and there's no harm in it. But just like cigarettes, chewing tobacci, pipes, cigars all have carcinogens in them. Have you really researched what your putting in your new healthy body?

I find that there are receipes that go down so smooth that I forget I have a band. I try to buy chicken tenderloins and boneless thighs and I use my crockpot alot. I have to find some not too fattening sauces to cook chicken in and a sauce to go over fish. Taco salad I made last week was amazing too. It was scrumptious. I get alot of receioes fromm allreceipes, food network and alot from facebook under the name Karen who sells Sinny Fiber products. My next favorite dish besides the taco salad is bbq chicken thighs of course in crockpot. It turns out tasty and oh so tender. Is there a forum for just receipes here? Maybe we can put receipes up there that we've tried and got good results from. I'm going to check now. Later banders.

LC... Breskfast and lunch took my pills one at a time with med hot black tea....and had no problems....God Bless You. I just saw my endocrinologist for diabetes and thyroid...he added three more pills. So my throat no longer constricted as long as I drink hot or warm liquids with my pills. Gosh thx for the info. I thought something was wrong but had no idea on how to solve it. Thx from the bottom of my heart!!!

Congrats!!!!! I live about 2 hrs southwest of Orlando. Have a timeshare at Bonnet Creek on Disney properties but Disney doesn't own the land. Anyhow have a great time you going to Disney world? Have soooo much fun!!! Again have a romantic stay.

I try to have a few sips of hot drink...but will do it everytime I eat....and I'll see if I can take pills with warm liquid. I have quite a few in the a.m. but will certainly see if it works. This morning eating my "atkins" like Breakfast I make it myself and put I freezer. Anyhow had some hot Water to soothe my throat...but I did take smaller bites and slowed down. No sliming. Hopefully this is a good beginning to my problems. Thx

I usuallt take smaller bites and stoo while the food goes down. But the pills how are you able to get them diwn w/o too much trouble? Also I've found if I drink a few swallows of something that it rekaxes my throat.

My dr gave my first fill 5 months after banding. I was eating too often so the fill. He did not go over what I might expect but I felt good and the band was fine. But I've had trouble keeping food down for the last three weeks since my fill. I can eat a few bites it comes up then I can go on to eat the rest of the meal. But I also take 33 pills split into 4x a day. They go down hard and I get a terrible pressure in my chest and a heartburn like feeling and a horrific headache and this feeling lasts for hours. See my band dr next week we'll see what he has to say. Good luck to you.

Hi again Terry- I had my first fill...3 cc...before it I was able to get fish down all the time..now however I've tried it once and it wouldn't go down at all...I was eating fried tilapia using olive oil. It's usually very moist but ....it wouldn't go down. If I were to add a sauce over it what would you suggest? I don't eat any red meat except hamburger as fat free as I can get it. And the other meat is mostly chicken thighs usually cooked in a crock pot with sauces bbq's, cream of chicken Soup and spices. Sometimes cut breasts in chunks and bake in a creamy casserole and that usually works too. But I would love to get back to fish more.

Also fogot to mention that since my first fill ofc3 cc I can only eat 2-3 bites then it comes up. But usually I can then eat the rest of my food. This happens at almost every meal. I am not as excited with this fill as I was before it. And I take a few weight gaining pills for my bipolar and even with the fill I am losing very slowly...almost too slow. I try to watch what I eat but when I get really hungry I eat whatever will go down the easiest. Bad choice? And my hair is falling out. It was thin bc of hypothyroidism but now have a few balding spots. I see my endocrinologist today so maybe get my thyroid in check and maybe with eating more protein my hair will start coming back. There's alot more but I'll leave it like this. Thx

Terry...I am going thru the same. Only I have to take about 33 pills a day. They're divided out four x a day. I feel in my throat they get stuck. I feel like a heartburn feeling and get god awful pressure in my chest and then a powerful unrelenting headache. Yesterday I ate about 8 took my pills about 10 and it finally went away almost 1 pm. Time to take my 1:00 pills but didn't take them until 4 so I would have a slight repreive. But I had a protein smoothy for lunch about 1:00 after "the feeling" went away and I had a hard time getting that down. And I also get chronic headaches on a normal basis and have to take those prn. They go down okay but still feel a little pressure when taking one pill. I see my band dr next week and have outlined this for him. These are pills I must take to keep my bipolar and headaches and OTC's for band and diabetes in check. Just venting. Thx for listening.

I'm having a hard time since my fill in jan.2014. First one. I was banded in aug 2013. My problem is that I am pbing almost at every meal but onky the 2-3 bites in then afterwards I can finish eating with no problem. Then there's the 4-5x a day I have to take the 6 pills each time. Since fill I take pills after I eat about 30 min. I get them down they fill stuck in my throat...have heartburn type feeling with alot of pressure and I get a horrible headache. Now I get chronic headaches always have and I've never had a problem until banding and worse since 3 cc fill. Maybe my throat is too tight before eating and what do you think I should do and the pills? I have to take them about 33 in all and it takes about 2 hours after taking pills and feeling horrible putting ice on my neck and head before it lets up. By then it's usually time to eat again or take pills again. See its round robin. I am willing to do this and keep on going but just need some advice on how to handle. I see my lapband dr next wednesday and a letter to him outlining just what I've said. But need my buddies opinions too. Thx