Brittani87

My surgery is July 17th and I’m a ball of nerves!

I have always been told eat until your comfortable not full...bc it takes ur brain awhile to catch up that oh hey she is done and satisfied...so u eat to ur full you will miserable

I feel like a failure and I don't know what my deal is...last July I was so pumped to lose my weight and now I'm kind of stuck...my starting weight was 389 before I went on the week before surgery diet and I got down to 374 day of surgery my weight now is 366....so 22 pounds within a year. I do belong to a gym I'm just not going like I should...for some reason I'm just staying tired and have no energy to go. I work with the school system and I work with special need kids and some days it's exhausting...everyone else has seem to do great...I just don't know what has gotten into me and I thought by now I would've at least lost 80...and one of my problems I think is I'm still eating what foods I like I have just cut back...I'm such a picky eater when it comes to vegetables I have tried and tried yogurt til I'm blue in the face and I think it's a texture for me. I have recently started eating strawberries which is awesome bc I never would eat them....I cut them up and put Splenda on them and it gives me that craving fix when I want something sweet...I just need a lot of support and once a month support group meetings are not helping I need like an every week thing

The doctor I see when you go for your very first appointment you pay $300 dollars up front for the behavioral therapist and the dietician so he wants me to see her and keep a food diary and so I started to and have stopped. But I was mad at myself when I was in his office may 20th and seen how much I gained back. And was determined to get back on track. I have a friend who is like your sister and her surgery will be two years and she has gone from a size 28 to a 14...and she doesn't eat much...

I have no idea how many cc's are in my band..I got a fill on may 20th

I had my surgery 7/30/13 and my weight is up and down. Last time I went to the doctor he wasn't happy bc of the weight I gained. However I was off work for three months due to hand surgery and us "bigger" folks when they are bored what do they turn to???? FOOD!!!! So I am trying to get back on track...I think the one thing that hurts me is I'm such a picky eater. And also I guess I thought the band would be this miracle cute but it takes a lot of work and maintenance to keep up with. I thought I would've been further then what I am but I try to stay positive at least what I have lost is a loss and on the plus side I didn't gain all the weight back that I was on surgery or before surgery so ill take it

When I had my surgery the diet I had to be on before surgery was 1,500 calories we didn't have to do Atkins

Hello. I had my surgery July 30 2013. We all have mixed emotions with this surgery. It's ok to feel nervous your gonna fail we all experience that according to my doctor. I'll be honest with you I have fallen off of the band wagon and I seen my doctor this past Tuesday and I feel like I'm getting back on track I have already lost 5 lbs. I was in tears in his office and he reassured me that I'm not the only one it's happened too. It does happen but if you have a good support group you will get back on track. My doctor is really on my team and trying to help me. I've had to have fills and unfilled. So I haven't made much progress for it almost being a year since surgery but everyone is different. Like my doctor said the weight didn't get there over night it won't go away over night. I too did that band that way when the time comes to have kids they will be able to take fluid out. This is a good support group to have if you all have any questions feel free to ask! Good luck in your journey remember it's just a tool it's there to help it's not gonna lose it for ya

Thanks sandy

Hello all! I had my surgery July 30,2013. I am just down 33 pounds and it's kind of depressing. I worry my band has slipped or something. I try and eat a light breakfast and if I get hungry between breakfast and lunch I'll eat some fruit or a protein bar. Then lunch when I go for my break at work and then dinner and here lately I haven't been snacking at night. I just feel like a failure bc my weight isn't coming off like I thought it would. I can get almost anything down even bread. Had my fill nov 11 don't go back until January 2nd. I have dropped three pant sizes and idk if I'm just losing inches and gaining muscle from working out....I just wish I would have more weight off by now. At first the weightloss was going pretty quick and it seems like right now I have hit a plateau and have no clue what to do...has anybody else experienced this kind of problem because I'm beginning to get scared that something is wrong with my band.

I have missed you! I been wondering what happened to you. Don't let the small bites stress you it's just to help you. Once U get use to it it will just be natural for you. We all have our ups and downs. You have a great support system here

I had my surgery July 30 and last Tuesday I had to let my doctor take out some fluid because I couldn't get fluids down. I've finally lost 30 pounds which I never made it that far trying to lose weight on my own.

I lost 15 pounds before surgery then after surgery i gained 6 back because I needed a fill. My doctor told me not to worry about it though. But I feel like the loser I've only lost 19 pounds. Started the gym tonight I worked out for two hours.

I'm not a diabetic though. There are just times my sugar drops and I've been tested for diabetes

I am able to get a snack when I need too. We have a college dorm fridge in our room. But I don't snack to much if I get hungry I start drinking my Water. We have the teacher I'm an assistant and we have another assistant. And we switch our lunch times every week like this week I will take the early lunch at 12:15-12:45 then on the late lunch I go from 1:05-1:35. The only problem I have noticed is my sugar drops sometimes and I don't usually have chocolate or caffeine on me so idk what to do about that

I go to the doctor Tuesday for my first fill. And right now I'm discouraged bc I feel like I have been eating like my old ways before the surgery. It's just I'm more hungry right now and there isn't much in my band but I have aimed some weight I just hope he will fill it bc I think that's why I'm hungry like I am. And I pray once I get this fill it will slow me back down on eating and I can lose weight

Hey I'm not in the health field but I do work with children who are functionally mentally disable and I've been back to work since August 20th anyway just to share what I did is I have a 24 oz Water bottle I fill it with water and freeze it..gets me through the whole day. If you get hungry between ur meals eat a snack so maybe have some fruit on hand yogurt Protein bar something that will help until you get your lunch

I'm with you two on that. I will never eat popcorn again. It got stuck and I had to call and wake my doctor up at like 140am and when he called me back u could tell he had been on a deep sleep. And he called me the next morning and I thought u was fine got up to take my medicine and it was like it just sat there so back to calling him again and he admitted me to the hospital....popcorn was my favorite and now ill never be able to eat it again :-( But I learner my lesson. Because once that happened I was on liquids then soft then regular food. I feel like km on a roller coaster ride

Donna I remember when I had my surgery how bad the gas pains were. My mom was going to kroger at quarter to 1 in the morning bc the gas pains were unbearable. A girl that had lap band surgery that belongs to the group I belong to on facebook told me to get some gas x the kind that dissolves on your tongue ht we couldn't find them and got the chewables. If you could get some of them you would feel a lot better. And I'm thankful I have them bc to this day I use them when I feel the gas building up in my chest ot belly area. I even carry a sleeve of them in my purse. So that may be an idea for you? On my liquid diet I did Protein shakes sugar free kool-aid popsicles were my best friend sugar free of course. How much longer do you have on your liquid diet? Mine was a week then soft foods for a week then back to normal food.

I've been thinking if I join a gym I would like to get a trainer as long as he takes it easy on me until my endurance can build up just don't want him to kill me and plus if I have a trainer they would help me tone up