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Hey girl...I have missed you!!!!! Are you exercising and gaining muscle? That could be the problem...exchanging muscle for fat....are your clothes fitting looser...dont let the scale be your only way of deciding whether it is working...Deanna

I went through a short period of depression, not necessarily over the food part, but over WHAT THE HECK HAVE I JUST DONE TO MYSELF!!!!!!! I couldnt believe that I had let myself get so fat as to need to go to surgery....I cried my little heart out for a while then felt better and better each day. Of course, I posted on here and someone was right there with me the whole way...Seems like there is always ONE post that really hits home, the other are good, but one that really points something out or makes you feel so much better....Its great here..let it all out and you will feel better. I think feeling lost is kinda like no one else you knows has this band but you, you have a lap family online, but no one else in person...that can make you feel lost. Keep your chin up hun...it will get better as each day passes and you get more confident in your decision and when you start getting some food in your system....Deanna

You girls are TOO funny!!!! blended up McDonalds....Yummy!!!! I didnt notice the gas smelling until you start eating some food..but on the liquid diet it has no smell..just be careful you dont think its gas and its not....that can get embarassing....Deanna.. p.s. not that I KNOW for experience or anything.....LOL..

I know from my doc they dont want me eating alot of sugar..mostly sugar free..I dont think that they want you drinking alot of caffeine....but that might just be the carbonated kind...I am not much of a coffee drinker once in awhile...thats all that I know...someone else will chime in with what they know too!! Deanna

welcome to both of you!!! You are on your way!! Deanna

It will fly by so fast too that soon you will be wondering where all the time went....good luck and congratulations on becoming a banded friend...Deanna

Has anyone ever tried these? OMG...I just bought some at our day old bread store...23 calories for one...the are very thin melt in your mouth cookies that are sooooooooooooooooooooooo good. I got a vanilla flavor.. www.pizzellecookies.com here is the link that was on the back of the package. 6 cookies...140 cal, 6g fat(not so good), 19g carbs, 3 g portein. They are really good!!! I am going back to buy some more...put some redi whip between and have a twinkie....

As a person who is not close to her goal...I thought about this thread like this...you are now a little person...you have worked very hard and now you are down to your last little bit of weight. Now that said, remember the times pre band when you would diet and when you would have a snack that would turn into 20 more snacks that day!!!! You are doing sooooo awesome!!! Pat on your back from me...now that you are banded...that 1 snack is staying at one snack...good job~!!!! Whether banded or not the last bit of weight is ALWAYS the hardest to lose..i wonder if the body is saying...hey now...wait a minute...we have been here before.....I dont know...just keep plugging away, it will come off. My doc office told me that in the first year expect half of your weight to come off....during the next two years...the rest will come off...so I am giving myself three years to take off my weight. I put it on over umpteen years so I think three is a good number..Deanna

I am sorry for what is happening to you!!! My husband used to be military so I know your pain.....LOL...anyways...hopefully you have the ball rolling now...Deanna Good Luck

I havent weighed since my one week post op check up. I am going to wait until I go in again on the 21 of May before I weigh again. I dont want to see the daily fluctuations...I think that would be depressing and not helpful for me at all!!! I am sure it is water weight when you fluctuate up and down in a day or two though. Unless it is muscle replacing fat!!!

No worry, I have a cpap also and I sleep on my tummy. I dont really know how I do it, but I do..I get a headache if I sleep on my side and I cant sleep on my back...I went to long with out cpap and cant get rid of the feeling of waking up choking when i was on my back. Hope this helps..Deanna

It is really not as bad as it seems...at least not for me it hasnt been. I had a pretty good pre op diet..I could eat food...some can only have protein drinks..I could have 11 oz of protein, veggies and 2 fruit a day...veggies were unlimited...at the time I thought I was gonna die...but really it was not that bad...as far as afterwards, I am just getting ready to start on regular food tomorrow....I have not concentrated on losing weight since surgery but have done exactly what the doc told me too. I have only had real hunger pains once since surgery and that was because I went way too long before eating...duh...that was MY fault...so it really isnt that bad. at least for me...Deanna

Wow Angie, I havent seen that before and I was in tears before I got past the first paragraph...what a wonderful feeling to know what a caring group of people that mothers are....have a great day violets...let get our exercise in and all our water too!!! Deanna

oh and another thing...the polygamy didnt stop until one of "THE PROPHETS" decided or sorry...had a divine prophecy ....to stop all polygamy...what a coincidence...polygamy stopped at the time that people were NOT joining the church because they thought the teachings to be TOO WEIRD!!!! HHHMMM.......Weird is not EVEN the word....

oh my god Sunta..I thought I was gonna die laughing when I read that...please tell....please....oh shit...that was funny...well, the funny underwear they talk about wearing...its symbolic of something WHAT?? that you are mormon...you always know the temple married people cuz their shorts go down to their knees..but they think that you cant see their garments...(thats what the funny underwear is called) but EVERYONE can see them...they like it when people see them. It gives them some sort of "one up on you" attitude... i know my DH family wears them.....Sunta..you are too funny...Deanna

its all that gas they pump you full of...but maybe your right about the lead band...LOL...good luck to you and if you search ticker...you will find the instructions to add your weight loss ticker...the other stuff you need to go to Usercp and edit your signature...Deanna

I have lived within the mormon community my whole life. I am NOT mormon and would never ever be a mormon. I have lived with the "your NOT as good as we are" attitude for 37 years. I know some very very good mormon people who do not judge you for who you are and I know some very very rotten mormon people who really should examine their religions teachings. For instance, when my husband, who WAS raised mormon, wrote a letter to have his name removed from the official church listing, (not ex communicated), he wanted his name taken off the list of membership, there was a HUGE upheaval in the family. OH MY GOD....now we are not going to be together forever in Heaven when we all die!!!!!!! You know what....I didnt marry his family...I married him and I would never want to spend eternity with my DH's family!!!!!! That would SUCK!!!! When his name was official removed, my sons best friend of 5 years...all of a sudden couldnt play with him anymore...AT ALL...EVER AGAIN...because my husband "LEFT" the church. Now, that best friend is getting drunk and his parents are getting divorced...WOW...talk about hypocritical....You cant play with your best friend because his dad left our wonderful church but in 15 years me and your dad will get divorced and THATS ok....The neighbors we have have a daughter that is my daughters age...she HAS NEVER been able to play with my daughter...the reason...my hubby drinks beer and they dont want their daughter around that....oh my...what a sad sad existance.....funny thing is...it was one of their daughters who was calling for a ride because she was drunk!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have many many many things that I could tell you about the mormons and the "weird" things they do, but I wont because...its not just the mormons....all church goers are hypocrites....every single one that I have EVER met are!!!! I surely believe in God and heaven but I dont think I have to be married in a temple and do "good works" to go to heaven. And I dont think that I am going to be a "god"....or that I will "married to my first husband for time and time eternity.....my husband is NOT going to call me out of the grave...God will do that...not a man. God is NOT a man by any means...a spiritual being is what God is....not a MORTAL MAN....Mary did not have sex with Elohim to produce Jesus....oh boy, here I go on a rant about their teachings...the point I wanted to say was mormons are no worse than any other religion. Its the organization of religion that sucks...my .02!!

Just wanted to say GOOD JOB!!! You have done great and its nice to see someone who has been banded a while. I was beginning to wonder where all the people were that were banded a long time ago....I guess you just move on after awhile....anyways....congratulations on your weight loss...Deanna

Ok..so I have Italian charm bracelets...kinda the same thing? I looked at the website...not the same thing...that is a really good idea...I like it..kind of like a momentum of what our journey is about and how it affects you..Deanna

Oh and this is gonna sound stupid but what is a james avery bracelet?

Good luck everyone with todays adventure....lets all exercise some and think postitive thoughts for those in need of extra support. Hope everyones day goes good and as Tracy said...DRINK YOUR WATER!!!

BetsyJane...is that equal parts of each for the cheesecake recipe? and then do you have to put it in the fridge or just eat it? Sounds nummy and on mushies so that would be GREAT!!

oh I just wanted to say hello everyone and are the shrinking violets going for the LONGEST thread ever????? It is great all the support here for the April 07's....GO VIOLETS....all is good with me now. I have been walking everyday, today 2.5 miles then riding my new bike, tonight I rode around 4 miles...and right now...DH is cooking POPCORN...and it smells sooooooooo good...I think I will go kick his A** right now....I am on mushy still til Thursday..OH...and we went to Taco Bell for dinner tonight...and we spent under $7.00 for three of us...DH, DD and me....What I said when boy told me the price....what do you mean 6.79......how could it be that much? We didnt get drinks but this is unreal.....we used to spend over 20 sometimes 25!! I told DH....GUESS WHAT...that means we can eat out on THursday tooo!!!! But, I dont think I want to...the beans that I had didnt even taste as good as the ones that I have been eating out of a can...WOW...CANT HARDLY BELIEVE I JUST SAID FAST FOOD DIDNT TASTE GOOD!!!!! Maybe I am running a fever...LOL...Deanna

GOOD JOB!!! I bet that must feel sooooo good. I wish I could bottle up some of that "feel good" that you are having and share it with some of the others who dont feel so good or are having a hard time. I think that must be so wonderfull and I bet you kept looking at your butt in the mirror...saying to yourself...SIZE 10...SIZE 10...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SUSAN AND GINGER!!!!!!!!! LISTEN UP!!!!! I ended up in ER thinking the pain was a blood clot and this is what the ER doctor ended up telling me....He said...go home...get down on your hands and knees....then with a pillow supporting your chest/stomach area....lower your head down so your butt is sticking up in the air! (DOGGY STYLE)....That very night my pain was gone. I had a CT scan to see if I had blood clot and the ER doc said he could see a BIG line of gas bubbles pushing up under my diaphram which hits nerves that makes your shoulder hurt. TRY IT!! and then do it again...and again if you have too... I had slept in a chair for five days...had never laid down...all that gas was trapped up under my rib cage...I hope this will give you some relief as it did for me...the NEXT day after doing this which was a week one day post surgery, I went camping!!! I know not everything works for everybody but you have nothing to lose to try it!! Best of luck to you both Deanna