Mariposa Bella

bottle fed, didn't like my moms nipples, yuk

You are right about it being too soon to vacuum, take care of yourself, the housework will still be there in a week when you feel better. The pain you are probably feeling is the gas from the anesthisia, I had it too, my chest was really sore and very uncomfortable, walk around that will help it (don't walk around w/ the vacuum). I know that its hard when you don't have someone to help you especially when you have little ones. I have three children, my youngest are three and four, so I can't ever get sick, have to take care of them, but try to do as little as possible. you just had surgery and need time to recover, so take it easy. I hope you get to feeling better, so rest up.

Glad to hear that everything went well, try to take it easy and rest up. And follow your doctors orders to the tee. Where did you get banded?

My doctor recommends treating every fill as if you just had surgery as your body needs time to adjust to the fill. I have learned the hard way to take his instructions, I am at 2 cc's now and just last night notices that I'm loosening up, (had my fill mid March), finally got more than a couple of spoonsfuls of food, so hopefully I will not need another fill for another month. Stay on liquids a couple of days to see if your swelling goes down, if you are having trouble keeping liquids down, you definitely need to see the doctor, but my suggestion to you is if you have no problem w/ liquids just wait a while to see how you feel. (fyi- warm liquids feel better after a fill, than cold).

Denice, I am sorry you are having a difficult time with this, all I can tell you is what I would do, now that I know what banding is. I would postpone my surgery until after my trip, just because it will be a more difficult recovery and you will more than likely want to cheat on your diet, because there will be so much tempting delicious foods around. I fell to temptation and took a spoonful of food when I was supposed to be on the liquid diet and got so ill and so tight I landed in the hospital not being able to keep anything down. It was a very bad experience for me. I don't have any will power that is why I had to get this band to help me control my eating. If you postpone your surgery a month it won't kill you and you will have the beautiful memory of your trip and you will have savored all those delicious things that you won't normally experience here. Once banded you might not ever be able to eat any dynamite macadamia pancakes, because I sure can't even eat regular pancakes, their too doughy and make my pb everytime and boy do I sure miss pancakes. Well these are just my thoughts you do what ever you feel is right for you. Also, if you get ill and your family has to take care of you, you will cheat them out of a full Hawaiian experience, if they have to slow down to take care of you. Sorry if I'm being so real about it, but these are my feelings, you don't have to take them, I just want to tell you what I would do.

How long have you been banded? 5 1/2 months What do you eat each day? anything, but bread, tortillas How much do you eat? very little Do you eat sweets? most definitely, don't have any problem eating sweets How much have you lost? 32-34 lbs, depending on what I ate the day before. Do you feel its worth it? somedays I do, somedays I don't. <!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

Oh wow, I have always dreamed of going to Hawaii, can I come? I had my surgery in Nov, and went on vacation to Mexico for the x-mas holidays and was miserable, there was so much wonderful food to enjoy and I couldn't enjoy any of it, it was reallly hard for me, especially the eating out part, I got sick lots of times, it was even harder that I was still learning to eat with my new band and its tough. But oh well, you will be in paradise, who cares if you can't eat, if your still in the liquid phase, just drink tons of mixed drinks that should keep you happy, LOL

I have 2cc's in, My first fill was 1 cc, had no restriction, went back added .2 ccs had no restriction, went back a third time and had tons of restriction from day one. He took me to 2 cc's and quite frankly it was too much, I have had a lot of restriction for the last month and its getting to me, I often feel weak from not eating enough, I guess i should start doing shakes or something, but I'm just really frustrated. When I go out to eat, I talk alot and mess with my food so that who ever I'm with doesn't notice that I hardly ate anything. I dream of being able to eat a hamburger with the bun, but I can't, I can't even eat a couple of bites of it, it comes back, I know that its not good for me, but its not like I would eat it everyday, I just want to satisfy my craving for a hamburger and its impossible, I started walking this morning and maybe just maybe I can start to see some weightloss again. I want to be at 145 by the end of June when I get my tt and lipo. Well sorry about going on and on, I just get really cranky when I'm hungry and tired. Talk to you later. If I were you I'd give yourself a couple of more days and then if you're still too tight then go get a slight unfill, because that's probably what I'm going, except I called the doctors office and they are relocating to another office, so they are not seeing patients to the first week in May, so I have to call back then. Oh well, meanwhile, I'll just suffer with this darn tight band.

Well I honestly think that My band is also possessed. And quite frankly I am its really starting to annoy me.. I love that I've lost 30 lbs, but it seems that I should be losing more since I can hardly eat anything. I've been watching what I eat really good and quite frankly it too little, for example the other day we had chicken wings for dinner, well I ate one and was fine, started on a second and nope had plenty, now is 1 1/2 chicken wings enough, because if I try to eat anything else then that comes back. Sometimes I wish I wouldn't have gotten my band, I hate the not knowing and hate myself for not having the discipline to have done it on my own, but then I think I did do it on my own many times, but each time the weight returned and hopefull this time it won't, all I hope is that I can someday figure this band out and can work with it better, I think I'm not losing at this point because I'm not taking enough in. Oh well, this is life.

Well I've told this story here before but here it goes again, my best friend and I used to tan topless in her backyard by the pool (large field behind her house,no other houses around, so we thought) well apparently across that field there were some homes and one of those homes was an acquaintance of my husband, well apparently his buddies would always brag about spying through binoculars on some girls that tanned topless and my husband was pretty interested in seeing the action. Well one day they had a bbq at this house and sure enough there we were tanning topless, well as the binoculars were being passed around at their party, he wanted to watch also, well to his surprise, IT WAS ME, yep, he was so mad, needless to say he didn't pass the binoculars on to anyone else. I saw him that night and he forbid me to ever tan topless there. OH my god was he pissed. We weren't married yet, but he was mad that his buddies got to see my very large ample boobies. The thing is he would have been perfectly happy spying on some other girl if it wouldn't have been me., Men....who gets them??? Cause I sure don't.

If I had a dollar for everytime I would get an "intented to be good compliment" I'd be rich. There is this one aunt that always tells me, even though your big, you are still really pretty and your a fantastic dresser, so don't worry about not being thin. Wow, just because I have good taste in clothes I can be fat, not a bad deal, huh. It is so weird how we have distorted images of ourselves, I am forever asking my husband to compare me to someone we know or see, just so that I can see how I look, but it never works, image is still distorted, because that's how he sees me, not how I really look, do you understand what I mean??? And it makes me mad when, we are watching tv and you see a movie star that has gained a couple of pounds and are a bit heavier and he makes a comment like "Wow, she's gotten really fat", excuse me, she probably went from a size 6 to an 8 and you think she's fat, then what am I, orka??? Maybe we should start working on such a computer program to show us how we would look like at certain weights. I for one would pay to see what cheek bones would look like on my rounded face... Oh well, I'll just have to wait and see, if I get to where I dream I'll be once at goal.

Well I am shooting for 135-140, don't know if that is realistic, but I can try and if I don't make it then, that is fine too. I just want to fit nicely in a size 9/10, I'm wearing 12 right now and weighing 159, so just maybe I can get to my goal.. My tt is scheduled for end of June and I'm also getting liposuction on my upper and lower back, inner and outer thighs and arms, so my goal is pretty realistic for me now. If I can weigh 150 by end of June, then maybe, the tt and lipo can get me to goal. So cheer me on....

Sounds delicious, and probably would have tackled it preband, but those days are a thing of the past, especially these days, when 2 chicken wings are too much. I have tons of restriction right now and can't seem to eat too much of anything solid. So I guess I'll pass too.

I'm sorry to hear about your loss. I know you are disappointed in having to postpone, but sometimes unfortunate things happen and we have to deal with them and then go on. Take care of your family right now for they need you.

You definitely need to stay on fluids a bit longer, my doctor recommends doing three days of liquid, three days of mushies and then slow with the solids after a fill, I haven't followed his advice with my fills and have regretted it very much. Next fill, I am most definitely following his advice. Hope it works out. As long as you can tolerate fluids, there is no need to panic, give it a couple more days and if you still can't tolerate food, get a hold of your doc for a slight unfill.

Yep hiccups are a definite sign that I'm full, if I try to ignore them, I always regret it.

Welcome to band land, wishing you a speedy recovery.

Please Please don't rush yourself, give yourself time to heal, I made the mistake of not following the strict guidelines my doctor gave me and I paid bigtime. I got so sick, that I aggravated my band and made it so tight I couldn't even keep fluids down, I landed myself in the hospital very dehydrated and very ill. It was a very scary experience for me, I thought I was dying. NOt only was this frightning but very expensive that ER visit cost me $14,000, yep twice what I paid for my band. So please be very gentle with yourself and take care of your band. You need to stick with light fluids and then lighter mushies so that your new band can get acquainted with your body and can work for you. It is difficult in the beginning, but it gets better. Good luck to you and take it easy with those meals. Love, e

That is just wonderful, thanks for being such an inspiration to us all, I have 20 lbs to goal, but the scale isn't budging. Although I wore some levi's capris yesterday that are a size 11 in jrs dept. and I looked pretty hot in them. I am so proud of you and I have to say that I'm proud of myself, I never thought I'd say that I'm actually quite proud of myself, boy, oh boy we are going to look hot on our calendar...

You look beautiful. Just beautiful..

Hey just by chance do any of you have a double jogging stroller that you don't use that is sitting in some corner collecting dust. I want to start walking with my kids in the afternoons, but right now the budget is tight and those jogging strollers are so expensive, especially the double ones. If you have one and are interested in selling it at a good cheap price of course, would you send me a pm., I live in a small town and there are no places to go buy one, I checked online but they are quite high, if any one has any ideas, let me know.

Thank you all for your wonderful prayers. I am truly very blessed by God, not only are my three children healthy but I have wonderful people like you and my family around me. Jane, I hope everything works out for your little one's too, I know how stressful and heartbreaking it is for your child to not be healthy. Lots of kisses from us to you and your little ones. Estela

I'm so sorry about your loss.

Hello everyone, I just want to shout out to the world that God has blessed me in a huge way. My son who had some heart issues that have been monitored since birth had his yearly check up yesterday and was given a clean bill of health. The concerns the Cardiologist had have gone away and my three year old son has a strong healthy heart. That is the best news I have gotten in a long time, it was always a concern, and no more. Praise Jehova God. I got my birthday present early. And it was the best one ever. Just wanted to share my joy with you all.

Happy Bandiversay to you, Happy Bandiversary to you!