IndioGirl55

I think my doc said or read somewhere that the size of band that you are given depends on the size of your stomach... Not 100% sure on that one - but remember that from somewhere. I have the new band - most people who were banded in July do and my doc told me this last time i went that i have the new small band. Personnally i really don't care what size or the #'s of cc's are in the only #'s i concern myself with are the ones on the scales... Imho i don't get why any one cares if they have 1 cc 2 cc as long as they have restrictions...

Losingjusme I am sorry for your loss.... My heart goes out to you...

You are never going to see these people again - just wear a cover up until you go in the Water - ENJOY YOURSELF..... Don't worry - I went on a cruise in feb - i wore my bathing suit - who gives a sh*t.... I am down 43 lbs and sagging skin and all I would put on a suit tomorrow if i was on a crusie -

I have a pre-bander ask me what i ate - so gave her a list - then 3 post down ask someone else - guess she didn't like what i ate - humm do you all think it was the fish )

I'm back on the band wagon. I pledge to knock it off. BTW I got up this morning and I am back to 216. Must have been water wegiht yesteray. Cross your fingers for me. Staring over..........AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! OK Jackie - we are going for 2. lbs gone by next Thrusday - Our mini weekly challenge ok ..

help i have been banded and what do i eat???

Asking this question after they have been banded --- grrrrr

Another word is PREFECTIONIST - this is what a counsler told me once along time ago - as I am the same way - but since i am older i am more likely to clean than I use to .. I have a brand new house and work hard at keeping it looking nice... I think with age I have lost maybe some of the edge of a perfectionist that i use to be...

Denise - I am this way too!!! I get really pissed off when something interfers with my exercise... I have to do it right after work or i won't go.. and i want to get to the gym before everyone else does. Well the week of Thanksgiving and the week after I will be on vacation - so I will go every morning... and really be able to get in good work outs...

notmzperfect - the 1st 3 days are the worst - each day after that gets better - I has surgery on Tues 7/17 and was back to work the following Monday - Your port site may be uncomfortable for the 1st week or 2 -Surgery affects everyone differently - When I woke up felt like an elephant had kicked me in the stomach and stil had his foot on me but by Thurs was 100% better than day one. Walk as much as you can - get all your protein in - drink your water and follow your doc's orders - you will survive and be happy that you were banded :biggrin1: Welcome to Band Land :bounce:

Jackie - I am here - just busy at work - 5 people got laid off this month 4 we found out about yesterday morning - i am really going to miss one "Gary" our mail guy - such a great guy - he & his wife are the ones who gave me a ride home Saturday after drinking too much wine... I have been sort of bummed out for the last few days (i knew this was going to happen for a few weeks now) I too haven't been making the best food choices this last week - wine, a little candy and last night thin crust pizza. Only walked 4 miles this last week - Sat & Tues 2 miles each day but did a 15 min mile on Tuesday. The scales are proof - only down 1/2 lbs this week. But guess better than nothing. Well all the candy is GONE - next party is on the 17th - which will involve drinking - am going to have to watch myself since i can't eat much so the wine really hits me fast... ' Took my GD out tricker treating last night - she's 3 - she was Spiderman (she's a little tom boy) - and it was great - my son is 36 and other 2 grand kids 16 & 12 so it's been a while since i have been tricker treating - so i did get a slow .50 miles in yesterday. Ce Ce - CONGRATULATIONS :clap2::bounce::whoo: That is so great - ONELANDERS - YOU ARE DOING FANTASTIC.:bounce::whoo::clap2: Phyl - Please have a safe trip - hope you are bring some cool clothing - it's still in the 90's here this week. OK hasn't been a great week as stated above - but i do have a NSV Yesterday went to Wendys' for lunch - had the chicken club minus the bread - while waiting in line looked up at the security monitor and saw this thin pumpkin (I had an orange pumpkin tee shirt on) and at first didn't realize it was me - for the last few year - i did look like a big old pumpkin in it :biggrin1: OK Ladies who like me have sorta been making little bad choices - we have to stop now - as this is how those bad habits come back - just a little of this a little of that - then next thing you know - BAMB we are right back where we started... Today is a new day - and I pledge to make healthier food choices this next week... How about the rest of you???

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I really don't pay too much attenion to that but I think I have about 3 in and all i know is i have the new band small - all those #'s are too much to keep track of - all i care about is the restriction and that I have and the weight loss and that's coming... I bought good candy cuz i don't the the little kids to suffer cuz i can't eat it - but you know what - i can - i had 1 reeses pb cup last night (again) but it was only one... and i was truely satisfied with one - and my midnight run to the kitchen only ate 1/2 of my sf fudgecicle. So my brain is working..... Linda - Thanks so much !!! I believe in truth - even if it hurts some times :0) - I have played all the mind games with myself for many years, i am a private eater - I am the one who would say - 1/4 of a pint of ice cream isn't a serving - the whole pint is just one serving - I watched a skinny girl in our office yesterday pull out a pint of ice cream - she had 5 bites and put it back - oh to be normal - but i guess i am getting there - 1 reese pb cup and not a whole bag last night :0) CC sorry about the hair loss - I am told that it happens to some - but that it does grow back- but that doesn't help while it's happening so here's a hug:girl_hug: My bmi started at i think 43 so that mean for us who weigh more we are going to lose faster than those who done (this is mho - i don't know if it's sciencifict or not) Are you keeping a food diary??? You may have just hit a platuea (sp). Increase the intensity of your exercise if you can - they say that's what burns the fat not the lenght of time but how hard you work out - drink plenty of water as that's one of the ways our body gets rid of the fat - talk to your doc/nutritionist about this.. I don't think i will be losing much this week with my little wine drinking this weekend and skiping exercise on Monday and tonite. this morning scale was down only 1/2 lbs from last week - i have had a fill and not eating half as much as i was the week before.. So who knows why our bodies seem so attached to our fat - Just keep up the good work and it will all work out in the end. I bet you do notice a diff in your clothes though and that's always a great NSV...

Kim - My doc scales & mine are about 4 lbs diff - i go by mine - I don't let his deter me.. - Make soupy mash potatoes & add some gravy on turkey day - by the time i do all the cooking i don't want to eat anyway. Next day is always better ... Welcome Mikesmom !!! Linda - had my 2nd fill on the 24th - I am tight - I think it may even be at my sweet spot... Had a retirement party Saturday nite - ate 2 or 3 bites of salads - 4 bites of steak (it was really good wanted to eat more ) 1/2 piece of cake - and about 6 glass of white wine - guess who was a little hung over on Sunday - Now this is where the band is a tad hard - you know how you are hung over - want lots of Water fast and grease food and tons of it - well, can't drink water fast anymore - ate a cup of soupy mash potatoes and 3 reese pb cups.. (Ya i hit the halloween candy :omg:) But in the past I would have eaten the whole bag so don't feel bad about it... Last nite had 3 oz of fish 1/4 cup brown rice and 1/3 cup cabbage - couldn't finish the rice - then my midnight run - 1 sf pudding cup and ate too fast got a little stuck - so sweet spot is here i think... Well gang just wanted to say hi since i haven't been here for a few days.. Love to you all.... Talk to you later xoxox Janet

Jackie - Like I have said a million times before only a fat person can understand another fat person - We don't judge those dirty little secerts cuz we all have them. We are all the same in so many way - I'm just not afaird to put it out there cuz i know that the majority here can relate to my story or issues about food.. Some have health issues for their weight problems - but most of us are fat cuz we ate too much and didn't exercise. I love all of you here - I love my band - and love the new found energy that i have.. Well, gotta get back to work - xoxo Janet

Carol Thanks for the props.... Here is a typical days food & exercise. BF - Dannon Lite & Fit Yogurt with 1/4 cup LF granola or 1/2 Cup Eggbeaters with a tad of cheese & ham or a weight control oatmeal (calories for bf 100 - 160 - Protein 6 - 12 g) Lunch- Ususally left overs - Veggie 1 - 2 cups & small can of tuna About once every 2 weeks go out to lunch and eat a Taco or el pollo loco chick & bean 1 corn tortilla (Calories lunch 200 to 250 - PT 15) Afternoon - Clear Protein Drink that my Doc Sells (calories 70 - 15 grms pt 15) Dinner - 4 oz baked catfish - 1/2 cup rice or small red bake potato 1 or 2 cup yellow crooked neck squash & zuchinne. or spinach (calories 320 - 400 - pt 25) Evening - 2 SF Choc puddings & 1 heathly Choice SF fudgecicle (calorie 200 to 300 - pt 7) Exercise - 5 day a week go to gym - walk minimum 2 miles - am now doing a 16 min mile - started at 22 min mile goal is 15 min mile - may do 3 miles on one day and on saturday mornings i strive for 3 or 4 miles and once in a while do a little work on the weights - but mostly just the walking... Those calories are not exact nor is the menu - I figure i eat about 1000 to 1200 calories a day and get minium 60 grms of protein. I mostly use I can't believe it's not butter spray on my veggies & rice and some times a tad or real butter and olive oil to bake my fish - I eat fish 5-6 days a week red meat once a week- I count calories and protein and diary all my food in a little notebook that i carry. Prior to this last fill - i was usually eating 2 cup of food per meal - excluding breakfast.. I got my 2nd fill on 10/24 and will start the whole banding diet over - 1 week full liquids - 1 week mushies - 1 week soft - 4th week back to reg food. Carol - I am working hard at this and i am hungry at times -- it's a mental challenge to change your eating habits. If i am extra hungry at nite - i eat extra veggies - may have lite toast & butter along with 1/2 cup o.j. (lite) - I dislike exercise very much - but i know that it is a MUST to help you loose weight- I am an Senior Account Manager for a large insurance agency here in the Desert - I have a desk job - and am a former couch potato.... I am divorced - my 16 gs lives with me - I don't keep things in the house that i like to eat (no candy - chip - cakes and I use to eat alot of fried type foods with tons of butter) and very large portions - ususal only cook what i am going to eat that night and if there are left overs put them up right away - I am lucky that my grandson eats things i don't like so i don't have any temptations from him.... That's my day.... Food is no longer the center of my universe....

Good Morning Gang !!! Hope you all are doing well today.. I am so happy to read - that there is a lot of head work going on here amongst us #7's - IMHO - I think that this is the KEY to being successful in our endeavor to get healthy (and cute too:)) Well - just droping in to say Hi - I got tons of work - Will try and get on tonite. Talk to you all then... xoxo J

Happy Birthday Linda & Chim :love::happybday::happybday2::happybday::love:

I too just got my 2nd fill - and don't have as much restriction as i would like - just ate a cup of cream pinto bean soup - and still hungry - Don't know about port being aligned wrong - I know that the doc had a heck of a time finding the soft spot the 1st time but yesterday got it after the 2nd stick (he numbs you first) i'm not scheduled to go back until the 19th of December - I am suppose to be on the same diet as when 1st banded liquids mushiee soft regular - each one week :embarassed:

I did NOT like the medifastoatmeal at all... imho taste like card board - I like their banana cream shake though and a little real banana and ice in a blender - yummy I do like their cream of brocolli Soup - and cream of chicken - good to have at work for lunch..

Laura - this is what my doc recommends - I like the cinnimon - i add a tad of raisans to mine... I love it - I got the banana too but like the cinnamons the best. This is low sugar and that's why doc recommends - compare the sugar content - it's still sweet tasting but not so many grams. I have taken the cinnamon and added splenda brown sugar - applesauce - raisins and made Cookies - you get 4 med size cookies - a little spongie but over all pretty good (i cooked them soft) - i figured about 45 c a cookie. - but since one packet makes 4 you can't over do it.....

I asked him about that today (thinking of you:D) doing fills for banders from out of town. He said that since each doc installs ports and bands differently its a big liability and that he would do them under flouriscope (sp) and that it would cost quite a bit - I then asked him about fill centers - he says that the band companies don't like them too much - that they rather have the doc do the fills.. As far as the hair issue goes I am lucky so far knock on wood - mine is ok - maybe it's the fat issue - by this i mean we have cut our fat intake by alot - I get some with everymeal - so I think i am getting my allotment Well it's 9:40 and here i still - my bedtime is 10 - i get up at 5 and am to work by 7:30 - so i really better get off this computer - gotta clean up the kitchen, make coffee etc. Till tomorrow..... Janet

Connie What are you eating??? How many caloires do you consume a day? Are you exercising??? Do you know what full feels like - I am not taking stuffed but full. That is a new feeling for us - cuz we never stopped eating until we were stuffed prior to banding,.. What foods make you choke??? Gotta give us a little more info so that we can help. Ususally choking aka golf ball in the chest or pbing occurr - from eating too fast not chewing eating foods that don't agree with your band (breads dry meats for some anyway) and from eating too much. Let me know what you eat in a day - what kind of exercise you do and how many grams of protein and calories you consume daily -

BRAG ALL YOU WANT.. YOU DESERVE IT !!!! YOU DID THE WORK!!! Now that really pisses me off - Why would anyone bag on you for loosing 100% of your weight that a bunch of sh*t - PROPS TO YOU !!! It's not obsessive it is what all our goals should be imho - with that being said - at 140 I am worried about how i will look - and for me having the extra 30 - 40 pounds will make me happy ans still a whole lot healthier than being 250. I picked my # out of the air - well sort of - I was very happy at 170 when i was in my 30's - so that's how i got that number. Again what's good for you might not be for others - but in no way should they put you down - I know that when I was 17 - got down to 115 and my stepmom said i was too skinny. I was a size 5/6. I was thin but still had fat mentallity ... I will tell you all right now - when I get to 170 I will brag - brag - brag and i will deserve to brag cuz that will be a great accomplishment - h*ll losing 40 lbs in the last 3 months has been and I am HAPPY and I will not let anyone take that from me. Jachut - tell all these people to go jump in a lake.... Please never shut up - you have alot of good advice - you eat normal you exercise and you are at goal... I am happy for you...

Ok Gang - I am off this site for 2 hrs minutes - and come back to 2 pages - Can't believe it... I am ADDICTED - I am here way too much during the day when they pay me to work not give advice Tomorrow - I will ck in the morning - then noon and when i get home from exercise - I gotta get some work done - i am going on vacation in 3 weeks for 2 weeks - Not going any where expect not to work - So Phyl you will be here by the end of Nov right?? We can get together... Phyl Good Job on the food choices - this is what it is all about :clap2: It went fine - I was there for 2 hrs - a tad of it was waiting - but met with the nurtistionist and I am still taking the wrong callcuim - citrate is what i am suppose to take - and now say to get Centrum chewables.. I have 2 big bottles of the flinstone & calicum - I guess i will give my 3 yr gd my Flinstones - but will finish the calicums cuz i like them - She liked my food diary. I LOVE Dr. Bobby - I always tell him about our support site and i told him that i can't beleive that some of the docs out there don't give their patients alot of info - there are so many newbies out there who don't know what to eat etc - I really like that Dr B has the nutristionist gives you a big binder full of info menus and even home work on how to eat and count Protein ... Fill went fine - he numbed me up and hit the port on the 2nd or 3rd stick - last time it took FOREVER to find the port. He put in about 1.cc so i have about 2.5 now i think - i don't really concern myself with the size of my band or how many cc's - he has you drink Water and sees if it goes down - got small golf ball after a big sip - he let some out - then made me drink 1 whole glass before he took the needle out. He wants to make sure that i can drink water comfortably.. I am now on full liquids for a week then mushie/soft (i cheat and combine the 2 - cuz i don't do pureed meats/fish - i eat very soft / moist fish -meat in very small bite. I had my homemade pinto bean Soup - you make a pot of pinto Beans (beans garlic cumin onion chili powder salt hamhock alittle chiriazo) cook until done - (i am a person who cooks - i don't measure or time except for baking) Drain - reserve the liquid - put beans in blender or magic bullet - puree and then add back to the broth - CREAM PINTO BEAN SOUP... Great for full liquid diet... Toss ham hocks or give to the dogs. or if you want pick apart and puree with beans. Ate a good full cup and am full.. Dr Bobbie then sits and talks to you after your fill - OMG a doctor who sits and talks to you - Phly - will you be here on the 3rd of Nov - They are having a fashion show receiption dance for their bariatric patients I think it starts at 6:30 let me know and maybe we can meet.. Mango - I am glad you are doing better Newcc - that's what this site is all about :0) CeCe - it usually happens to some at about 3 months out - and real cause unknown as it happens to people who do get all their protein, boitin, vitamins etc - some think it might be a reaction to going under but there is no real answer - the good news is that it does grow back... Hi Dini - You are doing great!!! What's your goal weight - you must almost be there Brandy - To me it's the only way to vacation- I haven't been to St Kitts Aruba - Grenada (sp) belize .. I have done most of the island in the carribean - 5 cruise their and 2 Mexico Car - Great that you are joining us for the Thanksgiving challenge Ok - it's 8:30 and i have some t.v. to watch - biggest loser from last night... So ck ya'll later - have a good night - sweet dreams and stay away from the fridge :biggrin1: Janet