IndioGirl55

sleep apena - do you have a family history of heart problems?? or diabetes???

Welcome Kennergirl - Congrats on making the decision to get banded. You will be able to sleep on your tummy once you are all healed up from surgery (a couple of weeks) - it's your port site that hurts the most - it's tender really - I don't feel the band it's inside - i do feel my port site if i bursh up against something hard.. I too am a tummy / side sleeper - I was able to get on my tummy side maybe a week out...

Jamie - are you able to get your Protein in... Is your bp still low?? do you take bp meds??? Hows your sugar??? Maybe you should call your doctor if you feel that bad - Are you walking to get rid of the gas - are you using gas x strips?? everyone is different but I was ok 5 days out - I was back at work on the 6th day...

Being at your sweet spot does not equate to weight loss if you are eating around your band - If you are going to do that - why did you get banded - You must learn to change your eating habits or the band will be a failure like all the other diets you have been on before - this is not the magic cure to your weight loss issues... You have to do some of the work too... If you would make healthy food choices and exercise - the weight will come off - I was banded in July and am down 39 lbs - and i am almost twice your age - but i am working at this with a little help from my band as I am not at my sweet spot yet.... I spent alot of $$$ and had tons of preop test - I want a healthly life so I am doing the work to get there... It all depends on how much you really want it (weight loss) but it's not going to happen over night - and it won't happen until you are committed to a healthlier lifestyle...

badonkadonkbutt You are absoulutly right - you need to make good food choices in order to lose - the band is only a tool but the real work is up to you. Nope they banded your tummy and not your head - half our eating problems are mostly head hunger issues imho. Fills will keep you from eating a large quainty of food - but if you eat around the band they aren't going to do anything IMHO - unless you change your eating you may lose some but it won't be what you expect. I don't mean to sound mean here you asked for "bloody honesty" The band does 25% of the work and the other 75% is up to you - you have to change your eating - need to make healthy low fat sugar free food choices and add exercise to your life.. IMHO until you do these things you aren't going to lose much weight...

Marilyn I had a girl i use to work with say i was cheating - I said what about your boob job - that's cheating for vanity at least mine for my health (I don't think that the band is cheating by the way as it's not the band that make you lose weight it's you - by making healthly choices when it comes to food - the band it's not magic cure to our food issues it's only a tool) Good luck on your surgery....

Yes I know how independent you 16 yrs olds are - I was there once myself - infact i had my own place and have been on my own since I was 16 . I have a grandson who lives with me and he's 16 too - He thinks he's grown half the time.:eek:.. I can't beleive I am doing this a 2nd time... I thnk it's great that you are independent - you will make a fine young lady who will be strong and knows what she wants... Good luck to you on your journey to become healthly.... cuz you are beautiful as you were...

Good idea - I don't know what is worst no restriction or too much - I wish that remote control band was here - then it wouldn't be so hard to find our sweet spot :eek:

All is good - You and Rliberty have the same names - Are you going to NYC all by yourself???

There you go PHYL - thats the way to think - Better in him than you!!!! Ribearty - your exercise is great !!!!! What are you eating?? How many calories a day??? if you are eating very low - I would increase it a tad. Pick one day a week to weigh - I find this more helpfull cuz those scales can be cruel - one day down 2 lbs - next day up 1 - etc... How is your band - do u have enough restriction - can you go for another fill?? How are your clothes fitting - sometime it shows more there than it does on the scales. Come on don't get down - that won't help - lets find a solution... Peaches - I could give you an xrate defination to that name :embarassed: Phyl - you are a violent beauty Your beauty is so great that is cause violence in men who compete for you Denise - it you think about it Peaches has an xrated name too :embarassed:

I am catholic too but i don't feel that way - If they can use it go for it. Anyway - "We" don't get our bodies back - it's our souls that go to heaven... dust to dust - has she forgotten her catheicism (sp) Yes if I have a terminal disease - please put me out of my misery - I don't want to suffer and I don't want my family to see me suffer... I have been there done that with my parents...

Blueguy I please know that the following is meant to help not to offend 1st your choices of food are not the best and this may have something to do with you not losing weight &/or getting stuck. (bread/sugar) Have your tried protien shakes and Soups instead of actual chewing food - or at least mushies and making good food choices instead... My doc has you follow the rules just like after surgery when you get a fill... 1 week full liquids - 1 week mushiee - 1 week soft. Why did you wait 9 months before your first fill? Why are you eating pizza and Pasta??? You know that you struggle with emotional issues of confidence & esteem that comes with being fat. But you may not know that you could be what are called as an avoider. This is due to the turmoil that comes with public & private dislike for obesity and you avoid confronting your situation at because of the fear of not being able to bet it. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> Here is how an avoider thinks – once you deviate even slightly from a diet or healthy eating you figure you might as we drop the whole thing – this stars a cycle that avoider can’t find a way out of – We are fat we try to lose weight we deviate just a little we feel rejection for the perceived failure we isolate ourselves from people we stop talking about it, we stop the diet we eat a pound of candy – we get fat then we try to lose weight and the cycle continues <o:p></o:p> Instead of avoiding bad foods avoider tend to want to avoid other things like the people who want to help them and the disciplene of trying to eat healthy. Avoiders try to separate themselves from these 2 strong emotion associated with dieting. I think you really need to get the gerds under control and go back to the doc if the nextium isn't working - it seems like they have looked to see if you have slipped and you haven't You need to rethink your food choices and remember that you need to take small bite and to eat slowy. Remember the deterimantion that you had when you first got banded - since you did have success those 1st few months... Are you able to exercise - talk a walk in the evens after work or if you can in the morning before work. The band only does 25% of the work and the other 75% is up to you by making good food choices and exercising - this isn't a diet but a lifestyle change You can do this - you have proven this but you just gotta get that motitvation back - remember why you were banded in the 1st place - you know how much better you felt when you lost 76 lbs - I know that you want this otherwise you wouldn't have gotten banded in the 1st place - Do some soul searching and quit playing thoses little mind games that we all play with ourselves. Good Luck...

As the saying goes - too bad you can't pick them :eek:

I had a nuclear stress test - cuz my heart rate didn't get high enought on the stress test (treadmill) but i take antenoal (sp) which reduces your heart rate. The test is no biggie - you go in and these put you under a machine that takes pic of heart (viedo really) then you come back - they shoot you up with meds that make your heart race while hooked up to ekg - then you go back to the machine that viedo tapes your heart - it's to make sure you don't have aterey (sp) problems... Good Luck - they just want to make sure you are healthy enough for surgery.. I had to do every test in the world to get approved for mine - your doc want successfull surgerys on his record - he doesn't want problems... This is a good thing - if you have a problem it can be fixed.

I had a large program fee - but it includes 5 yrs of fills/doctor visits Each doc is different....

Congrats on your surgery date and you current weight loss - with this determination and the band imho you will do excellent....

Wasabubblebutt This is too funny and sad at the same time - I guess I am lucky my Family (sis, brother, son & family) and closes friend are supportive... I like the part about she's out of the will. Some people are so ignorant...

Speed Racer I know that you have heard this before "Life's not Fair" Ya gotta face the fact that we are fat cuz of our lack of exercise and what we eat. You have to quit making excuses and just do it - Get on that treadmill while you are watching tv - I go to the gym after work M/T/W/F/Sat Do you really think i want to - Hell no - I HATE exercising but i know that in order to lose weight/maintain my weight loss I have to. Everyone needs excerise - we weren't made to sit infront of the t.v. 24 7 - ya - it's a lot easier - but it's not good for us.. I drink my water and I don't think that it works in keeping you full (that mho) as water goes right through - I was banded 7/17 - i didn't get my 1st fill until 9/5 - was scheduled for 11/8 for 2nd but called the first of Oct and told them i needed one before that and go 10/24 for my second - I am doing this on my own right now - I have some restriction but not much. Have you read "You on a Diet" by dr oz or anything by bob green You don't have to follow their eating programs - but both are good - I use a little bit of everyones - I stay away from the nuts cuz they have just too many calories and i beleive you have to count calories- What we are doing is not a diet but a lifestyle change - for the rest of our lives not just to lose the weight - cuz once it's gone and we go back to our old ways then the pounds will follow...

I got this from wasabubblebutt - thought it was cute - (I love these kind of things) Think my name is approriate - angel / devil - Yep, that's my Halloween name according to the following website: Get your goth name What's yours?

Why is your sis saying you are dying?? cuz you lost weight????

Heavenly Demonic I think it fits :0) -

Isabella - I love yellow crooked neck squash - zuchinnee (sp) - I mix these 2 togerther - I am not a cook who really times or measure (grew up cooking and loving food = hence why i am fat) but i would say for 15 -20 minutes. I also love brussel sprouts - spinach - carrots - califlower I just cook until done (soft) drain and spray and yes they help with night hunger - and they way i look at it you are getting alot fewer calories eating vegges than you doing eating mash potatoes - I think that most of the time that we do not accept that we are full we just want to continue to eat cuz it taste good - it's that way for me - I have to really stop myself alot as my tummy is truely full but i want to keep eating... it's hard to distingush between the two sometime... Do you live on your own?? Is that your baby?? - I was a young mom too that's why i ask...

OK Jackie the food angel/cop is on her way NO CANDY have your DH put it somewhere that you don't see it or know where it is..... CALL THE DOC ON MONDAY !!!! Get the fill before your party... I was just telling someone on the slow loser site that I am all too familar with the little mind games that we play with ourselves... That truely is what us fat people do we play these little mind game - we try to lie to ourselves.. But see you really aren't beleiving those lies by what you said i feel like if I put off my fill just so I can eat more at this party then I am trying to 'cheat' my band IMHO I agree 100% - this is the whole reason for the band... and if you don't use it - then what's the use of getting it... For your feeding frenze before Aunt Flo - stock up on sf choc pudding - Healthy Choice Fudgecicles - Dannon Light & Fit yogurts - buy those and eat them instead of the fattening stuff - they are just as satisfiing... Really they are...... and here I go breaking the rules - but I have the 100 calorie bags of popcorn when I want chrunchy salty food - i spray with I cant beleive its not butter spray and add salt - it takes care of that saltly chrunch factor - I eat one piece at a time.... Not handfulls like in the past.... You are on your way to a healthy mindset about food - you are going to win this battle - You are realizing that your little lies to yourself for what they are "lies & mind games" And you are ready to quit playing those games... :clap2::clap2::clap2: Tough band love :kiss2: love being the operative word xoxox Janet

I like that "Nice Not" - I just relate to everyone here - i but it plain words.. I am a fat person I have a fat person mentally I understand !! I know that for myself if i do eat that 1 piece of pizza (and I have) that it will lead to 2 or 3 etc. so i just don't start... And I think after I ate it - was it really that great and i gotta say for me it's wasn't the way i look at it - I would of rather had more food for the least amount of calories (i don't have much restriction yet) - we have a way of working it up in our minds that OMG i miss it so much - I just gotta have it - It's just like a druggie chasing his/her high - that original high is never going to happen again and they keep doing more and more to try and recapture it. It's food for us - we want that chemical reactions from the serotonin that's our drug of choice... I am just parroting all the info I have read, watched and weight loss prorgrams that i have particiapted. I know about all the mental games that we play with ourselves to justify why we eat - I have played them many of times.. But I know a lie from the truth and it's just accepting that. we keep telling ourselve little lies that this bite won't hurt - it's ok if i skip exercising today - it's not ok - most skinny people do have to work at it to - we think that they don't but they do... Why do you think the gym ifs filed with more skinny people than fat... As to the coffee - I am not a big coffee drinker as i only have 1 or 2 in the morning - and my doc said that was ok... Chris - I wish you the best - and truely want to see you succeed and I know you can once you put all the info you have to work.

Isabella - is your age right??? you are only 16 and were able to get banded??? I gotta say you are a beatiful girl at 170 !!! I put my veggie in a pot add Water to cover and boil - I cook my veggies to death cuz that's the way i have always liked them - drain and spray with i can't beleive it's not butter spray - salt & pepper. I don't feel that my band changes during the day or night as i can eat whenever - but I am a night time eater too - I know that you have heard this before - but you really shouldn't go all day with out eating... Good luck baby girl..