kimalicious

Holy crap, this is my favorite post of all time. Nanu Nanu!

My doc told me it wouldn't cause slippage but it would stretch the pouch. She even got on to me because I went in for a fill and had nothing to eat or drink since the night before and she could still see air pockets in my stomach and said that the gas from the coke I had the night before was still in my stomach and could have caused stretching. She thinks it hadn't yet because my restriction was at a low. My favorite drink is Coconut Malibu and pineapple juice. Best non-bubbly drink eva!

I so too go on my rollercoaster with my food obsession. I cry sometimes because I cannot put things in my mouth I used to. With my restriction now I wouldn't dare try to eat pizza, or rolls an butter, big fat cheeseburgers or a Mc Griddle. Since my band won't take anything solid until after 10:00 I will never get to eat a McGriddle the rest of my life, since Mickey D's stop serving them after breakfast. Why did this make me sad? It should make me estatic. I am coming to terms with it slowly and working on the getting excited part of it that I can no longer eat that crap I shouldn't be eating in the first place, not even on a splurge. I know I will PB and I know I don't want to do that. I second guess everything that I eat now and that is how I am slowly losing my obsession. Keep writing and keep pushing to understand your obsession and how it ticks and how we can get it to stop ticking for good. Good luck!!

I hope you don't find this offensive as we are all over weight and I specifically got the band to lose enough weight to have children. If you read up (even online or in nutrition books) on obesity and pregnancy you will see the dangers there can be for the child and you. Even being just 30 pounds overweight is dangerous and causes all sorts of other problems. I also have PCOS and have noticed that the more weight I lose, the more regular I become and the better opportunity to become pregnant on my own. My OBGYN has also said these things to me. You have got to know that as you become pregnant you will more than likely gain more weight, so I say the more weight you lose the better before getting pregnant. You are still very young and have plenty of time to start a family. The docs tell us to wait a year so that our weight can level off and we can be down to a healthier weight to carry a baby. Please read up on this before you make your decision to start now. Please do your own research to understand the difficulties of having a baby while being obese. I have wanted children for 3 years now and keep holding off knowing the less I weigh the more healthy my baby and pregnancy will be in the long run. It shows you only to be 23 and you have a lifetime ahead of you to be the ones with the kiddos running around. You can take this with a grain of salt or however you want because I am not a doctor, I just hope you take all of that into consideration before you rush into getting pregnant. I wish you the best of luck in whatever you decide and hope you didn't take this e-mail as badgering or being bitchy! ) Kim

You gotta pay by the yard at Lane Bryant, that is why they are so expensive. I've shopped there for years and the styles change, some years are good, some not. I am short with tiny little legs and big in the middle, so no jeans fit me right, I am a big Fashion bug fan and I love TORRID...for us younger folks, thier clothes are hot!

mmmm cookies....I have gone through an entire pack of sugarfree gum today all the whilst sitting next to a spread at work that included candy and bbq weenies. I almost stapled myself to my chair to stay away. Be strong Lisa, be strong. Everyone needs a cheat day once in a while!

Good to know we weren't the only ones. It does scare me, but I swear sometimes these bands are made of steel, all the crap they can take.

You would have thought I would have learned 11 months in about the bite sizes, but with this actual restriction from my last fill, I feel like I am a brand new bandster all over again. I do need to watch my bites and pay more attention while I eat. That is something I am still learning.

I have recently had a fill and am still getting used to it and a lot of foods are getting stuck at the band site. I had chicken get stuck and I felt the stuck part like normal, but then I felt like my heart was beating around my band. Like my esophagus was convulsing to get the food through. I finally just let it come back up and it stopped. I have never felt this in the past and wonder if anyone else has gone thru this also? I just knew my band was going to come flying out of my chest the way it felt. Any thoughts?

Good luck and please keep us posted on your recovery and new surgery! Kim

I doubt this is your problem and I know I sound stupid for worrying about it when it happened to me, but anyways, I hadn't had a regular period in a while and once I started losing weight after my surgery they came more frequently and I thought my band was messed up the first early one I got and thought I was bleeding internally. I, of course, wasn't, but it did scare me to start normal periods again and that tends to happen when you are losing weight quickly like you do right after surgery. Just a thought...

A definate congrats is in order...you have a healthier body now to carry your new baby around and just worry about nutrition rather than weight loss now. GOOD LUCK!

bwahahaha, the look on his face says it all.

Thank god for your sunshine. That is the best attitude and I could learn a lot from your positive thinking. Good luck with all you have going on and keep us posted.

I agree about the restriction. I'm guessing some, no matter what the fill is like, can have the greatest of restriction. I'm guessing that has to do with the physiology of our bodies. I have lost 7 pounds in 9 days, but was on liquids for 3 of them. I have also stopped the cokes, so that is probably 90 % of it right there. I just hope this restriction is permanant and the ease to eat doesn't come back slowly. Good luck to you...now I have the Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtle theme song in my head, TURLTE POWER!

I was on the slow loser list being that my surgery was in Nov 04 and I am only 44 pounds down. I didn't get a fill for 6 months and could eat what I wanted unless my band was in the mood to work that day. Now that I have had my 4th fill, a generous 1.0 cc, I understand what restriction is supposed to feel like and wouldn't dream of even trying to eat a full anything. Pasta and bread scares me. This morning I could only eat half of my oatmeal packet before feeling that restriction of not being able to eat another bite. I had 4.5 oz of chicken salad from lunch and couldn't possibly eat another bite. I'm sure I will have more room at dinner as always, but for those who can eat entire meals in 1 sitting I say you need a fill. I'm betting in a few weeks it won't be this tight, but I am enjoying not needing my self control...I need to save it all I can for later when the fill doesn't seem so tight. I am hopefully in the rabbit realm now. I think I was enjoying eating what I wanted for the last 6 months, I had forgotten why I had this surgery to begin with. When I came to reality that I was eating the same as every unbanded person around me, then I knew a fill was in order. Everyone has to judge what speed they want to go themselves. My surgeon was upset I hadn't been there for 6 months for a fill and told me it was like ordering the tools to help me get thin and then never going to pick it up. TURTLES RISE UP!!

Hiccups are the sign for me that I am full now. I get them more after I eat and I will get bouts of them after I drink. They can really hurt too if there is still food in the pouch. The only way I can get rid of mine is to drink 10 small swallow sips in a row of Water without stopping, if you hiccup in the middle you have to start over. But it works every time for me. Unfortuantely, i just live with them after I eat because I don't want to wash my food through, so I need to come up with something else for when I get them after I eat. I have never heard of them meaning slippage though, so don't be worried about that. Kim

Restriction feels more like the food is stuck and sitting there in your pouch rather than a full feeling. You simply can't eat anymore or you start to feel it coming back up your esophogas (sp). I rarely get that feeling of actual fullness in the pit of my stomach since I can't eat enough to ever get that. But I will take the restricted feeling anyday over never feeling full. That is just my experience, hope it helps.

other than the usuals I really want to have to size my wedding ring and possibly upgrade it when I hit my goal weight. I also want to look in the mirror and be happy with what I see.

Hi Randy, You are on a lap band sight so I'm pretty sure that we will all tell you to stick with the band and not the bypass, there are so many more problems with the bypass and the band experience has been quite easy for me. Read all of the posts and go back through the before and after pictures and get yourself excited all over again about what the band can do for you. Again, I am partial, but don't give up either way. Good Luck. Kim

The past two weeks I have felt anorexic. With my band so tight I am loving the restriction and upset with myself if I eat more than 500 calories a day. I am an extremeist. I binge or I purge. I can binge for months at a time and vice versa. Unfortunately I tried to eat everything in sight on Sunday and just kept pukin it back up, goin back for more and pukin more. I felt like the band was making me bulemic. Like it is the bands fault or something. That just goes to show the band doesn't get rid of the bad habits and you can hurt your body even more with these habits + the band. Why can't I be in love with my body no matter what the size or shape? THose Ana web sites are so sad, thank god I'm a fat girl, and will always be in my head no matter how much weight I lose. My temporary Anorexia always goes away when I crave something bad enough and my chub inside gives in. Maggie, I know you know all of this and think the band will help everything, but unfortunately it doesn't. Please don't take that to mean it won't help you to get to your healthy feeling because it will if used correctly. Just a short rant. Good luck with your band sweetie.

Creepy...the only psychic I went to was at a girls house who liked the guy I was dating. I still swear she told the psychic to say this. But the psychic said by guy by actual name and told me we were not going to end up together. Since the psychic was friends with the girl who liked my man, I still wonder if she put her up to that. I have been married to him over a year now and that was at least 4 years ago. SO I haven't been back to one since.

HI Loop, I hope you have talked to your doc. If this is a new med or something that you have been on for a while, either way, checking the progress and having the correct meds make all the difference in the world. I hope this doesn't sound stupid or childish, but I know when I can't pull out of the doldrums I sit back and think of the best times in my life, I even get out the pictures and call old friends to make them remind me of where those feelings came from. Most importantly I remind myself that these feelings will pass and I will wonder what I was ever worried about as long as the meds are right. Stay strong and stay with people and keep talkin about it and ask as many people you can what they think life is. I for one still don't know and I'm not religious but knowing I can at least get through my days is good enough sometimes. Good luck sweetie.

I understand your horror. My husband just had an infection from a hurnia surgery and had to reopen the surgical wound and heal from the inside out. The nurses came to the home and tried to teach me how to pack it. When they saw how horrified I was at the sight of the wound and how deep and raw it looked they ordered him up a wound vac asap. 2 weeks later (and 2 weeks laughing at the farting noises from the wound vac) there was no hole and he actually looks like he has a fake belly button again. Your ordeal will be over in no time and you will be good as new. Take this time to heal and keep us updated on your ordeal. GOod luck with the wound vac noises, they are funny. Kim

This sooooo did not work for me. I don't eat much at any meal, but anything solid before noon just doesn't work. WHat are the other reasons for this. I have heard because you are laying flat at night your esophagus constricts and then takes time in the morn to stretch back out. Are there any doctors that have a real reason that this happens. I know almost every bandster has this issue. Is it medical or mental?