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I would like to know if there is an answer to this also. It's crazy but my armpits are the same way too. Hopefully you can get some answers!

I was in the surgery center by 7:00 am and out by noon. Mine was so easy compared to what ya'll had to go through.

Good Luck! I know you will do great! Thank god you have a lovely lady going through it with you. Let us know how you are feeling after your surgery! Kim

It comes and goes all of the time for me. Sonce my last fill, it is luckily here mor often than not. Maybe it just depends on the amount of fills. I am pretty sure everyone has the same problem

Meagan that is awesome. Take it as it comes. Also, a good friend of mine met a guy on Match and they are now talking marraige. Just saying!

My boobs are always the first to go and they are small to begin with!

so, ok, I stopped counting after 10. I thought this was normal which shows me how much I need to work on this...Thanks for the post!!

The same thing totally happened to me. I didn't have restriciton until my second fill. But now it works pretty good. So good I got really sick last night since I was trying to eat after it was telling me I was full. I am totally on the same track as you with the Christmas Gift card! I have a $50 one for Old Navy that I am waiting to use when I get 50 pounds off. For now I am just wearing big baggy clothes. They aren't falling off yet, just not fitting snuggly any longer. You will have so much more restriction on the second fill and then you will want more. I just went for a 3rd fill and got a 0.1 fill! I was upset because I waited an hour to get my fill after my appointment time and paid the $50 and still only got 0.1. What's crazy is it is actually a little bit better. But I want more. I will wait until I get used to this one before I go for another! Good luck in your weightloss and congrats on all of the hard work you are doing!!Kim

My monday mornin weight loss is nada! Put me down at 36 pounds down 03/07/05. I have somehow gained after a fill. I don't know what is going on in my body lately!

So good to hear. You have nothing to worry about. Good luck with this new part of your life!

HAHAHAHHA!!! (((((pinched nose hugs)))))

I am 37 pounds down and still can wear most of my same clothes. Just goes to show me how tight everything had gotten. Also shows that everyone is different. I told myslef when I hit 50 pounds down I will buy a few things to wear!

Congrats on your band! At least you have a reason to be lazy around the house since it is snowing. Take the time to recover!

I also had pain for a few months here and there. If it is constant and comes along with a fever in the area or redness I would call my doc. But if it is just some pain then Just take it easy and maybe use a heating pad when it gets bad.

You know I have noticed some things don't taste as good. If it takes me forever to get it down I just don't get the satisfaction I used to get from it. I'm guessing that's the band working on my head, at least I hope. There are still some things that are ab fab but I have had that problem and it actually made me sad like I was losing a good friend that I will never get back again. I don't know how I am going to resist the Easter candy. I love CADBURY BUNNY EGGS! MMMM BUNNY eggs (said like Homer). Ok, this is taking a bad turn so I will continue to drink my Water, think of poopy hands and strap myself to the chair now. I will be here till 9:00 Central time and my Special K will be waiting for me at home! I am having a cheat day before my fill on Friday so I just have to last until then. Guess what my husband is getting me for cheat day?? You guessed it, pizza.

I did the same thing in my first two weeks. Just be strong until your fill. I could eat anything and everything I wanted until my second fill. Just work on not gaining while you are at this crossroads and you will be ahead of most people! Good luck with your band!

Thank gawd I have ya'll and my trusty bottle of yummy water. MMMM. The pizza smell is slowly going away. I just have to stay in my cubicle for a little while longer....

At my job on the last day of every month we have to work a 13 hour day. Some month ends my VP's are generous and order food for us. Well they have ordered pizzas for all 300 of us and there are pizzas all over the freakin place. I love pizza and have not had very much since I was banded. The whole office smells like a big gooey, cheesy, meaty PIZZA and I am forcing myself to sit in my seat and type this rather than give in an go get some pizza. Please cheer me on, this is a first for me and is REALLY HARD. I have never passed up free food!

So ok, I have been hesitant to join, but I need something to keep me motivated thru the spring with all of the family gatherings coming up! I am starting at 237 and want to lose 30 pounds by June 1. I know it is lofty, but I have a fill coming up Friday and will be on liquids for a week after that. I am thinking that will boost me and hopefully with the new restriction I can do the rest on my own. So here we go, lock me in: weight: 237, goal: 207

If you are still reading this then there is still a chance. Maybe just take a vacation and come back. Your post are so thoughtfully written and so inspiring for everyone that reads them. I do hope you can change your mind!

That's a good idea. These are the type of girls like I used to be, making fun of our fat and not caring in the world what we ate. I have started the whole getting a to-go box and putting half of my food in it before I even start and that is helping and they aren't looking at me like I am crazy when I order something decent and just half it. The understand about the band and I really wish some of them would look into it, but would never tell them that. I feel they already look at me differently when I tell them about my weight loss. It is probably all in my head. I was thinking about this thread over the weekend and decided I can be the only one who hampers my weight loss and have made a better effort to realise when I am about to fall back into old habits. This thread has helped me a lot! They are my habits and I can be the only one to break them!

I think the one thing that really slows my weight loss is my friends. Not that they are forcing food in my mouth, but they are all overwieght and eat what they want when they want. It is really hard for me to go out to eat with them and order the chicken breast and veggies when they are all ordering something so good. We all eat together about 1-2 times a week and I have no will power when I am with them. It has nothing to do with them and I am not blaming them by any means. I myself have to get out of the habit of rewarding myself with food and be strong enough to order the low cal entree on the menu. I live in a suburb of Dallas and we have over over 40 sit down restaraunts. This does not include fast food. They are too many too count. We have 4 restaraunt rows in my city and at least 4 McDonalds in my city alone, so you can imagine how easy it is to get something to eat. I rarely have time to cook with my schedule so I eat out a lot. For some reason when I am with my friends my band doesn't work! I'm sure it is all mental and mostly just out of habit, but thank god I am working on it. I have a friend coming to visit tonight who likes to eat so I have been preparing myself all day that I will order low fat off of whatever menu we get! It's all a mind game and we have to find out what it is that can trigger our good eating on a meal to meal basis.

Why not go out and start a gym? It is the place you can work with professionals to get back the body you want. Go for a month with a trainer and they can give you more idea than you can ever know. Walking is always free. I also hit the jackpot at a garage sale and found about 10 aerobic tapes for $1 each. Dancing is my favorite workout, so turn up the music and practice your dance steps in fromnt of a mirror. Start small if your new to this, but a gym is the best place to start with a triner so you can learn all of the correct ways to stretch and move when you exercise. We have a local PBS station that has a show called Body Electric and it is on daily for free and low impact and toning. If you are scared of a gym, try a local rec center, they usually have dance classes and kickboxing classes for a fraction of the price of a gym. No matter what it is you do, Just do it every single day and your progress will pass anything you have expected!

Penni, I have a friend that does that with beer bottles still. She has huge boobs and she can drink out of the bottle while it is snuggled tightly in there!! Tooo FUNNY!!

I was never yelled at directly, but the word fat still makes me cringe. In jr. high one girl told me I should wear a sign on my butt that said "wide load". In high school I was doing a dance routine with 2 other girls. One was really skinny, one was regular size and I was the chubby one. Our boyfriends were watching our practice with our sparkly costumes on and I overheard them calling us "small, meduim and large". Guess who was large? Then again in high school a girl was telling me how she was describing me to someone else and she told me she described me as the one with the "big belly". Isn't it wonderful how we can remember these days like it was yesterday and I only wish I could get back down to the size 11 I was at that time!