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Okay, tonight I discovered something truely gross. When you PB on chopped creamed spinach, it's form doesn't change from pre-PB to post-PB. I don't think I can ever look at it the same ever again.

Well, I sort of feel invisible in Idaho, but that is because folks tend to ignore people who don't go to their church. It is weird, but I'm not invisible because of my size, I just won't let people ignore me.

well, no one hates taking prednisone more than I do. However, I know that typically if they prescribe it for me, and they know me, I had better take it, weight gain and puffy face be damned. Asthma and pneumonia are nothing to fool around with, espeically since people who ignore their asthma tend to die from it.

I'll be there at about 9:30. I'm not sure how long I'll be able to stay, I JUST realized that tomorrow at 11:00 is when I go have some FILL REMOVED!!!! Ah to be able to eat without pain!!!! Okay, Thunderbirds are GO!!!!

and here I thought I was the geekiest on the board!

WOOT! WOOT! WOOT! SARAH! YES!

Welcome to LBT! I'm in Pokey... Most of the time anyway...

I am not actually givign up on my band. I just have to face that it isn't going to work for me like it does for other people. And this has been incredibly painful. Being banded, and being a good little bandster is not going to help me lose any significant amount of weight. It has not, and I don't see that changing in the future. But by facing this, I am able to move on. I am able to take this to doctors and DEMAND answers. I will DEMAND they try me on thyroid medication, even if I am low normal. Hell, I'm not normal anyother way to begin with. Maybe they will be able to figure out how to give me a normal body temp, my normal is 97.2, not 98.6. Maybe this is a function of low thyroid. I don't know, but I'm going to start to DEMAND answers. I have been so stressed and borderline depressed these last couple of weeks. I have one more easy final tomorrow, marketing. After work this afternoon I came home and went directly to bed and slept for 8 hours. My accounting final was particularly brutal but hopefully I did well enough in the class. I'm sure that my caloric intake has not been high enough, so for the last couple of days I've been "stuffing" myself with soft foods that dont' fight my band. I say "stuffing" because I know my sense of proportions is way off, and eating a 1/4 of food seems like way too much. For instance, I had a 1/4 cup of trim cottage cheese for dinner, half a serving. 50 calories, and I felt like this was too much bulk. I've only lost one full size. Yes, all my pants are now clown pants, since I've lost a lot of weight in my thighs and butt, but my belly refuses to play fair. Maybe all I need is a tummy tuck Oh no, I don't like my warhammers very sweet, some sweet, but 150 - 250 calories is not a zillion, especially since I don't have them very oftern, and they are frequently what I'll have for Breakfast. (bad me, but sometimes too tight for anything else.) And I gave all coffee up for over a month thinking that the extra calories in the coffee was having an impact on my weight loss. (I went to tea sweatened with spenda and 1% milk) but I didn't lose a single pound that mounth. Now Jack, the potato-spore theory sounds plausable at this point, as does the theory that I'm absorbing too many calories though photosynthisis. I am from Seattle after all, and all this direct and indirect light in the High Mountian Desert of SE ID has to have an effect.

Aherm, miss sea turtle, you will not be a member in good standing AGAIN because you have never not been!!!! You will have to post more often here, not less! AND DON'T YOU DARE STOP RABBITING!!!!!

Most of the other members of the Turtle Tribe have their NSV list here in the support forum. Just create a new thread, and start listing your NSVs! Yay

Penni, could you pretty please resize the pix, and do that montage thing?

As always, you are so right Donali. I am letting the scale dictate my success. But I am an increadably vain and shallow woman. One of the reasons I had weight loss surgery was to actually lose weight, and right now I cannot seem to get beyond that. What I meant to say was that it is not helping me lose weight, not anything else. I realize that I probably would be dead or at the very least on full time oxygen therapy without the band. I know these thing are true. I do, but as I said, I am so vain and shallow. My high weight was 275 in January, I was banded at 265 in March. The first two weeks I was banded I lost 15 amazing pounds, but in the last 20 weeks I have kept off a total of 12 pounds. I've lost 27 pounds since I was banded, but the first 15 pounds were mostly Water. I have lost an average of 10 ounces a week for the last 41 weeks, but for the last 38 weeks I've lost 6 ounces. I'm eating 700 calories a day, and I weigh what I did at the end of October. It is hard beyond words to watch people who started with the same wight as I did to have lost 90 pounds to my 27. To watch people who have lost 4 sizes to my one size. The band is not going to help me lose weight, that much seems clear to me. Oh, and the last time I did this: Patient: "Doc, it hurts when I press here." They scheduled me for emergency surgery

Okay, let's put that into some perspecitve. You ate one hot fudge sundae, not a carton of ice cream. Before banding would you have been satisfied with one sundae or would you have been compeled to have the more, more, MORE????

I have lost 12 pounds since March. 12 pounds. A little better than one pound a month. I think it is time for me to accept the truth of the matter. I am just one of the few unlucky ones that the band will not help. I don't think any WLS will for for me, since I'm not losing on 700 calories, I highly doubt a malapsortion technique will do any better, so converting to some other technique isn't going to work for me. Not that I would consider any other technique anyway. I still feel like a fraud.

good luck!

Okay, I'm not permitted to check whether people qualify or not. March 29, a week after my banding, I weighed 250, and today I weigh 238. That's 12 pounds. I've worked my ass of for 12 pounds. What is the point?

Well, 700 calories isn't working. You know, I probably wouldn't be so stressed about this if I wasn't trying to hard. But I read so many stories of how people just have their weight fall off. I've lost 12 pounds since March. I keep telling myself that I just have to hang in for one more week before I go see my doctor. Right now that is the only thing that is keeping me going.

Of course you can always start over. That is one of the beauties of the band. If you need to take a break for whatever reason, the band will still be there, waiting patiently.

Okay, you were on liquids, so you colon held nothing. Liquid in, liquid out. Now you've moved to soft foods, but foods nonetheless. And you colon is easily capable of holding more than 4 pounds of food. Also, this time is not for losing weight, but for healing.

Okay, Carrie has been a Turtle since October, and this is not a new application. She pulled a Rabbit on us, (YAY CARRIE!) but this doesn't mean that her membership will or can be revoked. As for lovescats, I think we need to have a break down of her weight, I know that when I was at her stage I wouldn't have qualified as a turtle either. Part of me thinks that the loss of the first few weeks should be disreguarded in respect for membership into the Turtle Tribe. I lost most of my inital weight right after my surgery, and it was all Water. I suspect that lovecats will indeed qualify for Turtle status. Sorry about that. I lost more in my first 10 weeks than she has.

I have no authority here.

Funny, no one ever things that when I take my shirt off. Of course, I only take my shirt off in front of my husband. ...

Well, gluttony is one of the 7 deadly sins. So some people feel justified in treating the overweight worse than you would treat a dog.

Well, when you read this, welcome to the banded gentry!

Well, there is working and there is working. There are all sorts of different ways to measure success. I haven't lost much according to the scale, but I figure I'm a success.