vinesqueen

Yup, I'm sure, well pretty sure. When Jessie give a fill it takes maybe 10 seconds! Start to fill maybe 10 minutes, including getting weighed, walking around, drinking Water to make sure I"m not too tight. I was amazed when I got my last full here in ID, not done by Jessie. Talk about your production number! There was gowns involved, blue surgical drapes, a weird and anchient looking sci-fi real-time x-ray machine, numbing medication and plenty of bandaids. It took about an hour.... But I had a good level of restriction for a week....

1. What is your name? Crystal 2. What color shirt are you wearing? Lepoard print caftan 3. What are you listening to right now? Joan Jett & the Black Hearts 4. What was the last thing you ate? A handful of wheat thins last night 5. Do you wish on stars? Yes 6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? I'd have to be one of those multi colored ones 7. How is the weather right now? sunny, but cool 8. Last person you spoke to on the phone? DH, last night 9. Favorite Sport? Baseball 10. Favorite drink? martini 11. hair color? brown/silver/pink/red & magenta 12. Eye color? dark brown 13. Siblings?2 sisters, 2 brothers 14. Favorite month? August 15. Favorite food? yes 16. What was the last movie you saw? The Fantasic 4 17. Favorite day of the year! Halloween 18. What do you do to vent anger? You are supposed to vent anger? 19. What was your favorite toy as a child? my pogo stick 20. Summer or winter? Winter 21. Hugs or Kisses? Kisses 22. Favorite ice cream flavor? Apple Pie 23. Restaurants or home cooking? yes 24. Will everyone care enough to respond? Sure 25. When was the last time you cried? Monday after my Calculus class 26. What is under your bed? In ID nothing, it's a platform bed. At home several storage boxes with antique & retro fabric 27. How long have you been a member of Lapband Talk? Dec 04 28. What did you do last night? went to the movies, went bowling, played WoW with Spudboy 29. What are you afraid of? being homeless 30. Favorite car? 67 Mercury Cougar 31. Favorite flower? bearded Iris and sweetpeas 32. How many keys on your ring? 9 and a nickel 33. How long have you been at your current job? 2 years, 2 months 34. Favorite day of the week? Saturday 35. What did you do on your birthday? played video games 36. How many states have you lived in? 3 37.How many cities/towns have you lived in? good question. 20? 38. What is your favorite form of exercise? dancing 39.Your favorite store for bargains? Target 40. Wasn't this fun? I wouldn't call it fun...

welcome to the Banded Gentry!

they haven't pulled out any of my fill. this isn't part of the protocol with Jessie. I suppose if I get another fill in the next little while and still don't feel restricted then I'll ask to be tested for a leak

welcome to the Banded Gentry both of you! Oh, the weird noises have only just begun! You just have to learn to laugh at all the weird noises you are going to be making... Try Miso Soup, it really helped me.

I know that last Monday was your big day, and I'm just hoping that everthing went well for you. Anyway, I thought I'd start this thread to generate some healing psychic energy for you! cheers and hugs and getter better soon!

I shop at Lane Bryant. I don't think they have changed the size of their clothes, but the other stores have so we don't feel bad. I think they call it vanity sizing, but I'm not sure. I don't really care what the size says, since it's all arbitrary anymore anyway. I am currently in sizes from 24 to 18. It makes no sense what so ever. I'm in shirts from size XL to 24 still. Again, it doesn't make any sense, and I'm not going to hurt my brain over it. I have found their quality and prices reasonable, plus the saleswomen don't make me feel like a freak. I cannot say the same for other stores I've shopped at. Sorry, does this post make my butt look big?

FFM stands for fat free mass. It is what you weigh without any fat, just as it says. We, of course, require a certian percentage of body fat to maintain a healthy body. For women my age, and for Pat's, we need to be between 25-35% fat. (not like the 41% I currently am ) Because Pat (Harlynana) is currently putting on muscles mass, she is reducing the amount of fat on her body, and changing the number of fat pounds she can and should carry. She's actually increasing the number of fat pounds she should have!

Yeah, that whole gaining definition thing is really important I journal all the time, not exactly weekly and certianly not daily. I think the only thing I would have done differently was to keep track of my starting metabolic information from the Tanya (or something like that) brand scale. I'll get a copy of the print-out when I go home. Thanks Karla!

thanks for letting us know how you are doing. I am sure more than a few of us were pulling for you.

thanks for posting this Kelly, it has really got me thinking about things. I did not want to date my husband. I didn't want to go out with him, and I sure as hell didn't want to fall in love with some guy that weighed more than 400 pounds. No way in hell. I'm shallow, or at least I was shallow. I will not be the same person after I lose all this extra weight. I am not the same person I was last December or March before I was banded. If I am not the same person or will be be the same person, how can I expect other people to be the same? How can I expect them to not change in some way? If I view myself differently, which I will, the how can I expect others to not view me differently as well? MsButtercup, I think everyone is screwed up, just in different ways. So, yes, in all likelyhood, if you are a screwed up fat person, you will be a screwed up skinny person too I think it is vital to figure out how to act/react to the opposite sex once we lose our extra weight. I know that the last time I lost a significant amount of weight that suddenly I was the center of attention of all the young men at work. And yup, I freaked out. But I have realized that I use my weight and size as shield and armor. It is hard to face the world naked.

How can you tell if you have a leak? My second fill was at the end of August, and I never felt any difference after that fill. I've had 3 fills now, my last one was 10 days ago, and .5ccs were added. For about the first seven days I felt like I had good restriction. So, I should be sitting at about 2.5 ccs. I initially felt like I had good restriction, meaning I wasn't hungry and I was satisfied sooner for longer. Well, starting a few days ago, so almost a week out of the fill, I am hungry within a couple or three hours of eating. I mean, get-out-of-my-way-or-I'll-hurt you sort of hungry, sort of like when I eat corn, or things that contain lots of corn. I'm plenty well hydrated, so this isn't an issue. I am careful to not eat corn, since it makes me ravenous. I am obsessive about following the banster rules and general guidelines. Do I need more fill? Do I need to give it a while? what is the typical amount of time before a fill "settles?" Oh, and I can eat anything again. I mean, anything I've tried at this point. No golfball, no PBs...

Wow! Congrats on your astounding loss! Can't advise on the flipped port although I can't imagine it would be anything like what we went through in the banding. I say this because the port is attached to the outside of the abdomin, so there wouldn't be any cutting through muscle fibers or probably any need to anything invasive. I'll even bet it could be done under a twilight sleep... a local with sedatives should be enough. (I've had 5 or 6 major surgeries done under twilight because of my asthma)

Decaf is awful. They use the cheapest beans and the quality isn't that good either. Life is too short for bad coffee.

Here's my chart. As you can see, I lose, then gain a little back, lose more, gain more back, but so far, I'm down 23 pounds after being banded. I'm down more if you count from being down from my all time highest weight. my chart.bmp

What???? WHAT????? WOOOOOTTT!!!!! (That's a big HUZZAH!) Okay, not sure what the "growing upside down under my arms, ERRRR." means, other than you are getting stronger arms. And who doesn't want stronger arms??? This is EXACTLY what you should be wanting!!!!! I don't know how to empasise this any more! You are one of my heros here at LBT. You have gained now what, 30 pounds of muscle mass??? If the then you have that much less fat to lose! Gaining a pound of muscle means that you don't have 2 pounds (or more) of fat to lose! Gaining a pound of muscle means that you are more efficient with your body! Gaining a pound of muscle means that you are stronger now, and will be stronger longer as you age! Gaining a pound of muscle means that you will need to eat more food to keep the same weight, since your metabolic rate will be increased! Gaining a pound of muscle means that when you are 70, or 90, you will be less fall prone! Gaining a pound of muscle means that your body looks better than if you lost 5 pounds of fat. Since you know that you are still gaining muscle (Woot!) you must know your FFM, your fat free mass. This means that you know closer what your personal ideal goal weight should be, not some arbitrary number on a chart. It could mean that your goal weight needs to be adjusted to relect your new reality of a stronger, more compact body. Please post or PM your FFM, or your body fat % if that is what you have. If I put on even half of the muscles mass you have gained HarlyNana, I, personally, would only be about 20 pounds over weight, not the 50 pounds I currently need to lose. If I had put on all the muscle mass you have gained, I would be at goal, right now, at 240-ish pounds. My goal would be in the 220 to 240 pound range, since that would put me in the 25-35% body fat percentage, which is the healthy range for women my age.

coffee? Yes please, make mine a quad americano with cinamon and room! Search "coffee" and/or caffein (but spell it correctly for better resutls ) and you will find all the really great conversations about this subject

you were just banded. From the date listed, it's just about the time when most poeple start back on food from their liquid diet. Your colon is probably holding that 2 pounds. Doesn't mean anything. It's not fat, it's the ... stuff that your colon and intestines hold

Sorry fee, I didn't realize that you needed an answer RIGHT NOW. Maybe I didn't answer because I don't know the answer, maybe I didn't see your post, maybe I needed to think about it. I'm terribly sorry you don't feel supported. Sue or not, I don't have an opionion, and I cannot advise you. In the past, have you not gotten support on issues that we could offer when we could?

I heard that They just did another translation, and the new number of the beast is 616. The Church of Satan said that they don't care what the number is... just as long as it freaks out the Christians.

Yup, you are too tight. And thinking you have a 4 oz gain is crazy talk. I think by taking a really deep breath you can "gain" weight.

okay, I don't know how this will look, but here's your graphy to date.

excellent idea to post your scale journal in this thread too.

nope, a gator is bigger than my head.

Well, coming to pain would would involve something I just don't have a lot of right now... time. Or money.. Okay, time and money are really short right now. Full time student on a tiny little stipend, and we don't qualify for student loans. so... crap I"m late for class again.