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do you know what I found? I had a chest infection and couldnt exercise for two weeks and that rest re started my weight loss! I am not back at the gym and its going ok but I think my body just needed a rest. And they say a change is as good as a rest.

I also agree that a change in your eating habits will help. Try eating something different.

Good luck honey x

Julie Ann I wanted to tell you that you are and have been for a long time, my inspiration. I read your blog when I started this journey and watching you succeed really spured me on. To hear you have down times, emotional eating issues and stressful problems to deal with shows me that you normal like the rest of us yet you still keep going and succeed. You have helped me so many times (even though you didnt realise it) I hope I can do the same for you. The emotional hunger really is the hardest to beat but keeping occupied helps especially if its something that has nothing to do with food. Like blogging or going to the gym. I hope you and your family are doing well, I'm thinking of you x

Hi Matilda, I hope you are doing well. I had my first fill today so hopefully it will be the end of Bandster Hell. Even though I didnt gain weight I definately suffered. But now I am super restricted and so ready to get started with the weight loss. I would love to hear how you are doing.

I am now 4 weeks and one day post op and feeling like I am in limbo. The initial euphoria of having the band has worn off and so has the pain and restriction. I can eat anything but not the same large portions as before. I am striving to be good, only succeeding if I avoid all temptation. :w00t:

Everyone has gone a little quiet on the web site and I was wondering if that means they are doing well or struggling and not feeling as positive as before. :thumbup:

I hope everyone knows we are non judgemental and supportive and here to help each other. :w00t:

I hope I am not the only person that is finding this tough going. It seems like such a long time till I get a fill and I want to be able to kick start this journey now. The sun is shining and summer is well on the way and I want to get on with it.:thumbup:

Hi everyone,

Day eight and I am feeling much better. I went yesterday to have my stitched taken off and was so looking forward to a long soak in the bath but they put another lot of stitches on "just to be on the safe side". Thats another week and no bath.:wub:

I also went for quite a long walk yesterday and it was ok, didn't tire me out so much, which is good.

I am a little obsessed over calories and yesterday was the first day I had over 500cals. I am going to try to get 1000cals today. I have been living off WW smooth yogurt (its very runny) and WW soup so both are very low calorie. But I got some Slim Fast yesterday so I am going to have that today and hopefully that will get my calories intake up to the 1000 mark. I am very worried that after all this liquid as soon as we go onto mushies we will put on weight. And I'm still not hungry.

Must get off the scales! Is anyone else a slave to them?

Hi Honey, no one really prepares you forthe emotional stuff do they? I felt bad when I had the blues because this was supposed to be what I wanted so why was I unhappy? But I have never had an operation this severe before so I dont know how Im supposed to feel or how long the recovery should take. Well done on the walk. I bet you did pay for it later. I found it feels ok when you are doing it but then in the evening the pain is intense. Are you worse in the evening? I have always had to gulp a small amount of air then burp but now I gulp the air and get no burp then I have even more air inside me! Once it does come out it seems to go on forever but boy does it feel good. Good luck finding what works for you. Have you tried rocking? People might think you are nuts but it sometimes works for me.

Hi Jacki, I bet you were in agony! I just knocked my against the sink and nearly cried. I have one on the other side to my port that is still a bit sore but other than that they are fine. I am not looking forward to having all the dressings and stitches off on Monday. I am sure thats going to hurt. I went out today and although I wasnt tired I was sore when I got home. Retired to the couch for an hour. Are you getting much rest with a little one?

Hi everyone,

Its day five and I am feeling much better. Not very sore, very little gas pain (only at night really) and ready to get outside. I am stir crazy.

I am also a little hungry but trying to ignore it. Not starving but just a rumbling tum.

Just a short entry today to let you know I think the blues was a short term thing resulting from all the meds leaving my body and there is light on the other side. The sun is shinning and although I cant sleep on my side yet its all good. Plus the scales said I have lost 5lb this week! :wub:

Hope you are all well and on the road to recovery. Take care

wow Susan you are doing so well. Remember the inside needs to heal too though. Take care. Simply I felt just the same but I feel so much better today. Susan is right everyday does get better. I am pretty good at getting rid of the gas but it seems worse just before bed time. When do you both have your first fills?

Simplysimple its not just me then? What a relief. I have managed two smooth yogurts and some clear soup today and that has perked me up. Now feeling guilty for eating that!!!!!! How screwy is that?

Well Im 3 days post op and I think all the good meds must have all worn off because I feel very low and sorry for myself today.

I am usually a very cheerful person but Im bored feeling sore and being scared to do anything in case I dislodge the band or knock my stitches. I turned over in bed and my stitches have bled again.

I cant drink enough without getting a tight pain accross my chest and I want a shower!

Boo Hoo I sound pathetic.

I am not going to write anymore until I can say something good. Dont want to bring eveyone down.

Bye for now, Im off for a wallow.

yay sounds like you are well on your way to recovery. Good for you. How many incisions did you have? I had 5.

Ah thanks everyone. I found I was allergic to the stomach acid meds they gave me today so that kind of stopped me in my tracks a bit and made me slow down. Its so hard to just rest when you feel ok but I soon found out I had done too much. Time to put my feet up and catch up with some movies and books.

Well its done and Im home. I came home at 5pm not 11am but that was just delays with my meds really. I had to be awake on the operating table while they prep'ed me which was a bit worrying but it wasnt long before I drifted off. I felt fantastic straight after but once the meds wore off I was just a bit sore.

I have to say I am pleasantly surprised how well I feel. I have a bit of gas pain but nothing unbearable and its a bit sore especially when I bend down but I am not taking any pain relief so its all good.

I am not hungry, hope that carries on ha ha.

The two worst things are the feeling of wanting to cough but being scared to and having to sleep on my back because as soon as I drift of I turn over then wake myself up so not much sleep so far.

But on the whole yippee! I cant believe Ive made it to the other side. I have set myself some mini goals but for now I am just concentrating on getting better.

Ah thanks everyone, I love my Lap Band family x

Just managed to add a ticker. Hope it works!

Twas the night before banding,

My bag is packed and I am ready for my early start tomorrow morning. I have to be at the hospital for 7am and I'm told I will be ready to go home by 11am.

I am not nervous at all, just excited. It's strange looking forward to surgery.

I will hopefully be able to update my blog tomorrow afternoon but maybe I'll be sleeping :waytogo:

The only thing I am thinking about is the fact that they will see me naked. I'm sure they have seen it all but it doesn't stop me fretting. Silly I know.

Anyway see you all on the other side.

Wow tsmrdh is that your pre op diet? I was given the choice of a very restricted food diet but I found that harder than having just milk.

I agree about the cooking. I am not cooking any meals as I have two teenage daughters who have kindly taken over while I do this but I am baking instead. Its weird I just need some contact with food and it gives me satisfaction to see others eating my creations.

Other half would get fat except he is training for a marathon so runs it off.

I keep making enough to feed everyone in the office as well. I'm going to make someone fat if it kills me ha ha. But its not a conscious decision, weird!

Well done on your weight loss! Thats a very satisfying amout to lose in a week

Today was a tough day. I went to Covent Garden in London with Marcus and my two daughters. We were shopping for running shoes. Marcus is running the London Marathon at the end of April.

Covent Garden is full of food!!! People were eating everywhere. The smells were fantastic. I am on day two of a milk only diet :thumbup: Then Marcus had a cheese and bacon pasty which smelled like heaven, I had a latte. Later we ended up in the Battersea Pie shop where Marcus had a beef pie and No1 daughter had steak and ale pie and mashed potatoes. No 2 daughter had paella. I had another latte. :thumbup:

I have to get through days like this as they are not going to stop eating just because I have but boy it was hard. I am glad to be home "safe" away from temptation.

I miss food though. Will that ever go away????

Ok so it was a bit of an anti climax but still good.

I had blood pressure, weight, and MRSA tests done by a lovely nurse called Lorna. She really made me feel comfortable.

The I had an ECG and some blood tests. And I was home in an hour! No photos, phew. No dietician, no talk about surgery.

I have to say once I saw the surgeon last August it has pretty quick and to the point. No great discussions. I was expecting lots of information and guidence. Thank heavens for LapBandTalk and everyones willingness to share. Without it I think I would have been totally unprepared.

I have followed the restricted food diet for 4 days and gained 1.5 lb. I cant dwell on that point because I feel like giving up. I have, hand on heart not eaten anything that wasnt weighed and on the list so how I gained weight I dont know. But I am now switching to the milk only diet for the next 18 days. That has surely got to work?????

I am under no illusion that it will be easy but now I have had the pre op I feel like its the final countdown and I have to make the effort.

I am so looking forward to life with the band. :biggrin::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Well it's finally happening, I have my pre op appointment tomorrow and my band date is the 22nd of March.

I think I have to have some blood tests, an ECG and chat about the pre op diet. Then they take photos :biggrin: not looking forward to that!

I started the pre op diet on Monday (3 days early) just so I could get used to it and ask any questions on the day.

This countdown is so exciting

I can't wait to start posting my post op blog! I am so positive about it all.

Anyway I will let you know how tomorrow goes and hopefully it will help any Uk banders see what sort of stuff you have to do.

:thumbup:

I have an appointment to discuss the liver shrinking diet on the 4th of Dec but I want to start now. Can you tell me if it is basically the Atkins diet? Is it just as simple as only eating 30g of carbs a day because I cant believe you can eat stuff like butter and mayonaise and so much bacon and cheese? I dont want to get it wrong.

I am a complete carb junkie and I have just done my first week without them. I am nowhere near as hungry as I was but I have lost 3lb.

I feel the same way you do about eating habits. Its so hard to look at a plate of food without carbs and not feel something is missing. Then you feel deprived and who wants to feel like that all the time?

But I tell myself that its just the way I have been programmed and like a computer I just need re programming.

Good luck for the 24th hope it all goes well. x

They are very inspiring photos. I am waiting for my band too. When are you getting it done and where are you from?

Ah thanks. I have an appointment on the 4th of Dec with the dietician to start my low carb liver shrinking diet. It's starting to seem real now!

I finally got my funding. I can't believe I got the funding. My letter arrived from the surgeon with a DVD to watch too.

So I am on the list. I am so excited. I am thinking of my life after the op and thinking how things will change. I have to see a dietician and a psychiatrist but I dont think that will be a problem.

I have been visiting this web site for over two years and watching everyone go through the process and seeing how they have changed. And now it's my turn I know that the friendship and support I get here will help me change my life for the better.

Everyone here is so encouraging and supportive and so generous to share their down moments along with the highs.

I hope I can do the same and maybe help someone in my position. I have always seen successful people who say "if I can do it anyone can" and thought "oh yeah easy for you to say, youre not me" but who knows maybe it will be me saying that in the future.