desertmom

Hi I weighed again today and dont know if I should continue this.I am up.....3 pounds in total after 2 days of this.I had severe body aches all over last night.Was very cold,actually had to get a second blanket for a few hours.Thought I must be losing weight for sure but low and behold Im up this morning.....Dont know if this is the result of going from low carbing to this but I dont want to gain any weight,even if it is water....mentally it is so bad for me at this stage...:cry:faint: This morning I had my first cup of coffee in 3 days and I had milk in the coffee as well.....now I look at all the fruit I'd bought and cant decide if I should go on with day 3 or should just go back to low carbing .....dont know.......why am I not losing weight?I am 100% good,dont cheat,exercise hard... ok,10 minutes later and thevfruit looked so delicious that I am now on day 3 and wll not weigh again until day 7.Well,that would be the ideal....:nervous

hi I just want to lose some....

hi I'm now wondering about the weightloss too...I am up 2 pounds after day one and not feeling to good about this....ok granted,I was low carbing before day one and I always am up some when I go off the low carbing but this scares me as I stayed in this place for a month longer to lose another 4 kgs not to gain....I could have gone on holiday did I think I wouldnt reach my goal...yeah,crazy to plan a holiday around weight but this is my reality...I can gain so much so fast that I have to plan around it...wanted to be well under 100kg's so that I wouldnt go over it again and voila,today 101.6... I will carry on with day 2 and see....I dont cheat so if this thing will work I will see results....off to exercise now.. Good luck everyone...

not nausea no....but I do know that this will be gone once the band is out....i've had 2 complete unfills for long periods of time and then I am almost symptom free...so upwards and onwards get the weigth off.....

Kathy you are right.But the tylenol must be the sugar free one...the ordinary Tylenol that has sugar in it makes me more "hot" inside.... Anyway,sometimes an ordinary pain killer takes the pain in the back plus the reflux and heartburn or rather hot feeling inside away...know it sound strange but after 15 months I know all the tricks of the trade...and some days nothing helps....also I know the aloe vera helps for a lot of people,well it made me worse.... The point is I think that different things seems to work for different people and what works today for me doesnt neccessarily work tomorrow.....for instance why do I still have this burning sensation after I've now had the unfill? Leener,I hope you can sort it our or come to terms with the way you feel (easier said than done in my case )but at least I have now decided to just try and lose the weight and then take the band out.....now I am struggling with the 50 odd pounds I still have to lose...a lot but I am sure I will do this before my 2nd year of having this band is over...and then I will set myself free form this neverending fire in my insides.... anyway,good luck.....

Hi Well, when all is said and done this day didnt go to badly for me.....after every cup of this Soup I had a period of some "hotness" in my insides.also with the fruit but it is almost 22:00 and I am feeling ok....might actually not suffer tonight and might sleep well.... Jill,the apple was just to early in the day.But I do need to eat something to be able to take my tablets....so tomorrow with the vegetables maybe I will have some soup and a carrot before I play squash.....have to eat something or the running and bouncing makes my esophagus feel "hot"...and that sounds so stupid but well,the hot feeling came back with the to tight fill and didnt leave with the unfill...after months of not having it...Kathy,canned fruit sounds wonderful but I will eat way to much of something that soft.....I am still a glutton when I can manage to be so I dont make it to easy for myself to overeat. Am very fearful that the veg and fruit have bumped up my calories to much and that I am going to be heavier tomorrow not lighter....(I am so crazy paranoid about everything I eat...am really stepping out with this diet....) Ok,hope this goes well for all....I for one am going to stick this out until the end of day 7..

hi Kathy, I also hope this band can handle the vegetables and fruit....(I have started by trying an apple this morning and hours later I am still cwewing it) I really need a change of something to lose more weight.It feels like the devils has me pinned down on 100kg and I just cannot break through this....I exercise for longer than an hour a day,stay well beyond 1000 calories and I am bouncing the same 2 pounds all the time...and it is not that I am cheating....physiologically I should be losing a ton....but Im not...... I hope that this diet will help get through that stall.... PLEASE keep posting what you lose with the plan..... ok,day 1 and I weigh 220....... Good luck to all...

leenerbups Sometimes when I feel really hot in the insides and pain in tummy I now dont take any antacids but I take 2 500mg panadol/panado/paracetamol tablets and it really not only takes away the pain but also the heartburn,hot feeling....dont do this often but once a week at least I am fedup with the discomfort and then I have a nice normal day...well for most of the day at least. Keep the faith...try to just live from day to day....Its hard to hear nothing is wrong that means nothing can be done for your symtoms but meds.... I must say if I was having only good days lately until i messed around and got a fill that was 2 tight...now even after unfill...well...I am getting there...

hi am I allowed to drink some tea while on this diet?Cant drink coffee,dont drink fruit juices. I have been low carbing forever and am so sick of it....I am going to cook my soup in the morning and then it is me and this diet....cant wait for all the vegetables and fruit.... Thanks

Me...It is not like a full asthma attack but my chest tightens and I wheeze...It started again after this last fill I had that was to tight and it gave me reflux....had a .5cc unfill but I still have a little reflux and the chest thing every night....It is also usually 4 hours after I go to sleep that this happens... The only thing thats ever helped before was a complete unfill for 2 months.....empty band...... Hope you can sort this out.

I have a lot of scar tissue aroung my port....a lot ....some people just makes scar tissue and as I have had a lot of little fills and unfill....it just seems to get a little more all the time...lumpy.....the dr says it is still ok...when I do plastics they will move the port and take the scar tissue away...

I am still at 219 but I have a huge amount of lose skin.....arms,legs, stomach,boobs,chin....I exercise a lot ....with skin you have good genes or bad genes...guess what I have...however I would live just like this forever if I can just be thin.....

hi Not everyone have the same experience with the water...it took me a year to figure out that the water makes it way worse....so...might work for some,might make no difference in others...I'm also still learning...

Hi Some people,like me,just have to live with the heartburn and reflux....coffee will make it worse...and then there is the thing of eating to much....not what you think is to much though... Again,the only thing that really seems to make the reflux less is cutting food to well,really only half a cup per meal....and half a cup is nothing.....having lived with this for longer than a year and having tried absolutely everything this is the only thing that really help One other thing that contradicts everything they say about the band...when I have bad reflux and heartburn...I cannot drink Water...it absolutely makes it a lot worse....then I tend to drink very little,eat very littl until it feels better again... Please try this and see..it took me a long time to take the advice of eating even less and not drinking water when refluxing....and I do regret not doing it earlier....I use to say,but I am eating hardly anything...well,now I eat less...and it works....

Oh,one thing...do let the dr unfill you completely for a while...with the meds it will give your stomach proper chance to heal..I refilled a little to soon I think.... Good luck and I am thinking of you...

Hi I havent read the replies of everyone else so if this have been said....forgive me... I have been banded 14 months...have suffered severly with stomach pain and mid back pain...read all my posts about it.....my band is not positioned correctly but that in itself should cause the pain...or so the gastro enterologist tells me.... Long story short.....I have been diagnosed with H Pylori 2 months ago after the scope found I had a pre-piloric ulcer.(I had the breath test about 6 months ago and that was negative).... After being treated with the antibiotics for a time everything changed....no abdominal pain...hardly any back pain....no "hot esophagus"..(that use to drive me absolutely insane)..nothing...... after 2 months now (and 2 quite tight fills..) the symptoms are slowly coming back...hot feeling,stomach ache...back ache in afternoon....I am sure that the treatment wasnt long enough....I was only on the 2 antibiotics for 1 week with the nexium that I take every day.....others have been treated for 3 weeks with antibiotics and ppi. I must say that the physician that is helping me now says that he thinks it will a recurring thing because of the fact that I cannot eat in the morning and take meds in the morning....and because I am prone to ulcers.....so... This is the first time in 14 months that I have come across anyone with more or less same symptoms than me.....I felt so alone for such a long time in this I must confess......felt like I was crazy as no one shared experience and dr said he was happy with the band being that high I should just eat very little... Please persue the issue of the H Pylori.Let the dr put you on the 2 antibiotics and PPI for a few weeks and see what happens....I really have hope that that might be the magic you also need.....it really put me back on the weightloss track and other than having a fill that is surely to tight I have been feeling so much better since treatment...I still feel the band and still have some discomfort but not the intense pain I used to have.... Good luck and dont let anyone tell you it is nothing...

hi I feel so frustrated when I read this.Your band is to low and mine is just to high,no pouch....my esophagus houses everything I eat when I have restriction.But neither dr's want to take responsibility.... The issue I have with this is that they get away with it and someone else might end up with the same amount of trouble and pain I have had over the past year...(and still have mind you.)..and I cannot do anything about that...... I hope you can do something that I didnt manage......

Cheryl A lot,if you dont eat less.....When I had a stack of complications,one the band being to high and I have no pouch...people kept saying eat less...I thought I was eating almost nothing anyway they were crazy....it took me months to realize I just had to eat less....even less.....less.... After the fill you will have to eat less than now... I didnt get any pressure or any stop eating feeling.....only some time after I finished I would get a terrible pain that lasted for hours sometimes... Now I just dont even attempt to eat more than a cup of food at a time...that is only if it is half Protein half vegetables....protein only..half a cup....sounds crazy....I should be at goal....alas....it also seems the less I eat,the slower I lose ...but at least no more pain with eating....

Hi Seppi I had an emtpy band for almost a month in December and I am sure that eating normal and healthy...sort of....helped to cure the constant "hotness" I had... good luck....

Hi I have never had heartburn before the band and for a year after I had the most horrible hot feeling in my esophagus and stomach......I never got used to it...never...it is really the most horrible feeling that just felt like it sat at the front of my brain and I couldnt concentrate on much of anything while feeling like that..... It is gone now...we have prayed it away.....and they treated me for H Pylori and an ulcer and I feel that I can now deal with the pain I have abdominally and behind the band....I feel restored as a person since it has been gone.....

Hi It must have something to do with restriction and what I eat and dont when restricted.It has never spread.I had an endo a month ago and even my esophagus (whatwith all the heartburn and reflux I had in the last year) looks great...so,who knows....I do however take an inhaled crotico steroid for my lungs and that might also cause it....however I do rinse my mouth after using it. Good luck with your band.

Hi Since being banded I keep getting oral thrush on and off.....I either just use daktaren jel or mycostatin for a day or so and it is gone....I have no idea why this happens as I have never had it before in my life...also sometimes it starts I brush my mouth,use mouth wash and then it goes again....so it is ealily treated,just not sure why it happens....

Susan, You must have really good restriction.That seems like perfect "bandster's" portions...... Great going.

Change in behaviour with eating will only come through healthy eating habits....and even filled the band dont really allow that. And we still think that this is the long term selution to our problem with food? My cousin had an obscure duodenal bypass operation 6 months ago...before that this lady couldnt stick to a diet for 10 minutes.She ate huge amounts and always loaded her food with extra fat..(I often wonder how we could weight the same because I thought her habits were insane) One of the side effects of the operation is diaree when consuming to much fat sugar or carbs....it took her about 4 months to change all of her habits...the first 4 months she tried to fool the op...spent most of her time on the loo...mourned the loss of food,rebelled cried and what not.....now she eats differently....vegetables 5 serves a day...3 fruit...3 Proteins...3 healthy carbs.Low fat,no added sugar......and the behaviour modification is working because the pay off is good health and normal time on the toilet........ And I still struggle to have restriction so that I can lose more weight....and I have an ulcer and I know 100 percent sure they will have to remove this band at some point....so what will make us modify our behaviour and what will be the long term payoff to keep it like that? Why do we still cheer this operation?I'm just asking because here they are all of a sudden doing more of this operation than ever before and other dr's now specialize in complicated removals....all at the same hospitals,all making a killing financially off fat people's misery. Now again,dont get mad...I am battling seriously with these issues and sometimes asking relevant questions can change things for others,somewhere in the future.....

Hi No,no malpractice anything here......the dr.flies in from Europe does some operations and then goes home.....and the problem is they dont even admit that something is wrong.He told me before that he was happy with the placement of the band..... Anyhow,things will work out.Somehow they always do....I am just frustrated that I am not losing weight and still have all these issues....I started on a 1200 calorie a day eating plan and will stay on it for as long as possible and see what happens.......