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My surgeon doesn't sew the ports in as that way its more easy to manuever around and if it does flip he can try to wiggle it back in place w/o having to do surgery. *shrug* whatever made sense to me. But I can feel it when I rub my belly and it'd be easy to tell if it flipped thats for sure.

Oooo those sound tasty!! I'll have to check out the grocery store this weekend...

I'm not a huge fan of cottage cheese and when I was on my post op diet mushies stage I ate A LOT of it. But I figured if I am only eating a 1/2 cup at a time I'm not eating the nasty fat free stuff - so I ate the regular stuff and loaded it with dill and pepper. Made it tolerable. Actually all I ate for lunch on mushies was cottage cheese and all I ate for dinner was refried beans, that's it. I found something I could stick with and rode it out the entire period lol

I cannot for the life of me manage to drink the "64 oz a day" of water that we should be drinking. If I get in 18 oz's I'd be doing well. And it's not like I am chosing to drink other stuff over water I just chose to not drink anything at all really. It's 2:30pm here and so far I have drank about 8oz of water all day, other than that the only other thing I have had to drink is my protein shake for breakfast and one cup of coffee this morning. That's it. And that's how my days generall go (although I don't drink coffee everyday, just once in a while). And it doesn't seem to matter if I add Crystal Lite to it or not. It's more the aspect of drinking alllll day long as opposed to what I'm drinking. Grr.

Ahh okay I gotcha. Well under the circumstances girlie I wouldn't feel too bad about it. If they didn't put you on a strict "eat x y z" and then gave you something that has a side effect of weight gain then what do they expect! Good luck with everything and don't worry about the hijacking as long as there are no snakes on plane we're alright

Hey Southern Missy, I had a look at your post and just had a couple of questions (I did not have to do a 6 month preop diet thing)... 1) What is your 6 month preop that you have been on? On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being not so good) where would you say you are on it with how well you have been following the diet guidelines? 2) Is the medication that you have been taken known to cause weight gain as a side effect?

Hey Cowgirl, someone beat you to the punch by a day and started this thread yesterday... http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f112/feedback-jan-08-bandsters-56632/ you will probably find a bit more info on how everyone's doing!

Thanks! I really try to not beat myself up, I swear I do. my most recent blog post was a big eye opener to my thought process and has helped me to figure out why I've been so frustrated lately. I still get frustrated thinking that I am not doing it right (I have no restriction and don't measure my food, but I am only consuming 1200'ish calories a day and going to Curves 4x a week). I am looking forward to my 2nd fill Apr 4 hopefully it brings me to some restriction. The hair cut looks kinda crazy (that's a pic after a work out hehe). Can't wait to see your pics when you post them (and everyone elses!)

Altho I DO know you cannot donate within a year of having a body piercing or tattoo lol

Eh, ignore that- I looked it up, turns out I am crazy haha

Maybe I'm crazy but I thought that you couldn't donate blood within 6 months of having a surgery?

*big hug* Im not sure if I understand right but are you trying to decide if you go to either and if so which? If you can afford to make the trip I personally would go to say good bye rather than to say hello, there will be plenty of other chances to meet the new baby. Sorry to hear about your mom.

Wooohooo! Have a fantabulous time!

I use blogspot and find it very easy to use. Check out my link my sig if you are curious.

I'm not scrapbooking it per say but I am blogging it (link below) of which I will likely print it out along with the pictures that I will be taking along the journey and maybe put them in a book but nothing fancy like scrapbooking.

Very well said BooBoo, I couldn't agree more. And Laurend, I hear ya on the head smashing on wall smily lol

Well I have been bad, i still eat sweets I have always had a bad sweet tooth BUT I am logging everything I eat including my sweets and eating around 1200 calories a day. So, I'm okay with that for now. I figure, why deny myself - I'll just make myself crazy. Everything in moderation right.

Haha thanks! That's funny.

Alright folks, it's been 2 months, who else is going to be brave with me and post some "WIP" photos! Until I saw mine I didn't have any idea that there was a visual different to how I looked. But on the brave boots, show me what ya got!

Well I have lost 28 lbs (and 5.5"s) total (including 5 preop diet) and have had one fill (I will be going for my second on Apr 4 - 4 weeks since last one) and I still have ZERO restriction. So I have recently started counting calories and aiming for 1200 a day. I still struggle to get enough Water in daily. But I'm hanging in there, I get discouraged some days at my loss but remember that the band is meant to work with restriction of which I have none and that I too will have my day. Not looking forward to first PB though that should be... not so fun

heck no! Chuck them out - but don't forget to keep one as a "reminder" of your journey. My fattest "fat" pants I have kept and I wrote across the ass in a big sharpie FAT PANTS

Awww girlie, that gave me the warm fuzzies. How awesome and good on them. Oh man, I'd have needed convincing if that happened to me too to be able to go back. Some people really need to think before opening their traps.

You are looking fantastic! To maybe get back on track towards hitting your goal - have you been journaling your food? If not, why not start journaling until you get to where you want to be. That way you are accountable to everything that goes in your mouth! Use fitday or daily plate. It's easy to lose track of bad calories when you arent' consciously paying attention. You are doing fabulous and can do this! Dust off that saddle and get back on the horse! YOU CAN DO IT!!!!! Maybe make a little chart and committ to doing some sort of exercise everyday even if its just going for a walk for 30-60 minutes. Print it off, put it on your fridge where you will see it and once you have completed the days exercise initial that you have done it. Now you are accountable to yourself too. You don't want to be staring at your chart realizing you are skipping days when you KNOW you are wanting to make that 100 lb goal. DO IT! Heh. Good luck, you know what they say- kick ass and chew bubble gum and well we aren't allowed to chew gum so you have some extra ass kicking to do!

Just giving this a bump in case there is any new interest.

I'm not sure I had an exact "a ha" moment but one of the contributing moments would have been this past summer after a family get together for my grandparents 60th anniversary. Someone must have been taking pictures with my camera which I left laying around and in the random shots of someone else, I was in the background walking out a door. WOW. When I saw that picture it made me cry. I've been overweight my entire young life and I guess it just never really hit me how bad until that point. Not long after that in the fall I was researching my lapband options.