gweniper

I am not sure if any one mentioned it to you, but my surgeon and his nurse both told us that going back on solids (soft foods) not to be surprised if you stop losing or even gain a few as you have been on liquids for so long. by the way you are doing great keep following the rules your surgeon set up and you will do great.

least favorite: bat wing arms and saggy droopy boobs favorite: a much thinner face and no longer have multiple chins

Indio, sorry I was posting and my coputer is slow so I didn't see your post until after I posted. Ok so they are not foreign owned, but as others have said they too have locally owned ones that do not allow support of the vets. sorry but that is my experience. thanks for doing the snoops thing to prove that corporate Target does in their way support the vets. they need to bring it down to the local level so that the average person sees that they are being pro-vets.

I am not sure all the ins and outs of it but my husband and I refuse to shop there because of their stand on vets. they refuse to support them even in the simplest way of letting them set up their stands for the donations with the poppy flowers. someone told me at one point that it is because Target is owned by a foreign company....who knows but if they won't help support the vets I won't support their business

veggie juices are good helps get your servings of veggies in, surgeon suggested this to my hubby and I but we were told absolutely no fruit juice like another poster said...eat the fruit get the fiber

Diane, it sounds like a pituitary prolactanoma (sp) my husband has one. they did not find it until his mid 20's but it started growing at the start of puberty for him. he has to be injected with testosterone every other week ( they have tried different forms but he tends to be allergic to many of them) he also has to take bromocriptine (sp) daily for his prolactin levels which are high. right now he is on maintainence doses. the neurosurgeon 8 years ago did not recommend removal as it would cause him more trouble than the problems he already has, his new on says that things have changed enough over the years that it could be safely removed through the nose, but as she can no longer see it on the scans, she does not think we should mess with it. good luck and my prayers are with you by the way he has been banded and has lost 94 lbs can be a slower loss but still he is losing. the only thing that the surgeon wanted to make sure is that there was no cushings disease also.

I second that yummy

IMHO, it sounds like ketosis to me, I went through it and my husband did too in the weeks proceeding our surgeries (pre-op diet) and post surgery (post op diet) and yes breathe is horrid. we neither one wanted to be near the other as both of us had stinky bad breath brought on by the sudden diet change. mostly liquids in pre-op and liquids post op good luck know that it does go away but you may want to see your pcp to rule out anything else.

Name: Frangipani Weight loss from day of surgery: 91 lbs Total weight loss: 97 lbs Name: Candle Weight loss from day of surgery: 87 lbs Total weight loss: 101 lbs Name: Salsa Weight loss from day of surgery: 93.5 lbs Total weight loss: 93.5 lbs Name: Pammycakes Weight loss from day of surgery: 88 lbs Total weight loss: 90 lbs Name: Ceradad Weight loss from day of surgery: 85 Total weight loss: 105 Name: KarenG. Weight loss from day of surgery: 79 Total weight loss: 79 Name: NanaRenan Weight loss from day of surgery: 52 Total weight loss: 72 Name: TexasBecky Weight loss from day of surgery: 96 Total weight loss: 106 Name: SPEBSQSAlady Weight loss from day of surgery: 57.8 Total weight loss: 57.8 Name: Brandottie01 Weight loss from day of surgery: 23 lbs Total weight loss: Name: Bergdorfblonde Weight loss from day of surgery: 32 lbs Total weight loss: 32 lbs Name: Gometros Weight loss from day of surgery: 52.9 lbs Total weight loss: 74.9 Name: Pizzicato66 Weight loss from day of surgery: 66 Total weight loss: 78 Name: Valstar Weight loss from day of surgery: 52 lbs Total weight loss: 57 lbs Name:Gweniper weight loss from day of surgery: 50 total weight loss: 84 Name: purplegirl1818 weightloss from day of surgery: 73.5lbs total weight loss: 90.5lbs Name: LessNLess weightloss from day of surgery: 51lbs total weight loss: 57lbs Name: JudiM weightloss from day of surgery: 62lbs total weight loss: ?? Name: hf2havefun Weight loss from day of surgery: 35 lbs Total weight loss: 50 lbs __________________

I agree I use the Altern when I use sweeteners which is not alot. I use it in recipes instead of sugar and it works fine for me.

yum.....spudnuts but not since way before banding afraid they will get stuck but also don't need the carbs..... but still yum

my question is why label the 21 month as overweight at 26 lbs? my daughter has always been at 50 percentile for her weight at check ups. she was under 20 lbs at one year, but was in the 95th percentile for her height. she had bad tonsils and continually had strep. by 17 months we were told 2 years or 25 lbs that was the magic number. we had to get pediasure to help her gain weight. IT took a while but by the time she was 19 months we barely had her at the 25 and got the ok for surgery. (very necessary as she was on antibiotics continually to get rid of the strep.) that was in 2004 she is now 5. she is in the 85th percentile for her height (45 inches) and 50th for her weight (41 lbs) making a combined of 20th percentile which we have been told is perfect, tall and slender. (but try finding clothes, it is hard pants always fall off) so how is 26lbs at 21 months overweight?? makes no since to me. yet I can see concern for that child because the cycle the others are in 224lbs by 12 that is alarming. my thought was man she weighs more than I do at this point and that is not good.

yesterday I went to my pcp for my fasting blood sugar testing (diagnosed pre-diabetic july 06) while talking to the doctor he suggested that I might be able to get off of metiformin (sp) if my a1c's were still looking good. I guess the last ones were good. I was excited and then the nurse called this morning and confirmed that I was to discontinue the meds. that my A1C's are doing much better. 5.4. this after 3 months following surgery I am happy. :bounce:

that is the schedule my husband and I have too. only difference is if we need a fill before that we can call and make an earlier appointment. the doc will see us and help us determine if a fill is needed. I.E. I had been losing weight steadily and only needed one fill, given at 6weeks post op, (I have APS 10CC band) I had 1.5cc in band, then two weeks after my appointment I was suddenly hungry all the time. called went in and he gave me a .5cc fill. he said that as I lose weight that it is coming off the stomach too and so all of a sudden the band loosened up on me. I have had a fill each visit since then and am up to 3.2cc in my band. weight loss has slowed way down though and that is discouraging. :angry_smile:

here are pics of me and then of my hubby

Name: Frangipani Weight loss from day of surgery: 81 lbs Total weight loss: 87 lbs Name: Candle Weight loss from day of surgery: 81 lbs Total weight loss: 95 lbs Name: Salsa Weight loss from day of surgery: 81 lbs Total weight loss: 81 lbs Name: Pammycakes Weight loss from day of surgery: 84 lbs Total weight loss: 86 lbs Name: Ceradad Weight loss from day of surgery: 80.5 Total weight loss: 100.5 Name: KarenG. Weight loss from day of surgery: 74 Total weight loss: 74 Name: NanaRenan Weight loss from day of surgery: 45 Total weight loss: 65 Name: TexasBecky Weight loss from day of surgery: 88 Total weight loss: 98 Name: SPEBSQSAlady Weight loss from day of surgery: 55 Total weight loss: 55 Name: Brandottie01 Weight loss from day of surgery: 20 lbs Total weight loss: Name: Bergdorfblonde Weight loss from day of surgery: 28.5 lbs Total weight loss: 28.5 lbs Name: Gometros Weight loss from day of surgery: 52.9 lbs Total weight loss: 74.9 Name: Pizzicato66 Weight loss from day of surgery: 74.5 Total weight loss: 76.5 Name: Valstar Weight loss from day of surgery: 49 lbs Total weight loss: 54 lbs Name:Gweniper weight loss from day of surgery: 48 total weight loss: 82

husband and I just signed the petition too hopefully you get enough to fix this problem

thanks i have been looking for one of these to use

did I just read in another thread that you are pregnant congrats did they say how far along you are as you have thought of it for oven 6 weeks now?

I did what I was told I could; complain about MY experiances and hopefully find someone with similar feeling or complaints, yet I have been personally put down. But you did it not in a thread of your own but in a thread that if you had read it was obviously one where we were discussing DieselAngel and her problems that were obviously untrue. good luck to you and I am glad to see that you opened your own thread now maybe you will get the info you want.

several people have stated that if you have a 10 cc band that 3cc is not much. My first fill he put in 3cc and had to take out 1.5cc because it was too tight. I have had 3 more fills of .5 cc each taking me to 3.0cc. I have good restriction but when I saw the doc today because 2 hours after a protein drink (unable to eat in morning) I am hungry and craving sugar, he decided that I should get .2cc. Just because you have a 10 cc band does not mean you have to have it filled lots and aggressively to feel restriction. EVERYONE is different. I have to have smaller fills, I will live with that. My husband has to have larger fills he has like 7.5 in a 14cc band. good luck

down to 215 did not make either Gweniper 218/211 curr 215

I filled out your survey as for asparagus ans celery just havent tried it yet but love both

my port is on the right side and only one major incision. 4 small incisions.

the 2 main surgeons require it, they require 10% of weight to be lost. I was required to lose 25 and my husband 40. there is another surgeon that has started doing the surgery but know little about him he is not connected with the other 2.