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Hummus! And celery.

A friend of mine lost weight rapidly without WLS. She had her gallbladder removed the year of that big loss.

How inspiring! Congratulations!

I'm six months post banding and no regrets. I honestly can't remember when I started feeling "good" but take that as a positive. A few months down The road, you will have trouble recalling this discomfort as well. I was mentally prepared for the post op difficult time and the liquid diet. I think I may have been truly happy the first day I got to chew food again. Lol. That was six weeks post op. Actually I was happy about my decision pretty early. Yes there's discomfort but it doesn't last. Good luck.

09/21/2014 207.0

Three pound loss this week. Woot woot!

4oz of Sunsweet Prune Juice Lite has made a difference for me.

I'm a little past halfway and got back in my groove two weeks ago. I ditched daily weighing, started the 5:2 intermittent fasting diet, and started working daily intensely on the psychological issues underneath my food addiction. I'm back on track and feeling more energized than ever.

Adorbs!

Eye exam today. I could lean into the exam machine where you place your chin on the pad and your forehead on the top part. Before losing 90 pounds, my boobs got in the way and it was a real struggle to get my face in there. I had to laugh and told the eye doctor why I found it so funny. Got a "congrats" out of it!

Lol

I just want to post that I am so glad to have ditched the habit of weighing every morning. I feel so much better and more confident. This week was very good with the food. I only had fried food once and it's getting easier to avoid it. I find it hard to believe that I'm enjoying celery sticks. Celery sticks with cream cheese, with hummus, wrapped with roast beef slices. Yum. It satisfies that crunch need that I have. Most of all, I am actively and intensely working on the issues that contribute to my reaching for food for comfort. This is a critical part of my success over the last two weeks with food. I focus every day on this. As for the 5:2, I feel healthier and don't seem to get as hungry after fasting days as I did the first week. I think my band has adjusted to lower volume. I can get stuck on solid meat easily if I'm not slow and careful. But I'm still able to eat big salads so I have to consciously slow down. Looking forward to weighing in tomorrow but only because I feel so skinny and I'm eager to adjust my ticker! Lol. I went to the dmv this week for a new driver's license due to moving and registering to vote. I told them my real weight for the first time EVER. I didn't even care that I probably weighed less than the number I told them because I hadn't weighed in days. That's truly amazing.

Wow. Scary stuff. Please keep us posted. My only slightly irritating event was the nurse having slight trouble injecting the port, but only once in four fills. Even that time was s successful. I am always filled under X-ray. I even end the fill by swallowing two Tylenol arthritis caplets under X-ray. I never want to be so tight that I have to crush my Tylenol. Please keep us posted on what develops. Also I get the local anesthetic to numb the port site. Why opt for pain when I can skip it? That's only a small pinch.

Thank you for your honesty and kudos to you for never giving up on yourself and your health. I learned a lot reading this and I hope I will always listen to my body and seek help as soon as something doesn't feel right.

Ah, for me a sexy bra is one that condenses all my sagging deflated skin from the front and sides and armpits into front facing, perky boob-like illusions. Yay for weight loss in your fifties! (Still preferable to my old life by far.)

90 here and so excited for all of us!

All the blessings of your new life are coming true! Congratulations on your son! And keep posting. We are all here for you!

Dayana4100, this is not normal. Mine have been very easy. What happened that put you in the ER? I don't do any prep except to make sure I DO eat a few hours before since I have to go on liquids afterwards for 48 hours. Please explain how you reacted.

I do much better when I don't snack between meals. Three meals a day is best for me. When I snack it wakes up my appetite. I aim for satiety, not fullness, during a meal, and relief from hunger for four to five hours between meals. My band seems to be at the right fill level now. If I eat meat too fast, I get stuck. But I can still knock a big garbage salad out very quickly if I don't slow down. So for me it's the type of food combined with how I eat it. At this fill level, I am really understanding how longtime Bandsters can cheat the band and run into problems. It makes me nervous and makes me want to be careful.

Woo hoo!

Beautiful, honest, and so inspiring. Best of everything to you!!! Enjoy your new life!

Welcome to BandLand. Be gentle with yourself. Soon the pain will be behind you and your new life begins!

My shoes kept falling off too. I just bought some new ones.

@@esskay77, my first job at fifteen was in a movie theater. You. Don't. Want. To. Know.

@@gowalking, tell it! My band helps me a LOT. It really does and I love it. But head hunger or even real hunger combined with that "ants in my pants" feeling can cause me to overeat anyway. I'm still learning about what my band does and doesn't tolerate. I've learned the hard way that it happily tolerates a giant tub of crappy greasy movie popcorn. Over a month of bouncing up and down and up the scale finally taught me that I'd better help my band help me. I don't want to be so tightly filled that I cannot take a Tylenol or enjoy a meal. But with that privilege comes responsibility. I have to eat well EVEN WHEN I DON'T FEEL LIKE IT. Emphasis added for my own thick skull.