Jazlady

Sounds good to me. Is anyone else still following this thread or shall we start a new one posting the date/time?

Weekends are bad for me. My vote is Tues, Weds or Thurs for 6 pm at the Picadilly in Gretna. (I get off at 5 and work across the river).

Again looking for a weekly support group meeting. Not sure where a middle place would be. I know Picadilly has a private room. There's one in Gretna.

Thanks for the great advice. My problem is that I'm not sure if I need a fill or just an attitude adjustment. lol

Please advise! I am 2 years out and lost most of my weight and then have gradually gained back 30 pounds by eatting bad foods. I've have 3 fills and 1 unfill. I am scheduled to have another fill on Thursday because my volume has increased so much. For a few months I started drinking Diet Coke again because my nurse said that there has been no proof that it can harm you. But I've since given it up again, about 1 month now. I'm afraid I've stretched my pouch. I also drink during meals most times. But I can eat sub sandwiches, bread of any kind, and of course all the bad stuff. In fact, I haven't found one food that I cannot eat. I am not eating junk although I have eatten a lot of carbs. I don't exercise regularly either. I'd like some advise because it will cost me $150.00 for this fill. My nurse is going to try and talk me out of the fill since the last time (over a year ago) I was too tight. I'm so disappointed in myself and don't know how to get back the motivation I once had. Thanks, Jeanie

I've eatten them without a problem except for the 'eye'. Sometimes I need to swallow it in small pieces.

My daughter is going to study in Paris for a month this summer and needs a lapband doctor and hospital as a backup. She's being banded 6 wks before going. Send me name & numbers if you know of any. Thanks, Jeanie

Hi, I'd love a support buddy. Can we do it privately thru email? Please write me at jazlady999@yahoo.com. Thanks, Jeanie

I can so relate to your post. My lapband journey happened so fast I found myself going from a 22 to an 8 in about 6 months. I hadn't been that thin...I think...ever. I didn't know this new person who kept getting all this attention. I got scared. I slowly started back the old eatting habits and found some new food addictions too. Now, I'm slowly crept back on 20 lbs. and 3 sizes. I'm scared like crazy. Did I waste my good precious money? Am I hopeless? Well, I decided it's got to stop. Today it's back to basics. I'm going back to liquids today. I need to purge my system of sugar, flour & oil. Plus I need to get my butt exercising. I was really proud of myself in the size 8 but scared. I need to work on why all the attention really bothered me.

Always use straws...no problems. But I do gulp too without problems. I get so thirsty.

I would have to say for me the emotional eating has been the hardest part. I'd advise to really work on this before lapband. What has made me happy is knowing that I can still eat whatever even if it's in small bites. Like on holidays I still eat all the dishes I want but now it's a teaspoon of each. Believe it or not it does satisfy me. It's different than being on a diet and 'not' being able to eat it. The one things that's really hard to understand until you get banded is that you really do get full and are satisfied. It does take awhile though for your head to learn that this small amount of food will be enough to make you full.

I'm actually starting to miss the attention of people telling me how 'good' I look. Now they've adjusted to the new me. But what boils my blood more than anything else is when I meet new people who only know me now and they talk to me about fat people. It's like they look at me at this size and think I'm one of them and it gives them the right to put down fat people. That's when I have to tell them that I used to be one of them. You should see the looks on their faces then.

TYPO - I meant it will NOT limit the liquid calories.

I have so been where you are. I am a compulsive overeater too and I can honestly say 1 year post lap-band that the band does stop the compulsion except when it comes to mushie/liquid calories. In other words, it will limit my amt of popcorn but now limit my amount of ice cream because the liquid will go straight thru the band into the lower stomach. So, am I still a compulsive overeater? I would say that I'm a sugar addict instead. If I practive overeating real food, the band will force me to throw up. But once I eat candy, ice cream...any of my binge sugar foods it is hard to stop. The band doesn't stop that. That's where it's the head problem. But it's all a process. I am so much better off now. Jeanie

I've been feeling great but have had my share of problems. Mostly emotional and not physical. But even still, lapband was the best decision I've ever made.