scrappy_friend

Well I'm still alive and I have been shrinking some. This morning I was 238 the last time I weight that was 20 years ago. So I have lost 37 pounds since the pre-op diet and a total of 77 pounds since my highest weight. I got my first fill on wednesday that went pretty good it pinched a little but nothing too bad. I'm still trying to figure out if I'm filled enough or not. I make myself quit eating at 1 cup of food and my head at least things I need more. I do feel satisfied for about 3 hours after that. Everything goes down fine and not PBing or anything like that. I have been eating around 1000 calories a day and I normally eat cottage cheese or a banana in the evening because I am pretty hungry by then.

I am happy for the 70 pounds gone but most of the time i dont see it. I still feel huge. yeah this was my first real diet. i gained 6-7 pounds back as soon as i started eating solid foods and then i just platued for over 2 weeks that was really discouraging. i was eating way more before surgery than i am now so was really frustrating not to be losing. I am hoping now since i have started losing again it just keeps melting away.

i only lost 15 pounds since march 17th. i lost 55 pounds before surgery just dieting and exersize. So that makes a total of 70 pounds in the past 9 months. thank you for all your compliments.

The scale has finally moved i lost 5 pounds this week. Woo Hoo! I have a 9 year old daughter and she weights around 70 pounds and from my highest weight till now that is how much weight i have lost. I lost most of it with just normal dieting and exersize before the band. Now Im hoping to lose that much more in the next 7 months.

manda i am at the same place u are was banded march 17. and i quit eating only because i know i had enough. I am staying between 900 and 1300 a day and ive been walking 30 mins a day. i lost 13 pounds after surgery and i have gained about 6 back. i wont get my first fill till april 30 seems so far away.

i was red and itchy too i just put lotion on it, that seemed to help. when they seemed opened at first i just put the lotion around the cuts now im 3 weeks out and i just rub it all over.

i was also light headed and couldnt do much of anything for about 10 days i went to my post op appt and he cut my blood pressure pill in half and i started eating mushies within 24 hours i felt better. i was taking in less than 500 calories on liquids and now im around 1000 a day. im now about 20 days post op and i feel good.

I know as soon as i started eating mushies i gained 6 pounds i think my body was in a stravation mode on the liquids and once i started eating real food my body just held onto them calories. I am only eating around 1000 a day and i havent started losing yet. i also have notice that my legs and feet are a little swelled. I was taking a high blood pressure pill that also had a Water pill in it, and the dr cut that in half so now i think im retaining water. I have started walking the past 4 days so i think by next week i should be losing again. well i hope so or ill be on here gripin. I think we could all start off by saying hi im (insert name) and i am addicted to food. I have ate in secret. But we are all here to change that behavior and come out of hiding and we will do better. we will lose and we will no longer have a food addiction. we can and will overcome!

frances i love your pic you took. I will have to do that for my scrapbook. I plan on doing a small album of my weight loss. as far as Water goes i carry a water bottle with me all the time. i like to freeze it half full with ice over night and add water in the morning. stays nice and cold. that way.

hope all is well eve been thinking about you

i am sure of my calories and as far as exersize goes i havent done any since surgery. actually i have been rather lazy.

I have gained 5 pounds back now! im not too happy I am eating less than 1000 calories a day. I was eating 1800 before surgery and was losing a pound a week. Hope the scale soon goes the other direction. I was going to go walk yesterday and as I was putting my shoes on my hubby says its raining, so no exersize yet.

blue, i also had the shoulder gas pains for about 10 days to me that was the worst part of the whole experience. i used the heating pad and that helped and laying on my back seemed to help. I am 2 weeks out today and every now and then ill get a little in my shoulder blade but its not bad and dont last long.

I know i would be allowed the ham salad on the mushie stage. they suggested that i even grind tuna or chicken and add a little mayo to it and eat that.

I have told everyone about me getting the lapband a lot of people support me, a few didnt really like the idea but was not too bad. No one has been rude at all. I figure why hide it. Now heres is my problem for this evening i was down to 245 pounds on thursday. I started eating soft foods on thursday evening i have been eating less than 1000 calories a day but eating healthy well now i weigh 248. why am i gaining weight???????? before the pre op diet i was eating around 1800 calories a day and losing about a pound or so a week.

I GOT THE ITCH! what can i do to get rid of it??????? fenton at least i dont have to worry about belly hairs growing back that had to be horrible

when i went in for my dr visit a week post op the nurse just yanked them steri strips off. i would have taken then off nice and easy but nope not her was rip rip rip and they were gone. I think it took me a good 10 days to start to feel human again. i still get a little shoulder pain every now and then but not too bad i had a full week of that being misrable.

I am now 12 days post op and feeling good. Once i was allowed to start eating soft foods i felt much better. I was so excited to be allowed to eat an egg it was like gormet food. tasted soooo good. I plan on going to the support meetings starting in april so hope to see some of you there.

i think i looked prego too. I had measured my belly before surgery and then after surgery and i gained 1 inch. now i am down 2 inches at 10 days post op so give it a few more days

shoulder pain pretty much gone, lightheadedness gone most of the time, protein drinks gone forever i hope. now my next problem: I am eating soft foods now and they go down real easy and i really dont feel full so do i just quit eating when i know i have eaten 1/2 cup of food and be hungry till the next meal?

I scrapbook when i feel like it. I have started to write about my lapband surgery I am writing it all out then will mostly just add my pages in a hidden door or something. I really hate to journal but i feel it is important. My friend who had the lapband about 7 months before me has her layout planned with the two of us the title is friends from thick to thin

Im just allowed soft food but after weeks of protein drinks, bananas, cottage cheese and mashed potatoes are like gormet food now. Im about ready to go make me some eggs. yum

I had real food today! had my dr appt and he said things looked good ive been light headed and he thinks i need to decrease my blood pressure pills. he also said i wasnt getting enough calories well how can i get enough calories if im on liquids of crystal light and Protein drinks? the food went down easy i really didnt feel hungry when i started and wasnt full when i quit. so now i worry if ill be begging for a fill before its time.

YIPPIE i think my shoulder pain is finally gone! Around 2 30 today i noticed i felt pretty good and it might have come and gone a few times but wasnt that bad. Fenton maybe we need to warn you when we start talking about our undergarments dont want you to blush.

have u all been told not to drink from a straw? i think the reason was cuz it adds extra air. ive been drinking out of a water bottle with a end on the lid that can sort of spray into my mouth. Do u think that is adding extra air to my belly and maybe making me still have this gas pain??????