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everyday I have an Adora Calcium Chocolate - it fills that chocolate craving and I get my calcium - the dark chocolate ones are SO good! You can get them at whole foods stores.

My doc said go back when I felt like it. I had surgery on Friday, and Tuesday I worked a 1/2 day and Wed. I went back full time. It wasn't until the next Monday (about 9 days after surgery) that I felt almost 100% again. It was bearable to work at my desk job though - I just had to lean back so my tummy didn't cramp up, and walk around as much as I could.

I know, I know - I have some low sugar granola bars in my desk, so I ate one of those and got over the craving,,,,, it just pisses me off sometimes!

I have thought about getting a new tatoo - but not a tatoo of a lapband. But mostly, I think about getting a flat tummy and a new pair of big old perky boobs when I reach my goal weight!!! Yeah Plastic Surgery!

:help: Ok, I know this topic has been discussed a thousand times, but I just need to re-visit it again and bitch for a moment about people who bring CRAP to work for everyone. My office has 5 people in in - 2 of whom are out of town right now, so WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY does one girl bring a HUGE box of friggin donuts!!! If you want a donut, fine, go eat one, but don't bring a whole box where I (the person with the food issues, I mean, HELLO I have a lapband and they all know this) have to walk by the box of donuts all day long, because they are still there because 3 freaking people can't eat a HUGE box of donuts. I'm sure the girl that brought them ate one and that was it,,,, but for me, I have been thiking about that donut all damn day! I am not going to eat it (which I would have pre-lap band) because I am in control and I choose not to eat the donut,,,,, but that doesn't help the fact that all I have wanted to do all day is eat that sour cream donut drenched in icing. And she told me "if you want it just eat it and then work out longer." Ok Barbie, it's taking everything I have to work out at ALL, much less longer. Whew, sorry, I just had to vent. I know you all understand the pshycological battle, I just wish other people did and wouldn't bring freaking donuts to work, when other people in the office have asked MULTIPLE times that if people bring junk food to keep it out of sight in a drawer in thier office. I even made a reference to that today and she still hasn't moved them - it's been 7 hours and the donuts are still on the counter in the community kitchen. I am going to kill someone! :help:

I finally got it unstuck. I think it was the jalepeno skin that caused the stuckage. Anyways, use upmost care and proceed with caution if you eat those little buggers! Now I am drinking some warm broth, it feels fine now. Twas pretty bad for awhile there!

So, I have been sitting here at my desk for an hour now, staring at the computer while spitting up slime every 5 minutes into the trashcan below me. Just wanted to warn you all not to eat jalepenos - I have one stuck right now, all the PBing in the world isn't jarring it lose, and everytime I spit up slime I feel a burning and can taste the jalepeno juice. Just wanted to issue a warning that that is one food you DO NOT want to get stuck!!!!

I never knew there was different sizes either until I saw my doc 2 months ago for a check up and I remarked that I had alot of scar tissue and that I wanted to get a tummy tuck someday, and how would that effect my port - and he said it wouldn't affect my port but that I might want to change to a smaller port. So, yup, there are different sizes. I guess the best way to start investigating as to a change would be with your original surgeon.

Another thing I forgot to mention on my post - when I got my surgery this guy waiting for his wife who was also getting surgery that day told my husband in the waiting room that she hoped the band would help her not eat so much, but that nothing could make her give up her oreos and chocolate milk she has daily. These people are why the band has an "average weight loss" of 50-65% of excess weight. Like everyone else has said, it's the band PLUS the choices you make that define your weight loss, not the band itself. Plus, everyone is different - clearly the band didn't work for GeezerSue, and LaMadam had an erosion and is at goal without a band. I am a slow loser, but I don't let it get me down, because I feel great, and I think I look pretty great, and I have more energey, and I am never going to give up on getting to goal. Point is, I don't think the #'s people say are defining of where you will end up - they are an average. In every average there are people at one end of the scale and people at the other. Forget what other people say to expect and just do the best you can do!

I have only lost about 65-70% of my excess weight, and maybe that's all the band does, but the band has taught me what I need to know to lose the rest, and I am bound and determined to lsoe it through my band, diet, and exersize! I know it will take plastic surgery to lose the last 5 lbs or so, but I will never give up. Those people who say you can only lose so much are full of BS!

Thanks for all the reassurance that everything is fine. I think I just need a fill, and I am getting one next week. Also, I think I spent the last 3 months worrying about the bar exam (which is why I have been MIA on this board) and now my mind doesn't know what to do with not having anything to worry about, so it is back to worrying about my band! My fickle, fickle band! But oh how I love my fickle band anyways!

The amount I can eat, the type of food I can eat, the speed at which I can eat, etc - it's different everytime. Some days I can eat alot, other days not much. Some days I can eat bread, other days I can't. Some days I can eat 1/2 a lettuce wrap, some days I can eat 2 whole lettuce wraps. It's driving me crazy!!! I used to just not worry about it, but for some reason this past week I am worried about it. Everytime I have a meal where I can eat more I worry that my band has slipped and that's why I'm eating more. I'm paranoid. I am going to get a fill next week - I know that is one reason I am eating more. But that leads me to another question - how come the fills are so so so tight at 1st and then 3-4 months later I get back to where I can eat almost a full normal size non-bandster dinner. Why does the feeling of the fill go away. Last thing - alot of times when I eat the first 1/2 of the meal feels almost as if they are going to get stuck, but then usually, kind of all of a sudden, the band opens up and I can eat more easily. Any thoughts?

Ok, so I am definatley not pregnant. The Doc says my period are wacky from the band surgery. I know some people on here thought 7 months was too long after surgery for the surgery to still be affecting my cycle, but Doc says that's what it is, and that I can expect it to continue for as long as I'm "drastically" losing weight as she put it (I would never define this slow process as drastic, lol). Anyways, just wanted everyone to know that apparently the surgery and weight loss can affect your period for ALONG time. The good news is it's nothing serious.

Ive lost all 46 lbs without exersizing (I walk every now and then but not much). I plan on hitting the gym after I take the bar exam though. I have a feeling that the last 40 lbs won't be easy to get off. Plus, exersize is really good for you!

I have days like Friday when I ate 5 chips with salsa, 1/2 a chicken enchilda, 1/4 of a cheese enchilda and a beef taco for dinner. Then I have other days like last night where I ate 1/2 a kids burger and 5 french fries. My band is weird and most of the time I can eat the same amount but every now and then I have a "loose day" where I can eat alot and eat faster. I don't know how to explain it, but I try to just not worry about it.

I have been at this fill for awhile - could use .2 more probably.

I first set my goal at 150 and then I was like, I didn't even weigh that in high school and I was think back then! So, I changed it to 160, which is maybe 5 lbs less than I weighed in HS. We'll see. I like worrying about my more practical mini-goals, rather than the overall picture.

Awww, you poor thing. PB's suck!

I will ask for a blood test on Wed. I'll give ya'll an update. As far as my port, it's feeling alot better this afternoon. I guess maybe I slept on it funny (or my whole body is just SICK that the Mavericks lost the game last night,,,, I am pretty upset over that!)

sounds like gas, it's normal. Walking helps.

1st, I woke up this morning and my port hurts. Weirdest thing. I almost never feel my port but it's sore. Does anyone ever just randomly have port soreness? 2nd, my period is 2 weeks late but like 10 OTC pregnancy tests have said negative. I have an appt with the OB/GYN next week to see what's up. Since I got banded I had irregular periods for the 1st 4 months, but the last 2 months things have been pretty much timely and normal, but now I am late. It's hard to tell if I feel "pregnant" b/c being in law school and now studying for the bar exam, I am ALWAYS tired, moody, nauseated, etc (from all the stress). So, I guess I am wondering if anyone knows if it's possible that I could be pregnant, even though the OTC pregnancy tests have come up negative.

Drumroll please. So it was a week late, but I hit that 1st mini-goal this AM. The scale has me at 199.4!!!! Whoo hoo. And what's ironic is that I blew off my health kick last night and splurged on Mexican food. I'm not feeling too guilty now. Anyways, it's hard to believe it's been 4-5 years since I saw a number starting with 1 on that scale. It's one-der-ful to be in one-der-land!

I go through this same thing everytime I get a fill, so I stopped getting fills. It's too soon after surgery for your body to have worked it all out yet. The 1st 2 months was a mental battle, and just when I got better I got a fill. I probably could use another fill, but I'm not going to get one yet because I hate the expereince of feeling like you feel. I'm still losing at a pound a week so I'm fine with that. Your weight will fluctuate at 1st, especially when you are hardly eating - and there is a reason liquid diets don't work, you fluctuate weight --- the band liquid and much diet is for HEALING. You are HEALING. When you are done healing and you get a rythym things will be fine, I promise! I tracked on fitday.com for 4 months and that really helped. Don't worry so much about your protein, calories, etc. Just forget that, log it on fitday, and eat what you think is sensible, and see what fitday tells you after a few days. You may find that eating sensibly without calculating everything everytime ends up being just what you needed. Hang in there, I promise it will get better. I lost weight the 1st 2 weeks, and didn't lose anymore for 6-7 whole weeks and I was devastated. But, my body worked it out and now I'm losing steady. You will too, you have to give it time. We're always here for you, and I promise more people than you and I went thru this and you'll be fine once you heal and adjust! HUGS!

As far as I know, and I think I researched this issue more than anyone b/c I am terrified of dying, I could not find one case where someone died in lapband. I found 2 deaths from complications afterwards, but it is because the people did not seek medical care. My PCP has a patient who's stomach lining got punctured in band surgery, but she had a good surgeon who knew it happened and she got medical care and was just fine. There is a case of this happening and the woman ignored the symptoms and didn't seek medical care b/c she didn't want anyone to know she had been banded. Point is, you will not die. At worst you will have complications which you will seek medical care for and ultimatley be fine. I was so scared of dying in this surgery b/c I had never had surgery before --- it turned out this surgery was easier than when I had a twilight sleep for a colonscopy! Anyways, I invite anyone else to research and see if they can find a lap band death. I couldn't.

Ok, So I weigh 202 today and I hoped to be in ONEderland. Close, but no cigar. Anyways, I'm still pretty happy being this close to ONEderland. Also, just wanted to share my biggest NSV thus far - I'm graduating from law school at 2 pm today! I'm so happy, I have worked so hard, and I'm just so darn excited! And the best part is, now that I have lost 43 lbs, I will actually let people take pictures of me to remember this day by!