HeatherA

Yep, look at many of my older posts... I lost 12 pounds and gained upto 3 pounds. I then played yoyo with those pounds for about 3 weeks then it was gone and has stayed gone. Just be patient and stay the course. You won't regret it!

Ok... you got it friend! Maybe we'll have something to celebrate at our get together on the 9th!

I sorta do/sorta don't feel my first fill. I can pretty much gulp Water, not chug like I used to. I sometimes can feel that I need to take a moment before eating anything else. But everything seems to be going down just fine. I'm still hungry and I can definitely eat a cup or so at each meal. I'm hoping my fill next month gives me a bit more restriction.

I'd love to go to the fashion show!!! Count me in! The next time I go to for my fill (2/21) I will get the list of dates for this year for Riverside. Usually the meetings are the third Thursday of each month. GB patients are from 5:30-6:30 and the LB meetings are from 6:30-7:30. The meetings are held at 500 Thomas Rd. Rooms H&I (Next to Riverside Hospital)

Is anyone out there consistently using their treadmill for exercise? I just bought one, to replace the one I had a few years ago and never used, and I've used it for the last 9 days in a row. I'm trying to not do the same workout each day, but only time wise. I average between 15-66 minutes a day. I try for no less than 20 minutes. My speeds so far are 2.5-3.0 (I did do one minute of 4.0 at a slight jog yesterday) with no incline. I plan to increase this and hopefully get to where I'm doing between 30 minutes to an hour each day with increased speed and inclines. What do you do on your treadmill?

This is my first time joining a challenge so I'm going to be kind of conservative. NAME ... Start Weight ... Goal ... Current Weight ... To Go HeatherA ...... 255.6 ...... 225 ....... 255.6 ......... 30.6

Yes! I actually getting stomach pains when hungry now. I usually go from fine to starving in about 30 seconds and that's when they start. It's very odd.

The size of your fist clenched is about the size of a cup of food. You always have your fist with you. :-)

Hi Seebs! Welcome. I am so looking forward to the 9th! It seems so far away!!!!!! I'm glad you're going to join us. We should have a pretty decent turn out and I can not wait to meet everyone!!!!!

I just started working on my treadmill last Sunday. I've increased from 15 minutes to 35 minutes. I'm aiming for 60 minutes and then I'll start working on increasing the speed and incline. So far I do about 1/2 and 1/2 at 2.5+ to 3.0 and I've done it every day since. I'm loving it... not the working out part... but the after effects.

Here's an article similar to the one referenced in your post: Welcome to AJC! | ajc.com

Anyalee, You are very lucky that you've had it that easy. I was banded 5+ weeks ago and have lost 15 pounds since banding. I can say without a doubt that since being banded, for the first time in my life, when I say I'm starving I mean it. I have been dieting my way through the first several weeks until I get restriction. Eating 1200 or less calories a day. For some reason, since surgery, I can go from being fine to "starving" in about 30 seconds. I actually have physical hunger pains... something I can not remember having in my lifetime. So please, just because you are not experiencing something, don't expect everyone else to be exaggerating. Congrats on your great loss!

I think it would be great if anyone with clothes to share would just bring them to the get together. I plan to dig through my things and see what I can come up with. Someone might be able to use them and if not they'll be ready for the donation box :-)

I have lived on this forum since I started my process. I think it's saved me because I'm the type that likes to know what's coming and what to expect. The good, the bad and the ugly. Of course like most of us, none of the bad stuff will actually happen to me! (said tongue in cheek)

Thanks everyone, I thought I'd share. So many of us go through the exact same thing and it's such a frustrating situation to be in. However, I just realized that if you average my 15 pound post-op loss over the 5 weeks I've been banded then I'm at about 3 pounds a week. That's a terrific number! If it weren't for this forum I'd probably have eaten the house in the last few weeks.

I've complained many times that after surgery I lost 12 pounds in a week and then NOTHING. I actually kept going up and down by 3 pounds for the next 3 weeks. Then last week the three pounds went away and I was back where I was the week after surgery. I stayed that way for several days and then yesterday woke to a .7 loss. I was in heaven!!!! Went and got my first fill yesterday and this morning I awake to a 1.9 loss! Seems that all of my hard work paid off and I am thrilled that I did not give in like I used to. Instead I stuck to my diet, added exercise and rode it out. That's a first for me, in the past I would have gotten discouraged and thrown it all away by chowing down on foods that make me feel better. I'm very proud of myself. I just thought I'd share for those of you still going through the same experience following your December surgery.

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! March 12 with be here before you know it!

Well I'm home and filled :-) I have the 10cc AP band and my doc says that I had 3ccs at surgery and then he put 2cc in today. So I have 5cc and I can feel a little bit of restriction when drinking. We have to drink a 8 ounce bottle of Water before leaving the office and I was able to do that with no problems but I could feel it going down and I couldn't chug it so I am happy. I hope this sticks around. My "food" for the day is a smoothie from Planet Smoothie... 22oz and it's got whey Protein added... it should take me all day to drink it. LOL Mushies tomorrow and the next day if I need them, but then I'm finally free to go back to "real" foods. Yippeeee! Thanks for all of your replies!!!!

I'm heading out in a few hours to see my doctor and hopefully get my first fill. Surprisingly enough I'm not very nervous... yet. I plan to not watch so that I don't see that great big needle I keep hearing about. My doc is pretty conservative so I don't expect to feel any restriction afterwards. How many of us December bandsters have already gotten filled? What amount of fill did your doctor give you? Curious minds want to know :-)

I started in October and was banded in mid-December. I think from seminar to surgery was 2.5 months. For my surgeon I was fast tracked because my INS was changing Jan. 1.

You sound about average. I lost 12 pounds in the first week and then it stopped. I played with a gain of about 3 pounds for the next 3 weeks that has just finally come off. I was bummed when the rapid weight loss stopped... actually I was bummed when any weight loss stopped. Enjoy it while it lasts.

I'm just starting... we bought a treadmill on Sunday and that day I did 17 minutes at speeds ranging from 2.5-3mph and 15 minutes yesterday in the same range. I am planning to do it 7 days a week until I force myself to like it. :-)

YOU DID THE RIGHT THING! I was banded exactly a month before you and for most of the first two weeks I thought I had made a horrible mistake. I too was nauseous and miserable. At day 11 or 12 I realized I was starting to feel better, by day 14 I was feeling much better and by day 30 I was pretty much back to my old self! You will get through this... I promise! One thing that helped me with my nausea was to stop my prescription pain meds and switch to tylenol. Within a day or so the nausea had passed. {{{HUGS}}}

That's very sweet. I'd appreciate it! I live in capris! I can't wait until I can donate my clothes to those who need them! Maybe we can make this part of our meetings as we all shrink away.

I don't think I've ever owned any 18s! LOL I hope to be in them by summer though... congrats on moving into size 16! I can't wait to meet you on the 9th.