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The advertising bothers me only because weight loss surgery has become such a huge industry. I like my doctor but I was just one among many that get the operation on a monthy basis. It's pretty evident that many people are not prepared for the surgery. All you have to do to know that is to read this message board for a while. I'd like to see standardized diets, a six month prep period (yep it would have driven me nuts, but I would have done it) that would include nutrition training, counseling, and exercise programs. It would be great to see people coming out of surgery all prepped and ready for their recovery period. I would like the doctor and not the insurance company decide if the surgery is necessary for a patient. The success rate might rise if they did all those things. Just my two cents worth.

I had three ccs put into a 10cc APS band and feel restriction. I was banded about three months ago. It's really very common.

Ah, sweet, Froggi. Enjoy.

I love my pedometer. It keeps me honest.:biggrin2:

My doctor put in three ccs during surgery and I haven't needed any more. I have restriction. It keeps me from overeating, yet I can eat most things, really. I don't think the band is meant for forced starvation. Good luck.

Sweet potato fries baked with a little teriyaki sauce on them. Oh my. Or take the sweet potato fries,dip them in an egg white and bake. The do get crispy and lovely.

I bought a good pedometer (omron) and started the 10,000 steps a day thing. I have a bad knee and even steps were getting too challenging for me. It was a big motivator for the surgery. The first two weeks I walked only 8500 steps, now I make the 10,000 easily. I go to the gym and spend one hour on the tread mill at an incline of 1.5 and a speed of between 2.5 and 3.0. My heart rate increases and I sweat a lot. After I return from Sweden I think I will start some lap swimming or something. I'm so frustrated that I can't find an adult deep Water aerobics class. I so loved that program when I did it a couple of years ago.

Kids don't have to have candy and sweets every day. If you allow treats on occasion it will be fine, I think. In Sweden they get candy on saturday, it's a sort of social tradition. My grandkids only have a little candy on saturday and don't ask for it the rest of the week. It might be work instituting something like that. Perhaps associating it with exercise. Walking to a nearby store to choose some candy?

Precisely, although I've had never failed to reach the bathroom, it's hasn't always been by a comfortable margin. The only reason I associate it with my gall bladder removal is that I specifically asked my doctor about it after the fact. Stress and/or fatty foods will do it every time.

I think you have to tinker with it a bit to find out what works for you. While I think it is crucial to follow the doctor's orders during the post op recovery period, the period after that (the rest of your life) is more dependent upon what works for you. I have three small meals a day plus two Snacks and have a hard time coming up with 1200 calories. Less than 1200 calories and I simply don't lose.

I take centrum chewable, but I did take the liquid centrum before that. I don't care about the taste, it's a vitamin, I need it, I take it.

Please make sure you pursue having your lungs checked. It very well could be panic attacks because they are almost exactly how you describe them, but even if is not, you need to know what is happening. Best of luck.

I have dumping syndrome associated with a long ago gall bladder removal. I was just noticing the other day that it had disappeared since I was banded.

A small carton of blackberries (158 grams) has only 68 calories.

Breakfast: 1 cup fat free milk 1 6 oz carton of yoplait light yogurt .5 cup of all bran extra Fiber (all blended in a smoothie with vanilla and cinnamon) Lunch: 1 cup shredded iceberg lettuce 1 oz mild cheddar 2% milk cheese 3 oz Classic Crab .5 small tomato 1 tbsp. Kraft light Catalina dressing Dinner: 2 oz chicken 1 tbsp miracle whip with curry power .5 cup green Beans Three bottles of Water, 1 large glass of iced tea, 1 large mug of coffee. For a snack I had half a cinnamon raisin bagel with 1 tbsp. weight watcher's cream cheese.

I sometimes have the Classic Crab artificial crab meat (made with fish and crab). The leg style is about the size of a string cheese and three have only 90 calories. They come fully cooked. I also make crab cakes with them and have them in salad. Good Omega threes, too.

I agree SElaine.

Plenty of "normal sized" persons can't eat a full portion at a restaurant in the US. The portions are nearly obscene. Why should someone who had surgery get a cheaper meal when a person who needed no such surgery gets no discount? I just order appetizers or take home the left overs. I reckon it evens out for when I did eat "all I could eat" and paid the same.

Obesity may be a disease, but everytime we put a bite of food in our mouths that is comfort eating or binge eating or just plain overeating, we are responsible. Alcoholics and drug addicts make a decision each time they abuse their chosen substance. We may have a proclivity to food addiction or to eating addiction, but WE make the decision to feed it. I think it's extremely important to claim responsibility for our feelings and our (in the past) poor choices, in the same way we can now claim responsibility for our GOOD choices. Feel the power, babies, it's awesome!!:sad:

I don't really think that the make of band makes much difference.

It might be a good idea to also get your daughters some therapy to help them deal with food issues . . . Just a suggestion.

I don't so much control how much I eat, calorie wise, but I keep track of it, cause I didn't get morbidly obese by guessing accurately how much I ate. :sad: What I am noting is that I have a couple of three hundred calorie days a week (at least) and that isn't particularly healthy.

If you are struggling with your emotional drive to eat, then perhaps you should consider some therapy to help you get to the bottom your reasons for doing so. I'm not saying this to be rude, but I really think that getting a lap band is getting a new lifestyle and if you keep that same old baggage around lurking in the corner, it's just the same old #### waiting to happen. Good luck to you both. Yes, I did have some therapy years ago. After losing 60 pounds a man asked me on a date. I said no. Within months I had put the weight back on with extra thrown in for good measure. Therapy did help me deal with it.

I have read some research on this and it does appear that it is the body's reaction to depleted nutrient reserves. Some bodys do it and some don't. It will grow back. One study I read said that obese people tend to have full and shiny hair cause it is so well nourished. That would describe mine, all right. :sad:

http://www.thewalkingsite.com/10000steps.html Click on the link above to find out about the program. The goal is to walk 10,000 steps a day. I have been doing it for a week and a half and I'm liking it pretty well. I did it a few years ago and it worked then too. Short walks during the day, parking far from the store, taking the stairs, all these count. It might be a good motivator. Just invest in a decent pedometer. I bought an Omron.