kellhale33

I was really happy with my surgeon 5 weeks out and started with 4 ccs go back in 2 1/2 weeks . I'm not at that sweet green spot so anticipating more for him to put in. I could definitely tell with 4 ccs put in

So for all you people on a diet out there who have never had a fill I say to you.....who the hell cares what people say?! Are you on a diet? NO do you have a band? YES and what's more... you know how to work it and make it work for YOU!!
That is really what it is all about, and the only thing that matters!
Honestly, you know we all have one and sometimes we all can act like one and I think sometimes people try and talk out of it!
Some of these posts...OK they know what they are doing is wrong and maybe they are looking for someone to either validate their behavior or maybe looking for some kind of penance type way of confessing their bad behavior or food choice to purge themselves of guilt, but that's what we are here for right?
We are here for support, for the ones that don't know any better, and the ones who should know better and the ones who know it all, the ones who know better then we do and those ones who like to think they are better than the best of the best can do no wrong right. No judgement
So sometimes you have to call them out, (and it can be fun) sometimes you have to just have to tell them that for every comment they make there are 101 others who have made that comment before and they know the answer. Maybe that is just what they needed to hear. Yeah it gets old, but hey when I first started my journey I needed to hear it all...even though I read the answers from the past I wanted to hear a current answer not read something 3 years old. I knew enough to say surgery and technology had changed and I wanted fresh example from someone today.
Ooo too deep for me at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon after fighting with my son about road tests and paper work! Is it too early to go out for a drink? Can I have one? Will that be too many calories if I skip my dinner and have a big ole mud slide instead?! Do I care....? I don't even drink...but today after that whole drama I want one!!! I want to go to Fridays and enjoy sucking down a big Mud Slide full of Kahlua Rum chocolate Syrup and whip cream in a cup the size of my head!! Usually that's about all I can fit...and I'm pretty pissed off right now...I'm sure I'll get home and that feeling will pass but hey don't judge me...it might just become dinner tonight! IS that bad....?

Just had my first fill today.Dr put in 4 cc . How much did your Dr put in for your first fill?

Sitting in Dr's office now waiting to get first fill, I'm real nervous but from what I have read it's not a big deal , we will see????

Hi, I'm Kelly just had surgery Dec 23 and still at mushy food stage. I'm very anxious for my first successful fill to see this actually start . I am as well feel very hungry a lot and dr told me to up my food

I don't know Kate

I had the lap band surgery, they don't remove any of your own body parts and it can be removed in future if you wanted. The weight loss is an average of 1-2 lbs a week it's slow but steady. Have you considered this type of weight loss. I also had doubts before I made the decission to have the surgery but glad I went through with it. I know I had to see a phsyciatrist and a nutritionist before Insurance would even consider covering the procedure, did you? I had to see psychiatrist 3 different times plus take a mental/personality test and she had to write a letter stating if I was mentally up for this, because it is more mental than phsyical. This is a lifestyle change and only you know if you want this or not, if not just keep what your doing, you said you were active step it up and hit the gym harder. I personally think it's much easier working out with less weight on my body, and it keeps getting easier

Wish they could of come up with a way to make the port not so noticeable after the weight comes off

to Mpeters do you feel restriction on the amount you can eat already? I deffinately can, I have to remember slow bites and smaller or feel sick real quick.

I had my lap band surgery Dec 23, 2014. I live in a small town 30 miles away from any normal life. I'm just looking for anyone with same surgery and support

I was really hungry once I moved back to normal foods too. Not sure if it was the transition to solid food, or that some swelling had gone down, or both. The first fill helped, I noticed that I stayed full a bit longer, and filled up a but more quickly. Just got my second fill yesterday, so I'm hopeful that being full quicker/longer will be more pronounced. Try to stay motivated, I know it's hard when you want to feel the results right away, but you'll get there!

I had my first fill 4 weeks after surgery...4cc's
was told to come back in another 4 weeks, and that I would be coming in every 4 weeks for at least 6 months.
Anyway, after my first fill, I started to GAIN WEIGHT!!! I too was a little hesitant about going in for my second post op visit...
My Dr. laughed at me....said all new patients are the same, we just don't "get It"
He explained everything the best he could to me, how the band worked, it is adjustable and can take time, explained why I had to come in every 4 weeks, explained the "Yellow-Green-Red" zone poster he had hanging on the wall.....
So he gave me my second fill, 2cc's for a total of 6, which was 8 weeks after surgery. After my second fill I stopped gaining weight....really did not loose either, just held steady until I came in for my 3rd fill....now 12 weeks after surgery...he gave me only 1cc, which now came to 7cc's total.....
That last fill, of 1cc, put me over the top fir sure....like many people here reported, I could not keep anything down, even trouble with liquids...this went on for weeks. called him to get that last 1cc taken out, but he talked me into waiting it out a little longer....I'm glad he did. It was not the band that was the problem, it was me...I had to to change to meet the expectations of the band....but that's another story.
I read posts her everyday from people, many who have just has surgery withing the last 90 days, sometimes as little as a week or two, complaining or rejoicing about the weight they either loosing or not loosing....
IT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!!! We're talking about something that will change you for the rest of your life (if you let it)...it takes time to get it all balanced out...took me 4-6 months before the band really kicked in and I started to loose consistently....took around a year before I started to feel comfortable and normal living well within the Green Zone...been there ever since, longer I'm there the EASIER it gets!
EASIEST THING I COULD HAVE EVER DONE!!!! But getting there was the hard part!
It's now 4 years and I don't think about it all that much...what and how to eat is now second nature, normal.
So to all those just starting out, stop and think about it.....give it a chance...give it time....and start now to learn the lessons that you will need to survive later down the road as the band starts to do it's thing. Lessons like a new way of eating. Which foods to give up. What kind of foods to concentrate on...and most importantly IMO, is how to "LISTEN" to your band, learn how it will speak to you and what it is trying to say....if you get stuck, etc, it's saying something!!!
And remember, in spite of the negative posts, this thing DOES WORK!
I have no fear of the Holidays, no needed strategies or challenges (other than enjoy myself) because I have learned to live with the band and let it dictate everything. Not me.

Congratulations on your surgery date. I was very nervous! I even cried when they made me walk down the hall to the surgery room. I wondered if I was crazy to have something done to a healthy organ (stomach). I kept reminding myself that I had two options, continue going up on the scale or be proactive and have the surgery. I had my surgery on Dec. 29, so I'm still very much in the sore stage. There's no turning back now.

have you found there are any foods you cant tolerate after the fill

I don't think the band is suppose to stop us from eating anything, or any amount of food. That is up to us. The band is to help us not get hungry between meals, and to stop us from snacking. We can still eat all through the day even if we are not hungry, small amounts of course. Those are habits we need to work on ourselves. If I eat something that does not agree with my band, I usually won't try it again.