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These events obviously clouded my mind. When I went for a refill yesterday (20.1.09) I checked my levels and fills in my file. I had 0.7ml put in before the stuck episode. During the stuck episode he took out 3.0ml to ensure the food cleared, thankfully. Yesterday he put in 2.0ml and I am at great restriction although it may take a few days to settle.!

I acutally come here most times but am too embarrassed to post as my weight hasn't moved much in a long time. I have been cheating and I did lose my way - you know the honeymoon is over - and everytime I looked at tickers and saw how much people were moving or had moved, I would get a little disappointed at my own efforts. That didn't help at all. I need support but I don't know if I can trust myself in following through with promises and the advice. It all comes down to state-of-mind and up till yesterday when I could eat anything in large amounts my mind was all wrapped in chaos. Now that I have good restriction again, I will be back and posting more often. I am less busy at work too, which does make a difference! I have to convince myself that the next 10kg will be worth it, as I am quite comfortable with where I am at the moment!

tapshoes I hear ya! Yesterday was replacement fill for the 3ml I had taken out just before Christmas for my big stuck episode. Since then I have been able to eat anything in any quantity! Today I am on a new road. Since being able to eat anything and cheating for the most part of three or four months I am going to get myself right again. Today I ate and will eat the usual sort of breaky and lunch with a different dinner: B: Porridge with banana L: Cottage cheese with fruit (today it is mixed berries) D: Grilled fish with salad. With this refiill I already feel better. I have restriction again and I am not hungry and looking for something to put in my mouth every minute. I have to work on the physiological side of my eating behaviour now.

I live in Eltham but work in the city. Happy to catch up for a coffee somewhere in town if that suits.

There would be no harm in the alcohol as long as it isn't too fizzy and you don't have too much of it. Fizziness might and make you burp too much irritate your band site so just be careful.

That deserves a celebration! Well done and keep up the good work. To concentrate that long to lose that much weight deserves a medal. Congrats.

Ooops! :tounge_smile: Yeah I meant 0.7ml, how stupid of me! No I did't get the 0.3ml put back in. I had too much restriction before having it out and I wasn't keen on going back there. Having rested it for a week now I think I need a slight adjustment upwards, but probably only 0.2ml at the most. When I go back in late Jan I will have some more put in. Tapshoes, you are right. Sometimes the brain doesn't engage with the mouth to chew so much that it forgets, and swallows too big sometimes...

B: porridge with banana L: Mango (we have a box of 24 to eat!) with a slice of pizza D: Spag bol. Ex: 1 game netball tonight :thumbup:

Just thought I would start another Thread (did we have this one before and it has gotten lost) on what you ate today. I love the one on the main site, but there's far too much on there us Aussies may not know or be able to obtain. It's a great site for ideas for meals. Me I am pretty much eat the same thing daily except for different dinners. I would like different ideas as I am open to trying most foods. I lack much creativeness with my food I am afraid. I will lead: B: Porridge and banana L: 125g Cottage cheese and sliced mango S: Cup of tea and biscuit (to come) D: Fish and vegis (to come)

Pah..2kgs before the end of Jan.. I did that over the weekend! (see "horrible experience" post). Unfortunately the loss was due to being blocked, but I still lost. Hope I can capitalise now that my restriction is near perfect.

Hi guys I hope you guys don't go through I went through on the weekend. I had another fill on Tuesday night, giving me awesome restriction. In fact I thought it was slightly too much as I wasn't eating enough. My gut feeling was right as by Friday it had obvioulsy settled as I had one stuck episode after another over the weekend. The first two 'stuck' periods resolved themselves within an hour and were quite minor, however, eating baked potato, cheese, sour cream, beetroot, bacon and coleslaw absolutely floored me. A couple of mouthfulls into my meal and I could feel a blockage. So I stopped eating (much to my chargrin)! Then the slime started, then the PB'ing, then the major slime started, then food with the slime. Normally the offending piece of food goes down within an hour or two. This one didn't. It was painful beyond explanation not only in the band area but all of my chest hurt. I couldn't lie down, I couldn't sit comfortably, I tried to walk it out to no avail. I slept upright in the lounge chair all night wondering if this could be a heart problem. All through the night, I was still PB'ing. In the morning, I tried drinking, to no avail - everything that went in came back up immediately. I rang to see my surgeon, who unfortunately was in surgery until 1pm. So I had to wait - I didn't think I would make it to be honest. I was in in so much pain, and the pain intensified each time I vomited. My surgeon was terrific, he withdrew 3ml (from the 7ml he put in on TUesday) and the pain immediately subsided. I felt whatever the food was pop through too. I could breathe properly and I could now walk properly. But best of all I could drink and keep it down. So for 18+ hours I was in agony for a small piece of food that I can only think was a piece of cabbage that I didn't chew properly that was blocking the entire entrance to my band. This is a very good lesson for someone who still hasn't learnt to chew her food properly! I will have to be more careful when I eat now, as I think I am closer to being at the sweet spot than ever before. I hope you never have to endure the sort of pain I went through! PS. I used to be 'vomitphobic'. In fact I hadn't vomited in more than 2 decades. I have vomited more in those 2 days , than in my entire lifetime! I think I am sort of used to it now.

Thank "god" for another fill. I had 0.7ml put into mine on Tuesday and thankfully I have a good restriction. Let's just say I am not making much progress with my stir fry beef and vegi salad I just bought. I had been able to eat anything I wanted for quite a long time (months) but had only put on .5kg which is good considering I have eaten myself stupid on jelly lollies. I know naughty me. I would like to lose another 2 kilos before the end of January. Considering I have been on plateau for many months that may not be achieveable. But I am thinking positively and with this last fill am going to do it! Good luck everyone.

Aussie_jules you are a success no matter how you look at it. 30kg in one year is an ASTOUNDING amount of weight to lose. Don't get depressed seeing other losses and comparing it to your own; I did that and it sent me to the chocolate! I had 30kg to lose, but stopped at the 20kg mark due to a plateau. This plateau has been going for months and even though I play netball 5 times per week, the weight won't shift. I am a little annoyed that I am in this position, but I still think that 20kg is a large amount to lose. No matter what you think, or how you look at it, you have done a wonderful job already. Hugs

Vez My port sticks out to but it doesn't cause me any problems. I occasionally will brush it with something, and when I go to bed I lie on my tummy, but it really doesn't bother me. Actually when I went for an unfill recently my doc said that it was sticking out, and that it was unusual. Maybe because I have no weight left to lose off my upper body! It is a small piece of wonder, that reminds me that I have something in there. Occasionally I will feel it to remind me what it was like to feel my babies feet sticking out! You may have to have this repositioned if it is causing you problems.