FrancesMP

wooooohoooo for a little boy EJ i am soo excited for you :lunch:

as far as the u/s not being clear dont be worried....it happens... when i was 14 weeks they couldnt find the hb on the doppler and sent me for a u/s they just do these things to make sure and if they thought it was serious than you would have been sent for a 3d or 4d u/s with a peri doc who knows more....

i have one more u/s and i cant wait....we are going to find out just how big this little girl is before i have her :w00t: i cant believe in 2 weeks i am full term and she could come anytime :wub:

EJ your little boy is just fine (just to let you know sometimes boys can be girls LOL so just prepare yourself...the cord can be mistaken for a penis) i know we found out girl at 18 weeks and didnt have another u/s till 26 we were so worried they were going to tell us boy LOL but it was defintly a girl....girls are easier to figure out...and less likely to change to boy..but boys can be girls LOL just a little thing to remember...but i am sure your little man is a little man

HUGS!!! soo excited for you

Hey everyone i havnt been around for a LONG LONG time and i am sorry been soooo tired!!! only 6 more weeks till my little girl is here and i am so excited...i am up 14 pounds right now and feeling good... but the band does have its days were i cant eat as much but so far no unfill and no problems...

i am so excited this summer is going to be the summer of banded babies :biggrin:

EJ only a few more days till we know boy girl for you huh!!! i cant wait girl i think girl love ya hun!

Good luck to you all!!

hey everyone well i was spotting and i was really concerned but it is all turing out ok....i had to go to the ER bc of it and we saw the ultra sound and we saw the little yolk sac...i went had a repeat of blood work and all that and well i have great news.... Sunday my beta level was 3989 and i had spotting so i had a repeat beta yesterday and they checked my progesterone.... my beta was 8543 so it went up.....YAY which means great great things and my prog. was low...so i have to get on some prog pills to help lil baby peep grow till the placenta can take over....they said that is prolly why i was spotting also...i feel so much better so i am starting those tonight Thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers...they also moved my first appointment up to sept 5th from the 10th so i will get to see baby than...and we will get to see a heartbeat by than **fingers crossed**

well i wish the best of luck to all of you....just remember dont stress about it.... we werent even trying and look at what happend LOL...

EJ MY LOVE:: i feel it coming hunny...you need to talk to you doc about getting some progestron to get your cycle going again...and i would get the answer ovulation kit...its like 30 sticks for 20 bucks..that way you can test a lot....

to everyone else....i will send you a lot of baby dust...just keep being positive it will happen i promise!!!!

i had bad pcos...irreg. periods....we tried 2 years with no baby....finaly we put it on hold i had surgery and the month we decided to start trying NEXT month..i get preg that month LOL so yeah!! its possible!!!

BABY DUST TO ALL and much love!

Well its weird...we tried for 2 years before the band...than we decided this last month we would start trying for a baby my aug cycle...aka the one that never came....bc i am PREG!!!! we are in shock and excited and super happy!!! we got preg with out even trying God is amazing and the Band is my best friend!!!!

Our Lil Peanut is due April 22nd 2009.... The band really can help someone get preg.... God bless everyone!!!

Hey this is a great idea....i was banded on 3/6/08 and i am down 28 pounds....looks like we are all doing great!!!

I go for my 2nd fill tomorrow YAY!!!

HEY EVERYONE!!!

sorry i have been MIA lately been busy...anyway..i am having a small crisis frustration whatever you want to call it...So the other day i went on a really long bike ride...and the next morning i woke up super bloated and just feeling like blah...anyway i figured that i would have lost some weight right...NOOO i havent lost anything in like a week now..and i am getting frustrated because I am working out everyday and eating good...i can only manage to get in like 850-900 calories in a day...suppose to get in like 1000 but i cant ...and now i am wondering if my body is going into starvation mode bc i am not getting enough in and that is why i am not losing weight???

Any suggestions on what i should do...how to get more calories in?? i get in plenty of Protein....i am so confused and frustrated....and i am also starting to get hungry a lot of the time and i don't get my next fill till may 6th but i want to lose some more weight before that...

I am feeling like a failure right now and i am getting really depressed about this...bc i feel like i am working so hard and now all of a sudden having no results.

:tt2: HELP !!!

well i finaly hit 20 pounds down from surgery YAY and a NSV i went and got a swim suit to the other day to work out in and i got a 18/20 YAY!!!

anyway here are pics showing my progress....

Hope everyone else is doing great too

well everyone i had a NSV and a SV today.... NSV was that i went to go put on a pair of 18 pants and yes they were tight...but they buttoned :cursing: so only a few more pounds and i can be a 18/20 woohooo as for my SV i got on today and i was 247 so thats 2 more pounds down...i want to be down to 243 by tuesday when i get my first fill that would be 20 lost since surgery but i dont think that will happen....but maybe 2 more pounds...Keep up the great work everyone we are all doing so good!!

YES YES YES!!! i am scrapbooking also.....i have been slacking on it but i took the pic well to Celebrate the number but to also put it in my scrapbook :bolt:

and i carry a Water bottle with me EVERYWHERE!!!

Hey everyone....only 5 more days till my first fill and i cant wait.....soooooo need it!!!!! but something cool happened to me yesterday morning :bolt:

YYYYAAAAAAYYYYYY

anyway....I think i am doing ok...i am down 15 from surgery and about 31 since feb 15th so things are going good...and i am down 39 i think it is from my highest so i am happy....Hope everyone else is doing great just think...last month we were not even close to this weight loss so we are doing great....

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!

hey everyone!!!!

sounds like most everyone is doing well and moving onto soft foods for the most part.....YAY

Well i had a terrible day yesterday besides the fact that i have not lost any weight in a week..grr....and i was backed up so bad.....i hadnt pooped in like almost a week....grrrrr....and i think that had something to do with the no weightloss which is really starting to make me angry....

So yesterday i went to the mall with some friends..and we walked and i felt good and we went to the food court and i didnt eat anything just drank some Water and i felt so sick i got soooo nauseous....it was terrible the smells of the food court ugh...... anyway i got home and i ate some food thinking i was just hungry and NOOOOOO i felt worse....

SOOO last night....i went and got some milk of mag., prune juice, and some prunes (those ones those new ones) i took some of the milk of mag...drank some prune juice and took one of the prunes...and nothing...but this morning YAY i pooped it was the best feeling ever in the last week LOL and i have been having the runs all day (sorry TMI) lol i better get on the scale tomorrow and see the scale move down....if not i am going to be lost for words...

Anyway....the weird part of this all is the last week after i eat sometimes i got really bad shoulder pain...and i asked my doc and some people on the forums...and that is my sign that i am full or overate...sooooo for those of you that are having some shoulder pain that might be what it is....today while eating dinner i started feeling a little shoulder pain..and i stopped eating and it went away....dunno just thought that might help some of you...

Hope you all are doing well...lots of prayers to all of us to lose lots of weight and see that scale move...

Much love!

Frances

Hey everyone!!

Well hubby didnt hide the scale from me...when i woke up and went to go to the bathroom...there it was...just looking at me mocking me saying stand on me frances you know you want to LOL....and it won...but...YAY when i did it read 251.6 i was so excited....so maybe there was a good reason he didnt hide it yet...but i was so mad when i went in there i was like...hello scale why are you sitting here.....so i called my hubby and was like why didnt you hide that gosh darn scale and he was like i did...but i took it out to weigh myself and thought you were going to want to so i left it...i was like OMG that was the point of you hiding the scale so i dont use it LOL he was like oh sorry hunny...MEN sorry Fenton...i still love you

Anyway....i just thought you all would like to hear that my hiding the scale thing didnt work.....well i need to eat and go to the store and get the stuff i need for the weekend...

Talk to you all later!

HIDE THE SCALE!!!!!!

thats my new thing...... HIDE THE scale HIDE THE SCALE!!!!!!!!

I am having a hard time with the scale thing....i need to hide my scale because every morning after i pee i jump on that scale...and NOTHING but maybe a .2 difference......so i am going to make my hubby hide it from me and only bring it out on sunday mornings....

Well i did a menu plan and that seems to be helping me today with not going crazy.....and it is helping me know how much to eat so i dont over eat and i make sure that i am eating healthy....i just cant get the scale to move...

253,252.6,252.4,252.8,252.2 GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR i just want to drop those 3 pounds and it can sit at 249 all it wants till my fill LOL but i want under 250 dangit!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey everyone!!!!

Well i am having a hard few days.....i think i have entered bandster hell....my apitite is back...i am on soft foods so anything i can cut with a fork....and i am eating like 6-7 oz of food i am going nuts....today i think i ate a little too much because i have felt sick all day sorta nauses but other than that i am ok.....just having a hard time just like you Fenton.... I am eating too many calories i think espically the last few days....and i am not seeing any movement in the scale....

I am going to go hide the scale LOL and i am going to go pull my hair out...i am seriously going nuts....i dont get my first fill for another 2 weeks.... HELP what do i do....

Hey everyone!!!!

Well my easter went ok....I hate just a little of all the foods I knew I could eat and it went well....

FENTON:: my sister in law...she said sorry for being such a $*% and being negative I have no idea where it came from but it was funny!!!

Anyway I see the dietician today and I am nervous.....I noticed yesterday that I am entering Bandster hell....I was able to eat about 6oz of food last night when I got home for dinner.....ugh.....HELP!!

Much love to all my lil shrinking shamrocks!

HEY EVERYONE!!!!!

Well I think easter is going to be ok.....I went to a friends house the other night who is banded also and she made some amazing potato Soup with some chunks of sausage in it and i had some slices of apples and a strawberry and a slice of cheese and it all went down great I just chewed really really good so I am going to try some soft solids again today and see how that goes if it goes well again i am just going to eat the food that day and prove to her that my life is not based on Protein shakes and that i can eat reg food so HAHAHAHA to the evil sister in law that i DO want to just punch sometimes......

Well i will let you all know how today goes and what I am going to do about tomorrow...

Much love to all my march bandsters!!!

FENTON!!!! your too funny!!! i love ya hun!!! too bad his brother wouldnt his brother is so whipped by his wife its not even funny!!!!

Maybe i will make sweet potato cassarole or something that sounds good and so does some kind of egg salad thing maybe..i know she will have mash potatoes....

I am so not looking forward to going but i cant let me hubby down you know....well if anyone else has any ideas on food let me know!

Thanks again!!!

Whoa, Frances! What FANTASTIC weight loss! Mad respect!

I say, screw bringing a soup! When she starts up, just dive across the table and throttle her! She's bigger than you, sure, but with your weight loss, you have the advantage of SPEED! Hit her low, she'll go down like a ton of bricks! It'll be an Easter Miracle! You'll become a family legend!

That said, bringing food you know you can eat is a good idea. A Soup, sure, or maybe a casserole - I'd bring something I loved so I wouldn't feel deprived. And since you're in the mushy phase now, you might want to go with something more solid than just a Soup. Soup for Easter would make me sad! (Sorry new banders - my heart goes out to you.)

Just don't go overboard on eating whatever you make!

And don't get too full! I worry that your sister-in-law might launch her counterattack after dinner, when she senses you're drowsy...

hey LOL you make me laugh..and we were banded on the same day YAY for us!!!!

Any good casarole ideas???? I cant think of anything my brain isnt working LOL....

How are you doing on the mushies??? they arent bad but wow am i ready for soft reg foods....

Maybe i can make some kind of shepards pie thing i dunno....

Thanks for the laughs and advice :embaressed_smile:

I typically speak my mind when it comes to people I know, so if she makes a big deal about it in front of everyone then say this was a medical decision between you and your doctor, not a moral decision. Hopefully she will get the hint. :embaressed_smile:

Thanks for the great advice!!!!

She thinks that i am going to be living on Protein shakes for the rest of my life....i am telling you she is just jealous

Do you have any advice on the food side of it??? i dunno what to do about that either ....ANYONE i will take advice from

Hey everyone!!!

Alright i am freaking out i am giong to my husbands brothers for easter and its going to be really weird.... his wife is bigger than me and likes to let me know that i am taking the easy way out and that i just never worked hard enough at it.... anyway....i am mushies still and i dunno what to do for dinner....she is making Ham, mash pot., and corn casarole....any advice....i am really nervous bc i know she is going to make a huge deal of it in front of her family...she is so mean :wink2:

Hey you two! You're not the only Hoosiers around any more. I would love to get together with you both to find out how you're doing. I am very very very early in the process.

Hey I am new to the indy area and i am def. down to meet up with some young people who are banded or getting banded I get banded tomorrow morning YAY and i am super excited....we should all def. get together!!

HEY!!!! i am a march 6th also as in tomorrow EEKKK hard to believe...we are all band buddies are you guys nervous i am really really nervous i cant believe its going to be tomorrow but i am excited....where do you live?? how did you do on pre-op?? mine was sucky protien shakes and Water also..blah!!! i cant wait to drink juice and Soup LOL...

Good Luck my March 6th buddies!!!

Frankie

This is a great idea i have been compiling some on my own just off the reciepe area you should def. snag all those for this cook book some of them are really good and there is a TON of them....

COUNT ME IN FOR ONE ALSO!!! and i will send some reciepes when I get some time to get them all togheter