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congratulations fran!!!!!!

very interesting.... i am an 8 was an 8.5 16 pounds ago. so i really hope my feet dont shrink anymore...

have you had your gallbladder out??? the pain you are experiencing is exactly the pain i had before i had my gallbladder out. sorry this is happening to you..

CONGRATULATIONS!!! mimi. hope you can find the answers you are looking for here.

peggy i am in utica too!!!!!!! any chance you would be interested in a new friend???:biggrin2:

i am happy to report that i am doing GREAT no gas that ended a while ago. i am down 15 pounds and doing great. i look forward to my first fill on the 26th. will let you all know how it goes.

i am down 15 pounds with no preop diet. i had surgery on the 28th so i am 16 days out and feel great!!!

thais totally awesome that you only have 18 pounds to goal!!!! yeah you!!! i am just starting out on this journey and am going to get my period in a few days ugh and the need for chocolate is strong in me!! i was able to just suck on a small mini candy bar milkyway i think and it took the urge away. yeah me!!!

i am one whos doc told i could do a liquid diet for a week then full liquids for a few days then transition to mushies. i am 15 days post op and i aould be onto more solid foods but i have kept myself at the soft mushie stage for the very reasons stated above. i have every confidence in my doc. and wouldnt go to anyone else. but when i asked about why i could transition so fast he said if it made me more comfortable i could stay with the liquid longer bit by the time i went to the mushies my stitches would have healed and i wouldnt have a problem. i am still very careful with solids bc even though i wasnt self pay it is to high a price for me to pay to cheat from what the doc told me. we are on this ride to lose weight not be bugged that we cant taste this or that. if we cant control ourselves for that little bit of time then all the work we did pre op and post op are fruitless. i figure hunger is a natural normal feeling so we might as well get used to it! and nothing tastes as good as thin feels!

sweety i dont really have answers for you other than i feel for you... i know how the running right through you feels i have dealt with that since i had my gallbladder out in 2003. i do know even if you drink other things water is a must and you have to drink it make iced tea out of it or add crystal light anything so you can get it down.

i go for my first fill on the 26th and i know the doc only plans on adding 2 cc's to my already 3cc's which is standard i am pretty sure (someone please correct me if i am wrong) when they put the band on. so really you have 4 cc's in your band atm and i will have 5cc's

yes in that case it is totally uncalled for!!!!!! and he had to learn it from somewhere obviously the father.

ok can i just say that you need a new name!!!! everytime i read a post of your i read oreo!!!!! LOL

just in defense of that little child. he/she doesnt know better shame on her mom for NOT telling her that God makes us all different but he/she is a child and doesnt know better. i was almost 300 pounds and my kids have said that about other people not knowing it isnt nice (now keep in mind my kids are about 4-5 when they say something). so i simply tell my kids in plain hearing of the person that it wasnt nice what they said and we dont talk about people unless we can say something nice. and then if that person is looking at me i smile and tell him/her i am sorry.

no more straws with the band, crates pockets of air which in turn will make you sick. at this point i an just drink my water like normal i can gulp or just sip depending on my mood.

hi cammi and welcome!!! i was banded on the 28th of july so i am not more out than you. but i do know that the docs dont really expect you to lose anything before your fills begin if you do they just count that as a plus. however i would be just as frusterated as you!!!! everything you are doing sounds great. the only thing i didnt see was the amount of water you are drinking. are you drinking any?? if so how much?? you should be drinking at least 64 oz of water in a day! i would start with the water and see what happens after that.

when something gets stuck you cant swallow your own spit so it keeps coming up and sliming you... ewe huh

she is at 86.2 kg in pounds that is 189.6 which is still not a whole lot to lose. just wanted to clarify.:cry_smile:

hi dust!!!! you were banded on my bday!!!! you are doing awesome!!! the ticker are www.tickerfactory.com then copy and paste the bb code into your siggy.

being a christian myself and coming from a christian family with a father who is a minister. i have found that it is the "christians" who are always the most neg, nasty, and mean about anything that seems odd or strange or that they simply do not understand. it is a sad fact that there are people out there who just dont get it. i have a sister who at first told me she thought i was cheating but then she changed her mind when she saw how hard it was from the day of surgery to today. a whole whopping 8 days!! now she calls me and sees how i am doing and we are good. i have another sis who when i told i was thinking about it her reaction was to tell me she didnt think it was in my best medical interest:rolleyes2: bc she did a diet and lost like 70 pounds and i did the diet and lost nothing so i obviously didnt do the diet right:blink: she still doesnt know i have had the surgery bc i dont need that right now. i am the youngest of 9 children so i only have 2 siblings in my generation all the others are OLD!!!! (no offense anyone:biggrin:) so i just think they dont get it.

try www.tickerfactory.com that is where i get mine and i got that from someone on the site... i am 7 days out and i am truly feeling good a tiny bit sore still but not anything tylenol wont or cant fix.... keep at it and go to the chat alot of the people go there it is a live chat and people are always willing to give you ideas and great support!!!!!

how has it been being on the full liquids??? are you as hungry??? i wasnt as hungry when i got to go to mushies which is where i am at now.

i have just begun to feel mine but it is in no way sticking out if i lay down my stomach falls over and it gets pushed on and it is wierd.

we are thinking about that when our kids are all older and i am lonely. it takes a special person to love a child not from their body!!! good for you!

i totally got that and my post looked like the second part was directed at you i guess me putting space between the two didnt work like i wanted it to:rolleyes2: bc my first have was directed at you...