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Ok so I didn't even sleep last night because I was so scared of what today might bring me. Well I wouldn't eat breakfast becasue I was scared of gaining weight (BIG MISTAKE) so I get in there and I step on the scale and I LOST 5 LBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :wink2::laugh::laugh: I was ok that is good I think I calmed down alot becasue my blood pressure was GREAT! So I was still feeling a lil uneasy because I was thinking he might ask why are you back so early??? He walked in with a smile I was thinking yea because I lost and not gained or stayed at my weight, he asked if I was feeling good and I told him no that I feel nothing and that I am starving myself (so I think) and I was always hungry and he said ok well we are doing something different today I am going to fill you standing up and I looked at him like oh wow cool..that is how I always figured it should be done but hey he was the doctor right?!?!?!?! Anyway get in there he expalins to me how he was going to proceed and as he filled me up the first swallow went through as if it was a race meaning REAL FAST so he put more in and more in until the barium went very slowly through...as I watched I was thinking OMGosh I will not get food through there and I asked him if he thought that I should be right there and he told me yes, honestly I thought it was too tight but I won't know unitl I get to soft foods tomorrow I have to have clear liquids and jello today and I have to say I am starving!!! But that goes with the territory so I have to wait it out it's what I wanted right? So over all I was very happy with this appointment and the weight loss it wasn't alot but it was some and it wasn't a gain. Now I have to get my rear in gear and start working out!!!! Thank you to eveyone that participated in this post and all the positive it brought to my attitude!!!!

LOL!! yes Ma'm I wll have to because this is getting me no where! My fill doctor is different than the surgeon, I was going to try and talk to the surgeon he is always sitting in his office anyway.

My friend did go with me last visit she walked out of there very angry about how he was such a dry person and other things she said but can't really post it. I would go somewhere else HOWEVER I paid cash and my fills are free (if you will) for a year so I need to swing it unitl I have to pay fo rmy fills and I will prolly try and get into another surgeon if I can for the remainder of my process. But the one she went to and lost the 191lbs they were very agressive and well look at the results 191lbs lost!!!!!!!! But wanna know how much thier fills are $390.00!!!!!!!!!!!!! Forget that for 1cc of liquid no way.. I have to swing it for now.

Yea I am learning and yes I know soups are not band freindly so I have not touched the several cans of soup I had bought. I am trying to learn to eat PROTEIN I do good with the stir fry chicken and zuccini and veggies I like it alot and feel content afterwards but I need other flavors or recipies for chicken!!! He is the only one doing fills and that is the downfall...

And I was banded on the 26th of June. I am so frustrated...yes we are int he same boat let's paddle together and figure this out!!! LOL!!

Oops I need to change that 29lbs I was counting all the pre-weight and the weight I lost during the first week that has all been gained back. I really need to update that. I am trying to get a different mind set to face him tomorrow I even woke up this morning thinking I can't eat all day I have to lose at least one pound before tomorrow this I cna't be doing on a daily basis and I know this, maybe becasue it's a man you think the lady that used to be there is gone and now it's a man that weighs prolly 160lbs and I bet never had to even deal with weight issues. Ugh! thanks everyone!

I am not going to sit here and lie to any of you, I am sure I have not been perfect like some of the bandsters on here are I have slipped and ate some things that I should have not! But to me I have cut back like soooooooooooo much and I am sure it's not enough but I feel that if I had some restriction I would not be able to think about cheating!!! I just want to know where the secret switch is that many have already found to be that obedient to go from eating alot to disaplining yourselves to a "T"!!!! I can't without help some of you people can do and I fall in the catagory well I can't. And I had this idea of the band helping more than it is now. I know we are all different and so are our bodies so I try not to compare...if you could just be in the room with me you could feel the disappointment that he makes me feel, even the friend that has lost 191lbs went with me last time and she walked out of there calling him a horrible name even she seen it. I kind of want to ask to talk to my surgeon but I am scared to go aganist the fill doctor I don't know I am all emtional I guess feeling real down knowing I feel like a complete faliure right now damn!

TOMORROW, well I called to have another fill I have NO RESTRICTION after 3 fills and 5.5 ccs in my realize band. I feel I have been good meaning I haven't ate junk food, and even my portions are/have been cut back for not having restriction even to the point of leaving and still being hungry. I just don't know what is going on. I don't want to get to the point I can't eat anything like my friend is now but I do want some kind of restriction because although I have cut back I am sure it's not enough. My problem is the fill doctor he is so dry with me since I have not been successful and that makes me uncomfortable to even go there but yet I need to get to that point of having restriction. Tomorrow is one week earlier from when he scheduled it. I think he will be mad becasue I am back we will see hell I am almost wanting to cancel but know I can't. It's to the point of being scared to face him that is so sad!!!! Thanks for listening.

Ummm AMEN!!!

I am almost 4 months out and I have lost NO weight what so ever!!! I am not goin got kncok the band but I have done alot of reading and I have noticed that the people whom chose realize band is losing slower and is taking lots more fills to even get to the point of restriction. I am at 5.5 and I have called for another fill only 3 weeks later. I also feel that my doctor is too conservative, I mean his satement last fill made sense, he said how far do you live form here and I am like 20 minutes why? And he said I don't want you to wake me at 2am in the morning and say you can't even swallow your won spit. I was like so this may be the reason you don't want to fill me....I am putting my foot down!!!! I didn't fork over 17k and not succeed. I know I have to play my part but I have one question where is the switch from going from obese and beign bad to completely being good with no restrition how can one be so disaplined?????

Yea I am sure the new flesh has grown over and it will not move what so ever!!! Good luck and congrats on taking that step to exercise!!!

You look great CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I too almost bought a bag this weekend at Sams but since I don't really like fish I put it back. Now I can eat van d camps oven baked fish but it has a batter that kind of helps me tolerate the taste. Now with these recipies I am thinking of going to buy it, it can't hurt ya know. I need to find healthy food that I like I need to get this weight off!

So since your in Kansas, can you tell me where to get the low carb tortillas I am interested in trying them thanks!!!

And I think if you replace the flour tortillas with corn could they be less in calories ro fat, or carbs? I suggest this only because I love corn tortillas, trying to get away from the flour ones YIKES!!!

I have the tubes and I tell ya I mix them in gatorade and since finding out that we don't absorb the whole 42 grams I only pour half in my gatorage and it makes it very tasteful to me. Good luck!

Umm ditto I would love to see the responses!!! I am struggling right now myself 4 months out and no weight loss!

Thank you for your prospective I realy needed this I am on my 4th month out and I feel NOTHING I have hopes it will start to work soon as I get my 4th fill...:thumbdown:

Um I have felt hungry the enitre process and it has shown I have not lost any weight! I have had 3 fills and nada!! I am getting frustrated I am proud of you for not eating the rest of the burrito I could have NOT done it, I am really depending upon my band to start to kick in and help just a tiny bit! I am hoping fill 4-5 will do just that!! Stay focused and you will be fine,. but hunger well that's the devil sittin on your shoulder just slap him off!!!!

I gelt really nauseous right after surgery well the next evening and I was given suppositories they really, really work it only takes like 15 minutes is all..good luck.

HAVE I TOLD YOU MISSY, that your a sweet heart! Thanks I really needed that. I was thinking of calling htis next week and scheduling for a fill if this restriction doesn't kick in! Thanks so much.

Ok I want to find people here that can help me get in gear here, I am 3 months out and have lost NO WEIGHT! I am so discouraged and angry because when I see tickers that say 40lbs lost it's in the same time frame as me. Ok I don't have restriction that is number one, I have had 3 fills and nada!! I did figure out that it's just my doctor going TOO slow! He asked me how far do you live from here and I said 20 minutes and I asked why and he said I don't want you to call me and say you can't even swallow your own spit, there I thought this is why he is going so slow he doens't want to be bothered HELLO!!!! I am self pay and I don't want you all to think I am arragont or anyting I am no better because I am self pay but damn it I want some kind of restriction. He says more disapline ok...your asking a food addict to disapline themselves? I know I know I need to do my part but I need help hence reason for getting the band. I am lost and I am so jealous of others and that is not far to anyone around me nor to myself. I have 5.5 ccs in a realize band. I am going to start to walk and try to eat right PORTEIN I know. But I don't like yougurt, and cottage cheese, and tuna I can only stomach it in like Tuna helper can't have that because of the noodles, can't do slim fast shakes yuck, I can imagine what you all are thinking but my mother was an owner of home cooked meal resturant all my life so go figure. I need ideas I guess I can do meats and beans, my hubby is mexican so we eat beans all the time but I need other foods and RESTRICTION is that right or am I still doing something wrong????

I am 3 months out...and yesterday I had my 3rd fill, granted I haven't been the best of patient eating right, and exercise, but I also have NOT had any type of restriction what so ever, and yesterday's appointment was so depressing to me that I went to bed early and got a huge headache from stressing of the ONE pound I gained. I felt like crap sitting int here telling the truth about how I have been not doing what I am suppose to be. And he was not impressed with me at all told me I need to diapline myself much more and I was like how if I don't have any help, your talking to a person that was addicted to food if I thougth I could just disapline myself on my own I would not have given you 17 grand on June 24th, 2008. Was I wrong to think like that. Serioulsy I have ZERO restriction still and I am at a total of 5.5 ccs in my realize band. I am at a loss becasue I can't even tell when the Water is backing up or not I feel that I could have a lil more of an agressive fill than 1.3ccs but there again I never speak up for myself I just clam up and stress over what I should/could have said to demand more!! I am so dumb. :thumbup:

hello Mel...I am not sure as I havne't got that far but you are covered for a year after surgery as far as fills go. I will see if my Insurance will cover the fills after I am at the end of my 1 year mark. We'll have to get together sometime...

I wished mine did...I asked but no after a year I am on my own.. :smile2: