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I love it! I was kind of annoyed with it yesterday but it was really my fault. I rebooted it because my display seemed to be pausing a lot. It wasn't saying that it wasn't synced but I would watch the calories burned per minute and the calories burned total during my current activity and it was taking forever to change. It would change if I pressed the button on my band so I wasn't sure if it was counting my calories burned correctly. After I rebooted it it was saying "Band is not set up" :thumbup: As soon as I got home from work and hooked it up to the computer it was fine but for the rest of the day at work I felt naked without it! :thumbup: I've been obsessed w/ it! :biggrin: I've been getting a deficit of at least 1000 calories/day. Yesterday was 1200. I'm trying not to keep such a large one but it's hard to eat all the calories it wants me to so I lowered it to 1200 cals a day and it wants me to burn 2200 which I should have no problem doing.

I had my first fill last Friday and I'm noticing some bruising just to the right of the 2 spots where she inserted the needle. I'm guessing it's from when she was pushing down on my stomach looking for the port. And afterwards for a couple of days that spot was kind of sore. I expected to be a little sore but in the spot she put the needle, not right next to it. I'm probably just being paranoid. :biggrin:

My Bodybugg is being dumb! :smile: While I was walking it seemed like the display was pausing. Minutes would go by and the amount of calories I was burning per minute wasn't going up. So I tried to reboot my band (not thinking it was maybe just something wrong with the communication between the band and the display) and now it says my band isn't set up and I can't connect it to the computer while I'm at work! I rebooted yesterday just fine without having to reconnect it. Why's it being so idiotic today?! :smile2:

I like the twitching! :smile2:

Thanks for the replies! :smile2:

Hi Chrissy :crying: Here's what happened with HIP. Before this past January I had Aetna and I had originally planned on getting my surgey done by Dr. Holover and I went through most of the pre-op testing and the 6 month Physician supervised diet under my Aetna ins. I ended up not being happy with Dr. Holover's staff and their lack of help and I ran into an old friend and he had surgery with another surgeon who's office was basically a one stop shop for everything except for the cardiology part. I had to re-do all the testing, of course and I was told that since HIP changed their guidelines in January when I went for my consult with the new surgeon that I would most likely have to do a 6 month diet but that they wanted me to get all my work ups done in a month and a half and they would submit everything when I was done to see what would happen. My Primary doc also sent them all my 6 month diet stuff that I did for the other surgeon. I think most of it was like almost a year old but they said they would try sending it in anyway. My surgeon's Medical Assistant called me on Monday March 1st and said she was submitting my paperwork to HIP first thing the next morning and that I should hear something within a week. She called me the next day to ask me if I wanted surgery on March 24th because I had been approved! I was shocked! But, I couldnt tell you if the info that was submitted by my PCP helped any or if someone was just feeling generous that day. Sorry for the long-winded post! I hope this helped! Good luck!

Oops! Forgot to check in last Monday! :biggrin: Last time I posted here I was 258. I am now 252.7 so I'm down 5.3. I should be able to do another 5lbs by Memorial Day :tt2:

Thanks!! Good job on your 8lb loss! That's awesome! :biggrin:

I'm in for 20! :biggrin:

I'm over my 10lb goal by 4.3lbs :biggrin:

I had my first fill on Friday and my surgeon was good. The 1st time all I felt was a pinch. Her pushing down to find my port hurt more than the needle. The second time she stuck me when she had to remove some of the fill she had just put in didnt hurt at all. I wasn't looking so when she said I was done I didn't even know she had done it yet! :biggrin: And I don't get numbed before hand, either.

Hi everyone!! So I got my 1st fill on Friday. My surgeon does her fills under fluoro. So she put in 2ccs and had me drink some barium and after the fill nothing was moving so she took out a half of a cc and then all was good. She said she didnt want to take out any less than that because she was going on vacation for 2 weeks and in case I was too tight she didnt want me to have to see another surgeon. I seem to have pretty good restriction right now. She told me to see how I feel in 2 weeks. If Im still losing two pounds a week, or more then she didn't need to see me for 2 months. If I'm feeling less restriction she said for me to call and make an appointment for a month from Friday so I'm glad she seems to be, I wouldn't say agressive when it comes to fills, but she's not passive about them, either. When I was there Friday I and got weighed I had lost 9lbs since the last time I was there which was 3 weeks prior. So that's 3lbs a week! :confused: I really do love my band!

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You're welcome! I got mine today too. One thing I'm confused about is I havent even worn it yet and it says I burned 1500 something calories today. And I dont think I can reset that amount. Hmmm...

I havent recieved mine yet but if I'm not mistaken, there are metal contacts on the underside that touch your skin. They read your body temp and can tell when you sweat. I think I read that the metal is nickel.

I didnt get that bitter yucky taste you usually get from a normal vomit so I'm almost positive there was no acid or bile in it. It looked like (sorry to be graphic) I just put my dinner in a food processor. It wasn't "watered down" looking like normal vomit does. And no you definitely don't have to tell me to be more careful next time. :glare: That was a very valuable, yet scary lesson I learned last night. I will NEVER do that again! Ouch! I'm going to be more careful with my band from now on. I love it too much. :sleep: :bored:

Yes I know it was my fault. I was eating something I had eaten before. Chicken sausage. But it was cooked on the grill and quite possibly too dry even though I ate it with some red sauce. I was ravenous last night (I'm PMSing) and took too big of a bite each time and didn't chew enough AND didn't wait long enough in between bites. Then the pain came. It wasn't unbearable but it was a slightly sharp pain in my chest and then the foam and slime started. Everytime I tried to burp it would foam and I would spit. Nothing really came up with it at first and then all of a sudden I gagged and I vomitted as if I didn't even have a band. I wasn't even expecting it. I retched 2, maybe 3 times and each time something came up with it and then I was done. Most of what I ate came back up and I felt a little relief but I was still sliming a little bit. Actually it was more like foam. I feel ok today. A little sore but ok and I'm doing just liquids today just in case but I know people have asked this before and I've searched trying to find the answer but I came up empty handed...how likely is it that I could slip my band by vomitting just once? I'm going in for a possible fill tomorrow, my 1st one, and my surgeon does them under fluoro so she should be able to see if I did anything to it, right? I will definitely tell her what happened. :bored:

Nothing for the BlackBerry :thumbup: I wish! I have one, too.

AFP8128 :thumbup: And you're very welcome!!

If you use the code skinnyscoopbb for the bodybugg it takes off 15 bucks. Then I found a 10% off coupon code and did a seperate order for the digital display bringing it from 79 to 71 and change and there was no tax or shipping.

You should have just bought everything from 24 Hour Fitness. Did you have to pay shipping because I ordered mine from 24 Hour Fitness and the total, including the 6 month free subscription came to 255 which is what you're going to end up paying if you're not able to get a trial subscription. The shipping was also free from 24 hr fitness :thumbup:

Amen! :thumbup: I love my walks during the day. I use 2 of my three breaks at work to walk. The last break I always work right through and forget to take. :thumbup: One 15 min break and my 1/2 hour lunch break and it gives me some very much needed time away from my co-workers. It's so very therapeutic. I don't know how I survived so long without them.

I see so many people writing about their daily calorie deficits and some of them seem so high. I'm getting my bodybugg hopefully on Friday and I'm trying to figure out what would be the highest healthy daily deficit without getting into starvation mode territory. I read that you shouldn't go over a 500 calorie/day deficit and that deficit should lead to a 1lb a week weightloss but that sounds like a bit of a conservative number to me. I should be able to at least double that number daily without my body going into starvation mode, am I right or is this another one of those things that I'm going to have to figure out on my own because everyone is different? :thumbdown:

I ordered the Bodybugg today along with the wrist display! :thumbdown: I hope it gets here quick! I can't wait! :blushing:

YAY! I ordered my Bodybugg and wrist display! I hope it comes this week! :thumbup: I wish I would have ordered it on Friday, though. Oh well.