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I am hoping it is me just being sick or somthing since i swell a lot. I do see why people resort to sliders.. Talk about easier then feeling like you have something in ur gut. I am looking forward to bfast im gonna make a quiche:D And some califlower potatoes:D and i want to do a ricotta bake:D Tina, i have been on a plateu forever also, something about our bodies just sits.. I know its evil:( It will pass i promise. HHEY has anyone looked at their DLS? Mike says i weigh 230.. lol uc an see in my face im more then 230.. now im embarrassed of it though, like i got a fishing license she wrote 230!!! I WAS LIKE DUDE!

Its weird 2ccs ago i was able to eat whatever i wanted. And way more then ive had all day. Now i eat and im miserable for 2 hrs. What is weried is bfast i was fine.. I havent vomited. JUST WISSSSHED!!! I am able to drink fine not as fast. Im going to wait till im not sick see if that helps..

Wow could i already be too tight??? Or maybe im swollen cause im sick? Idk all i know is i ate maybe 1/4c of my dinner and i got the dieing feeling again. I had the equivalent of 1.5 shrimp. HORRIBLE. I hope this passes:( I also hope its just my cold.. :glare:

Plateus are the worst! I agree whole heartedly!

Well it was off of some egg salad with melba cracker... It hit VERY HARD very fast. I sat here for a second then stood up... walked around thought oh shit this might not stay put.. so i walked outside and did some stretching.. After like 3 min i heard a gurgle and it wasnt as bad. I still havent finished my lunch, and it feels like a knot in my chest, but atleast the coming back feeling subsided. It has now been 2 hrs since lunch time, and i feel like it happened 10 min ago.. I still have that much pressure. I did just start drinking, im not sure if the water is going to my large tummy or stuck, i guess ill know... Omg my husband has got to be the most unempathetic (he picked the word) asshole i know. As i sit here still struggling it he had hte never to say he wouldnt eat it!!! ARE YOU KIDDING. I had 1tbsp of egg salad and then a bite of cracker and wham bam. So anyone want my husband I will send him your way! Oh Reggie you live in SF right? Mike just had a job interview in the area....

I believe they ask you to quit smoking, im not quite positive. I don't smoke so it wasnt even something I looked at.. I am sure someone knows on here:D

My referal btw was done all over the internet.. I never had to go in.... so if your appt is far out you can try emailing.. Just a thought:) OH LADIES, i got stuck for the first time, GET THIS ON Egg salad!!! Horrible horrible horrible. I used to get to eat whatever i wanted as fast etc.. now im actually feeling some restriction BOY I HOPE IT LASTS!!!

I think all our hubbies know about our group:) Plus we do lunch dates:D So yeah go ahead:D The referal btw is all via computer:) So after they make it no hassle for you:) You will double, triple etc check your decision even on surgery day. Ask christine every appt I left I double questioned it... it is by far normal:D

Nope that is right, it is 6 weeks from the point of surgery...

Omgosh stuck is misery then!!! I think it was all too dry. I tell you what though it stopped me in my tracks, and i didn't touch a single bite more. Thanks for responding, wanted to make sure it was normal.

Heather and Candra, good luck at orientation. It flys by:) Do not bring starbucks though:) Oh and don't chew gum. Or you will be having to spit it out and throw the rest away. Try just to bring water. Otherwise you will most likely get pointed out... I hope you get to meet Dr Baggs, ask him any questions in your mind, he is very honest and will tell you the answer straight up. Dont let robin overwhelm you, atleast at ours she was VERY speeeeeeeedy. She is the nutritionist. Liz will seem hard.. and strict, which she is, but as long as you follow the rules, and loose the weight, she will be there for you and nice. SOOOOOO Today for bfast i had one egg, a bite of turkey backon and a bite of toast!!! That is less then before i got my fill by prob 1./4 c of food. I hope the restriction stays. And I hope its not that i just feel like crud:)

Oh i know the eat anything feeling.. I had a novel writen up and firefox crashed, my luck lately:( Candy i say do 1/3 it will probably help for sure!! Tina ytou are so sweet!!! You look great too!!! I am always wearn a sweater cause I am always freezing:D Its really pathetic. But i had a lot typed now i have no energy:( I will talk to you ladies tomorrow!!! Nite!

Thank you girl:) I think everyone was lookin good:D I wish i could see what you saw though, for some reason i see a size 22 still.. I would hold off on any strenuous activity until you are no longer sore.. Walking is great:D

The up in cals will prob kick u off your plateu. I find when i exercise I dont loose. I love 14 lbs right off the bat in the first week. then have been fighting plateus, left and right. Candy just because you are 4 days out i would seriously try 1/3 because, here is the thing. We all stuck at 1/4 for a while. I just at 5 weeks started doing the 1/2 c. AND guess what they make you go back down to 1/4. I have pushed it back to 1/2 cause once ur pouch holds that much it cant survive off less. I remember when christine was telling me i was crazy cause i sat in 1/4 until i almost hit m ushies. So try some pureed soups and 1/3 and see if it helps:D

I would reschedule.. at 4 weeks post op i went to Six Flags Great America for 4 hrs, i was so dizzy, nausious and light headed.. and i went on NO rides. And i was on mushies.. Your body doesnt have the fuel that soon. Also at one week you wont be up to riding in a car or going to disney, maybe sleeping.....

You are not supposed to do regular exercise until 6 weeks. That is why i was scared to tell him. But he said im so close that its ok, but to try to keep it easy till my 6 week mark. But you have to remember something else, i have absolutely no port pain, or buldges etc. What exercise are you currently doing. Something i dread about exercising is if we arent eating a lot of cals we still wont loose, so its a catch 22.. I dont feel the band right now i feel sick.. i had a sore throat last night and its still here.. I felt it when he played with it. i do notice i cant gulp water right now but that could be the sick thing.. I would maybe walk, but not if there is any discomfort. He said if i feel exhaustion or any discomfort or any of that to stop. And no weights till 6 weeks. Im so proud of all of us:D

Zoe, do not work on the 1200 cals right now, way bad choice:) Enjoy food, enjoy it for the last you can:) AND if you put on weight dont fret. IT will be easier to loose that weight after orientation. Wear shoes, jackets etc, dont take them off for that begining weight either:) Also about fills, yes with the band you get fills, that is what makes the band work. Which is nice cause we can unfiller and then in 10 yrs have her refilled:) smart!!!

OH YEAH, AND.. Dr baggs asked about my working out.. I told him ive stayed away from the gym cause i have no control, and he nodded. And i said i did 1.5 a day at min 5 days a week. He said ok. Then i said, well and last night we stayed at this nice hotel in SJ and they had a gym................................. I said "i did 20 min I PROMISE" AND he said ok...... and i said i started on elipti for 10 then tread for 10.. NOW GET THIS.. I have always been overweight, like soo that i was always walking in school, etc.. I RAN for 9 min STRAIGHT!!! Almost 3/4 of a mile. I was NOT winded. I could keep going, but i dont wanna over do it. I WAS SOOOO PROUD of me! Still am:) Ooooh and do not give your scars uv rays.., that is what causes dark lines.. on our incisions.. good to know, no sun beds.

Nicole, You had 3.8 ml in your band and I added 2 ml. Stay on the clears until tomorrow. I will see you on 6/25 at 09:30 in the Pinole MOB. The Australians recommended 2 ml at the first fill, one ml for the next visit and 0.5 ml after that. Dr. Baggs That was my email from dr baggs:D Because this girl here is chicken to ask in the office lol. Oh Candy sorry i thought you were 1.5 weeks not 4 days!!! Oh my, yeah i tried the chilli when i was close to switching to mushies.. But try the soups like tina said. Yogurt, grits pudding did ABSOLUTELY nothing for me. Zoe the program is very easy, just stick to the program.. And we all are kinda lazy on the 1200 at the end. Have you had your orientation?? Well mike is applying in the bay now.. apparantly im not meant to stick around here. (we live in marysville) and i really cant just ditch mom. I cant live with the lady though. Holy crap i just realized i now have 5.8 mls! and you asked if i feel restriction.. Well i was bad, i thought he said regular liquids so i had soup for dinner, and could have 1c of it.. but im sick, so you know how that is. That is all i had today though along with my water. and i have no hunger. But my throat since yesterday has been sore.. OHHH i did feel the band again. I love you girls. Did you know i really blame my success on you guys.. I think by now if it was me by myself i would be soo depressed right now... i am under soo much stress. Hitting plateu after plateu you girls are the only people who KEEEEEEEP me going! Thank you ladies!!!!!!!!

So this will be my second time typing this all out. I dont think i will type as much... I had a NOVEL!! Took me 20 min earlier lol.. then poof its gone! HOOOW irritating! Ok, so good and bad news, Bad mom is moving to San Jose.. Good news I got my fill. The penole office is beautiful. I weighed in at 201 which i was happy with considering they made me wear my sandals not flippie flops. Since i forgot sox.. no good!! But whatever. Went to the room, and sat and waited... lol... hear LIZ... not her personally but her name there was a preop talking about her.. but all i could understand was Liz. OOOH and my appt was at 4:30!!! but i got there at 9:30!!! Lol dr baggs and i were confused, but hes all i wish i woulda got you in sooner. Well, he asked how everything is going, he shook his head about how the pcp said to take metamucil, he said no to that. ALSO no to taking stool softners every day, he said they are not a good thing. Just benifiber. Asked about my excersize food, yadda yadda. Told him i think my band isnt there and he laughed. I layed down and he found my port said it was perfectly placed (LOL OF COURSE HE PLACED IT) marked around it.. Then the nurse came in he numbed me.. that was the worst part.. pretty stinging.. worse then a bee sting, not tear jerking. Then the needle came, MY FEAR so i shut my eyeballs. I swear to god i didnt even feel it!! I could feel the liquid in the band.. bbut thats it. i told him it felt cool lol.. Then they ahd me drink Water and he asked "is it coming out your nose" and let me on my way:) Very simple process. I did write out more earlier but i feel like crap.. i caught a cold somehow:( Candy move up to 1/3 thats what i had to do. And try thicker liquids.. I got to the point i was pureeing chili for feeling full.. i just made sure to stay under yogurt consistency..

You chatty woman! Well im in san jose.. yea mom is moving here so we are here seein the places, cant type much.. SO, tomorrow is fill day YAYA THANK GOD! Tina my plateu ended when i ate mroe lol. Im not bein very strict.. and i uped the cals and off came thelbs. oh i also stopped workingout, took like a week off.. worked out today for the first time in a while. Ok ladiesi gotta head out im onthe mini and its a pain in my rear to type: so tlk to u tomorrow!!! hgus

The meatloaf cupcakes!!! Anyone know what the recipe was?? I saw turkey meat, oats, vegies.. anyone else see anything

What is a Relationship Addict?? Are there ever people that are addicted to change?? Like they buy something use it a week then are bored and buy something else, then get obsessed on something, then after they achieve it get obsessed on something else??? Where they get an animal or something 3 months later they are bored with it, so find it a new home?? One day they want to move the next they want to stay put. Lol.. this is my life. You know what ive realized after watching this true life show.. Kimberly didnt have flabby legs!!! ONE of my fears!!! So just maybe we wont:) Ok BL time, so im going to close up here.. OHHH btw i asked my pcp for regular counceling, i don't want to do psychiatry.. and she told me they dont do that in kaiser!! Did anyone know that?

Christine, did she tell you how much it is out of pocket???

Candra, Yes you will be required to give up coke. Even Diet. It can give you ulcers or something. I luckily didn't drink it before, but christine and Tina both had to ditch it hte last day:) My Bmi was 40 i went to my appt at goal though so i dont know what they would have required, i was already down 20 lol.. The first month andhalf is VERY easy to loose quickstyle! Your sleep Apnea is pretty scary. The reason we are tired is we are only eating about 500 cals right now... and we CAN'T drink caffeine to wake up, so you might find it a lil worse, since there is no fix. The psychologist you saw was it for the bariatric program or for your Dr??? They are there to make sure you basically yea are sane, but also no food problems... You see her before you see your surgeon, she is a very nice lady. But im not sure if you saw her already, if you did you wont agian:) All depends. You do not want to fly thru this... candy did it in 2 months a lot of us did it in 3. You don't want any sooner, there is SOOOOOO much to learn. Plus the more you loose preop the closer you are to goal. Ticker, click one of ours should take you to the website to get your own. Then you put it in your siggy. The siggy is by the customize profile.. or something like that. You should be able to click your name where you sign in and find it there. Kinda complicated, let me know if you dont and ill get more defined directions:D