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Feeling discouraged and disappointed. :-( So far I've lost half of the weight I need to loose (75 pounds), but it seems that I can't find my sweet spot. It is litterally Feast or Famine. I was having problems with a too-tight fill (PB, refulx, things getting stuck) so they let some out and now I think I'm too loose (getting hungry between meals and eating things that shouldn't be able to get through). I think I could get my sweet spot if they could put in thismuch, but how do you measure thismuch ? I'ved hit a brick wall, and feel like I'm never going to loose this weight. I was hoping to be at goal weight or pretty darn close by now, and now.... Maybe I'm just not meant to be thin. Maybe this is as good as it gets. My next fill is next week. I don't know...:thumbup:

Well, it took me 8 hours, but I think I found some nice "unmentionables" that'll do for a while and start making me feel like a human again instead of a blob. YAY!

I don't mean to be indelicate, but I'm finally confortable enough to go shopping for unmentionables. I'm shopping on line. I'm finally in ONEderland in the 190's (YAY ME!), but I'm finding now that plus sizes are getting too big, but I can't fit regular people sizes in underwear. (For example, I'm a 38 D now, but all the bras I've been seeing are 40's & up and are DDs) What's a girl to do? Being between sizes is great, but not when you need underwear!:smile:

I did! Thank you!!!:biggrin::w00t:

Am I too late to join? I'd like to be a part of this. Pweeze, pweeze, pweeze?

PB = Productive Burping (or as I like to call it, "an unfortunate incident." ) It's when you burp and your food doesn't stay down. HTH!

Checking in! I'm finally in ONEderland at 199.6.:rolleyes2: Having a little problem with some reflux, but I just got a fill on Monday ( 12/7/09). Hoping this wll stop, as this is the first time I've had this. I'm at 2ccs now and want to try and keep it because my last fill they had to take what they put in plus a little more because I was sliming on Water. My next fill is Jan 25th and I want to have lost another 10 pounds by then. Fingers crossed!

EEK! I tried that route BEFORE I got banded. Yeah, it works - it doesn't stay off, and you feel like blankity-blank. Diets like that are why my metabolism's shot and why I had to get the band. I'm thinking this Dr's a quack.:rolleyes2:

I haven't been on for a while, but by way of an update, I'm finally down below 200! 199.6! Whoo-hoo! On another note, has anybody had a painful burning sensation in their back when they burp soon after their fill? This is the first time I've had this. I'm at 2 ccs and I want to try and tough it out because the fill before this one, they had to take some out. (I was sliming on Water.) After this last fill on Monday, I had problems with sliming in my sleep (I was up several times during the night). I slept elevated, and that seems to have helped. How long does it take for the band to loosen up a smidge after a fill? SO... 60 pounds down, 82 more to go!:eek:

Yes, I was the moron whose first fill was delayed for a month because she stayed on pureed food three weeks longer than she was supposed to. SO... Tomorrow (Monday) will mark my first week with a fill. I have about 2 cc's in now, and I've got to say I LOVE MY LITTLE PLASTIC BUDDY!!:smile: It is SO nice to get full and stay that way on hardly any food at all. I've been able to go out and eat, but THIS time, I take about 3/4 of the stuff home, or I leave it there at the restaurant. I get full much faster, which makes it a lot easier for me to push food away and/or stack the plates on top of what's left and not eat it. I think I'm on my way! YIPPEE!!!

The doctor said that since I have a standard size (10cc) band there may be a little restriction already (if I understood him correctly) and a teeny-tiny bit of fill that they use to prime it sort of. Oh well. It's just that I've got so much weight to loose!

UGH! I'm such a Moron!! I was all psyched for my first fill today!:sad: I went in, all pleased as punch that I was a good 'lil bandster, eating all my purred food (I swear I thought I'd never say this, but if I never see mashed potatoes and gravy again, it'll be too soon!:thumbup:).... So I go in and get my weigh in (16 pounds since the last visit!), and wait for the doctor. I tell him, all shiny-happy-people like that I'd been eating pureed food for the last five weeks.... Uh, NO, Doofus! I was only supposed to eat it for TWO weeks. I couldn't get my fill today because they didn't have anything to gauge what they should fill. So the doctor wants me to start adding in solids, and come back next month. AGGGH!!!! I want restriction!! I'm really scared that I'm going to start putting on weight now that I'm eating solid food.:sad: I started to call and check to see if he really wanted me on purees for the whole time between visits. I'm such an idiot!:sad:

And I CAN NOT WAIT!!!! UGH! I'm so sick of the pureed diet, it's not even funny. But I have lost 30 pounds since the surgery. This is based on the weight taken on my home scale. I don't know what the doctor's scale will say, but I can tell I've lost some weight. I can see it in my face, and tell when I bend down to tie my shoes. (I don't get winded and feel like I'm going to faint! Yay me!!!:smile2:) I can't WAIT to actually CHEW SOMETHING!!!

I mean, I don't the desire to eat things that I'm not supposed to, but I'm getting tired of my pureed diet. It's not an issue of getting full on smaller amounts - just bored with what I'm eating. My first fill's not till the 30th. AGGGH!!!

Do you count the weight you get when you weigh in at your fills, or the weight you have on your home scale? I haven't had my first fill yet, but I was weighed at my first visit post-op. I presume I'll be weighed again when I go in for my first fill. I'll take the scale that wieghs me the skinniest!:thumbup: