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ok well that protien tofu thing is a no go..............too something it hurts after two bites so I hate to say it but back to soups tonight. Darn protien always gives me problems!! Lettuce?? They say it condences down to way less than what you measure. I have always (until the last fill anyway) been able to eat more than a cup of lettuce. I don't measure it cause I think there is a trick to it!!

I am here!! :-) Busy day I guess. Hey Jes I don't think a sippy straw thing would work. My daughter has a camelback and that thing would fill you with air and it would hurt!! I had another watercup with from ca camel back with a really cool sipper but I ended up giving it to my daughter............ we just made that spaghetti squash tonight. My daughter darn near ate the WHOLE squash!! She loves that stuff. I am try this tofu protien thing............good thing cause not much left!! I left to take a shower and th bowl is all but empty when I got back!! B: none (water) L: brocolli soup and salad D: protien tofu stuff and green beans (wish me luck keeping it down but gotta up my protiens this week!! )

Just got them cause I love flip flops and heard good things about these. They really do make a difference. Ok they are not gorgeous flip flops. THey are sorta big and bulky but after wearing them for 4 weeks I can't go back to regular flip flops.. These are the best ever!! Oh I ate to much this afternoon. Why did the band suddenly loosen today.............I will what is up tomorrow. Went and saw Julia and Julie today. It was ok has some funny moments. Want to see the time travelors wife next week...... B: 1/2 yogurt skinny vanilla latte L: Panera brocolli soup S: Frozen lemonade at movies D: Organic thin crust pizza at Whole foods (so good) Salad (mostly garbonzo and kidney beans with some feta cheese) But here is the kicker!! I ate M & M's today. OMG they went down fine and I had a whole freakin bag!! I did some damage I am sure.............. Seriously that ice cream started me on sweets again and I am going crazy craving sweet....................

Oh I love the fit flops. I wear them everyday...........I tried to go back to the original flip flops last week since they matched better...........but my feet hurt all day. I Love my fit flops. They are so comfortable and keep my feet and knees from hurting!!

Hey Riley why no numbing stuff?? And how does exactly who your girls are and when he will schedule us!! THat is funny!! I am sticking it out to the next fill but mornings are hard until about noon than it gets easier

average is suppose to be 1-2 but can be 2-3 per week. My weight loss has been a about that. But some on here have lose way more than that per week. In fact alot of people have lost more than that check out the tickers!!

Yesterday was a good day. Today gonna stick with the same foods. LOL. I am at the same weight I was hoping to go down again...........

AH Riley today is the day!! Tell Dr. Baggs we all said hello!! LOL. And be careful not to say anything I wouldn't............ Haven't tried eating today so I don't know yet how tight I am. Gotta get at least one bottle of water down before I eat. My new rule...........seems to help to drink water than try to the band!! :-) Good luck Chris on liquids that is what I do to after a major PB incident. Than I have a easier day the next day!!

Got my wildtree oils!! Love, love, love them.................can't wait to cook something. I think the garlic and pesto are my favorites!! Nicole tell your friend I got them today............ Did I say I LOVE them!!!

It is weird and I am working hard not to do it again!!! I hate it.............but it does feel better if you get it out!!

No fun huh Chris?? I hate it. Reggie I am gonna try to come next week. I need to make sure I am not on Taxi duty first. But sounds really fun. I can bring something too!!

OH Nicole my daughter is on the computer right now. I am losing cause I am barely eating. LOL. I don't eat much cause only two to three bites and full. No breakfast to hard and not hungry. Try to get in two waters before I eat lunch. Doing soup and salads when they work. But protien is not so great ladies. That is the stuff that gets stuck if I don't go really slow and chew like a cow!! I don't know how Dr. Baggs will feel about my protien intake..........I keep thinking one day I will get up and it will start to go down than I will want the restriction back. I think I can work this restriction for a couple of months ya know. But I will go it. If I see a needle I will tell himi WAIT we need to talk first!! LOL. I want him to know where I am at before I get another fill. I think I am good for a couple of months now. NIcole, Chris when I hear you high fill numbers I want to cringe!!! OMG if I was that high just shoot me cause I would be a walking mess!! LOL. I would not be eating or drinking............Bless you both with those fills!!

Orientation on 12/12/08 Pysch appoint 1/27/09 Surgeon appointment 1/27/09 (lose 12 pounds/goal weight) Case Manager appointment 2/9/09 Pre Op labs 2/9/09 Pre op classes 4/9/09 PHysical 4/9/09 Surgeon appt 4/9/09 Pre op labs 4/10/09 Surgury on 4/13/09 4 MONTHS from start to finish Kaiser insurance. Diet and weight loss required before surgery Quick and easy process but lots of hoops

Nicole I was checking for ya over at FB on chat?? Where are ya girl!! Riley ya need a fill and I really want you to get a got 6cc's.................:-) Nicole you have lost so much I think you might slow down now. Your so darn close now!!

Yea June I only lost 2 pounds. July 5 pounds and now in two weeks six pounds...........finally so I really both love and hate this fill. I don't want to get an unfill and lose my momentum!! LOL. Just hurts some days and your OMG I chose to do this...........but again the day after surgery I though the same thing and it was short term!! LOL.

Nicole I am not eating out or with friends right now. I talk to much and don't concentrate on my eating............if I am with people I always get stuck!! If am by myself I have a better chance of not PB'ing. I hope soon I will figure out how to be social and not get stuck at the same time. But to many bad things the last two weeks at resterants and when social eating............... Giving it a rest. I like eating at home where I know what work and where I can run if I am getting sick............. I think part of it is just learning what to eat and not eat and learning to eat slow and chew well.............all stuff that is important when you at a high fill...........I got away with to much before this fill now I am going back to the binder and lap band rules.............

YEp Nicole I hear ya!! Today I didn't PB'd I made good choices today. But I got the dry heave thing to last time and scared me back to soups again. THere is a very fine line between sweet spot and too tight CAndra. I so, so wanted restriction and than it is weird to be in the spot where i have to worry about if I am eating enough. I get shaky too!! I really think I am on the line between to tight and just right. Last month to loose ..................I would have to go with to tight but than again when I can't keep food down I frustated and than teary!! Candra girl just wait!! Less than a month away. I am so excited for ya!! I am afraid if my band tightens with Aunt Flow!! LOL. Right now it takes me an hour first thing in the morning to get 20 ounces of water down and if I chug up comes the water!! No more 120 ounces of water. Won't fit. I work hard for the 64. SO I don't know. I do love my band but some days I feel like the stoma must be pinpoint size. I don't want to end up in ER for not drinking enough and when I can't get anything down I worry about myself until something does stay down............than I am happy again!! I am moody. This losing weight battle is tiring some days but geeze I m dropping weight again and so loving that!!

Oh I heard with the wireless band that you can adjust it yourself which is a danger zone for me. I like that my doctor is far away cause if forces me to stick this out and wait until the next fill. I had a better band day. Looser today. I even had a couple bites of bread and it stayed down. Are you kidding?? B: nothing but vitamin water 10 L: Soup, salad and a couple bites of bread D. Riccota cheese with tomato sauce Snack: yep I said snack a handfull of M & M's. Oh geeze that stupid ice cream inflames my sweet tooth. I have to stop the sweets immediately. Riley good luck on the fill. BUt serious girl I am rarely hungry. I sometimes get pain from just one bite of food. Usually in the morning or after laying around on the couch...............than I have to be up and moving around awhile before I can try again. IN the morning even water has to be a sip at a time or it hurts. But down 5-6 pounds and I think things are loosening up a bit. Come on a bite of bagel. Unheard of a couple days ago............BUT it could go back to tight tomorrow. I am dreadimg that time of the month when it always tightens up................ah now that might be a problem this month. I can't go tigther AT ALL!!! Riley tell him you want to be be as full at Tina!!! LOL!! YOu need to be at least 6cc's..............ya know you want to be in the same boat as me!!! Seriously this a month of don't test your band you will lose!! I actually sorta like this fill. But some days when I can't eat I sorta get teary and feel claustraphobic......like this is way tight of a squeeze...... get it out!! That is when hot liquids and soup soothes me. I think it takes the swelling down!! Soup is a comfort food for me!!

Yep I didn't have regular periods either for a couple years before the band. Was banded on 4/13/09 and had two periods within a month. Two the next month and now right on 4weeks apart. My surgeon said that after lap band surgery as the weight drops your fertility goes sky high..........I had to sign a contract I would NOT get pregnant for at least 18-24 months. But seriously this surgery and the weight lose changed my whole cycle around..........

Hey LaChica we have similiar stories and I am so glad your out and moving on with life...............this is gonna be the best year of your life in many ways!!! Richmond Kaiser/Dr. Baggs are the best!!!

Welcome Temp Tubby and LaChica Stick on this site this is a great support group here!! I had orientation on December 12, 2008 and surgery on April 13, 2009. I had to lose 12 pounds which I lost in a little over a month but I put my surgery out cause I went to AFrica for almost a month. My surgeon and Liz strongly encouraged me to go own my trip but told me not to gain weight. or my surgery would get cancelled. I mostly stayed on the diet but had to eat rice just case that was what they served mostly in AFrica where I was. But I lost about 10 pounds over there so I was down 25 by the time I had surgery. I also had to walk everywhere in Africa so that helped me lose weight fast over there!! :-) Good timing. Best decision I have made. I have lost 44 pounds I think need to check my ticker again!! I changed it this morning!! LOL. LaChica: LOL about your dead weight I did that too!! Smoking good thing you quit cause no surgery until you quite and they do a nicotine test before surgery. No caffiene or carbonation although I drank diet coke until the day before surgery but nothing since!! Also how do you know your goal weight already. They usually tell you that at your surgeons appointment? A word to the wise DON"T lose weight before orientation that is your starting weight!! Wait until the 14th to start. Stick with this group you'll do fine we can walk you through this!! I recommend Dr. Baggs!! Just my preference

Reggie girl I can hook you up with clothes. I have three trash bags full on new and almost new 18/20's. Business and casual. I would to ahve you take them off my hands!! :-)

Oh going offline until later today..........

Morning ladies!! Off to work really busy day today. I am down another pound this morning and I had that darn ice cream yesterday. Fat free ice vanilla milk or something like tht but still ya know I should not have done it. I was just so done with trying to eat another meal yesterday after lunch. Gonna do better today but I bet I got the higher calories yesterday helped out!! I always do better a little higher. For me when I PB I usually get that pain that nicole is talking about and I try to wait for it to go down so I get thee calories in. But at some point you know it won't stay down and you give up. IF I get the hiccups I know it is over. It doesn't hurt and it just sorta comes back up.............but it makes me gag when I do that cause it is a gross thing to do and that usually makes everything come up. I was reading yesterday about a soft stop. Old time bandsters were telling me that you need to figure out your soft stop like, brain freeze, hiccups, headache, nose running.........they gives you the stop quick signal. Thinking about that today and gonna try to figure out if I have a soft stop!! But 6 pounds down now in two weeks. I hope this keeps up. THe more I lose the more the band loosens on its own and than I won't need an unfill. Have a great day ladies........

My nose runs after I PB how weird is that ?? I finally ate the insides of manicotti tonight and it was yummy and fine. I need to buy some ricotta and tomato sauce and make that again. I did that post op it was so good. I gotta find options that work. I didn't get lunch today cause I couldn't make it stop sticking............... ANd here I am up at 12:15am. LOL. I didn't drink enought water today and woke up thristy. I agree with Heather I need to move the water up more. Since my last fill 64 is all I can get down but today I only got 40 and I am feeling it..................loving my water.