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Ah I have a cousin whose mother drank the whole time she was pregnant with her and she also has a weak immune system and we all think that this is why!! She also has lot of problems with depression. Well Riley you sorta nailed my problem right on the head. That is what has been going on since my surgery. I figured it would stop when the weight lose stopped or slowed down............maybe not cause I am getting closer to 40 all the time!! Yea Sheena lost alot before her RNY. She was on a roll. I gotta got check out the pictures over there...........thanks for posting them.

Riley you may be on to something. It is almost that time of the month but I never thought about it affecting my stomach being to flaky.............I really do think your on to something that makes sense. As everyone know my aunt flow has been making alot of visits in the last twelve weeks and I get achy and swollen a week to two weeks before instead of a couple of day. I thought it was all the estrogen trying to get out of me from the weight loss!!! LOL.

Oh I don't think I like soda anymore!! I went out to lunch today and wasn't even tempted when my co worker offered to share it with me...........I took a sip of my daughter 7-up a couple of weeks ago and it takes like syrup..........all think and sticky............I threw it up and it was not a PB it was a gag reflex...........today when I saw that diet coke I started to think about how it would taste like syrup and would be sticky..........almost made me gag again............I don't know what is up with me. My stomach has been yucky all week. I think it is the heat. THinking about certain foods makes me want to gag this week................NO, not pregnant but sorta that same feeling. I gotta blame the heat 106..............I can't do heat and eating at the same time.............makes me nasaeus..................I know I am weird!! But eating and heat is not my thing. Not losing weight to fast. Having a problem getting in the 1000 right now...................and **()@ I think that hurts me. Yogurt here I come............

Oh I used to hang out at goat rock all the time.........I used to live in the Calistoga area back in the day and was over in Santa Rosa and over to goat rock alot!! Yea thanks for the pictures I always like seeing pictures!! Riley when is your appointment? I am having problems eating lentil today. What is up with that...........ok I did add low fat feta in with it. But eating very slow........... Cleaning house for company on Saturday. I made veggie beef enchiladas. I figure i can eat the insides. I have been eating left overs all week and as long as I don't eat the tortilla I can eat the insides just fine............solid protien. I am also making rice and beans and chips and salsa but I doubt I can eat much of either...........LOL.

Hey Sheena. Thanks for the honesty. Glad you doing so well. SOunds like your dealing with some of the same stuff as the rest of us. I read through your blog and I totally agree you have to address your addictions or else you will find a new one........right on!! So glad your doing well. I would like more pictures!! LOL. Your blog pictures are from 5 weeks out!! LOL

Yea it might be a new thing now to take the pressure off. But I agree weigh in at Kaiser so you have a starting weight for yourself. That should be your starting weight on your journey. I bet you will weigh but lots of things have changed since I started out in December.

Yea Candra your back!! Hope you get to feeling better soon. E coli is no joke!! I would say take the clothes but I usually keep my clothes until they are huge on me just to be sure I have something to wear until I am SAFETY into the next size!! LOL. That is just me. I like to know I have something to wear if th next size doesn't fit well yet..........but take the clothes if she wants to give them. My work is still ok just losing more and more people which means eventually my number will come up in a matter of speaking.......I am waiting for the state budget cause that will determine what happens in September for me. Well ladies back to work. ..............have fun camping all!! While I sit here in Sacramento blistering away............but I am not bitter!! LOL. Donna you go with your bad self and that electric slide!! LOL. I wish I had been there.................so you ready for the 25th?? I will be there!!

Thanks Riley well put!! ANd I do think my slower weight loss is around my not eating me............but if I can be veggie and still lose than I am happy. And I have done both. I did try meat several times but just not a go for me. I couldn't do it!! And yep I am lacto ovo too!!

LOL, LOL, LOL Shadows Nicole your funny!!! Your guys are distracting my from work this morning!! LOL

YEp it seems like the days I eat more than I think I should I lose..............the days I eat less I don't. I try to do one day low and one day high............been so hot lately that I haven't felt like eating much and I think in the end that is gonna hurt me. I did make it to almost 1000 yesterday. Ah if I was 90 down I would be 10 pounds from my goal!! Oh yes 90 pounds is a big deal.....................a very big deal!!

Ok down one more pound this morning. Finally!! I think I can thank the hot weather for not being hungry the last couple of days.............one more pound before next Thursday? But you know Kaiser scales I need to be 3 more under on my scale to be on the safe side ontheir scale!! LOL. I am ready for a fill............ GOtta run ladies

Yea my job is not stable right now either. WHich means my insurance and lap band fills are at risk too. Just taking it a day at a time................scary stuff though. Again sorry Jes that sucks!!

Riley is the low fat drink diva.................maybe she can't hear us cause she is out exercising again!! LOL :-)

Forlougs suck!! Nice to have time off but money sucks. I heard we are losing more poeple on Friday. OH dear. stressfully work enviroments nowdays......... SOrry Jes, I hear ya

Bevmo something about mr.bob- or builder bob? Or drinking bob..............LOL. I don't know but bob something ...............Riley, oh riley..................where for art thou Riley??

I am losing my hair still............I was told not such a big problem with lap band. But of course I get to be the guinea pig!! How I love being the experimental subject!! At least real giunea pigs have hair!!

Ok lurkers join in here anytime!! LOL :-P I would tell poeple if you eat meat your gonna do better nd lose faster.................I think Riley did good to eat carcasses........LOL..........for the time she did. I admire that I should couldn't do it. I throw up.................and look she has lost faster than me............but ah oh yea she is an exercise fiend and I am not!! LOL. Serious going to bed...

No tofu but I am suppose to eating that. Kaiser would prefer I eat meat. I would probably lose faster. But I really, really hate it and I am willing to lose slower..........most of the time anyway..........if I can eat veggie. I don't eat much carbs, no soda ***grumbling to self about loving diet coke***** I eat protien just have to work to get 60g a day..........it is all good. Just like 1 freaking pound a week..............LOL.

Well sometimes I think it is better to blurt something out than to not say anything and get more and more annoyed...........I know I can be a bit agressive sometimes. It was meant in good will I assure you.

InsideOut SHe is really cool just taking a different road than the rest of us. I was not trying to get something started. Just being honest and asking for honesty in return. Hard to make a decision for the new people if they don't know all the facts. Oh dear I didn't mean to get something started........just wanted to make a point about putting it ALL out on the table good and bad.

Nicole I am a vegetarian and I think that makes a big difference..........................thank God I did not do RNY since I struggle with my nutritionand protien with the band!! But really I think my slower weight loss and struggles has some to do with my diet adn refusal to eat meat.............ah Riley can speak on that. WLS is not an easy road being veggie..........but doable!!

I like to hear the truth is all. I always appreciate knowing the truth good, bad and ugly. I always try to tell the truth good bad and ugly. LOL. Ok, ok but if you read my posts ya'all know that much. Come one three visits from Aunt Flowie, PB'ing, gas pain after surgery, and inappropriate burping all the time!!! I do have belly scars that might not ttotally go away..... But I still like my band. I definetely eat better and feel better and I am down three sizes in 6 months.......... But if I am gonna put my reality out there I hope other people will too. Makes it hard to open up if other people don't do the same in return. One thing I love about our forum people put the truth out there and I don't feel alone in my struggles. If all of you were only posting the postives only I would feel like I was not really doing to well since I struggle in certain areas still.............. Ok, ok..............I gotta sleep.

I was very much swayed towards RNY after orientation. I did my own research and went out to lunch with RNY's talked to medical people in my family. I went in wanting lap band and after a good month of debating I went back to lap band.............Dr. BAggs was totally cool about the whole thing didn't pressure me at all. Wouldn't decide for me which I asked him to do..........he said I should decide. I talked to RNY's that were 100% honest with me. Some said it was great but some told me to reconsider. Some had leakage and malnutrition problems. Some gained the weight back, some where in and out of the hospital. And two had no problems and were happy. That is the honestly I needed to decide. ALl of them said they would do it again despite the problems............but at least I knew what to expect. Lap band I only talked to one person who had it and she was a nurse practitioner and told me that as a medical person she researched it and found it was the safest procedure..............she has lost 60 pounds the last year and is discourage that things slowed down but happy she did it still............. I just want honesty not only the resy side of things. That is why I tell people the truth surgery does hurt but not unbearable..........I didn't like the first week after surgery and I do PB a coupld times a week and it sucks.......but I have lose 42 pounds about 17 more than I have ever lost..................

Sheena maybe you should put a pro and con list out on RNY. Like what you like and what works and what your struggles are. That might help all the new people get a realistic picture of both procedures. I agree the fast weight lose with RNY is a plus.............but what have been your struggles the things that are hard. I know you have pro's and cons we all do. Everyone knows I both love and hate me band at times. But I put out the reality both good and bad. Seems like you only post the positive eg fast weight loss but what else is going on for you. We want the whole story not just the good parts!! Not trying to get on you but it just seems like there is more to the process and your journey than what your posting...........

I usually prefer a woman doctor too but ..............honestly Dr. Baggs I would not have chosen.........as I prefer women, older man..........but I am glad it turned out the way it did!! Just remember in surgery your stark naked........and peacefully asleep........but still. Having a woman for that part might be reassuring. But again I have to recommend Dr. Baggs...........been a very good experience for me. And I like meeting up with him once a month since he is so funny and easy going.........good fit for me