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I ate 3/4 a cup of lentils today. I was starving. Did the protein shake this morning. I had 1 cup which I could eat yesterday but only was able to eat 3/4. Not 1/4 I know. But I guess I have a little restriction today. I also got really hungry about 2 hours later and I kept asking myself is this head hunger or really hungry. Seriously it was really hunger so I had a piece of weight watchers cheese......damn snack I know, I know. Well I PB'd right back up. I really tried to hold it down and wait it out but it came back up.........thinking to myself "no snacks Tina get a clue!!" I guess .5 is a good thing but like the guy said yesterday you really do get hungry.............

Congrats Christine!! Enjoy it you so deserve it!! Huge, huge victory!!! Ok ladies I post the pictures on the community social site since I can't figure this out!!

How do you post pictures on here? I have some from yesterday to post!!

So Nicole Liz will be there but we can have Dr. Baggs do it if we are his patients? I like talking to Liz cause she has alot of great ideas and gets the whole bariatric thinking process!! But I really want Dr. Baggs to do my fills......... My guess is that as time goes on the fills are less and less frequent and as you lose weight you fade out of the Richmond program. I also noticed that lots of patients came and went without being part of the group. I think the group is just for new patients but the old bandsters might now be doing them.......... Oh gotta love Gordon too!! He was at my last group fill and I really liked him!! He also told Robin socking things at the last appointment. THe cigar story was funny!! My daughter was laughing all the way home about the guy who was hungry so he got angry and than that made him hungrier so he got angrier...........MIchaela got a kick out of that and that he almost used the f word..............she said mom he was really really hungry you could tell!! BUt OMG 70 pounds since February??

OH Nicole I thought you went from 194 to 188 pretty fast there. But maybe it was just you didn't change your ticker!! LOL. Did that liqiud diet help you lose some more? I think they talked to me about bread because I only lost two pounds!! YOu lost 13 so even if your eating bread it works. Did you tell Dr. Baggs you can eat anything?? I told him it really depends on the day for me but lately I could eat alot more. But than again I PB'd two days ago so I have a very moody band. Riley I am really determined not to snack. I don't think I do but.................I think I eat four small meals cause I get hungry after dinner .........every four hours comes quick if you stay up late. Donna I read an old post by you about getting enough sleep and weight loss. I know I don't get enough sleep. I stay up till midnight and get up at 6am...........I used to use caffiene to fight that but not anymore.........and if I go to bed early.......than no need for the last supper or my fourth meal...... Been thinking alot today about if I am totally following the rules after all the discussion yesterday and I think Liz is pretty right on about something................

Riley 5 pounds overnight!! Seriously I want someone elses fill!! LOL. Ah have a really bad headache today. I did start taking my blood pressure meds again today and wonder if the headache is related to that. Going back to bed I think. Between the diahrea and that headache I wonder if it is the flu............ Riley maybe the weight gain was just water weight??

Riley I found some clothes!! Thanks so much!! Still not feeling any difference in restriction but I am sore from the fill all around the port. I think this is because it was so hard to find it yesterday and I got poked a bit. Ah Nicole still thinking about you getting poked my Liz!! You poor girl you were the guinea pig!! So is Liz gonna take over the fills?? Hmm...........I like Liz but I hope Dr. Baggs still keeps his patients. I do know Kaiser is getting alot of people filled at other places when the insurance changes and that is probably time consuming. I want to ask what is going on with the fill and why they are training Liz to do the fills?? Ah Pam I have a headache today too!!

Hey Pam so it didn't go to bad. Funny cause we told Robin the same thing at the group meeting and she seemed shocked!! Well it can only hold 7cc's?? Really?? so at 5.5 or so I am almost full?? Hmm I am gonna ask Dr. Baggs next time about that. I have been on liquids since yesteray was starved this morning and having diahrea probably from all the liquids!! LOL. Had a protien shake and I am ok for now. I am gonna stay on liquids until I get really hungry. Christine what you lost 2.5 overnight. I want your fill!! LOL. I am the same weight this morning which is good. I have been so up and down the last week that I am happy to be firmly in one place for now. I have been fighting the same 5 pounds for weeks. Now that I am not so up and down maybe the scale will start to go down. I have been the same weight for 4 days now!! And the Kaiser scale was only one pound more than my home scale so I know I am right on. I plan to stay on liquids until I can't stand it anymore and I am only eating protien.........sorta a 5 day pouch diet but twisted with the south beach thing Christine posted. I serious need to stop the carbs!!

Pam where are you? How did it go??

Ah Nicole sorry about the fill hurting. Mine didn't really hurt but Dr. Baggs couldn't find the port this time so I am really bruised up this morning. He did tell me that he was gonna do better next time. I told him he should not have said anything and I probably would not have known........... I can't tell a difference this morning either. I will wait a week or so for it to kick in. Hoping for no more PB'ing and some weight loss so I can get more of a fill next time. Nicole your doing great. What is that like a 6 pound jump downward?? Liz was talking to me the whole time during the fill and got me laughing which didn't help Dr. Baggs. They did give me a hard time about admitting to eating bread. I thought we could eat bread toasted?? I told Liz it was toasted and I still PB'ed on it. But than Robin asked me about eating bread too. Sorta confused on that one. But I don't eat it anymore now anyways!! Yea this liquid thing is not fun. But I have done good so far if you count the protien shake last night. But I am gonna drink those until I get rid of the whole case I bought........I need the protien and they have been sitting them since January when I bought them for pre op. Drinking two a day than eating dinner and I finally dropped two pounds so I think maybe the liquids and no carbs and high, high protien has my body back to losing again..............I hope.

Christinen I totally hear you!! Caffiene is huge weak spot for me!! I am afraid to get started again....... I still mentally crave it and always think I want a diet coke so I am still danger zone right now. Girls I am so hungry tonight..............going to bed to fight it!!

Candra I will read through the lap band stuff but my guess is you can have it. I think most of it is pre op. I will bring it on Saturday.

Donna thanks for all your work on the list. You were missed today!!

No caffiene for me since 4/13. I only drank soda to get my caffiene and I am really afraid of carbonation. I want to keep my band. I also AM very addicted so know one sip would do me in. Liz said no today that I wouldn't even like it now but I don't know........I did take a sip of 7up a few days ago to rinse my mouth out and it tasted way to sweet and thick, oily.......so maybe Liz is right. Riley Nicole said hello to Dr. Baggs and than as he walked by she said "there goes the King........he turned bright red!!

Candra I KNEW they were gonna say something about your coffee!! LOL. YOu did good though.............so now you know Liz so the CM appointment will be a breeze!!

Oh great Candy someone I know will be there!! Anyone else? Pam where are you?? What happened I was thinking about you all day. DId you get your fill??

Farah Fawcett?? really?? Ed McMahon I liked too!! MIcheal Jackson was strange but I think he had a very very hard life. I don't agree with much of what he did and was about but he started out with promise anyway.........just sad. Riley I can drink the same as yesterday nothing has changed. I don't feel a thing. Not full at all and not much funnel. Nothing hurts, I don't feel full. It might be another 4 weeks of willpower. Last time I knew right away something was different. Right away!! I think you RILEY might be at your sweet spot!! Amazing at 5cc's !! I will be excited to hear how it goes with everyone's fills this month. By the way (Riley/Jane) Liz was asking me about my support system, support groups and of course I mentioned everyone and Kaiser West point. I said Jane and are both vegetarian and like joking around so we have alot in common. Dr. Baggs jumped in and told me keeping in contact with Jane is a very good thing for you to do. I encourage it :-) Compliment. I think maybe he thinks you can teach me a thing or two since you have lost so much and you like exercise and I don't!! LOL.

Ok I drank a non fat hot chocolate on the way to the fill this morning and had a handful of benefiber powder.............It helps combinging hot water with fiber for me. SInce I upped the protien I have been so constipated!! TMI I know, i know.......

I am in shock over Michael Jackson death!! Seriously in shock........I think he had a hard life!!

Candy you coming on the 23rd? I have gone down 2 sizes since surgery but only 13 pounds. Kaisers scale and mine where the same today. I think upping my Protein the last week (protien shakes with extra protien powder and protien bars) and going back to Water helped get the 2 pounds firmly down.......I know I can't do that forever just until my stash is gone but that has me up to 80grams protien and seems to have broken the plateau but we will see. I think, myopninion is I need to exercise more than 30 mintues a day...........i just suspect that is the problem so lets see how it goes.

I am a very bad girl I drank my Protein shake. I pored it in a cup and I can almost see through it. Candra tried to get you into the fill but Liz said no. To many people already. Although Dr. Baggs told me to go get my daughter so she could see the fill. I told him unless he wanted to pick her up off the floor I didn't think it was a good idea. Next time if your there and Liz is gone I think it would work. Dr. Baggs did my fill Liz watched and gave me my band aid. She wan't fast enough and pulled my shirt down and sat up..........Everyone was saying lay down your getting Iodine everywhere..........Than I notice now have my port bruise and the band aid is no where near where I got the fill!! LOL. It is three inches away. Guess that is what you get when you have three people working on your fill!! I have to take a picture to funny!! Yea Liz I do better with than Robin. She doesn't get my joking around ............like my daughter said Robin is just firm but Liz is motherly firm so it seems nicer!! LOL. But I have seen Liz light into people..........just not me cause i am a good girl most of the time. I did tell Dr. Baggs I was upset about two pounds in 4 freaking weeks and luckly I even got that.............I told him I was hoping for more........he laughed and said we all hope for more.............does that mean he is ok with two freaking pound?? I didn't get yelled at but when I saw Liz I wondered where we were going with the whole group fill...... ok, ok hungry kid. Nicole hope mike has good news.

Tamra you can do this. I have never lost more than 25 at a time and I am down 40 now. If I can do this I am SURE you can. I struggle and seem to lose slower than most......seriously you can do this. And Reggie is right enjoy the process it flies by. I was anxious like you in the beginning than after surgery I realized it whizzed by me.......not sure I had time to let it all sink in............. So food logs. Robin said to leave them ..............ah next time!!

Riley thanks for the clothes I am going through them after dinner. I need to clean out my closet again so I can bring stuff to the support meeting!! Candra Yea girl why aren't you in the picture?? I am gonna post mine cause your in mine. I didn't like how Robin kept skipping over you so I hope you don't mind me mentioning your name!! I thought so what if your not banded your still Richmond Kaiser.......... Ok so back on my blood pressure meds. Not happy about it. Dr. Baggs said he knew he made peoples heart rate go up but this was to much!! LOL. But yea I guess stress at work got me again. My PCP warned me that might happen. Disappointed but if Dr. Baggs said it has to be done I am going with that. He said to start back today!! Nicole how did the fill go with the dress!!! Girl I was thinking about you the whole time. Having Liz there was fun. I like the way to deals with things nice but firm.........she has a cool way. I don't 'think Robin got the jokes like when I told Riley to be careful what she said............Robin thought I was talking diet but actually it was more the whole bald head thing!! Nice having liz in the room during the fill cause she asked alot of questions and got Dr. Baggs really taking and joking around. Anyway my daughter is now insistent she must eat cottage cheese tonight so off I go to the store. Riley I agree love, love, love the hair!! I ill be posting pictures soon!!

Hey All Pinole was great. Fun seeing everyone. I guess next time we are all split up. I go on the 23rd of July who else has that date? I would like the 17th (a bit earlier) but getting off work earlier than a month in between is hard. Also the 24th is my 9/80 or day off anyway so it goes me a long weekend that way. I got .5cc's today. I wanted 1cc but oh well I am not in charge. It was for two reasons one that I only lost two pounds and he doesn't think there is room for more fluid until I 've lost a little more and two I had PB'ing problems off and on all month. But honestly so far I can't tell any difference at all. Sure I have water and soup today but not like the last time when I really, really felt it. BUt I will give it a few days and see with solid foods how it goes............ Dr. BAggs said I come next month than get put on a every 2 months schedule after that................so I would like to be at my sweet spot before I have my two month hiatus. Well see I just don't think this is enough. I debated talking to much about the PB'ing cause it is not every day but off and on........but they asked and I was honest. If I can't tell a difference I will email him in a couple weeks and see if I can get 1cc next time........... Riley I know wanted 2cc's though and I am just sorry she didn't get her wish!!! :-)

We are taking a 2.9% paycut and forloughs are on the table. We lost 15 people in our office. Maybe more to come in September............stupid economy. NIcole all the 12's are winter clothes girl!! Also my mom is 60 and some of it is older style.........black pants might work but the sweater that goes with is very winter-y