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Hi Nikki and Diva! Hope you're having a good week. I made it through the holiday weekend and stayed on track! Down 11 lbs since I started medifast. Looks like I can lose weigh again! Hope you both are doing well!

Thanks Phil! Day 2 on Medifast done. Hopefully I can stick with this a while

Hi Skylily, What a journey you've had! I've had it fairly easy in comparison, but am still struggling to get to a "healthy" weight. I had a set back last year after an injury and spent the past year not exercising and eating what ever I wanted. Somehow I've managed to keep the weight gain to only 12lbs. I'm back on track now, doing medifast (that I get from my WL surgeon) to try to get under 200lbs. Even with the band we all have to work at this! Have you have an xray of your band? The reflux and choking sounds like your band might have slipped. My sister in law had that happen afer she had a baby. The band slipped and the reflux was terrible. She had her band totally unfilled and after 4 weeks the band is back where it's supposed to be. She's starting to have it refilled next week. Might be worth a visit to your surgeon to have that checked out. Good luck to you on your weight loss journey!

Hi Diva and Nikki! I've been struggling for the past year too! Was banded in October 2008 lost 93lbs in the first year and a half and have managed to gain 12 lbs back. I had a foot injury that really knocked me off track. I couldn't exercise and so I started eating more! Hmmm that was some brillant logic. I've got good fill, I've just made really poor food choices for a long time and need to get back on track. I started medifast today to see if I can't get under 200lbs by my 3 year bandiversary. I've still got at least 60 lbs to lose, more like 75 or 80, so hopefully we can all cheer each other on! Glad to see you've both got new fills and hopefully we'll all be back on track! Good luck!!

Hope you are finding things improved with the slight unfil! You're right, too tight is just as bad as too loose!

It took about 50lbs for me to be able to really see a difference. In dresses, I could wear a lot of the same dresses until I lost 75lbs. Pants seemed to be about every 35lbs until I was in a 16/18. I think it really depends on the types of clothing you have in your closet.

Hi There! I'm back after at least a year away from Lap Band Talk. I had surgery on 10/28/08 and am back at working on getting to my goal weight by 10/28/11. I've spent the better part of the past year dealing with a foot injury that caused my exercise to go from 5 days a week to nada. Of course that lead to poor food choices and I'm now looking at a 10lb weight gain. I'm still down 74 lbs from surgery and 93 from my heaviest, but really want to get back on track. Looking forward to reading this forum for support and finding others who are restarting with the band!

Congrats Julie.Ann! That is amazing weightloss. I had surgery the day before you and I'm down 45 lbs from Surgery and a total of 57. I'm pretty pleased with the results so far, but I think some additional exercise will help speed things up. Just wanted to check in and see how folks were progressing. Looks like most of us are doing pretty darn good!! Keep it up!

WOW!! Thanks for this awesome post. I've been feeling like a failure for not losing 2-3 pounds every week. Some days it's easy, some days it's not. Your message has given me the encouragement I needed to keep moving forward and not compare myself with anyone else!

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I'm right there with you all. I was banded 10/28/08 and have 5cc in a 10cc band after my 3rd fill. I had my 3rd fill on Monday and I think he missed as I really don't fill any more restricted than I did on Sunday. I'm back to journaling my food so I can be accountable for calories. I miss that just out of surgery feeling where I just was never hungry.

Love your post!!! I can't wait to have these complaints!!!