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Jaffa

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  1. Jaffa
    Well, I was eating left over salmon the other day, and for some reason, it got stuck. I think it being left over it is just too dry? Well normally, stuck isn't all that bad, but this time it was horrible.
     
    I had to wait a couple of hours and it actually, pysically hurt. Then finally it started to subside, and the went away. Afterward, I could just barely sip warm water until everything started to go back to normal. I was getting really worried that I would have to go to the hospital when it didn't clear right away. It was late friday and my local fill doctor was already gone.
     
    I will never eat left over meat like that again.
     
    I went back on liquids until the swelling from the barfing went down. Its been about 30 hours and I can tell I'm pretty much back the way I was and am ready to eat normal again.
  2. Jaffa

    Bandster hell again.

    By Jaffa,

    Well, three weeks after my last fill and I can tell I'm losing my restriction again. I was reallly doing well on my daily intake, but yesterday was a combination of problems.
     
    First off, I was eating things I shouldn't, and second I was able to eat about 2 to 3 times as much as I should be eating for supper.
     
    I'm just gonna have to use self discipline and control to get me throught the next week or so, which is the bandster hell. My supper was 8 oz of new york strip and cornbread. It is my daughters birthday weekend and it is really tough. I also finished it off with a cup of homeade ice cream. Oh my god, 440 calories of nothing but sugar and fat, and it doesn't even stay with you.
     
    Today is the birthday meal. Hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill with potato chips and dip and the dreaded ice cream and cake for desert. I have a plan this time to save me. I am only going to eat the hot dogs, which are the 99% fat free hot dogs and only 40 calories each. I will use the 1 carb ketchup and mustard to make them good, and I will not eat the dessert. Ok the last part is the worst, but I have to make up for yesterday. I had 2000 calories!!! If I eat 900 calories for the next 3 days, I can counter that disaster.
     
    I have also came up with an excellerated calorie burn plan. I'm going to do my normal 30 minutes of swimming or weights at night, but I'm going to also walk for 3 hours a day. That should give me a 1600 calorie burn with my normal metabolism. Man I should be able to have a big time weight loss for the next couple of months this way. I want to lose 70lbs in the next 7 months, to get to goal. That is 10lbs a month. I can do it, but only if I'm doing all of the excercise and keeping my band adjusted. I'm starting to think, it will just have to be adjusted every 3 weeks, not every 4, like they want to do.
  3. Jaffa
    Well, my band is close but no cigar yet. I feel perfectly restricted in the morning, but so loose at night that I could eat anything.
     
    This morning I ate at the breakfast buffet at the hotel and I was so happy to only want a cup of food. I took an entire plate of food out of habit, but just left it.
     
    My problem right now is at night everything is pretty much slipping straight through. I could eat just about as much as I want, but am trying to control myself until my next fill. I will get my next fill next week.
     
    ONE thing I have realized, is that for me getting a fill in the afternoon versus the morning is going to be a must. I wouldn't mind being so tight in the morning that I can just drink a protein drink, as this is all I usually have time for anyway, but dinner time is when I really need to be in complete control with a band. Getting the fill in the afternoon should get me closer to ideal restriction for that time of day.
  4. Jaffa
    I realized the other day, that I have for the first time since I was a little kid felt a kind of piece.
     
    The lack of being hungry all of the time and not being so hungry before a meal is somehow making me feel so much more at peice.
     
    I sit down for every meal and worry at first that this will be the time that I eat and don't get full on very little, or that I'm still hungry after I'm done with my portion. But when it doesn't happen, it is such a relief to feel in control, that it seems to make everything better.
     
    I hope this continues, but still fear it may end at each meal. I never imagined an actual change in my mental state because of my ability to control my eating, but it is definitely there, I hope it stays.
  5. Jaffa

    6 month point

    By Jaffa,

    Well, I'm at the 6 month point.
     
    I have really achieved the sweet spot for me.
     
    I got really busy at work, and pretty much quit working out, but I'm still able to lose 1lb every 10 days.
     
    I'm now down to 184.
     
    I decided to revise my final goal. I'm actually, pretty happy with the 66lbs lost, and I think if I just lose another 14lbs, I will just try to maintain that point. That would put me just above the normal weight range, and at the same time, allow me to keep my band a little bit on the loose side. I want to keep this thing as long as possible, and I believe most people get into trouble with too much restriction, so I'm trying to avoid that.
     
    Everything else is going great, and I actually skipped a fill this month, because my restriction didn't change all that much and I did lose the right amount for what I was doing.
  6. Jaffa
    Well I'm doing good on the eating and my restriction is still pretty good.
     
    I can't say enough about how much the bodybugg has worked for me. I like the calorie counter and it seems to be helping me to now be more motivated to excercise. It just seems more rewarding to see the excercise do something for me each day in my calorie defecit versus just waiting for the scale to change. And it is still really helping me to properly track my calories and I'm even starting to make better food choices because of it. Man, I sound like a commercial for BodyBugg. I have heard about another product and I will post the name of it....it is suppose to be more accurate and a lot cheaper....but I can't remember the name of it right now.
     
    I have always liked aspargus, but now that I see the calorie count, I LOVE asparagus!!!
     
    Anyway, I have been running about 2600-2800 calorie burn per day, as apposed to about 2200 before the bodybugg, and I'm now eating about 1200-1300 calories a day and not going over by a couple of hundred a day. If the bodybug helps me continue to do these things, it was worth every penny and more.
     
    Going out to eat tonight and I already know what I'm going to order, because I have 600 calories to eat, and I know I can have some soup, grilled salmon, and asparagus for that kind of calories.
  8. Jaffa
    Well, my wife has been dieting and trying to eat about the same thing as me. Understand she is NOT banded. She has done terriffic, but the reason I got banded is because I believe everyone can lose weight until biologically we are driven to start eating too much again. I just believe, for most people it is inevitable to regain on a diet because we have in our basic genetic code too many things that work against us.
     
    I watch how hard she is working and I remember how difficult it used to be, and it really makes me feel bad. In fact it is down right upsetting. I wanted her to get either banded or get a gastric sleeve at the same time as me, but she just doesn't want to do it. She wants to lose it on her own. Well she is a strong women who has proven she can do it, but it is a terrible thing to watch how hard it is for her. I also feel that she has lost the weight in the past and can do it again, but has also always gained it back.
     
    Why can't she see how futile it is without some help? I'm just really frustated for her, and I feel guilty, about how well and how much easier this is with help. And then I dred what I think is inevitable, the biological need to eat will force her back into weight gain and make her feel like a failure.
  9. Jaffa
    Well last night was the first night in two weeks I felt any restriction while eating dinner. Unfortunately today is my second fill. I hope this up and down nature of restriction is too much to deal with long term.
     
    I also think that a lot of my weight gain was from eating soup at the hotel restaurant last week. I think this because in the two days since I got back I dropped 3lbs? That has to be water weight, so I'm thinking the soup had a lot of MSG in it or something?
     
    I say all of this because it could be that the MSG also was making me retain water and making my restriction less? It could all be related?
     
    I am predicting a .5cc fill today? I know I am still not at as good of a point as I was a week after my surgery, so I know I'm really not to the sweet spot right now.
  11. Jaffa
    Well I told my regular doctor yesterday, that I am getting the Lapband. I was a little surprised how negative he was, and how much he tried to push me towards a bypass instead.
     
    I am 100 lbs overweight, and my biggest problem is how much I eat. Yes I also need to change what I eat, but for the most part I need the band to help me control the amount I eat. I don't snack and I'm very capable of saying no to certain foods, especially carbs. This seems like a perfect solution for me, but boy he wanted me to look a bypass.
     
    He also argued that the information I had received about the weight loss for band people being about the same as bypass at the end of 5 years was not true. I kind of think he might be a little outdated in his knowledge about the lapband.
     
    My brother had the bypass way back when they were relatively new, and he died. I just can't do a full bypass....too scary for me....although he say's they are way safer then they used to be???????? I don't think there is any way possible I could overcome my feelings about bypass.
  12. Jaffa
    Well tomorrow I have my post op follow up visit. Then I move on to the thick liquids stage. Next week will be mushies, and then solids.
     
    I'm down to 228, which is good. I have been trying to get up to 1000 calories and 60grams of protein a day, but have only been able to do half of that so far.
     
    I'm still tired, but went back to work today.
  13. Jaffa
    Well, I got home from being gone all week. Man, being in a hotel room all week away from my routine and my food made it really tuff.
     
    I am still doing ok for morning, but night time is like not having a band at all. I can eat anything at night and pretty much at any speed.
     
    It's a good thing I get a fill on tuesday, because the food is going right through at night.
     
    I sense that I'm one of those people who will be very very tight in the morning in order to be at the right restriction in the evening. The evening is when I fall, so if it does work out that way, I'll be just fine.
  14. Jaffa

    pre op diet working

    By Jaffa,

    Well, as is usually the case for me the diet is pretty easy. My low carb diet is going well and I'm down to 239. I have never really had trouble with diets, just trouble keeping it off afterwards.
  15. Jaffa

    My first unfill....

    By Jaffa,

    Well, yesterday, the tightness just got worse. I couldn't even swallow something that was half the size of a pea. I got stuck and it down right hurt.
     
    I went in today, and got some of my fluid taken out. They removed .5cc, to take me back to 5.8 total.
     
    I am on liquids right now, in hopes that I can get rid of any swelling and with the unfill, be just about right.
     
    We shall know in a couple of days. I know I will be happier this way, but I'm guessing I will be needing to execute some more self control at night again. That's ok with me, I don't want to be stuck again!!!! Not that kind of stuck.
     
    Were thinking I probably scratched my inside when I ate some grilled hamburger last week, and with the inflamation that occured afterward it just kept getting worse.
  16. Jaffa
    Five days to go and I will be in surgery.
     
    I'm still doing good on my preop diet. Lost a couple of more pounds.
     
    Its hard sometimes when I don't have time for 6 hours to really eat. I get too hungry and then overeat. I eat the right things, just too much.
     
    I'm going to be spending 3 of the 5 days at Disneyworld. My plan is to just do a lot of walking and riding the rides to keep my mind off of food. My fear is the park will have food in it that I want. But I will be ok, I'll just eat protein only.
  17. Jaffa
    Well, we should know soon? My body bug says I am burning 3200-3400 calories now that I'm doing the fat burning exercise for 3 hours a day and the weights for 1 hour.
     
    I just got a fill today of 1cc, so I should be able to easily stay at 1200 calories of intake. That's a 2000 calorie defecit per day average. At that rate I should be able to maintain my 2.5lbs pers week goal. Thats what I need to do right now to make my 160lbs on October 1st.
     
    My knee is a little sore, but I'm actually holding up great. I can do this, I can feel it!!!!!!!!
  18. Jaffa
    Ok, I didn't think I would ever be saying, Horray, to being overweight.
     
    But, I have officially left the Obese category, and I'm now entering the "overweight" category.
     
    As it turns out, I had 45lbs to lose to get from Obese to Overweight, now I have 45lbs to lose to get to normal.
  19. Jaffa
    After my last fill, I have found that my food intolerances have gotten a little out of control.
     
    Before, I just couldn't eat left over dry meat. Now I'm having trouble with other things. It seems totally random. One day, I have no problems, the next, I can't seem to eat anything without getting stuck.
     
    It is getting really annoying. I'm going back on creamy food for a day or two, and see if it clears up, if not, I think it is time of a little unfill? It is only 19 days to my normal appointment, so maybe it will get better???
     
    Just very frustrating right now. It doesn't help that the scale hasn't moved down in the last 8 days either.
  20. Jaffa
    Well, my weight loss has been bouncing for the last 2 weeks. I have started going up a couple of pounds and then down a couple of pounds.
     
    I know the problem isn't so much my calories eaten as it is my excercise level. I started to swim again, and got a terrible cold for the last week.
     
    I think with some regular excercise this week, I should be able to push through this. I really want to lose another 20 pounds in the next two months, so I'm going to have to get some excercise to get my metabolism going.
     
    I will start today by walking for a couple of hours, and maybe a short swim.
  21. Jaffa

    10/11 months update

    By Jaffa,

    Well, I am down to 179. It has been slow going as I approach my goal. Which is to be at the top of the normal bmi range.
     
    I'm going to push the exercise really hard for the next 8 weeks and try to make goal on my one year anniversery?????
     
    I will also plan to post a thread on my one year anniversery on everything I have learned and done to get where I'm at.
     
    My 10th wedding anniversery is in feb and we are going on a cruise....already ordered new wetsuits for both of us.
  22. Jaffa
    Well, this the longest I have gone without any weight loss. In fact I'm up a pound. I am trying to up my calories a bit for awhile and then bring them back down, just to fool my body.
     
    This is so frustrating....I was losing 2 or more lbs a week for a long time, and now in the last 10 days, I have gained 1lb.
     
    I'm tighter then the past, so, I'm going to use a little hot water to help in the morning. I am thinking about just changing my food routines as much as possible to get things going.
     
    I'm going to pretend like the 1lb gain is muscle this week. There now I feel much better.:biggrin:
  23. Jaffa
    Well, I already feel about the same as I did before the fill.
     
    Don't get me wrong, I had some restriction before the fill, and adding 1cc made me not able to swallow water during the fill....so we took out .5cc.
     
    But, now two days later, I feel back to completely like I did before the fill. Not totally, without restriction, but I'm thinking I'm not at my sweet spot yet. Of course, I personally believe the sweet spot moves with weight loss anyway.
     
    I'm limiting my intake to one cup of food at at time and I'm back on regular food tomorrow, so we will know more then.
     
    I'm at 222 right now. My original goal was 145, but after telling people I want to get down to 145 and seeing the reaction, I'm thinking maybe I should just shoot for 160. Everyone is definitely against seeing me down to 145?? I'm 5'9", so this would be in the low normal range....I guess time and effort will decide it partially.
     
    I was cleared to start swimming again, which I already started and love. I may be fat but I can swim like the wind blows. I swim a 600 in the same time that is expected of an 18 year old certifying for being a lifeguard, so I love it. Just think how fast a slimmer me will be in the future.
  24. Jaffa
    Well, I'm all caught up on my yard work for the spring, and I actually have a little bit lighter work week coming up.
     
    So I'm hoping to get 15 hours of, stationary bike, walking, and weights in this week.
     
    I am also wanting to do a marathon on the threadmill. So the first time I get an entire day off, and don't have anything I have to do, I'm going to hop on the treadmill and walk. I figure I can walk at about 3 miles per hour for 10 hours straight and be done.
     
    I was inspired by by the biggest loser and the old RNY guy making it with a bad knee and shoulder. I have a bad knee also, but not as bad as his.
     
    I know I can do it!!!!! I think it will be fun, but I will report my findings when I get done doing it.
  25. Jaffa
    I definitely have more restriction again, after my fill on the 26th. But I still can eat about 2 cups of food before getting the full signals.
     
    For me the full signal is one little hiccup. I stop eating at this point, and sure enough I'm full. For me if I eat too much it will become uncomfortable with a kind of tiny bit of pain.
     
    I still can eat way too fast. I eat the Sam's club stuffed chicken breast and 10 sweet potato fries in about 20 minutes. If I was at ideal restriction, I think that I not only wouldn't be able to eat that much, but it would take me the full half hour to eat.
     
    My last fill was another 1.0cc, and I'm hoping to keep this restriction through the entire month. We will see how it goes.
     
    The new "fat burn" type of exercise is working much better for me then the "cardio training" programs. It doesn't bother my knee so much and it burns more total calories. The disadvantage is it takes 3 times as much time to burn the same calories, but since I have the time....thats what I'm going to do.

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