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I don't think its a good idea....so please, if you do decide to do it, make a video and put it on youtube!!!!!!!! I can't even imagine doing it without fluoro personally.

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.

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.

My guess, is that your body has sensed the loss of weight and the low calories and is intentionally holding on to as much as it possibly can. Try adjusting your calories up 10-30% and check your percentages of protein versus complex carbs. If you are working out a lot and not getting enough complex carbs your body will do this.

I have to agree, the reset tickers don't tell the whole story. But, I do understand why some people do reset them. I have long noticed that thin people think of weight gain in terms of 1-10lbs, while us heavier people think of weight gain in terms of 10lb increments. It is kind of a state of mind thing to me.

I think you should first try financing it yourself. If that isn't possible, then maybe financing with the other person co-signing. But asking family for money is pretty much a recipe for disaster.

My information packet listed Water intake as being important for the normal regulation of body temperature. Try drinking more water??? It may help?

Sounds good....thanks

:biggrin: PB....productive burp. When you are banded, sometimes food gets stuck, and doesn't want to move through. You are suppose to get up and walk around and let it try to work itself out. But, a lot of times, you just can't, so you have a contraction that isn't puking, and it isn't really burping either, that makes the food in your pouch come back up and out. It think people refer to the burp, because it is similar in that you are kind of forcing it to happen. I think PB's as more like what you would do if you were choking on something to get it out, but you don't have the feeling of choking, just the feeling that food won't go down. Some common reasons for PB's, are Band too tight Not chewing your food enough for the constriction level you are at Taking too big of bites Being dehydrated prior to eating Eating foods that like to reform into a bigger mass after being swallowed (starchy items)

My PC doctor wanted me to get the GB sugery instead of Lapband. So we kind of argued? He just felt it was more successful and easier for most people. Well, he agreed with me on the reasons for my choice and recommended me. He seems very relieved and happy with my progress since the surgery.

Well, I found out today what a fill is like. Not bad at all. I also found out that my 10cc band had 2.8cc in it from surgery day. I really wanted another 1cc, even though the fill person, looking at my barium swallow, thought I should have more like .5cc. After putting it in, I was too tight, so she took .5cc back out, and I'm pretty much perfect now. I feel really sorry for those who don't have a fill to start from the surgeon. Heck, I think I'm already to my sweet spot for my current weight!!! I was really worried about my weight loss, but the scale showed 10lbs since my visit 3 weeks ago, so I'm doing just right. I feel so sorry for those who struggle for months on end to get to this point. I have heard the realize band takes much longer to get to this spot....so I'm super glad I picked the APlapband.

Well, I found out today what a fill is like. Not bad at all. I also found out that my 10cc band had 2.8cc in it from surgery day. I really wanted another 1cc, even though the fill person, looking at my barium swallow, thought I should have more like .5cc. After putting it in, I was too tight, so she took .5cc back out, and I'm pretty much perfect now. I feel really sorry for those who don't have a fill to start from the surgeon. Heck, I think I'm already to my sweet spot for my current weight!!! I was really worried about my weight loss, but the scale showed 10lbs since my visit 3 weeks ago, so I'm doing just right. I feel so sorry for those who struggle for months on end to get to this point. I have heard the realize band takes much longer to get to this spot....so I'm super glad I picked the APlapband.

I agree. And I am sorry if it sounded like I was lecturing, I really wasn't trying to do that at all. I was trying to suggest that something needed to be done differently or that they may have a problem. Or that they didn't really understand how the band works and how it can be defeated. I did come up with many opinions from the post that may or may not be true.

I have kind of changed my mind. Someone who is extremely experienced seems to think that having very little restriction and not losing much after 10 months is a normal thing with the realize band. If that is true and I have no reason to believe it is not, then, I would want the Lapband period.

Some people believe that you can't say anything you have learned unless you have experienced it yourself. This is probably the silliest of notions on this planet.

Read your post again. It is not simply asking the question you wanted. But I understand what your saying, it isn't what you really wanted to know. And for that I am sorry. I just don't agree with someone not having restriction after 10 months. It's not that I don't believe you, its why I think you need to find someone else. And yes I'm new, thats why I only talk about what I have been told and what I have read here, doesn't make it true, so take it or leave it. My post may come off as attacking you, but that is not my intent, so again, I apologize. You don't and can't know my intent, so why don't you just lay off with the whole "your not welcome here thing". It smells.

Re read your own post. I am addressing your specific complaints, along with your original question. I am responding specifically to what you are saying, and I am specifically saying what it could be, or what it sounds like from your limited post. Frankly, this sounds a lot like the people who say things like "I'm eating half of what I used to but not losing weight". Well if you are still eating more calories then you are burning then you are not going to lose weight. May I suggest you get her a bodybugg and track exactly what the balance is on a daily basis. Hey your the one who brought up a hole bunch of other issues with the band then the 8cc in a 9cc band part of the question. Maybe you didn't mean to do that? Maybe you just want a post like this? Oh I'm so sorry the band isn't working for her. I'm sure it isn't her fault at all. I'm sure the band has worked for so many by placebo affect and that you to are just to smart for it to work this way. Your right though, I should have just ignored your post like most others. And you should have just asked the question about 8cc in a 9cc band, if that is all you wanted to know. I mistakenly thought you brought up the other issues because you didn't understand, but your post says just the opposite. I think anyone who doesn't lose weight on the band is very likely a person who shouldn't of had the band, it is nothing personal. Why they aren't losing seems to almost always be the same reasons. It has been proven over and over in threads on this site and by peoples own admissions.

Well I gained a pound....and I'm sure it is partially water retention, but also the fact that mushies mean starch to me. I should have done a little more prep and research on mushies that weren't loaded with carbs, but I didn't, so in they went. Two days to my first fill, and that should really help....that and I will be strictly low carb from that point on, until I get to goal weight.

Well I gained a pound....and I'm sure it is partially water retention, but also the fact that mushies mean starch to me. I should have done a little more prep and research on mushies that weren't loaded with carbs, but I didn't, so in they went. Two days to my first fill, and that should really help....that and I will be strictly low carb from that point on, until I get to goal weight.

Hmmm....if your in a position to retire, why would you need or want life insurance? I have never thought of anyone doing this at that stage of life? Obviously people do it, you see the commmercials going after old people all of the time. But, I thought these people must be a little goofy?

Or you could be paddling your own canoe to much. Hey if you can't love yourself, who can you love? LOL

I didn't even realize there was a place specific to us Jan 08 people. I'm doing great, and I have two days to go until my first fill. Your right about sodium, I don't normally pay any attention to it, but when I went to weigh myself the other day I had a sudden jump in weight. I know it isn't the amount of calories, so it has to be Water retention.

LOL....only in Iowa is that probably considered low fat....but I love them. You know you can get the frozen already cooked meatballs at sams and then cook them in any sauce....5 of them equals 250 calories.

15 pounds lost on preop diet with this product. I like it, some people hate it.....will it work....of course in the short run, in the long run....only if your willing to live on them forever....almost no one is.

My suggestion....find someone close by and pay them to start doing aftercare because it appears your current situation isn't working. They in reality will probably need to start with education and maybe get you together with a support program. Read post after post already on this board and you will learn what you need to know. It may be that you aren't willing to do the things necessary to use a lapband to lose weight. That is unfortunate if true, because you could have done something else or done nothing at all and saved the money. As for the the 8cc in a 9cc band.....have they ever drawn the Fluid in the band out to see how much is really in there? It could be a leak, or maybe she isn't really that filled?