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shelley2b

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  1. Went in to have a little fill today - she's put in quite a bit - 4cc's on the first fill, then another 1 or 1.5cc's today she put in 0.3cc's but it was so tight I couldn't swallow the water, so she took out 0.15 cc's immediately.. thank god. I'm in that situation where I'm really tight in the morning - but then I can eat anything I want at night... it's really discouraging and I'm not controlling myself as well as I think I should.
     
    But get this! I lost about 5 lbs according to the doctors scale - only about 3 lbs according to mine, but that's great... it's taken longer than I would like, but maybe what I need to do is more like adjusting my expectations so that I can be happy with the progress I'm making.
     
    I've lost about 36.6 lbs total - probably about 20 since surgery... I've got to check on my signature. Funny how you forget.

  2. Christmas Recovery

    · shelley2b · 12/25/2008 17:14

    I was banded on the 19th Dec 08 - and I've now been recovering for a week. At my highest, I was 243 lbs - wow! Even writing that scares me.... I don't know how I got up to that weight. It's not like I'm inactive, it's just that I can't control my eating. I'm the type of overweight person who can be healthy as anything for a few weeks - and then I fall off the wagon and start eating like a pig. What I figured out is that when you over-eat, it's really easy to eat 5000-6000 calories, but when you're working out and being healthy, to make up for that one 5000 calorie day takes weeks.... You have to eat less than 1,500 calories a day for weeks to make up for a binge like that.
     
    Anyways, I lost a bit of weight before the surgery and I've lost like 7lbs since the surgery - gosh that's a lot. I was thinking this morning that it's been like 3 days at the same weight and I was getting a bit discouraged, but 7 lbs in a week is more than anyone could really ask for.
     
    So at surgery I was 228 - and now I'm at 221 lbs. I can't get it off fast enough. I've started walking on my treadmill yesterday - and today I did 30 mins at a pretty slow pace because I don't want to overdo it.
     
    I'd love to hear from any of you who are ahead of me or at the same time - I'm really looking forward to getting back onto normal food and being able to really get physical again. At the moment I'm feeling OK, but I'm just always tired.
     
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