lose2regainme

I am 8 months post band, have lost only about 30 pounds so far. Spent nearly two months sleeping most of the day, then the Dr did some blood work. She started me on Glucophage for sugar/insulin balance, Bio-identical Estrogen (she said my level was basically ZERO!!!!), and also my thyroid level was at the rock bottom of the normal range, so she started me on Porcine Thyroid. Foot note: I had a hysterectomy 10 years ago, leaving one ovary and have not had to be on HRT yet. Also I was "pre-diabetic" before surgery and took Januvia, but went off of it after some weight loss. (I also got to go off my BP med!) Can anyone tell me if the addition of these meds (especially the thyroid) will help or hinder my weight loss. I regained about 5 pounds over the holidays. I eat when I don't feel good. I haven't mastered that yet. Any advice will be appreciated!

The move fell through. Thanks to all who e-mailed me with information about the area. We are disappointed about not moving.

We're considering a move. Would really appreciate surgeon and group information.

You really need to get that protein in! It's common for banders to have some hair loss (among other issues) when you are not getting enough protein. Try Muscle Milk Light. I buy it by the case at Sam's Club, and each little juice box like carton is only 8.25 ounces, but 15 grams of protein, zero sugar, 5 grams carbs and only 100 calories. It tastes really good, too. No mixing or blending. I grab one on my way out the door often, and take them in a little lunch box/cooler on daytrips. My 12 year old son even loves them! Try to make every thing you eat or drink protein packed. If you can't make yourself eat much, what you do eat has to really count towards that protein goal. You are still early enough post surgery that you are still healing. Your appetite will get better. I had similar issues, but finding a few things that I really liked helped tremendously!

I didn't vote for Obama, but kept an open mind when he was elected. I hoped that this obviously intelligent young man would storm into Wasington and stir things up. Clean up the mess left over by the past several presidents. Cut the fat and get us back on the right track. Save us. That is not what is happening. We're going downhill faster than ever. I am not a radical who thinks both Bush presidents walked on water and hung the moon. They made mistakes. But this health care reform really scares me. Making government bigger scares me. It is putting more power into the hands of those most of us don't trust completely already. I want to have affordable options. And I don't agree with spending money the country doesn't have to bail out big corporations that are floundering. Where will it end. Each time something like this is done, it sets a precedent. How do we make it stop? How much debt is too much? Did it really help the economy, or just prolong the inevitable? Benjamin Franklin said it well......"Trade freedom for security, and you will have neither." We are giving up too much here. Don't want to offend anyone with differing opinions, but that is how I feel.

Mine is pretty simple, too. I hope to lose the extra weight to become more like my old self. Hence the username : lose2regainme :confused:

I have quite a list going now! I found a few other threads, but you mentioned a title or two that had not yet been mentioned, so I am really glad I started a new thread! Must be new recently published titles. Any more suggestions? Thanks everyone!!!

I would like to purchase a few Lap Band books to read this winter. I have read a few posts that mention a few books, but I can't seem to remember them. Please tell me the titles (and authors if you know) of the ones you like. Cook books are welcome, too as long as they are specifically for Lap Banders. Thanks everyone!

Still no restriction. I'm having my second fill on Tuesday 8/18. On Wednesday, I am having Cataract surgery!! I am only 40!!!!!! How many fills did it take to feel restriction for all of you?

Feeling good, 25 pounds gone FOREVER already!! I had my first fill 7/30, 2cc's. No restriction yet. NSV = 6 inches from my waist already!!! :ohmy:

I have the Di Vinci Gourmet Sugar Free flavored syrups in Caramel and Khalua. I have used the caramel in chocolate and vanilla shakes and the khalua in vanilla shakes. All very good. The vanilla shake with khalua tasted like a Khalua and Creme!!!!!!!!!! Yum!!!

I've been using sugar free flavored syrups in my Protein Shakes and was hoping someone could tell me where I might find a coffee flavored Sugar Free syrup, preferably decaf. I currently have a carmel and a khalua. They really improve the chocolate and vanilla shakes! No sugar, carbs or calories! Both are Di Vinci Gourmet brand. Any other good flavor combinations?

I used to live in Lafayette, LA and I miss the south soooo much!! In an earlier post I promised to tell about somethng that happened to me when I was 19. Here goes..... I got married at 18 and moved to California with my husband, who was a US Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton. (oooh Rah!) We lived in brand new base housing, I worked on base, we had lots of friends around us in the housing area, etc., but when my husband had to be away from home for training I was a little scared. (very young country bumpkin + strange place 2000 miles away from home with no family around = well... you get the picture) Anyway, I woke up one morning very early sobbing and shaking. I remembered that I dreamed my husband and I flew home to Indiana and we were at a hospital visiting someone who was dying. I had no idea who. The doctors were saying anytime now, etc. Well, being alone, I called my mom and asked her if everyone was okay, especially my great grandmother who was in a nursing home. She assured me everyone was fine and I was just afraid because my husband was away training. The next morning I again awoke sobbing and shaking. This time my dream was again home in Indiana, but this time we were attending a funeral. I could see the coffin at the front of the funeral home, but we could not see who was in it. I again called home asking after my family. Again my mother assured me everything was fine. I went to work that day as usual, and although my husband was not due back for 10-12 days he and some other Marines showed up at our apartment on base shortly after I returned home from work. A fellow Marine who was from Indiana ( he and my husband had met on the plane going to boot camp and had been close ever since) had gone AWOL and had been murdered in Arizona trying to drive home to Indiana. My first dream was determined to be at the time he was shot and the second dream.........exactly when he was found. I did not get to travel home with my husband for his funeral because of money, although he had spent a lot of time at our house and I considered him like a brother. The following summer we went home on leave and went with another couple to visit the grave. We parked the car, my husband turned off the radio and A/C and we stood around the grave talking and crying. We got back into the car and as soon as my husband turned the key, the radio (turned off remember?) BLARED Aerosmith "Angel", which was his favorite song. He sung it all the time, complete with comical air guitar. He had even attended a concert in L.A. the weekend before he went AWOL. No one knows why he went AWOL. or what happened on that stretch of highway in Arizona, but we do know he was trying to tell us something that day. We still think of him often, almost 22 years later. Especially when I hear that song!!!

Do whats comfortable for you. You may find afterwards, when you start getting nice comments, it's easier to tell. But there's nothing wrong with "keeping it in the family", if thats what you are comfortable with. I am finding I would gladly shout it from the top of the highest skyscraper! I have surprised my self with how many people I have lifted my shirt for and shown them my stitches, and now healing scars. I haven't had one unsupportive thing said to me. Family, friends, other parents in Boy Scouts, neighbors, etc. And to think, it used to irritate me when people would put their hands on my belly during my pregnancies to feel the baby kick without asking first. Now I'm walking around in public being an exhibitionist!!!:smile2: