Libbyjane1976

Hi Lisa!!! This website will definitely be very supportive. Congrats for getting back to it and starting all over. Good luck with your liquid diet. How long do you have to be on one for? Since your band is already in place did you just go in and get a fill?

Wow Catherine that is so awesome. I'm happy for you!!!!

1. How much less I eat and don't crave junk food 2. It's been easy to lose the weight 3. How good I feel

When I get that feeling it's my key to slow it down. That's when I put the chicken breast down and sit there for about 5 minutes. Then I pick up my fork again and resume eating.

I'm on this website all this time, this is my support group. Other than that there are several people who I know that have had the surgery and funny enough it was all with the same doctor so I kinda compare notes with everyone.

Goal 1: Not wear an extended seatbelt when I fly next month (lost over 60 lbs so I hope I don't need one) Goal 2: Get to onederland (52 lbs to go) Goal 3: Wear knee high boots Goal 4: Wear a short skirt

Good for you! What an awesome accomplishment. Hopefully you and your son will have many more memories like that.

I tell you what that was a really great self esteem moment for me. I haven't been this thin in over 10 years and even though I still have a ways to go I'm already feeling so much better about myself and the way I look.

I tell you what that was a really great self esteem moment for me. I haven't been this thin in over 10 years and even though I still have a ways to go I'm already feeling so much better about myself and the way I look.

Unfortunately right now you are in bandster hell. I would call your doctor and schedule a fill. go in every 3 weeks until you get to a good restriction. Good luck.

For me it was an easy decision. #1 I did not want my insides rerouted. No way. #2 Too many complications!!! #3 Death rate from GB is too high

Dang it I didn't see that show but scrolling through I see it's on TLC Wednesday night at 10 p.m. I tivo'd it. I love watching those shows. I also watch the show on Discovery Health called the Brookhaven Obesity Clinic.

I'm to the point where I'm very tight in the mornings. I usually have Carnation Instant Breakfast. That way i at least get some good protein in. By lunchtime I can eat food but I get full pretty fast and then by dinnertime I can eat alot more.

5 oreos? Kudos for stopping there. Shoot back in the day I could eat the whole row in a package. Don't beat yourself up. Pick yourself up and throw away the rest of the oreos. lol.

Kinda sorta. Only nothing came up. It's just a warning to slow down and chew.

Great job! I am right on track with you. IN 2 weeks is my 6 month bandiversary and I will be probably at the 60lbs mark too!!! It feels so great knowing that much weight is gone forever! Makes you think how you even carried all that extra weight around.

I'm 5 months banded and I can "eat normally" just alot less portions. I can eat a 6" sub from subway. I can have a piece of bread with my dinner. Though I usually don't because by the time I eat my meat and veggie i'm too stuffed to even think about bread. I can eat a salad. I have no problems eating any food I want to eat. I just be careful, take small portions and take my time. I only get stuck when I eat too fast and don't take the time to chew my food.

My sin for yesterday was for dinner I had chinese food. I had won ton soup, an eggroll, a little bit of my dinner and ice cream for dessert.

Have you measured yourself? Are you losing inches? My doctor told me you go through stages where you lose weight and then you go through stages where you shrink. You could be shrinking. Maybe you are building muscle. Only other piece of advice I can offer you is to change up your diet. Our bodies are crazy sometimes. I know mine I can eat good all week and not lose a lb but the minute I eat something bad for me the next day I lose 2 lbs.

Your doctor does fills every 3 months? I get a fill every 3-4 weeks. You need another fill ASAP. Good for you though for throwing out the ice cream and contacting your nutritionist. Good luck to ya!!!

Probably because your band is looser in the evenings than it is in the mornings. My doctor told me that I would probably be much hungrier in the evenings and less hungry in the mornings. So far that seems to be true.

About 45 - 50 lbs in. I could see my collar bone get bonier. My shoulders are beginning to get bony and i'm starting to notice i'm getting more of a shape in my back end. I haven't really noticed anything in my thighs yet though I have lost weight there. In my legs around my knee i've lost some weight. I'm actually starting to get knee caps.

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That's definitely true. The word diet sets you up for failure right there. You have to change your eating habits because obviously since we are obese it hasn't been working for us. Since I got banded I've made sure I eat fruits and veggies daily. I don't buy junk food. If i'm at someone's house (like a party or something) and it's there I will have some but I don't buy it. Same thing with Cookies, cakes and brownies. Usually those items were at the top of my to buy list. Not anymore. I try to stick to healthier foods whenever I can. If not I allow my self to have 1 or 2 or a half piece or whatever, just not the whole bag or the whole pan. I don't really think about them much anymore.

I didn't lose much. I had 5 weeks in between my surgery and 1st fill. I probably lost about 7 lbs in between. I lost 5 from being on the liquid diet for 2 weeks and then for the mushies and the transition back to solids i didn't lose anything and then I finally lost about 2 lbs and went for my 1st fill.