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Hey no problem, any time. LOL. Congratulations, that is great to hear. I remember the day I got the call I was so excited and then the nerves moved in and took over. But no worries everything will be great. Oh the protein shakes, yeah no tips. I will be honest its not too fun but you'll be alright. Yeah I did the same thing, I pretty much ate anything I could get my hands on LOL. It's not the best thing to do but we all do it. Well I'm happy to hear you have a date keep me posted on how everything goes.

Yeah I'm pretty pumped, I have been doing pretty good, but I still want my fill. I go back on the 30th for my next appointment so we'll see how it goes.

I am single, not seeing anyone or anything like that right now. It's super tough though, but I already told myself to not put so much time and effort into finding someone right now. I have other priorities, like loosing the weight and that if its meant to be it will happen. It's just hard now a days to find the right one I guess. It's funny though cause my mom always gives me crap about finding someone. How about yourself, married?single?

By the way what nationality are you? Do you speak any different languages?

I know I kind of stalled myself for a little, but they say this is lap band hell I guess. I do feel better and like I said before my clothes are starting to look big so thats good. My next fill is on july 29, I sure hope I get some restriction with that one.

I'll be with the family during the day and my friend is throwing a party so a bunch of us will be hanging out there. It just sucks cause I can't drink yet so I'm gonna have to just feed off of everyone else getting drunk. LOL! How about you doing anything fun?

That is great, good to hear you're doing well. Yeah I don't weigh myself purposely or I'll drive myself crazy, I try to do it every month which is a little extreme but I have to. I'm doing good. I'm still at 102 total lost, I don't go back until early December so we'll see. I be weighing in at the end of the month to see how were doing.

As far as tips go not too many, but I have noticed that deli meats tend to be a problem. I couldn't figure it out, I thought it was the bread, but I was toasting it really good. Then, after reading some other posts I realized that people have problems with deli meats, but I don't understand it. It's really wierd. Other than that all is good.

Well thats good sounds like your having a fun summer. I just got back from camping on monday, that was a blast, I love the open air and camp fires. LOL.

What you said makes sense, how they don't want us to loose it too fast, cause its not healthy. Well all we can do is keep on movin along. Talk to you soon.

About 5 minutes in or so I felt like throwing up and did but it wasn't food it was this ball of slime. LOL. sorry, too much info. then that was followed by some food coming back up. It wasn't very fun. I've been better since but I have to say I definately feel full quicker than before. As far as what you feel, It's kind of hard to explain, you just get a weird sensation, I was confused to and people would tell me believe me you'll just know, and thats what happened with me. There have been times when I didn't feel full but I would start burping and hiccupping continously, that's another sign to just stop eating before it starts to hurt. My second week I was pretty much on cream soups and other liquids, I didn't start with soft foods till the third week. I do feel different, and I hope to keep dropping the weight, my mission is not done yet, but thanks for the kind words.

Fortunately, knock on wood, I haven't had any setbacks, and hope that I don't. LOL. I know what you mean about not feeling restriction, I felt the same way thats why the last time I went in I told the doctor you need to fill me, and its a good thing he did. I wanted to ask you have you gone to any support groups with the hospital or even outside of the hospital? I've been wanting to go just to talk to other people about different experiences and things but I just haven't gone to any of them.

hello, just seeing how everything is going. Hopefully everything is good and hope to hear from you soon.

Hello, wow, Oct 14th, a few more days you must be excited I'm sure. My surgery date was 5-8-2009 and I have been doing awesome so far, I'm down 102 lbs total. I just take one day at a time, thats all I can do. Well good luck with everything and hope to hear from you soon. Did they tell you will you be staying over for one night?

Hey how's everything going? Haven't heard from you in a while. Hope to hear from you soon.

Hey how's recovery going? Hope everything went well.

Hey Jenn, How are you doing? I'm sure you're excited about getting to soft solids today. My first day of soft solids, I must have planned out my menu for the day like 3 days before. It was so funny, everyone was making fun of me but I was like hey you stay on liquids for 3 weeks and tell me how you'll feel when you have your first regular meal. Since I don't have any restriction yet I'm still doing that now. I have to plan everything the night before and I right down when to eat and snack so that I don't feel hungry throughout the day. And it really sucks at work sometimes cause there's always a party or someone bringing in some kind of food and it's like people get away from me. LOL. But, I'm staying strong. Ok I think I'm blabbing too much but its just nice to be able to talk to someone on a personal level thats going through this whole thing like I am. Anyway hope you're doing well. Talk to you later!!!

Hey Jenn, what's going on? How's everything going? Anything new going on?

Hey jenn, what's gong on? Haven't talked to you in a while. Hope everything is well with you. So what do you think about this. I went in for my second fill last wednesday and I weighed in and lost 30 lbs in 6 weeks. When the doctor came in to talked to me he basically said that he didn't want to give me a second fill yet cause I did loose a lot of weight. I did question him cause I really don't have a lot of restriction, I mean I do a little cause I do feel it sometimes but a lot of it was making the right decisions and will power. I've been asking around and no one has really had that happen to them. I mean I'm happy about the weight loss don't get me wrong. Am I just over thinking all of this?

Hey what's going on? No nothing much, really. Just hoping to get through this week. Looking forward for the weekend. It's my Birthday today so I'm having a huge party on Saturday. Other than that though same old stuff. Just trying to shed these pounds and really anxious and waiting for my next fill. I think you said you're having your first fill soon correct? Were at least getting some good weather over here finally. How's everything going with you??

I didn't see that you responded. I think you just typed it on your page so it didn't post on my page. Before you respond, click on view conversation, so that it actually posts on my page, otherwise I have to go to your page to see if you responded. Okay enough of that. Well yesterday went well. I lost 13 more lbs. Thats 74 lbs since surgery and 101 lbs total from my very first appointment. But I have a ways to go so I have to keep on movin. I made an appointment for the 30th of the month so I sure hope he gives me a fill by then. I think I'm ready for the next one. I just know that I'm eating more than I'm suppose to. Everyone says about a cup to a cup and a half, and I know its been more than that. It's just that I'm eating the right things. I'll have my protein in and then have a huge bowl of salad or some other veggies to fill up. So far so good though I can't complain. How are you doing? Hopefully your job is getting better.

I hear you on the difficult part. Yeah my mom is always busting my chops, but she means good. No she hasn't tried to set me up yet and I don't know if I would want her to. LOL! The problem is im 100% italian and just cause she got married at 22 and had kids at 25 already she thinks thats how it should be. I always give her crap that its not like it used to be. That's awesome about the drinking thing. My doctor told me at least 5 or 6 months, but now I want to look into it and maybe have a drink. LOL.

No I haven't really noticed a change in shoe size. I have actually been wearing the same ones and haven't noticed a difference. Maybe that might change later for me but not at this point.

Oh I hear you on that, I walked into work about an hour ago and I want to leave already. Were really slow so the clock never moves. I'm on this site more than anything else throughout the day.

Oh not too bad, thanks for asking. Just trying to figure all this out and make it as easy as possible for myself. Like I said before my first fill went really well, but I don't have much restriction so I really need to make sure I'm watching everything that I am putting in my mouth. Other than that though everything is going wonderful for now. How about yourself, you must be off of mushies already or soon correct? Finally time to eat some real food. LOL.

Oh the waiting game is so much fun isn't it? LOL. Everything is good on my end. I had a rough weekend, I had a baptism and a wedding so lets just say I had a few more calaries than I should have. But no worries back on track today. Other than that all is good, I really want to get another fill. I'm going to try to get to the doctor just to weigh in. This sounds crazy but I hope its not a big loss, cause then my doctor won't give me that fill. I think I explained what happened to me before. So we'll see, I'm gonna try to go on wednesday if he's in. How are you holding up other than that.

Thank you, nothing crazy just having a bunch of friends over on saturday. Hope your fill went well. It wasn' t too bad right?? Have you felt any difference at all yet?

that is fantastic, glad to hear that everything went well and you're feeling good. yeah the soreness is the most I felt too and thats a good thing. Isn't it funny only 4 oz every two hours. LOL. I'm doing good, the doctor finally gave me a second fill on wednesday. I went in and lost 14 more since my last appt so that makes 102 total. He gave me 3 more cc's and friday night I finally had my first pb and slime incident. Oh it was the worst, I think I ate way too fast and the fact that I was just filled a few days before didn't help. It was pretty bad I'll make sure to take it easy and remember to slow down. Other than that all is well here. Hope to hear from you soon.

thats good to hear. I'm not doing too bad, don't go in for my next fill until the end of july so I'm really looking forward to that. But yeah I'm noticing a big difference in my clothes also, and it feels awesome. Weekend was good, weather was great, its been really humid and rainy the last few weeks and this weekend was warm but not humid, so it was nice for a change. I so didn't want to go to work today cause its so nice. I saw transformers this weekend also , and that was good just a little long.

Well, when you slime, basically the food is stuck and the body produces a slime to help it come up or go down. So I think I started eating solids too early after my fill cause I know it wasn't cause I over ate. I was on my 8th bite or so and all of a sudden I feel this tightness in my chest and it sucked.