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Sorry to hear that you cancelled your surgery. I think there is a high chance that you will end up rebooking and that you will wish that you had not cancelled and wasted the additional time. You may lose without the band but most of the time we are unable to maintain that loss. Not because we are weak or bad or ......................but because of hunger which is at a level that is difficult to control. I wouldn't. That money might give you a chef and/or trainer for a couple of months but once that time is up they would be gone whereas if you had gone for a band it would still be there. Sorry that you were put off the band by the "not fat enough police", sometimes I don't think they realise how their behaviour comes across and they don't realise that what they are doing is as bad or worse than what many have done to them about being fat.

You might think you woudn't read it but you probably would as if it is not posted under an atheists forum but under general lapband stuff you wouldn't know what it was until after you had read it. That is the point that I have tried to make a couple of times but for some reason people don't seem to get it.

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If you haven't had any restriction for a while then you have probably slipped back into taking bigger bites, eating quickly etc - you probably need to relearn how to eat.

Has your husband been tested as well?

Sorry to hear that. All the best for the surgery , I hope the erosions heal quickly and all the best for maintenance, it sounds as though you have that all worked out already.

That is known as a slip. Did the Dr give you a reason for it having slipped?

Maybe the reflux was caused by a too tight band. Although we think that the tighter the better it doesn't work like that - tight bands mean you cannot eat healthy, satisfying foods so you start eating high cal, unsatisfying sliders and gain weight. Maybe you should look at having your band refilled slowly, it may still be able to help. If not then I am sure you can revise to a bypass or a sleeve if that is really what you want to do.

One word. Unbelievable! Don't get me wrong I'm not saying I don't believe the OP, I am saying that it is unbelievable that a person can be treated like this!

Fingers crossed

In Australia our Dr's use the slowly slowly approach. They give frequent small fills as they feel that it is safer and also easier for a person to adapt. Sorry that you have had a bad experience so early on. Hopefully now you are filled at a level you can cope with. Don't stress about losing quickly - this process takes time. The main thing is that it is coming off and not going up.You didn't gain it overnight and the same goes for losing. Hope that everything now goes well

I saw my Dr in March and could have scheduled fairly quickly. I opted instead for June as our tax year ends on June 31st so that meant there would only be a short time between having to pay the fee and being able to claim.

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I think I would try spraying them lightly instead of dipping them in so much oil to cut the calorie and fat content but other than that they sound great.

I think some people just pull arbitrary figures out of the air with no scientific basis for how they came up with them

Generally toasted bread is easier to eat than untoasted. Try making a toasted , open sandwich, use grainy bread and eat that with a knife and fork. If you want a wrap I would suggest that you nibble at it rather than take bites. Eat very slowly and stop if you have any discomfort.

Some of these men are unreal.Do they realise they won't die if they have to go without for a couple of days or weeks?

I don't see why it should be a problem.

A couple of years back my sister had symptoms that she thought were MS, she used to drink diet drinks by the gallon. She has now cut them right back and her symptoms have disappeared. I think that it is always better to eat the real thing than a substitute if you can and remember that with all things we need to practice moderation. Sugar is natural - artificial sweeteners aren't, ditto butter/margarine etc. If you are trying to cut out sugar it is better to find healthy natural foods to replace it with than to turn to substitutes that some scientist has cooked up in a lab rather than been prepared by a chef in a kitchen. I worry about Stevia. It is the current "next big thing" but who says that in a couple of years time they won't find some problem with it? I think the best approach is to stick to natural foods and if you have to have a little bit of sugar or stevia or equal then fine. The problem comes in when you have any of them in large quantities. Too much of anything is bad for you - people can even die from having too much water!

It is easy to imagine that the grass is greener on the other side. If you have not been successful with your band then the sleeve may seem like the answer to all your prayers. The reality is that if you have learnt how to cheat your band then you will probably do the same with your sleeve. The same rules for healthy eating apply no matter what surgery you have. I don't know why you think you have failed but if it is because you are snacking and eating candies, chocolate,crisps,milkshakes etc then in all likelihood you will do the same with the sleeve. You probably need help to discover why you eat what and when you do and you then need strategies to stop the non hungry eating.

She looks awful, that is not attractive. Having your ribs move closer together and having to go to a Dr to check her organs are still OK proves that this is dangerous. There was a reason people stopped wearing corsets on a regular basis - they were bad for you. This girl is sick and needs help, the problem is that she is getting the attention that she obviously craves so she is not likely actually get help.

Gigi you are right. Mis you are not there yet so you probably don't realise it but there seems to be a point where it is difficult if not impossible to achieve the correct balance between having enough Fluid for restriction but not enough to cause reflux. It seems that most of the long term bandsters have had or are having an issue with this - Lellow, Jachut, myself and quite a lot of others ( I can't remember all the user names). I developed some reflux at the beginning of the year (out of the blue), ended up having a partial unfill and have since been refilled. I now feel literally no restriction except on rare occasions. I can easily eat things that previously I couldn't and I am struggling with hunger. Yes some of it may be in my head but the waking up hungry part certainly isn't.I am going back to my Dr at the end of the month and am hoping i will be able to get an effective fill but I will have to wait and see. The worst part is that 3 years ago when I was first banded there were a number of people that were talking about this issue.Quite a few of them were choosing to revise to the sleeve because of it ( I am not sure how that helps because as far as I am aware most sleevers have to routinely take an acid reducer).Obviously as a newly banded person I didn't want to hear about possible future problems. I'm not sure what the solution is, hopefully they come up with something.

That makes sense, I always hear people going on about it and tend to think "really". To me it just sounds like another diet.

It is normal for your levels of restriction to change. Sometimes they change because of hormones, TOM, weather, how well hydrated you are ............ the list goes on. It is certainly normal for them to change the further out you are from surgery. I also think it is normal to be worried about that and about potential weight gain. Even if we are told presurgery that the period after surgery is about healing not weight loss we skip over that part in our excitement. It is important to remember that this is a process and it takes time. In the same way that you didn't gain overnight you also won't lose overnight. Stick to what your Dr has told you to eat.,make healthy choices,do some exercise, and the weight will come off

Theoretically we should be happier with inches. Inches are what take up the space, pounds are just a number on a scale that shows our relationship with gravity, but I think we all want that number to be as low as possible and we fixate on it.