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well we women can always dig something up to feel guilty about! Seriously, you are eating less and moving more and the rest is personal medical information...I just watched the Star Jones interview and it made me sad that she was so viciously attacked for not telling about her WLS! She was very vulnerable and just trying to protect and take care of herself! Its a great interview I recommend it...I really never told anyone but huz and daughter and I am glad for it...

well we women can always dig something up to feel guilty about! Seriously, you are eating less and moving more and the rest is personal medical information...I just watched the Star Jones interview and it made me sad that she was so viciously attacked for not telling about her WLS! She was very vulnerable and just trying to protect and take care of herself! Its a great interview I recommend it...I really never told anyone but huz and daughter and I am glad for it...

I LOVE the Premier Protein shakes from costco. They are 30 grams of Protein and only 160 calories...I like all three flavors...they come ina n 18 pack carton. I have one every morning since I was banded (May of 09) because I am tight in the morning. I am a vegetarian d=so I eat a lot of Beans (love the refried in a can) and nuts...

I LOVE the Premier Protein shakes from costco. They are 30 grams of Protein and only 160 calories...I like all three flavors...they come ina n 18 pack carton. I have one every morning since I was banded (May of 09) because I am tight in the morning. I am a vegetarian d=so I eat a lot of Beans (love the refried in a can) and nuts...

I am exactly like hummingbird. I do liquids in the morning, 1/2 cup meals during the day and have to be careful in the evening when my band is looser. I feel I am at perfect restriction for me and that this life is pretty easy for me now.

You are feeling totally normal but it does suck...you should be feeling at least a tiny bit better every day...hang in there this is all going to be worth it! You will be a new person by about ten days! Try a hotpad on your tummy and take lots of drugs...

Welcome Tressa...this band is the best thing I could have ever done..I wish it was available 20 years ago!

Agree, LOVE my band! I was obese for almost 20 years and every diet made it worse....

If you can have Tomato, you can have any of the cream non lumpy Soups or strain or blend the lumps. I love the ones that come in little boxes like a milk carton. Butternut squash, red pepper, etc! You can add your Protein Powder to them easily.

If you can have Tomato, you can have any of the cream non lumpy Soups or strain or blend the lumps. I love the ones that come in little boxes like a milk carton. Butternut squash, red pepper, etc! You can add your Protein Powder to them easily.

I might try them, thanks. I love the Premier Protein from costco but you get sick of everything after a while! I am banded 2.5 years and I am tight in the morning and a vegetarian so I have one every morning but I need some variety!!! Good luck with the whole thing...its the best thing I ever did...it was a struggle at first but now its pretty easy!

You should be much more scared of staying obese! Especially if you have loved ones who dont want to live without you or children that you are showing how to be obese!
Yes they could take it out but ...I know if I had mine out I would gain my weight back.
Saggy skin yes but in a size 6!
The other day my huz picked up my jeans and said they look like from the childrens department! I LOVE my band!

If you cant change your behavior you will fail the band. Part of the work the band does for you and part of it you have to do...even gastric bypass patients can and do gain their weight back...if you eat ice cream all day...

Ok, I know I'm going to get myself in trouble but it seems like most of you are basically on a very restricitive diet! If that works long term, great, but I think all my dieting is how I got fat.
I eat small portions of regular food! I will NEVER eat anything low fat or low calorie or fake sugar or anything like that!
I eat regular food, focus on Protein, but my band only lets me eat tiny meals....
yesterday I had two portions of lasagna, a serving of sauteed spinach , some sushi, cheeses and crackers, and some wine.
I probably eat bout six times a day...

Everyone has all those feelings...it has turned out to be the best thing I could have ever done. The first year or so is a big struggle to adjust to a new way of life but now Ii am more than two years out and it is pretty easy! Welcome! You will get lots of support and honest answers here!

Very unlikely to be related to your weight loss except that your weight loss may have allowed you to do some physical activity to irritate your sciatic nerve...make sure you are not looking for excuses not to lose weight...there are a lot of people here that are looking for any reason at all not to succeed this band...press on! (PS: I use those icy hot Patches on my sciatica and they work pretty well)

I wonder if you were getting enough Water all along and if you had a barium drink in this process? The Barium is basically liquid concrete which turns to solid concrete in you bowels if you dont get it out in the first couple of days...sorry for your experience! Also all the narcs are extrememly constipating and a lot of times the docs dont tell you that!

Buy the least amount possible in case you dont like them...and stand next to your sink or a bucket when you try them! I had to yak it right back up, it tasted like old bones and I think I saw sea monkeys in it! But some people love it!
I buy the Premier Protein drinks at costco. They just taste like sweet milk. Not thick and no mediciney taste. They are 160 cals and 30 grams of Protein and I still drink one every morning.

I wonder if you were getting enough Water all along and if you had a barium drink in this process? The Barium is basically liquid concrete which turns to solid concrete in you bowels if you dont get it out in the first couple of days...sorry for your experience! Also all the narcs are extrememly constipating and a lot of times the docs dont tell you that!

For me the tightness of the band fluctuates pretty wildly! Tight in the morning (just like my wedding ring) and quite loose in the evening. Tighter if I am sick even just with a cold and much tighter if I have had to throw up. Also tighter depending on the menstrual cycle...I have been banded two and a half years and it still mystifies me!

That is just great...change is coming!

If you seriously believe he will leave you if you dont lose weight or that he'll leave you if he gets thin...this is not a solid relationship in the first place...not one to bring a child into! Get some counseling!!! This needs to be fixed BEFORE you are even thinking of having a child...

Any time you cause yourself pain you need at least a day of liquids...tuna can be tricky for me unless it is loaded with mayo...

If you seriously believe he will leave you if you dont lose weight or that he'll leave you if he gets thin...this is not a solid relationship in the first place...not one to bring a child into! Get some counseling!!! This needs to be fixed BEFORE you are even thinking of having a child...

You should be much more scared of staying obese! Especially if you have loved ones who dont want to live without you or children that you are showing how to be obese!
Yes they could take it out but ...I know if I had mine out I would gain my weight back.
Saggy skin yes but in a size 6!
The other day my huz picked up my jeans and said they look like from the childrens department! I LOVE my band!