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Absolutely no offense taken here either. I welcome suggestions and don't know what I'd do if I had not found this wonderful website. Please continue to offer suggestions and advice on whatever. I also like to vent and I do hate this lapband sometimes, but then I would absolutely die if I had to ever lose it. WHAT A HORRIBLE THOUGHT. Socalgal: I do have a DH and sometimes I just wish he would stop trying to help me with this, he sometimes trys to dictate what I should or should not be eating or doing..... gets to me sometimes. :angry

Welcome, I'm no pro but when I was talking to my neighbor about this lapband, she was telling me how this one girl she knew was going to have it reversed, well I of course ask WHY? She said she was tired of not being able to go out to eat and go to events that consisted of eating food. My first reply was I've been there done that and that is why I'm getting the band, well at least one of the reasons, I'm sick of the eating thing and the embarrassment that comes with it. Not eating out is a small price to pay, considering all the fat I hope to be losing in the next year. So my thought is who cares if I can't eat out, I CAN tie my shoes and almost even cross my legs! That is worth more than any price of a meal. Good luck and remember nothing tastes better than being healthy.

If your port area is red and swollen you definately need to call your doctor! I'm sorry I don't want to scare you but you really should call your doctor now. Even if you are not swollen or red it sounds like to me your body is telling you something

I must say to you that your success is in how hard you try Socalgal, I only wish I was being as good as you. Your scale may not be moving but your determination certainly is and to me that is very impressive! GOOD JOB :clap2:

Well I'm glad to report I have not had to pb for 3 days now. But this is how I have to eat....I take a few bites then go do something so I'm not tempted to take another bite, then after I go put up dishes or something I come back to the food and take a couple of more little bites, go do something else. This has kept me from pbing but it is an awful way to eat. Needless to say the food gets cold so have to warm it up several times before finishing. I really am ready to live like this if it saves me from the pbing, I will do anything to avoid that kind of horrid feeling. I need to start working out more but have been very busy painting the house lately and not into working out considering the pain I feel after the painting is done. I have lost though in the last week it seems like I was stuck on 260 forever I know it was at least 2 months of seeing that same number.

I had to take a second look! I thought it was my last date. LOL

Melissa Lea absolutely hilarious....Thanks I needed that. My thought on the fill thing is if that's absolutely all you ate all day, no way.....I myself would be happy with that menu and if it stayed to just that.

Boy You Guys Are Doing Great....

I feel terrible for you and after reading some of these posts like this, feel guilty for complaining of any complications I'm having or have had. Here's a big for you. I hope things get straightened out for you.

Good for you Laura, I am so feeling how wonderful you felt when you tried those pants on. I can now wear blouses I haven't wore in a year or so. Doesn't waking up and doing things like that just put you in the best mood? You go girl!

I had a very bad day yesterday and now I wonder the same thing. After going through 1 an 1/2 hours of pbing which I believe is sliming and feeling the golfball thing, would it not of been better to of just thrown up? I was so relieved when I finally did! Also it does seem to knock the soup out of me after all that happens, although this was a longer ordeal than ever thank God! I have never really thrown up before and was very shocked when I did, as well as relieved. I called my doctor and they said the sliming and golfball thing was really not damaging to your band, but the throwing up is if you do alot of it and have very bad bouts of it, you know like that girl that was pocesssed in that movie. I feel that the pbing for so long is very wearing on your body. And remember in the beginning of this lapband I would wonder how these people would be doing this since I was not, I wondered if they were doing just the wrong things, well now I know unless you eat like my boss, who you leave at the restaurant and pick up later, you will experience this more than likely, if not, you are TRUELY blessed. So in short is it better to just go ahead and vomit instead of going through such a horrible thing with that pbing. I mean as long as you don't vomit like your possessed. LOL (hope I spelled that right) Barbara: I can vomit if I really just think about that slime and how sickening is feels and is. I have always tried not to throw up. What is everyone's thought on this, should do a poll, to throw up, or to not throw up? I sure hope no one goes threw what I did yesterday, although I did read of someone pbing for THREE hours, my prayers go out to her.

Easy is sooooo far from what this is. I often sit and wonder what the hell did I do? The pbing and slime today is more than I can take. I actually threw up for the first time today. What a relief that was after an hour and half of slime. I can only wonder what tomorrow will bring. Yes you definately have to think think think about what your eating and how your eating it anytime you put ANYTHING in your mouth. I hope everyone is having a better day than me. No even trying to eat for me today!

Personally I can't answer that question yet I'm only into my 3 or 4th month of this, and have only been pbing for a month or so. I am not sure even what it is. I think it is spitting slime maybe I'm wrong, but I do have the golfballs and slime alot since my last 2 fills. Yes I do believe it is from eating to fast without a doubt. Some maybe because of to tight of fills. But to be totally honest with you as of this day I'm not sure if I would say it is worth it. It will be if I can get passed this horrible period of learning different things about the band and what I can eat and how to eat. I know this I have lost about 27 pds. and feel much better. Good luck on the choices you make.

Holy cow you can bet I'll be trying this, I sooo wish I had heard of this sooner!!! Thanks for the knowledge:clap2:

I only drink with meals if I want to die! This is for sure a quick way to strart pbing all over the place, even a sip will kill me!

Socalgal I know what you mean by saying "refute"sometimes is seems like I'm just not getting it and cannot for the life of me figure out where the other side is? This is alot of guessing and confusing issues on this lap band and can only hope that one day it will finally come that I can say I am totally restricted and not pbing and giving up eating with others due to the embarrassment of being way to slow. And it is quite the guessing game as to how you will feel as far as restriction from one day to the next. I pray one day I will wake up and be doing just what I thought this lapband seem to offer. Other wise I can not believe insurance actually pays for something so uncertain as this. That's really what keeps my hopes up is the $ put out for this operation. I do eat like I am on a diet only I don't do as much as alot of these gals on this site, also I'm very active for a fat person, or a skinny one for that matter! I really envey the girls on this site that have no problems with doing the same things they were doing before lapband. Guess I'll jump on the wagon and try the dieting thing again.:faint:

Good one Paladin! LOL

This is something I will have to move in too slowly...I thought with the band that this meant you could eat anything good (except sweets of course) and lose weight. Reading all these eating agendas makes me think I am on a weight loss site for people who "diet" to lose their weight. I thought that's why we got the band? No more of those low carb diets and WW's or Nutra System or what ever I was on that only failed and I gained weight back as soon as I got off the thing. It almost pisses me off to think I have to go back on diets again. Things just never seem to be what there made out to be. Is it just me or do other people wonder what the $$$$ was spent for? Not to mention the horrible part of pbing if you don't eat very slowly or the discomfort of the fills and giving up dinner parties and going out to eat because of the embarrassment of eating so slow everyone else has finished an hour ago. I have never actually vomited but read of people that have horrible bouts of it. I am pretting lucky as far as some of the complications others have had that I read about. I do worry alot about them though. I had surgery on June 7th and I have had 4 fills 11cc band fill @ 6cc. Lost of weight 26 or 27 pds. Along way to go till I am finally at at a goal that pleases me. This site is very wonderful for some information given here, but when I start to read about the dieting that we have to do AGAIN I just hope I can wrap my mind around that and except it. Thanks for letting me vent, and good luck on the dieting.:faint: :hungry:

I have a fill every month and my insurance so far has paid for it. 4 fills so far. No the band does not always erode, what a horrible thing if it did. Having a band is just a tool that may or may not help you lose weight. I have been banded since June 7th and have lost 26 pounds and had 4 fills so far. There are soooo many things to know when you are banded and I did not know all this until now. I read and done my research until I was blue in the face, but there are not things you will know until you are actually wearing a band. You will definately still have to excersize and watch what you eat for the rest of your life. I hope this helps and if you do get banded you will strive to make it work. One thing I do know at the first of getting my couple of last fills I have felt restriction and certainly did not feel much like eating, I can say it is a wonderful feeling! My doctor says one day the fill will continue to stay that way and I can hardly wait and hope he is right.

I can hardly wait till I'm eating this way as well. It seems possible in the beginning of my fills but that soon goes away and back to the doc for more fills. I'm on my 4th so far. Good job to all of you

If you guys would of ate like this before the band who would of needed it? Hmmmmmm

I would love to know how you eat so little? I have a 11cc vanguard band and was just filled yesterday to 6cc but I certainly hope when I can eat I am writing what you are. I eat all day because it is hard to sit down and eat a meal because I have to eat so slow that way before I'm through I am sick of sitting and moving around or what ever I need to do that day or meal so the food won't get stuck!!! I can drink cokes no problem but of course they are diet. I have never tried bread and probably never will. I have gotten things stuck so bad before it really does cure you from eating anything you know your going to pb on. I have only lost 27 or 26 pounds since surgery June 7th, looking forward to being in your shoes.

Today I go in for an unfill and then he will refill my band again. I don't know what is going on but my port area is a hurting a little and he thinks something is stuck in it, I wonder if that's possible?

I don't even go to restaurants any more because of this problem, for me it was way to embarrassing! Besides once I get a fill I have to take a bite then go do something like put up dishes or whatever, other wise it gets stuck to easy and when you have to start that spitting I don't know about anyone else but for me it really hurts!!!! I hate it. I am now beginning to believe that is how this band works it makes you very afraid to eat so you don't. I have only felt restriction in the beginning of fills and it's wonderful till it starts to stretch or go away. I still haven't figured it out yet. I have not lost weight in about a month but I certainly KNOW I don't eat nothing compared to before the band! I really can't believe how much I used to eat. Plus I make alot different choices.....GO FIGURE

Why does your doctor not want the powder protein?