OnTheWay to Thin

Pineapple juice, is both slippery and also has an acid that helps break down food... sip it for a while and good luck.

I started having a huge reflux issue, had to be unfilled, wait 2 weeks, then start slowly filling back up. So I am mostly unchanged, but down a lb or 2 since the fillup so I am hoping...

the trick is not to let yourself get adjusted too tight, the tighter you are the less you can eat and the more things that no longer work. I recently had to have some fluid removed because I was too tight, it was quite a learning experience but I feel so much better now.

Call your doctor, sometimes it takes a few days for the full effect of the fill to be known and you may have a tad too much...

Hey I am sorry to hear your trouble, can you tell me what lead them to believe that your band was slipped? I have been feeling something is wrong too but cant put a finger on it and have the same questions you have about what if it has to come out. Afraid to live with it and afraid to live without it...

Please let me know what your doctor says, it sounds like what happens to me. I get too tight and have reflux, they unfil me and then I am too loose. I have also noticed an issue with liquids, especially if I have eaten within a few hours.. it is quite weird, meanwhile my weight loss is totally stalled...

I am a bit delayed in my loosing as I had to have my port replaced 6 mos in, it was leaky and would not hold liquid, I would get a fill, I would deflate, very funny now, not so much then! I guess my best advise is to always go slow after a fill, each time I have one (once i got restriction) what I can and can't eat changes. So although you may be able to eat say scrambled eggs now, later maybe not. It took me a bit of time to figure it out, as gee just last week it worked, then suddenly it doesn't. This is a lifetime of eating behavior that we have to change, so it is something you have to be in for the long haul. I have learned a lot about myself and my eating addiction, when and why I eat and feel I have a lot more to learn.

we have all been there, my experience is cake does not work, no way no how. Once I had restriction, it is always a recipe for tossing my cookies. So I avoid it like the plague. Hang in there.

You sound like the perfect candidate for a band, with the potential for diabetes and the cholesterol, back surgery and all you could improve all of those issues/conditions with weight loss. I have a really bad knee and Type 2 in my family all over the place, however even though I have only lost a bit over 60 lbs in just over a year, my blood sugar is no longer prediabetic, I am off of my arthritis and cholesterol medications, and I suspect I will go off of my blood pressure pill at the next doctor appointment. Definitely give it some serious thought, go to a seminar and then make an informed decision. We are all here to support you on your journey.

Yes I don't feel the full impact of a fill for a week or so, have no idea why, may be a bit of fluid in the tube continues to settle down into the band?

There is adult liquid tylenol and it is cherry flavored (sort of) I found it at Fred Meyers.

are you throwing up every few minutes, (your saliva filling your stomach) if so get back to a doctor immediately. Sometimes when you get a fill you have some swelling and that makes it worse the first few days, but you should always be able to get water and broth type stuff down. If you cant you are in real danger of dehydration and that is nothing to fool around with. After my port revision surgery they overfilled me and I could not even swallow my own spit, this is no fun and not worth it, so get this taken care of.

All individual policies that I have ever seen exclude obesity surgery, they just flat dont offer the coverage, so be very careful with this. I worked in insurance a good deal of my life, and just like going to the grocery store and choosing the items you need to make a particular dish, an employer has the option of choosing the coverages they want to provide and want to exclude. Good luck to you.

The way it was explained to me is that there is some fat between the band and stomach, so as you loose, the fat between the stomach and band melts away, as that happens the band will loosen up, this happens more in the beginning but as you loose weight, and get closer to the sweet spot it is less frequent.

Brown your roast first. Then if you cook very low and slow and put beef stock in the pan (and put a lid on the pan while cooking) I get very good results with tender beef. But you need to cook at about 275 for the first couple hours, then if you want a bit of browning take off the lid and take heat up to 325 for 30-45 minutes.