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Temptations is every where and so are buttheads! If it was me, I would respond to a snippy comment with something like "yea, I can't have that but I'm not gonna die from a heart attack either." There is still stuff in our house I cant eat. Love blueberry muffins and my hubby keeps bringin them home for me. "But they are made from wheat flour, they are healthier." And he is right, but that still doesnt help me on the whole I cant eat bread cuz I cant swallow it!

I have three kids that love McDonalds. I am their best friend there now when we eat there, they get to be my garbage cans, more food for them. I order a meal, give the kids my fries, my 13 yr old son eats my bun, and I am left with my Protein from the meat. Not perfect or the best for me. But my kids and hubby have really changed how they eat because of how I cook now. They made a sacrific and so do I, they just make theirs more often.

If the BIL is that intolerable and he sounds like it, I would take that as an opportunity to go for a walk, get on the puter, anything that would take me away from him.

I was having problems with bowel movements after surgery, lots of tummy cramps, etc. Doc told me to start taking Miralax powder to help get things moving, and soften things up a little. Anyways, I have noticed I am not as gasy since starting that. I take it as needed, couple of times a week. Can get it at Walmart and there is a generic.

I keep burping for about 10 mins after eating. Do you have that issue also?

Mud flap thighs?? Thats hilarious!! I have been looking for the proper terminolgy for what my thighs have become, lol!!! Bat wings, heck I make bats jealous. And I feel like I am at extra long tube socks, but still have a soft ball in the end, not shrunk to a baseball yet, lol!!

In all seriousness, I did get fitted for a bra, but I think I will go to Lane Giant and have them measure me, they seems to know a letter better. But I did measure myself and also came up with a 42. Someone suggested I try going down a band size and up a cup size and see if that helps.

I dunno what to do, you all have offered some great insight. Thank you!

I'm still trying to find my sweet spot but think I am there or just about there, another quater to half cc should do it. I'm averaging about 10 lbs a month while in bandster hell. My doc has me keep a week long food record to bring to my check ups. They use that as a gage for whether I need a fill or not, gives them a good idea on how much I am eating and how much is will power thats making me lose. I had read on here before and am experiencing it, the more you have to lose the faster you lose weight initially. Now I did have to have a slight unfill last month. I was so tight I could only eat mushies while pushing it down with Water. I lost 1 1/2 lbs in 5 days. Let me tell you I wished I could tolerate it that tight, but I was too uncomfortable all the time. But I sure loved that weight loss!!

I had hoped I was one of the lucky ones that felt restriction with no fill. I did eat signifigantly less than before surgery, and did lose weight. But it was more like being on a diet than having the band, if that makes any sense.

I started at my highest weight a 50DDD, on a good snug uncomfortable bra fitting day. Minus almost 57 lbs and I'm at a 42DD really comfortable fit. But the girls are taking the brunt of my weight loss! They look like they have gone through a pancake roller!! I feel like its time to put them on rollers to harnass them up so I dont get the bra cup lip. I spend all day tuggin on my bra to keep the girls where they are suppose to be. The shear weight of them keeps pulling my bra down. These poor girls point directly at the floor and hang about a 1/2 inch from my waist line! This is bad and my back is killin me!!

My doc said in 30 more pounds she would send me to plastic surgery. Has anyone had breast work done well before reaching goal? In 30 more pounds, I will have 40ish to go. I know they might sag again, but it cant be as bad as it is and sure can't hurt me as badly as they do now. And I am interested in the natural implants where they use your own excise fat for the implant.

Heck, I would even love a recommendation for a good bra thats affordable to hold these beasts in place! Thank you!

56 lbs weight loss has brought me from a 50DDD to a 42DD, and let me tell you about sagging! Its only gonna get worse with the rest of my weight loss. I like smaller boobs, but could they please point forward instead of down????

Yes, they will be getting fixed, sooner than later since my back is killing me. I am gonna need implants, but hopefully with all the excise skin I can do a natural implant, but no more than a C cup. Thats my compromise with hubby cuz not having them at all sounds wonderful after totin these things all my life! Thus far, my tummy is doing well, bat wings on arms horrid, upper thighs are even worse. If I had the guts and insurance coverage, I think I would be all about the total body lift they show on plastic surgery before and after. But I have this thing against massive pain.

I just had this same problem two weeks ago. Got a fill to 7cc's. Had no problem drinking Water at the office. Definately felt restriction on my mushy foods the first few days and then bam! I couldnt get anything down! I could only eat mushies if I pushed them down with liquids, bite of yogurt, drink of water, etc. And it felt so tight! Like before surgery when I would over eat big time during the holidays. Dear god, I wished I could tolerate that kind of restriction, but I just couldnt. I've never experienced a sick feeling in my tummy since surgery, NEVER got full off of 3 bites of yogurt. Hubby said I should wait a few days but I had already tolerated this for about a week, but I went and had .5 cc's taken out anyways. Blessed relief! I could drink water without burping for 10 minutes. I think I got my restriction, or at least its pretty darn close. Might need that other .5cc back after the holidays. But I lost 1.6 lbs in 5 days. I really wished I could have handled it that tight.

If you are miserable, I would go and have part of the fill taken out, you can always have it put back next visit if needed.

I can so sympathize with you! But first, congrats on your weight loss!! Losing any amount of weight is amazing, especially when its been on us for so long!

I think I just found my sweet spot with great restriction, but oh, those darn slider foods, especially during the holidays!!! Anyways, I am managing to lose weight while I was still in bandster hell. Thats not exactly the motivation I need to get off my butt and excercise!

Anyways, I think you need to reach deep down inside yourself and rediscover what motivated you to have the surgery in the first place. That should do the trick and help you get moving the way you want to. And prehaps you need to speak with your doctor and make sure you don't need an adjustment to hit proper restriction. And a visit to the dietician to go over food choices for eating to lose weight would help. I am far more scared of telling my dietician I fell off the wagon than I am to tell my doctor. I hate disapproving looks, lol! And my dietician does them well.

Good luck, I know you can find your motivation back. Hold your head up, you have lost weight and you have the right to be proud!

Its more than normal to be scared, nervous and have doubts about doing surgery. This is a major life altering event. Beings you took the initiative to talk to your doctor and go through the approval process, a big part of you is ready for this change. Always keep that in mind. The things that come after surgery, barring complications, are easier to deal with. Right now you are thinking to yourself the changes you will have to make in your eating habits, foods you will not be able to eat, etc. But after surgery you will find you don't miss them as much as you thought. I had surgery July 24th and I thought I would die if I didnt get my diet Dr. Pepper, or be able to eat at Subway, for example. You know, I'm human and I do miss those things, but I love seeing the numbers drop on the scale more! And I do have my diet Dr. Pepper, occassionally, I just have it flat now. (not so appealing but doable). I still have problems eating sandwiches, but its easier to eat bread at supper time when my band has loosened a little. But I love spinach tortillas so I eat those on the occassion I want a sandwich. I have found substitutes for the things I can't eat. In the end, when I look at my eating habits now, its healthier but I don't always make the best choices. However, I eat like a "skinny" person, I have the occassional treat, but on a much smaller scale now. I still berate myself for making a bad choice, but its not nearly as often as before the surgery. That all being said, I still deal with head hungry and the desire to eat when I am not hungry. Surgery did nothing to cure that, as I am sure you have seen on here before. I try to make better food choices, avoid slidder foods, and if I choose to eat something and I am not hungry, the band will let me know I just made a stupid choice! It hurts, feels like I am swallowing knives type of hurt. Yup, I still have that head hunger but a few times of eating feeling that painful, I sure learned to think twice, lol!

My holy crap moment came when I went in for my first fill. I am scared to death of needles. Yes, I knew this surgery involved needles, but I didnt want to do by-pass. So I am laying there on the table and doc is about to give me the numbing meds and I just started to bawl, like almost having a nervous breakdown. Oh, I scared that woman to death!! She hadnt even touched me and I was crying. It wasnt from pain or being scared. It was, because at that moment, I fully realized I ate myself that fat! That in order to lose all this weight, I had to go through needles in my stomache. I felt like the worlds biggest idiot, how could I have done this to myself, etc. How I didnt get those feelings when I was having surgery is beyond me. But yanno, I deserved that breakdown and I needed it. Because needles or not, I was gonna lose this weight finally, forever!! I've lost almost 60 lbs now. Not once have I regretted it.

And no, the fills are easy. Nice little numbing shot and I feel nothing else. When the numbness is gone, its a little sore and a little bruised. My port happens to be right at my waist, so I get to spend the rest of the day in jammy pants so I can keep the waist band off of the sore area. Good to go!

I've written a book and I hope somewhere in all that I have said, I've said something to help you! Good luck and best weight loss to you!

I'm only a couple of months out and yes I still struggle with this, and probably will for the rest of my life. I too am a boredom/emotional eater. Now I can to an extent control the boredom by staying busy. Emotional eating is another thing all together! However, I can say this, I have worked really hard on my eating choices and try to keep limited amounts of "slidder" foods in the house, such as candy and chips. Little difficult since I have 3 kids that can eat, lol! However, when I want to eat but am not hungry, I try to reach for something healthy like a piece of fruit, or some Special K Protein crackers.

Now, what really helps me is when I eat and I am not hungry and I have made a good food choice, after a couple of bites it starts to feel like I am eating knives it hurts so bad to swallow. That means I am full and need to stop eating. Thats usually enough to kill the desire to eat, for that time anyways. I know, its not the smartest thing in the world, but it has helped alot.

I dont offer this as your magical cure for eating, rather I am saying what happens to me if I eat when I am not hungry and am not eating slidder foods.

Some days I wished the surgery could fix more than the amount of food we eat or what we weigh. I wished this would also help with head hunger and mental image of ourselves. Though I am not close to goal at all, I have lost 53 lbs since surgery in July. Thats alot of weight in a short amount of time. I've gone from 4x shirts to XL, 26 pants to 20. In Tommy Hilfiger jeans no less! Logically I know I have lost the weight, my clothes are smaller and the scale is moving. But when I look at myself, I see a HUGE belly, flappy bat wings on my under arms, nasty ugly floppy fat on my UPPER thighs. And lets not even mention the girls hangin to the floor. And I want to cry! Because of what I did to myself by over eating for years, for having to have weight loss surgery, for having all this skin as my punishment...

Everyone around me see a huge weight loss, smaller belly, skinnier face, someone well on the road to a healthy weight. They see me laughing more, relaxing more, and even venturing to wearing clothes in the right sizes. I just brought new jeans 2 weeks ago, I have been wearing my 26s when I needed 20s. They see it, why cant I?

Anyways, congrats on your weightloss. You have worked hard for it and deserve to be proud of yourself.

This is something I really struggle with, and I hate it! I do find that when I am busy I graze less. Evenings are worse for me, when the days work is done and the kids are winding down for the night. After 2 fills in my band, around 4pm it feels like I have no fill at all and I can eat and eat. Grazing, because I am not hungry, I just want to eat. Yes, this was a presurgery habit I had. I eat 2 eggs for Breakfast, then am busy homeschooling and doing housework, I really dont get hungry until 4-5 pm.

What is helping me is spending massive amounts of money on healthy Snacks that are filling but allow "grazing" per se. Lots of fresh fruit, Protein crackers, string cheese. My evil is having candy around. When its not in the house, I am too lazy to take myself to the store and get it, so I cant eat it. I also try drinking things that will satisfy my sweet tooth, such as SF hot chocolate, a glass of milk, etc.

I had surgery in July, and my head hunger is as strong as always, even stronger prehaps.

I usually just explained that I just had weight loss surgery and have dietary restrictions. I show them my medic alert and my card stating that I have a small pouch and to please allow me to eat off of the childrens menu. I havent had any problems at all. Every place I have been to either allows me to order from the childrens menu or buffets charge me a childs rate. In case you dont have one of these cards, here is a link. Scroll down and you will see where to click. Choose which one you want and print it out. See if that helps those crabby people!!!

Restaurant Card Bariatric Surgery

Aloha!! We just left Hawaii January 08. We lived in Kane'ohe!! I'm a sailor's wife. I had my surgery last month here in New Orleans. However, I had a hysterectomy done at Tripler and dh broke his arm and had to have surgery there. While I wasnt the most impressed with his care, I was astounded with mine!! Very pleasant, friendly staff. I was there for 3 days and 2 nights...

If I can offer any other help about Tripler itself, let me know. My friend is a patient liasion there for a couple more weeks....

Look, I know I am not supposed to have the soda. The craving was so darn bad it wasnt even funny. And I still have 2/3s of that 20 oz soda left. I only meant to offer the hint I picked up for those who, like myself, who were craving it. However, I am not perfect and I am trying to change a lifetime of bad eating and drinking habits. I expect to fall off of the wagon, cuz thats realistic. I fell, had 3 oz. of flatten soda, which by the way, I am allowed to have OCCASSIONALLY, so long as its diet.

And I am a midwestern also. From NW Iowa. But with hubby in the Navy, I've learned to adapt what I call soda, cuz getting popped asking for a pop got old, lol!!!!!

Before surgery, besides being addicted to food, I was also addicted to diet cherry Dr. Pepper. Love it, but I was good and only drank a can a day.... I didnt have it on my pre-op diet and since surgery 3 weeks ago, I have been dyin for some. Just a sip as carbonation makes me burp worse than a sailor, and thats saying alot since I am married to one..

Tonight, i got my soda and was drooling watching it in the glass, waiting impatiently for it to go flat. My friend told me to stir it with a spoon vigorously, another friend of theirs had banding, and thats what she does to be able to have an occassional soda..

Stirred it with a spoon for about a minute, flat as a board. Tasted so darn good!!! And no burpies after...Yes!!!!!!

Hope this helps others who dont want to wait..:sad:

Oh thank god its not just me!!! None of the people we hang around with have or will ever have wls, much less the band. So while i eat so much better than before the surgery, its not as good as it should be. But still, I try and commend myself for taking baby steps in getting better. I do have some restriction, but I have been noticing I can eat just a little more than I did last week when I started eating. Not sure what to do about that. Definately got the tight band in the morning, it takes about 2 hours before i can eat Breakfast. I struggle with getting my Water in and thats part of my problem. The other part is I was pretty much let loose on food, soft foods, not mushies. So i cant eat hard stuff like celery, nuts and corn. Gee, a month of not eating and now i can pretty much eat whatever. God help me please! But I have lost a pound and a half this week, so maybe I getting to where i need to be...

My biggest struggle? Figuring out what hungry is. I spend a fair amount of time trying to decide am i hungry or do I just want to eat? I know not to wait until my tummy is growling hungry, but jeez, this is tough!

But that said, love my band!!!!!

Love my wii fit!!!!!! i am not allowed to do any exercises that move my abs, such as aerobics, pilates and weights. however, i can run the elipitical and ride the stationary bike. Suppose I could ride a regular bike, however I live in New Orleans and thats not happening for another month when the temps start to cool down.

Hope that helps!

I was given liquid lortab. When I first woke up I was in TREMENDOUS amount of pain, and I will fairly say I am a wuss when it comes to pain. And very nauseous (sp?). They gave me pain meds and phenagren and i went to lala land for about an hour. After I woke up and as my pain meds wore off, it really felt like very sore muscles, almost like a pulled muscle without the sharp shooting pains. I could easily tell when it was time for pain meds. however, my pain was never again as high as when i first woke up, which was about a 7-8 on the scale to 10. After that I was at about 4ish when it was time for meds. I never felt stoned or loopy, though those around me said I sounded and acted that way, I just felt incrediably sleepy. Took my meds and took about 2 hr. nap on days one and two. Day 3, I took it in the morning becuz of being so sore from sleeping the night through, about mid afternoon and then at bed time. I was only a week outta surgery and could roll over and sleep on my tummy against either my hubby or a body pillow. And again, I am a wuss when it comes to pain...

Hope that helps some and good luck with surgery, you will be fine and do great. I am just now 3 weeks out and havent had a moments regret and since I started eating soft foods last week, I have lost an additional 1 1/2 lbs.

No one talked to me either about carbs. However, I was told to eat all my Protein first, then veggies and then if I am still hungry, I can have a couple bites of starches. Since I am only 2 1/2 weeks outta surgery and just started eating soft foods las Thursday, what I try to do is eat my Protein and then veggies. If I am still hungry, which is usually becuz i didnt have the right size portion of protein, I will eat another protein. However, I do give in and take a couple of bites of potatoes or whatever. We make homemade wheat bread and I will have 1/2 piece of that just cuz it sounds good.... The only veggie I was told to avoid for now is corn, but only becuz of how hard it is to digest. I am getting hungry sooner than I want, at about 3 hours instead of 4, but I seem to be bookin along. I get my first fill on the 9th of September...

Hope that helps some..

I would love to participate! When I checked out the forum on here for it, it wasnt active. While my clothes arent the best, I do have formal gowns from the Navy Ball that need a good home... Along with strapless bras, which can be a real expensive pain in the a** to find in a 48DDD

Having my back rubbed moved that gas like nothing else did...with some slight pressure works best..

Got the same thing..If I feel it coming on I try and brace my hand against the sore area to give it some support when it moves.. While the comfort I get is minimal, it sure does help....

I got mine on the 24th. Day of surgery weigh in I was beyond happy to have gotten under 300, though just barely... Day after surgery in the hospital I gained a pound. 5 days post op I had lost 5 pounds from my surgery day weight....... Altogether in the past 3 weeks, I have lost 20 pounds at last count, and that was a couple of days ago. I am still on Clear liquids for another week and expect through just normal clear liquid diet I will lose more....

Thus far I have almost gotten one size smaller in my clothes, my face apparently lost all the 2 lbs cuz I keep getting told how thin my face looks AND I have been able to put my wedding band and anniversary band back on...

Slow and steady, yep it sucks, but darn, it sure was a boost to know a week post op I already got a non-scale victory in getting to wear my rings comfortably...

This is the time for resting, relaxing, learning to eat in a new way and a healthier diet also. The real work and the benefits will arrive soon enough. And then you will be wondering what happened to the days of resting...

I was banded on the 24th and still have some lingering gas pains. I get one of my kids or my hubby to rub my back and it really helps move those pains one way or the other....