NewMechelle

I am sooo jealous and happy for you. I am struggling with no loss for weeks at a time and then out of the blue 6-8 pounds in a week. we are on the slow time right now. I am 222. I cant wait do you hear me CANT WAIT to be back in onderland. I have had one fill, one scheduled next thrusday. Maybe soon. Awesome job girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it normal to go several weeks without losing a pound then lose seven or eight in one week? This crazy lap band has been something else. I have had one fill and due another one next week. It has just been so wierd. I do all the things I am supposed to and the scale doesnt move for weeks at a time, then out of no where it moves SEVEARAL pounds (eight last time) in a week. Is any body else doing this or am i just wierd? Thanks and God bless.

Is it normal to go several weeks without losing a pound then lose seven or eight in one week? This crazy lap band has been something else. I have had one fill and due another one next week. It has just been so wierd. I do all the things I am supposed to and the scale doesnt move for weeks at a time, then out of no where it moves SEVEARAL pounds (eight last time) in a week. Is any body else doing this or am i just wierd? Thanks and God bless.

The wierd thing is, it did NOT get stuck. I didn't have that feeling, I just cramped like I was dying, had nausea and lived on the potty all afternoon. It was not pretty

yes i ate rice but not tons. I have had one fill but it was a big one. 4 cc's, i know one thing if i ever do chinese food again it will be one thing at a time and see how that goes. it was a rough rough day.

So today, I find out that I will NOT I repeat, will NOT be able to eat chinese food. I went to lunch with the girls. One of my favorite things in the world is Chinese. So I decide I can do this is If I am careful and dont overeat. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didnt even eat much. I thought I would die with in the hour. :sad:I threw up once and was in the bathroom five times with in the hour and three more times since then. I am not sure why or if my body is just not gonna take certain foods now. I dont have to feel guilty about eating the chinese though, I have been to the bathroom so many times I bet I am down ten pounds. lol. I WILL NOT DO THAT AGAIN. God bless to you all. ps, i have been banded almost 8 weeks.:cursing:

So today, I find out that I will NOT I repeat, will NOT be able to eat chinese food. I went to lunch with the girls. One of my favorite things in the world is Chinese. So I decide I can do this is If I am careful and dont overeat. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didnt even eat much. I thought I would die with in the hour. :sad:I threw up once and was in the bathroom five times with in the hour and three more times since then. I am not sure why or if my body is just not gonna take certain foods now. I dont have to feel guilty about eating the chinese though, I have been to the bathroom so many times I bet I am down ten pounds. lol. I WILL NOT DO THAT AGAIN. God bless to you all. ps, i have been banded almost 8 weeks.:smile:

Hey congratulations. It is wonderful in lapbandville. Be warned there are days that stink and you do miss the food but when you look at how much healthier you are each week and how much better you feel, it is so worth it. My surgery was a breeze, not near as bad as gallbladder and Disney land compared to the C-sections. I was so scared I could not sleep for weeks. I have been banded since May 28th, down 38 pounds and feel so blessed to have this tool. You can beat it if you want to , you can eat right around it and find yourself even bigger, you have to decide that you can do this and you want it and the feeling of fullness you get with the band will make this the tool to be successful instead of (like me) dieting over and over and over and failing as most of us have done before. God bless and good luck.

:rolleyes:Well these last few weeks have been a roller coaster ride. I went for four weeks with out losing a pound. I was active, doing everything I was supposed to, watching my intake but eating enough. NOTHING. I was so frustrated. I refused to give up but I was ticked. So last week, i change nothing, do nothing different, ate no more or less, and i dropped eight pounds in a week. For those that get discouraged with the plautaus, heres what i am figuring out, after you drop several pounds fairly quickly, i think your body freaks out and just stops. I think your body is afraid You have stopped feeding it and just freezes, it gets used to the new wieght and just out of the blue, starts shedding again. I am only 12 pounds away from my first BIG goal which was 50 pounds. I had surgery on May 28th and I am down 38 pounds. I cant wait to get into "onederland" it has been sooooo long. I will be 199 and think I am a stick Lol. Hope this helps someone else. God Bless!:thumbup:

:rolleyes:Well these last few weeks have been a roller coaster ride. I went for four weeks with out losing a pound. I was active, doing everything I was supposed to, watching my intake but eating enough. NOTHING. I was so frustrated. I refused to give up but I was ticked. So last week, i change nothing, do nothing different, ate no more or less, and i dropped eight pounds in a week. For those that get discouraged with the plautaus, heres what i am figuring out, after you drop several pounds fairly quickly, i think your body freaks out and just stops. I think your body is afraid You have stopped feeding it and just freezes, it gets used to the new wieght and just out of the blue, starts shedding again. I am only 12 pounds away from my first BIG goal which was 50 pounds. I had surgery on May 28th and I am down 38 pounds. I cant wait to get into "onederland" it has been sooooo long. I will be 199 and think I am a stick Lol. Hope this helps someone else. God Bless!:smile:

I need to make that same committment (only weighing at the doctor) I am not kidding, i weigh 3-5 times a day. it is insane.How do you handle the hundreds of people who ask you a week how much you have lost over and over and over?

I felt exactly the same way, i couldnt sleep i tossed and turned over and over, was absolutely obsessed with everything you could ever worry about. I promise you it was a breeze compared to what i expected. I have had three c-sections and my gallbladder taken out and the lap band was disney land compared to those. I was sore (which is to be expected of course) felt like i had been punched in the gut and i had uncomfortable gas but nothing was as bad as i expected it to be. you will be fine, God bless.

I dont know who you are but God does. He knows your struggle and pain and he loves you and wants a better life for you. You owe it to youself and your family and friends to be healthier you. It is hard, I know everyone that blogs on this thing knows. DONT GIVE UP. Just committ to one day at a time. get up in the morning and say "today, there will be no ice cream" and make a healthier choice, one day at a time. just like an alcoholic, all of us reach for food for our comfort, for pleasure, it has been like losing a true friend. I chose to make a change now before it is too late. obesity kills more people every year and its getting worse and worse. you dont have to be 125 pounds just tell yourself "one day at a time" Good luck and God bless.

thanks to everyone. Honestly just having this to let off steam helps alot. to clarrify, i am eating normal food.the doc wants me to drink protein shakes also for a year to make sure i am getting all the protein in that i need and it is good for boosting matabilism too. i hope that the weight will start coming off soon. i would do this all again and never 0nce second guessed my decision, just feel sad at times that i am trying so hard, being "good" with no results. I wish you all luck as well and God Bless each of you.

Okay so I know this will sound much like my last blog but I am so agitated. I have been banded 6 weeks today. At first it was awesome. Yes I would like to say I would do it again in a heart beat, am not regreting my decision and consider this a blessing, however,i lost almost thirty pounds immediately, had my first fill last week and nothing, nothing for three or four weeks, not one pound, as a matter of fact i am up and down from 27-30 total lost allthe time, back and fourth. I eat what I am supposed to, cant believe I am not 100 pounds on this diet i eat nothing lol. I drink my protein, for the love of pete what else can i do? I dont expct to wake up 125 pound next week but this is driving me nuts and i am really really getting discouraged.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thanks for letting me vent and God Bless.:biggrin::sad::glare:

Okay so I know this will sound much like my last blog but I am so agitated. I have been banded 6 weeks today. At first it was awesome. Yes I would like to say I would do it again in a heart beat, am not regreting my decision and consider this a blessing, however,i lost almost thirty pounds immediately, had my first fill last week and nothing, nothing for three or four weeks, not one pound, as a matter of fact i am up and down from 27-30 total lost allthe time, back and fourth. I eat what I am supposed to, cant believe I am not 100 pounds on this diet i eat nothing lol. I drink my protein, for the love of pete what else can i do? I dont expct to wake up 125 pound next week but this is driving me nuts and i am really really getting discouraged.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thanks for letting me vent and God Bless.:drool:

To answer both of you ladies, yes I am drinking plenty of water but no I have not been drinking my protien. that is what my nurse said yesterday, protien is so important for energy levels as well as boosting matabilism (spelled wrong i am sure). I have tried to start excercise some but very little, i am just worn outI might try the south beach stuff. thanks. I am just so frustrated with 25 flipping days of no loss and not eating anything i am not supposed to you know? This is an awesome place to get help and encouragement, thanks for helping a sister out and God Bless you both.

:confused3: I was banded on June 28th. I came out of the gate running. I lost ten pounds pre-op and then lost twenty more the following two weeks afte surgery. I was so happy and excited. I have done everything the doc said and went one week, then two, then three with no weight loss. I told myself not to panic that everything would be okay once I started getting my fills. I got my first one five days ago. Guess what? I have not lost even a half a pound. I am on liquids starving and thinking hello, how can I not be losing weight? I am not eating anything. I am behaving and everything. I know I cant wake up one morning and drop 100 pounds from the day before. I am more realistic than that. I just dont understand why that stupid scale is not budging and why I am not losing. Any body got any suggestions? I just dont know what to do. I am trying to stay positive but when you are this hungry, not losing a thing it is really tough. I miss the food but if the weight starts falling off (even slowly) I can hang on and do this, if it doesnt I dont know how long I can remain determined and commited.God bless.

I was banded on June 28th. I came out of the gate running. I lost ten pounds pre-op and then lost twenty more the following two weeks afte surgery. I was so happy and excited. I have done everything the doc said and went one week, then two, then three with no weight loss. I told myself not to panic that everything would be okay once I started getting my fills. I got my first one five days ago. Guess what? I have not lost even a half a pound. I am on liquids starving and thinking hello, how can I not be losing weight? I am not eating anything. I am behaving and everything. I know I cant wake up one morning and drop 100 pounds from the day before. I am more realistic than that. I just dont understand why that stupid scale is not budging and why I am not losing. Any body got any suggestions? I just dont know what to do. I am trying to stay positive but when you are this hungry, not losing a thing it is really tough. I miss the food but if the weight starts falling off (even slowly) I can hang on and do this, if it doesnt I dont know how long I can remain determined and commited.God bless.

I have taken antiderpressants for years. Every time I try to get off of them, it gets so bad I cant even stand myself. In just function better with them. Even my family will say "mom are you still taking your meds?" The problem with most of them is they have two side effects, weight gain or wieght loss. Hello, which one is it? The problem is they dont know for sure. I take prozac which is supposed to cause potential weight loss, which did NOT happen for me but I didnt gain either. Unfortulately you dont know till you try them how they will work with you. Good luck. Talk to your doc. If you dont feel comfortable doing that, find you another one. God Bless.

I was scared to death. I am not real good with the whole pain thing so I was really unsure about getting a fill. He started and was done and I didnt even know he had started. It was awesome. I think I may have had my first glimpse of restriction. I had a head ache from being all stressed out. I tried to take meds, i even broke it in half, thinking ahead you know. WRONG. I felt like it was stuck but in my throat. Then i felt like I was having a heart attack. It was rough for a few minutes. I dont want to repeat that again. He has me on prevacid and i take two blood pressure meds and am afraid to try and take them now. I have not lost any weight in two weeks. I was a little frustrated so I hope and pray that I will have some restriction now. He gave me 4cc's today and said it was the most you could give at the first fill. from here on out, i only get two at a time if i need it. I am to go in 4-6 weeks. So I had surgery, I have had my fist fill and I am on my way to my new life. I am ready to be skinny. Well maybe not skinny but at least healthy. wish me luck. :crying:

I was scared to death. I am not real good with the whole pain thing so I was really unsure about getting a fill. He started and was done and I didnt even know he had started. It was awesome. I think I may have had my first glimpse of restriction. I had a head ache from being all stressed out. I tried to take meds, i even broke it in half, thinking ahead you know. WRONG. I felt like it was stuck but in my throat. Then i felt like I was having a heart attack. It was rough for a few minutes. I dont want to repeat that again. He has me on prevacid and i take two blood pressure meds and am afraid to try and take them now. I have not lost any weight in two weeks. I was a little frustrated so I hope and pray that I will have some restriction now. He gave me 4cc's today and said it was the most you could give at the first fill. from here on out, i only get two at a time if i need it. I am to go in 4-6 weeks. So I had surgery, I have had my fist fill and I am on my way to my new life. I am ready to be skinny. Well maybe not skinny but at least healthy. wish me luck.

Well I was banded four weeks ago yesteday. The pre-op diet was tough but I was so excited and determined, I dropped ten pounds. Two weeks later I was down another 20. Realistically, I knew it wouldnt keep falling off like that. I dropped nothing, zip zero this last week. I have not had a fill yet. My doc wanted to wait till week six but when I called yesterday and said "help I am starving to death" he agreed to see me next week. So I know 30 is awesome for me not even having fills yet but this is tough.Every day every one says "well how much have you lost now" I feel like I am sooo being watched. And to top it off, I have always had huge breasts and now that 30 is off my gut it is like they have little beacons on them (breasts that is) because every one men and women look at them. I want to wake up and be down thirty more by the weekend.I dont know how to be patient and I am scared to death this is not gonna work for me, it will take 20 fills for restriction or something crazy. My biggest fear from the get go is that this will not work. I will fail yet one more time. Any body got any advice for a hungry paranoid inpatient "big Girl"? as always, thanks and God bless.:rolleyes2:

Well I was banded four weeks ago yesteday. The pre-op diet was tough but I was so excited and determined, I dropped ten pounds. Two weeks later I was down another 20. Realistically, I knew it wouldnt keep falling off like that. I dropped nothing, zip zero this last week. I have not had a fill yet. My doc wanted to wait till week six but when I called yesterday and said "help I am starving to death" he agreed to see me next week. So I know 30 is awesome for me not even having fills yet but this is tough.Every day every one says "well how much have you lost now" I feel like I am sooo being watched. And to top it off, I have always had huge breasts and now that 30 is off my gut it is like they have little beacons on them (breasts that is) because every one men and women look at them. I want to wake up and be down thirty more by the weekend.I dont know how to be patient and I am scared to death this is not gonna work for me, it will take 20 fills for restriction or something crazy. My biggest fear from the get go is that this will not work. I will fail yet one more time. Any body got any advice for a hungry paranoid inpatient "big Girl"? as always, thanks and God bless.:thumbup:

THAT MAKES SENSE BUT THEN WHY CAN'T YOU DRINK "UP TO AN HOUR BEFORE YOU EAT?"