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Good job guys! i went for a fill last friday and haven't been able to do the ww program this week cause i'm having to eat liquids and popscicles so I haven't posted for a week. But I should be back tomorrow posting agian hopefully. Shew I have 2cc and am so darn tight its weird how before i had hernia surgery i had 4cc and that was my sweet spot but i will be at 2cc for a long time cause its my new sweet spot. DOLE strawberry fruit popcicle is my new freind so yummy if you haven't had one u must try it.

How much have you lost with the band?

rha2k;;;; yep that always happens to me if i do that I slime or throw up then swell and it closes the band off more. Most of the time I follow my drs rules but sometimes temptation gets the best of me but I am reminded real quick. Its been seven days since my feel and yesterday was the first day I tried a cream soup but i hadded losts of water and had less then a half a cup. Today I had less than half cup of chili for lunch and supper but I had made it myself ahead of time and froze it. It has beans, peppers, onions, hamburger, meat, noodles and mushrooms. But I use my pamppered chef chopper and chop everthing till it can't be chopped anymore. It was so good I am stuffed love that feeling. Shew last friday thought I was gonna die i WAS SO TIGHT. Love my strawberry fruit popcicles during this past seven days. they are cold so goes down fine as it melts. I even had to drink hot water when I had liquids. If you are tight. Drink hot choclate or anything really hot so broth works good.. Plus really cold things like popcisles but not ice cream. So glad my band is getting back to normal sweet spot. 2cc is all I need. Good luck with your feel tough it out if u can cause it will loosen just do those tricks.

what kind of information did u guys send in to get approved. What kind of reconstruction are u guys getting. Mine is just a panni and mons reconstruction I don't have any hanging skin anywhere else and don't want a tummy tuck with muscle tightening. I had hernia surgeri in november and the dr tightened my muscles then because he said without that I couldn't have a bowl movement right.The insurance denied me paying for the panni with it and reconstruction of mons.didn't have time to appeal because the hernia was so bad. Which is really dumb that I have to have two surgieries when I could of had one. I have had the rashes but never went to the dr for them. Just kept using over the counter stuff because it was cheaper than going to the dr every time i had a rash. I do have rash at the moment and am seeing the dr next week for cream. They send information after i do that and he looks at me and writes his notes to send that in to insurance to add to the other stuff. I have been having bladder inconsistancy because of the excess skin to. Just woudering how big your stomach was to be approved if you had before or after pics to post so I can compare. thank

Journey4me::::: My first fill was in 2009 and I felt tight for about three weeks I got 1cc. My dr requires us to do four days liq,2 mushy then back to solids. Because people some tend to swell after a fill. Im one who does swell after a fill just how it works for me not everyone does that. Dee Dee Dee. Nope not when u eat the wrong thing. When u eat the wrong thing and BP wich is pucking it up Its like u burp not bening to that a sighn of i went to far. Then i better run to the bathroom and up it comes. I don't do that very often. I know better that to skip my liquid stage after a fill.Your band gets tight because it swells when u barf.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TO ALL OF YOU! I am not going to have any candy today at all nope nope. sure hope the scale moves a little before saturday. i WENT AND DELIVERED THE 48 CUPCAKES I MADE FOR THE TWINS PARTIES AT SCHOOL this moring. dropped off valentines presents at front office of elementary, middle and high school for my kiddos. maybe they will have the candy finished before getting off the bus.LOL! Daddy got the girls roses and a teddy bear.My hubby got me a gift certifacate to get mampered at the nail spa with my best friend. hands, nails, toes, feet here we come. A day of shopping having lunch and spa sounds just what I need after getting this machine off. I was suppost to get it off yesterday but they told me nope. So I go to the dr tuesday and he will probably take it off then I still have to pack the small hole until it closes completly. I asked hubby if he could do it and he said no he will pass out.LOL! So home health will then come out 7 days a week instead of three. So I'm thinking I will go out with my freind that day. I'm still not suppose to go out of the house unless its church or dr appointment. But i don't think one day of shopping will hurt.What you guys think? I been stuck in the house almost 4 months as of two fridays from today. thanks guys for your support. amyloveslou: keep your head held high you will get it. we all have these kind of days or weeks. Heck sunday i felt like i ate the house down.LOL! It's good u go to the gym it lets off so much stress or it does for me. Soexcited: i think we all have to splurge from time to time. just gotta jump back in and make up for it. You did good by going to the gym i give u a pat on the back for that. I am counting down weeks till i can work out and go to zumba. Yes i love to eat after 7 so i been having a 2 pack of crunchy oats and honey granola bar for that time i have one then about 8-9 have one. takes care of the sweat and crunchy and is healthy. short and chunky; never thought about that hmmm hope it does give me a jump star.I WANNA SEE 179 TIRED OF SEEING THE 180SSSS.

Yesterday was so hard for me i went way over my points but since I don't count weekly allowance points I'm just gonna give my self that one free day this week. I love texas rhode house blossom onion and with everyone talking about going out to eat for valentines day I decided i was making one. So I had a sandwich with craker chips, i cup chilli with peanut putter crakers, supper the blossome wedged that i made so half a very small onion with light ranch dip. My kids brought home choclate for church so two little bebbie snack cakes. Yep that more than I have had to eat in one day for the past seven months. Not sure what was up with me but it's over and I'm starting my day off right. For breakfast i had two honey nut gronolar bar they come in on package 5 points for both. Lunch slice bread 2 points ham 3 points light mayo 0 points craker chips 2 points. I will be good today Go ahead cause fuss at me for being bad yesterday please i need a lecture.

Went to weight watchers yesterday and lost 4.6 pounds so a total of 12.6 in two weeks way to go me!. The leader told me she needed to advice me I was losing to fast. that was a first.lol! But i usually do the first two weeks then it slows down. Ho w did u other saturday weighs go? Saturday night I ate like a big but did stay within my points. Today is going to be very hard cause its 1:30 and I only have five points left. My kids went to a church valentimes party. They saved me a package of little debbie choclate cakes. which is 11 points and of course I had both. Bad bad decision becaue I will be starving but i did it to myself so I will not go over my points just starve all day. That will teach me to have those yummy cakes.LOL! amylovslou: so sorry about your husband and u being stressed. sure hope it gets better...hang in there! I have been out of work for three months because of two surgeries and it is rough around here very tight with money so i know how you feel. soexcited; How did the weigh in go? short and chunky; I to think meeting and weigh ins play a big part in my weightloss. I haven't got to go to a meeting yet which i really need but will be able to in about four weeks when home health relises me. But I have got to weigh in so that has really kept me in line.

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Yep, thats how you do the activity points. I would love to try a spin class but in my little town they have none.boo! How long have u been banded? LOOKS LIKE YOUR DOING GREAT WITH IT. Last night I went to the grocery and got some itialin flat out. They only have 90 caloreis for 1 and its big. I put some shredded roast beef, turkey and ham, cheese with light miracle whip. I cut it in hal because its to big for one meal for me. It was so good and low in points too. I love the flat outs they taste much better than the other soft tortias. I can not eat even a bit o bread havn't been able to since my first fill of 1 cc so these are a life saver for me. I usually get the plain but the italian smelled so yummy. It was awsome you guys must try.LOL! I alos seen people talking about kellogs craker chips way back on this site. I finally got a box of the sour cream onion. They were great as well. You get 26 per serving and 3 points. I only had half a serving though with my wrap. They tasted like the baked chips but better. can't wait to taste the cheese ones today for lunch. I looked down the chip ile first but they are with the crakers but taste nothing like a cracker. For some reason I am starving today.Crossing my fingers that I stay out of the kitchen.LOL!

I updated my ticker so it has my surgery date and how much I've lost on it. I have did great with the band it's just when I had kindeystones I get sick and throw up so I usually have to have it complete unfill till it passes. I have a 10 or 11cc band I have 3cc as of last month and very tight with that. I did go to the gym alot but haven't for three months since my surgery. My gym membership is up so I won't be getting another. It only cost 3 a day to go to zumba and love that and use my treadmill at home so thats enough for me. Well that is when I'm able to do it agian.LOL! When was you banded? How big is your band and how much do u have in yours?

Hi Guys I just started back to weight watchers and weighed in on saturday. I was so excited because I lost 8 pounds. This week I've already lost two and I still have till saturday to lose more. I love the weight watcher program but had stopped going because I had hernia surgery in nov. then infection surgery to clean it in january and have a wound vacuum and home health scomes out ever other day to change bandges. I'm not suppost to be out and around people. But talked the nurse into letting me at least go to weigh ins once a week. I have used weight watchers on and off ever since i got the band and even before. The band is my tool and weight watchers is my other tool.LOL! I use the online site to log in what I eat and sometimes my iphone to scan the items and it goes to the site. BEORE SURGERY i WAS GOING TO THE GYM an hour each day using treadmill 30 minutes at night and going to zumba 4 days a week. This staying at home with machine hooked to me was really getting to me plus I had to have some taken out of band before i had surgery so it was hard with just 2 cc in my band. My spirits are up agian and I'm ready to conker the world since my last weeks weigh in. at weight watchers. Still have a month of being hooked to this vacumm machine but at least i got to go to a meeting. The weigh in weekly is the key for me having to step up infront of someone not family or friend. I refuse to gain after working so hard to get off the weight. I don't like the new weight watcher program as much as the old slider card program. I don't like fruits and vegies being free and u get so many more points. they say because they figure your fruits and veggies in the daily points. I do like how as of january 2012 u can take your points down to 26 online. So thats what mine is sat at. and I never use activity points or weekly allowance points. But I love the program. So what are some snacks u guys like to eat at night low in points and healthy? Any tips you have fill free to give cause i'll take all the adive I can get. Thanks for taking the time to read and respond have a good day.

Hi Guys! How has eveyone been doing? Soon2bhotmomma I understand completly about having to have Fluid removed it is no fun. I had to have mine removed the first year because of kidney stones. That slowed my weight down a bunch. Then I got over the kidney stones and they filled it back up and the scales started dropping agian. I had to have Huge Hernia repair in November so my surgeon wanted the band emptyied first. My lapband dr said no need for that I'll just take out twocc and u will be fine. Two months after the surgery I got MRSA staph infection they said from the drain tube being in so long. I think I got it from hospital but doesn't really matter where. Its one of the more serious staph infection. It goes away but stays dormatt in your body and comes back when your immune system is dwon. So I had to have surgery agian have my stomach insision cleaned out. I currently have a wound vacuum on that stays on everyday. Home health somes out and changes my banges and wound vac canester every other day. OMG this is no fun at all. Its been a moth on and hopefully I only have to have it 4 more weeks. With Mrsa only certain stronge antibotics will kill it and it causes major headaches. So during these three months I had gained 9 pounds. Before hernia surgry I was very active going to the gym for hour each day walking on treadmill 30 minutes at home before bed going to zumba 4 days a week with some freinds. So I got very depressed because I have to stay home limited activity and am hooked to a machine. Finally did get to get a fill so I have 3cc YAY! I joined weight watchers last week and lost 8 pounds my first week. I am down two pounds already this week and don't weigh in till Saturday. So I'm finally back down to my weight before hernia surgery. I think I'm coming out of my depression. I know times are tough but I refuse to be depressed and disapointed in myelf for gaining when it took so long to get it off.But I'm counting down days till I get to jump back into zumba. I love my band and am lost when I don't have the help it gives me. I have about twenty six pounds to go and I will be at my goal. Thanks or listening guys wish you all the best of luck!