babyka16

you should alow yourself to eat good for 4 to 5 days then take the weekend off! it will keep you on track and your body wont go into starvation mood because you have to cut back caleries! no one eats just right...you have to find whats right for you. im a sweet kind of person too and there is no way ill give that up but i have to watch how much i eat of it. and with your band... you will find your sweet spot everyone talks about! i thought just the same tell i got there, and that was only a few weeks ago. i was banded 10/20/09 so its taken some time but im getting there! good luck

karen

I know just how u feel! i have 8cc in my band and im learning what i can and cant eat everyday. right now i feel like everything gets stuck. so ive got to ether eat very small bites or not eat them at all.... i have a hard time with breads Pasta most meats and allot of cake kind of foods. its hard to get used to but im sure it will pay off. im down 20 pounds right now and hope to keep loosing im thinking i might need to have an unfill lol hope your doing great!

Karen

anything said in the meeting will be kept there and no one will ever know. i think that having a support group is great and what ever we can do to have it we will do. and if you have to bring your little one with you. most of us are moms and we will dif understand!!!!!!!!! start leting me know what days and time work for everyone and pm me your emails and numbers so we can get this thing going. i also have an apt on the 2nd so i will be talking to the staff about this as well.

Karen

i think nights would work best for allot of us. that way the ones who still have kids at home can had the kids over to dad for a few!!!! So im in for that!!!!

ok guys i think its time we should all get together! i think it would be good to have a support group here in town. i would love to go up to tucson for meetings but its just too far for one hour! i see more and more people from around here are getting the surgery done or thinking of it. anyway guys lets put something together.

Karen

hey everyone! i would like to start up a group that could meet one or two times a month here in Sierra Vista arizona/Fort huachuca area. i know allot of us go to Tucson for our apts and they have groups up there but most cant or dont want to drive up for just an hour and turn around and come back. So i would love to start a group here! it would be allot of fun and a good way to meet everyone and give support as well. ive already met 2 wonderful people that have had surgery or getting ready to start. i would love to meet more of you and i know there are a few out there so please PM me your number and email and i will try to get a meeting going!

( not sure if i posted before so long ago or if someone already had if so please give me the link thanks)

I hope to hear from all of you!

Karen

hi there! i just wanted to say sounds like your doctor is right. anytime your body goes through something like surgery it has to adjust! i get colder then the norm and Ive only lost 15 pounds and 15 inches. i do have off and on night sweats and the doc said that its normal because your body is changing.. this also happened when i was pregnant with my two children. so i think its OK and soon it should pass!

Karen

yes i agree call your doc asap thats the last thing they want you to do is puke thats what can make it slip. by the way good luck on your weight loss with the relize band i too have it was banded on the 20th of oct. lost about 15 pounds but now im really not loosing anymore need a fill. should have had one last week but guess i have to heal up some more go back on the 1st. best luck to you and happy holidays

Karen

are you keeping up with your fills?

what is your ins? most of the time it can be 48 hours or up to a month or more!

i think i posted something about this before but your pain could be from your surgery. its because of all the gas they use to blow up your stomach sometimes it will case you pain i had allot of pain but it went away after a few weeks. u should talk to your doctor about what you should eat i know i went in 7 days after surgery for a check-up and he said i could start on mushies. i kinda had already started on a few mushie foods already then about a week later i tried eating a few other kids of foods they went down good but i still ate allot of mushie stuff. right now I'm about 4 weeks post op so I'm eating norm again but what i ate never really changed too much it was just how much of it i ate. i would talk to your doctor you really don't want your band to slip! if you feel hungry try sucking on hard candies like jolly ranchers or life savers i wish you the best of luck

Karen

ummm i really have to say i think that if you drink a 12 pack a day kinda thing thats what the doctors dont want. but i drink diet coke and no problems ( yes my doctor said it was fine!) i only have one or maybe one every now and then

i think it has to do with your weight. the more you weigh the more your feet have to carry, so there for your feet can get wider they dont grow longer just wider. im not a doctor or anything but that is what i think.

karen

I was a size tight 18~comfy 20 pants... Xl~1x Tops

Now I am a size 8 pants... med~lg. It all depends on where ya shop!!! Some stores are just mean lol:blink:

yeah yeah rub it in LOL J/K im proud of you and cant wait to get to that point! think im going in for a fill next week would you like to go with me? ill let you know what day for sure and see if i can get someone to watch the kids

it could be the anastesea they used. when i went in they said that when i wake up i may have should and arm pain but would go away.

how long ago was your surgery? i know after mine i had weird dreams but its only when im on pain meds they went away when i did not need them any more.

karen

yes he does! as far as i know he has the whole time. there were allot of people with tricare that had the surgery before me. i think he came to tucson in march so maybe they where still working out everything with ins. or maybe they had someone new there that did not know about tricare. iknow that i had to get online to find him and then i called tricare to get him. they had put me in to see a surgen here in sierra vista but he did not do the surgery. so anyway thats how i found him lol

karen

i just got banded this week and im in allot of pain. so i just called up the doctor and got stronger meds and man they work great! i can sleep and mover around in bed. i would just call the doc and get something stronger!

i was told taking any kind of pills would be fine! if you think it will get stuck then you should kinda let it set in your mouth for a minute to start dissolving it. or just see if you can take another kind of med that will do the same thing for you just a smaller pill.

well good luck to you! hope all goes well!

i was told that it would be right under my chest because that was the thickest part of the stomach. also because the more weight you loose, your port can move and they will have to go back in and fix it. my doc told me that he would put it under my chest because when i loose weight my port will stay put!

thats great! I'm on week two of the pre-op diet its not too bad. the Cookies and cream from GNC (protein powder) tastes pretty good. i add milk fat free coco powder and fat free chocolate Syrup total cals is about 345 so I'm good. shakes have to be under 350 cals! thats the only good part about it. Ive only lost like 6 pounds but feel like Ive lost 15! Ive lost 4 inches off my wast too. ( thought you had to loose allot of weight to get just one inch off???) anyway how much weight total have you lost? and what kid of food are you eating now? I'm so happy for you keep up the good work

Karen

see if you can get more fills i know after i get my first fill after that i can get up to two fills a month! plus they make you stay a few minutes after your fills to see if you fell your restriction by drinking some Water that way if you need more you get more or if you dont fell anything you get more in! plus if you dont like your doc look for a new one. no one should make you feel like crap!!!!!!!

ok im on day 6 of my pre-op diet! ( its 2 protien shakes have to have 30mg and then i can have up to 500 cals of food) omg cant wait for this to be over i found a good shake its Cookies and cream from GNC i add in a few things to make it tast better just as long as each shake is under 350 cals. ive lost almost 6 pounds but im sooo hungery. i can only have a total of 1200 cals a day! i just want to feel full again! but week one is almost over and then one more and im done with the first part of my road to losing weight!

Karen

OMG if you have one you will know and the pain will not go away. you could of just had some muscle pain from activities or workouts. when it happens again go in right away and be tested for a UTI even if your pee is not a dark color. it also sounds like it could be something other then your kidneys! trust me on this i had to have surgery on them at the age 5 and get kidney infections and UTIs all the time. but if you are worried the best thing would be to go in and talk to the doctor about it. but to me it sounds like you get some muscle cramps. also do you fell this around mid month of your period? that could be it too.

hope this helps out

karen