wannabesmall09

Ive bought two books - the Atkins New Diet Revolution and the Atkins Shopping Guide. Should be here next week. I'll read before I start. Long long ago I lost a lot of weight on Atkins and it made me feel great. No big excuse why I stopped and I wish I never had.

For thos of you actually on Atkins, can you give me some advice, cause I'm in the exact same boat as the OP. I had surgery a year ago and have lost 44 pounds. I expected to be farther along than this. I really want to start atkins, but I'm not sure what to eat in the induction phase. Everything I read is geared towards higher portions. What do you eat each day?

My husband's co-worker had lap band in December and is now about 5 months pregnant. Her dr never discussed it with her, and it never occurred to her. She was told before that she couldn't get pregnant. Well, surprise...

I hate it, too, and have to make myself do stuff. Plus, I run ALL the time, and am not a morning person, so I just don't bounce out of bed at 5am ready to hit the gym. I really like the Beach Body excersizes. They are 10 minutes each, and if I do one in the am and one in the evening (most evenings) I feel good. I run a LOT, too, have horses, dogs, a kid. And between giving riding lessons, taking my daughter to gymnastics, running back and forth to the farm, etc, I'm just not home a lot, and spending an hour in front of the TV just isn't something else I can fit into my schedule. I can do 10 minutes, tho...

My doc just does the fills. I've never been xrayed or anything... He is a specialist, so I guess he knows what he's doing, right? I have been overfilled twice now... that makes me a little nervous...

He had to remove about a third of that .5 cc. Its actually good tho, cause last night I ate diner and was only able to eat part of what I could a couple days before and I was full for a long time. Usually I'm hungry after about two hours of eating.

Small fills are a GOOD thing. Take it from someone who was overfilled the first time with 3 ccs at once. I was MISERABLE, couldn't even swallow my spit. I had to sit in the hospital the next morning for over an hour waiting on my doc to get out of surgery so he could remove 1cc. Now, here I sit, at 3 ccs in my band and I think I'm overfilled again, or at least swollen to the point that I can't drink much of anything. I've taken two swallows of coffee and I can feel it sitting on my stomach, so I need to go in this morning for another unfill... Fun. Guess 2.5-2.75 is my number for now.

Congratulations! I'm 4 pounds away from my first goal!

Most drs have you on liquids for the first 24 hours after a fill. I would go liquid for now, mushies for a day or two, then back to solids.

Ditto - everyone is different. My first fill I was given 3 ccs in a 10 cc band and had to have 1 cc removed the next morning because I couldn't even swallow my own saliva. My next fill is Thursday and I'm a little nervous. I can tell that I need more restriction, tho...

Sounds like the nurse didn't put in the extra 2 ccs...

I am two and a half weeks post op and am already back to riding horses, and helped build a deck this past weekend. My dr said as long as I was feeling good and didn't get sore after that I should be just fine, and if this was normal pre-surgery activity, that I should be able to take it right back up and not have any issues. I tend to bounce back from stuff like this, and would have been devastated had they told me no activity for 6 weeks, I am a really active person. When I had my daughter (the natural way) I was back on a horse in 3 weeks. I say do what you feel comfortable with.

I was banded on the 14th as well. The soft foods I'm eating are egg salad (eggs in the blender with a bit of mayo and pickle juice and it gets it really fine), chicken salad (pureed), SF pudding, chili without beans (I crush the meat up really well and then make sure to chew really well), mashed potatoes, and I made broccoli casserole the other night, just boiled the broccoli for a bit longer so it was soft, and made sure I ate slowly and chewed well. A good snack is peanut butter on a spoon, just lick. SF popsicles and SF Fudgesicles, oh, and GUM... :smile2:

If it continues, go to the dr and have them check you out. If your lap band doc doesn't think its anything, go to your regular doc. Could be something as simple as gas, but then again it could be your appendix or gall bladder.

I am 5'4 and am 31, my goal weight is 170. I wanted to stay realistic when I picked my goal weight. I would LOVE to get below that, but, if I hit 170 and then that's it, I would be happy as a clam! :tongue2: I have a large frame, so I'm never going to be petite. My DREAM weight is 140. When I was in the Air Force I weighted 140 and my bmi was 22.