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Oh! have heard of this before Saggi.... You don't lose weight because you're too tight and making 'easy' food choices.... things that go down easily but have lots of calories in them.... You know the sort of thing, mash potatoes, mince,lots of sauce with anything that's been cooked to a mush, and, dare I say it, chocolate!! I was told that if you feel that you are eating too much at a sitting to try eating something 'hard' like an apple before you tackle the meal (1/2 usually does it for me) If you can't manage apple then you are probably making the easy choices that just sail through our bands and easing it off a bit might help you... Now for me Well Sunday was OK until the evening... 2 ryvita with cottage cheese and sliced pear chicken and cashew nut pilaf baked cod with mushy peas OK that looks like a good day.... Then huge portion of rhubarb crumble!!!

thanks suzy!

Ooooh! it's been my birthday weekend, and I've been partying! Friday was quite good ryvita and cottage cheese. salad with salmon then out to dinner 3 glasses of wine (very squiffy!) 1 goats cheese parcel (1/2 a starter) Scallops with leek and cream sauce and half of the pudding selections ( they were called a taste of Desserts, miniature versions of the whole sweet menu ) Including lemon mousse, chocolate mouse, poached peaches, creme brulee, and summer fruits crumble!!!! Just a spoonful of each, but really too much than I needed! Saturday wasn't much better! Cadbury's fruit and nut for brekkie (100g bar through the morning!) Lunch: chicken and cashew pilaf it was lovely! Party as it was my brothers birthday too.... two savoury eggs, small piece of chocolate fudge cake with cream, 1 glass of red wine and later on jelly with cream!!! Too much again! Toda will be better! Breakfast: 2 ryvita muesli with cottage cheese and sliced pear! lunch will be; roasted cod with mushy peas Dinner will probably be more left over chicken cashew nut pilaf!

yay! Really excited about this trip it's just over 6 weeks til we get on the plane. We're off to Brisbane and we plan to drive up to Cairns over 18 days then catch a flight down to Brissie before flying home! We're off to the theme parks for 3 days when we get there, so that's first on the list! Weight loss this week has been pants....really need my fill!

lip salve, a good book and my i pod All the usual things like toothbrush/paste underwear pj's toiletries etc....

Not surprised your tummy hurt Brandy! :hungry:sounded good though! Cornish pasties mmmmmmm! I just love them but can't eat the pastry! Well this eating an apple pre meals is definitely working for me! Yesterday B: ryvita muesli with cottage cheese and sliced pear bit before and some on top (works as good as an apple!) Lunch; apple, Vegetable omlette 1 whole egg one egg white Dinner; 1/2 apple salmon fillet sweet potato green Beans and carrot.... well, that's what I put on my plate, Pb'd everything, nothing would go down! So later had some greek yoghurt with honey for supper! Plan for today: B; muesli ryvita with cottage cheese and melon slices L; tuna salad dinner thai red fish curry with rice! making it with salmon and fresh prawns, so looking forward to that, it's quite saucy so should go down OK! I'll let you know how it pans out!

X ray fills.... may be contact Dr Chris De Bruyne.... (search on here there are some contact details somewhere) And ask his assistant. I have my fill under x ray in Bristol if all else fails! Yesterday was a really good day B: omlette made with 1 egg and 1 egg white, peppers, spring onion, mushroom and garlic! L; 2 ryvita muesli crunch with 100g cottage cheese and 75g sliced strawberries. D; grilled tuna with mango and chilli salsa, corn on the cob and sugar snap peas Supper; hot chocolate drink Also drank about 1.5litres of Ribena extra light blueberry (OMG it's lovely!) and had 1/2 an apple before lunch and dinner! Felt satisfied with my lot! Today; B; coffee! Lunch: chicken caesar salad... dressing on the side, no cheese no croutons! (needed the dressing to get the chicken down) Dinner; Turkey chilli con carni with rice will prob have a ryvita with cottage cheese at some point in the day and will eat an apple before dinner! Scales seem to have moved again this morning (1/2lb!)

I have to say that £8000 is very steep, even in the UK... There are some excellent surgeons around and like previously said you should shop around!

Hi guys! Thought it would be interesting to start a 'progress' thread for all us UK bandsters! Not a weight log, although you can put it on if you want to.... more of a record of our banding journeys. The highs and lows and the bits in between! I'll start the ball rolling with my account of the last week! My ankle is finally pain free and no longer swollen, which can only be a good thing... now all I have to do is motivate myself to get back into the cardio part of my fitness routine! Food intake this past week is creeping up again, with an average calorie intake of around 1300 calories a day... which doesn't sound too bad, but has been enough to mean that I've gained this week!(0.7kg) :cryI can't bring myself to put it into my ticker just yet, but if I'm going to track my progress then I ought to track it honestly! I've got into my size 20 monsoon trousers (there much smaller than my other size 20 trousers from the same shop... why is nothing the same cut!) this weekend, despite the gain, so all is not lost.... I really must book my fill today or I'm afraid that my target for Australia holiday will be a wash out at this rate! So plan for this week.... Make healthy choices with my food all week. Eat 1/2 an apple before meals.... (it will stick in the band and make me satsified with less at meals) Stay away from meal replacements... I need something to satisy my appetite, not make me feel deprived! Get back on the cardio wagon and start making progress in that direction! On the employment front, I need to chase a couple of jobs I've applied for and if they're going nowhere, then I need to apply for others. On the home front, I have a bit of tiling to get done while the weather is horrid! Well that's me for this week, what about you?

Hi Susannah! I'm hoping and praying that you are all a really nice bunch of guys out there.... we're hoping to emigrate next year! The plan is to get out there and have a really good look around. Check out the schools, job opportunities and housing markets and make some sort of decision about where exactly we'd like to set up home! We are landing in Brisbane and the plan is to spend a couple of days on the Gold Coast (boys are desperate to go to the theme parks!) before e working our way up to Cairns over 18 days.... catching an internal flight back to Brisbane and then heading back to the UK. Any tips of what we really shouldn't miss?

Think you either posted on the wrong thread of have misread the posts.... As far as I have read, nobody is getting their band removed

Go get your fill Suzy!! I'm being brave and am booking one for the end of the month! (gives me time to work myself up to it!) There's no point in me struggling.... I've paid out all this money, I should be using the band to help me not trying to manage without.... (even OH noticed I've been 'putting away' more food than previously!) So deep breaths.... X ray fill booked.... (I imagine I've no chance success without!) If it's hell on earth again, then, I'll book for a repositioning! (H starts praying hard that the port will have magically moved and no longer be a problem!):flypig:

yesterday went all pearshaped!! 3 pieces of coconut cake..... and 400g of greek yoghurt with greek pine honey stirred into it... total calories were, wait for it, 2003!!! I know that it's still less than I need, but it doesn't make it OK to do every day, I felt awful, and went to bed after the cake then woke up hungry and ate the yoghurt and honey! It's done now, no point in dwelling on it just learning. I cannot have this stuff in the house! Today is redemption day; B; cambridge shake L; Cambridge bar D; salad and protein shot (42g) and a frappuccino light from Starbucks whilst I was out! total calories are 675, which is low, but it's only for and possibly to be repeated tomorrow, we'll see!

Oh, for me it's the clothes shopping! I hate only being able to shop in the 'fat' shops.... evans, Ann Harvey BB at H&M and the fat section of New Look! That's it folks.... no where else does my size! I want to go to River Island and pick up a top or skirt of a pair of jeans..... I want to fit into ANYTHING from Jane Norman..... I could go on and on!

I mostly post my food intake on the bandsters what did you eat today thread, so if you're interested have a peek on there! I know the overeating problem well, the real plus is that I even on a 'binge' day I can only manage around 2000 calories! So far this week I've lost nothing, again! Last week was really good with a 3 1/2lb loss.... so I ate everything I wanted to! I don't think I could have a blind fill if I wanted one, I can't even feel my port at the moment. I might have a fill soon though, I just want to get on with it. I've lost another 4kg since my last fill, but I am aware that it's because I've made the effort to lose weight, not because I have good, consistent restriction. Although it's really good today! My plan is to eat 2 Meal Replacements and one meal everyday with extra veg and fruit to keep my intake of them up. I'm aiming for 70g pro tein a day and at least 5 portions of fruit and veg. I plan to take one day 'off' a week to eat whatever I fancy! I am continuing with my exercise commitment and doing 3 lots of cardio and 3 lots of weight training a week. Well that's my plan! I'm not angel and I certainly struggle with the food side of things! I had family round over the weekend and had cooked loads of yummy things.... of course it's been too difficult for me not to eat them.... I made a coconut slab cake and yesterday I ate 3 pieces through the day instead of my 3 portions of veg/fruit! NOT GOOD! then I couldn't eat my dinner, felt lousy and went to bed at 7pm! Typically I woke up at 9.30... hungry.. dinner was in the dog, so I ate the rest of the Greek yoghurt (full fat about 400g!) with greek pine honey and felt uncomfortable! All of the goodies are gone now, so I'm fine! I just can't have them in the house! So today I'm having 3 meal replacments, a big salad and a Protein shot to get me back on the straight and narrow! We'll see how it goes!

Right I have a plan today, but I think that it will be a struggle to stick with it I have that urge to eat ( Don't know how successful I'd be at trying to stuff it all in but the head has other ideas!) B; Cambridge shake L; Cambridge bar Dinner; Thai chicken curry with rice I'll post later and give you an update as to whether I've made it or not!

Yesterday was a bit of a disaster as I found myself eating weekend naughtly leftovers..... whipped cream, raspberries, coconut cake, savoury eggs, a bit of leftover curry, couple of spoons of coleslaw.... In the end I ended up pb'ing! Stupid stupid stupid!!! today has been better; coffee and biscotti in town with friend Lunch; cambridge shake Dinner; 100g barramundi, 1 corn on the cob .... had salad on the plate, but couldn't manage it! Not too bad really!

Yes! You need to ask him what band he uses and why How many times he's done the procedure What is included in the aftercare package How much weight you can expect to lose in the first year What is his attitude to fills, will you be able to get them as and when you need them What happens if you need an emergency fill for any reason Is there a pre op diet to follow What does the post op eating plan look like how long will you be in hospital What happens if there are complications (is additional care included if you need it in the price) I can't think of anything else at the moment, but if I do I'll post it!!!

Hmmmm.... it appears that my last post has disappeared into the ether!! Saturday and sunday were busy with social engagements (which usually means more food, and these were no exception!) So 10/6/07 B: 1 Spicy sausage 1/2 rasher smoked back bacon 1 slice wholemeal bread L; No time! Dinner: Chicken tikka Anarkali with keema pilau rice. (about 2 spns of each, sounds loads but not really!) mouthful of naan, 1 poppadom with raita (yoghurt dip) 1 large glass of wine! Enjoyed myself enormously! Sunday 11/6/07 Family round for BBQ :hungry: 1/2 sirloin steak, pea mint and avocado salad, 1/2 sweet potato, some mozzarella, onion and tomato salad! (only a spoonful of each of the salads!) Later.... meringue nest, whipped cream and fresh raspberries and strawberries (2 of each) Later still.... 1 small piece of coconut slab cake! Drinks through the day... 1 glass white wine, 1 malibu and pineapple juice So back to being more disciplined now. Back at the gym today for legs and abs, ankle almost fully recovered, will attempt some low impact cardio tomorrow if all goes well

It's true that some doctors in Belgium do not tell you that the most important thing is the aftercare but most do.... the key to success with the band is really what happens afterwards. I might also add that my transfer of care to Avon Obesity Service in Bristol cost me..... Initial consult £140, Xray fill £261, Fill without x ray £130, so the price for my first fill under xray and initial consult came to £401!!! a bit more than Shaw Somers, but as I'm nowhere near him, I will live with this!

Hi Helen! Welcome to Lapbandtalk! congratulations on taking the bull by the horns and deciding to do something permanent about your weight. I have to say that on here you will find a real mixture of guys and gals.... some have told everyone, some have told nobody, and quite a few like me who have told people on a need to know basis only! I'm 12 weeks post op this week and have lost 3 stones so far... I started off around the same weight as you too. You may find that your fertility improves once you've lost weight too. (although, I don't know what your particular problem is, so I couldn't comment on your specific case!) Good luck on your banding journey.... As for the op, I have to say I woke up feeling just as welll as I went down! I looked at my plasters (yes, I did say plasters... small plasters at that!) on my belly and had to poke them to make sure that they'd actually cut me!!) I had a bit of windy pain the following day, but that was it! The op is very straight forward, you'll wonder what you were panicking about afterwards.... promise! Keep us up to date! feel free to write here!

At 6 weeks out I had the same feelings as you regarding restriction, this was because I was, like you, satisfied with 600-900 calories a day.... at the end of week 7 it disappeared and I was as hungry as I was pre op! So I booke my fill to help me along the way.... only has a smallish fill it's been variable with really good restriction some days and none at all on other days. Previously I've lost 125lbs on my own with no band. Unfortunately it all came back and then some more! I could suffer and follow the same Very low calorie diet I did and lose the weight again, but this way, it's no hardship, I'm not hungry (most days) and I eat what I fancy, in small quantities and I've lost 16.5kg so far... ( my starting BMI was 43 so I expect slower weightloss than your spectacular 39lb!) It's still early days for both of us and maybe when we're further down the line we'll have different opinions/thoughts on fills and how to use our newly fitted 'tool'!

The only reason I ask is because it was mentioned that many surgeons offer liposuction to flanks (the sides where your waist curves in) at the time of a TT which apparently help to give a better defined waist. This will be important to me as even when I lost all my weight 2 years ago, I still had no waist (I'm such an apple!) So I wondered if your piccies showed the results of that.... but no, you have a great waist already!!!

Awwww, BrandyChick, :girl_hug:sorry that the scales aren't moving in the right direction, maybe you could eat a bit more for a couple of days, to try and fool your body into speeding up your metabolism.... as you've been eating so little for a while it may be protesting a bit. The other alternative is to just ride out the plateau.... easy in theory,much more difficult in reality, but sooner or later you body will have to give up some of the fat to keep you going, it's just protesting at the moment and holding on to everything that you give it! In the end it's about keeping you mind strong, your body will have NO choice but to follow! Well yesterday was OK food wise 7/6/07 I only have to add 40g of 72% cocoa chocolate and small handful of almonds! Todays Plan; B; Cambridge pack L; IDS New Whey Protein 42g shot D; poached salmon, baked sweet potato, posh mushy peas I might have another Cambridge pack later as I feel I'm eating too many nuts lately!

I am told that the longer you can wear the corset the better the end result will be! ( my friend is a nurse) I'm sure that your leaky bit will heal up quickly! Did you have any liposuction in the end?