kelsey94568

Take a B-12 and Biotin tablet everyday along with your 2 Multivitamins. Your new stomach has less acid to break down and absorb the nutrients.

chicken is horrible for me. Ugh try having everything get stuck for 3 weeks in a row. That was a horrible time period...

Make sure you really, really chew the chicken. I find taking small bites helps too.

OMG! I remeber the bandages they places on my incisions itched so bad! In fact I have a little scar that outlines where the incision was because I itched it so much. A week after surgery, I learned hydrocortisone cream was my new best friend.

I can pack away a huge hamburger from In N Out if I wanted to, but I can't for the life of me eat an egg. There's just weird exceptions I guess.

u know i think my doc said between 800-1000, but ppl keep telling me that isn't enough and my body is in starvation mode.

Just curious, how many calories do you eat a day? I fluctuate between 800 - 1000 calories a day on average, but my weight loss just plateaued again. I think I might be under eating, but what do you guys think?

Yup! I can feel it a lot. Sometimes I like to gross ppl out and make them feel it. Haha my doc says it's might poke out a lil when I lose my weight, but I don't care. It's like a little trophy in my mind. I don't even care about the scars because of what they represent to me.

That does suck! But 70 miles doesn't seem that far to me for excellent post-op care. I travel 50 miles to the other side of the SF Bay Area for my doc. With traffic, my commute to the doctor is about an hour and a half. I even got in a horrific car accident on my way there one time, but I still go every month.

I stayed one night in the hospital because I had an asthma attack as I woke up from the anesthesia. Also, on my way down from the recovery room to my own private room, the nurses that were wheeling my bed down there hit a bump and I was in excrutiating pain for an hour till they got my morphine drip set up. I liked staying in the hospital because I was really nauseous from the pain killers and the nurses were there to help me. Also, I started my period the day of surgery, it was soooo embarrassing! The next day I felt pretty good! Walking around really helps! Plus the morphine made everything worse, and it was nice to switch to vicodin the second day. Btw, there was no discharge from my wounds! The bandages sure were itchy tho!

Ugh, I ate too much tonight. I was so famished, so I stuffed my face with the Chipotle goodness. Now my I'm really full, have that tightness in my left shoulder again, and feel the heartburn coming on. I feel so guilty, I haven't overeaten with my band in months!

Wow that sounds good! Thanks for the suggestions and advice! That's great that you are doing so well with your weight loss! I want my sister to have lap band surgery because I believe she weighs around what you started at and she is only 16. I believe she will be going to her first consultation for the surgery. I hope she has better dedication to the lifestyle change than I did.

I have a friend kind of like that. As I lose weight, she asks me what I weigh, and she always says she's like 5 pounds less than me although she looks exactly the same. I blow it off as a sign of insecurity about her own self image.

Keep your Vicodin handy! Wow when I was a couple weeks post op, I remember eating soft foods and the sharp pain in my left shoulder that came soon after. I still get this pain from time to time when I overeat, but it's duller than it was right after surgery. Also, I recommend something to wrap around your abdomen, I used a large ace bandage for a couple weeks. For some reason the pressure it created made it bareable for me to leave the house.

I'm not really in my sweet spot, and I'm kind of afraid to get another fill because I've had two unfills so far, and I don't want to go back to throwing everything up. My band could be tightened a little more, but my doc is an hour away, so it's not easy to get back there if I need an unfill. I feel like my lap band is somewhat successful, based on the fact that I realized I was so over weight and need to make a lifestyle change. But after all the pain, throwing up, and plateau in weight loss, I almost don't find it worth it anymore. I've recently rediscovered Subway again, so that's been my latest addiction. (and of course picking out some of that bread, being bad for the lap band and all).

I'm just feeling so blah about dieting. I've been going through these weird spurts of losing 10 pounds, then staying steady for a month, then losing again. I think I maybe be emotionally eating, or maybe just bored with low calorie foods. I think I might just need some easy and convenient food ideas. Hope y'all can help!?

Thanks! I will do that. I've gained a little weight back after my unfill, but it is only about 3 or 4 pounds.

I think I overate A LOT this past 4th of July weekend. Since Monday it has become painful when I eat and foods aren't going down very well. I haven't had a fill in a while and I was doing great with solids till just recently. I've been banded since March 25th and never had any problems like this except for when I was too tight and had to have an unfill.

I think I lost like just a few pounds when I got my first fill. There wasn't much restriction, so I was hungry all the time which led to some snacking. After my second fill I felt a little restriction. Right now I am too full and can barely drink, which has led to a 16 pound weight loss in 2 weeks. I am going to the doc tomorrow to have some liquid taken out.

You probably just need another fill. How many CC's are in your band? I have 7cc and it's too much, at my last fill I was 5.8cc, so I need to be somewhere in between there.

Thnx for ur reply! How much did they take out?

I'm just venting because I haven't been able to eat solids since June 7th when I had my last fill. I've lost 16 pounds since, and I am so excited to go to the doc tomorrow and have an "un"fill. I've become way more obsessed with food than I ever was before. I'm over the vomitting and tightness now. I liked losing weight with a little restriction and calorie counting.

But...I was banded March 25th and have lost 45 pounds now. I haven't been at this weight since I was a freshman in high school.

Have y'all ever reached the "RED ZONE"?

I'm kinda in the boat as you. I was banded last Thursday, and I wasn't hungry the first few days, but now I get hungry between meals. I drink mostly skim or 1% milk...because I hate chicken broth, but I have cheated a little and had half a slice of bread (twice). I haven't felt full yet, nor have I had a my first fill.

What should I expect? And what was your weight loss during the first week after surgery?

I was banded on March 25th and have lost 10 pounds so far, is that average?