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Sandradee!! awesome!! Slow and Steady...so easy to say but so hard to do...I hear you...We could do this!!! Trying to stay full for 3-4 hr can be done...they tell us not to drink water with our meal right? "BIG NO NO". I try to hold off from drinking water for at least another 45min or more after my meal and that kept me full for awhile more..Its hard at the beginning but it can be done..to get my mind off of that I just start doing other things and next thing you know an hour or 45min has gone bye filling full ..your fluids is very important so make sure you make up for the lost time..Your on your way!!! Slowly and steady...keep up the good work..

OMG!!! In the same boat with you all!!...Have awesome restriction maybe a little bit too much but I could work with it. In morning protein shake. Lunch! Soup or something soft but even that I end up in the bathroom. Come back and try it again. Taking my time I would say it takes me about 30min to finish lunch. Dinner I try to have my protein chicken, fish...and again for the first part I’m in the bathroom. Come back and try it again. This is the learning part. Taking our time to chew our food. It’s hard!! Good luck to all of you.

Thanks you guys!...Lot of help all the way around!!! Ill be looking into getting that Biotin...awesome!! upped my protien for sure and get me some Nioxin...I'll try anything...Thanks again everyone.

Hey Oldschool!! Thanks ...This Helps..sometimes I feel that I am getting off track ..this helps alot!!...ur awesome..Thanks

HI Ellaal01, on ur next fill take a water bottle with you...so when the doc gives u ur fill..take big drinks of water not a sip a gulp...until u feel it come back up or bubble slowly down. if you feel it go down to easy and fast then you have him fill u more...until u feel the water bubble..Good Luck

AWESOME WORK OLDSCHOOL!! DO SHARE SOME OF UR MEALS AND WORKOUTS..

Hi Girls, I was banded in March of this year and I am down 50 some LBs and feeling great...following all the steps and phases will get you results..Best of luck to all..

Sounds Yummy!!!! Thanks

Best of luck to you...

I just did that yesterday!!! after 2 1/2 months banded ..I decided to have a little rice and a peice of chicken AT THE SAME TIME!!!!WRONG...Ugly feeling..first I got the HICKUPS "BAD" then I started to chuck...It hurt so bad...Never...rice is out of my menu for now...Best of Luck to you Mikissa..

At first u are hungry and your stomach is really giving it too you lol. But after a couple of weeks you still hear your stomach telling you off. But you don’t feel that (OMG im so hungry!!) kind of thing. It becomes mind over matter . Believe me. Just today I was in the steam room and my stomach was talking up a STORM...but I didn’t feel that awful hunger and when my stomach starts to tell me off. I just take a couple sips of my protein shake and im good until my next meal. I’m two months post op had 2 fills and I am down 32lb. Hope this helps.

Congrats!! wishing u the best..DIDO on wut Bklynike said ..so true..

No one ever said it was going to easy...right?...I so think its worth it.My husband had the Gastric done a couple of years ago.....and I told myself ( NO WAY I COULD GO THROUGH ALL THAT) well, I had my surg 3-18-10 (the lapband) im down 32LB and feeling very good ..Its still hard but u adjust. Look!! once you see the LB start to drop and your kids friend tell your son (hey your mom is lossing weight)and it brings a big smile to your sons face..Shooot!! you'll tell yourself "HELL YEA" its worth it...after a couple of fills the hunger will go away...Hang in their..

Maybe eat a little bit more...maybe ur working out more... with not enough food to burn..remeber food is your fuel..

Walking!! lots of walking..that will take the pain away..I had the same prob..trust me..walk..use pillows on ur sides when u sleep...I am also a belly sleeper..the painon ur shoulder is air from the surg..move around more..the breathing in part with pain I also had..Shoot i thought to myself ( did they take out and organ or something...lol) it will go away..in time..take ur pain meds..And after all that ur back to norm...Good luck.

Congrats! Your story sounds soooo like Me!! I am 4 week post-op and had my first fill last week 4cc..since my surg I have lost a toal of 31lb and feeling good..Keep up the good work and fallow all of your phases..it helps.

Its awesome Huh...im three weeks post op and down 20lb...love it!! Congrats! keep up the good work..

Congrats!! also would like to hear about those 15LBzzz...do share.

Wow!! this is alot of help...Thanks...only thing is.. I hearing alot this Greek yogurt..where can I find it? and is it good? I live westcoast.

Congrats!! remember lots of walking...that will help the gas...

Yea, I felt like that after surg and what helped me was walking...walking as much as you can..that help me.

Finally!! A positive and inspiring Blog Congrats on your journey I’m due for my first fill on Friday. I am very excited and nervous at the sometime reading your blog helped me relax a bit. I wish you the best of luck with your journey.