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BeverlyM

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    Banded 1/26/11. Glad you made the thread. Im doing good trying to stay positive but since ive started food my weight loss has STOPPED. Im sure it will kick back up so im gona keep following the rules stay positive. Im still out of work had to stay out 6 weeks i have a very physical and demanding job i work with meantally physically disabled individuals so i couldn't go back without restrictions. I think once i go back to work plus exercising the weight will start to come off. STAY POSITIVE EVERYONE THIS IS JUST THE BEGINING.

    Do anyone elese have problems "using the bathroom" I go 5 or 6 days without until i take a lax.? Im drinking my 0 cal liquids and i do treadmill or Micheal Jackson The Experience on the WII. Im only eating protien(around 3 oz 4x day) When i need something between i eat sugar free Jello or pickle to try to ty me over.i've done low carb since Nov. hard to find low carb Snacks so i stick with Jello pickles and crystal light popsicles. I know i could exercise more since im not working but just havn't wrapped that around my head yet :(

    I'm only getting in around 600 or 700 cals. and they say that might be my body holding on cuz it's not enough. I get my first fill 3/8/11 on my 6week visit then i can start low carb veg. and i will go back to work after my visit maybe things wiil start moving again.

  2. Posted

    Since you wont to quote me what kind of food do you think I'm weighting? Well I weight meat. That's what I'm eating(other than the Jello and pickle) according to my Dr. Office thats what im supposed to do. You don't think I know the difference in mass and volume? I work at a facility side by side with the dieticians making meal plans for our clients. I can eyeball 3and 4oz of food cuz we serve it everyday but its in a ground or pureed consistency. I weight my meat to make sure cuz its whole consistency and I'm not used to how much yet....Thank you for taking the time to respond to my quote. I don't wont to sabotage this band for nothing so if you think I'm measuring wrong please let me know. When I say I put my food on the scale I'm eating chicken pork cop fish.

  6. Posted

    Hi relsiversea, I know those are the standard liquids but I use a food scale to weight my food. I also measured 1/4 cup of liquid minus the weight of the cup on the food scale and it still came out 2oz. She replied to my comment and told me 1/2 is not the same as 4oz but didn't tell me what it was. So what is 1/2 cup of food? I've measured and goggled and still coming up with the same thing. Just want to know what cocoabean is coming up with.

  8. Posted

    when i weight my food out its usually between 2.5 to 3.5 oz so i know it wouldn't hurt to go to 4oz. I havn't been on the scale since i've started eating and i hope i dont do to bad. I do my protien and 0 cal drinks snack might be a pickle or sugerfree Jello or cheese (i know neither is protien but i dont like eggs peanut putter has alot of cals and very dry eating by it self and i like cheese but ive only used the "bathroom" 2x since surgery and that was with a softner) i plan to weight on Tues. so i well see what damage i done :rolleyes:

    Can you up it to 1/2 cup? That's what I normally get in, and it's been working fine. :D

  10. Posted

    My surgery was Jan. 26 didn't have one until tuesday 1st .

    Ya know, I don't know. I STILL have not had a BM and i'm 8 days out. I was told I couldn't take any kind of laxative, just benefiber with some Water to help things along. So it seems I'm having the opposite symptoms. If you have LOTS of diarrhea I would suggest calling your dr or surgeon.

  15. Posted

    :lol: lol... Rachel you are tooo funny!! NO im not telling you no details. LOLLLLLLLLLLLL :lol:

    Forgive yourself and tell us in detail what it tasted like!!!!! Lol My preop diet includes a Protein meal a baked chicken only dry spices or lean meats like sirloin So I am sure its not going to mess you up. The idea of the diet is to make you get use to liquids so that once you have surgery you wont be tempted to grab a hamburger and try to eat it and hurt yourself. It is also to reduce your liver size... you do that by following a low carb low calorie low sugar High Protein diet.... One piece of chicken is not going to hurt you my diet includes that everyday thankfully unless it was fried then I want details lol... The point is not to slip ever day... then your body will not go into the fasting stage and burn your reserves <The fat on the liver there by shrinking it> thats where the low carbs come in.... you burn carbs for energy if you have low carb diet it comes from the reserves... Hope that makes sense... Best practice follow your MD's diet forgive yourself for falling off the wagon today and jump on the nearest stage heading west tomorrow :)~

  16. Posted

    Thanks every one for the support getting me back on track but yes I'm gonna follow Dr. orders. My mind is back on track. I get so jealous when I hear people say the can have broth Jello or even one meal of lean meat...lol. But orders say Optifast shacks only so I'm gonna follow it(praying ). This to shall pass. Better get my mind right now because a slip like that after surgery would be real bad with a fresh band..... (But just to vent, these shakes have more carbs and suger than I was eating on the diet the Nut.had me on. 20 carbs 17 sugers in one container...just had to get that out..lol)

  19. Posted

    No Honk you are not being mean that's exactlly what i came here for but yes i watch you tube vidioes all the time the surgery the new way food will go down any i can find (this site and you tube is my tv/entertainment now) But i got my mind back on track now. No more slips for me..

    As another poster mentioned at least it was Protein. That said no I would'nt call the doctors but you need to rededicate yourself. Getting banded is at least 50% mental. The band will NOT help you for several months with serving sizes until you get restriction. It also does'nt stop you from eating non diety foods and during the weight loss mode you should really be making diet like food choices, for example grilled chicken not fried.

    I not being mean; I figure you came on here to get reinforcement that you need to follow doctors orders.

    I highly recommend going to YouTube and watching real life LAPBand surgeries. There is no blood so it's not gross. It does however really knock home how important it is to follow the post surgery diet because you stomach has stiches holding the band in place. Until those "anchors" are healed your stomach can not be moving around to digest food.

  21. Posted

    This is day 5 of my Optifast shakes. Nothing elese other than crystal lite Water and suger free no carbonated drinks. I walked into my mom house went in the kitchen to see what she cooked and grabed a piece of chicken before i realized what i was doing. Usually i keep my mind right about this but i really wasnt thinking when i went in her kitchen. I ate probally 3 bits of it. i knew after the first bit but didnt stop until my daughter walked in and said "MOMA!" I fell like such a loser. This surgery is way to important to me to mess up again. (The chicken dont even fell right sitting in my stomach). Should i call the Dr. office and rat myself out??? Have anyone elese slipped??? I promiss it wont happen again........

  22. Posted

    This is day 5 of my Optifast shakes. Nothing elese other than crystal lite Water and suger free no carbonated drinks. I walked into my mom house went in the kitchen to see what she cooked and grabed a piece of chicken before i realized what i was doing. Usually i keep my mind right about this but i really wasnt thinking when i went in her kitchen. I ate probally 3 bits of it. i knew after the first bit but didnt stop until my daughter walked in and said "MOMA!" I fell like such a loser. This surgery is way to important to me to mess up again. (The chicken dont even fell right sitting in my stomach). Should i call the Dr. office and rat myself out??? Have anyone elese slipped??? I promiss it wont happen again........

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