Carmen188

Hi Reggie, I too have had a weird obsession with sweets since my surgery, it is totally sabotaging my weight loss, I think before the surgery i would never allow myself to eat many sweets and now I think that since sweets do not cause me any discomfort i want them more. I am going to try to get off the sugar for a while but don't really know if I have the willpower to do it. It's crazy, I am failing miserably at this lap band thing. I got sidetracked i guess i know it was still going to be work but i didn't realize that I was going to have to diet like i did before surgery. a lot of times i think i eat sweets because i know they won't cause me discomfort like protein does. I am trying to get in the habit of chew chew chewing my food more...i have just gotten lazy and out of control...but I will get it back one day and I know this band will help me lose weight..it's just me right now doing and eating how i like...one good thing is there is no way i can eat as much as i used to without getting sick..and i know without the band i would have ballooned up over three hundred pounds by now with the way i am eating ..so i do not regret the surgery ...I wish everyone the best with their bands...it sure wasn't what i expected it to be.

Hello, my name is Carmen, are the meetings still going on at Kaiser south? my email address is jolly.carmen@yahoo.com I am soooo struggling to lose any weight, I am terrible at this lap band thing. I need help

Hi Bonnie, congrats! I know exactly how you feel, it was a long hard road getting banded and i kept feeling like any minute someone was gonna tell me NO you can't have your band you haven't lost enough weight. but i finally got it in and they cannot take it away !!! my port site is to the left of my bellybuton but higher up not near my belly button. I also have a tiny incision right below/in between my breasts, dr said thats where the band is, it surprised me that it was so high up hence the stuck feeling in my throat when i eat too much or something doesn't go down right away. I also had the intense shoulder pain for weeks, it was scary, i thought it would never go away but it finally did, i think walking helped the most to get it to go away. anyways good luck to you, i unfortunately have learned to eat around my band and am not making much progress...i'm going backwards..gaining weight...can't believe i let this happen again..well..hopefully i'll get it right one of these days.

I couldn't make it to the meeting in Sacramento today when is the next Sacramento meeting..i really need to get there..hopefully it will help get me going.. I am struggling bigtime with my eating.

do you still meet in Sacramento? If so when is the next meeting?

Yes i experienced that about a week ago, i had been overdoing it with my eating for about a week I don't know what the pain was it was really bad for one day kinda bad on day two and just a distant memory now..I don't know what it was though..i meant to ask my surgeon last week but forgot. I am thinking it had something to do with my port .... maybe ??? don't know but hopefully it doesn't happen again, it was kinda scary...i will ask my surgeon next time I see her though..If I remember LOL.

To fluffy...I take offense to your words.."come on people diet and excersise is the key to successful weight loss" if you had that under control then why did you get banded? since you've got it figured out you should have been able to succeed without the band.

yes i believe you can lose weight by walking. before I got the lap band i lost 100 lbs by watching my diet of course and by walking and walking tapes. leslie sansone is great. good luck!

try some pineaplle juice if you can get it down. I believe after your fill you should go on liquids for a day or two so that your stomach can go back down. I understand it may swell after the fill. do liquids and mushies until you feel better..and I think it's the enzyme in pineapple that helps get the food digested quicker..not sure though.

thank you for the explanation I now finally understand what pb'ing is . i've not yet had that happen, i've had a little slime'ing but nothing significant, the worst thing that happened was i had been over eating and i got this horrible pain around my port site, it lasted for two days and finally felt better, it was a wake up call for me, i cannot overdo it because i can damage my insides and I must remember that. but apparently i didn't learn that much because i over ate this weekend, I hope it doesn't take some serious medical emergency to make me wake up and get my act together and follow the rules of lap band! anyways you asked when I was banded, I was banded on Sept 13, 2010 on day of surgery i was 277 got down to 253 in two months and I am now up to 264, I am so dissapointed in myself i've lost my motivation but hope to get it back soon. I go next week for 2nd visit with surgeion post op...I think it's time for a fill hopefully that will kick start my weight loss again. .. thanks again for taking the time to answer my question, how are you feeling? are you able to drink ? I would like to have someone to talk to about this stuff, it helps to read these posts. If you would like to be my email buddy my email is good2bjolly@gmail.com

I thank you all for your advice and encouraging words..i didn't start this thread but I feel the same as the person who did, i feel like i am failing myself. I thought that the band would make it easier for me to control my eating but it hasn't. I make worse choices with food since I have been banded then I did pre-band, I thought the band would help me to live like a thinner person..but maybe I don't really know how thinner people live..maybe they watch their eating habits. I go to see my surgeon next week and I will take all of your advice and have her check my band and tell her that I am not doing so well with my choices and I think I will seek therapy for my food addiction..I never thought of myself as a food addict before but I must be because I think about food all the time, I love food it makes me feel good emotionally, if I feel like I have to diet i get depressed and sad and feel like there is not much to live for...I also used to excercise a lot more before I was banded, i have totally lost my motivation. I hope to regain it soon i can't go on like this much longer. I will also ask for a fill next week. thank you so much to the person who prayed for us all...what a blessing that was. thanks!

I thank you all for your advice and encouraging words..i didn't start this thread but I feel the same as the person who did, i feel like i am failing myself. I thought that the band would make it easier for me to control my eating but it hasn't. I make worse choices with food since I have been banded then I did pre-band, I thought the band would help me to live like a thinner person..but maybe I don't really know how thinner people live..maybe they watch their eating habits. I go to see my surgeon next week and I will take all of your advice and have her check my band and tell her that I am not doing so well with my choices and I think I will seek therapy for my food addiction..I never thought of myself as a food addict before but I must be because I think about food all the time, I love food it makes me feel good emotionally, if I feel like I have to diet i get depressed and sad and feel like there is not much to live for...I also used to excercise a lot more before I was banded, i have totally lost my motivation. I hope to regain it soon i can't go on like this much longer. I will also ask for a fill next week. thank you so much to the person who prayed for us all...what a blessing that was. thanks!

whaare pb's? i see this all the time and i assume it means productive burping?? is that what it means? what is it ? what does it do? sorry i am new I haven't had too much restriction since I got surgery done..i am now flailing around gaining weight not knowing how to change my evil ways. just curios..thanks sorry i know it's not what you asked. i have no idea about if you are too tight or not, i would say if you can eat you're not too tight but can't drink ? that is weird?

yes I have regrets..when I decided to get the band I thought that it would stop me from eating too much because I believed that I simply would not be able to do it...however lately I have found out that I can eat a lot! before I didn't eat things like chocolate, ice cream Cookies..but after the surgery i started eating them and I don't even know why..i just was so tired of being on a diet all the time and i thought that the band would allow me to eat those things again within limitations...but I let myself get out of hand and I failed myself and the band..but I hope to get my act together and make the band work for me, i go for my first fill next week and hopefully i will have a new start. by the way i've only lost about 20 lbs since Sept 13, 2010. see what I mean.

You won't be able to do curves until you are healed, which I believe is at least 2 months..you can probably do walking and some other aerobic excercises..but curves has a lot of weight lifting which is out until your body is healed.