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Hey! Doing ok here. I have been on the boards but i guess i am doing more reading than posting. Hope all is coming along well for you. Well, as you know I went in Monday, got banded, came home tuesday. Wed there was a meeting at work I couldn't get out of so I went in for that and worked 3 hrs. That was grueling! But I thought I could handle a half day Thursday. Friday was a whole day and i was exhausted. Came home to sleep 2 hrs because I wanted to participate in Relay for Life that evening, and woke up at midnite! Then rolled over and slept another 12 hrs! Yesterday I was tired all day and snoozed off and on. Tired today to but its getting boring lol. My tummy has gone from purple and red to brown and green and yellow. My own personal rainbow lol No pain, no restriction, no throwing up and I am trying to stay on the soupy type foods here for the next few weeks. I am having trouble cooking for one tho. It sure doesn't take long for one serving of something to burn up on the stove! I have done that a few times now. BF is turning out to be a jerk. He stayed with me in the hosp til I was out of surg, then he left because "I was only going to be sleeping anyway." He came back for about an hour til I got discharged and hes called exactly once since then. I think I have had it with him but on the off chance that I am operating on a food deprived brain (probably lol) I am holding off making any rash decisions for now. So tell me how your surgery went. Are you doing the right things? exercising? I have tried a bit but mainly too tired to do more than a few minutes. I am sure next week will bring more energy with it. Let me know how you are. Mary

It is aweful. I was on my two week liver shrinking diet...day 8. I had lost 12 lbs. Then my husband came home and I asked him if my jaw looked swollen and he said "yeah". I knew I was in trouble. I ran to the mirror and my jaw was rather HUGE! I went to the dentist and I had an infection in my jaw from a 12 year old root canal that went bad. I had to put off surgery and then have jaw surgery (yesterday). They couldn't save my tooth, so they removed it. I go in Friday t get cleared for Lap Band, but they said it will be Mid August before they can get me in. I can't put my life on hold for that long. I have been putting off getting a job, because I didn't want to take time off with a new employer, but I need to get a job. I hope you and baby girl are well. Is your hubby well too? Are you back on track? Take care. -Donita

Hey,

I am glad you had a good psych eval. My friend had to wait 4 months because the psch wouldn't let her go through. She finally got approved last week. I hope they are wrong with Tricare. My doctor said Tricare go by BMI like everyone else, but Tricare said "no". Good luck. _Donita

thats just around the corner. June the 23nd. how exciting.

has your daughter had her baby?

me enjoy summer, no way! the sun and I just don't get along.

we did go to Pine Crest this week-end. it was freezing, I thought I was going to freeze to death. we went hiking up to the damn. last year I completed to whole hike weighing in at close to 300, I will do it again this summer.

you can find pictures under general questions? I just was just on that site, they are all an inspiration to me.

I logged my before and after on albums, but my pictures are blocked to the public and I don't know how to unblock them

I have been struggling with my last fill, have problems with food and sliming (ugh)I have to work on my chewing. the weight loss has slowed down, I trying to get my lazy butt back to walking, I really lagging, I know excercise is the key to losing weight, I just been going to so mcuh these last couple of months.

my goal is to be at 199 by Dec. 26. my 1 year anniversary. got about 38 lbs to go.

I lost my mother 5/21. and just recently been back on-line.

my faith in Jesus has kept me going.

keep me posted on your progress, have you started your Prue-op diet, try your hardest to stick to it. try to walk everyday, even if for only 5/10 mins. practice your chewing now, make it a habit.

talk to you soon

Sandy

Thank you for caring. I did NOT get banded. I ended up with a jaw infection and they cancelled it. I don't know that I will ever get banded. I have to have jaw surgery in a week or two. Then I have to recover for two weeks. Then I get cleared (hopefully) then they will take 8-10 weeks to reschedule me for Lap Band. My doctor is 8-10 weeks out all the time for surgeries. How are you doing?

After a week scale only moved cause I went on a 2 day liquid fast but today I'm up one pound! I wonder how long I gotta wait to get lapband removed????

When I got on the scale this morning it said I was up 3 pounds. I was apprehensive about what the surgeon was going to say about the gain at my fill appt. When I got there and got on their scale it said I had LOST 2 pounds! I know I've gained but I'm happy that by their scale I lost. Does that make sense? It sure lifted my spirits and now that I've got a fill I'm hoping to start heading in the downward direction again.

set a goal to walk at least 7000 steps every day this week.. and I've done it so far!!! Brighter and better futures are coming our way everyone =D

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PO Day #34. Lost just under 1 lb this week (32.6 from high point), but my appetite is getting more difficult to control. Still eating less than before, and although I say I want a slow and steady loss, it is disappointing not to see those large weight drops. Have returned to regular cooking, not having any trouble getting anything down. Keep concentrate on long view, practice mindful eating, and pat myself on my back for success! You go Girl!

Back to work tomorrow. Going to ne a busy week.

3.5 weeks post banding...doing well, swelling is gone, hunger is back but fill is scheduled for next week!

Yesterday was 2 weeks since surgery! Still getting used to not drinking while eating. Really sick of protein shakes

I'm back on after almost 4yrs. My success rate has been horrible because I have had 3 revisions, surgeries and not good fill success. I found a really good doctor here in Colorado Springs (we are stationed here now). My last fill was less than a month ago and I have lost 25 total since the end of July bringing me to 250. So, I am on my way once again. Only thing is now I need to retrain myself how to eat. I am constantly getting stuck and throwing food back up and sometimes I am lucky if ...

Ok.. got things straightened out w/the psychologist...FINALLY!! She is going to submit my eval tomorrow and I will be submitted to insurance. I can't believe it..but I am actually a little nervous. I know it's only insurance, but if it goes through as fast as I'm seeing others go through, this will be the blink of an eye. O well..take it as it comes! Hope you all are in the midst of a fabulous week!

The war has restarted. It's me Vs. my body. I'm back to hating it again and frankly I've never been this cranky ever in my life. I've never been this crazy either. I'm almost certifiable cray-cray. Lock me up. can the band cause insanity? I think so. I cant stop with the scale. i had a cheat day and gained 3 friggin pounds. This WAR. The truce is over. It aint gonna be pretty!

post op visit today and all the stapels came out few of them HURT!!!!!!!!!! But other than that everything is looking good. Lost 8 pounds since last Monday. Get to go back in 5 weeks for my first fill.

hey Katja! i am a little discouraged. I got my first fill yesterday and i have NO RESTRICTION... Did that happen for you? Is that normal? The doc that did the fill told me i probably wouldn't feel restriction the first 2 or 3 fills, but that doesn't make sense to me!

Hey there! I'm slackin on my posts now that I'm back to work. I'm feeling great. Almost back to normal. I feel like my port site is a little lump, too. It's certainly not flat. It's probably still a bit swollen...I'm sure we are ok. I'm down a total of 17 pounds as of today. 9 from pre-op diet and 8 since surgery. YAHOO! I'm starting get a little more hungry than in the beginning, but the shakes are still keeping me satisfied. I sure do look forward to some real food that I can CHEW though. I'm looking forward to seeing you next week at our class. I can't wait to hear what foods we'll be able to add to our diet now! I think we should get our first fill at 4 weeks. I think that is going to REALLY make a difference in our hunger. I long for the days that we can eat of few bites and call it quits and be HAPPY with that! AAaahhhh, this is going to be AMAZING!!!!

Enjoy your cooking session hun, i think part of the band is about experimenting which foods you can and cant have. Im sure you will make lots of yummy things....let me know what you make....you may give me some inspiration lol lol

Wow your food bill has really gone down...im sure what you woud normally have in a day would last you for the week lol lol

enjoy your tea babe xxx

new 'me's' are something so good to look forward arent they?!

im on mushies, but soup is part of all the stages, so i am having soup for my lunch, yoghurt for my breakfast and then having 1tbsp pureed chicken, 1tbsp pureed potato and caarrot for my evening meal.

i can start soft food tomorrow, but i will start on saturday, looking forward to having scrambled egg, rice and peas the most!!!

my first fill isnt booked yet, i see the nurse again a week tomorrow, and i will be weighed and measured then. its estimated that my first fill will be the end of september. as my surgeon doesnt do them until 8 weeks. however, even though i am on mushies, i am still never hungry. so maybe i will be someone who only needs one fill or maybe me being hungry will suddenly arrive!!

hope your ok

Can you believe we've been banded a week already! I had a bad moment last night with food!

He has said that I can have V8, I think I will try that. Did you ever cheat when you were on your first two weeks? Tonight I slipped onto the dark side and I eat a couple of tiny pieces of taco meat!:redface: I know that was bad! I had such a weak moment!!!!! I can't believe I did that! I started feeling so hungry tonight!

Thanks girl!! 15 pounds of that was lost in the 2 weeks before surgery, but i just add it into my total because it was still a loss I get my first fill next week..i'm nervous and excited. I hope it will help my hungry tummy not be so hungry!! My surgeon doesn't fill for the first time until 12 weeks post op.. I don't know why, but i trust him, so i;m hanging in there and just eating the right things.. I'm counting down the days

oh no!!! I hope everything is ok! Congrats on the weight loss! I haven't lost any weight in the last 3 weeks, although I haven't gone to the gym once, and am always REALLY hungry, i've been so busy though i haven't really had any time to let it bother me yet, and at least i haven't gained any weight. I hope everything is going good!