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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

Great your on solid foods now. I had the calender marked on what days I could start what foods. How much longer with foot in cast? How did you do that? Well congrats on sucess so far! Keep me posted.

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 so much for your answer. Do you think about food less often now that you can't eat it as much?

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 ...

Food; Need to get on track but struggling...

run from synchrony.

i ran from there straight to dr curry. it is like night and day.

ever since their good surgeon left last year, they have fallen apart at synchrony. i had the best counseling on food with dr curry's erin and the faces are mostly smiles there (everyone has a bad day sometimes) especially heidi at dr curry, so sweet.

if your gut says run.(no pun intended)

run run run.

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

ohh yes they sure are!

Im sure you are enjoying your mushie stage, must taste better to have something a bit thicker than just liquid! You realy dont each much at all, how many cal u think ur on a day...less than 500 from teh sounds of what you are eating.

Remember to chew chew chew when u start yor soft foods 2morro

thats great that u are feling such great restriction, fingers crossed you wont need to many fills! Remember to keep up with ur fluid intake though hun, u dont wanna get dehyrated xxxxx

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!

Hi so your banded Aug 5th too? How are you feeling?

I am still a little sore were the port is and I am bored lol

Trying to make sure I eat right I don't want to mess this up.

Started the mushy foods yesterday and doctors today at 2 can't wait.

Are you back at work? I told work I would come back on the 14th tomorrow, but my doctor told me not until Monday...so I will see what he says today. If I sit at a table to long it hurts my port, like it's pulling or something. Feels good to talk.

Lisa

I am feeling great today. I was very busy up and about. I can't believe how good I feel. I was expecting it to be a lot tougher than it has been.

I went grocery shopping today, that was funny. It was a very weird experience. A lot of the food looked sooo good, but I wasn't even hungry, so I was able to pass and I didn't really care. Now that is a first!

Hi everyone, this is my 1st. entry, but I have been reading about all of you for awhile now...I feel like we're already friends. I live in Providence RI....Federal Hill section, known as "lil Italy" to many. I was banded in Oct.07 and have lost approximately 50 lbs. I've been struggeling with a couple of problems and can use all the help you can give me. I am already pretty close to my fill capacity, but sometimes I can eat more then I did before surgery. Sometimes when food gets stuck, I'll cough it out and then continue eating with no fullness until I eventually stop. Whether its protein or other foods,I usually just don' t feel full.

I think this happens because my stomach below is never full, just the pouch, so its a new "full"I have to get used to. I try to ignore wanting to eat more, but when I'm weak and give in, I can really pack it in. I know the band is fairly tight, because when I don't chew properly, the food does stick and either eventually goes down, or, mostly, gets caught, and I will cough it up and be as good as new to continue my meal.....any suggestions or thoughts? thanks

Wow! You are doing great hun...and healing up really quickly!! I hear as each day passes it gets better and better. Andf well done on resisting the take away!! I remember when i was doing the cambridge diet and wasnt eating food...i hated those M&S adverts, i used to call them food porn! lol lol

What a great loss! You many more losses to come

keep in touch! xxx

hey friend.. how has your week been?? I hope you don't mind but I am really in need of an ear and the forums are weird today.. someone on the preop diet is eating at bk every night,, another girl is PO'd about the preop diet and thinks we should be able to have an "EATFEST" before surgery.. I'm struggling to stay under 1500 cals,, let alone 1000 with shakes and its scaring me.. I have had a rough week with food,, pain in my legs and no one to yap with.. seems everyone has something going on..

How did you manage to get through to your surgery without going insane?? Did you have a long wait?? I have stockpiled a bunch of books, started working on my family photo scanning again, and have been going to bed when the munchies hit.. Weird thing is I haven't craved bread or sweets for quite awhile and even after eating them feel disinterested.. The only thing that tastes good is salad but I have to cook for my family.. I did eat at friendlys.. salad with grilled chicken, it was blahhh though and I left hungry and sad.. lol

okay,, so tell me something you did that motivated yourself and I won't bore you with my blahhhs..

thanks!!!

Donna

i will be glad to get my first fill ,my appt isnt till 8-12-08 i have only lost 11 lbs since the surgery, i have been eating 1 cup of food per meal and exercising everyday was hopin for more weight loss but oh well!!! lol i will call u on Sunday

Your funny.. one of my friends and I have a joke between us that we need a wife.. someone just like us who loves to clean and do the daily stuff so we could enjoy our kids more, and not have all the stress..

I actually cried through most of that video, especially the parts involving the young man and his family. They were of no help to him at all, even his mother. MY dad is 85 and when I came to work with him 4 yrs ago he constantly made comments about my weight, and even commented that he never saw me really overeating or binging on junk. Still he would make comments to me about losing weight and how I wasn't like that when I was young. I finally told him I had enough, he was not helping and made me feel horrible with his comments, and to leave my brother alone too. He rarely visits anymore and doesn't need to hear the same tirade from my father hes been hearing for 35 years. He is not a cruel or mean man by nature, but it is one subject that bothers him, mostly because our family health issues are overwhelming.

There really has to be a link somewhere with our genes and the way we are wired. My mothers mother was obese. I have never seen a picture of her where she wasn't. My aunts and uncles say she never overate, walked everywhere (born 1898) and even during the depression when food was scarce she still couldn't lose weight.. In 1952 my mother was pregnant with my 2nd oldest brother and my grandmother was determined to lose weight. She went to the doctor to get some help and figured she was paying for the advice so she would do twice as much as he wanted her to and eat even less. She got a cold and her immune system couldn't fight it and she died of pnemonia in 1953. My mother couldn't breast feed anymore and my brother has always had emotional problems and used to self medicate.. I am the youngest of 8. Three of us are morbidly obese, my sister has lost some because she has chrons but never goes under 220 even though she never eats more then a cup of food at a time. It is the part that scares me about the band.. getting it and not losing.. Being realistic, I definately eat more then a cup of food in a serving now, and hope that I won't be able to when the band is in. Does it really give you that full feeling? I ask because I don't have that feeling ever. It stopped after I had a hysterectomy in 2006. The only way I know I am really full is when I need to throw up.. that is bad. For the past month I have tried to be more self aware and have done fairly well. I ate more yesterday then I normally do, but my blood sugar was all over the place and I was shaky. I ate white bread for the first time in 3 weeks and it made me sick... that was an eye opener.

Sorry to ramble.. My head is spinning from this new bit of info. I will probably watch some of it again, and want to give the link to my nutritionist, shes really awesome. She is even going to go to a lap band seminar so she can better understand the process. My insurance will pay for me to keep seeing her monthly because she works for my lipid specialist, and they both want to help me. I have hereditary cholesterol problems,, I am taking Crestor and it is the first thing that has lowered it in 7 years.

Thanks again for posting the link!!

Donna

Hi, I'm Debora. I had my Lap Band Surgery on June 10th, I can eat sometimes if it's soft food, but if I try to eat say a piece of fried chicken or ribs or catfish, I get sick. Is this normal and is it time for me to get my first fill. It will be 8 weeks tomorrow.

:wilted_rose::heart::wilted_rose:HELLO EVERYBODY,I HAVE MY SURGERY DATE ITS AUG 6,2008. AND PLUS I STARTED MY PRE-OP DIET 2 DAYS EARLY.THE DATE TO START IT ON WAS JULY 23 BUT I HAD TO GIVE MY SELF A HEAD START ON THIS. AND I HAD TO GET USE TO THIS TO AND I THINK IAM DOING JUST FINE. I MUST ADMIT I DID DREAM ABOUT FOOD LAST NIGHT,BUT I OVER POWER IT.WE ALL HAVE TO TAKE IT STEP-BY-STEP. :welldoneclap:

How are your nerves treating you today? Mine are ok. I've only had to rush to the bathroom once so far. Yesterday was ok. Monday was hectic - I had three appointments and alot of driving to do. Seeing my surgeon helped me to clam down a little. I don't have to do a pre-op diet. I am trying to be careful to not eat fatty foods. I don't want to show up on the 24th having gained a few pounds. I'm looking into starting a weightloss ticker. I have not found one that I like yet. Have you?

Firing up the smoker tonight...yummy foods for tomorrow

Cleared for soft foods today! For dinner I had refried beans and taco seasoned ground turkey - both with a smidge of low fat cheddar and ff sour cream. It was delish and so filling. I love my band.

Had a bad food day....ate 4 pieces of Halloween candy, and snacks during the games today. I hate dieting...BUT I hate being fa more! I guess tomorrow is a new day! I have two appointments on Tuesday hope all goes well!