Just checking to see if there are many of us.

I'm in Overland Park. Where are you?

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Peaches - you are to be congratulated. The band is only a tool and you obviously are using it perfectly.

Joyce

Thank you Joyce! Yes it has been a GREAT tool. I still can't believe the new me

And you need to update your ticker! Those 7 lbs should be celebrated!

Yes I will tonight it's saved on my home computer. Thanks for the reminder

Hello everyone, so enjoy reading the blogs and congratulations to you all. I don't go for another fill for another week but the pulmonologist scales basically showed me at the same weight as before my last fill last week. This is why I hate getting on my scales, because if I have put on a pound or two, I feel like a failure. So I avoid it. But, I decided on Friday that I would try on a pair of pedal pusher (have not exposed any part of legs in fifteen years or more, new experience) that I had purchased a couple of months ago for the day I could get into them. So tried them, they fit, hip hip hurray. Told hubby though didn't care for the waist band as it was a button band and I was use to elastic. Elastic is easier to get down when you had to go potty and faster, if you put off things like I do. Anyway, I put on the pedal pusher, all went well most of the day. Drank my water through out the day and then it hit me. Off I went, not thinking, stuck my thumbs into the band (been doing this for years with the elastic)and down came the pants without having to undo the buttons. So even though these were puchased for when I would be smaller, I didn't account for the fact that even though I haven't lost any weight since my last fill, I have lost inches, so I haven't failed.

So, just imagine and old lady running to the bathroom, trying her best to get her pants down, thumbs locked into the band, and those pants slide right over the hips. LOL

P.S. I made it in time (almost didn't as almost stopped in my tracks when I realized this wasn't elastic) and discovered I wasn't a failure even though I haven't lost any weight this week.

Hope you all are laughing because I did and I want you all have a great Memorial Day Weekend and be safe.

Edited May 29, 201016 yr by oldoneyoungagain

Non scale victory - NSV congrats, sweetie. Take your measurements and record them. Our journey results are not always reflected on the scale.

Way to go. Keep up the great work.

Joyce

Good evening all. Hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend. We have been very busy, funfilled weekend. Watched a movie at home Friday night, went to the movies Saturday night and then to Gardner to see the hot air balloons, and then today we took the kids to the pool. Tomorrow we will head out to Louisburg to the cemetery and then to Olathe as well to lay flowers there. At some point I am going to go into the office and have a slight unfill. I had my second fill on Wednesday and felt fine when I left the office water went down great. Then that night I could not even eat mashed potatoes with out pain. It has been a battle all week to eat anything and I have got "sick" three times. All on mushie things. mashed potatoes, really soft cooked pasta, and cottage cheese. Plus I have lost 4 lbs in 5 days. Not complaining about the loss, but just don't think this is a healthy way. Heck I can only eat 5 bites of anything and then I get that stuck feeling for over an hour. Now I am feeling deprived of food for the first time and I know that is not how I am suppose to feel. I am afraid to eat because I am scared of getting stuck again and the pain that comes with it. So I have ate very little the last several days and I am really getting hungery.

Kendra I know your pain have been there 2 time in a year my self. But you still have to try and get in liquids soup,jello etc... and protein shakes. Once you get a slight unfill it will be so much better.

Back from the office. Had half of what they put in on Wednesday taken out. So far liquids seem to be going down much better. I am down 9 lbs since last Wednesday which puts me under 300!!!! Now lets just hope with the slight unfill I stay under 300.

Back from the office. Had half of what they put in on Wednesday taken out. So far liquids seem to be going down much better. I am down 9 lbs since last Wednesday which puts me under 300!!!! Now lets just hope with the slight unfill I stay under 300.

Glad you are doing much better. Yes you can stay under that 300! Good luck it's a GREAT feeling :thumbup:

Hi Kendra & Peaches

Kendra - sorry to hear you were uncomfortable. I agree with Peaches, You CAN stay under 300 and continue to lose.

Peaches has shown us and we can do it too.

Joyce

I was banded may 5 with dr hitchcook.

I was banded may 5 with dr hitchcook.

Congrats on the new band. How are things going so far?

Welcome Lisa - let us know how you are doing?

Joyce

Hey there Joyce and everyone else!! How are you all doing? I had my surgery June 3rd and am doing really good....other than a slight moment today... I'm still in the liquid stage and cannot wait to begin the thicker soups and stuff stage tomorrow. Today, I threw caution to the wind and had a bowl of black bean soup. It went fine, but I know I wasn't supposed to. I really want to follow the rules.

One thing...I realize I have no restriction, but was really hoping I would get full a little quicker.. Nope! I was able to eat the whole can of soup!! I'm back to clear liquids until tomorrow and plan to follow the rules now...

Hope you all are doing well!

Ang - try to stay on protein shakes and sip water. Healing at this time is so important and you want the pouch to remain small.

After fills, you are also required to be on liquids for a couple days, so consider this practice.

Thanks Joyce. I started thicker liquids today. That helps. Are you saying the reason we are unable to eat regular foods initially is to avoid stretching the pouch? Does the transition of clear liquids to thicker liquids to mushy food to regular food help keep the pouch from stretching? I'm just curious how it all works....because it seems like there is not a lot of difference in the amount I can take in at the moment.

Thanks!

Ang