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How is weight loss for people over 50?

debi717

By debi717, in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums

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DynamoMini    1

DynamoMini
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Indio - I am so happy for your success. It is wonderful to be losing so quickly.

For me it has gotten slower, but I know I lose at the correct rate, because I have headwork I want to go through to really release the weight I have held all these years.

Glad that all is well.

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IndioGirl55    32

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Indio - I am so happy for your success. It is wonderful to be losing so quickly.

For me it has gotten slower, but I know I lose at the correct rate, because I have headwork I want to go through to really release the weight I have held all these years.

Glad that all is well.

Thanks!!!!!

I figured that the weight should come off cuz i am eating 1/8 of what i ate before... Plus i really have my head wrapped around this..

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phyllser    3

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Thanks!!!!!

I figured that the weight should come off cuz i am eating 1/8 of what i ate before... Plus i really have my head wrapped around this..

You're doing great!! My DH is measuring everything and I'm stayng out of the kitchen for now, so 1/2 cup is what I get! One more week of liquids!!

Still coughing and I may have to concede that I have a cold. Feel fine though.

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Margi    0

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Hi all, and thanks for all of your advice! Finally yesterday, I got to eat some small bites, and NO PAIN!! The food actually after over 4 weeks went through!! I am feeling so much better now! Today I dropped my 50th pound!! Now, 30 more to go!! My Dr. changed it because I have dropped so many inches. YEAH!!!:clap2:

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momlambert    77

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Congrats, Sunny--welcome to Bandland!

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IndioGirl55    32

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You're doing great!! My DH is measuring everything and I'm stayng out of the kitchen for now, so 1/2 cup is what I get! One more week of liquids!!

Still coughing and I may have to concede that I have a cold. Feel fine though.

Phyl

You are doing GREAT 27 lbs !!!!!! I did sneeze alot when i got home and had a runny nose for a few days...

Dr Moved me to mushies on thrusay so i guess 10 days is 2 weeks for hime - i will go with it - so 10 days mushies then off to soft,.

OMG this thread is so much easier to keep up with that our Lucky 7 thread... ::) you are gone for a day or 2 and you have 20 pages to catch up with :lol: by the time i read them all i am pooped and ready to get off the computer:phanvan

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IndioGirl55    32

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Hi yall. I got my band on Thursday. So far so good. Just alot of soreness. I hope I do as good as Indiogirl...:)

Hi Sunny - it took me 3 hr to catch up on the lucky 7 site... I did get a couple of post in.. Glad you are doing well... I think i remember reading that you were having headaches - hope they are better - didn't your doc give u some good meds :lol:.. Take them...

You will do great - I think you are as motivated as i am...

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Oregondaisy    2,021

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I love this thread. I agree totally that being over 50 is different for the younger bandsters.

I think I need another fill. I seem to only lose right after a fill now. I have to wait until after I get back from Arizona in the middle of August. My dad doesn't about the band because I didn't want to listen to a lecture on how I could have done this on my own bla bla.... I still get food stuck and it's much worse right after a fill. I don't want to be stuck around him.

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LadyHR    0

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Denise,

How many fills have you had since December? About how far apart have they been? I'm just got my first fill about 10 days ago and have good restriction with nothing getting stuck so far. I'm just curious how long people are typically able to go between fills?

Good luck with your visit home - I bet your Dad is proud of your weight loss!

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BJean    16

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Denise: I only seem to be able to lose weight the first couple of weeks after a fill too. If I don't get in right away for another fill, I tend to start putting the lost lbs. back on. Very disappointing. Hopefully we will figure out the right amount to keep in there so that we aren't totally restricted when we first get the fill and so that we can go for a longer period of time before we have to get another fill. Your doctor must be as conservative as mine.

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pjanes54    0

pjanes54
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Hi FabulousFifties:

Mind if I join you? I hope to be joining the banded group shortly; even though it seems as if I've been saying that forever, I should have a surgery date within a week or so.

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Oregondaisy    2,021

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I have had three fills. the first one was 8 weeks after surgery. 1.25 in a 4 cc band. Then it was about 8 weeks again until my next one, which brought me to 2.0 cc's . I guess it must have been another 8 weeks later I had the last one which brought me to 2.5.

I would do a lot better if sweets didn't go through the band so easily. I

can do very well with small portions, then some event like a wedding will

blow everything. I gain very easily, and it will take me a week to lose what

I gained in one bad eating day.

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BJean    16

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I believe I've had 7 or 8 fills, perhaps more. I've lost count. I was banded in September '06.

How true about sweets being the easiest thing to eat. True also for me taking no time to gain it from some sweets and a long time to lose it.

I'm at 3.0 cc's. I thought 2.8 was too much, but he put 3.0 in anyway. It hasn't been as bad as it was when I was at 2.8. What tha? :eek: Makes no sense. I am beginning to wonder if Water retention has something to do with all this and/or regularity, if you'll pardon my candor.

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