Hi November bandsters!

Let's keep this going to support our efforts though out the wonderful we are soon to begin. Let's start with the date we are being banded and where?

Our weight and goal weight...

My date will be November 7

Dr. Aceves

I weighed myself this morning and I have gained!!! :faint:

Starting weight 225 (highest ever!!! )

Goal 150

10/26 Jdru (Jessica) 215/215/125 Dr. Hansen (Honorary Nov Bandster)

11/1 melany72 Dr. Hargroder

11/2 DeniseC (Denise) 226/219/130 Dr. Carbonell

11/2 prbrooksie 252/252/150 Dr. Malley

11/2 Kym828 (Kim) 278/278/175 Dr. Ortiz

11/2 pebbles4388 249/249/150

11/3 Jess333 (Jessica ("Lil" Red)) Dr. Ortiz

11/7 AngelaT (Angela) 225/225/150 Dr. Aceves

11/7 Jackye 225/225/150-45 Dr. Rumbaut

11/8 L8BloomR (Karen) goal: -105 Dr. Francis

11/8 dpingl goal: -92 Dr. Hoehn

11/8 niecyrenee goal: -232, down 8 Dr. Pitt

11/9 Keekahari (Kee) 280/245/175 Dr. Moazzez

11/10 FullofGRACE Dr. Curry

11/10 alix_1 (Alix) 222/222/140 Dr. Garza

11/13 swilborn (Sherrie) Size 22/???/140 Dr. Rodriquez

11/14 ahaizlip (Amy) goal: -129 Dr. Liu

11/17 Asmallerchick (Kelly) goal: -200 Dr. Aceves

11/20 Diana_G 234/234/145 Dr. Huacuz

11/20 Veggestyle 275/?/150 Dr. M

11/20 Laurba

11/21 Jess02 (Jess) Dr. Rumbaut

11/24 aussie_bandit 153kg/153kg/75kg

11/30 Inner_me (Chris) 350/350/200 Dr. Cahill

More fun than eating, even! But it's been raining, and I have 14 mudballs in my house! Clean up is nonstop. Otherwise, we're having a ball.

This is me: www.GoldenRetrieverCamp.com A great gig for this old retired person.....

Hi Everyone,

As you can see I am up again @ almost 4am because I am in pain again. This is what I am more afraid of for the fill not just the needle part...does anyone else go through what I am. It happens about an hour after I eat...the pain starts in the center of my back and in my stomach and lasts for hours.....I try throwing up, that doesn't help...I walk on my tread mill...sitting hurts...laying down hurts...I am very nervous about pain pills but I feel like I would take anything if it would stop the pain, but I don't because I worry they wouldn't go down and would erode my band. I have an e-mail into my Dr's but probably won't get a response because it's x-mas. UGHHH won't the pain stop. I feel like to only thing I can eat it soup and I'm sick of soup. Once again sorry for the rambling and the complaining.

ust sick of hurting.

Jess

Jess,

You obviously do not need a fill yet. THE PAIN YOU HAVE MIGHT BE DUE TO EATING TOO MUCH and also from not chewing enough. try not to eat close to bedtime also. Make your more solid food earlier in the day, or when you feel less tight while you eat. remember about 1/4 cup- max 1 cup of food and chew, chew, chew even if you do not have a fill, because you still do have restriction. My surgery was Nov. 7 and it is just the past two days I find I do not have much restriction, but I still keep my portions small and chew, chew. I will not have a fill until January. This morning I woke up with a bit more restriction again. So do not hurry, enjoy your restriction and prevent the pain by having little portionas and chewing and on the way you will be losing weight!

Good luck!

What am I doing for Christmas? Well, it's just me, my husband and my 90 year old Mom. No one else is showing up. So we are watching FOURTEEN dogs for people while they are away...IN OUR HOUSE! All large breeds. It's hilarious. No kennels for these guys!

We have 4 dogs or our own! 3 Labs/retrievers and a lhasa. I can't imagine 14!

Let's see...2 standard poodles, 1 greyhound, 7 Golden Retrievers, 3 labs. Ages 5 months to 6 years. And they can teach us something about getting along. They've been wonderful! Active, but wonderful! The slower ones weigh more. The active ones weigh less. I'm going to the gym.....

oh my, I hate to be posting this but I am just can't believe I haven't been losing weight. After my original 16 lbs, poof nothing. It has been several weeks and the scale seems to have me losing and gaining the same 3 lbs over and over again. I know I can't be eating enough to gain weight. Certainly not 3-4 lbs in a day or two! I just really don't get it. I go for my fill on 1/11. Perhaps things will change then. Okay, thanks for the vent.

oh my, I hate to be posting this but I am just can't believe I haven't been losing weight. After my original 16 lbs, poof nothing. It has been several weeks and the scale seems to have me losing and gaining the same 3 lbs over and over again. I know I can't be eating enough to gain weight. Certainly not 3-4 lbs in a day or two! I just really don't get it. I go for my fill on 1/11. Perhaps things will change then. Okay, thanks for the vent.

Well...I haven't been gaining, but I haven't been eating right. I woof down a burrito from taco bell just a few minutes ago. It didn't bother me one bit. I was banded almost 2 months ago and had one fill. the fill worked the first week and now it seems like I can eat again. I am a binge eater...

Also...did anyone have the same problem I had over the weekend. Anyone and everyone who (my dad told) knows that I had the lap band would ask me how much have you lost....can you eat that....aren't you eating too much...RRRRRRRRRRRR. I wish my dad hadn't told everyone. At least my in-laws didn't know, so when they were at my house I didn't have to listen to it, but then my mother and friend came over and I heard...I didn't expect to see you eating banana pudding. Isn't that bad for you...rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Hi All,

i haven't posted much but will today!

i was banded Nov. 14 and won't have a fill until Jan.8.

i overate yesterday quite a bit.....not all at once....but almost like grazing.

When i came home, my chest felt tight and i felt like vomiting, but prayed i wouldn't.....and i didn't! :-)

Today i still feel full but my biggest problem and question is......did i stretch my pouch by my overeating......and what do i do if i did? How can i tell? etc.

Are we supposed to feel/have any restriction before getting a first fill?

Thanks for any help.

cal aka female

I'm trying to think of all of them as trying to be helpful.

The only one I really blew it with was my mother. I did so well at Christmas dinner, and then my mother brought out this incredible lemon cake pudding that I adore. She said she made it just for me...sugar free and with only a tablespoon of flour for the whole batch. i ate it with gusto. Then she told me it really had sugar in it and she just didn't think it would hurt me on Christmas. I told her that was like shoving a bottle of liquor in an alcoholic's mouth. She said she'd never do something like that and how could I say that. Then she said she'd never feed me again. Then we let it pass and went on enjoying Christmas. Brutalized and duped by my own enabling 90 year old Mother! Oy vay!

I was actually more annoyed with me than her...I've been going after lots of sweets...odd since I rarely did before. Not sure what that's about, but thanks for helpin' out, Ma!

Hey Cal... chances are you did nothing to your pouch. We've all been through it. Especially not having a fill so almost no restriction. You're normal, dear.

I'm trying to think of all of them as trying to be helpful.

The only one I really blew it with was my mother. I did so well at Christmas dinner, and then my mother brought out this incredible lemon cake pudding that I adore. She said she made it just for me...sugar free and with only a tablespoon of flour for the whole batch. i ate it with gusto. Then she told me it really had sugar in it and she just didn't think it would hurt me on Christmas. I told her that was like shoving a bottle of liquor in an alcoholic's mouth. She said she'd never do something like that and how could I say that. Then she said she'd never feed me again. Then we let it pass and went on enjoying Christmas. Brutalized and duped by my own enabling 90 year old Mother! Oy vay!

I was actually more annoyed with me than her...I've been going after lots of sweets...odd since I rarely did before. Not sure what that's about, but thanks for helpin' out, Ma!

I love the sweets...always have. I'm diabetic too.

I'm trying to think of all of them as trying to be helpful.

The only one I really blew it with was my mother. I did so well at Christmas dinner, and then my mother brought out this incredible lemon cake pudding that I adore. She said she made it just for me...sugar free and with only a tablespoon of flour for the whole batch. i ate it with gusto. Then she told me it really had sugar in it and she just didn't think it would hurt me on Christmas. I told her that was like shoving a bottle of liquor in an alcoholic's mouth. She said she'd never do something like that and how could I say that. Then she said she'd never feed me again. Then we let it pass and went on enjoying Christmas. Brutalized and duped by my own enabling 90 year old Mother! Oy vay!

I was actually more annoyed with me than her...I've been going after lots of sweets...odd since I rarely did before. Not sure what that's about, but thanks for helpin' out, Ma!

Shouldn't that be your decision to make?

I feel like I am going to fail at this too. I mean I have done every diet out there...I just don't have an self control!

Shouldn't that be your decision to make?

I kind of find it to be cruel...My family was just the opposite...they were watching everything I put up to my mouth. Is your mother thin?

How can you say you'll fail??? Look at your weight so far!!! Stop buying into those old tapes and look at the new REALITY! Repeat after me... I am not perfect, but I am losing weight! I am a person who loses weight.

Yeah, should have been my call and not my mother's. Might be the last time I let her fix food for me. I figure it's her issue.... she panics when she can't feed people. It's what she does. She's thin...was a model...but eats almost all carbs and is diabetic, but she made it to 90 and still looks great!