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ggeorgiagirl    1

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Hello all! It has been a long time since I visited ANY support groups or websites! I have bascially given up on my band...but it is a new year and time to GET IT TOGETHER! I have had 6 fills with NO restriction...ever! I have not lost a pound and my surgery was in 2003! So, I do not know what it is like to be "filled". I will be getting my first fill in a VERY long time...do y'all have ANY suggestions? I totally eat what I want (except any type of pita bread)...I now drink with my meals! I have lost all band rules from my conscience! I do everything wrong! HELP! Where should I go for a pep-talk?

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ggeorgiagirl    1

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At first I watched what I ate..but as time went on, I was back to old habits. I may have lost 10 pounds the first month or so...but once I figured out that I could eat again...I DID!

Every year I want to get this eating under control. As a matter of fact, I ran 1 mile every day fo two months this summer! EVERY DAY! BUT...please don't ream me out....but I ate Cookies and milk EVERY night afterwards! The Cookies that you bake in the oven!!!

The behavioral changes need to come from the inside...I KNOW! It is that I crave sweets SOOOOOOOOO bad! I have no control over it! It is like I am addicted! I smoked for 14 years...and quit cold turkey! I know that I am addicted to sugar! After I eat Breakfast, lunch AND dinner...30 minutes later, I want something sweet! I have NO will power. No diet has ever worked for me (except Phen-Fen). I actually got to a size 4 on P-Fen! Now, I am a size 22 YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Shesha    1

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6 fills and no restriction? I am a prebander so this kind of scares me. Have you ever had your band looked at? Is there a leak?

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ggeorgiagirl    1

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EVERY fill was done under floro! So, yes the band was looked at every time. It did not leak, either. My fill doctor is very kind but also unexperienced. He would say things like..."You have such a cute personality, you don't need to be skinny." I think that he was trying to be nice because I was spending a small fortune on fills and getting no where!

I was banded in Mexico but found a fill dr before I left. They put in an 11cm band...which I read is hard to fill.

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TracyinKS    7

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uhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think maybe this doctor is taking your money! Try getting a fill with a different doctor... you should NOT be able to eat everything... (this is WHY I'm getting the band)

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HamuChan    0

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So you've never had ANY restriction?? I'd be SO mad at my doctor after two years like this. Did they just put an really huge band on your stomach?

My Dr allows me to come back within a week to add/subtract from my band if the fill did not work out, no extra cost. Find a new fill Dr, my advice.

Good luck!

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ggeorgiagirl    1

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Tomorrow I will get a new fill from a different doctor! Wish me luck and keep me in your thoughts! If this doesn't work...I'll probably have it taken out!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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