SHRINK'N VIOLETS

Hello all... I'm Tracy and I'm starting this thread because I just found out that I'm scheduled for Surgery on April 26, 2007.

fffffffffffffffffffast forward to April 30, 2007

SPRING HAS SPRUNG!

We made it to the other side of bandland and now we are set to support one another while we shrink our booties and grow into our new smaller skins.

All are welcome to join in and post, but we are not a group that bickers..... please be supportive as we all have different paths to follow... but the journies to the more healthy self beckons....

Let the losing begin!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually, I stole... errrrrrrrr borrowed it from Kity. I liked her version better than the one I came up with.

Laura, can you call your doc and see about the Unisom today?? You really need your rest with what your body is going through. Hope you do ok at work today and yes, get that nap in!!

Now that I look at the signature closely and think about it, I hope we don't start shrinkin' THAT way! I'm short enough already!!! YIKES!

I live in Ireland and we dont have GasX strips. From reading your posts these really seem to help a lot. I actually thought I was having a heart attack last night and my DH was really worried about me.

Anyone any advice would be so good. Brenners x

Hi Brenners! Congratulations on getting banded. The surgery is now behind you...that's a good feeling! ....well, it will be as soon as all that stinkin' pain goes away!

Ask your pharmacist what he recommends for relief of gas...I'm sure you have good products there, just not Gas-X. Does anyone have their box handy? What's the main ingredient in Gas-X?? I don't have it here. The heart attack feeling you had is probably a bit of acid reflux and/or indigestion. It would help to sleep propped up until you get a bit farther along.

Hang in there ...it DOES get much better.

Gas-X ingredient that helps gas is Simethicone 125mg in the extra strength tablets.

I can't believe this month is almost over. May is going to be an even better month since our surgeries are behind us.

Kat, I am keeping you and your husband in my prayers. I am sorry that the inlaws are making this even more stressful for you.

I have been feeling guilty for eating mushies, and some solids that I chew til mushie, when I am supposed to still be on full liquids, but I have been starving. I haven't had any restriction or the not hungry feeling from day 2. I see my surgeon this Thursday for my first follow-up appt. and I am afraid he will be angry with me. I just can't handle starvation mode. I am very proud of all of you who have been able to follow your post-op diets. I feel like a failure already.

I think that exercise challenge sounds like a good one! I would like to sign up! Now here comes the million questions!! Sorry to be a bother!!!

1. Is there a special thread for the May Exercise challenge?

2. Tracy thank you so much for sendin those pictures to me, but how do I access that thread, I tried a search and came up with odd things

3. I tried to delete my old 'graph' showing a countdown to the surgery and I can't figure out how to delete it!!!

I am sure more questions will follow, just not real smart when it comes to editing this!!!

Anyways, I also have come to band hell I guess. I am always hungry. I really didn't have any restriction at all. Came home on soft foods (did stay a few extra days in hosp. for hernia), and have had NO problems eating anything, well I did have an incident with a pea, but that is it. My weight loss does look great, but have been at it since August 2006. I think since Mid March I have lost 25 or so pounds.

Now that the worst is over, I would like to thank everyone who has been so so so supportive. I was sooo petrified going into this. Kat with all her wisdom she leant to us was great, open, and inspirational. Tracy, you have been a great supporter of this board and will always appreciate your kind words and encouragment!! I know all this sounds schmaltzy, but it is true!!! Thank you to EVERYONE HERE for making this a place where we feel free to discuss our deepest and our shallowest fears!!

Thanks again,

Jane

Jane: it is a sticky on the GENERAL Discussion Page..

here is the link:

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/showthread.php?t=6117

Ok.. guys........ I'm having gas pains. I think sitting at my desk in one postion is causing it.... also..... what did you all take for constipation....

TMI: today is the first day I feel like "going" but..... uhmmmmm does rabbit turds ring any bells???

going to walk now.

Good Morning My Violet Sistas (and any Bros out there too),

I just wanted to say hello to everyone. The last day of April...wow, it has been a long and busy month for us all!

Terri- please tell us more about the May exercise challenge. I saw that you exceeded your goal!!! Way to go! Can I ask, what are you doing exercise wise?

I am having a hard time dragging my butt out of bed at 4:30am. I tell myself every night, "just do it" (thanks Nike), but then the alarm goes off and I wanna die. I've noticed with just the 23 I've lost (hasn't changed in 2 weeks) that my skin is starting to feel loose. Has anyone else felt that too? That scares me a lot. I need to do some exercise quick. I am trying to schedule in some after school on Wed and Thurs, but my calendar fills up quick. I know I seem to be making excuses...just looking forward to summer!

Also, I just started soft food this past Saturday. But I am finding that I can eat ANYTHING. I am not allowing myself pasta, bread or rice, but anything else goes. I get "full" faster, but also hungrier faster. I am wondering what everyone else is eating at this stage?

Kat- Stay strong!!! God only gives you what He knows you can handle!

Tracy- Hope day 1 back goes well!

Sara- Don't work too hard, and don't forget to pop on LBT and say Hi!

Judy- Let us know when the new thread is up! How exciting! Thanks for doing this! Congrats on your weight loss...and on your new charm. I am afraid that mine will only have the one on it until I get a fill:phanvan

Have a great day! I just finished my protein shake this morning. I blended a banana, frozen berries, yougart, Unjury and milk.. It was soooo good, I haven't had a banana in a month and a half!!!:clap2:

I didn't have a BM till 5 days after surgery.. and it was barely anything.. 2 more days passed so I drank about 2 cups of prune juice (never had it before, was skeptical, so drank quite a bit straight from a big bottle I made DF go get me)..within an hour, I was on the toilet on and off for a while. Since then I have kept the juice in fridge 'in case', but my BM's have finally started to become regular.

I put Fiber Sure in my yogurt twice a day. I also drank some prune juice yesterday and it worked today. In the book by Dr. Ortiz it says that BM's can be as much as 3-6 days apart. I was getting worried, but things started moving today. I just finished another glass of prune juice. Only bad thing is, it's 180 calories a glass!!!

Good morning SHRINK'N VIOLETS ,

Well, the weight loss has stopped because I have been eating more. Regular foods, I am hungry both in my head and in my body. The amounts are still smaller, but I am struggling.

Today I commit to:

1) logging my food

2) exercise

3) writing in my pain journal

4) weighing in

I will do those things, I can do this, I just have to STAY the COURSE and not give in to lifetime habits of self indulgence.

All that said, have a wonderful day. Let's do a gratitude list and number one is my band. I have a tool that will help me enable my goal of health and vitality.

Well I'm better now.. (a bit) I did go.. although I would of looked funny doing some kind of yoga looking stretch (hands straight up over my head) and deep breathing... LOL but it worked. I also had a gasX strip.

I can go home for lunch and today I think I'm going to do it and lay back in my recliner for half hour.

Hi I have signal at the hospital---will check in to stave off my boredom as we wait for Dr.'s.....I will be reading up on all of you---man I have pages and pages to go through---I love this groups excitement, and support of one another!!!

All too often, you find threads, where the participants think that just because they had a certain experience, or were on a certain diet, that that is the ONLY way it should be, and it feels argumentive, I like how you all are having different experiences, and simply provide support---you don't pick apart another Dr.'s way of doing things. I am thinking, maybe this is the way adults behave???!!!!!

Ok, off to read up on everyone elses life, I have been living with blinders on.

Kat

Hello Ladies, oh wait..I mean Shrinkin Violets..lol..thats so darn cute!!!

I definitely can sympathize with all of you....

~the BM's where are they??? Grrrrrr.....

~the eating of regular food when your suppose to be on full liquids

~the losing of sleep..zzzz

~the gas pains..ugh

~the loose skin..ewwwww

~the hunger pains...ouch

~no restriction....not good..lol

Thank goodness I see my Surgeon today for my follow up..i have sooooo many questions!!!!!!!

Best of all.......I get to see how much HIS scale says!!!!!! whooohooooo