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I can use some help navigating this web site/forum. I bookmarked this post because I don't know how to search or find my own posts or go back to anything I am interested in.

Can someone tell me how to find this conversation when I log back in? - Tonia

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I'm 6 months post op and have 5.7 cc in my 14 cc band and am just now started to feel restriction, but that's after 6 fills. My weight stood still for 3 months but I'm finally losing again. You have to look at this as a journey, it's not quick loss. Don't get me wrong, I was getting discouraged but I have lapbander friends who are still encouraging me. Remember, it's a journey and a tool, you still have to make good food choices AND exercise. My stall was a lot of my fault, my portions were much smaller but my food choices were not good and I sat on my butt and was lazy during the holidays.

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I could be that you are not "eating enough" with the band, sometimes all you can get down are a few sips of this or an ounce or two of food. Try getting in all of your Protein, even if some/most is in liquid form. I can be very discouraging, but one thing I have learned is that even though we all have THE BAND we don't all respond in the same way, and some of us, don't respond like most - that's sounds crazy, but I was banded in 2008 and JUST NOW started losing after regaining everything back (don't panic -- it was a combo of me not being head-ready and an overly conservative-you have enough fill doctor)

Sometiime I feel like I'm eating every 2 or 3 hours, but I'm not hungry when I get the Protein in.

Check with your dietician; I was told very often I wasn't eating enough. When I did, the weight started to come off.

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I got my 3rd fill this past Tuesday, as planned. They put in 1.5cc's and for the very first time, I felt a difference. My hunger and appetite actually felt under control. After about 3 days, I am now feeling hungrier again, and I have made some bad food choices, have over-eaten twice, and ate too fast once. I must have had some swelling causing more restriction and that is gone now.

The good news is, I do not feel hopeless any more. I am not at the "sweet spot" yet. I am making mistakes, doing wrong things, but the difference now is I know that I have changed and am going to change more. I know my hunger CAN be controlled now, and with the right fill, it WILL be controlled. I started counting calories, writing down what I'm eating and deliberately making good choices most of the time for the past 4 days.

I have hope that I will be able to lose weight now. I have hope that I am and will continue to change my eating habits to a healthy lifestyle of healthy foods. I have hope that as my body cleans out, weight decreases and energy increases, that I will be strong enough to start exercising and get stronger.

I have Hope. Thank God.

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Why not try some kind of exercise...kinda like they use to say in WW. Move more today than yesterday

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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.

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