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I tired very easily for about a week. Don't get discouraged, your weightloss will come. You are still in the healing phase. What types of food have you been eating?

Delove32 I've been doing 3 200 cal Protein Shakes a day and Clear Liquids. I'm supposed to do this til week 4 post op which is next week....honestly in the middle if the day if I get hungry I've had a 1/2 cup of vegetarian refried Beans though (my job is active and I walk about 7 miles a day so I feel like this isn't all that unreasonable)...thoughts?

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im almost 2 months out & down 21 lbs how is everyone doing im not weighing in til my next fill june 25

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I was banded on 03.18.2014 and have lost 30 lbs. I've had one fill and seem to be slowing down on weight loss. I'm also getting hungry. Any thoughts from the recent banders? Stephanie in Indiana

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I found that my weight loss slowed down once we went to solids. I was banded on 3/27 and had my 3rd fill last week. I'm averaging about 3 lbs every 2 weeks and am down a total of 25 lbs (I gained 5 back after I switched from mushies to solids). I wish it was coming off faster, but this is not a sprint, it's a marathon. When I find myself getting hungry (my doctor says every 4 hours is when we should be hungry) I grab something quick that has a good amount of Protein like nuts or even a hard boiled egg. I'm doing a heavy Protein "diet" to help keep myself sustained longer. Is your diet consisting of heavy Proteins and things that help fill you and hold that feeling longer periods of time?

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I was banded on 03.18.2014 and have lost 30 lbs. I've had one fill and seem to be slowing down on weight loss. I'm also getting hungry. Any thoughts from the recent banders? Stephanie in Indiana

Hi Stephanie,

Congrats on your weight loss so far! I was banded on 3/13/14 and I have lost 36 pounds so we are on a very similar road :) I had a difficult time losing weight during April for whatever reason---maybe moving onto solids after being on liquids for nearly a month? Anyhow, I just had my 6th fill today--I've been getting them every two weeks. I did not feel restriction until my 4th fill and that is when I started to lose weight more rapidly. I think I have finally found the right spot but I'm still kind of experimenting too. With the added restriction, I am not nearly as hungry. The pain I feel when I eat too much is just terrible so it has taught me to avoid overeating at all costs (I have gotten sick twice). I am still doing at least one Protein shake a day which my doctor said is crucial in this weight loss process.

Hope this helps!

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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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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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