I just found out my surgery will be in July (granted my pre-op testing goes okay) SOOOOOOOOO

Here's a thread for everyone getting banded in July 07!

Does anyone have any good ideas for a neat name we could call ourselves?

Only, your salad sounds great. I just bought the spritzers. I haven't tried one yet. I will now!!

Brandy - Wow! The 26 pounds is amazing. I was shocked reading 53 days. It has actually gone fast, hasn't it? I sure wouldn't have thought that in the first few days!

I am going to bed. I was just out "rolling" (toilet papering) (actually not me but a couple of carloads of kids) and I have to get a kid somewhere at 5:30 am. Ouch. I always hear good sleep helps with weight loss! I basically get NONE lately! CC

CC- I love all of the salad spritzers. The raspberry vinegarette is out of this world, so is the balsamic vinegarette.

Everyone is so quiet today!!!!

Oh My my TUMMY is rumbling as I type this... I had a can of tuna 45 mins. ago and I'm hungry again already!!!

I have my fill on Monday and I have been going over the driving directions all day. ( I am a timid driver in Toronto) and will be avoiding all the highways.. I am planning to allow 3 hrs for my trip so it should be o.k.

I am so looking forward to some restriction. This past 6 wks has been a challenge and I am SO looking forward to LOSING SOME WEIGHT...

I know it will happen, I just gotta get thru a couple more days of Bandster hell. LOL

I was reading the posts about the little boy "Hunter" and his preschool testing.

Man-o-man when will the 'system' stop trying to lump our kids all into the same mold.

Sheesh, I only had one daughter (now 29) and so certainly "I" am no expert... but kids are INDIVIDUALS with their own gifts, talents and shortcomings...

Thank GOD we are all not destined to be Pro Baseball or Football players???

I am SURE that your child will grow into a Loving, caring compationate person -- that's what matters, not weather they can catch a bean bag..

My DD was very uncoordinated athletically (got that from her DAD) but she is a WIZ at computers, great with people and is now a Computer Analyst working for Univ. Of North Carolina!!! Now this is a kid that FLUNKED math classes all thru High School!!! Go figure, once she got to university.... she applied herself and SHONE.

Now, she still can't catch a bean bag or do a cartwheel to save her life.. but who cares.

Oh yeah, also Her Kingergarden teacher thought she was NOT doing well in Kind. and called me to the school to tell me she was a LOW performer... Ha,ha,ha... guess "we" had the last laugh as parents.

We are proud as hell and YOU will be TOO!!!

Best of luck & HUGS!~

Hi Kristin and Peaches! It is a tad quiet, huh?

Everyone is so quiet today!!!!

It's cuz i am working instead of cruising here - but i think for a lot of the Lucky #7 - once they went back to work and to their real lives with families - kids going back to school and work that the just don't have the time like they did before.

But it seems like everyone pops in now and then.

Well, I can tell you i need a fill - i went out to eat today for lunch "El Pollo Loc" (ff mex resturant - flamed grilled chick is their speaility) had leg thigh 2 corn torts side of beans and steamed veggie - and i ate 97.5% of it. i am full but not as stuffed as i thought i would be - but i was REALLY hungry when we went.. but i was totally shocked at the calories - when i got back to work and google it and per their website said i ate 630 calories

but there was no way that i had six oz of beans maybe 1/2 a cup and the thigh was no where close to 3 oz of meat maybe1 1/2 but not 3

I am not eating out anymore... to many calories and no my gf wants me to go play bingo and that means no gym - I need to get the exercise in if i am going to loose.... omg i am obessing.. here i go from being a slug bug fat pig who didn't care what or how much she - to obessing about the calories in my lunch and how much exercising i can get it.... That sounds like an anexoria talking not me:eek::eek:

Work has hit me hard, no time to read posts, hope nothing crucial has happened.

Well, I have hit my first plateau. Same weight all week long. But, I have been eating stuff I shouldn't, because they are catering the food at the school so we will work more and not leave the building. I could bring my own but when everybody's eating together and the smells are going on... Yesterday was cheese enchiladas and today we had chicken fried steaks, all with plenty of fixings. Of course I only ate a small portion of the main dish but still... I want to be on vacation-home- again!!!! So much easier to diet.

I don't know what to tell you Lindaa.....

I just want to drink enough water.... some times I feel I don't want food, and ready to stay on liquids.... but if liquids is a porblem.... what should I do?......

Maria, What I am doing is trying to drink water as much as I can and drinking protein drinks for meals. I am hoping that as I lose weight my stomach will shrink and the band will "loosen up" so that I can tolerate more than a couple of bites of real food. I also let cheese melt in my mouth sometimes and yesterday I was able to eat about 1/2 cup of tuna salad (without bread) very, very slowly. Today, however, I had, myabe, 4 bites of a sweet roll (danish to some) with frosting. About 1/2 hour later it all came back up in what I think they call a PB. NOT FUN, but I did lose 6 pounds in the last week so that's the silver lining in this cloud.

Did I read that right? You got banded July 21 and you've already had a fill???

Wow, I am having to wait 6 wks before my first fill.

Hi everyone, yes it is quiet, but that's ok, we're still here for each other.

Peaches, good luck on Monday! Don't worry about driving in Toronto, just take it slow and easy. Remember, go south on Avenue Rd, so that you can turn right onto Lowther Ave (can't turn left on this street from Avenue (going North))

Jeanie, I miss you. Hopefully once school is underway you can rejoin us!

Chimboree, how's life on solid food!!!

Sunny, how you feeling? How'd the fill go?

Dini, Congrats on your success... Have fun on your vacation.

Anny, mmmm salad! Glad you could enjoy that.

Everyone else, hope you're doing well.

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Chimboree, how's life on solid food!!!

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IT IS WONDERFUL!!! I am so excited! Thanks for asking. To be honest, I can't figure out what I want to eat these days. I'm overwhelmed w/the choices!

Hi sorry this is a quick one i just want to say hi to everyone and i'm missing you all terrible, can't stay on as my eyes are shutting on me.

so hi to all

hope everyone is really well

xx

Did I read that right? You got banded July 21 and you've already had a fill???

Wow, I am having to wait 6 wks before my first fill.

Yeah, me, too. Banded 5 wks ago and 1st fill Sept 6... 2 more weeks! I'm eating my 1/2 cup meals 5-6X a day, but I'm hungry in between abd weight loss is stalled. Not exercising, bad knees. Getting a little discouraged. Seems I don't lose unless I keep my calories down to about 500-600. Eating very few carbs, no sweets, no bread, eggbeaters for breakfast, lots of seafood, but calories averaging a little over 800.

I think I'm on the verge of joining those in bandster hell. There are moments through the day when I'm hungry. But at times if I stop and think about it, I'll discover I'm not really hungry, I'm just bored. Guess I need to find myself a hobby! But lately during meal times I've eaten more than a cup of food and felt like I could continue. I don't push myself to the point of PB or sliming, but I feel bad for eating as much as I have. And I'm peckish an hour or two later. Most times I'll drink Water or juice to try and curb it. I've gone through 3 packs of SF gum in the past two days trying to exercise my jaw and curb my hunger as well.

My weight loss has stalled, but I'm not letting that get me down. The good news is it hasn't increased. I'm still exercising _most_ days. I'd like to start increasing to something a little more vigorous like weights or something, but will wait for the all clear from the doc.

I go for my first fill 2 weeks from today and I'm wondering if I'll still be sane at that time. I'm not crawling the walls with this hunger/boredom dilemma, but I'd like for the physical restrictions to cease and the appetite restrictions to start. I'm in Demanding Diva mode at the moment. :drama: