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drj's Journal
 

Saturday-all alone, but not lonely

Today, my husband worked. I'm usually not good when he works on the weekends. I am out of control with sleep and food. The same is true of today. I slept until 10:00. Then I realized I had to drive about 20 miles to pay a bill, so I made breakfast and ran out the door. Later I went out for lunch by myself and met up with him after that. breakfast-one egg yolk, two slices of bacon, no drink lunch-1/2 order nachos, one hotdog, no bread, w/ garnishes, 12 oz RC dinner-salsa, wine cooler, taste of soup that I just made-veal w/ tomato, onion, rice, corn exercise-walked for 50 minutes at Proksa Park in Berwyn :confused:
drj

drj

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drj's Journal
 

Thursday-out of order

This entry is an example of how my life is out of order. I'm entering Thursday after Friday. breakfast-cup Dunkin Donuts iced coffee I'm so proud of myself. I didn't get ANY breakfast at our LLT training. I didn't even go into the snack area to see what they had. lunch-mini bag cheetos, 1/4 chicken sandwich, can 7up dinner-ground beef with veges, wine cooler :confused:
drj

drj

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drj's Journal
 

The weekend is here again

What's for dinner this weekend? Friday, I had a doctor's appointment at the b clinic. I didn't go into work today. Stress is at a maximum. And so food intake is out the window. I'm definately a stress eater. breakfast-nothing-usually not hungry and can't get food down snack-venti java chip decaf frappiccino 650 calories lunch-1/4 chicken andwich w/o bread, slice lemon iced loaf dinner-pasta with homemade pasta sauce with chicken snack-wine cooler :confused:
drj

drj

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ddiedre's Journal
 

Still Stuck

I just can't seem to get the scale moving. I've lost a pant size since my gall bladder surgery in February, but despite that I really would like to see the scale move. I am new to this plateau thing. I hope to see some scale progress soon. I've been exercising regularly. I eat O.K. most of the time with a few exceptions when I feel the need for a snack. I think the only real weakness is my water intake. I just can't seem to get the full amount in. I'll keep trying.
S@ssen@ch

S@ssen@ch

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brilee's Journal
 

April 23 '06

My second surgery is tomorrow. My first was on April 28' 2005. My stomach was perferated and they had to remove the band. Tomorrow, I'm in the hands of GOD! I truley hope that I will be OK. I'm scared. More so than the first time. Now I know all that can go wrong. Back soon.:think
brilee

brilee

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ItsDani2u's Journal
 

First Entry - Returning from Mexico

I'm hungry!! I went through the airport 2 days after surgery and all I could smell were polish dogs and pizza hut. I came home to mac n cheese and polish dogs in the fridge. I'm suffering!!! I want food so bad. I think I will get used to the idea of smaller portions. But, oh man, I can't wait until I can sink into some REAL FOOD.
ItsDani2u

ItsDani2u

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Ali's Musings and Meanderings...
 

Happy Easter

The service last night was lovely as usual. Finally I stayed with my mother-in-law inside but we sat on her third floor balcony and watched the whole thing. Having the square outside is something I love. Athens is so built up, so my own bit of greenery is wonderful. The fountain was working too which was nice. It's like having a garden that I don't have to tend (who can ask for more). I have boxes of flowers on my balcony and they all make me smile :confused: The food after the service is a soup and ham, eggs and cheese with zoureki (kind of a sweet tasting bread...yummy). The eggs have all being painted red and we bash them with each other to see who has the conquering egg...fun:scared: I won!!!!!! I managed to eat an egg and a slice of cheese and a tiny bit of zoureki just for the taste. I love eggs and will be a little sad if restriction means at some point I cant get them down. Still, I figure I've coped with the loss of bread (Booooooooohooooooooohoooooooo) as you see and I'll deal with eggs and anything else come to that, when the time comes! Today the traditional food is lamb and potatoes. We ground a little piece of lamb and with some gravy I ate it fine. Not my favourite food though. What I didn't like was watching all the others tucking in and eating without thinking. When I am alone it doesnt bother me one bit but I think I am generally going to hate eating in company- moreso if my fav. foods are around! I ate and enjoyed my little 9g chocs and feel I had my taste of Easter and that's enough for now. I will try and avoid chocolate for a while and then I can feel justified if I give myself another little treat in the future.:clap2: I went for a walk with DH yesterday and increased my circle that I walk. it's still not far by many peoples standards but it's a step up for me and I am walking a little quicker too so I am proud of this achievement:clap2: My mum is coming for a three week visit Thursday and she likes walking so Im hoping she'll inspire me and motivate me to continue...I know she will!!!!!!!!:phanvan That's the news, I'll be back when there's more.
A1ikou

A1ikou

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scneaux's Journal
 

6 Days

I have to get away from this computer screen and GO DO SOMETHING!! I will definitely go crazy if I don't. I have so much to do before I go...Today I think my quest will be....Go get some Bean w/ Bacon Soup....I'm seriously losing it...lol. OK, going do some yard work....I...just....haaave....to.....:confused:
Shontel

Shontel

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aprilshowers777's Journal
 

April 23, 2006

I am now three years post op. Man has alot changed in three years. I cant believe how fast time flies. It really is crazy. I was banded on April 11, 2003. I weighed 235-240 I did awesome listening to the band and working with it. I lost down to 160 and i was feeling awesome! I started dating, met my husband and life was wonderful. I dont know where i started to slide. I started trying to eat more when we went to dinner. I started drinking with my meals and figured out if i drink with them i can eat more. I dont know what happend. I just really wanted to be normal. My husband and i were working out on a very regular basis. Dieting good. (he is into bodybuilding... so he had me eating like i was an athelete...lol) I realized that i was gonna hurt myself and my band if i continuted this way, so i went to the doctor and told them that i really wanted to try it on my own for awhile. Well it took a few minutes of convincing her to do it but finally she did. I ended up moving to Memphis shortly after that. So i was about 5-6 hours away from the doctor. So i didnt go back much. With the move we werent working out like we were. We were eating ALOT of fast food because we were tired and it was easy. I ended up gaining about 35 pounds, from when i had the band loosened... My lowest weight was 160 but after we started working out i gained 10 pounds and i was 170... after my pouch packing and drinking with meals i gained 5... so i was about 175..) So my weight now is 205 ish... I think that in the last few days i have been really reading my old journals and reading everyone elses post and i started following the rules again i am down to 200 now. WOO HOO!! We had a problem getting my adjustment right... I went for three adjustments and she wouldnt put me back where i was so we had to start over adding a little at a time. So I couldn't understand when i was supposed to have a 2.5 fill and i could still eat a WHOLE value meal... So i went back well somewhere along the line there was a mix up and i only had about 1.3cc's in my band. She said my tubing was never accounted for. So we filled that puppy up! LOL it is great now. I feel like i did in the beginning. I am doing well not drinking with my meals. It is just gonna be breaking the habit. I still reach for my drink and i have to stop myself. But things are going GREAT!! I am so excited to finally have the passion and drive that i had when i first had the surgery!
aprilshowers777

aprilshowers777

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Billi's Journal
 

First week post-op

What a week   I'm learning how to use to internet for the first time ever. I lost 20lbs at my first week check up.   Now that I'm adding food I have gained 3 of it back. It must have been all water. I have been sticking to the diet but feel like I could eat anything. I have not gotten that feeling of being full. I know this is not going to happen over night. I just hope everything is ok with the band. I guess only time will tell.
Billi

Billi

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Ali's Musings and Meanderings...
 

Orthodox Easter

It's Easter Saturday here and I have succumbed...a bit! I ate two chocs but they were little individual squares so not tragic. I have two more for tomorrow and refused to be ashamed about them...I decided that when I want to give myself little treats I will thoroughly enjoy them and then not fall off abnd wagon completelyfrom feelings of guilt. I was worried the doctor had damaged my port site by the way he went about trying to find out how it had moved but am more relaxed today. the slight pulling snesation I had whenever I stood up the last couple of days has eased off enormously and so hopefully I was just a bit bruised. DH calls me delicatalison because I have always had very sensitive skin:) I had soups for a couple of days after 1st fill but was hungry today and so had a scrambled egg and later some pureed peas and a slice of ham. Everything seems to be going down just fine and haven't felt any real restriction but am still not worried 'cos am eating fine. I got weighed today and have lost another kilo so that's Ok too:clap2: We are going out just before midnight to the square outside our home for the anastasi...A holy flame is taken all around Greece and spread from one candle to another to announce the ressurection. We take our candles and the priest at midnight passes the flame around. Then we come home and make the mark of a cross on the house door. It's a Greek service I really like. Only thing to spoil it this year might be the rain. Never mind eh!?!?!?
A1ikou

A1ikou

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scneaux's Journal
 

7 days and counting...

Next Saturday I will be in Band-land (and la-la land) [grinning] I am seriously getting excited. I have this daily ritual, come here, read for an enormously long time...post sometimes..then, I'll get my work done (work, what the heck is that....) I am self employed so I have to REMIND myself to do so. Then I begin thinking about what I still need to get..amoung the many things I have begun to collect for my life changing surgery. I think today I will go to GNC and get some more ISOPURE drinks. Maybe some Gas X...I am secretly laughing at myself. I'm like this giddy little child knowing I'm going to get a nice big present for my birthday (or I should say band-day) No one really knows about this, but people are now saying, what's wrong with you lately? You seem so 'perky' I just smile and say, its good to be alive! (ok, am I THAT hoakey?) I'll be flying to Mexico, so I am a little anxious about that, but overall I'm SO SO SO READY!!! To be continued :confused:
Shontel

Shontel

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shackdog's Journal
 

Wow Factor

Here it is four days after surgery and another 8lbs gone, :confused: I am so glad that I had this done am hungry but refuse to give up the battle. I committ that I will not give in to the hunger
shackdog

shackdog

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chabutter's Journal
 

more waiting...

They moved my med eval to may 8th. Hmmph. However when i visiting my parents I was able to get documentation (better) of my sugar problems, plus pictures of my childhood obesity.   what a thick PRE 'D packet I will have!
chabutter

chabutter

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shauntil6266's Journal
 

FRUSTRATED

ok well i am getting frustrated with this, i don't see any change on the scale, i have sort of been eating right may be thats the problem. But everyone says they see a difference like in my face and stuff like that well i did have a soda and i no that was a big nono, so i gotta get back on track. So this weekend i am going to go and by some of those little dinners from the grocery store. So instead of going to eat fast food for lunch at work i can eat on of those and i need some water bottles. the hardest part for me is going to school cause it is an culinary school as well. but hoepfully it will all work out ok.   so bye for now
shauntil6266

shauntil6266

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A Day In The Life - Miss Nikki's
 

What to say!

Ok, I am really ready to have this done. I chose the lap band surgery for my own reasons. I have been asked by my mom if I wanted this instead of bypass surgery, and no matter how many times she asks, the answer will remain the same...YES. My intentions for this is not to loose the weight fast so I don't have to work as hard. I am not looking for a quick fix. Nothing about this is easy. I have thought about this long and hard and this is what I want. It took me months of research and reading to come to this decision and with the help of this web site and the people on it, I feel that I am making the right decision for me...not someone else. I know that my mom loves me to death and she wants the best for me, but this is what I want. I have the determination to see this thru and I will, one day at a time.:biggrin1:
missnikki

missnikki

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It's just fat.
 

Go ahead, eat whatever you want.

Monday I met with my PCP. After much discussion of my chart and good ol' Cigna, we came to the conclusion that I will probably need to weigh-in for 3 more months. Even though she has appointments with me dating back 2 years and me being substantially overweight each time - Cigna will probably want to see 6 consecutive months. But we don't know for sure and I have asked the surgeon's insurance biller to advise me.   In any case, my doctor said I was (finally?) at a BMI of 41, something Cigna sees as good reason to approve the surgery. So, assuming I have another 3 months to go, I need to keep this weight. That's right no dieting, folks. Isn't this what we all dream about?! Go ahead, eat whatever you want, you simply *must* if you want this covered under insurance. UUUGGGH, I feel so terribly gigantic. Every aspect of physical movement is embarassing and makes me self-conscious. I simply have never been so heavy, so it is hard to be comfortable, in my head AND in my body.   I have decided not to tell my friends and family. My husband and daughter, yes...and one friend who is a good secret keeper. But I just don't want the judgement and opinions of anyone else. They are all lifetime thin people who just don't 'get it'. Or they are jerky judemental fat people who think I don't try hard enough. (Yeah, because they have obviously tapped into this will power, right?) So my friends and family see me and my hugeness and they are concerned. They ask "so, are you working out lately" or the even more obnoxiously ambiguous, "Is everything *OK*?" I hate not being able to say, "look, I know I'm huge right now, but this fatness could mean 10,000$ for me towards surgery that will make me LESS fat". Yes, it is completely effed up. Let's thank the insurance companies for that.   "Oh you need back surgery? Well, we need you to bend over and pick up boxes every day for a few months. You know, so we can be SURE you need the back suregery." So ridiculous.
Constance

Constance

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Demi79's Journal
 

Where to go from here?

I'm starting to feel a little discouraged today(315lbs)...maybe that's not the right way to describe it? I was anxious to hear my docs tell me today that they'll start writing my referrel letters and send them to my ins co today after receiving news from my liver biopsy procedure on 3/27/06 (yes, what a way to spend my bday). I have NASH, the only way I can describe it is "fatty liver." They act like I shouldn't be alarmed by it, said to just take 400mg of Vitamin E and come back in 2 months and that WLS will prevent it from getting worse. Okayyyy! I'm ALL for it...been on board since attending a lapband seminar on 1/26/05 with Lapband Texas, AIGB. So now what? Well my diabetes doc was ill today (after waiting 2hrs you'd think they would've metioned this so I could resch, yeah right)! The physician asst referred me to call a Dr Leggett for WLS consult and gave me a 4wk supply of Actos for my type 2 diabetes to add to another prescription I've taken since Oct 05. Now headed to my primary doc appt for answers on who gets the ball rolling with the ins co? All he had to say was sch a consult with a Dr Leggett and Dr Turnquest for WLS consults they will be the ones to work with the ins co. Why didn't they tell me this 2mos ago. I've had LapBand Texas in mind to do my WLS all along...Dr Collier and Dr Wilkenfeld. I will give them a call tomorrow and see if I can't get this "bowling" ball rollin before my next appts in 2months. Wish me luck! =)
Demi79

Demi79

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Hippo's Hope's Journal
 

April 20, 2006

Will be going to Salt Lake on the 26th for an afternoon pre-op consultation with Dr. Hansen and an informational meeting in the evening. I have not heard back from Charlene so I am assuming that the evening meeting will include information from a dietitian as well as a psychologist. Will come back home on the 27th and be here in town for three days (Amy's birthday) and then back to Salt Lake on Sunday with surgery on Monday.
Hippo's Hope

Hippo's Hope

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Sandybells's Journal
 

2nd fill

I was feeling no restriction so made an appt. to have a 2nd fill. They have me up to .9cc in a 10cc band under flouroscopy. Sounds awfully stingy with the fills? I will be on liquids for three days. then mushies for 3. I hope this is a good fill this time. I need the restriction. I started dancing to Burn the Floor DVD. Love that show! They know how to dance. Also played golf Sunday for several hours then fed the crowd Brats and potato salad and Macaroni salad. Many desserts available too! Restraints were almost needed!
Sandybells

Sandybells

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shackdog's Journal
 

"Heresheis" band

Well here it finally is:notagree the band is in place and I am at home for a week. Took the week off so I would feel like working. I find it hard to get enough water and protein each day but know that this will get better as the days go by. I am just really sore right now still from the operation.   Yes I would do this in a heart beat again:clap2: and I encourage all non banded persons to really chk into this for them. It is different for each and every person:cool: I dont have to stumble in the blind :confused: to think should I eat this or not :hungry: the answer is not not not. I believe if you have to ask yourself this question then you have already failed. Have a grt day today tummy because I will take good care of you and you take good care of me.
shackdog

shackdog

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saturn_jinx35's Journal
 

two days before surgery

boy am i nervous :nervous can't wait intill its all over and i am back at home, i hope i am doing the right thing here. i would like too be:love: one hundred pound smaller that would make me about 175 i have never been a small person so i am not shooting for the moon here just a longer life to enjoy with my kids.:confused:
saturn_jinx35

saturn_jinx35

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Fleur's Journal
 

Normal food at last

I had a call from the dietician today after I emailed her about my struggles with the half cup over 20 min thing. Trudy (God love her) allowed me to go ahead and have some regular food and see how I go. So now I can use a small entree plate to eat meals from. I still have to try and string it out for 20 mins. I can slowly introdce toast and lavosh bread. I can now have crackers and lean meats. No more puree - yippie!!! I thought I was going mad before. To help me trudy has also sent me a beginners eating plan. My next Doctors appointment is monday and I am sweating on a fill becuase I just have far too much freedome at the moment for my own good. I wish I was one of those peoplem that feels restricted straight away but I'll have to wait for my fill.   Today I ate: 3/4 cup cereal with skim milk coffee 350g greek yoghurt small latte small plate of chicken, vegies and goats cheese coffee banana water water water small plate of pumpkin & goats cheese ravioli.
Fleur

Fleur

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