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The word "meal" with the band is just wrong!

The word "meal" is just getting on my nerves lately. I have not eaten a "meal" since July 2009 ! I think It's great I can only eat 1/2 cup of solid food 3 times a day, but I wouldn't call it 3 "meals" a day. To me it seems like 3 healthy snacks a day. The weightloss is great ! But that word just seems like an oxymoron or something !
Humming Bird

Humming Bird

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SVs & NSVs

I'm feeling pretty good about my progress today. Of course I still feel like I want every excess pound off yesterday, but people are starting to really notice and comment now. Yesterday a patient said, "you have lost a lot of weight since I saw you last time, haven't you?" I told her how much I've lost and she wanted to know all about how I did it. This morning on my way to work I went through the Starbucks drive-up. (I get Starbucks about 1-2 times a week and not always at the same store.) I got up to the window and the gal said, " It is you! You have lost a lot of weight! You look Great! " It made me feel good that someone who doesn't really know me and has only seen me at the drive-up noticed and said something. I have 3 part-time jobs. I worked the job that I have had the longest today, so the patients have known me for many years. Most of them said something about my weightloss. I guess those are pretty much "scale victores.", but I did have a NSV today too! I fit in the jeans I couldn't get zipped last time I tried! I will be wearing those this weekend!
Humming Bird

Humming Bird

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Real People In My Life

The people in my life are so great! I am so fortunate to have very supportive family, friends and co-workers. They all have lifted my spirits during this journey.   Last week a Dr. (who I have worked with for over 10 years and consider family) told me I was looking like a stick woman. He struggles with weight himself and said it as a compliment. Of course I don't look like a stick woman, as I am still a couple pounds into the obese category, but his compliment made me feel good. Today one of my co-workers told me how great I was looking and that she could tell I was feeling better. She said "you look like a different person." She has been so supportive from day one and has considered LAP-BAND® in the past. Now, after seeing my results, she is going for it! She has a consult next week. My spirits are lifted :rolleyes2:
Humming Bird

Humming Bird

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post from lapband Dr./ save

This was a post from a lapband Dr. and I just wanted to copy and save it.   All weight loss comes from calorie deficit (burning more calories than you consume). Burning more and consuming less is what causes weight loss.   The band will not force you to burn calories. The band helps with the consuming less part. It helps with this in three major ways:   1. Reduced appetite - some surgeons argue that the band is an appetite reduction operation. It has been shown to reduce appetite hormones. Patients say they don't feel hungry - they don't feel like they are on a diet. The band reduces true physical hunger. Some of us struggle with emotional hunger, phantom hunger which is not cured by the band but reducing physical hunger is very helpful at combatting head hunger. Emotional hunger comes from deep rooted emotional pain causing negative emotion that is unfortunately temporarily cured by food.   2. Fullness on small portions - the amount of stomach above the band is small. You will feel full on a much smaller portion of food if the band is properly adjusted. The fullness feeling is not a "pat your lower belly" kind of fullness. Band fullness is a very high sensation - in the chest - the feeling that the last bite of food is somewhere near the base of the tongue and another crumb will not be physically allowed.   3. The impossible nature of overeating - let's say you feel full and not hungry but you decide that you will overeat anyway. A properly adjusted band simply will not allow this. A point will be reached where the system will reject anything more. The esophagus (swallowing tube) is a transport organ; not a storage organ. The esophagus has two buttons: down and up. It will try down first. If that doesn't work, it switches to up and you get to see the food again.   We've been banding for eight years and we see three groups of patients in our practice:   Group 1 - gold medal superstar patients who lose easily and steadily after band surgery and send us Christmas cards that will bring tears to your eyes.   Group 2 - patients who acheive the same ultimate results as Group 1 but it takes longer with more office visits and more education and slower weight loss but we still get there. The race car crosses the finish line but it's on fire and badly damaged.   Group 3 - patients that will be three years out from band surgery and only down 20 or 30 pounds. The three biggest reasons patients are in this group are: 1.) unsolved emotional eating 2.) zero calorie burning 3.) Quit, give up, stop coming to the practice for band adjustments, education, etc   One of the best books I've seen on emotional eating is: "Shrink Yourself" by Dr. Gould. Many patients have told me this helps. The secret to curing emotional eating is to identify the root cause of this negative emotional pain and work through it. This is the most difficult aspect of successful weight loss.
Humming Bird

Humming Bird

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just keeping track of fills

Just keeping track of fills     7/9/09 at surgery 2.7cc (felt restriction 4 weeks) 8/28/09 1st fill +1.2cc = 3.9cc (restriction 3 wks) 09/25/09 2nd fill +1.4cc = 5.3cc (very tight 15 days...then good restriction) Sweet spot 4/2/10 3rd fill .1cc = 5.4cc 5/17/10 4th fill .1cc = 5.5cc 6/01/10 unfill .8cc = 4.7cc 6/18/10 5th fill (re-fill) .6cc = 5.3cc 5/6/11 3rd true fill = Dr. checked fluid = had 4.6cc, added .6cc = total fill amount = 5.2cc 8/30/11 Dr. K. checked fluid level + had 5.2cc, added .5cc = total fill amount=5.7cc Had a .4 fill 2012 .4 fill 5/13/13
Humming Bird

Humming Bird

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I'm overweight !

As of yesterday, I am officially OVERWEIGHT ! My BMI fell below 30 to 29.9 and I didn't notice until today. I thought I still had a few pounds to go to get out of the obese category. This is another big milestone for me. I think I feel about right for this too. I do feel overweight and no longer feel obese. Whooo! Hooo! MORE HAPPY DANCING!!!! (does all the happy dancing count as exercise? lol) :smile:
Humming Bird

Humming Bird

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Hobbies help

I finished my first real quilt and was trying to figure out how to post pics in a thread to share with friends. Spending time doing some sort of hobby helps me stay away from too many snacks. I guess for now all I can figure out is how to post pics in my blog or an album.
Humming Bird

Humming Bird

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Education & Weight

With time, women gain weight because we accumulate so much information and wisdom in our heads that when there is no more room, it distributes outto the rest of our bodies. So we aren't heavy, we are enormously cultured,   educated and happy.   Beginning today, when I look at my butt in the mirror I will think, Good grief, look how smart I am!         Must be where 'Smart Ass' came from!      
Humming Bird

Humming Bird

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Diary of a Skinny Bald Woman !

Six month to a year from now, when I'm at goal, will this be me? Will I be blogging, "I am now five pounds under my original goal weight and I am getting used to my new shiny bald head."?   I dread the thought of how I will look if any more hair falls out! [ATTACH]308[/ATTACH]   I have tried everything, and I do mean everything, to stop the dreaded WLS hairloss! I supplement my protein, take biotin, multi vitamins, B12, B complex, Nioxin vitamins, use Nioxin shampoo & conditioner, take other remidies for hairloss ......... The list goes on and on, but NOTHING HELPS!   Should I start shopping for wigs and hats now? [ATTACH]309[/ATTACH]   I already have a large collection of shoes so that I have the proper shoe to match outfits. Now will I need a hat in every color and style? Visions of The Cat in The Hat, thing 1 & thing 2 and the two children keep dancing around in my head. The room is filling up with hats!   I have heard that nothing tastes as good as thin feels. Will being thin feel better than being a bald woman? Will I eventually accept the fact that I no longer have my golden silky locks? Will my ears look big? Oh my gosh, will I need to get earings to match the hats?   Will people look at me and ask what the prognosis is?   Will I be subjected to melon head and bald jokes?   Will I look as cute as Britney and Demi do bald ? I think NOT![ATTACH]310[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]311[/ATTACH]   Maybe I will try out new styles, lengths and colors. [ATTACH]312[/ATTACH]   Will I find out if blondes have more fun? It is so frustrating ! It makes me want to pull my hair out! oops! bad choice of words. Better not do that!
Humming Bird

Humming Bird

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Big Milestone!

Woooo Hoooo! I have dropped 70 pounds in under 7 months! Unbelievable......sometimes hard to wrap my mind around it......But I'll take it! 70 pounds! Whooo Hooo!
Humming Bird

Humming Bird

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6 Months post-op

I have never even thought about writing a blog, but here I am. I am 6 months post op today. I have lost 63 lbs and am very excited and happy about that. At this point I am very happy I chose to be banded.   When I first joined LBT, I did it to learn and to chit chat with other bandsters. I figured I would NEVER post a picture of myself for several reasons. I did not take a picture of myself at my highest weight and I did not take measurements. I was too disgusted with the way I looked and how big I was. I just want to take off the weight and never look back. I never want to see a picture of myself in that condition and I do not want other people looking at me in that condition. Even at my thinest I have never thought I was very photogenic. I would always pick at flaws in pictures ..... my hair was flat, my eyes were red, my belly roll shows, my skin looks blotchy, I had a zit, I'm not pretty............ Well, yesterday I was looking through some pics I had on the computer. There was a pic of me standing with some family mambers in the fall 2008. I almost started crying. OMG! I looked VERY OBESE! Not only was my hair and skin bad, I was HUGE! I looked so ugly! I could never post that picture for even my fellow bansters who understand to see. Then I saw a picture of me in 1991. I was not at my thinest adult weight (135#) , but wasn't too bad at 155 #. OMG. I was so beautiful ! I was HOT! Of course I was also 26 years old, but even back then I thought I was not very photogenic. My God, what have I done to myself? Many years have gone by and there have been many ups and downs over the years. There have been illnesses, surgeries, stresses and tragidies. I seldomly put myself first. I have been on many diets ... yo-yo. I let myself become morbidly obese. Even with the great weight loss I have today, I feel very ugly and very obese and very old. Not a positive blog, but the truth about how I feel.
Humming Bird

Humming Bird

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