My first fill was Monday. 2.7CCs in an 11CC band. Hardly anything right??? WRONG!!!!!!!

I was supposed to be on liquids until this morning. But last night I got SOO hungry, I decided to sneak a spoonfull of really SOFT Tuna Helper from my daughter's rejects. How bad could it be? I did that after surgery and didn't have ANY problems.

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I'm so glad my family was upstairs! I immediately felt INTENSE pain then the sliming started. NO NO NO!!!! I decided I was NEVER going to SLIME----remember???!!! Rushed to the kitchen sink---horrible!!! OOOOOWWWW!!!!!!! WHY did I eat that stupid bite????

I downed about 5 Papaya enzmes tablets ---but they just came back up too---and there was my blood pressure pill again.

I calmed down a little and then went upstairs (with a tupperware bowl in case) and was able to sit there in hideous pain for about 5 minutes then RUSHED to the bathroom again. Whew!!! Much better now!!!

I sat there on the bathroom floor wiped out, but felt a strange new hope overwhelming me. IS THIS REALLY GOING TO WORK THIS TIME!?!?!?!?

I had been fully expecting to tell little to no difference this first fill...but WOW!!!! Just like that I am in the Lap Band world----and all that information packet and all the things my awesome nurse wrote down----suddenly they mean the world to me and I'm hanging on every word.

This morning was supposed to be first day of "soft foods". Um...not so much. I'm chalking it up to the fact that the puking must have irritated my band....so the 1/4 cup of scrambled eggs hurt like heck. So back to liquids this morning. I even self-righteously drank a Myoplex RTD drink at the cafe in my gym. Then went upstairs and started man-sweating again on the machines. I could only go for an hour today---literally started locking up---calories please!!!!! So then I took my little girl to Boston Market and got some of their mashed sweet potatoes. I lived on that in my two weeks mushy stage.

I could eat about 2 spoonfulls of that and 1 spoonful of soft rotisserie chicken (chewed 1000 times) and I was in pain and ready to GO!!!! I'll drink another protein shake again tonight to make sure I get my calories and protein in...but WOW!!! I'm still in shock that a fill can do so much.

My next fill appointment is August 24th. I'm assuming it will loosen up by then!!!

Oh, and get this...I HAD to weigh myself on the gym scales....and I was at an alltime LOW!!! All the pounds I had gained back in Banster Hell are dead and gone. And if you're a member of SWA---you know the travesty of what I am about to say---I had a damp towel wrapped around me!! So all-time low is even that much more something to celebrate!! I had half a mind to let that towel fall off, and check it again ...but......no.

LOL...OR you could have asked the ladies there if someone would hold the towel up to block you while you weighed (trust me, one of them would have come forward...you know there are closet SWA members in every gym...just watch whose using the scale)...OR you could have weighed the towel later hee hee...

Excellent job! Lowest weight EVER!!!

Take it slowly the next couple of days...it took me a few days to loosen up a little and I've still gotten stuck a few times...I've seen so many people here who've gotten into that vicious cycle of vomiting then tighter, more vomiting, and tighter, and before they know it they can't keep their own spit down.

Good job girl!!

I thought about weighing the towel---of course!!! Was thinking about walking by the scale and "acidentally" dropping the towel on it so as not to look conspicuous. It's digital so it would have been easy. Now if I was 200.1 I would have done just that!!! (after I tried to pee again)