its ok!!! venting is what we are here for!!! so rant on!!! its your blog!!! i can understand the place you're in right now...I too moved to another state...no family, no friends, just me and my kiddies and a diaper bag!!! and my girls straight up acted a fool in that new day care too!!!! this too shall pass....

Enchantress I feel for you!! You are in Bandster Hell at its fullest!! Let me show a positive light!! I also have a 3 year old son..I know how that goes as well!!! he is a mamma's boy too! I have peace and quiet now that he is asleep..ahh you can hear it too? LOL

Yes you are starting to get hungry now..you do not have any restriction!! The next couple of weeks are going to be extremely hard. Until you go in for your first fill do your very best to concentrate on this is your "healing time". Your band is trying to adjust to being inside your body as well as you are trying to adjust to being banded. Your emotions are running wild. You may or may not be losing weight right now...do not worry about that..concentrate on healing right now!! After you get your first fill then you focus on losing weight!! Make sure you are getting enough liquids in!

I was banded 11/23/9 (Thanksgiving of this past year) and I have lost 105 lbs. I have 21 lbs to go. I feel wonderful. This is the best decision I have ever made. I walk and work out in my pool every day (that is if it doesn't rain). You need to remain positive and believe in yourself and your band. You can do this! Keep your chin up and then anything can happen that you set your mind to!! You can always email me at dsmith16@tampabay.rr.com I am usually online!! I wish you the very best on your journey!! Take care and hang in there! Trust me it will get better!!!!

hi, i have not gotten banded yet. i have heard it is hard until your fill--just hold on it should get better. i am a bit nervous about something going "wrong", but plan to do everything the way I should and just am hoping so hard that my experience is as good as many have had--good wishes to you:)

I know it is easy to focus on the negative when you are already afraid but for now try and avoid it. Look at all of us success stories out here. I was banded a year May 28th. I thought I would be the one person that even surgically altered could not lose weight. Thanks to God I am down 94 pounds and only 10 pounds away from my goal wieght. I feel amazing. Like a new woman. You will not regret this. This is one of the best things you will ever do for yourself and for your family. AND as an added bonus you will have more energy for that little spit fire of a son. If it makes you feel better my son (who was also about three at the time) was almost kicked out of day care once because he would have "accidents" and go in the bathroom, take his wet clothes off, come out with the dry ones on his head with the leg holes where his eyes were with his little glasses on top of that completly naked except for that running thru the church building saying "is this the way they go" This young man is now 16 a straight A student and though I found out why some animals eat thier young I am now very glad kept him. It goes fast enjoy him. He will be grown before you know it mommy. God bless