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  1. 1 point
    Acadia

    Band is not working.

    Removing fill can help you lose weight. You can eat healthy foods. Being too tight will cause weight gain because you resort to sliders and on the odd day you can eat you over eat. The band isn't about restriction. It's about making it so you eat until satiated (not full) and that you don't eat again until hungry. If you're eating more than 1-2 cups per meal ask yourself why. Are you doing it because you can or because you're actually hungry. If you're doing it because you can then no surgery will help you. Write down everything you eat, everything you feel before you eat, how long it takes you to eat a meal (30 mins minimum), did you eat more because it tasted good? Are you eating white carbs? Sugars? Drinking fruit juice? How active are you really? Get a FitBit $99 to see how much you really move. Take a photo of every meal before you start and when done. Remind yourself about what you're doing. We often overestimate our calorie burn and underestimate our intake. It sounds more like it's you that is not working -- not the band. It's doing its job sitting there. You have to make the conscious decision to stop eating when you are no longer hungry, to slow down, to drink 8 oz of Water 15 before a meal to help fill you up and hydrate you, to make the right food choices, and to use your band as it is intended -- to make you mindful of hunger.
  2. 1 point
    Acadia

    Mini Horror Story

    Sounds like gallbladder to me too, not band. Ask for an ultrasound for your gallbladder to see if you have stones.
  3. 1 point
    I had IUI with my all my kids and my third was after my band. Everything went great. Good luck
  4. 1 point
    Nothing like the boy in the bunch to stir stuff up! LOL
  5. 1 point
    stateofzen

    Coffee

    Amen! Low to moderate doses of caffeine do not create dehydration and do not act as a diuretic for the vast majority of people. The research on high doses of caffeine just gets overextended to non-clinically significant amounts. I drink 2 cups of coffee with sugar free hazlenut creamer every morning. If I am "head hungry" in the late afternoon, I drink an additional cup because it fills me up for very few calories and does suppress my appetite. OP: here is a link to a "Starbuck's like drink"-- she actually has TONS of recipes that are WLS friendly-- http://theworldaccor...ingtoeggface%29
  6. 1 point
    NJGirl32

    Hair Etiquette: PG-13

    Get out the machete girl-you don't want the doctors to be distracted during the surgery!! LOL
  7. -1 points
    Wheelchair

    "Stuck"

    Welcome to the site! I know I'm not a mod... but I would like to ask you to use the SEARCH function in the forum. Being 'stuck' and having slime / PB episodes have been thoroughly discussed in the forum. This way, I think, we'll have all the information streamlined...and not scattered everywhere. P.S. I think this is one of the things you should have learned BEFORE having your surgery.
  8. -1 points
    Huggles1951

    Coffee

    I have one cup every morning and have had no problems. Coffee is a diuretic so just keep up on the other liquids and you'll be fine. I gave up cigarettes, sugar,carbonated drinks and most carbs so I had to have one vice...lol.

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