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Tuesday, while on my daily bike ride, I got really sick. Puking off the side of the bike trail sick. I sweated profusely all night, before the fever came. That day, I was 207. I have been vomiting and in and out of the Urgent Care ever since getting IV, ass medicines for nausea and fever and potassium. Anyhow, I'm sitting now at 191. Well, that's what it was before I went and saw my primary care provider today, whom then sent me to get some more IV fluids and 20 ml of potassium (rinse and repeat tomorrow), so I could be more. Probably not much more though. I'm soooooo freaking happy to not be puking today. I wish the crossover to onederland wasn't so iffy like this. I don't think I'll rehydrate myself up and back over 200, but certainly most of the 16 lbs lost is all Fluid. It was a hell of a way to lose those few significant-to-us pounds. The thought is that I got sick-sick, and all my retching really pissed my stomach off with the band. Blech.

I wish i had started working out sooner but I was too embarrassed to drag my fat tush into the gym!

If you practice saying thank you, it will help to become a positive affirmation. You DO deserve compliments, you ARE looking great! You ARE getting healthy! There is no need to bring yourself down after a compliment. People (most) are trying to encourage you when they say something. It's time we stop the negative self talk. Even if you are not comfortable saying "I feel great" after a compliment, or "I've been working hard"...just say, Thank you! Leave it at that. The best one I got was from my hubby. He was going for either lovingly calling me bean stalk or a bone bag, it came out "Bean Bone." So that is my nick name now. "How's it going my Little Bean Bone?"

No, just the last few weeks. my last fill was in January. I immediately espinded to your word "gnawing" because that was indeed a good description for it. I can eat for days, then sudeenly nothing works for a few days. I might go get a looked at, just to be sure it is in place and all is well.

I think the speed of weight loss you want is a little unrealistic. 2 pounds a week is excellent! Keep up the good work.

I had a hard time with this in the beginning too. I try to eat whole foods, and I was very against artificial sweeteners, processed foods, etc. But in order to stay away from sugar yet still have the taste of sweet stuff, I started eating Splenda, and now that I'm used to it I can handle the weirder tasting sweeteners like Stevia. When eating low carb I don't pay any attention to fat. So... I pick sugar free over fat free, but yes, it's really hard to go down this road if you don't like a lot of processed foods, especially at the very beginning.

After being on a 2 year plateau (I lost 21 pounds in 22 months) I quit my horribly high stress job April 5th. That day I weighed 188. This morning I was 177. 11 pounds in 3 months!!! That's what I'm talkin' about!!!

Ugh, I got sick again for about two days. I went into urgent care again. My doctor called my Lapband doctor and they all decided to unfill me and let my stomach settle down and heal. Of course, there's nobody that has ever done such a thing in Nowheresville, Wisconsin, lol. Fortunately my Lap-band doctor did a good job explaining how it's done to the hospital's surgeon, whom seemed awfully excited to be learning how to do something new, lol. They made sure they had the proper needle to do the unfill, but no flouroscope. That seems sorta unnecessary considering you can totally feel my port, and you can see where I've been stabbed previously. Plus, I've been filled a few times before, so I knew that the surgeon had to press down a little harder to get through the port. Despite me being willing to do just about anything to stop feeling nauseous, I was plenty sure everybody had this unfill under control. My gallbladder and that surgeon have already played nicely before, so I knew I had a guy who wasn't going to mess around. Anyhow, he took out around 5ccs. I had 6.4ccs in before, I think. 6 and some change, at least. I don't have any big plans on eating solid food anytime soon. I think I'm going to do a nice, slow, gradual liquid to mush diet. I'm not ready to be sick anytime soon, so I'm not going to push it. But, now that I only have 1cc or so left in my band, I sure hope I don't start gaining weight before I get filled again. Blech.

In less than 12 feeling-better hours, I got back up to 202. Today my scale is giving me anywhere between 199 and 202 (isn't there any good scale that doesn't cost a fortune?). So, I think I may change my ticker to 200lbs and eagerly await for a well-hydrated weight of under 200 . Geez, I have never lost so much weight while sick. I know it's not weight-weight, just my fluids and such... I'm just saying that I almost freaking withered and crumbled away, lol.

Sounds like u are too full to me. U should be able to eat 1-2 cups of food and it fill u for 3-4 hrs. But call ur doctor. Id be worried about malnutrition and ur hair to start falling out if u don't eat something sooner than later. Good luck!