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It worked. I was able to eat lentils and brocolli for my dinner.

I went in and had a half cc removed this morning. When I was weighed, I had lost a month's worth of weight in one week. I still don't know if I will be able to eat brocolli or lentils tonight because I only brought yogurt with me to work, but I will find out tonight.

Since October I have been up and down within a 10 pound range. After getting completely unfilled in October because of a 14-hour vomiting episode, I made it back up to 4 cc's without feeling really restricted. Over the holidays I stopped tracking on myfitnesspal.com and also stopped losing weight. Last week I got filled to 5 cc's and now even yogurt hurts to eat. At first I thought that I could put up with this for a month until my next visit and in the process would finally lose the weight I did not in the last several months, but this is too hard. Today my diet consisted of a glass of juice, two yogurts (eaten very slowly), and some very soft over-cooked brocolli that I could not finish. I came very close to vomiting up the brocolli. I am considering calling the doctor tomorrow and asking to get a half cc removed. In the last week I have been losing more than a pound a day, which is great, but sometimes my blood sugar drops way low and sometimes I am in pain for hours after attempting to eat something as simple as Soup.

14 hours. It turned out I was not stuck. I swelled shut after a small fill. It did not end until the doctor took all the fluid out.

I was definitely "dieting" at 3cc's, yet I would still get stuck at the most unexpected times. Sometimes it seemed that I could eat anything I wanted, other times, expecially mornings, I could eat almost nothing. Do I think it decreased my hunger? Well, going unfilled and allowing myself to eat everything I wanted still only put on less than a pound in a month, so it must be doing something. I was losing a pound or so a week, which is a good rate with my fill.

A month ago my doctor added 1 more cc for a total of 4 cc's. I had a reaction and swelled shut, causing a 14 hour episode of vomiting 3 or 4 times an hour until the doctor completely removed everything. Now, this was the first time I had been unfilled since 3 weeks after my surgery. I expected to be able to eat anything, and I was pretty much able to. However, I did get stuck on a piece of bread and I was not able to eat as much as I did before the surgery. Yesterday I went back to get refilled. I was fearful of getting on the scale, but I had only put on 3/4 of a pound. The doctor this time only gave me 2.5 cc's, so I am not even back to where I was before the second fill. Of course, being on Clear liquids since yesterday, I have suddenly dropped 5 pounds again.

My next door neighbor had the gastric bypass surgery a month ago. I am giving her my shrunken-out-of jeans now. She is just starting to fit into them. In my lapband support group, we have started talking about a clothing exchange. Considering the fact that I went a little nuts when I suddenly hit regular sizes, and now those things I bought are already starting to get too big, I think helping each other out by handing down clothes makes sense.

I just got out of bed after sleeping in exhaustion all day. The doctor did meet me and it took him only a minute to remove all the Fluid and check that I could now drink some Water. I was not stuck, but had apparently experienced enough swelling after the fill to completely close up. I am still swollen and can drink only clear fluids for a couple of days. It will be a week before I can eat regular food again. The good news is that I lost 5 pounds overnight, but most of that is probably from dehydration. It is going to be 4 weeks before I go back again, so last couple of weeks I will be running on will power alone.

I just spoke to the doctor. I am going to meet him at the office at 7 am. Hope I can hold on for 6 more hours.

It is 1 AM and I have been vomiting for 8 hours now. I called the doctor's office and his answering service is paging him. I can't do this until the morning.

Right now I am in hour 4 of being stuck on a Protein smoothy. I got stuck this morning on this same smoothy so I put it in the refridgerator thinking I should be able to have it for dinner. I just drank juice all day. When I came home I drank the smoothy and no matter what I do I remain stuck. Papaya pill for the first time is doing nothing. I have vomited several times, but it is doing no good.. Since he only added 1 cc for a total of 4 cc's now, I really was not expecting this.

OMG! This is exactly what I have been thinking when I look in the mirror. I am seeing wrinkles that were never there before. However, others have told me I look 10 years younger. I guess they don't have the magnifying close-up mirror I have.

I am one month after surgery and 10 days after my first fill. Although I had a couple of stuck issues this week, I think I have finally mastered how to eat food. I asked for a piece from the middle of the pan which would be softer. I then ate very slowy, peeling away the eggplant peel as I went. I then stopped when I felt full. I avoided anything that had rice in it, so no stuffed grape leaves. I was really worried I would have an incident, but I was successful. Boy it was great to have some real food!