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does the first fill make a difference? its taking more and more shakes to fill me up now. its juts 11 pounds, wich they did say was great for 11 days, but im starting to get a little hungry and i wasnt before. not at all. it was just habits of 42 years- wolfing grazing l;at night snacking inability to n ot leave anything on my plate. its all over , bam. overnight! doe sthe first fill bring you back to that first week of the littlest thing fillimg you up = like a shake? ive had four shakes since i got home today. as for your advice i was told the same thing- use the scale twice a week max. any stories aboputr the first fill will bemost welcome and thank you for responding. gonna gonna
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just returned from the dr ( Carson Liu at UCLA) and my home scazle os correct WAAAH, only 11 pounds in 12 days wich they say is great, they say i can eat cottage cheese and fish and stuff now but im gonna stay on shakes. i have a film preem and ( im in the film business) it sucks but at least imn out of the 170s, and 168. they were all really en couraging and said that was good and told me about the woman who lost one pound in a month cos she cheated, i said id prefer to stay on shakes til my fill wich i only found out about on this very site this mornng, dr Liu hadnt even told me what a fill was, til today, i was crying when the nutritionost came in i was so hoping my home scale wasnt correct, she implored me not to get n the scale daily and to do it once or twoc e a week, the thing is i cant do yoga and pilates til the fat grows over the mesh in the port, as its on my belly button, core work is not gonna work, i guess treadmill is it for me. anyone else plateau? i sweaR im not cheating - a tiny bit i dipped Cookies in milk on xmas and cant wait for this fill, as the shakes are not fgilling me up as much as last week. i think a colonic is in order, mayb e some body wraps the heat ones , and obviously the gym weight training is what theyre really on about. for those who are drinbking Carnatio nn Instant Breakfast STOP, that stuff is bad bad bad, i use Isopure and im gonna stop adding so much milk and half an d half it with Water and lactaid, its noc arb and cottage cheese does sound rather good. im just outting off alll important pitches til march 15 wich i know is ambitious but i think ill be at least an 8 by then and a loose 8, im 5'9 so 140 on me is thin but i want more i want 125. im glad i found this community, im learning alot. ill wear black to the film preem and just keep my head down and try to not call to omuch atten tion to myself, i have to go, HAVE to or id hibernate , i told the person dressing me how big i was, and she was like "whoa" she dresses alot of skinny stars, and i aint one. anyway......it was good to go the dr 2 weeks til my fill ancd lety me tell you im filling hardcore im lethally serious about this. gonnabe:sick
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we were banded a day aoart- ive lost 10 pounds onmy home scale wioch is six pounds over- so ive lost 16 pounds- sincde the 21st, how much have you lost? and why are so many people EATING>? i was told not to eat a thing for a MONTH, so lactaid sim mil and isopure protein shakes is it, why the hell has the scale beens tuck now for a week? im getting PISSED. 169 169 169 . stop salready, get me down, lord please, is it the starving factor? allthese foods? im gettingsort of addicted to NOT eating ancd am scared to start, i had a few chews of rice off sushi, havinggitten really really ill from cheating with mased potatoes on xmas day- like fetal position waiting to have gas either end for four hours regurgitation nightm,are pain i learned my lesson- does the lap "settle in:" and thats why your allowed to eat after a few weeks? my dr agains aid a MONTH of shakes and sugar free popsicles wich ive nod esire for- i get full really fast on a shake. years of wolfing food and finishing everything on the plate and grabbing at other peoples frnech fries and late night snacking - outthe window. but im hee stuick at 169 and 110 seems a million years away. help anyone.
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im the leanest he ever banded but for career rerasons ( i live in Hollywood) he did it. so ive lost 14 p[ouns ish on my home scale wihc is apparently 6 pounds too much im at 169 on it, but i think im more 165, anyway ive done NOTHING but protein shakes NOTHING ( well i dipped sopme sugar cookies in milk on chritsmas) is it the milk? do i need to get a colonic and is that possible, i was banded on 12./21. my goal is 120 or 110, and i haventdropped a ton of sizes eiuther imnot back to my "normal" previous weight wich was an *8, i wantto be a 4 or a 2 - DONT FREAK OUT YALL im talkinfg about acting here and size 8s dont get picked in this crazy business, in Iowa id be fine, but i wanna be sxkinny, thin, anyway so dont get all mad, but why is the scale bloody stuck? its been a week of 169 169 169 . whatthe hell is going on? less than 1000 calories a day and 169 is all i get for it? im getting pissed. did my band break? i cant do yoga or pilates or any core exercise- i guess i could do treadmill- although im stillsorta sore this was 11 days ago. biut when will the real weoghts tart coming hell id be ecstatic at 140, tho i want 120. any answers? the poop thing sounds interesting biut i have bneen pooping im using Isopure protein and Lactaid skim milk. and no food. any help wouldbe accepted greatfully.
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im worried about pleatieazing ive lost14 pounds and had my lap band done on 12/21 tried eating potatoes mushed on xmas and regretted it it seems easier and easeir now to "slip: a tiny bit, cookies dipped in milk, ( have only done that a few times) im the thinnest person the dr ever did this on but i talked to him and i have career rteasopns why, anyway maybe this hsould be another forum but is there anyone wshose plateauing? i keep ;ooking and it keeps saying the same weight every day-i lost 14! i should be ecstatic, but why for a week striaght has it said the same weght every day imn barely cheating ive had FIVE cookies in milk, thats IT other than that its kust skim milk and proteon powder- ad for gas i just down tums tums tums.