jersgirl

Hey everyone, I am on MFP and love it. It keeps me on track for the most part but as of late, my eating habits are horrible. I am working out every day and just started Turbo Fire 90 day program. Please friend me if you have a profile on there. I need all the support and would love to provide some for as many as possible. My user name is jersgirl060606 thanks!!

I am actually from Utah. My husbands name is Jeremy so it is Jer's girl. We were married on 06/06/06 hence jersgirl060606 =-) I think you have to go into your setting for your diary and allow your friends to see it before I can review it. I will try to look at your status.

Ok, I was banded on July 21st of this year and I suck. I have only lost 7 lbs. Mostly because I have been able to eat anything and everything that I was able to eat before and have not changed any of my eating habits. Remember, I am not good at dieting, that is why I had this thing put in my body!!! I have had 2 fills now, the first one was 3 cc's and the second one was 1.5 cc's. Still no restriction. Here is the good part, I started working out on Sunday August 28th and have been kickin butt!! I have done at least 25 minutes of Turbo Jam everyday since. I figure why pay 11,500 out of pocket to be the same person as I was before. I just joined myfitnesspal.com and have been logging my food which is helping a ton. I need support and some buddies to chat with though. If you are on myfitnesspal.com my user name is jersgirl060606. Please look me up and let's lend some support to one another =-) I know eventually I will have the restriction I need to get through the food issues. I am starving all the time and am looking forward to the day that my band will assist me in my weight loss journey. In the meantime, I will continue working out at least 6 days per week.

I do live in Utah. My doc is in Salt Lake and I really like him. You should call him, I think they do fills/unfills for $300 per year instead of $300 per procedure. There are a ton of skinny little ladies with huge boobs and botox in their faces. Not that I am not totally down to get some enhancements some day lol =-) It is a small world.

I will try one, there is a Jimmy Johns right by my work. So did you find them guilty? I think jury duty would be interesting. I have never been called. I know what you mean though, finding support from all my skinny little friends is laughable.

Shirley are we friends on myfitnesspal. I would love to check out your food diary.

Most miserable thing I have ever experiences. I hated that feeling. I thought for sure it would never end but on about day 13 I felt better and haven't had problems since. Nothing worked for me though.

Bertie-Yay for no ice cream or bread. It really is so hard. I have had to have a few stuck episodes with bread to finally give it up lol. How are you feeling? Are you over the horrible gas pains yet? Jessica-I am so glad you found my on myfitnesspal. It really is awesome. I logged my food for the first time last Thursday and I was even being good that day... It made me realize how much junk I could cut out of my diet. You should give me some ideas of what you eat, I see that you are usually under your caloric goals every day. Martha-Yay, I am glad to be your first friend!! I look forward to sharing ideas and lending support to each other. I know I need all the help and encouragement I can get =-) Jennifer-I could eat donuts all day long. They are the devil for sure. I looked at your diary and you did great the rest of the day so it's ok. Just try to do your best. Food is happiness to me and sometime I can't say no to happiness. I am just trying to replace it with something more healthy. Vickie-I don't see you on myfitnesspal. Did you friend me? I am jersgirl060606 on there too. I love your post. It is so true about the horrible sabotage we put ourselves through. I will look at the scale and see I have lost weight and I automatically think about what I can eat now for my prize. So ridiculous. I love logging my food and exercise though. It is such a huge help to me. Way different somehow than weight watchers to me for some reason. My next fill is in a week from Friday. I hope that I feel some kind of restriction. I have had two terrible stuck episodes in the past few days eating small bites and chewing a ton. I am excited to feel some satisfaction at some point. Tammy-I hear ya girl, I am full of excuses too. Do you have Fluid in your band now? Can you eat huge meals or do you graze all day. I have a problem with both I think. I do have to eat a lot slower now which makes me think more about what I am eating. As far as exercise, I was reading my lapband materials I got from my surgeon a couple of weeks ago about the lapband "rules" and just said to myself, enough!! I can take 20 minutes out of my hectic day for me. I decided to set my alarm for 40 minutes earlier than usual, drink a cup of coffee and work out as hard as I can for as long as I can every day. In 2 weeks, I have gone from 15 minutes of low impact to 45 minutes of full throttle cardio workouts every day. I am so proud of myself and it makes me want to do it again the next day. I am not accountable to anyone but myself and that has made a huge change for me. I am glad to lend an ear anytime. Thank you for your support as well. us plus 3-I know, it is crazy the delusions I had about this wonderful surgery that was going to make my life so much better. It sucks right now. I just keep reading everyone's posts and thinking to myself I am not the only one on here that has a problem with food! What is my deal geez!! I keep beating myself up because it seems like the majority of the people on here have success with the band. It is going to take time and effort and I am way impatient. How old is your baby? I have a 15 week old son and I am over the moon in love with him. I also have 12 and 8 year old girls that are both so amazing. I work full time and miss them so much. BTW, I can't wait to be 180 lbs!! I told myself I have to lose 25 pounds before I can buy a shred of new clothes after having my baby. I still have 20 more to go. I am sick of maternity clothes!! readytolosemomof5-I will look you up for sure. I just added the app to my android. It is a great tool. Thanks for the tip.

About 3 weeks after I was eating everything and anything I ate before. I do have bad habits to break but if I wanted to go on yet another starvation diet I could have saved myself a ton of money lol. It is about being comitted and making changes with help hopefully from the band.

I was banded on July 21st. I did not do a pre-op diet. I lost 3 pounds on my own prior to surgery. Since my surgery I have lost a total of 7 lbs. I have the smallest lapband and my surgeon took out the pre filled fluid that comes in the band so it is completely empty. I can and have been eating everything and anything that I could eat before my surgery. I do get full sooner but am eating like I did before my surgery minus any carbonation. I don't eat bread but everything else is going down the hatch. I feel like a complete failure. Everyone seems to be eating like 800-1000 calories per day and doing fine and I feel like I am starving all the time. If I wanted to go on yet another starvation diet, I would have done so without paying 11,500 out of pocket. I realize I need to work with the band and take control of my own destiny. It is just difficult when I feel the same as I did before not to fall in to the same traps I did before. I am hoping to feel different after my first fill on 8/26. I feel so alone like I am the only one who did not wake up from surgery and feel like a different person. WTF is my problem. Thanks for listening to my self pitty. Just really don't know who else to vent to. My husband has my back totally and would never tell me that I am messing up even if I gained 50 lbs.

I was banded on 7/21 too!! We are twinners!!! Anyway, I am in the same boat. I can eat anything but I try not too most of the time. I was starving yesterday and on my way to a hair appointment I ate a small hamburger from Wendy's bread and all, a couple fries and a small fruit punch. I felt so bad too but started trying to eat better again today then we had a meeting with olive garden so I had a small amount of Pasta and salad. I can't wait to start getting fills and feeling some restriction. I have only lost 7 pounds so far.

I was banded on 7/21. I have the worst gas pain in my chest and left shoulder every day. I feel like crap. They told me that most people could have surgery on Thursday and go back to work Monday. There is no way, I just want to cry. How long did the gas pain last for you? Are there any remedies. I am now on mushies and loving KFC mashed potatoes. I have a protein shake every morning with 11/2 scoop of protein, 1 cup of milk and a tablespoon of pb in the blender. It is pretty yummy. I am starving to death though. Any good recipes for the mushy stage that anyone can share??

I love reading everyone's posts. I haven't posted for a few days because I feel like I am going to die!!! I was banded on 7/21 and am on day one of mushies!!! Yay. I am having the worst gas pain in my shoulders and tightness in my chest. I go back to work Monday from my maternity leave and hope that I can handle it. My surgeon said that most people can have the surgery on Thursday and return to work on Monday. My incisions don't even bother me, they are a bit tender but I am and have been sleeping on my sides and stomach for the past 4 days. It is just this horrible pain in my shoulder, I feel like crap. Any remedies?

Ok, I'm almost at the end of day 4 and I have been feeling pretty good for the most part. I had the worst gas pains that felt like horrific heartburn for 2 days then overwhelmingly bloated yesterday. Now today from just drinking clear liquids I have diarrhea (tmi I know). I can't tell if I have hunger pains or if that is just the feeling of the band around my stomach, lol kind of a strange predicament. Do you think I will be ok to start full liquids tomorrow since I have been keeping liquids down and feel like I am past the gas pains for the most part or should I stick to 5 full days of clear liquids? I know everyone's diet is a bit different. Mine is 5 days clear liquids, days 6 & 7 full liquids then puree for 2 weeks then on to regular food for 1 week prior to my fill at 5 weeks. I am so excited for this life changing journey and to have fabulous people to share it with. I would love to see some great ideas for pureed food if anyone has some.

Thanks for asking, I still have the gas pain killing my chest and making me feel a bit nauseous but it seems to get a little better every day. I am really hungry though. Have been drinking the gatorade with Protein and some protein shots they have in the health food isle at Walmart. I am at least making it through without wanting to kill and eat my family =-) Excited to move on to mushies.

Hi All, Ok, I made it through the surgery this morning. My incisions are feeling fine, but I have the worst heartburn sensation I have ever had in my life. I have been eating tums and gas ex and walking all over trying to see if I can get rid of it at all. Is this normal? I wish I could burp or something is how it feels. I am eating ice chips and Jello. Thanks for all of the encouragement also, I really appreciate it. My doctor said the surgery went really well and didn't mention that my liver was huge thankfully.

Hi All, I am new to the board but have been reading for days now. I am scheduled for my band tomorrow morning at 7:30. I am so nervous that this won't work for me. I was prescribed a 10 day pre-op diet of 800-960 calories with no restriction on what the calories can be and I have not been able to follow it. I feel like I am already sabotaging myself. It irritates me so much because I want to be health and loose this weight more than anything. I went to a meeting at my docs office last week and asked the nutritionist if I would be starving during the post-op liquid phase of the diet and she said she has never been hungry a day in her life after getting banded. I have been reading on here about how pretty much everyone is starving until they move on to solids or have a fill. I too am self pay and don't want to let myself or my family down after paying so much money. I feel like all I do is think about food and can't stop myself. I am trying to be positive and keep telling myself I can do this but I am definitely scared. Thanks for listening. Janette