bobby_hamrick

With a new fill recently I have revisited learning to eat. I am really restricted here and have to be careful. Some things I do. Scrambled eggs smothered in instant gravy. with sweat creamy coffee!(one of my fav's here. cottage cheese with the new dole peaches in the plastic jar. Yoplait smoothies(300 cal.) Lots of yogurts. Mothers Milk protien pwdr. This feeds my work out. Juicing 3 times a week. Broccoli stalk carrots. V8 2 cups every day Oatmeal(cooked) 1 cup with 2-3 egg whites chopped fine with honey. great but sounds rough. I know you have some wierd things and combos so lay it out. This diet is really working for me. I can sometimes get the tuna down but I miss my meat. Its ben really cut back.

you are new. sounds like i aint the only one on soup. I do chk. noodle a lot

May 25th I'll be 35 and it would thrill me to break into the 199lb mark. That is 27lbs. A big order I know. I have a new fill and got the exercise machine in over drive! :banana

trying to get theis going. I am in on the challenge. Needed support. Do I win a date with one of you hotties if I win!

Well I am still struggling along. I weigh 226 now and have dropped 13lbs total since I began my new surge of motivation. The fill was a huge help but I have paid a fear price with that one. I was very ill and very energy starved for the two-three week period. I am better now and have adjusted and learned to eat different again. My exercise was challenged for a few days as I adjusted to the diet. I had to add protien shakes to my diet for my gym periods. I bought a juicer yeah Jack Lelanne I believe. Its great on getting the fresh vegies I can no longer eat like before. I really hope to see 200 by May my 35th Bday. Yeah 5/25 I will be 200 or less. Thats the goal..... :bored

226 pounds now....I done lost 13 lbs in the month! I could have been ahead !!

Most of all I'm happy 4U. Second take these incompetent _____ 's to the cleaners!!

I was walking around the park after 3 days post. I had been running around it. I spent atleast 6 weeks just walking. After that it was on. I do several miles at a jog now and lift weights. There are some positions that irritate but not many at all. I'm careful with ab work. Its all out otherwise. I stress exercise is important here so dont leave it oput of yopur program!!!

I had this idea a year and a half ago. To pull many stories together and maybe help a lot of people. I sat on it instead of making it happen. It would be my pleasure to participate in this project.

Patience. You will have plenty of time to get the weight off and exercise. T his time it is not your fault this happened!

I was filled 0.6 on last Wed. and I have really felt the difference. I'm thinking its rite or a tad much but I will wade through it and make sure the swelling goes down or any irratation from the fill. I have to be very careful what I try to eat......Like it is as it should be now and before I was playing around.. I will follow up.

Well I did not get any fluid out. I was very frustrated but I am making this work out. I feel I have been able to eat a little better. For a week it was almost nothing and it was getting to me. I can now eat a little, I've lost 8 lbs since the fill 12 days ago. Yeah 8 I am happy about that. I've lost like 12 in three weeks toatl. I neede dthat after a long dry spell. cyall

I think I'm going to have to deflate! I can not eat solids of any kind if I can it is rarely. I am very tite and its getting to me now. I am never hungry my body knows it needs to eat and I can feel it. Monday .2 is coming out of the .6 I got....Cant live like this. I have however dropped 9 lbs in 3 weeks total but like I said, gotta eat something. My gym energy has left the building also...I'll let yall know

Since my fill I rely on a lot of liquid nutrician. Protien shakes, ensure, the yogurts like smoothies. I can eat very little real food. I realize I am probably too tite/ I wonder what the outcome with meal replacement has had for some of you and is this as healthy maybe as being able to eat a chicken breast. I do take a multi vitamin now but average one real meal a day and 2 replacements. Anyone else?

We arent nor is anyone else still living......I ate gravy and biscuit a week after surgery and I am fine. I was scared mind you but I fell weak. I did correct myself though and so should you do your best. Its time to heal up then you shouldnt be able to hurt your band....

Yeah the ahhhhh , oh you had the surgery to lose yours is a biggie! I run 5 days a week and lift 3 days a week, still diet and use my band. I paid for and went under the knife for help. All these things wre not sacrifices? pleasssssssssse! I do wish I'd never told a soul at work. Just family.

I been babded a while and just now I truely know what restristion is after 5 fills. I got .6 a week ago and the brakes are on plus a whole new diet..3lbs gone since then! Be patient and above all be careful with that eating while you heal..

sounds to me like u need a fill....I just got one and I was like you before...now I promise you the brownie aint goin down nor anything else like it. Do not get hungry now but just know I need to eat..Having a time adjusting to the adjustment. be prepared for a major change...

How much you think you'll get! I mean after the law suit.....Cause I'd be living in his house if the idiot done that to me!

I got .6cc Wednesday and still very very tite...Its rite I think. I'm taking it easy though...Liquids, cottage cheese, protien shakes....Can barely do oatmeal.

Well I just thought I was restricted before! I am really there now!. I hope not too much. I think I am just rite. I will waste away now for sure. I weighed 236 Wed. when I adjusted. I weigh 233 today after work out. I have high hope but I have to learn a newer diet again!! :ninja

You will find loads of real info here! Congrats on the band...Let us know if we can help!

Thate perfect i appreciate that and I know Brenda will! Bobby

Well the fill is in today. I got .6 and made a huge diffeence. From the looks of things I had little restriction now that is changed. I weighed in at 234 so I have managed to lose anyway. I have high hopes now again. I am still exercising. According to records I was in last January of 04 for the last fill. I've dropped little over the year like 10 lbs. Lot of cheating though. They did let me in on something I had not thought about. The Dr. claimed there is some Fat around the banded area and once this erodes or is lost it will allow less restriction. It seemed to me that I was able to eat more after like 6 months from last fill I was comcerned. Everything looks greaT ...mY 5TH FILL.CC BAND @4.2 NOW. :smoke

Listen I believe I'd let the Chief of Staff know his patients are being treated. If you didnt have a problem you wouldnt be there. They are getting paid. There is no need for that. Would a Dr, say why cant you quit drinking alchohol? This guy pisses me off and sorry for the language... Dont let this guy dishearten you. He will get his from the patients in the future he treats like this..I'd definately speak to the surgeon too...Good luck!!You need it with this Heel!!! :sick