Hi libertysuzanne.
Thanks again for your very encouraging email. I've been reading all your thread and find your advice extremely helpful.
I agreed with you re eating Protein first ie treat it like atkins diet. I try to eat smoke salmon (in tiny pieces) whenever I can and these days eat lots of fish. Somedays I can eat chicken (tiny pcs) and beef, on other days it just get stuck, and I hv to finger it all out. Its disgusting andI am trying to remember to eat small bites and chew chew chew. Im so disgusted with myself for having to finger it all out.
Yesterday was Chinese New Year and I went with family and friends to a Chinese restaurant. I know I wont be able to eat, but I tried it on. I tried the chicken sweet corn Soup, no deal, all came out. Tried chewing the beef stir fry which is very tender, a couple pcs went in, and suddenly 1 pc got stuck, again got to finger it out. Finally tried a small pc of fried salmon, but it wont go in at all. In the end 2 1/2 hrs sitting around the table and I can hardly eat anything, Some friends commented how sad to see me suffering and not able to eat. I have to lie and told them I've a very bad sore throat (they knew I've been having this very bad cough for over a month now) so they believed me.
I feel abit sorry for myself cos I go out and dine with diff group of friends alot and Im thinking now, sh*t, what am I going to do now. I have only told 3 of my friends cos I do not want them to laugh at me if the band doesnt work. And at moment, me being so impatient, my weight is going down extremely slow...no actually it has plateu at 12 1/2 stone!!!
I also understand what you wrote about the sweet things go down so quickly and the healthy stuff fill us up so quickly. I love 'cream buleir' (wrong spelling) and have to stop myself from buying them. Thank god for Weight watcher choc moose.
I also agreed with you re Chimay not giving us enough info. When I went for my 2nd fill, myself and another mate who went for the op same date as me both had something to eat 2 hours before. We told the radiologist and both of us got a told off for being so silly and eat before a fill. We had to drink lots of Water to flush the food down and wait for hours before the radiologist will finally give us a fill. Both of us were not told by Chimay we werent suppose to eat 4 hrs before a fill. We didnt know that our band get tighten when we fly, thus we cant have a fill 2 weeks before we are due to fly long haul. We werent told that if we have to have any operation of any sort in future, we need to have all our fill taken out. And most importantly we werent informed that because we had our op out of UK, non of the UK hospitals or docs will touch us cos of insurance liability (unless those designated by the clinic itself)!!!!
Since July 07, I have been trying to find a support group, and thank god I finally found this site recently. Its great to read about others who are going through what I am going through myself. I know the band is not a short cut to weight lost. I have to work with it with proper planned diet. Its not going to work overnight,:think it is not going to be easy and I am trying hard not to get jealous when I read about others who have lose 30 - 50 pounds without even having a fill. I have to tell myself that: (1) that I dont really have that much to lose - ie another 30lbs and I'll be so happy and (2) at least Im not putting on. I know if I want it enough I will get there in the end.
