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LOL Let me try. Suzzie congrats on the clothes! that feels more real to me than the number on the scale. I was at 199.8 again this morning, but I am not claiming I can stay there!

Suzzie - it is called being TIGHT and drinking TOO fast! I am there with you. It is my TOM and I am STARVING! Of course I have tightened up and gurgle with just about everything! Ingyrob - I will keep my fingers crossed for you! we can do it! I hadn't really thought about my bandiversary. Keeping our fingers crossed that we will be moving the day after, so we will be packing! Hubby is the 24th of May, he probably doesn't even remember. hope everyone has a great week.

thanks Suzzie - I really hate the scale right now though. I got on this morning it said 199.4, so I went to get my camera to take a picture, stepped back on and it said 200.2! I stepped on it 3 times and couldn't get it to go back down to 199.4, so no picture today. I will leave my ticker the same and keep my fingers crossed for tomorrow!

Stef - I am sorry you are having such drastic issues. If anyone can get through it you can. You truly have made the life style changes necessary to keep the weight off. Suzzzie - I hear ya! I am tight again, not going to say too tight yet. I had a very stressful week at work and I think it is almost my TOM. My husband and I went to eat by ourselves on Friday - all I wanted was a Margarita and nachos. Well all I could eat was 3 chips and a couple of bites of steak from my nachos. I had about 3 sips of the margarita, then sat there and tried not to PB. I took the nachos home with me and didn't do any better later. All I can think about is all the things I want to pig out on and being pissed off that I can't! I did hop on the scale this morning and saw the magic number 199.8! I did some retail therapy, buying size 16 jeans and a XL shirt, but I am still pissed off that I can't EAT! Dang why is food so important. anyway, if I have the magic number again in the morning, I am going to take picture of it to post!

YEAH SUZZZIE!!! You are doing GREAT!:thumbup: Good Job Karla! Java - I am so glad to see you posting again! I don't have any advice for the website. I have this site in my Internet favorites, so I come right here and the look around from there. JoJo - I am sorry you are still having problems. I feel bad because I have no good explanation for my husband's issues either. He is dealing with it and it doesn't interfere with anything, but it sure makes eating painful sometimes. (note ticker - .5 from onederland!)

thanks everyone for the kind words. I certainly feel better than I did a year ago. I think I notice the most difference in how I sleep. I was never tested for sleep apnea, but I am now sure I had it in some degree. I can sleep through the night most nights and even if I have to get up to go the bathroom, I fall right back asleep. What a difference it makes in my energy level all day long! We are accepting the final counter offer on the house tomorrow, so we are off to underwriting and plan to close on May 15th. I will be so glad to be out of the apartment and out in the country!

NVAlicia - that sounds really scary. Hubby has problems with burning when he eats sometimes - so bad that he hunches over for a little bit and will get sweaty, but not as severe as you describe. Since he has finally tested negative for H.Pylori, he is going to have to have another scope to see what is going on. I agree with BigBaby - go until you are satisfied they have looked at everything. Janine - WELCOME BACK! Sorry about your teeth. I put an updated picture in my profile with comparison pictures. I can see the difference, but I still look FAT - UGHH. I learned to ignore people staring at me before, now I worry all the time what people are thinking when they look at me. I told my Mom I was in an 18 and she finally said that I was doing good - I was amazed, I was expecting the usual negative from her. Happy Wednesday!

Hey but you are 99.5lbs closer to the other side! My camera isn't charged, so I will have to do the pic tomorrow. I am thinking college fund for kids or PS for me?? I just have to keep telling myself it is not about how I look, it is about how I feel! But dang it would be nice if my breasts didn't hang to my knees! I don't have the issue with work - since it is a new job/new state they only know me at this weight. Most of them know I have the band though, because at some point each one of them have questioned me about eating - I am not good at hiding that I am not eating like everyone else. They invariably ask if I want something else or if it tastes okay. I figure it is easier to explain the truth, so I am just upfront about it.

GO SUZZIE GO! Rhonda - you do get a lot of extra points for that! do you have to be on liquids/mushies the whole time you are there? My fill is pretty good I think, but darn it the glucaphage is doing NOTHING to help my hunger. I am still snack happy! I have decided not to get on the scale for awhile, I get so mad when it goes up even on days I know I have eaten okay. I am going to take a new picture put it next to my old and try to allow myself to accept that I have changed! I hope everyone is having a good week!

Suzzie - YIKES be careful! Jamie - sorry no help from me either. I have started taking glucaphage, trying to get my hunger under control. I don't think it is helping much. I just trying and keep healthier snacking options - nuts, cheese, etc.. But the scale is STUCK for me!

thanks bigbaby - I changed my ticker to show my weight, instead of weight lost. Just another kick in the butt to get to onederland! congrats on the 16s! Karla - I am sorry your husband is not being supportive. Even though mine had his lap band a month before mine, he really never says anything about my progress. Even when I was showing him the smaller sizes, I couldn't get a sense of what he was thinking. I finally just said is it good or bad and he still didn't say anything. I just keep thinking he sees me naked and sees how bad I look. I am not sure some times which is worse Fat or loose skin hanging. But I feel so much better and actually feel like in the right clothes I look okay, so I have to keep going. It is OKAY for you to be doing something for yourself!

WOW Stef you make it sound like so much fun! You are AMAZING - can you even imagine doing anything like this 9 months ago? Rhonda - I know you can do it! I know you have struggled with your restriction, but your persistence will pay off. Thanks Wombat - I have been pretty down about my plateau, but it seemed a lot better today. If I could just stop being hungry!

Back from shopping today. I am happy to say I bought a size 18 shorts! I bought cute capri jeans at K-mart in an 18. I almost bought stretch 16 jeans at Old Navy - they fit great but were way too long and I didn't want to mess with them. I almost bought them just because they were a 16 that fit. I bought 1X shirts, I could fit in the XL, but I felt more comfortable with the 1X covering my stomach a little more. I went shopping wearing a 22W pants and a 2X shirt - what a difference the right size clothes make! I started out at a tight 32. So it was a good day - I am 2.8lbs away from 200!

BigBaby and nvalicia - congrats on Onederland! :tongue: I am so close:cursing:. I had a fill on Wednesday, so I hope to get there. He does all of his adjustments under fluoro - which is more expensive, but nice. All I could take was .2cc which puts me at 6.6cc. He tried putting me back up to 7.0cc (were i was with my unfill) and it was TOO tight, the barium stopped. So on x-ray I should be exactly were I need to be - but we will see how it goes. Suzzzie - I am looking for that perfect spot again also, but he said it may be tough to achieve again. I had lost 8lbs since my last appointment - but that was 8 weeks ago. He said you have lost 59% of your excess weight - that is more than I tell my band patients to expect to lose in 2-3 years, SO you have exceeded all the expectations for the band. Which just is another way of telling me, I am going to have to exercise to get the rest of the weight off! DANG IT - I hate exercise! I know Steph - if I would just do it, maybe it wouldn't be so bad! Cross your fingers for me - we have put an offer on a house with 12 acres! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

dang it is! Steph your a moderator - let us back in! We will have serious withdrawals! :-) is it an April fool's joke? Hope everyone is having a good week.

I know I just have to keep at it - very frustrated at the moment though! I would say no on the unfill also. If you can eat at night you are probably not too tight - BUT it doesn't mean you won't tighten up more. I started out as you describe when I was getting ready to move and start my new job. Then when I got here, I started tightening up even more and eventually had to have an unfill. I agree as someone else said - don't force it when you are tight. I am finally officially a Tennessean - I got my license today. I put the same weight on this license that my MO one always said - the difference - I am only 20lbs away from being there :-) someday maybe, I will actually be below it and want to get a new license!

Hi all - I hate to say it but you sound like the dad on the verizon commercial trying to use all the kids words about the unlimited plan - his daughter is sooo embarrassed. It really cracks me up! Suzzie - I know how you feel. I am definitely ready for my fill next week. I had an entire plate of Mexican tonight without even needing to stop. Unfortunately so did my husband, just a week after his fill. Maybe he will tighten up, but not good right now. I am struggling so much. I am hungry all the time - the Glucophage doesn't seem to be helping. It doesn't seem to matter what I eat or how much. I am definitely off track and i feel like my body is fighting to keep me off track instead of helping. I feel like I am constantly complaining -I am sorry. I can't believe how quickly our bandiversary is approaching! At this point I will be happy if i can get under 200lbs by then - 5-7lbs away and it seem so far. Keep up the good work everyone!

thanks Insub - it is still pretty amazing to me, but then I watch the biggest loser and see how the women look at my current weight and realize I have a lot more to go. I really think the key to getting the rest of the weight off along with exercise, is to get my insulin under control. the new doc was not willing to start Byetta right away though, so I am starting the glucaphage (metaformin?), then going back to to see him in a month. He drew every sort of lab imaginable also, I hope he doesn't find anything else! He said he would be very concerned about byetta bottoming my sugar out, since I don't have full blown diabetes, but fighting with PCOS. Hope everyone has a good Easter!

Hi all! Just checking in - I am reading, just haven't felt like saying much. I am struggling still. After my unfill, I have been able to eat almost anything I want. On top of that I stopped taking my birth control pills because I thought they were making me hungry - well I definitely know why I am over weight. I don't think I have any insulin control. I am hungry constantly - not rolling stomach, but headache, weak, and lightheaded, unless I eat some carbs. I have been up and down with the same 5 lbs for the last 2 months. I can't stop craving salt and chocolate. I am going to a new general practice doc tomorrow and am planning on talking to him about Byetta or some other sort of diabetic medication to hopefully help control my insulin. If he can't help me, I think I am going to have to find an endocrinologist. My hubby went for a fill this week. Rhonda you mentioned burning - my hubby has that with almost every meal. If he sits and waits for a little bit it will pass and he can continue to eat. He could definitely eat too much so was ready for a fill - the new band doc is concerned though that he may not be completely rid of the H. Pylori, so he is ordering the breath test that the GI doc recommended before we moved. He is probably going to end up getting scoped again, if he is not still positive for H. Pylori. so although I think we both have been successful so far, it has been and continues to be a struggle. No one better ever say this is the Easy way! On a good note we were able to get our house rented out in MO and hope to move them to a lease to own program in the fall. So we are house hunting in TN now. thank you all for keeping the thread alive! I learn something each time I read.

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