akurre12

No I did not get plication with my lap band.

Thank you everyone for your kind words! To answer a few questions: -Starting weight was 308 -Exercise: 4-5 times a week for at least an hour, sometimes longer. I'm really into Zumba, bike riding, walking, 30 day shred, and the Arc trainer eliptical -Food advice: I eat whatever I want, just in moderation. You can view my food diary on myfitnesspal if you'd like (akurre12). I crave cheetos, cheesburgers, and fries constantly still after all this time. So I don't deprive myself. If I buy a bag of $1.49 cheetos, I eat it over the course of 4-5 days so I don't ruin my day. -I usually eat between 900-1200 calories a day, and I don't eat back the calories I burn during exercise. I try and shoot for at least 300 calories burned a day, but try even harder to burn at least 500!

Hi everyone! It's been awhile since I've posted here but I wanted to share my one year bandiversary pictures! I can't believe I've been on this journey for a year already. No regrets, I would do it all again in a second! I still continue to lose weight, and I don't have any particular stopping point in mind. I plan on just going with the flow until my body tells me it's at it's comfort zone. I feel great and am just loving life everyday. I can't believe the difference in my confidence, I feel like I'm finally the person I was meant to be. Before: After: Progress:

Thank you everyone! yes I do exercise almost every day. I go to a Zumba class three times a week and then I do the Zumba game for kinect once or twice a week. I also do the elliptical for 15 min on my lunch break at work.

Surgury date June 18th 2012, as of 1/11/13 I was officially at 80 pounds lost. Yesterday I took pictures because I was having trouble seeing any difference in myself lately, and taking those pictures completely made my week. I went into them thinking there wouldn't be much of a difference between my 50 pound pictures and these, but I was shocked at how wrong I was. It really put the confidence back in me and it makes me want to work even harder!

Im not sure how best to describe this but I'm hoping maybe someone had a similar experience. I'm four months post op and I'm experiencing dull and sometimes sharp pains near my port and also on the left side (even in the middle sometimes, kind of all over I suppose). About one month ago I had a gallbladder attack that put me in the er, which included several hours of dry heaving. I decided not to have it removed because it had gotten better by morning and my doctor said it was up to me if I wanted it removed. So anyways, eever since that I've had pains in my stomach off and on. This time it's been going on for days and its uncomfortable. Could I have done damage to my band, is it related to my gallbladder? It's not that bad, so it seems silly to go to the doctor about. Probably is a good idea though. Thoughts? Also, should add, around this time I had a bad fill. My fill doctor is pretty bad and this last time was the worst. She has trouble finding it, this last time instead of poking me with the needle over and over she left the needle in and just moved it around a lot. Which created a nasty painful bruise that I had for a week. Still hurts a but there.

Wow, that is the smallest bite of food I have ever seen lol. I personally, take a bigger bite than most people probably would, still at least half the size of the bites I would take pre-band. I like to chew and taste the food, and I just can't seen to enjoy it if it's the size of a pea. So anyway, I take larger bites but I swallow it in stages. So I won't swallow the whole bite all at once. I know I run the risk of accidently swallowing the entire bite, but so far I've had no issues

Surgery was June 18th, 2012 and on September 19, 2012 I took some 50 pounds down pictures! The sun was of course completely in my eyes. I took some with the same outfit from June, and then some in an outfit that actually fits. Progress_11-9[1].bmp

Surgery was June 18th, 2012 and on September 19, 2012 I took some 50 pounds down pictures! The sun was of course completely in my eyes. I took some with the same outfit from June, and then some in an outfit that actually fits.

I have 6 ccs in my 10 cc band. I feel pretty good restriction, I was thinking of getting another .5 added just to help with the snacking. I do still get hungry in between meals more than I'd like to.

So I feel so torn about this subject and everyone seems to have a different answer. I'm sure there must be other posts out there like this, I'm just having trouble finding them! How many calories should I be consumiing? I asked my dietician how many calories I should be consuming and that opened a huge can of worms, a long discusion about how it varies and how it's hard to get a set answer, and I honestly didn't have time to push the issue because I had back to back appointments that day. I use My Fitness Pal, so I have a pretty accurate view on how many calories I'm consuming. A typical day is between 1000-1200. I excercise every day (a few days off here and there) for 60 minutes and My Fitness Pal tells me I burn 300-500 calories depending on what type of exercise I'm doing. I'm two months post op, 37 pounds down, and now my weight lose has slowed. I was losing 2-3 pounds a week, and last week I was down one pound on Thursday and so far nothing this week. I know from reading online that a low calorie intake will create a slow weight lose, should this be happening after only two months? So my other main question is, if a low calorie intake creates slow weight lose, how am I suppose to consume enough calories each day when the band prevents me from eating a lot? They say three meals, and snack only if you're hungry. I don't want to snack if I'm not hungry, but I feel like I need to get enough calories! If my weight lose is slowing because of the low calorie intake, any suggestions on how to increase my calories without eating junk? Any thoughts?

So I go for my first fill last week, and everything started off going really well. The doctor was super nice and I really liked her, she offered to numb the area but I decided to tough it out and not have it! Then she started, and she couldn't find the port. She was pushing down on the area, which I understand because she's trying to find it, but it didn't take long for that to start to really hurt because it's still sore from surgery apparently! Then she started sticking me with the needle, still couldn't find it. She was pushing rather hard with the needle too, it made me really nervous! So then I'm pretty sure tears started to form at that point and she offered to numb it again. So I had it number, and she finally got it, but it looked like she stabbed me 5 times with that needle before she found it. She did mention the first time is the hardest and then after that she'll mark in my record where it's located. Now it's still sore a week later, and there's a bruise there. Is this normal? it's not possible for her to jab the tubing with the needle while she was missing is it? Am I just being a baby about this? lol Also, she made me an appointment to come back in two weeks. From what I've been ready, 4 weeks is the normal amount of time. Has anyone only had two weeks between fills?

My weight loss surgery book that my doctor gave me says that they recommend waiting 3 months after surgery! WHAT! lol Besides the fact that that seems like a crazy amount of time, recommending and telling us not to are two different things. Why are all these doctors so vague lol. I'm almost 5 weeks post op and had a glass of wine, i was fine but it definately hit me harder.