Daisalana

My wedding rings no longer fit my hand whatsoever, they slide right off. So I have it on my right hand, but it's too big there also. I'm afraid if I resize it now, I may need to resize it again.. and due to warranty, the only place I can resize mine is a couple hours away.. and who knows how much it'll cost

Immediately post-op, I felt stuffed from very little liquid, due to the swelling. Once that went away, I had months of just getting full a lot easier. Now that I have good restriction, I can get to the point very quickly where if I take JUST ONE MORE BITE.. I'm doomed. I get hiccups and start spitting up. It's no fun. And I tell myself, I'm stuffed, no more! But I see I have 2 spoons of food left, I gotta eat it, and I need to break that.

I'm on all day at work.. when I get home I rarely get on, because I burn out from the computer at work! DH commented the other day when I said I rarely get on at home, that he hears me typing and typing those long posts lol.

I probably was eating the range of calories your doc suggested. The problem is (for a lot of us, not necessarily you), it's not that we're eating 24/7, but the things we DO eat are SO high in calorie, that we never even noticed. The chicken fingers meal at Chili's is something like 1,200 calories. I would eat that for lunch. LUNCH. And sometimes paired with a McDonald's b'fast of a mcmuffin (or two) and a hashbrowns. I'm not going to look it up now, but that's probably another 8-900 calories at least. So I'd be up to 2,100 calories (and an 'average' person should have 2,000 in a day) before noon! Then I'd have a snack.. of some chips maybe.. 150 calories roughly..well, that's bandster size.. I'd say I'd maybe eat 300 calories of chips at once. And some dip sometimes, another 60 calories. Then dinner.. which can range all over the place. I ate a lot of fast food, so Steak & shake.. small shake, large fry, and double burger.. About 2,000 calories. So for the day, that's nearly 5,000 calories. And I wasn't stuffing my face everywhere I went. And that's not a day where I went to a restaurant and had an appetizer, Soup, meal, and dessert! Just an example, of where maybe they don't mean you're eating all the time.. it's just that calories are hidden all over the place! The Ruby Tuesday Bella TURKEY BURGER is 1,145 calories. Not including fries or drink. So you could be thinking, hey I'm getting a turkey burger, that's healthy right? Wrong.

I have to forgo black.. I have 3 long haired white cats. My essentials are different cuts of jeans depending on how professional or slutty I plan to look. Dressy tunic shirts, t-shirts, and 2 pairs of khaki's for the super professional days (hah hah). But then I have tons of clothes on top of this, because once in a blue moon I feel like changing it up! I'm the same way though, I keep buying and buying, but I still keep wearing the same old stuff.

Judy- The rut is unavoidable, but let's look at a couple things first. Your goal was 83lbs, and you lost 59. That means you've lost 71% of your excess weight! WOW! I've only lost 50%! From everything I've heard, the closer to your goal, the harder the pounds. So stay strong! Don't get discouraged, it WILL come off! Do you think you need a fill? Sending violet vibes your way, if anyone can do it, you can do it!

I don't know why I care, but those people getting excited about having the band then taking it out when they're want to be, are annoying me. Have they not gone to a seminar? Have their docs not talked to them at all about the band? I shouldn't care.. it's their money and life..

Have you talked to your doctor about that? I ask just because if you read the Inamed handbook, the band is not a temporary tool. It's to be in for life.. My doc said he would never take the band out unless there were medical problems with it, he would just take out the port and seal off the tube. Make sure your doc is ok with that, if that's what you want to do with it

The pain won't get worse, if you're healing. The pain I had initially with the bra rubbin it was that it felt like it was burned and the scars were sensitive. That sensitivity went away and where you can physically feel the port by touching the skin, it doesn't hurt.

Good luck, I think you're in good hands

Congrats Panda, I know how hard you worked for it! You'll be a great mom

I ran to Publix on my sick day. Thought it would be nice to go when there aren't buttloads of people.. wrong. Lots of OLD people this time of day.. no one tells you these things. And old people don't move very fast. I had to come to complete stops the whole time, waiting, while they are side by side ignoring the fact that anyone else is there. I feel poopy and now hungry, but nothing sounds good. I bought some Quaker Muffin Bars, banana & oats. 130c per bar, I've eaten 1/4th of it and I'm full. Pretty good, wonder if they keep well if I try to re-wrap it up. I called Walgreens again today, they said they'd call me back last Friday, then that weekend, then Monday.. and so I let it go till today, so I finally call. The GM was there, said he was going to look at it, hasn't yet.. and he said 'We talked to the cashier, he said he put them in your bag'. And they're all but calling me a thief, so I'm gettin pissed off. I said 'Ok, well he was WRONG'. So guy went to review the tape (one person already did and said they saw them go in my bag). He calls me back.. he said 'The video shows he rang it up, then set it back on the counter'. AH HUH, I'M NOT A LIAR OR A THIEF! Stupid asses. He gave me a quick apology and told me I can come pick up my smokes. I hope cashier is reprimanded for lying, he got off 15m after he rang me up, which means HE had to put the carton of cigarettes back on the shelf since he left them on the counter. Then he lied. Then someone else watched the video and lied! It never went in my bag. HRMPH. So there, back to my nyquil and intervention

Are you newly banded? I guess so if you're about to have your first fill.. My doc moved my port from stomach to between my breasts, right on the bra line. It was uncomfortable for about a month, but now (3 months later) I do not notice it. Hopefully it will heal and won't bother you either

What are you doing? You should only be walking right now. Dizzy, sweating, weak is likely normal.. you just had a major surgery...and you posted you're only drinking water. You need to start drinking some protein shakes... like, now. You need some nutrition.

Congrats!! Keep goin!

I was banded in April, and by September I had 4 or 5 fills and felt nothing. So they did it under fluero, and when they filled me the saline just went SPLOOSH into my body. So they thought I had a leak, and they said Inamed isn't getting back to them. I e-mailed INamed myself from their website, and some guy called me back, we discussed the problem blah blah, he said he was sending my doc a packet to send information so they'd reimburse me. INamed really impressed me during all this. He gave me his direct line so I could call him anytime. Anyway, so Sept. I went in for them to find the place of leaking and fix it (they said if it was the tube, they could just cut off that portion of the tube and re-attach it). The problem would be if the port is leaking.. Under the knife they realized my port had just flipped completely 180 degrees. So under the fleuro they couldn't tell it was flipped. When they were filling me, it was just bouncing against the back of the port and floating off. Sooo.. they moved the port from my belly to between my breasts (Hard spot), and stitched it very well. Now it's right under my skin and not moving. It was going to cost $596 to replace the port, which INamed was talking about refunding. Ended up not needing it.. and my doc didn't charge me for the surgery. But the hospital & Anesthesia charged me $2,500 total to fix it.

Filet mignon, if you work it slooow and chew chew and it goes down with no problems.. seems to hang around for eons too.

Just trying to get you to see the logic of why you wouldn't want to completely open the band

If I was starting my journey today.. I am 35 BMI and NO COMORBIDIES. I would NOT qualify for surgery. HOORAH!! :whoo::whoo::whoo:

When I finally was able to get a fill, they put 1.5cc in my 4cc. I was way too full, always throwing up and liquids were hard to get down. He took .5cc out *doh*, and I was back to no restriction. I went back in, and he put the whole .5cc back in. It was too tight, but I've adjusted with it. I'm slowly but surely getting to proper restriction. I don't know why he won't do smaller increments, but I fear if I go back he'll take the whole .5cc out. Ask your doc to take out just .2cc-.3cc.

I've been overweight since I came out of my momma. Since banding, I notice overweight people a lot more and feel the urge to tell them about WLS.. I want them to share the excitement, and get out of the rut. I see the pain and discomfort in public I was getting in the last few years. Now I'm overly confident in myself in public, I don't feel like the fat girl in the room. I'm not obsessed with food, but I do have times when I want to binge... and can't.. and I just have to deal with it. The mood does pass.

I watch his TV show, and is he the older one? Older one I love, I would have loved to have him as my band doctor!!! The younger one is too arrogant, don't care for him. Or the shrink, she is unsympathetic to overweight people. Woohoo for you

I always get an unsweet tea in a to-go cup. I like restaurant teas, so I enjoy it later

Well the big question is, if it's so easy to maintain that weight, why did you gain 100lbs to begin with? If my band was completely unfilled, I can eat everything I did pre-band, but about 1/2 the amount. Hypothetically, you can completely unfill your band at goal. Realistically, you'd gain it all back.

Oh and just had to point out.. seems like only yesterday I was almost in the 250's and about to break a record for me.. now I'm almost 240's! WOWE!