Daisalana

Hope you feel better Tracy Yeah, where's my boobie bananas??

I just printed out a medic alert card with my info/dr info/husband's info/ surgery blah blah.. laminated it and have it in my wallet, with the symbol sticking out. Knock on wood, nothing happens to me, but I'm hopeful they'd look in my wallet to find contact info if it were a serious emergency, and they'd see the card.

I never worried about not being able to have food again.. And honestly, the band does something for the brain. I use to binge all the time, and now if I 'want' to binge (which is a lot less frequent), after I eat a few bites of my 100 calorie pack, I am satisfied and no longer want to binge. I don't know that you'd be banded and say "I wish I could eat the 3 pizza pieces!".. maybe you will, but that hasn't happened to me. I haven't been upset that I couldn't eat as much as I wanted to. I'm more obsessed with how much other people eat now.. and how quick, and how big the bites. At restaurants, or even watching DH eat.. I just think 'How disgusting'. It's amazing what the band opens your eyes to!

Morning Violets! I'm at work.. in a pain killer stooper! This morning the scale said 283. You know what this means? OFFICIALLY -50lb GONE FOR GOOD! I have been daydreaming about 199. 100's. Wow. Let's see, the last time I was in the 100's was probably middle school. Onederland.. I may actually achieve it this time. Woowoo. Had coffee for b'fast.. I'm not getting hungry anymore. Thank you band <3 <3 <3 Going to dinner with my cousin and her husband tonight. My DH hasn't met them yet, and they wanted to meet him.. I picked the place where we had our wedding reception.. they have yummy veggie kabobs. I could just have that for dinner and be happy. My mood has so changed, I'm so happy with this restriction. I just keep praying it doesn't go away. I am waiting to wake up one day and it's back to nothing.. like maybe I'm just swollen from surgery?? Anyway.. the incision between my boobs ITCHES LIKE CRAZY. It doesn't feel/look infected or anything, but it's driving me nuts. I've been putting cortaid on it, and that's not even helping. Hope everyone has a great day!

I was told 1 month pre-op to stop eating sugar,salt, & fried foods.. to shrink my liver. The official pre-op diet was 1 week before surgery.. SSS's. Soup, Sandwhich, Salads.. keep it simple. Then 3 days pre-op, nothing but liquids. My pre-op sounded a lot more lax than a lot of people's. I've heard some people had to be on liquids for 6 weeks?? Whew..

You felt restricted right off-- due to swelling from the surgery. When swelling goes away and you're healing, and your band is not filled.. it will likely feel like you DON'T HAVE A BAND! That's bandster hell, unfortunately. I'm not a doctor, blah blah disclaimer, but you haven't stretched your band from drinking water & soup It's just part of the process. You may not feel filled after your first fill either.. I hear it can take a few. I went 4 fills with nada, but ends up my port was messed up.. now I'm on fill #1 from Friday and I'm FINALLY out of bandster hell

I am having a new port put in on Friday! Due to all these costs tallying up (Hospital, Port, Anesthesia), I'm up to around $2,596. I am self-pay. I am insisting on free fills for a long time from my doctor, and they obliged.. and I wrote Allergan/Inamed a long product complaint (they told my doctors they won't pay to replace it). I can't wait till this thing starts workin right!

We have a family cook out every Sunday, and there's so many people there's almost always a birthday.. and birthday cake! I always have a small slice.. I love cake.. Since my revision surgery on Friday, he filled me while I was under, and it's working! I'm FINALLY having a hard time with bread.. yay So, Sunday I had a small piece of cake, first little bite.. stuck! And thus, I want no more cake. My band is finally telling me it's there! :clap2::clap2::clap2::clap2::whoo::whoo:

I noticed I get about 0 fiber a day, so I keep meaning to start back on my benefiber.. I wonder if it takes a little while to regulate you?? I would suggest keep trying it.. and maybe even get some prune juice. Pain meds can make you constipated. Post-op, it was a while before my first poo.. I ended up drinking a lot of prune juice one night and it fixed (I was worried about now having bowel movement in so long) .. and I get constipated a lot now, I just let nature take its course now.

And one more thing, then I really am going to watch tv LOL. I use to LOVE beef jerkey, but for years and years, everything I find in the stores is yuck.. I don't know why! So, our vending machine had beef sticks (I was thinking about the idea of filling my work drawer with good snacks).. so I got some beef sticks.. I don't particularly like them, but they do fill me up. The calories were 170 for 2 small sticks, so I started looking online for better calorie ones--I knew they had to exist.. and I'd keep a stash. Well, I found a place that sells 'quality' beef jerkey. I wanted to believe, so I ordered single packs of a few different flavors/cuts. WOWEEEEE. They are SOOOO good. And, the calories are quite low! Makes a great snack. So I finally found beef jerkey I really like again. I tried the western cut Teriyaki, western cut Sweet & Spicy (these were both my favorite, I just ordered them in bulk now).. Also tried country cut bbq, and country cut teriyaki.. didn't like them as much, they were squishy compared to the western cut, but they tasted fine. Anyway, here's the website- Buffalo Bills Premium Beef Jerky, Beef Sticks, Venison Jerky And I got a 10% discount code, expires Oct 31, if any of you want to try this place out. Code is 1JML31 And I vouche for them.. you know that says a lot with my picky tastes!!

Haha I was so excited about those shows, forgot why I came to post. Restriction still impressing me! I got the small steak dinner from steak-out... Side salad, 6oz sirloin, loaded baked potato, roll. Pre-band.. I'd have the 12oz and eat every bite. Post-band.. I could eat 1/2 the meat, and most of the potato, the roll, and a bite of salad. Today.. 3 bites of sirloin (approz 2oz), 2 bites of potato (didn't load it, just did butter and sour cream), no roll, no salad.. and I thought I would burst! It's AMAZING!!! I don't ever want my beloved restriction to go away!!!! I got my hiccups and everything after such little food. And that was 4 hours ago, and I'm still full. IN THE EVENING. This is when I've been eating bad. Yay yay yay!

Ohhh forgot Weeds & Californication are tonight!!!!! That's what I'm going to do now

Hm.. I'll have to get some pineapple juice, and stock in it after this thread, haha! My instinct is ALWAYS gulp Water.. and ALWAYS makes it a million times worse, hurts so bad and feels like it just lodges whatever. So I make a conscious effort not to drink, and still 'try' every once in a while, I'm slow to learn I guess!

This won't be the last time you do something like this.. Just pick yourself up by your boot straps, and keep on walking

Try explaining why you wanted this, in your relationship together. So you can do xxx together, etc. So you're more active for your family, etc. Focus on what the weightloss will mean for ALL of you.. Not just, ho hum I'm going to get skinny!

Terri- You look great, you don't need surgery! But due to having the lap-band I've contemplated if I would get plastic surgery when I'm done. IF I do.. pannis (sp) removed (hopefully hopefully won't need to ) , and I like the size of my boobs, but they are SO flabby. I really wanted to just have the fat taken out, and implants put in.. but then I read implants have to be replaced every 5 years.. no thanks!!!!! So I'm trying to figure out what to do with them. I'm too young to have my nipples hanging to my knees (and they do!). You'd think I had 10 kids or something. Anyway, when I'm closer to goal, I'll definitely be thinking about this stuff. Jennifur- My hero! You go girl with all that exercise. I diligently do 1 mile a night (walking), except since 2nd surgery. I could probably push myself more, but I'm too damn lazy at this point. I can't wait till I lose more weight and body feels better. I want to brag about going to the gym someday.

How ironic! I have a similar story, same candy. I was at my parents and they had a bag of the lindorff truffle things, I grabbed a white chocolate and put it in my purse for later. Left my purse in the car during the day.. Came home, melted white chocolate in my purse! It's an omen!

Is your stomach actually hungry? Or are you just 'wanting' to eat?

Morning violets. My DH is sick, so he's not going to work.. and if he can't drive me, I'm too loopy on meds, and if I need to come home early, etc. So I didn't go to work either. I'm going back tomorrow, I just won't take pain meds I guess. Or hopefully DH will be well by then. Michelle I got your info, you're now on Santa's List Since this 2nd surgery, I've been eating ice cream.. ends up on myplate, thats the only place I got calories from really. I'm at 800 calories a day, 600 at least is ice cream. My throat is raw from that tube they put down there, so it numbs it. Ho hum. I threw it away this morning, no more ice cream!!

I'd be willing to try that. Besides say.. cooking in olive oil, how do you get your 'fats in' with omega 3 and olive oil? Any examples?

I think you might get drunker quicker due to the small stomach and the little amount of food that's in there. Less food=more drunk, right?

As for vomiting, I got the flu 3 months post-op, and was heaving like crazy. It was miserable like throwing up always was, and I was terrified my band was going to slip.. but it didn't. It did seem like it had a hart time getting through the band, so it was painful. Sex.. 1 week post-op when I wasn't hurting anymore. As for health after post-op, being self pay.. I had to go to the hospital a week after surgery, afraid I had blood clots. My insurance paid. I've had to go to the hospital with my surgeon a few times for fluero, testing, etc.. insurance will NOT pay. They seem to deny any claims that state something to do with the lap-band (one said injection of saline, fluero, etc.). One time it was just an x-ray for the band, and they denied that as well.<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

And now I just saw UNDER your ticker. Me and my pain killer self is calling it a night now. ROFL!

Wait--- just saw janie's ticker. You lost 100lbs since April?!

Just a note, if you want to include your e-mail on the contact list, when sending me your secret santa info, make sure you include your e-mail too I have never worn a size 14.. I went from kids, to mens, to size 16 womens (as a kid). I can't believe I am one day going to wear a 14! That's my 'dream' size. My mom is a size 12/14 and she has the perfect figure IMO. She is 5'10, and I'm 6'0.. so 14 should be realistic for me! Does anyone else have more than 100lbs to go?? I must be the biggest of the violets..