Terry Poperszky

MALE PERSPECTIVE RANT Ok, you are ticked with your DH because he is excited that you are doing something about the weight and the unhealthy lifestyle that caused it, Oh and he gets to have a wife who is a hottie now? I suggest professional help. I love my wife more than life it's self, she is beautiful, inside and out and I would love her no matter what her size, but if you don't think that I thank the Lord God above every time I see her naked, then you are out of your freakin mind. Lose the fat for yourself, thank the Lord you have a partner who is excited and supporting you, rather than some of the a**hats that some people here have. Believe me, this is hard when you have support, talk to some of the people here who are doing it alone. RANT DONE. Please feel free to drag out the pitchforks and torches over my crass comments.

Probably not, I felt my first 1cc fill for a little while but the swelling went down after a day or two. Common wisdom is 3-5 fill befrore restriction has been achived and of course it depends on how aggressive you Dr. is on the fills. I am 2.5 cc in a 10cc band, and I think I am starting to just outside the green zone, but who can tell.

Don't apologize for feeling the way you do, just don't let it be an excuse for you to give up and cater your own pity party. Control what you can now that the situation exists and move forward.

Check with your Dr. but on full liquid mine didn't tell me how much. Once I moved to mushies, it was 1/2 cup.

I did the same thing before I got banded, I wanted to make sure I could follow the rules. One night half way through a new york strip, I pushed the plate away and said I am bored with chewing.

I do!!! I want it all gone, and I want it all gone NOW!

You are looking at the breakfasts and everyone else is talking about the dinners. 1 cup Tuna, 1 cup Beets, 1 cup Cauliflower etc. I would have been puking before finishing the tuna.

Try sucking on an Altoid mint while you are doing i as well. I used to keep a tin of them on my kitchen window sill.

mine is poperszky, go figure

I went to my LB support group last night and someone shared what a friend who had WLS had done. He mounted a whiteboard in his garage and kept a list of all of his victories (NSV and SV), of all the goals that he had accomplished on that board where he could see it every time he got in or out of his car. I think I may try and come up with something similar. Thanks for all your kind words.

Eat slower, free

Two things that are factors in my life: 1. Logging and counting calories. 2. Heavy exercise throws my body into weight loss fits. It dramatically increases my hunger, and as my body repairs and builds muscle it retains large amounts of Water and the scale goes nuts. I counter #2 with the knowledge gained from #1. A pound of fat contains 3500 calories, if I know what I am eating, and I know what I am burning, the the wild fluctuations in the scale become more bearable. For instance, I have showed a gain the last three days, yet I have maintained a calorie deficit of 1300 calories, but my spin class been kicking my butt, and i have walked out of there on legs of jelly. So, are my weight gains real? Nope, not possible and the scale will catch up with reality in a couple of days.

Yup, happened to me too. Keep following the rules and it will start up again.

Jenn, yes you CAN do it. Others before you have done it, and so can you. Keep your eye on the prize, focus on where you want to be and it will happen. My LB nurse told me that the pre-op diet had two goals: 1. Shrink your liver. 2. Make you thankful for you band. Believe me, you will be thankful.

Not a big fish fan, but I found some wild pacific cod and picked it up. Trying to figure out how to cook it, I bought some Italian Bread crumbs, dipped the Cod in milk, coated them with bread crumbs, then put the fillets into a hot pan with Olive oil and crushed garlic. Cooked the fish until it was opaque (turning half way through, opened a bottle of Marinara sauce (Spaghetti sauce to the heathens), poured a generous helping of that over the fish, topped it with part skim mozzarella and let it simmer for about 5 minutes covered. Should work with any mild white fish.

Welcome to the family, the mental part of this is by far the hardest part. The good news? Others have come before you, with the same issues and problems and used the band as a tool to bring them back to a life worth living. Stick around there is a vast store of experience and wisdom on this board that will help you succeed.

2 eggs, 2 ounces of ham, 1 ounce of mozzarella, 1 cup spinach, made into an omelet

Sorry, I have to agree with them. Multi level marketing of a diet program on a forum for WLS seems like advertising to me. No hard feelings, but I got banded because I had tried all the diet programs and they didn't work. Peace

If I might ask, why only one fill in that time?

Yes, you are the only one

ummm... Before I can answer your question, you need to define which times are appropriate to experience gas and which times aren't.

Now if it would only take the hair off my back, you might have a deal.

Nope, I wasn't serious. It was humor.

Jen, if you fill in your profile, it will help the people on the forum know where you are in the journey and give you better advice.

Actually, this is a good bit of advice whether you can delete them or not. BTW, if you do delete them on your end, they show that they have been deleted on the other person's side, even though they still have access to them. So be careful, you might upset your stalker.