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Good job man, keep it up!

... since I've seen 2## on the scale. How many years? 4lbs to go! I'm excited! weighed in today at 304. 5 months since I started with the Nut, banded 3 weeks, first fill 1 week ago. Lost 8 lbs this week since the fill. Had to move up a notch on my belt the other day cause my pants were slipping. My walks are getting easier. Some of my tighter shirts aren't as tight. It's a great feeling.

I had the same thing happen, I lost 12 or so lbs in the 4 months with the Nut, then 16lbs on the 1 week liquid diet, and gained 4lbs when I started eating again. After my first fill, I lost like 8lbs the first few days then it started slowing down again. I dunno why. Just stick to your guns and let your body do what it needs to do.

I dunno if you can have it or not, but what helped me get through the pre op diet was Jello's SF cheesecake pudding made with skim milk. It's soo good. It doesn't even taste like diet food. And raspberry SF jello. I could eat as much as I wanted of the jello and I could have 2 cups of pudding a day. I saved the pudding for when I needed something tasty. SF popsicles helped a lot too I guess. You can do it. Hang in there!

I had my first sorta-kinda real meal today. About 2 tbl spoons of mashed potatoes and a tbl spoon of peas and 3 or 4 of those little baby carrots you buy in the store. That was almost 5 hours ago, I still feel stuffed. I've drank a glass of apple juice since meal time and that's it. I should have had another meal about an hour ago but I just feel like if I eat anything else right now I'm gona split a seam. Any advice?

I haven't had any problem sleeping or notice the port at all and I'm a tummy sleeper. But I've had a pacemaker for 5 or 6 years now so I guess I'm just used to having little boxes under the skin. Don't worry, you'll get used to it. After a while you won't even know it's there till you smack it on something.

I'd also like to know this. I'll be on mush in a few days. I've already tried some Malt-o Meal and mashed potatoes and they went down fine so I'm just going to skip the blender week and go right to the mushed week. I mashed up some clam chowder yesterday and had that, it was pretty good. I just chewed up the clams really well. The nurse gave me a paper with some stuff on it. Yours might read the same, but here we go. Soft cooked noodles in sauce. Creamy peanut butter. Ground meat with sauce - Like manwich. Fish without breading. Sliced deli meats. Sliced cheese. Chili. canned tuna/chicken/beef. Toasted breads. Melba toast. Crackers and dry cereal. I'm gona try some noodles and alfredo sauce tomorrow for lunch and see how it goes.

Walkin out the door. Wish me luck.

Thanks everyone, you're all so nice. Everything went fine. They took me back to the prep room, gave me a few shots and a thingy behind the ear, next thing I knew I was in recovery. The only problem I had was after I got back home and took a nap, I woke up in a pool a blood. Two of the incisions broke open in my sleep somehow. We tried to get it to stop by keeping them packed with gauze and changing them every hour or two but it didn't stop so I went to the ER and they pit 2 stitches in each one. Seem the glue and strips they put on them came loose. But that's all taken care of, I'm still a little gassy and sore, but I was able to eat a few popsicles and a glass or two of apple juice. I must be pretty swollen cause that seemed to fill me up a lot. They gave me a large band so the nurse said I'll help a bit with the first few weeks because there won't be much restriction till I get in for my first fill. Worst part is the gas. Feels like a cantaloupe is trying to push it's way out of my shoulder every time I bend over or try and take a deep breath. Oh, I lost 16 lbs on the 7 day liquid diet, so that's was a nice jump start.

Heh, it'll go quick. I had to do 4 months with the nutritionist, but it only took 3 because I got in for the first visit at the end of the first month, and the last one was at the beginning of the 4'th month. I guess they don't count the time, just as long as you see him/her 4 consecutive months. I'm doing my own waiting. I have to be at the hospital in 24 hours for my surgery. Can't sleep a wink.

I'm in Louisville Kentucky, I have Medicaid. Everything was paid for 100% except the 4 visits to the nutritionist. The first visit was $50, the other 3 were $17 a piece. Total out of pocket so far is $101. I'll update this when I get a fill. I'm not sure if the fills are covered.

I'm 4 days into my liquid diet, surgery is the 28'th. I was reading my pre-op paperwork yesterday and seen that I could have as much broth as I wanted as long as it was a low sodium. Well, I was really wanting something other than a shake or sf Jello, and I didn't have any low sodium broth at the house so I figured I'd just have normal broth and not drink any diet soda or anything today to make up for it. I just got back from the sore getting some low sodium broth, and I wanted to compare the two, and that's when I noticed one of those little cubes makes 14 servings? The hell? How do you split 3 cups of Water between 14 people? I thought I maybe I had a days worth of sodium or something, (30% of a days sodium per cube, and I figured it made 2 or 3 servings tops) but it seems I had like 4 and a half ? (14 x 30 = 4.2 days worth of sodium) I'm worried about retaining some water so I'm just going to drink water from now till the 28'th to try and flush as much salt out of my system as I can. Is there anything else I can do? Besides making sure to read the whole label before eating something from now on.

Haha, ok. Thanks guys. I just don't want to blow the 5 months it took to get to this point.

Posts like this kinda freak me out. My surgeon doesn't do the, as he put it, "Cookie cutter" fills. Where you go and get a cc on your first fill, a cc on the second and so on and so on. What he does is on your first visit, they access the port and lock it down 100% so Water can't even get through, then sit you up on the edge of the bed and have you drink a few gulps of water, then they slowly remove the Fluid till you feel the water start to drain into the stomach, and that's your "sweet spot" for the fastest weight loss. Reading about someone having these kinds of reactions to a 1 or 2 cc fill make me worried about suddenly getting a 8 - 9 cc fill all at once on the first visit. But he said that his patients lose as much weight as a bypass patient in their first year by cutting out all the time it takes to find your "sweet spot".