intelirish

was a new post started or are you guys just being quite?

have you had any adjustments. - my loss seems to come and go.. also with up's and downs. but for the most part it's a downward slope.. the first few months post banding can be some of the hardest - till you find that "green Zone". hang in there.. and also keep in mind slow is so much better for your body i've lost 70 over the last year not where i want to be yet but so far my body/skin have had the chance to bounce back with me.

i think it's normal to have some gains on this journey i think we all need to remind ourselves this is our lifestyle now not a diet and letting go once in a while is good for the soul... i spent a week in Ireland eating/drinking.. and then went out also over this last weekend. i have a gain but i'm not going to let it define me the way i used to. I have the tools now and knowledge to remedy it back on the 5.2 it's going to be a long Monday while my body remembers the new norm happy Monday

very true words from you all. i am allays learning something new and honestly just when i think I've got this.. wham i do something stupid and lunch/dinner trys to say hello again. this journey is certainly ever evolving here's to the next year

so i'm just posting for the sake of posting... as i'm now one year post op i get to hang out here now lol.. truth betold i think i've been here a time or few before....

it's one year next friday.. can't believe how fast the time has past. i blogged on this site about my journey for any one that cares to read :0 http://www.bariatricpal.com/blog/7170-intelirishs-blog/

good to see all is doing well. i survived my trip home - though i do have a 3lb gain for my trouble .. mind you considering the food choices i made while home i was very happy to only see a 3lb gain i had actually expected something far worse. My band really helped keep me under control. while the food choices very often where not the best the quantity never got out of control being able to stop and say i had enough was so empowering.. pity it doesn't work on cider then i may have come home with a loss .....

I guess it depends on the airport made it through Boston today without a prob. Just glad to be on my way home :-)

Hi there I celebrated the year by geeting on a plane to dublin to go home and see family. Haven't been the best behaved so far but heck I fitted on the plane :-)

So i've basically been more or less the same weight for two months now and only losing 2lbs a month if i was lucky before that. i would see a little downward trend on the scale then bamn gone back to where i was. I'm not sure what to do at this point to change things up enough to make the weight drop off. I'll be honest food choices haven't been the best but over all i have stayed with in my calorie goal. i've even started taking classes in the gym to help with toning and strength so i'm working out 3/4 times a week if not more. i know my band could do with a fill i had to have some taken out as i got too tight. waiting till after my trip back home to Dublin before i do. as i don't want to risk having too tight a band while flying. what have others done to get past these stalls? i don't have a visit with the office until sep 30th so it's going to be tough going until then i'm really trying to track all i eat. and mostly i'm at the 1200 recommended cals a day feeling really down. had wanted to be at onderland for my trip home as it's scheduled on my one year bandniversary

wow was really tight today.. yesterday was a fast day - today almost was one too.. absolutely starving all day i tried a new shake for breakfast.. YUCK doens't really describe that. and didn't get to grab food until just now. course i ate a little too fast and just had my first pb since i had a slight unfil need to breath and take it easy.

umm metabolic circuit class on fast day.. not sure that was a good idea. i could pretty much chew my arm off .. but i'm going to wait until i get home before i eat the rest of my calories for the day.....

way to go Bandista... that is something on my list to do. though i need to find some one what will want to do it with me .. 4 days and counting and i'll be on my way to see my mum.

it's amazing the stress we will put ourslefs through with out really realizing it. gald you are feeling better i know it was the right thing for me to do.. going to wait until i get back from vacation before i start adding the Fluid back.

so i went in today after spending the weekend in misery.. and in all honesty if i'm honest with myself i've had some level of misery for quite some time. and should have had this unfilled done at my last appointment 2wks ago. I have been having acid re-flux/heartburn and stuck episodes almost every time i ate. life just about sucked. to make me feel better the amount of fofo coffee i consumed increased as the warm drink made my band feel better so the scale hasn't really moved. .... I wanted to wait it out. i wanted to see if i could figure this out myself.. Stupid.. I'm a little crazy.. but this morning enough was enough. let me tell you my dr office IS AMAZING i was in the office 2hrs after talking with them and that included the 40min drive to get there. I was seen right away had the unfill and barium swallow and at NO CHARGE... after discussing symptoms, causes and how long i'd felt the way i did we undid the last two fills and .4 cc's where removed from my band.. it was the weirdest feeling EVER it felt like my whole body sighed in relief it was like suddenly stress i didn't realize i had was gone. My point to this post is.. don't wait if you aren't happy and are struggling and even have the slightly thought you may be in the red zone. don't wait.. go visit the doc Right now i'm certainly glad i went i feel a lot more relaxed. yes i'm on liquids for 2/3 days so wont' really know if it has helped but the piece of mind and relaxed feeling i have right now.. SO worth it.

onderland is finally starting to feel like a possibility. i never thought i would see 211 it's been decades -

My Journey 9/12/14 Next week it will have been a year – I was banded 9/19/13 but my journey didn’t start there… It was a long time coming that wake up moment when you realize nothing is going to change without some effort and commitment on your part to make it change. There wasn’t really any one ah ha moment but rather a number of smaller nudges that pushed me in the right direction... March of 2013 saw me at around 240 250lbs getting on a plane for work and later to see family… seat belt didn’t close very easily.. It shut but the flight was miserable. Then for the first time I was bigger in size then my brother we had always been similar in build – but he had managed to slim back down to the weight of his youth while I seemed set on tripling mine. Pictures that spring where posted on Facebook I couldn’t figure out who that woman was looking back. I wasn’t willing to acknowledge it was me. I was horrified, OMG, did I really look that bad. I normally shied away from the pictures oh there are one’s here and there over the years when I decided I had lost enough that I could be captured forever frozen the way I was… May brought my annual health check – not so good… another year of doing what I was doing and I’d be looking a medication for all sorts of things – blood pressure – cholesterol – diabetes things need to change… June rolled round and I got on the scale… 269.. It would get worse from there before it got better but seeing those numbers 269 literally took my breath away. I had been thinking on lap band for a while. I had listened to the commercials and gone on line to research but that day I made the call and scheduled my evaluation meeting knowing my insurance would cover the surgery if I decided to move forward. Right there during the meeting I went on and had my diagnostics done to see if I was healthy enough for surgery. On the day my primary care Dr signed a letter saying it was medically necessary for me to have this surgery my weight had bloomed to 282. It seemed that I had managed to rationalize that as I was going to have this surgery I could spend the last few weeks before indulging any way I wanted. My Dr. tried to talk me in to alternate surgery’s apparently not really a believer in the band. I told him it didn’t matter what he thought I was the one doing it. It took 3 wks to get approved during this time I decided that I needed to start living as if I was banded. I got the call on sep 3rd saying it was a yes and did I want to schedule the surgery for the following week. I panicked so it was pushed to the 19th to give my self-time to adjust it had all of a sudden become very real for me. The morning of the surgery I was a wreck imaging everything possible – said goodbye to my girls like I didn’t expect to see them again. I very nearly left the surgery office after getting there I was why do I need this surgery I can do it myself. But in reality I knew that I couldn’t although I had weighed myself that morning and it was 272 the first sizable drop in weight I had in years I wasn’t sure if I could keep it going by myself. Surgery went well recovery was – text book. All the right complaints thought I was dying from the gas but I survived and moved past it all. Every day since I have taken one day at a time, the fight has gone I no longer fight with the urge to eat enough for a family of 3. I still eat what I want but can now stop and actually put food down when I realize I don’t need it. I’m full I’m satisfied. Being satisfied is key – it isnt’ really healthy to eat until feeling full – to eat until satisfied is the point – it has taken me the best part of a year to truly understand. I’ve had many adjustments to my band even getting to the point it was too full. Spending my time in the bathroom because every meal was a fight just wasn’t the way I wanted to live not to mention the health risks. So I had it adjusted and removed some of the fluid. BEST decision ever.. After the first one off course of actually getting the band. Weight loss for the most part has been good. This morning I weigh 211.4 OMG… I don’t recall the last time I weighed this little. I still have a ways to go but i have a handle on it I know I will get there it will just take time. And now because I’m a much healthier time is something I have again. There have been many small victories this past year, wearing smaller clothes, fitting and being comfortable on an international flight, to curling up on the sofa with your legs tucked under – to even taking control even further and attending the circuit training class that I have wanted to do so all year. It’s brutal but I can do it is the point. There have been times if I’m honest where I have questioned what I have done, why am I not the size 12 I so want to be. I’m a 16 every one has self-doubts. I usually come here and post when one of those black clouds are hovering – this site and the wonderful members have been my foundation for success without them I’m not sure what I would be like.. YOU GUYS ROCK!! I’m hoping that by sharing someone who is on the fence about WLS whether it is the band, bypass or sleeve just know that there are many many of you out there with the same questions concerns. I’ve recently pledged to be a voice/representative for True Results where I had my surgery done. Yea you can look at it that it’s free advertisement for them if folks like me go out and share our journey but I look at it like this. If I can help change just one person’s life by sharing my experience than why not. I wish someone would have found me earlier in my journey – having someone to share it with that understands what you are going through makes such a difference. So if you’re in the phoenix area or even if you’re not and are considering weight loss surgery (WLS) and want to chat feel free to message me. If nothing else it is always great to talk and meet new people. To our journeys may they end where we want them to and may there be joy and laughter along the way.

so even though i told my self i wasn't going to get on the scale until i'd had at least 4 fasting days. i couldn't resit i had my second yesterday.. don't think i managed to stay quite at 500 cals but didn't wander too far over. and with the metabolic circuit class i take wasn't really a prob.. anyho.. i was down 1.8 on the scale. OMG that's the biggest drop i've had in months usually it's a .3 a .5 but not anything over 1.. i'm so excited. got to behave this weekend and make it through my fast on monday here's to finally breaking that stall..

Well I seemed to have found my andwer with the 5:2 diet and new circuit training class I started just had my first big loss in weeks yea me.

hi there it's a long journey for sure - but sounds like you are on the right road. weather you go with the sleeve or stay with the band that needs to be a personal choice sure we all can chime in with our 2cents. but honestly all that will make you is virtually rich .... choose the right WLS for you listen to your surgeon but be aware some favor one WLS over the other not necessarily fairly but at the end of the day they are the experts. and regardless of WLS keep doing what your doing and you will be feeling amazing in no time. best of luck.

My one year banaverisay is next week on the 19th to Celebrate I will be getting on a plane to go home. it has been 2 1/2 years since i last went home and spent a very uncomfortable 10+ hrs in a seat that didn't quite accommodate everything i had to share This time while i'm not looking forward to a total of 19+ hrs in the air.. i at least know i'll fit the darn seat this time.... just hoping my single package Protein shakes get here in time

It's my second fasting day too when I read this post on Monday I realized I had just made it through the day with less than 600 so I stopped eating for the day. Actually back to my lowest weight on this journey.yea.. I think I will do the 500 spread through the day and move to longer fast when that is no longer working.. good look to us all.

umm it says there are no friends online.. does that mean i can only chat with folks that i've made friends with? or is there a setting somewhere that needs adjusting so i could see whoever is online be they friend or future friend?

@@dylanmiles23 just like @@JustWatchMe said we all have our own demons to chase... one day at a time.. thank heavens for this group for it's support and "virtual" smacks up the head take it easy