kimalicious

Speakin of, Kathy, I love your new Avatar also!!

I don't just drink 8 oz a day now. When you are fresh out of surgery it is slow, I didn't get in anything for 2 weeks and jsut tried to sip all day. You are on liquids I am assuming so the whole waiting to drink thing really doesn't come into play. You're not supposed to drink right after meals so that it doesn't wash the food out of the pouch, since you are on liquids it is all going down anyways. That will come into play when you are back on solids and by then your swelling should be down enough so that you can drink more than 8 oz of water at a time. You really have to play this by ear in the beginning. I was getting in 400 calories and 16 oz of water a day for the first 2 weeks, I didnt' wither away and the energy level wasn't all that low. Shows you that our bodies can manage on much less than we think. Try to do what you can in the beginning but don't worry since this part will be over soon!

She is very pretty, her previous avatar hid her face this one is beautiful!

THAT IS SOOO COOL!! I'm so happy for you and jealous. I'm right behind you!! We will be there together soon. What a difference this band makes.

Run Far Away!!

You poor thing, that was a bad one, especially since you are still healing from surgery. I have them that bad still sometime. Mostly, when I PB, I can feel something is stuck and not going to go down after a while and I can just bend over the toilet no hurling or anything and it comes right back up then all if back to normal. Those are the easy ones. Take it easy for a few days!!

I did it again...went for barely a week doing really good, then BAM!! Horrible horrible eating ever since the 1st of this month. It is already the 6th. I was so close to onederland and it is like I am sabotaging myself to not get there. Nothing major is going on in my life, basically I am stress free. I did have a long talk about living in the moment with my husband and enjoying everyday as it comes. I do have a problem with constantly planning the future and trying to forget mistakes in the past that I do not appreciate or even pretend to live in the NOW! He talked to me about how tomorrow isn't promised and how I am always so stressed about school or work or family and friends that I never appreciate the HERE AND NOW! I am actively working on this now and I guess in my mind this meant I could eat what ever I wanted since I am not promised tomorrow. How did I translate the talk into that rather than workout and eat right now and enjoy the good health and keeping up good health and living longer for the future you have to work at it now! I'm going to try better starting tomorrow. I'm not going to be so drastic that I can't eat some thing bad every once in a while. But I do really well while I am being drastic because it is about all or nothing with me. Starting tomorrow I will get back on the horse AGAIN! I will stop with the cokes and sweets and I will exercise at least once during the day. That is so not askin much on my own account, only not to slip back into the habits I have been trying to break for over a year now. I have to be down below 150 before I will be able to have children and If I don't start some steady weight loss now it will never happen. I can do this and I have to start now!!

I did it again...went for barely a week doing really good, then BAM!! Horrible horrible eating ever since the 1st of this month. It is already the 6th. I was so close to onederland and it is like I am sabotaging myself to not get there. Nothing major is going on in my life, basically I am stress free. I did have a long talk about living in the moment with my husband and enjoying everyday as it comes. I do have a problem with constantly planning the future and trying to forget mistakes in the past that I do not appreciate or even pretend to live in the NOW! He talked to me about how tomorrow isn't promised and how I am always so stressed about school or work or family and friends that I never appreciate the HERE AND NOW! I am actively working on this now and I guess in my mind this meant I could eat what ever I wanted since I am not promised tomorrow. How did I translate the talk into that rather than workout and eat right now and enjoy the good health and keeping up good health and living longer for the future you have to work at it now! I'm going to try better starting tomorrow. I'm not going to be so drastic that I can't eat some thing bad every once in a while. But I do really well while I am being drastic because it is about all or nothing with me. Starting tomorrow I will get back on the horse AGAIN! I will stop with the cokes and sweets and I will exercise at least once during the day. That is so not askin much on my own account, only not to slip back into the habits I have been trying to break for over a year now. I have to be down below 150 before I will be able to have children and If I don't start some steady weight loss now it will never happen. I can do this and I have to start now!!

The book my mother gave me, "What's Happening to my Body, Book for Girls." She went with me and we picked it out together at the bookstore. She told me to read it and if I had questions I could come to her. I answered all the questions I had, I learned the rest later! I don't envy you, I would have no idea how to answer those questions. 8 is soo young to me, but these days it really isn't when 12 year old girls are having babies.

Unfortunately it's true about CPS in most cases. A police officer will have to instigate what they deem a real threat. I hate bothering police when it comes to noise and I am the first one to bang on a door at 2:00 am when the walls are bouncin. My step father is a police officer and thier rule was always if it is between the butt and the knees on the backside it wasn't abuse it was spanking! I am also all about spanking (I'm from Texas,HA), but the verbal abuse along with it would kill me! Please document and make a police report about her threat to you. If her baby's daddy does show up you will have the documentation there for them to know that this is a real threat. Again I live in Texas and have at least 5 guns in my 2 bedroom apartment so Like the previous poster said, do you have protection just in case? I would file a report with CPS and continue to bang on their door anytime the noise gets crazy. I would tell the landlord every incident every time. I have had someone kicked out before. One trick I played was to call to have the on site repair man come fix something while they were being that loud, he was able to hear it and complained to the office for me. Unfortunatly the landlord has laws they have to follow also and even if they tried to kick them out it could be months before anything was done and if it goes to court it could be much longer than that. Good luck and be careful! My most recent downstairs neighbors blare their music late and I went down there and banged on the door which was the second time I have done this and 2 kids under 5 years old came to the door and when I asked if anyone else was there they both said no! Iasked them nicely to turn down the bass and they did, BUT I so wanted to call CPS on whoever their parents are for leaving them home alone. I just kept an ear out for them because maybe their mom didn't want to come to the door since she can't speak english....I will keep telling myself that is the issue, but if I see it again I am calling ASAP! I know it is easier said than done, but if you feel threatened or if you feel that children are threatened do anything you can about it!! Let us know what you decide and again BE CAREFUL!

I did! You have to remember they attatch the port to a muscle in your abdomen wall, so if you are workin that muscle it may be more painful of a workout due to the port being attatched. Just be careful not to overdo it and pay attention to your pain and stop if you go to far in that area. Other than that you keep it up girl, that DDR looks like a lot of fun!

I don't think with the band you should have to wait 18 months, but you have to remember why you had the surgery in the first place? Me personally I had it so I could get to a healthy weight in order to become pregnant. Have you read the statistics on healthy pregnancies and being obese? They are frightening to me and you should check into that before you DECIDE to bring a child into the world in a body that is not equipped to do so. If you are not obese then I say go for it! The band doesn't work for most without the fills so food intake won't be a problem and you won't gain as much since you have the band. I don't know if 4 months is substantial healing time post band surgery, that I would talk to your MD about. But please don't rush into getting pregnant before you know the problems obese women and their children go through. I wanted a child also and with PCOS am scared to wait until I lose the weight completley because I may be 30 by then and for someone with those kinds of issues time is of the essence, but I am waiting because I think it is cruel to do that to yourself and your child if you are obese knowing all of the problems that are documented. People may yell at me for this...I'm just trying to make sure you see both sides of it. Good luck, and we will definately support you in any decision you make here. Just know we like to make sure you have all of the research done first!!

So far, after 16 months out, yes, absolutely!

Pepsi: My ride fiasco was also at Seaside Heights! That place must be a big girls worst nightmare!

No way, My support group is free, unless you count the $14.95 a month I pay for internet when I'm on this site getting support!

That was HIlarious...especially the thought of Twinkies dancing into your mouth. I have also been swatting the Girl Scout's away with their devil cookies! You just made my day!

NO! Send me some of that my way!!

TO me, it seems that every doctor also has different ways of doing things. If someone asks about eating after fills you will see 10 different answers on the same question from 10 different doctors. This can be confusing and at the same time make you wonder which doctor is right and which doctor is wrong? Everyone is going to think their own doctor is right on the subject at hand due to thier own experiences. This is going to be true with most procedures and most surgeons. I think we all need a little reassurance sometimes no matter how much or how little research we did. No question is dumb and if these people were lazy they/we wouldn't be here asking the questions here and now. I think instead of asking a thread like this we should be giving as much of our own experiences out to these folks threads so they can have a better understanding of their own band and answer the new newbies questions down the line.

I'm so sorry you had this. I had so many of these attacks before they would take my gall bladder out. They coudln't find stones because it was apparently sludge in there not letting anything in at all. I had to go through another test to find out about mine later and had about 3 months worth of these attacks in the mean time. After I got it out they all stopped. Here's some tips for the mean time: no fatty foods, don't eat after 6:00 pm and lots of water!! Hope this helps and get yourself to the doc!!

Tommy O, I understand what you are saying and it may just be a girl thing, but we can't tell what we look like for some reason. Perspective is exactly what I need sometimes. I am not wanting to know these things so I can compare if I am a better fat person or not, I am comparing so I can see where I am and how my body shape is different and so I can tell what ACTUAL size I am. Sometimes I will point to a person and ask my husband, "Am I that size?" I honestly just can't tell sometimes, no matter what my sizes say and no matter what the scale says. I like to know where I am and it helps me figure my own size and shape by knowing these things. Perspective is exactly right. Maybe this will help you understand the womans view of it, or maybe just my own view. Mine: 5'4", 209, size 16 jeans, 18-20 and some XL tops, 40 B bra size. I am very top (belly and back) heavy and have short little toothpick legs and arms.

Ok, I felt a need to share this....in the earlier post I talked about how this rarely happens to me, but after this post started it happened yesterday and I have twinges of feeling it come on today. Now, I did quit cokes and caffiene on last Thursday and wonder if that had anything to do with it all of a sudden hitting. I had walked from my car to class which is about a mile and when I was in class I got really sleepy and was half way nodding off during lecture. I got so uncomfortable and anxious all of a sudden and couldn't stop my legs. I tapped my foot really hard over and over to try to keep it moving without looking crazy. I also have an issue of not having a butt. WHich means I have my 206 pound body sitting on basically butt bone, so I get very uncomfortable a lot from sitting on my butt bone at work all day or for long classes at school. So this went on during the episode too and I kept getting these burst of anxiety that came up through my legs. I just thought that it was weird that it hasn't happened since my surgery and then there is this post and it happens. I wonder if the caffiene withdrawl had anything to do with it??

I get the shoulder pain too, I asked my doc and she said that there are a lot of nerves around our stomach and the band or port oculd be resting on it when we get full or our stomach starts the growling...Mine gets really bad when I have a carbonated beverage. I hate that shoulder pain. I went 6 months without losing anything and actually gaining some back. I went and got a fill to kick start my losing again. I even started a journal here to help me and it has worked some. We will all try anything we can to get the scale moving, you're doing great by starting back here! Good luck!

Mine is 3 days liquids and 3 days mushies after! Which actually I'm glad for, because I always hear people on here complaining how they are too tight right after a fill and they try to eat and then have to go a few days on mushies anyways. I tried to eat after one of my fills and had some serious pain from getting stuck, I stick to what my doc says now!

Ok, Tuesday was a long day, I had school and work, but I managed to do decent with my calories and food: Breakfast: low sugar oatmeal: 100 calories Lunch: Ranchero Chicken Soft Taco extra pico: 270 calories Snack: Tall caramel mocha frapp: 330 calories Dinner: 100 calorie bag o popcorn: 100 calories Total: 800 calories I didn't work out, I did walk my mile or so at school though which got me sweatin cause I had a sweater on. Then I got on the scale this morn and had somehow gained a pound. I seriously need to get regular and maybe it would help this. I am going to look into flax seed or the oil version to do something. I also need to stop weighing during the week. I need a once a week weigh in so I can't see the ups and downs and discourage me. After I got off the scale this morning which I tried 3 times I decided I was going to eat whatever I wanted today! Yeah, that is really going to help me to get that pound back off. I hate feeling discouraged. I have been fighting so hard with myself all week with my food and today is less of a fight as yesterday and if I had not have weighed I bet I would have kept on going. Well, I have done no damage yet, only have drank water this morn...So I am writing now that I will NOT cheat today!! I will stick with it and I will not get back on that scale until Sunday weigh day!! TODAY IS THE DAY!!!!

Ok, Tuesday was a long day, I had school and work, but I managed to do decent with my calories and food: Breakfast: low sugar oatmeal: 100 calories Lunch: Ranchero Chicken Soft Taco extra pico: 270 calories Snack: Tall caramel mocha frapp: 330 calories Dinner: 100 calorie bag o popcorn: 100 calories Total: 800 calories I didn't work out, I did walk my mile or so at school though which got me sweatin cause I had a sweater on. Then I got on the scale this morn and had somehow gained a pound. I seriously need to get regular and maybe it would help this. I am going to look into flax seed or the oil version to do something. I also need to stop weighing during the week. I need a once a week weigh in so I can't see the ups and downs and discourage me. After I got off the scale this morning which I tried 3 times I decided I was going to eat whatever I wanted today! Yeah, that is really going to help me to get that pound back off. I hate feeling discouraged. I have been fighting so hard with myself all week with my food and today is less of a fight as yesterday and if I had not have weighed I bet I would have kept on going. Well, I have done no damage yet, only have drank water this morn...So I am writing now that I will NOT cheat today!! I will stick with it and I will not get back on that scale until Sunday weigh day!! TODAY IS THE DAY!!!!