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Scott, I am so happy you are feeling well, just do please take it easy. After 24 hours you still can feel the affects of any drugs the doc put in you for pain during the surgery. It took until day 3 for me to have some uncomfortableness (I don't know if that is a word). It is much less invasive than most surgeries but it is still surgery. Don't over do it and then regret it it tomorrow. Please be patient to heal and let everything heal back in place correctly. Congrats on becoming a bandster!!

Why can't be obsessed with exercising? I have the same problem as you and these are great ideas!!

I am a very intuitive person I feel, and I am really having some trouble with a growing up issue. With no longer having 15 friends around to party all the time and being married and living with a boy that I love dearly. I am having compulsive eating problems and can't get back on track with my eating. I know people say that Psychiatrist or even Psycholgist have helped them with the head hunger thing. I have that issue and I am really off kilter once a month due to the hormones from birth control. During this time I would swear I am bi-polar. It only last during that PMS week so I know it is hormones and don't want to be on pills daily just to control that one week of craziness a month. I feel like I will go in for a talk session and they will not be able to tell me anything I don't know already. Which I hope doesn't sound like I'm a know it all, but if I know it all about anything I would think it would be my own self. I am struggling with the idea of seeing a counselor whan I am en route at college to be a high school counselor myself. I guess my questions is does counseling help even when I have never had any major issues in life and had the most generally relative happy childhood (Other that growing up fat)? Can you take paxil and meds like that just one week out of the month to curb your PMS? Any other input would be helpful, especially if there are any great docs in the Eastern Dallas, Texas area??

3-loves, I haven't read his book, but I'm wanting too...Ill have to check it out. I can't do the seasonale because I have PCOS and need a period every month since I want to have kids when I hit close enough to my goal weight also this wouldn't help me. I hope maybe once I am off the pills it will help my mood swings. I will definately look into the 5htp and Primrose oil, I will look at anything at this point, I just don't want to take regular meds 24/7 since I only have the problem 1 week out of the month and the side effects of thos kids of drugs would kill me. Like the low sex drive and hunger. Mikey, I think that is what scares me about therapy. There is a woman in my network, that is close to home and deals with eating problems also, so I might check into her more. I hope these people have weekend hours. My week is coming to an end and I slept 12 hours last night and wild and crazy dreams the entire time, one which included Delarla, whom I've never met, but know from this site. That is another problem during PMS week, I can't get enough sleep and I have crazy dreams while I do it so I feel tired when I wake up. All of this should be over by tomorrow so I will be back to normal for a few weeks. I just need to get on top of this now. Thanks for the input guys!

Leatha, You probably don't remember but you are the reason I changed my name from Biggun to Kimalicious. I have always valued your knowledge about everything and wish you well in the future. Kim

Magazines or books for waiting times and I lived on those mix in with warm Water International Coffees, like the Swiss Mocha. Warm liquids seemes to help my gas trouble. Other than that you have it all sounds like. Good luck, You will do great!

DING DING, Round 2! I don't have my bikini to walk around the ring in DAMN!

I feel the same exact way about myself. I thought about it and figured it was because I was actually working at it. I actually have to think about my body and as the pounds drop I actually look at myself in the mirror to see what changes, if any, are there. When I was 60 pounds heavier I didn't think about what was going in my mouth and didn't dare look in the mirror to see what was going on becuase then I might have to think twice about what WAS going in my mouth. Some of mine was the denial that I was ever THAT BIG. I see the same pictures now that I saw when they were taken and can't believe that I let myself get that way, when at the time I was thinking, Man that was taken at a bad angle for me! So now when I see how much MORE weight I have to lose I feel huge!! 66 pounds is a lot of weight gone, but when you have 80 more pounds to go it's just the tip of the iceburg. I keep telling myself that when I hit back under 200 I will see it. But now I'm wondering if I'm just destitute to always feeling fat no matter how much weight I lose? I really hope that's not the case for any of us. To me it's some of the same logic that goes along with how as teenagers we think we know everything and we don't mind telling people that, but as we get older we see just how much we don't know that we feel inadequate not knowing enough. Just a thought.

Found it, I must be blind today! THanks

Question: I'm not around here unless I'm at work so maybe I missed something over the weekend, but where is the Vagina thread?

"Bottled Balls" That will be the name of Delara's mass produced guts, nobody better steal this before I can get it patended! It just popped into my head, I had to post! We will make millions!! MILLIONS!

Dango jobs are always getting in the way of the fun!

So much I want to add to this thread and wish I had the DeLarla guts (we need to find a way of mass producing your guts)! But all that I can muster up at this point is that Peanutbutter + nekked= Hot Damn! I am questioning why Dawg has not added to this and the only thing I saw was that Pnut said that the two threads: Temptation and Her thread about eating everything and then bitching about it were pretty much the same thread. Dawg told me that they talked it over before he started his temptation post and decided it wasn't the same thing. I can sum this up with one quote to also include the poop shoot: Opinions are like arsholes, everybody has one.

I call mine my hoo-ha. It's funny when my husband is brushing his teeth getting ready for bed and I am in the same room, I tell him "it's pointing at me!" Gags him on his toothpaste every time!

That is such a great feeling!! Keep up the awesome work!

For me if I could keep it up longer than 4 -5 months at a time I wouldn't need the band. If I had the persistence and will power and determination for long term weightloss then why did I have need for the band? I needed the band because I don't have these things. Just because the band is in me now doesn't automatically make those things stay around. I get going some months really good with eating right and exercising and then I will go a few months not doing any of that. I know it's supposed to be a daily fight, but most days I don't have it in me. I guess I just don't want it bad enough as some of you say. It is not a magic pill but I have been lucky that with enough restriction I won't gain tons of weight on my off months. Just call me Negative Nelly because I fully believe you are on band high at the start. Usually the only reason I get motivated is because I think in my head that people that know I have this band are looking at me thinking why isn't she losing weight? She had WEIGHLOSS SURGERY! What is wrong with her? I can barely eat more than 10 bites at a time, but still keep the weight on unless I am exercising. Well, between working 50 hours a week, going to college, and living 45 minutes away from all of this it is hard to get motivated to workout, when I can barely motivate myself to stay up until midnight to do homework. My band keeps me from gaining at this point it is the most I can ask from myself. I'm so happy for people that can do more with their band at this point and I'm sure in a few weeks I will get back on track, but don't beat us down because this is our REALITY. THis was long and rambling sorry. I've been saying that so much lately that I need to put it in my signature! HA!

If your band has moved around maybe you are needing more fill to take up the space that the band has moved. I would continue to see how you do with this fill and in a few weeks if your restriction is still low I would go for another fill. I'm guessing they problem with people who have lost a lot of weight is that there is no longer fat around thier stmach holding the band tight around the esophagus any longer. I would think more fill would keep it in place better. Just a thought. I could be totally wrong. What do you think?

What an awesome guy!! That was so nice. I couldn't burp for 2 weeks after my surgery, I can't imagine adding carbonation to that. I would have exploded. Please double check that first. I really want your boss!

Awesome job on the weighloss. It took me over a year to do what you did in a few months!! Keep up the good work!!

This is awful, you were obviously ripped off and lied to by this surgeon. I would be all over them for a refund or new FREE band! I hope you touted all of this to Inamed or whoever your bandmaker was. I would be complaining to whoever it is you complain to about such things in Mexico. I'm glad to see your calm about it, but I just wouldn't be. I wish you luck in whatever decisions you make.

Bigmamma, this name change was suggested to me when I first started too. Mt first name on here was biggun. I thought it was funny, but then I was told if I changed my name to what I want to become it would help me. I think it has made a difference. Have you had a fill. I had no restriction until my 4th fill and had even gained back some of my initial weight before that. WHat kind of workouts do you do? Are you counting your calories? Have you logged onto FitDay.com and noted every calorie you put in your mouth. The band will help us when we want to binge but it won't help us if we are eating around it. Go here: http://www.room42.com/nutrition/basal.shtml to find out how many calories you should be getting in and how many you should be burning off with your exercising. I wish I could get on the ball and exercise everyday. I skip so many days the effects wear off sometimes. Time to get proavtive with your eating and with what you are already doing with exercise should help those pounds fall off quicker. Good luck!

Amy, you have every right to be selfish in what you want on whatever day it is. If you are putting in effort and he is not then that is hurtful and unless he is ignorant he knows this. You gotta tell him how this made you feel and if he doesn't respond redeemingly ask him why. We have every right to vent anything we want on these boards. Hello, its called a message board. Most of us come here because we want to be confidential and some of us may not have friends we can confide in about these things so we come here! Since this board is majority of women then there will be man bashing at some times and if you don't want to listen don't read it!

My question is, does your weight loss = what it is supposed to scientifically with the BMR calculations???

"I am, for the most part, reasonable." That made me giggle! I do give you and P some props. I would never allow my husband to be on this site with me. I could never bitch about him if he were able to see me do it, it takes the fun out. P must have some other site she goes to for that. HA! Thanks for listening!<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

It was a post of my initial gut feeling from your original post. Like I said I totally love reading it all, but I can see where sensitives like me take it personally. Again, I know it isn't meant to be as seen in the first line of this posts. Mostly I am just nosey and like for people to listen to my opinions whether they agree or not. I do like the perspectives on this site and yours and P's is among the ones I love to read. Don't stop em coming, just don't get upset when people take them defensively and voice back their own opinions. Don't just dismiss them as you did in this post with a previous poster and write them off, their opinion just like yours is one that should be able to be voiced and if you feel the hostility in them don't bite back but try to understand where they are coming from too. I need my gung ho back too, but weightloss is such a personal and huge mind opening experience that we can't all relate to what everyone says and does. I don't want to not post even when it doesn't involve me because I am nosey. I do hope we all get to know each other better and can understand better where we are all coming from. This chica needs some good insight so BRING IT!!! Oh, It's already been broughten!!! hehehe! I love that movie, I just had to throw that in the end. I hope this wasn't too rambly...