desertmom

Get an unfill,nothing else will help if you are that tight...good luck..

hi No,you are not the only one that still binge.I do to.When ever I can.Usually when the fill has gone a little and I realize it.Or on Fridays with brunch which is the biggest buffets you have ever seen (its Sunday here in the middle east and we eat brunch at different places every week) But binging now means a full plate of veg,piece of meat and pudding.....or 2 mall packets of crisps...or 6 blocks of chocolate....and then I gain 2kgs anyway with something that wouldnt even have registered on the scale before.... So,it happens.....Seems that everyone else is learning to eat differently and will therefore be thin for the rest of their lives but I still have a massive problem that the band didnt much help me with....plan B coming up (when I can figure it out)

Hi Funny Duddy Glad to hear your feeling ok...... As far as this soup thingy's concerned....I am still up 2.5 pounds from the day I started...and the only cheat I had this week was 1 cup of coffee with milk. I am very good with this.Stubborn as I can be I refuse to believe I will be the only person on earth to not lose weight with this diet....I just had another one of my chill to the bone and aches all over nights and I defenitely drink enough water.I love water,my dr always joke about my baby bottle I'm sucking on all the time....I buy bottles of water everyday and always have one with me....so,I dont think it is dehydration...:eek: OK,I know I said I wouldnt weight before the 7 days are up but I also admitted to being screwed up as far as the scale's concerned....obsessed is a better word....:faint: This is not going to spoil my day.I am enjoying the soup :hungry: as I have put some curry powder and tumeric in it with garlic....it is very delicious....I will however water it down a lot again today as it might be the new pot of soup is again to high in sodium...heck that is all I can think of.....dont know why else I could gain weight when everyone else loses.... So,I am on day 5 and will eat fish instead of meat as meat doesnt go down to well with my current fill level....I am petrified that adding the proteins to the soup (which have quite a lot of carbs I must add) will make me gain....so here goes nothing...:paranoid Drinking the broth of the soup is an excellent idea as fluids only can sometimes be high in calories without us realizing it..... Good luck and may the pounds drop off everyone....:clap2:

hi Keep the faith.I only started feeling smaller now that I am in the lower 200's and wear size 18/20 (mostly 20's). I have to work at this and sometimes it really gets me down a lot.The point is I hate feeling defeated about this.....I allow myself a big freakout for 10 minutes (ok,sometimes an hour) but then I have to get stubborn and lose some more weight....exercise,eat less,do anything to lose more....so...keep it up,you can do this....dont allow yourself to get depressed about this....if tired drink more vitamins.....psych yourself up about your weightloss.....set goals,buy a new piece of clothing that you WILL fit in in 3 months..... Good luck and 50 pounds is great going....now for the next 50....

Hi Thanks for all the good advice...I know I shouldnt take daily fluctuations in weight seriously but I am such a basket case where the scale is concerned....it has really ruined to many of my days that I have made a commitment start looking at the bigger picture and not the daily ups and downs....will go in therapy to get rid of my scales after summer..... I actually got through this day just fine.Feeling ok and not even hungry...I did figure that maybe I also put to many stock cubes in my soup in stead of the beef bullion....sodium much higher than before...so I watered down the soup.....and voila....day 3 is over..... The caffiene thing isnt that big...I drink maybe 2 cups a day,most days just one...Because what I could eat and drink was so limited before I really valued the one cup I could have..... Aches and pains seems gone and I am positive that if I dont lose weight after this 7 days it will not be for a lack of commitment to the diet....I do reflux a little with all the fruit and veg but nothing I cannot deal with..... Anyway,everyone says they lose with this...I should to... Good luck to everyone.

Hi I weighed again today and dont know if I should continue this.I am up.....3 pounds in total after 2 days of this.I had severe body aches all over last night.Was very cold,actually had to get a second blanket for a few hours.Thought I must be losing weight for sure but low and behold Im up this morning.....Dont know if this is the result of going from low carbing to this but I dont want to gain any weight,even if it is water....mentally it is so bad for me at this stage...:cry:faint: This morning I had my first cup of coffee in 3 days and I had milk in the coffee as well.....now I look at all the fruit I'd bought and cant decide if I should go on with day 3 or should just go back to low carbing .....dont know.......why am I not losing weight?I am 100% good,dont cheat,exercise hard... ok,10 minutes later and thevfruit looked so delicious that I am now on day 3 and wll not weigh again until day 7.Well,that would be the ideal....:nervous

hi I just want to lose some....

hi I'm now wondering about the weightloss too...I am up 2 pounds after day one and not feeling to good about this....ok granted,I was low carbing before day one and I always am up some when I go off the low carbing but this scares me as I stayed in this place for a month longer to lose another 4 kgs not to gain....I could have gone on holiday did I think I wouldnt reach my goal...yeah,crazy to plan a holiday around weight but this is my reality...I can gain so much so fast that I have to plan around it...wanted to be well under 100kg's so that I wouldnt go over it again and voila,today 101.6... I will carry on with day 2 and see....I dont cheat so if this thing will work I will see results....off to exercise now.. Good luck everyone...

not nausea no....but I do know that this will be gone once the band is out....i've had 2 complete unfills for long periods of time and then I am almost symptom free...so upwards and onwards get the weigth off.....

Kathy you are right.But the tylenol must be the sugar free one...the ordinary Tylenol that has sugar in it makes me more "hot" inside.... Anyway,sometimes an ordinary pain killer takes the pain in the back plus the reflux and heartburn or rather hot feeling inside away...know it sound strange but after 15 months I know all the tricks of the trade...and some days nothing helps....also I know the aloe vera helps for a lot of people,well it made me worse.... The point is I think that different things seems to work for different people and what works today for me doesnt neccessarily work tomorrow.....for instance why do I still have this burning sensation after I've now had the unfill? Leener,I hope you can sort it our or come to terms with the way you feel (easier said than done in my case )but at least I have now decided to just try and lose the weight and then take the band out.....now I am struggling with the 50 odd pounds I still have to lose...a lot but I am sure I will do this before my 2nd year of having this band is over...and then I will set myself free form this neverending fire in my insides.... anyway,good luck.....

Hi Well, when all is said and done this day didnt go to badly for me.....after every cup of this Soup I had a period of some "hotness" in my insides.also with the fruit but it is almost 22:00 and I am feeling ok....might actually not suffer tonight and might sleep well.... Jill,the apple was just to early in the day.But I do need to eat something to be able to take my tablets....so tomorrow with the vegetables maybe I will have some soup and a carrot before I play squash.....have to eat something or the running and bouncing makes my esophagus feel "hot"...and that sounds so stupid but well,the hot feeling came back with the to tight fill and didnt leave with the unfill...after months of not having it...Kathy,canned fruit sounds wonderful but I will eat way to much of something that soft.....I am still a glutton when I can manage to be so I dont make it to easy for myself to overeat. Am very fearful that the veg and fruit have bumped up my calories to much and that I am going to be heavier tomorrow not lighter....(I am so crazy paranoid about everything I eat...am really stepping out with this diet....) Ok,hope this goes well for all....I for one am going to stick this out until the end of day 7..

hi Kathy, I also hope this band can handle the vegetables and fruit....(I have started by trying an apple this morning and hours later I am still cwewing it) I really need a change of something to lose more weight.It feels like the devils has me pinned down on 100kg and I just cannot break through this....I exercise for longer than an hour a day,stay well beyond 1000 calories and I am bouncing the same 2 pounds all the time...and it is not that I am cheating....physiologically I should be losing a ton....but Im not...... I hope that this diet will help get through that stall.... PLEASE keep posting what you lose with the plan..... ok,day 1 and I weigh 220....... Good luck to all...

leenerbups Sometimes when I feel really hot in the insides and pain in tummy I now dont take any antacids but I take 2 500mg panadol/panado/paracetamol tablets and it really not only takes away the pain but also the heartburn,hot feeling....dont do this often but once a week at least I am fedup with the discomfort and then I have a nice normal day...well for most of the day at least. Keep the faith...try to just live from day to day....Its hard to hear nothing is wrong that means nothing can be done for your symtoms but meds.... I must say if I was having only good days lately until i messed around and got a fill that was 2 tight...now even after unfill...well...I am getting there...

hi am I allowed to drink some tea while on this diet?Cant drink coffee,dont drink fruit juices. I have been low carbing forever and am so sick of it....I am going to cook my soup in the morning and then it is me and this diet....cant wait for all the vegetables and fruit.... Thanks

Me...It is not like a full asthma attack but my chest tightens and I wheeze...It started again after this last fill I had that was to tight and it gave me reflux....had a .5cc unfill but I still have a little reflux and the chest thing every night....It is also usually 4 hours after I go to sleep that this happens... The only thing thats ever helped before was a complete unfill for 2 months.....empty band...... Hope you can sort this out.

I have a lot of scar tissue aroung my port....a lot ....some people just makes scar tissue and as I have had a lot of little fills and unfill....it just seems to get a little more all the time...lumpy.....the dr says it is still ok...when I do plastics they will move the port and take the scar tissue away...

Hi Can I also have an update please.....132 pounds gone....53 to new goal....

I am still at 219 but I have a huge amount of lose skin.....arms,legs, stomach,boobs,chin....I exercise a lot ....with skin you have good genes or bad genes...guess what I have...however I would live just like this forever if I can just be thin.....

hi Not everyone have the same experience with the water...it took me a year to figure out that the water makes it way worse....so...might work for some,might make no difference in others...I'm also still learning...

Hi Some people,like me,just have to live with the heartburn and reflux....coffee will make it worse...and then there is the thing of eating to much....not what you think is to much though... Again,the only thing that really seems to make the reflux less is cutting food to well,really only half a cup per meal....and half a cup is nothing.....having lived with this for longer than a year and having tried absolutely everything this is the only thing that really help One other thing that contradicts everything they say about the band...when I have bad reflux and heartburn...I cannot drink Water...it absolutely makes it a lot worse....then I tend to drink very little,eat very littl until it feels better again... Please try this and see..it took me a long time to take the advice of eating even less and not drinking water when refluxing....and I do regret not doing it earlier....I use to say,but I am eating hardly anything...well,now I eat less...and it works....

Oh,one thing...do let the dr unfill you completely for a while...with the meds it will give your stomach proper chance to heal..I refilled a little to soon I think.... Good luck and I am thinking of you...

Hi I havent read the replies of everyone else so if this have been said....forgive me... I have been banded 14 months...have suffered severly with stomach pain and mid back pain...read all my posts about it.....my band is not positioned correctly but that in itself should cause the pain...or so the gastro enterologist tells me.... Long story short.....I have been diagnosed with H Pylori 2 months ago after the scope found I had a pre-piloric ulcer.(I had the breath test about 6 months ago and that was negative).... After being treated with the antibiotics for a time everything changed....no abdominal pain...hardly any back pain....no "hot esophagus"..(that use to drive me absolutely insane)..nothing...... after 2 months now (and 2 quite tight fills..) the symptoms are slowly coming back...hot feeling,stomach ache...back ache in afternoon....I am sure that the treatment wasnt long enough....I was only on the 2 antibiotics for 1 week with the nexium that I take every day.....others have been treated for 3 weeks with antibiotics and ppi. I must say that the physician that is helping me now says that he thinks it will a recurring thing because of the fact that I cannot eat in the morning and take meds in the morning....and because I am prone to ulcers.....so... This is the first time in 14 months that I have come across anyone with more or less same symptoms than me.....I felt so alone for such a long time in this I must confess......felt like I was crazy as no one shared experience and dr said he was happy with the band being that high I should just eat very little... Please persue the issue of the H Pylori.Let the dr put you on the 2 antibiotics and PPI for a few weeks and see what happens....I really have hope that that might be the magic you also need.....it really put me back on the weightloss track and other than having a fill that is surely to tight I have been feeling so much better since treatment...I still feel the band and still have some discomfort but not the intense pain I used to have.... Good luck and dont let anyone tell you it is nothing...

hi I feel so frustrated when I read this.Your band is to low and mine is just to high,no pouch....my esophagus houses everything I eat when I have restriction.But neither dr's want to take responsibility.... The issue I have with this is that they get away with it and someone else might end up with the same amount of trouble and pain I have had over the past year...(and still have mind you.)..and I cannot do anything about that...... I hope you can do something that I didnt manage......

Cheryl A lot,if you dont eat less.....When I had a stack of complications,one the band being to high and I have no pouch...people kept saying eat less...I thought I was eating almost nothing anyway they were crazy....it took me months to realize I just had to eat less....even less.....less.... After the fill you will have to eat less than now... I didnt get any pressure or any stop eating feeling.....only some time after I finished I would get a terrible pain that lasted for hours sometimes... Now I just dont even attempt to eat more than a cup of food at a time...that is only if it is half Protein half vegetables....protein only..half a cup....sounds crazy....I should be at goal....alas....it also seems the less I eat,the slower I lose ...but at least no more pain with eating....

Hi Seppi I had an emtpy band for almost a month in December and I am sure that eating normal and healthy...sort of....helped to cure the constant "hotness" I had... good luck....