MsScorpio67

I want some of this action. I would love to lose 10lbs by new years. my weight has been at a stand still and I was looking for some motivation to get my butt in gear. Thanks.:grouphug::thumbup:

For me Tortilla chips are the one guaranteed thing that will go down. It something about it being hard a crunchy that makes it go down with no problem.

I'm three months post op. I recently had a fill 9/9/2008 and thought I felt a little tight. I could still drink liquids so I wasn't too much worried about it. I hadn't had any serious problems post-op and I felt that I had the hang of this LAP BAND. Well I went out with a friend to the Sizzler to have clam chowder. It was soo good and hot. The heat relaxed some of the restriction I was feeling and I got carried away. I started to eat kinda fast. Not really chewing cause I felt there wasn't much to chew. Before I knew it I ate the whole thing. It took 5 mins before I felt the effect. It felt like a bubble was forming in my chest, real slow. My breathing started to feel slightly labored. My friend looked at me and asked if I was alright. I said no. I told him I was gonna walk around. My old faithful way of walking to dislodge whatever was stuck, was not working. I eventually went to the bathroom and suddenly my mouth was watering perfusely. Is this slimming??? OMG am I gonna throw up???? Well to make a long story short and not so graphic, I threw up 4 times. The 4th time I was infront of emergency about to walk in. I never felt so awful. Emergency didn't do anything for me cause I felt 10 times better. I am so careful now of what I eat, how I eat, how fast I eat. Cause i don't want that to ever happen again. What was your experience like of getting stuck and what worked for you?

Hello My Sistahs, My name is Tonia I'm a single parent of a wonderful and animated (Like myself) son that's 15 yrs old. I live in Hayward, CA I work for the government part time and I'm a Longshoreman the rest of the time. When I started this process, I went to my first orientation July 23, 2007. I weighed 299.6 and I was floored. I couldn't wait to get on the phone quick enough to call moms. She said, "YOU WEIGH 300LBS?!?!?!?!???!?! And I said NOOOOOOO!!!!! I weigh 299.6 Hahahahahaha The funny thing was when I was cute and had a booming body I was so freakin shy. If you didn't hear my quiet giggle you wouldn't know I was there. As I got older and started putting on the lbs. I became very outgoing. I was funny, bubbly and animated. I had to make jokes about my weight before anyone else did. As a defense mechanism. Now I just want to put together the great personality and the booming body together. And stop using food and the fat as a way of making excuses for not doing some of the things I always wanted to do.