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Im here but super busy at work and home. food is very clean and I'm feeling great. Exercise has been lacking. I did almost no walking or stairs this week so far. Yikes. Have to step that up before @@bacon slaps me with a new challenge. I'll write more soon. Off to CODA tonight. Hang tough, peeps!!!!

As I creep to green, my fills are 0.01 each. Sounds ridiculous but it makes a difference! I have a 14cc band. Fills 0.10 seventh fill 07.80 0.10 sixth fill 07.70 0.10 fifth fill 07.60 0.25 fourth fill 07.50 0.25 third fill 07.25 2.50 second fill 07.00 4.50 first fill 04.50

Goal after stall or gain? Share your 2nd ???? wind!!! I would like to hear from anyone who reached goal weight after a period of months or years during their WLS process where they stalled out or even gained weight, but then refocused and got to goal. I'm not talking about a four week stall. I'm talking about five/six months or more where you hovered at a still high weight or even gained some back, but then found a way to get back on track and got to goal. I know you're out there! Please share what it was like, what happened, and what it is like for you today.

I had a beginner hot yoga class but the temp was warm, not hot. But the reason I didn't keep going was my LOUD knees. We held poses for several minutes, and my cracking knees sounded like a machine gun. I couldn't help but burst out laughing uncontrollably. Since I am sure I was a disruption to the class, I dropped yoga and decided walking was more my thing.

This. Made. My. Day.

This post made me look up the BMI calculator again. I must have used a different one before because the one I found today says that at 5'5" my weight needs to be 149 to be normal. 150 is overweight. I had chosen 145 as my goal but I'll be happy with 149. I just want to be normal. I agree that my motivations have changed. Once health problems improved or went away, I decided I wanted to look good too. Nothing wrong with that. What improved or went away? High cholesterol gone. Arthritis greatly improved. sleep apnea gone. Acid reflux gone. High blood pressure greatly improved. Back pain totally gone. It's been so long since I felt like $#!+ that I seriously have to think hard to remember all of my former ailments. My lowest adult weight was on my wedding day when I was still 5'6". (Yes, I got shorter.) I weighed 156. So where would I like to stay? 149. Yep. That's a good number. I'm also encouraged this month because I was at a weight loss standstill for five months. I think I've broken through that over the last two weeks, and now I feel like I can really get to goal. All I had to do was give up wine. *sigh*. Oh well, it's all a matter of priorities. I wanna be skinny, dammit!

What I have done. My last few fills were 0.01 each. Now I think it's perfect. For now. I've been at perfect a few times for awhile. I'm still losing so I expect it to change over time. Pro tip: the tightest part of my day is first thing in the morning. If I can swallow two Tylenol arthritis caplets with a sip of Water, I am happy that I am not too tight.I actually do that during my fill under fluoroscopy as well. Here's what jumped out at me from your post. You should not be eating until you feel like you can't eat any more. You've already eaten too much then. What works for me, is to slow it down a lot. As you approach finishing one cup of food, ask yourself with each bite: Am I satisfied? Is it possible that the next bite might make me feel full? Be honest with your answers. This is difficult to do for people who love food. But if either answer is yes, stop. Physically get up, walk away, go to the bathroom, wash your hands, come back, sit down, wait for a minute. Timing is everything. It takes time for those signals that you ate to reach your brain. It doesn't take long. Two or three minutes at most. Once that happens, and you are no longer starving, you can make this decision objectively. Good luck. The band is now working for you. Now we need to work with the band. This is the tricky part.It truly does give us our signals. We just need to learn to listen to them. And then to actually obey them.

I was banded a year ago. I just wanted to tell you you're doing great. This is the hard part. At the right fill level it becomes so much easier. But creep up on your green. Don't overshoot it.

Brava!! I'll add this. I heard it in a motivational podcast. "I started to recover when I stopped listening to myself and started talking to myself."

I've gotten behind on this site. I follow too many threads!! It took three hours to catch up tonight. I'm in a great place today. NSETBEx and I settled on a few current issues like tuition for the kids, contributions toward current expenses and legal fees. It's a start. God smiled on me and gave me peace going in to the courthouse. I'm not afraid of him anymore. I also woke up Monday with the 11 pound gain gone plus a bonus pound gone. That did wonders for my confidence. Monday was huge. It was the first time I faced or spoke to him in nine months. I have not felt this free and strong in well over a year. Thank you all for your prayers and support. You were with me and it made a big difference.

Thank you for every word of this post. It is very inspirational and gives me such hope for my own long term success. Congratulations!

@@gowalking, I loved loved loved this post!! Yes!! I wish you would write a book.

"I'm not an 18 and I know it's just this fit but I'm taking it. " Sweetheart, it zipped. You are an 18. Until you become a 16. Congratulations.

I'm here! Spent the day with my lawyer. Have to go back tomorrow and spend another day with my lawyer. This weekend is costing a fortune. I hate divorce! I'm successfully taking off the weight that I have gained. This is a big confidence booster for me. When I go to court on Monday, I want to feel as confident as possible. I have 2.2 pounds left to go to get back down to the lowest weight I have been so far. I know I shouldn't be that focused on the numbers, but right now I'm taking every little thing that makes me feel better. As for my food, it is high Protein, almost 0 carb. This is working for me right now. I discovered Trader Joe's mini party meatballs. They're great! No exercise today or tomorrow. Too busy. Also it's raining outside. But, I'll be okay. I have a Coda meeting tomorrow, and that is saving my sanity one meeting at a time. I don't say it often, but I do want you all to know that this thread and the people on it are very important to me. Thank you all for checking in, and the ones who haven't checked in for a while, please come back! We need you here! I need you here! BariatricPal is the one place where I have been honest with myself and with others about my eating, my drinking, and my exercise. It is extremely empowering to have this outlet. Okay, here I go, back to the divorce crapola. Lots of work to do tonight.

Yes, you will have a gain after a little while. But don't fret. Stick to the program, and it will come back off. I would also advise to not weigh yourself. Wait until you go to the doctor's office. Congratulations!

Oh I'm so sorry it went so badly! It happens to me in a restaurant if I get careless. What I do is excuse myself quickly, say my stomach is a little upset, I'll be right back.I go to the ladies' room, and spit it out. It usually comes up gently without any problems. The food is not actually in your stomach, it is in your esophagus. Therefore a little light burping will bring it up. Just spit it in the toilet, rinse your mouth at the sink, and go back to your seat. The most important thing now is do not, do not, do not try to eat any more. Tell your companions that you think you might be getting a stomach bug. When they ask if you were okay, say oh yeah the feeling passed, but I'm just going to take the rest of this food home and eat it later. My closest friends know that I've been banded. But I never told them when I spit up in a restaurant. I always let them know that it was a close call, but I'm okay. No point in embarrassing myself and making everybody uncomfortable. Again, do not try to eat anything for several hours after that. Your band area is inflamed and it will get worse. Not only that, trying to eat when your band area is inflamed can create serious problems down the road. And I hate to tell you this, but it is not the last stuck episode that you will ever have. Don't worry though, now that you know the signs right before you got stuck, you will recognize what it feels like to be getting stuck rather than got stuck. Lesson learned. One of many!

Please take a minute to look back in your family a couple of generations. Almost all of us develop habits based on how we are raised. I found OA at age 28 and realized that my obese upbringing by obese parents was a result of their obese upbringing by obese and alcoholic parents. I was blessed to see this and get the opportunity to change it before I had children. Having said that, I raised my toddlers into teenagers with healthy food habits. We ate at the table as a family and didn't serve soda, or other unhealthy extras while they were little. Unfortunately over time I gained back the weight I had lost. My kids ate healthy but watched me become morbidly obese. By the time they were teenagers, I was eating in front of the TV and so were they. My younger daughter was slightly overweight in her preteen years but became very active in sports and got health conscious in high school and slimmed down. My older daughter never was overweight. Last year I got WLS and have dropped 100 pounds so far. My daughters are my biggest cheerleaders. One daughter kicks my ass when I make poor food choices. They are both excited for my new life. My point is, we teach what we know, and sometimes even though we know better, we don't do it ourselves. It's also not a straight road. I'm on a path to health today, but my girls have seen it good, bad, and good again. They don't have kids yet, but when they do, they will make their own mistakes and successes. I'm back living with my mom while my divorce is starting. My mom is 100 percent in food dysfunction. She is disabled and can hardly walk and lives to eat. We rarely eat together because she likes to binge alone. I learned from her as a teenager that the way to lose a hundred or more pounds was to eat salad and hot dogs for a year. Of course she gained it back. When she was losing weight back then I was overweight at 15. My mom became skinnier than me and I hated her. It's a generational cycle. You can break it for yourself and for your kids. But you probably won't do it perfectly. Peace.

My band dims my appetite for 4 hours between meals and I am no longer ravenous. ***drops mic***

Off the top of my head this came to me. I have a running list of my weights and the dates in my phone. When I feel like I haven't made any progress, I look back a few months and see where I was compared to where I am. I also look in my closet and I have NO fat clothes left. I got rid of them. Even the ones that are one size bigger than I am now. Everything fits and everything looks good. Except for my baggy bathing suits. I need a new one again! My closet always had several sizes when I was fat. I also say a few prayers every day that put my head in the right place.

Got back into Onederland today. Whew! Five more pounds to get off all the excess I gained recently. Hope to walk at lunch for the first time this week. Couldn't even get all my stairs in yesterday. food is spot on. It truly feels good to hear that rumbling in my stomach in the evening instead of feeding it with food or drink. Today the plan is Hamburger for Breakfast Peppers and cheese for lunch Seafood salad and tomatoes and cucumbers with ranch for dinner

I started out slow with exercise and still am slow. I walk stairs at work. Can you try four flights of stairs today and build on that over time? Not all at once. I don't like to get winded at work. I'm up to 24 flights a day. 12 up and 12 down. But I do them in three chunks during the day.

I sincerely hope you have a better experience than I did. I'm a bander. I was an occasional social drinker before WLS. Like one drink every couple of months. After about 7 months post op, I started socializing with friends on the weekends and began enjoying wine a few times a week. My weight loss came to a grinding halt. The relaxation of the wine or cocktails enabled me to throw my food plan out the window and eat foods that are not conducive to weight loss. Plus the calories in the drinks themselves. After no meaningful weight loss over five months, and then a gain of eleven pounds following three weeks of holiday/birthday/you name it, I decided I needed to say goodbye to my Olivia Pope diet of red wine and popcorn. I've lost five pounds this week and feel back on track. Which is good, because I have fifty pounds left to get to goal. And I WILL get to goal, dammit! My experience is probably not the usual. As I said, I only occasionally drank before WLS. People who have wine as part of their regular routine may be able to adjust to it better and account for the calories better than I did. I just have to chalk alcohol up to "not working for me" and move on. Plus side is that my friends like having a permanent designated driver now, and they insist on paying my cover charge in clubs and springing for my one glass of cranberry juice. So I've got that going for me.

Oh been there done that! My worst stuck episode lasted overnight into the next day. I was miserable. Now I'm getting much better at sensing if I am headed for Stucksville. This last fill puts me right on the border of perfect/too tight. If I chew correctly and slowly, perfect. Sloppy or fast, Stucksville. When it does happen, I call it quits and wait for the next mealtime. I never want that overnight misery again.

I had to skip my lunch walk today again because I had to run errands. But the scale is showing a loss and I've got 5 of the 11 pounds I gained off. I bought some Protein shakes for my desk because I think I'm going to end up with two meals during my work day instead of one. Legal stuff is getting worse, but it's not getting me down. I'm just doing what my lawyer instructs me to and preparing well for court next week. I'm glad I have my meetings and therapy to help me through this difficult time. And this board, of course! dinner will be hamburgers made by my mom. I'll add a veggie or a salad to mine and leave off the bun.

Red wine and popcorn. Unfortunately, on it I gained five pounds. DAMN! ???? ????