Newlife4me

Okay... I am a slow loser also but I know a lot of it is my own fault. They say that you will lose most of the weight roughly in the first year to year and a half. My question... if I get my sh%t straight, will I still have the ability to lose the weight or am I just out of luck. What is the chance of being successful after a year and a half. May will be two years for me and I have lost 40-45 lbs. While i am not complaining, I just have about another 60 lbs or more that I would like to lose. Anybody out there that has had this and how successful was the weight lose after 2 years? Thanks in advance....

Thanks a bunch!!

Is there a place to get the answers? I emailed it to some of my friends and they are asking me about it! You can PM me and I promise I will not contribute anymore!!

Alice in chains

My son (3rd grade) has been involved in two altercations on the bus. 1st... another child was strangling him. Hands around his throat and all. A 4th grader was trying to pull this kid off of my son. I, of course, went to the principal. Ended up that this kids had been being picked on as well and he thought that my son hit him. He did not, but the kid took it out on my son anyway. He was confronted and he admitted what he did and did apologize to my son. He was moved to the front of the bus and we have had no instances since. I even suggested to my son that he should try to be nice to the boy since he feels like no one likes him. 2nd... a child on the bus told my son that he was going to "kick his a$$" and proceeded to kick my son in the back. Left marks on his back and all. IN DEFENSE, my son pushed the kid away from him and this other kids head hit the window and broke it. No one was hurt by the broken window. It was like when a rock hits your window. It did not shatter. Both boys got a bus report. I do not think it was fair but that is the policy. We have always told our kids that they (1) ask the person to stop, making eye contact. That person has ONE chance to stop. (2) If it continues, our kids are told to defend themselves and we will deal with the consequenses later (school consequenses). The reason we do this is because we feel that if they continually "walk away from the situation" they will in turn be picked on by more bully's because they know they will not defend themselves. We do stress that they may not start the fight. I don't agree with what the schools are doing today about getting both kids in trouble. That to me is not teaching a good lesson either. However, I will not have my child "assulted" by another child and not be able to defend himself. If he follows our "rules" then he will not be in trouble when he gets home!! Just my opionion!!

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My sister lives there and everytime I visit, we go there! It is really a cool place. Lots of really cool things to buy. I assume you saw the guys throwing the fish??!! Awsome huh? :clap2:

Before I got my band, my GP doctor gave me a name. I don't have it anymore but you might call your GP and see if he can refer you to someone.

Thanks ladies. I went to see the doctor today and we ended up doing a slight "deflate" as they put it!! I have to be on soft foods for the next two days, so we shall see. I was at 2.0 cc and now am back to 1.5 cc. I just hope it was not to much that they took out! Hopefully things will be much better. I did try the hot tea for a few days and it worked sometimes but not all the time. I also could not image having to do that before and during every meal. The nurse told me today that it should not take you that long to eat a meal. It was taking me 45 min. sometimes. She said, "when your family is done, then you should be done." So I will try these new things out and hopefully things will start moving again since I have been "in the slow losers club"!

I had a really good fill in December. My problem is now, for about the last month or so, whenever I eat just about anything, I end up "sliming". It can be the first bite of food, solid or soft. I did it yesterday on yogurt! So to me it does not have anything to do with the "chewing" part. It does not happen everytime but probably about 85% of the time. It could be the 1st meal or the last. What do you think this means? Am I filled to much? I do not PB just slime. I have been stuck at the same weight since about January and I think it is because I can not get in enough protien, etc. Some days I have no problem eating a meal. It just is so nerve racking not knowing what will happen. My friend took me out to lunch the other day for helping him with something and I ate about 3 bites and had to excuse myself from the table about 4 times. I just told him the food was to spicey and it was upsetting my stomach but I was getting rid of the slime. It is horrible not knowing what will happen when I put some food in my mouth!! What do you think?

I had to sign a release but we tried about 4 times with saline and it always disappeared. Most of the time... all of it. Since they put in the omniplaqu I have had not one problem with it disappearing.

I'm at 290 and Eldridge...

I don't know how to include a link on these but I was having all sorts of problems at the beginning with my saline just "disappearing". They ended up using omniplaque in my band and I have not had a problem since. Do a search for the threads "fill loss at every fill" and "band leakage" and this should give you some info. Good luck.