bandster_1007

i am having a really hard time dealing with my head hunger. i have been on a binge for the past 3 days and today was my worse. i consumed 1400 calories:faint:, and more than enough suger for one day. my daily intake is supposed to be limited to 800 calories and 40-60 grams of Protein today. Well, since post op, today is the only day that i actually ate the needed protein. (i ordered some urjury packets today..so hope that helps). anyways, before i ramble on too long, i thought it would be very beneficial for some of us "newbie's" to hear from the experienced bandster's about how they dealt with their head hunger. this is the hardest part of the process for me, :angrythe head hunger. i think i have an oral fixation, but i can't chew gum anymore. please share with us the tactics that you used to fight the gremlin in your head that is screaming EAT!!!!:help:

ok, this is something that my dh and i have talked about. i have a history of sexual abuse. some as a child, some as a teenager. i hide behind my fat, and i am afraid that being thin will attract men who hate and want to hurt me. that simple, that is the way it is. it took me several years to be able to admit that, and now that i can admit it, it doesn't make it any better. is that why i am sabotaging myself now by eating Cookies and not keeping a food journal. probably. i thought the lap band would FORCE me to get healthy. i was wrong. so here we go. maybe by posting this for the world to see, i will stop sabotaging myself, realize that i deserve to be beautiful and healthy, and start counting calories tomorrow. probably not, but hey. it is probably the truth for many of us.

..........LOL.......... you are right

it's funny that i came across this post. i have NOT been getting enough Protein in every day, so i've been hoping that i get my protein up before my hair starts to fall out. however, i noticed this week, that my hair is oily between washings (my hair falls below my breasts and is at mid back). it is also fine, but i have a lot. well, this week all of a sudden i have enough dandruff that i have to use a lint brush. i have breakouts on my face all of a sudden, also, they usually go hand in hand. i'll try the head and shoulder's, but i will have to use another conditioner for my ends, the last time i used head and shoulder's it dried out my ends terribly.

i'm a newbie, and i have posted some dumb things (i ate cookies in the mushies phase). however, i am fully aware that my decision was dumb. and although, the squirming stomach thing had not ever been explained to me, i truly thought the only thing that i could hurt was the caloric intake. anyways, i have read several posts and have responded to a few in RnR. i see no reason to block it from newbies. as someone mentioned earlier in this thread, the time frame of being banded or being a member of this thread says nothing of your immaturity. however, i was a newbie, i NEVER asked what Pb, slime, etc. meant. i just read until i found it out. that is the type of person that i am. actually, it's kind of funny now, but i thought pb meant port block..lol..how can your port get blocked..geez. i would imagine that "what is a pb, what is a slime, and how do i put a ticker thingy on here" are the most common new threads. i think a lot of people type before they read, but not all. and the RnR forum is OFF TOPIC DEBATE.so..newbie or not, your opinion is what it is... if you are dumb enough to post in one of those debates and say something like "come on guys, this is not the place for this, we should be talking about being banded, and losing weight, please stop talking about this", then you are dumb enough to get bombarded with all of the replies reminding you that this is an "OFF TOPIC DEBATE FORUM". :scared:

i have the unjury samples. the choco is the only one that i have had and it was AWESOME!! Just like choco milk. i had purchased some "any whey" unflavored whey protein. it says you can add it to yogurt and pudding, you can't, it clumps. and i tried adding it to eggs, oatmeal, cereal, etc. and it was GROSS. (that the "any whey", i have tried the unflavored unjury yet).

thank goodness, i truly thought i was a freak. i was lying on the bed last night, and my belly is sticking up like i'm pregnant. i mean, it usually flattens out when i lie down, but not today. i think it is all of this gas that i have been having...man...

i had the same problem and mine has lasted for more than a month. my dh keeps saying "your stomach is still so swollen", i'm p.o. about it.

ok, the fee i can completely understand. the insurance process is a monster. and a lot of patients will let the clinic do all the hard work of getting the insurance approval, and then they back out. it is a lot of paperwork on the clinic's side, and i completely understand them charging a fee for it. maybe i'm bias because i work in mortgaging and know what a pain in the ass it is to complete a lot of paperwork on a file that never closes. it can cost the company a lot of money in labor hours. HOWEVER, i would not be comfortable with their care policy. ok, so we know they are busy already, but if a clinic is so busy that they are already telling you that you can't call them, then i would say they are too busy for new clientel. my doctor's office has a policy that their door is always open for questions, and they beleive that we should go to them first as they are the best source for answers. sometimes they have heavy call volume and cannot return a call immediately, but they also accept e-mail at any time, and regardless of how many calls they get a day, they ALWAYS return the call. it doesn't sound like your doctor's office has a good amount of customer service, at least in the area of post op comfort.

i suffer from migraines terribly. so much to the point that i may lose my job. i suffer from classic migraines with aura, and the tension in my neck and shoulder's usually "trigger" my migraine. sometimes i'm lucky and i just have visual changes (one time the very center of my vision was gone, and i only had peripheral vision, i could only see the beginning of a word but not the middle unless i turned my head to the side). anyways, i was to the point of missing work at least once a week for migraines, and i had tried topamax, midrin, axert. finally i resorted to taking Hydrocodone. it wasn't until the week before my banding that my PCP told me that hydrocodone actually triggers migraines and that tylenol is a culprit. so my pcp (not my neuro) gave me samples of maxalt and skelaxin. i take the maxalt at onset, but i take a skelaxin when i am having muscle tension. i took one dose of each 2 days before surgery, and i have not had a single migraine since i had surgery. i have never gone longer than a week, and now i have gone 30 days. (by the way, i was not in agreement with the topamax, as one of the side effects causes your limbs to "fall asleep", well i get this with the migraines, so why in the world would i add to it. also, the midrin made me nauseous, and the axert lost it's effectiveness.

my doc says that all pills should go down relatively easy. they want us taking chewable Vitamins because...well you know, you've seen those things. my docs said that if it is a capsule that is time release, i can open the capsule and put it in applesauce if i ever have a problem, but he said if it is a tablet with a enteric (sp?) coating on it, that i would need to either get a new medication, or ask for it in liquid form. he said the main difference is where the pill is made to be absorbed in the digestive tract.

i'm going for a pre-dinner tomorrow evening with the in-laws. then i go to mom's next week. i was just cleared to eat "normal" things yesterday, so i will be able to enjoy the thanksgiving feast the week before i get my first fill. perfect timing, and i'm not going to hold back either. next year, i hope to be able to eat a lot less than i can now.

OH MY GOSH!!! THAT IS THE BEST IDEA!! I'm 5'2 and i have a 26 1/2 inseam and i am ABLE to hem my pants, but i'm not very good at it. That is such a great idea. I would love to get the clothes from you, but i'm a long way from that size ...lol... duct tape is going to be my new best clothing accessory!!

i was a self pay, too and my doctor collects a $400 non refundable fee for filing the insurance. i of course did the research on my own and found out that my policy has a written exclusion to any medical treatment for obesity. so, i asked them to waive the fee and they did.

i ordered the samples last week and tried the choco yesterday. i thought it was VERY good. to me it was a treat, almost like dessert. i considered it choco. milk . i was wondering for those that have tried the unflavored, does it blend pretty well with drink like Crystal Light. I don't want to just wast it, because i may be discouraged to buy a big container.

yeah, my schedule is kind of mid month to mid month. i guess i should have done it for november, but i am 4 weeks out, so now is better than never. i haven't lost any more weight, but my goals are to focus more on the exercising aspect. you guys are doing awesome...makes me feel like i'm really on the slow side, but i know it will work later. i haven't been following the rules this past week because my son has been very sick. so i'm starting over tomorrow.

i set up my outlook calender to remind me when it is time to drink whenever i go to work. i usually wake up at 6 a.m. and fix a crystal light orange. i then drink it and take all of my meds. i have my Breakfast before 8 a.m. then i drink 16 oz. at 9 a.m. and again at 11 a.m. Then at noon i go on my lunch break and drink about 8 oz, then eat right after drinking (this is my doc's recommendation), then i can drink at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. w/ 16 oz each time. then i drink a little Water before i eat dinner. and i usually have the time and the thirst to drink 2 more 16 oz glasses before i go to bed. now, i mix most of my drinks with crystal light, for some reason i cannot get water to go down as well. i feel like the back of my throat tightens and i swallow too much air, because i have to make myself swallow instead of doing it instinctively. weird, i know. my doctor says that we should wait one to one and a half hours after eating before we drink. i have drank before when i was snacking, but either way i do, i do not feel that it affects my hunger. however, most often that not, i stick with that rule. it seems to be the only one i can stick to.

yes, i have taken it before, but not prescribed by her...so..that could be the issue.

see, this is exactly what i expected to happen!!!!!

haha, lindata, the stomach thing must be an arkansas thing!!!!...lol i understand my doctor's rationale, completely, and i would agree that i was more annoyed than actually mad. if i do throw up over the weekend, i will go to the ER. but, my neurologist prescribes phenergan like no tomorrow. too bad she's closed today.

[#3 not looking like that lady in that commercial (slim something) when she stop eating bread and so did her DH and he lost and she got larger. oh, those commercial's are SSOOO perfect!! i'm looking forward to not having to have the nurse switch to the X-LARGE armcuff when checking my blood pressure. it would be nice if i could rid the "cottage cheese" look on my thighs i absolutely cannot beleive that i have rolls on my back (noticed those in my "before" picture.---those have got to go

funny, i had this happen to me just the other day. i had made zatarain's red Beans and rice and i had added smoked turkey sausage. i sat down with my 1/4 cup, and drank a glass of Water before i sat down. half way thru, i felt this terrible urge to drink. it was the first time that i REALLY wanted to drink during my meal. i did not drink, but it was hard not, too. for me, this was the first "dry" food that i had eaten, the sauce and rice was very salty and thick. i'm officially in the stage now where i can eat normal foods, but i'm finding that i do not like a lot of stuff because it is simply too dry.

would they have ematral at Walgreens? Is it a homeopathic remedy?

nutmeg...i haven't heard of that before. maybe since i think that i look kind of like you do....my body will work the way that your does....lol when do you get banded?