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Thanks bigbaby, I will start the pills tonight, I have some already. I will keep you updated, Thanks so much for caring....talk to you soon ....

My knee on the tread mill going 3.5 for 2 miles. is feeling it. I ice it each morning thinking maybe this will help. I have little or n swelling . I started .5 incline . Can anyone give me pointers? A knee brace from Walgreens, what ??? I want to keep up my good work, I love it @ 5:00a.m. 2 miles isn't so bad. I am down to 201 lbs. from 257 lbs. Anyone can help me or been through this. My next step is a knee doctor. I just know the knee is there , no real bad pain...Help????

I have a question. I have lost close to 60 lbs. Now I am on the tread mill daily. I am about 4 weeks out. I have taken it slow. I I am @3.5 for 2 miles. My knee is kinda bothering me. Not too bad. But I kind of feel it. Which makes me nervous about an injury. I slowed it down to 1 mile a day at a slower pace to 3. I heard try an slight incline. Makes it better for the knees. I thought after getting weight off my knee by loosing I wouldn't have this problem. Does anyone have suggestions for me so I can get back on track. I am at 200 lbs. now. I love tread mill and don't want to stop.

Let's start with what is a good day of the week for everyone. OneTuesday or Wednesday per month?

Wow , I never thought when I started this thread I would get so many replys. I GO 2-29-08 for my 6th fill. My surgery was 9-27-07. I am doing good. I lost a little over 50 lbs. I finally got a tread mill. Man I work out 2 xs a day. Thirty minutes in the morning and 15 min. after dinner at night. We all need to start a group meeting. This is why I made this thread. I live in the Southside area / Arlington. I have the space . I am redoing my living room , so it is empty. Everyone let me know how we can get this started....Judy

Sounds like there is swelling. When you have swelling it is tighter. Eat real slow. I just got my 5 th fill Friday. I am tight , but I eat real slow, it helps so much, after 2 weeks it gets looser. Eat or drink everything slow !!!

Hey, I told them it was female surgery and everyone stopped there. I told the closet person at work to me. This was a mistake, cause he told one other person.,I think. If I had to do it again I would tell no on in the work place. They ask how I am loosing. I told them I changed my way of eating, I eat healthy now. It seems to shut them up.

Update : I had an appointment yesterday. It had been 3 weeks since my last visit. I lost 7 1/2 lbs. I got another fill, which makes my 5th. No problem in that dept. He asked my opintion. I thought I needed somewhat of a fill, which he did. Time is getting short for you Karen, I am excited for you !!! Where is Lola ??? Haven't seen her in a while . I think I am getting a my tread mill today. I am getting a used one. I am getting one for $ 250.00. Those things are not cheap. So I decided to get a used one. I need something for the exersise. I have not been doing to well in that dept. So I need to pick up the pace.I can loose all the weight I want, but I need to tone and tighten myself up. Well Karen I think it's just you and me on here lately. Take care . Keep me posted on yourself !!! If anyone else is there , hello.... I'll go back for an appointment in 4 weeks this time. I think 3 weeks for me is too soon. I have to be close to being pretty full.

hey Karen, I have had a fill everytime I went ,like every 4 weeks is what I choose. I go Friday which if he gives it to me will be my 5th. I think you have to be loosing well and show u are with the program. At least 1 or 2 lbs. a week. He has 0 tolerance for no weight loss. He is tough as you know. He wants you out of your old ways and in with the new. I myself have not had any problems with him filling me. I know someone that didn't get it. Because of no weight loss. So he knows whats up with you. Stay on the carb thing and move at least 15 minutes a day. It works , and he wrks with you....

Where is everyone ?

I heard pineapple juice is the thing to drink when you feel stuck... I tryed it, it worked. I always keep little cans around. Some things you just can't eat anymore...Strange how that happens...

I am so glad to see ya Lori, I will write back soon, I have to go to work !!!Hi Karen , Talk to yall later...

Hi, all. I was wondering where is Lola . I been kind of concerned not hearing from her. Hey hats off Karen. Great job!!! If we keep this up we will have a nice size group for our meeting. Welcome Kim. We are thinking of starting our own group after Karen is banded & healed. Hi crazy 4 jags. We have close band dates. I was banded 09-27-07. See ladies we have so much in common. I have never started a group , but with everything we have in common it should roll. Jag has a hubby also that has something in commom too !!! Karen your date is near, wow. I got my fill 1 week ago. I get the slime thing going when I eat too fast. Seems you bend over and it comes out. I called Cywes, he says I am like a new baby learning to eat. I was scared, so nothing would go wrong with me. He is so sweet whenever I call, which has only been 2 x's. He said this was normal. Well talk to all of you soon !!!

Well Karen after your surgery and Lola's healing we will try our best to set 1 up. After 10 good days you feel so much better. Crazy4jags that includes you also. I think smaller meeting are better for me. At Cywes office there was just too many people talking at 1 time. But like I said that was me, my opintion only.

I was thinking of Lola. She is in the 2nd day today. Everyday is a little better. The gas is the worst. They have to insert air for the operation, so it takes a few weeks to go down. Walking is the best thing. The reason I didn't care for the meetings was, it was about 20 to 25 people. Seems like not everyone got to share, and kept getting off the subject, and the same people went on and on. Just my opintion though. The sweet spot you are refering to, I think I am here. I want to eat so bad, when I start I can't get alot down. It smells so good, and to just take a couple of bits is hard. I will get used to it. I am still real tight, cause I only got the fill Friday. They say it gets looser after 2 weeks. The wrong thing goes down easy, like I ate a small piece of chocolate yesterday. It went down great. My veggies tonight , I ate around 5 bites then I done.

Great , I am at jax weight loss center, Dr. Cywes, Banded Sept. 27,2007. Lola is getting hers today!!! Differant Doctor ,she is at Memorial Hospital just like I was. They were great there.We are all in our 40's. We have lot in common. Maybe we can get together with a small group. I went to the support meeting @ Cywes office. I didn't care for the meeting. I was looking for more of a smaller group. Even if we just emailed or called, just something to keep us going. I think my family is tired of hearing me, but they are very supportive. I am a single mother of 3 grown children. Ok Lola & Karen it's up to you. Karen my email address is Conrad0135@bellsouth.net. Feel free to email me anytime to share your thoughts or questions. Lola has my email address also. I have lost right at 50 lbs. I had my 4th fill Friday. So I have been through a little with this.

I got a fill Friday,and

I am there with all of you. I go for my 3rd fill Friday. I can eat alot. And yes it is alot less than before. I am just worried I will gain some weight back . I have been lucky , only 30 lost but 0 gained. So yes I feel like a failure on my huge eating days. I have to say this web site is the only thing that keeps me going. Giving me imformation like we will get there, there is such a thing as sweet spot. I know I will get there. But this web site has kept my hope up. I will let the doctor know Friday hey I can eat a horse if you put it in front of me. He won't be happy with my weight loss, so maybe I might get a better fill. I am just going to be honest with him.

I was banded on Sept. 27 of this year. I will be going to get my 3rd fill Friday. Seems like I can eat and eat. I am hoping this gets better. I have been eating everything in the house like a normal person. Will this change. I lost 3o lbs. If I continue will gain instead of loose. I am not understanding , seems I have less restriction than I had when I got the fill...Help !!!

Hi, I am now taking liquid Geritol , I started it 2 days ago. It was cheap only $2.99 a bottle.

Does anyone get this big pain in the middle of there chest between there breast bone like someone punched them after they eat maybe too fast or drink? I was told this. I have gotten it 2xs. It is really painful. I walk and walk it out. Really just go to sleep with pain. Any suggestions?:sick

I can relate to what you are saying. Seems like everything in life surrounded going out to eat as a pass time. Like on Friday nights. Everything is too large of portions, and they won't let us eat off the Childs menu. Which causes me to over eat sometimes. Like Friday night I got a belly ache from you know where. So it's time to eat at home for me. I guess I need another place to have fun at......

Thanks for all interesting comments.

:help:Thank you for posting this. I was banded 9-27-07. I suffer everyday with this. I am so bloated. I have been using gas -x . It hasn't been doing that great of a job. I have had no spicy food at all. In fact food doesn't look that great to me at all. I have not had a fill yet. I am due on 10-26-07. hen I first got the durgery , seems like the doctor said a lot of walking. Thanks again....

:clap2:Well today is better. I went for my first office visit since my surgery on Sept. 27,2007. I was glad to see my doctor. I was not so happy with him. I was hungry and felt I had left 2 messages and no one returned my calls. I wasn't in the state of emergency, no fever, nothing I felt I should call him on his cell about. But all in all I had left 2 messages. Sweet as he is, He turned it all around and said u know no matter what you can call my cell !!! Well I couldn't give a response so...He is very likeable and cute so what's a woman to do. I had lost 10 1/2 lbs so he was pleased wth me. I go back in 3 weeks for my 1st fill. He really shoots from the hip, no playing around kinda guy. Kinda harsh buts says he can't sugar coat any part of this or we run with it. Simple we use any excuse in the world to make adjustments for our crazy life style. One thing that he told me the day before the surgery, which I have to say kinda made me stand up and take notice was... He was talking to 2 other women besides myself, all getting the surgery & says look all three of yall ladies are wearing slip on shoes. So you can just throw them on and throw them off. Saying yall have made adjustments for your obesity. Which while thinking kinda pissed me off, but I had to be real or I will never get to the bottom of why I was ever over weight in the 1st place. Like he mentioned grabbing a chair without arms. I guess things we never really take notice of. My thing was seems like every time I went there everyone was larger than me. Yeah like me being 257 lbs. was small. What a joke, so I was justifiing me being severly morbitly obese. Just another excuse to excuse my lifestyle. Like a drug addict, well I only smoke a little weed or alcohol, I drink only on weekends, I'm not on the streets making an a$$ out of myself or beating my kids or the cops being at my house cause someone was out of control. Just all excuses to justify why we do what we do. By the way I do not do drugs or drink alcohol, lol So I know 1 thing for sure I have to get down to the real facts of why I seemed t not be happy , which I have loads of fun, or just seem to want to destoy my life. One thing about all this surgery, yeah I want the fine body, but my health was falling so much, I just want to be lighter & live so much longer !!! Now there I said the real TRUTH!!! :clap2: