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Yeah, when Dolly sang my DH heard it from the back room and was like, "who the hell is that? it's ghastly!" HA HA. Kristi Lee Cook was so immature when she came out with that seat sign. She is such a sore loser and I just thought that was a dumb move on her end. It was a very uncomfortable moment. I thought it was RIDICULOUS how AI made the final three people sit through the american idol gives back moment and watch those poor little girls in africa and their struggles and then the whole Dolly/jesus song and then have to stand there and get voted off. Another weird moment. Like, after seeing all that how could they be crying over being voted off... especially when there is all this suffering in the world.. "wah, I got voted off one of the most watched shows in america and wah.. I made it to the top 10 and will have a carreer now".. yet the poorest person in america is still richer than 80% of the world. watching all that just made me realize how spoiled us americans really are...

I think the band is also very mental.... Knowing it's there makes me eat better and be more cautious. I did forget one time that I was banded and tried to eat a rather large bite of BBQ chicken (a bite I would have eaten pre-band) and it felt like a bowling ball going down my esophagus and then pain. Before being banded I could have done that easily. And, I had no fill at the time and was wide open. So, even without a fill, yes, I had something there still telling me not to swallow huge bites and that mental thing that kept me in check. I didn't lose weight during that time like Candle did, but I didn't gain any weight either.. which was a big victory for me.

I had my first fill last tuesday and it did great for litterally one week. I did lose a couple of pounds with it, so I should be thankful for that, but I'm hoping my next fill will last longer, especially since I'm going on a cruise soon. I don't want to be able to eat whatever I want on the cruise and gain weight like I have on previous cruises! I'm down to 270 now, had gotten down to 269 for one day.. and then gained a pound and have just been maintaining this weight now... My next mini-goal is to get to 242. The weight I was when I met my hubby. That's 27 pounds away. I would also like to lose 5 more pounds before the cruise in 2.5 weeks. I think I can do that. It looks like everybody is really doing great and congrats to everybody and what they've lost! :biggrin:

With my fill center you have to really be dramatic and be like "I'm starving.. I'm so hungry all the time".. (if you are that is, you don't want to lie), but that's how they gauge how much fill to give you. I have two other friends who go there and they say that if you just casually act like, "yeah I need a fill" they don't fill you as much. My first fill was pretty decent, but only lasted a week. But it was perfect because I could eat regular foods, but just not a lot and I wasn't hungry. I hope its like that every time. Sadly, it just didn't last long enough. Now I'm stuck at this weight again not going up or down until Tuesday.

Most people would confuse it with the bypass surgery and I'd just say "Oh, you're thinking of the bypass, I'm getting the lapband.. completely reversible" or something like that. If they drilled me for more details I had answers for everything from being on this forum for several months and reading a lot. When somebody would say "I hear you throw up a lot" I would say, "that's because those people needed an unfill or their bands were too small , etc"... there's an answer for everything. I'm glad I didnt' have anybody up in my face grilling me like you did because I probably would have knocked him down.

Are you feeling restriction? do you think he's missing or something???

You are doing great though.. and yes, once you get your fill you will start to lose again... I did the same exact thing you did.. go up and down with the same two pounds. When I got my fill I started losing almost a pound a day.. but now my fill has already worn off after just a week and now I'm just stuck at this weight after gaining back a pound. But, I thought the same exact thing you did and your fill will change everything if you have even some restriction. All said and done, I lost 4 pounds in one week with the fill and that aint bad! Unfortunately I have to wait 8 more days for my next fill, so I'll have to be strong again..

Wow... I wonder what caused that pain? You'll never get another fill again with him or anywhere? I wonder if the more weight you lose the more painful the fills are.. interesting.

What I miss: Lots of pita bread dipped in hummus.. Garlic bread with a big boal of my famous bowtie spagetti and sauce.. Pepperoni and olive thin crust pizza... I dont care about sodas or beer or champagne..I never really had any of that stuff anyway.. Somebody mentioned popcorn.. I did try a handfull of un-buttered popcorn about two weeks ago and had no problems with it, but I was WIDE OPEN and hadn't gotten my first fill yet. I probalby wouldn't try it with a fill.

Do you really have to take off 2 weeks? Most people are fine to go back to work after 5-7 days. Unless you have a really physical job like lifting boxes or something.. but if you have a desk job, you honestly won't need more than that I don't think unless you have some bigtime issues that most people don't have... I'm a pretty big wimp and I was back at work rather quickly.

My fill that is, or at least I think it is. Yesterday I felt total restriction. Then this afternoon I found out my niece ran away. Yes, can you tell I'm freaking out? she just turned 16.. too young and not even a driver's license. We've got some leads.. but nothing solid. Anyway, so after I find this out, I eat two pieces of chocolate at work, which I don't even barely like chocolate!! Then I come home. I eat an entire can of tuna. Then a banana. I go to work out thinking that will make me feel better.. nope.. so then I eat a half cup of Fiber one Cereal with skim milk. Of course, I put two hours in between these and a work out, but just the day before I could barely get down 5 bites of pork tenderloin!! So, this tells me either I"m a total emotional eater, OR, my fill suddenly wore off in a matter of 20 hours. I thought being upset makes you tighter?? well, it made me wide open and able to eat everything in sight! The only thing I had going for me was at least most of this was semi-healthy and I didn't run to McDonald's for a quarter pounder with cheese and ketchup with a large salty fry and BBQ sauce for dipping.. OMG.. my stomach is growling now..

Yep, they have to do it on their own without trainers and they just also announced that america will decide who is next to be voted off for next week. Interesting!!

If Mark wins I'm sure he'll share the money with his brother anyway.. so, it's not like Jay won't get anything out of it. I think Mark should have went though.. oh well. I'm glad it's 2 men and 2 women though. The guys didn't take over like they had planned to.

I'm watching it now and Mark just cries, cries, cries.. all the time... its sad when even your wife is like, "are you crying again??!!" And the brother's are in teh bottom two, so I can't wait to see how this is going to play out.... haven't seen the results yet...

OMG, that's so funny!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sad that you had to go through all of this and I'm glad your surgery went well to remove it. I wish you all the best on your journey hun. I hope you'll check in with us and let us know how you are getting along..

Yeah, she's totally trying to make it seem in her head that you are having all these problems because she wants to feel better about not being able to get it... A lady at my work was doing the same thing before I got banded... begging me not to, that I was going to have issues and throw up all the time... Every week she asks me if I'm alright and I say "yeah, I'm doing great" and she just didn't believe it, so we went to a chinese buffet for lunch one day. I had a tiny scoop of tuna, salmon, mixxed veggies and salad and I had a little of each and was done. She couldn't believe I wasn't throwing up or nauseous. After we left, she asked me again in the car "are you still feeling okay?" "YES!!" It was like she wanted something to be wrong. Since then she hasn't bothered me about it and I hope it stays that way. lol.

I wish I knew how to put multiple pics side by side, but, I have no clue how to do that :-( Here I am 35 days out from surgery.

It was my weakness too.. I could eat an entire loaf of french bread with butter with a thing of spaggeti! The quiche thing is very tricky because it seems like it would have the crust, but it doesn't. I do have some carbs everyday, but it's multigrain crackers now and not the other. I don't miss pasta and breads as much as I thought I would.

This is what we've been doing at my house... A south beach diet.. low carb plan. Sunday night we had Pork Tenderloin (bought one of those bags with the seasonings for it) and had real green Beans that we cleaned up and boiled (not the canned kind) and mushrooms.... it was fabulous and no carbs at all. We put the mushrooms on the tenderloin and YUMM! There is also this crustless spinache/egg quiche that I make.. with feta cheese, onions and bacon bits added.. WONDERFUL and carb free... I'll have to find that recipe at home. My husband freaks out over it. He says it's the best thing he's ever tasted!

Yeah, she is very brave, because hell, her dad won't even watch Lord of the Rings because Ian Mckellan(sp) is gay in real life.. I'm like. WHAT!!? So, for her to come out and say this is amazing. My sister thinks its just a phase that she is going through as many young girls fool around with other girls when they are little.. but, she says she's inlove... usually when it's little girls experimenting with each other they aren't inlove.. and its usually a younger age like 11 or 12. I told my sister and her husband and my parents that none of them better treat her any differently over this.. My views are very different from my family. I'm the open minded person with several gay friends and heck, I'm just open minded with everything.. religion, sexuality, etc. Oddly, I am republican, but only fiscally, not socially! Anyway.. All I can do is support her, and if she ever feels like she needs to get away, she can come stay with me for a weekend since I don't live very far.. And yeah, I got lucky with the food choices. My hubby is doing SB diet so, we don't keep any crap foods at the house.. fruits, veggies, lean meats, and health stuff. But, I did have those chocolates at work!! :puke:

Have you tried Fiber One cereal or laxative tea?? they both work great for me. I drink this tea called KleriTea, I got it online with this colon cleanse stuff and I drink one cup of that before bed and bam.. I'm good in the morning. And sometimes I eat Fiber One cereal and that does the trick too.

They found her last night and brought her home. She had been gone for 3 days.. very scary. Apparently she told my sister that she is gay and is inlove with a girl. Well, my sister and her husband are about as "christian coalition/republican" as you can get and are always trashing gay people, so it was very brave of her to say this. Apparently she ran away with this girl she's inlove with. My sister said it was a phase she's going through; I told her she just needs to accept her for who she is regardless if she's gay or not. I'm just glad she's home now... Hopefully I can get back on track today. I'm so glad I keep my ticker a pound heavier at all times, because I gained a pound and dont' have to change my ticker now. LOLLLLLLLL.

Well, I was already eating Taco Bueno's refried beans by day 5. My doctor said it was fine. I guess all doctors are different, but I have a pretty good feeling you'll be fine. I was having cream soups by day 3 and those beans on day 5, tuna and crackers on day 7 (very well chewed) and so forth. Shoot, I've seen some people who said they were eating scrambled eggs (doctor allowed) on the second day. There's no way I could have done that...!!

I'm going on my first 'after being banded' cruise in about 3 weeks.. I'm so excited, but a big part of going use to be eating~! now I won't get to do that like before. So, I'm excited to see I can still go and enjoy it and have a good time. I'm getting a tiny fill about 10 days before departure. Hoping that will top me off before leaving....