britterz

I haven't blogged about my weight loss forever nor have I read posts. I am going in for my 3rd fill 2 years later and and excited! I was dragging feet for the first 10 months of surgery and then my husband and I split the sheets and my weight loss rocketed! I got rid of someone that made me very unhappy and made me happy.... amazing what that can do! So this past year I have lost over 100 lbs and am starting to slow. I am on the downhill slope of things but I have worked so hard. I have gained about 20 lbs., not from over eating its from undereating and getting carried away thinking that I can just go back to not eating but once a day.... The scale reality checked me the other day and I became panicked!!!! I am very aware of my weight and when I start gaining I feel awful, bloated, and think to myself that I can't gain any weight because.... I have gotten rid of the larger wardrobe and refuse to go buy bigger! Anyways... my little rant... Hope everyone is doing well and having great success! :cursing:

I haven't blogged about my weight loss forever nor have I read posts. I am going in for my 3rd fill 2 years later and and excited! I was dragging feet for the first 10 months of surgery and then my husband and I split the sheets and my weight loss rocketed! I got rid of someone that made me very unhappy and made me happy.... amazing what that can do! So this past year I have lost over 100 lbs and am starting to slow. I am on the downhill slope of things but I have worked so hard. I have gained about 20 lbs., not from over eating its from undereating and getting carried away thinking that I can just go back to not eating but once a day.... The scale reality checked me the other day and I became panicked!!!! I am very aware of my weight and when I start gaining I feel awful, bloated, and think to myself that I can't gain any weight because.... I have gotten rid of the larger wardrobe and refuse to go buy bigger! Anyways... my little rant... Hope everyone is doing well and having great success! :thumbup:

About 2 weeks after I was banded I started feeling really hungry. My dr. told me it was cause the band is lose due to me losing weight the fat around the stomach is going away. So.. I started my soft foods and mushies earlier than I should have. I continued to be hungry... However after my first fill.,.... hunger was not an issue!

So I have a question. I was banded on 12/17/07. I have lost a sufficient amount of weight I feel since this time. However my port was put to the right side of my belly button. Certain things I do... makes it feel like its pulling. Or the area that the port is in starts burning. Is this just the healing process? I can feel it if I bend down or squat on my knees. I don't understand. :eek: It's really uncomfortable that I feel it! Do any of you or have any of you had this? How long will it last? It is not enough to go back to the dr but I wonder what the deal is?:frown:

I am very very obsessed with it!!!!! I do it every day! I shouldn't I know but every morning I go to the bathroom, and get on the scale....

So I have manager to catch a wonderful flu bug and I am ILL. Can barely move, and cannot keep ANYTHING down. So I just had a fill and I am on liquids anyways but I am really worried bout gettin dehydrated... Does anyone have any suggestions of what to drink or take in. I don't want to be pukin do to the band I don't want it to slip... :redface:

So I have manager to catch a wonderful flu bug and I am ILL. Can barely move, and cannot keep ANYTHING down. So I just had a fill and I am on liquids anyways but I am really worried bout gettin dehydrated... Does anyone have any suggestions of what to drink or take in. I don't want to be pukin do to the band I don't want it to slip...

Hahahahah wow someone that thinks like me AMEN! i am thinking the rny would have been the best way to... and for the love of god i was just banded! I get excited but i want the dramatic changes like they have. They don't have to worry about a band slipping or being stuck to fill a band so on and so forth. I totally agree with you and i have thought to myself this past month... i did this surgery because it was least invasive... but im wondering to myself is it less effective? I had my first fill today and at that point when he had me drink water he said he wanted it to feel like it was sticking while it was going down.. well it did a lil bit.. and now... it doesnt feel like that GAH!!!!!!!!!! sucks...

So I went to my 6 week post op check up today even though its been almost 5 and the dr was sooooooooooo proud of me, I have lost the most out of the 3 people he did that day! :cursing: I was pumped. I also convinced him to go ahead and do my fill. I was scared to death after reading about fills on the forums on this website :mad:. It was CAKE he had to stick me 4 times but he said the more i lose the easier it gets! It didn't hurt the needle stick that is! It hurts worse to have a shot of heparin in your stomach. He filled me to .04 and said that was a pretty vigorous amount for just being banded... so he said if im not getting enough restriction then come back next week! I am in the green zone and feel ok. So liquids for two days and we will see what the weekend brings! :mad:

So I went to my 6 week post op check up today even though its been almost 5 and the dr was sooooooooooo proud of me, I have lost the most out of the 3 people he did that day! I was pumped. I also convinced him to go ahead and do my fill. I was scared to death after reading about fills on the forums on this website :eek:. It was CAKE he had to stick me 4 times but he said the more i lose the easier it gets! It didn't hurt the needle stick that is! It hurts worse to have a shot of heparin in your stomach. :huh2: He filled me to .04 and said that was a pretty vigorous amount for just being banded... so he said if im not getting enough restriction then come back next week! I am in the green zone and feel ok. So liquids for two days and we will see what the weekend brings! :tt1::redface:

Hey everyone! My name is Brittany and I am 26 soon to be 27. I have been married for a year and a half and have a little boy that is 6 months and a daughter that is soon to be 8. I live in the great state of Wyoming! I was banded 12/17/2007.

I went out last night I was banded 12/17 and YES liquid does come back up i stuck to wine and a bloody Mary... and omg did I get ever sooo sick. and it took nothing at all for me to puke! It was HORRIBLE! I will not be drinking like that again! It was NOT worth it....

So I went and met with the personal trainer yesterday. She is very straight to the point and willing to help. She knows her stuff I must say!!! She is ranked in the top 50 personal trainers in the United States! So no big deal we are talking about nutrition and what I have to do. 1100 Calories sounds like ALOT :eek: But like she broke it down for me and if I eat around five small meals a day.. that makes each meal only about 240 to 250 calories!!! :phanvan That sounds like NOTHING!!!! But I am real positive. The nice thing is she is not paper thin, but yet she looks really really good! So the dreaded question.. how much does she charge! I thought about 600 a month. I don't know how trainers work! HAHAHAHAHAHA Boy did I make myself laugh :whoo: For 12 weeks and four times a week the grand total is $2,280.00. Thank god for tax return season is all I have to say! To me her training me for three months is WORTH it. So I meet with her today we are going to just do measurements... the DREADED measurments! :cry But... I the good thing is I won't have to dread measurments or getting on the scale ever AGAIN!!!!! :biggrin1: I cannot wait to see myself in 12 weeks, just the improvements. You know she said something wise to me and it really stuck. "people think that eating does not control them losing weight, and it is the key factor, you cannot just do 2 hours of cardio and strength training and not watch your calories, and you cannot just do cardio and skip what you eat." Makes alot of sense from that perspective. She said we have to have ALL of the pieces of the puzzle. So true, and my whole life I have NEVER had all the pieces to the puzzle! All I can say is LOOK OUT WORLD CAUSE HERE I COME!!!!! :peace::peace:

Pictures are AMAZING!!!!! You look good!

So I went and met with the personal trainer yesterday. She is very straight to the point and willing to help. She knows her stuff I must say!!! She is ranked in the top 50 personal trainers in the United States! So no big deal we are talking about nutrition and what I have to do. 1100 Calories sounds like ALOT But like she broke it down for me and if I eat around five small meals a day.. that makes each meal only about 240 to 250 calories!!! :phanvan That sounds like NOTHING!!!! But I am real positive. The nice thing is she is not paper thin, but yet she looks really really good! So the dreaded question.. how much does she charge! I thought about 600 a month. I don't know how trainers work! HAHAHAHAHAHA Boy did I make myself laugh :whoo: For 12 weeks and four times a week the grand total is $2,280.00. Thank god for tax return season is all I have to say! To me her training me for three months is WORTH it. So I meet with her today we are going to just do measurements... the DREADED measurments! :cry But... I the good thing is I won't have to dread measurments or getting on the scale ever AGAIN!!!!! :biggrin1: I cannot wait to see myself in 12 weeks, just the improvements. You know she said something wise to me and it really stuck. "people think that eating does not control them losing weight, and it is the key factor, you cannot just do 2 hours of cardio and strength training and not watch your calories, and you cannot just do cardio and skip what you eat." Makes alot of sense from that perspective. She said we have to have ALL of the pieces of the puzzle. So true, and my whole life I have NEVER had all the pieces to the puzzle! All I can say is LOOK OUT WORLD CAUSE HERE I COME!!!!! :peace::peace:

So... First of all I should conitnue blogging I think it makes a person feel better! Since no one else around me understands. Second I have made this change to my life.... and I have no damn clue how to live it! I know I am supposed to have certain portion sizes and so on, however they don't tell you what calories to stay at in order to keep losing and how many carbs to take in and how many grams of sugar. I have decided to hire a personal trainer to help aid in my weight loss journey. I meet with her today at 11:30. I hope that goes well and she provides me with some good information. I have been trying to get through to my dr. His secretary is an idiot! Why are Dr's secretaries so dumb?! I want to know what size band I had put on, well I finally find out its a standard size? Ok WTF? So here I am searching on the world wide web to find out about a standard band. GRRRRRRRR :huytsao I called the nutrionist this am to find out where I am to be with calories since I was unsucessful with the SECRETARY :rolleyes. I guess I am to be taking in 1100 calories and I am not even exercising yet. Gah I am soooooooooo scared to put any of this weight back on. I have been stayin right around 872 and bumping myself up to 1100 wow. But she says I will see faster results cause at that level I am not in starvation mode! :whoo:Thanks to her I got a little bit of helpful information. I still have strong hunger pains which is weird. I cannot wait for my first fill! I have 3 more weeks though until I get it. If any of you have any information please let me know or you can add me on yahoo: militarywif3y is my id. Missyd has been a huge help to me! And I thank her alot! This will get easier? I will learn good foods and how to continue the good lifestyle change I am hoping?

So... First of all I should conitnue blogging I think it makes a person feel better! Since no one else around me understands. Second I have made this change to my life.... and I have no damn clue how to live it! I know I am supposed to have certain portion sizes and so on, however they don't tell you what calories to stay at in order to keep losing and how many carbs to take in and how many grams of sugar. I have decided to hire a personal trainer to help aid in my weight loss journey. I meet with her today at 11:30. I hope that goes well and she provides me with some good information. I have been trying to get through to my dr. His secretary is an idiot! Why are Dr's secretaries so dumb?! I want to know what size band I had put on, well I finally find out its a standard size? Ok WTF? So here I am searching on the world wide web to find out about a standard band. GRRRRRRRR :huytsao I called the nutrionist this am to find out where I am to be with calories since I was unsucessful with the SECRETARY :rolleyes. I guess I am to be taking in 1100 calories and I am not even exercising yet. Gah I am soooooooooo scared to put any of this weight back on. I have been stayin right around 872 and bumping myself up to 1100 wow. But she says I will see faster results cause at that level I am not in starvation mode! :whoo:Thanks to her I got a little bit of helpful information. I still have strong hunger pains which is weird. I cannot wait for my first fill! I have 3 more weeks though until I get it. If any of you have any information please let me know or you can add me on yahoo: militarywif3y is my id. Missyd has been a huge help to me! And I thank her alot! This will get easier? I will learn good foods and how to continue the good lifestyle change I am hoping?

So here I sit journaling. I am pissed off at my family! My mother came to help me out with the kiddos since my husband works all the time, and also to help get things ready for the holidays. I have a bunch of family coming. My house has seem to have gotten real messy, dishes and so on and it SURELY isn't me using the dishes!!!! Hmmmm tonight they want to order pizza from Pizza Hut. Man that sure sounds good. In all reality I was banded on Monday and it hasn't been a week and yeah at this point and time that sounds really darn good! Well the way I am thinking about this is, my mother is an alcoholic who just successfully completed rehab in November. Shall I sit and drink some alcohol in front of her to see if she can hack it? GRRRRRRRR :help: I am trying real hard for no soda and no junk food and have made it thus far, I am however real tired of chicken broth and beef broth and you know... the same ol bland pureed stuff!!!!! Grrrr I don't know.... I am just real frustrated today I guess. I know I CAN do this... I wonder if it will get easier.... :cursing:

I support it to. I was told it is 4 oz. of red wine a day. I haven't started to add my wine back in due to the fact I was just banded. I will in due time tho.

I did the SAME thing and have been beating myself up. I did not gain any weight back But I can ASSURE you I WILL Not be munching on food! It is hard to stop once you get started. I have lost enough that I don't feel full after a sip of liquids. I went to GNC yesterday and got some Isopure protein powder that has 50g of protein. This is seeming to help me .....

I was banded 12/17/07 and am on liquids for a month. I have been doing 50grams of protein in my shakes.... I got the Isopure at GNC it's wonderful. I have had some reg food here and there, boiled egg and so on. I have added in babyfood. It is easier for me than to puree stuff. I eat half of a 2.5 ounce container and it has no additives. I started adding that because I am tired of Liquid mashed tatoes and soups. Broth works well! You can do it!

Good Luck!

Christmas is over, and I did great on Christmas day. I should have never strayed from my liquid diet! I am not perfect tho. I have not over ate by any means but by all means I have surely found myself MUNCHING :cry on junk today. Everyone is gone home and I tried to send as much as I could home with everyone and there is a little bit left at my house. I am able to tolerate potatoes or green bean casserole, all the stuff I DONT NEED. I am thinking I took the wrong route with the band and should have went with the bypass! I am really just so frustrated with myself. I have not gained any weight and have still dropped ten lbs since being banded 12/17/07. My nutritionist told me that each meal is a new meal and if you slip ITS OK. Well.... I guess I need to hear that OTHERS have slipped to! :cursing::embarassed: I hope everyone had a great day yesterday!!!!!!!

Hi Amanda! I hope all works out well for you!!!! How long did your sister in law have the band???? That is kind of scary that it started eroding!!!!!!

Christmas is over, and I did great on Christmas day. I should have never strayed from my liquid diet! I am not perfect tho. I have not over ate by any means but by all means I have surely found myself MUNCHING :cry on junk today. Everyone is gone home and I tried to send as much as I could home with everyone and there is a little bit left at my house. I am able to tolerate potatoes or green bean casserole, all the stuff I DONT NEED. I am thinking I took the wrong route with the band and should have went with the bypass! I am really just so frustrated with myself. I have not gained any weight and have still dropped ten lbs since being banded 12/17/07. My nutritionist told me that each meal is a new meal and if you slip ITS OK. Well.... I guess I need to hear that OTHERS have slipped to! :embarassed: I hope everyone had a great day yesterday!!!!!!!