Road King

I really did not feel any different until my second fill. I have been a slow looser. But I have not gained either, so that is a possitive. I just know the weight is not going to come off until I make up my mind to excercise. But what I have learned, everyone is different. Dianne

Stacy where are you. Long time no word.

Baggio, Hope everything went great for you. Just remember Walk, Walk and walk some more. The walking helped me with the gas. We will all be waiting to hear from you. Welcome to the other side. Dianne

Pat yes I got your message. Thanks for asking. Had to stay home with him yesterday, but back to work today. I agree about getting the fills we need within the free 6 month period. Does anyone know what and how it works after the 6 months is up. I would think we could stay with TLC. But wonder what the cost is going to be. If anyone knows let me know. My restriction is really strange. After the second fill I have a number of foods I can not eat at all. If I take just one or two bites I get stuck. Then there are some foods I have no problem with at all. Anyone else going through this. My 3rd fill is not scheduled till May 15th. But I really do not think I need one now anyway. Hope everyone is doing great. Dianne

Thanks Pat. My husband has Hep C and Cirrhoisis. He was diagnosised about 10 years ago. Has tried the treatements for Hep C, but was a non responder. He has been fighting extreme fatique for about 4 years now, but his systems are starting to get alot worse. We try to keep positive and hope soon they will put him on a liver transplant list. The new liver is the only hope he has. I wish we could get his disability approved, then I would stop working and stay home with him. I keep saying God does not give us something if he feels we can't handle it. I have to believe God knows what he is doing. Sorry I keep crying today. But I really had a tough weekend. Tomorrow will be better. Dianne

Cowboy sure is nice hearing from you. No I was not able to go riding. My husband has been having some serious health issues for the past year and for the last couple of weeks he has not been doing very well. It was really hard to come in to work today and leave him at home alone. We have tried to apply for disability for him, but our first try Cigna turned him down. So now we are in the appeal process. We have 4 doctors that say he should be on disability but Cigna is still fighting it. He will have one or two days where is does not feel to bad and then it's down hill for a couple of weeks. Sorry I don't mean to push all my negative going on's here. My dog did take me for a couple of walks this weekend and I worked in the yard a little on Sunday. Hope everyone had a nice weekend. Dianne

I hope to ride my bike tomorrow. Sunday it's the clean house thing. Hey guys I walked at lunch 30 min. I am so glad it's Friday, I am ready for the weekend. Dianne

I used to have a friend we would walk together at lunch, but she found another job about a year. After she left I got in the habit of just working through my lunch. I know it's a bad idea, But I always seem to have enough to do to just keep on working. I really do not have an excuss not to walk at lunch. Have a perfect place. I know I am not going to loose this weight without the exercise. My second fill is working on the portion control. I still have trouble eating a number of different foods. I get full fast. I also think it's my age. I know I will have to exercise to get my body in gear. Don't get me wrong, I did not pay 10,000 to give up. Dianne

Pat you are better than I am. No I did not go for my walk. On my way to work this morning I talked to myself the whole way. I am going to walk today. So no my nails are not done and I did not go walking. I just get so mad at myself, but I guess not mad enough or I would do something about it. Dianne

OK guys I am already trying to talk myself out of walking at lunch today. It's not a pretty day and very windy. I need to find me someone here at work that wants to walk so they can motivate me to keep on schedule. This should not be this hard. But IT IS. Dianne

I do not remember any shot in my stomach. I guess I must have been out cold as well. I am a great one to say put me out and then you can do what you need to do. Baggio, don't worry you will be taken care of very well. They are all great people. Pat: Yes one time I can eat something and have no problems and then the next time I try and after the first 2 bites I know it's not going to work. I still get upset with myself that I can't make myself get on a schedule to walk everyday. I keep saying I will walk on my lunch, but then something happens at work and I end up working through my lunch. I know when I did walk the scale was my friend, now that I am not walking again, the scale is not moving. Dianne

Hi everyone. So good to hear from everyone. Baggio : Glad you joined us. I think everyone on this site hit it off, because we had our surgery all at the same place. We are all starting about the same time. Pat and I had our surgery on the same day. I even think she was in the bed next to me at pre op. But as you can tell we all still go through everything a little bit different. I know what you mean about just drinking the optifast. Thats why I got the Tomato soup TLC offered and it really wasn't that bad. I had my Tomato soup for dinner each night. The other thing that was really hard for me to give up was my diet cokes. I used to drink 4 or 5 a day. It was the first thing I wanted when I got up every day and I drank one before I went to bed. But I am happy to say I stopped when I started my 2 week prior surgery and have not had one since. I do not even think about them any more. Hope you share your journey with us. Stacy: I think George filled me up pretty good with my second fill. I know after he gave me my second fill and was told to drink my water, I drank slow and could fill the water going down. But for what ever reason I told him I was ok. So I have to be very carful on what I eat and slow down to a crawl or I will get stuck. As soon as I start to feel tightness in my throat, like a golf ball I stop eating. If I push one more bite I am really in trouble. I have been able to walk it off , my protions have really gotton smaller. I'm at 6.4 now and I am not even thinking about a fill. Bread and Rice are a big NO NO NO. I have gone out to eat dinner a couple of times, my husband ordered what he wants and I pick at his meal with 4 or 5 bits and I am done. CRAZY. Now the scale is slow, but I keep telling my self the way I am eating it will kick in some day. Still drink my bullets everyday. Pat: Girl, Do you not sleep. I am glad you found your bullets and like them. I like the idea I do not have to count my protein any longer. I am getting in more that 60 a day, but I feel the more the better. Some of the food I will try to eat and think I will have trouble and I don't and then something I think will be just fine, I get in trouble. Like Saturday morning I fixed me some scramble eggs. I have had them before, but I only had 3 bits and had to give up. Go figure. Tex GOOD to hear from you. Thought we lost you. Don't get in a rush and push to hard. I know after my surgery I was feeling great and I thought I was ok to go back to normal. Well I was wrong. I started to get hard pains around the port area. I was for sure something had gone wrong. I called Cindy and she told me to slow down and keep a watch I must have pulled something that was not ready to be pulled yet. As it turned out she was right, lesson learned. Does anyone else feel this band is a number of lessons learned. Everyday a new one. I agree with Stacy one day we all need to meet face to face. Dianne