headin_to_mxico
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Freedom Fighters Weekly Weigh In
headin_to_mxico replied to Juniper's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
Still no loss, no gain for me. **sigh** I seriously need a fill. Surg Date July 16-190 July 27-187 lost 3 lbs Aug 3-187 lost 0 lbs Aug 10-187 lost 0 lbs -
Yeah Ive thrown up a few times. Well PBd not really threw up. It feels different because its just sitting right on top and my throat feels like it flexes, not my stomich. Its weird because I dont feel like I have any restriction, but a few times when I havent chewed well and eating too fast, BOOM. Right back up. I always have time to run to the bathroom though. I have a min or two where I feel it coming on. I did have an episode where it happend in the car. I thought I was going to have to spew into a cup of tea. But that time I lucked out and was able to hold it down until it passed through the band. That would have been pretty gross. I think I may need to start keeping barf bags in my car lol. Gross! (but not as gross as puking in a cup of iced tea)!
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Felt Normal Yesterday
headin_to_mxico replied to healthy-me-in-Az's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
Yes I totally want the same thing. I cant wait to feel normal. Right now I dont even feel like I have a band b/c of no restriction, but I know when I do have restriction I want the same thing as you; to be able to eat what I want, just not to over eat. -
Protein sources other than shakes
headin_to_mxico replied to KatieKateKate's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
I like nonfat cottage cheese. It has a lot of protien. -
I love that feeling. Thirty pounds from now Ill be able to fit into my last years skinny clothes (I dieted and lost a bunch of weight, only of course to gain it all back and then some). At least we all yo yo'd enough to where we probably have our skinny section in our closet waiting for us as we lose weight hu? lol I wont have to buy any new clothes untill I lose like fourty pounds. I never got that "skinny". lol
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Well I guess Im so active with the site because I dont have anyone to talk to. I made a choice not to tell anyone about the surgery except for my husband. He is the ONLY one (not even my mom). Im really glad I didnt tell people now because I am losing so slow. Everyone would judge me and badger me about it Im sure (like other people on the board who were really open with their surgery). My DH isnt much of a talker anyways, so I basically get all my support from here. Thank God for this place.
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Hi, We are lookin at losing the same amount of weight and starting at the same BMI. Thought we could keep in touch. Im 29 year old female from CA. I have two kids. I stay at home during the day and go to school at night to get my teaching degree. Nice to meet you!
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:biggrin: I called my after care physician to sched my first fill, which I could really use today, but being that Im only a few weeks out I was prepared to sched for the standard six weeks out. Come to find out my Dr is on vacation that week. And I have to wait an additional week and two days. I know that doesnt sound like much but I really cant even feel my band anymore. It was like there one day, gone the next. The swelling went down and boom I am starving again. I just dont want to wait an extra week and a half. :thumbup: Also, I found out he wont do fills any closer than four weeks apart. So my second fill isnt for another four weeks at the soonest after my first. I think thats so stupid since everyone says they have like ZERO restriction after their first fill. I was thinking it would be like two weeks after the first fill, not four weeks. No fair!! Everyone else on here gets their second fill a week or two after their first and I have to wait a month. Im going to go pout. Its going to be months before I start losing any weight and that just totally bums me out. I know I need to be patient, but its hard to see everyone else get their fills closer together while I sit around with no progress. :thumbup:
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Hi ABC, Sounds like your doc wants to move things right along for you. I am three weeks out and my port insicion is still tender. I was thinking that even thought I want a fill, it would hurt. Did it hurt to get your fill? Was your port insicion still tender? I wish I had some restriction. So whats a Swiss band? I didnt get that in my choices. Do you live in the US? Or is this a band they use in other countries? You and I have close to the same stats with regard to BMI and weight loss.
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hi,
so you gearin up for school? Mine starts in a few weeks. Back to reality hu?
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I'll be glad when I can........
headin_to_mxico replied to daqui26's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
Ill be glad when I can get a fill Ill be glad when I can have some restriction Ill be glad when I have started losing weight -
I made it to my final goal!
headin_to_mxico replied to Mechbandster's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
You should be so proud of yourself! Congratulations! You have a great attitude about the whole experiance as well. It seems God has blessed you as you have lost so fast. You must have a lot of good karma. Im sure you deserve your victory. -
What do you eat on a typical day, and how much at one sitting? Can you take me through breakfast, lunch, dinner and any snacks?
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So I guess Ive experianced the dreaded unknown and thought Id let everyone know what it was like. Every week I get to add new things to my diet and so this week I got to add baked chicken. Yesterday, I took my second bite of some chicken and all of a sudden started getting the golf ball feeling. I now know exactly why its called productive burping. It felt like I had to burp REALLY bad. It like came from my throat, not my stomich. At first I did keep the food down and just let a few little burps out; but then I knew I had to just let it come up when my chest was getting a tight feeling, so I got to the bathroom and let it happen. It really wasnt too bad. I dont know exactly why I pb'd. Id only had a few bits and what came up was chewed to liquid. It didnt hurt and I pb'd twice in a row and then it was over. The tight feeling and golf ball went totally away and I felt 100% better. I think it would have been a lot worse if I would have gotten the "sliming" effect. I didnt have any of that and Im thankful for that because what Ive read about "sliming" seems really gross. I was too scared to finish my lunch, but I probably could have. The good news is that if I was at a public place, I would have had time to make it to the bathroom, which is something I was always worried about. It was still gross though even though it wasnt bad and didnt really hurt.
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Im from California. I get my first fill the first week of September. When do you get yours? I have to wait four weeks in between fills though. Its a bummer since everyone seems to say it takes at least three fills to get any restriction. That means it will be like four moths of bandster hell in my future. **sigh** I hope they give me a decient amount of fill since he wont let me come in sooner than four weeks apart. I have a 5cc Allergan lap band. What band do you have?
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Hi. Nice to meet you. Im 28 married with two kids and a great hubby. I was banded July 16th in Mexico. I am trying to lose 60 pounds with the lap band. My BMI is just over 35. Do you mind telling me how much youre trying to lose? I was thinking maybe we are losing slower because our BMI is lower than a lot of people who were banded. IDK. I cant figure out why every one else seems to lose 20 pounds in the first month and I have only lost a few since surgery. My Dr says the same thing as yours, not to worry about losing weight before the fill. But its hard not to get a little depressed over it. Everyone else is losing and Im just doing my best to stay the same.
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Yep its the last of the Freedom Fighters today! Good luck guys!
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I hope your band didnt slip too! How awful and scary. Let us know what happens.
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Im not as upset as I was that day. Its hard to hear about people losing twenty pounds in the first month when I havent even lost five since surgery. I was on mushies, I have started solids yesterday and I was full longer, although I can still eat way too much. The mushie stage wasnt doing me favors though. A lot of the things I was eating were mushed with mayo or other high calorie substances. Hopefully now that Im onto solids I can lose some weight. I have to hold myself accountable right now. My tool has no restriction so its up to me to make good choices. And yeah, life isnt fair. I should just be happy I have my band and I will start losing in the next few months instead of being impatient. It took me years to save up for this band. Whats another month in the long run.
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Desperately Need My Band!!!
headin_to_mxico replied to mom2trips06's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
I had to cancell twice. You will get your band. And it will be that much sweeter. Hang in there. -
My friend who has a band is three years out and you can see her port sticks out a little bit. Its not real noticible, but if you look for it, you can see the bump. She said it got worse after she lost more weight. She is thinking about getting a revision surgery to place it in a new spot. She's waiting on her tummy tuck though so that she can do it at the same time.
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those of you with ideal restriction
headin_to_mxico replied to headin_to_mxico's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
Thanks for the info! :sad: I found it. But that post seems to be mostly from people who are only banded in the last eight weeks or so. Im looking more for responses from people who are further out and have more restriction. :biggrin: -
Hi, hows everything going with your flipped port? are you getting revision surgery soon?
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Hi Chocolate, I was banded just a few days before you. I laughed when you talked about passing up the samples at the store! I had the same thing happen to me! I was in Mexico at this store called the HEB and they have free samples at every corner like Costco. I was only two days out of surgery so I just grabbed my chicken broth and got the hell out of there as fast as I could. It totally sucked! And the girls at the store were like, "are you sure you dont want one?? Just one??" lol
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Need some encouragement
headin_to_mxico replied to healthy-me-in-Az's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
I also gained once I started the Mushie phase of the diet. We put our bodies into starvation mode with the super low cal sugar free liquid phase of the diet. Our bodies are hanging onto every calorie we put into it right now because of that. Give your body a few weeks to adjust and come to terms that you arnt trying to starve it and you will start losing again. Also I think its important to be kind to yourself and have realistic expectaions. I think Drs should warn people more that we will prob gain weight back when we move to mushies since we put ourselves into starvation mode. Our bodies can only do what they do naturally. Be kind to yourself and be patient. Its an important part of this journey to learn to love ourselves and stop being so hard on ourselves regarding our weight.