doubletrouble

Well today is my birthday and I had to work. I had an 11 year old girl that had mengitis. All I did was eat eat eat. Thelma bought me breakfast, sheila bought me lunch (pepes) and Janet bought me a strawberry smoothie. The twins baked me a birthday cake. SO today totally sucked on the diet thing.:faint: :faint: :faint: :faint: :faint: :faint:

I feel like this thread was started for me. I was trying so hard to get below 200 by my birthday which has past (3-17). I do not know what happend all of a sudden I was eating candy and chips and crap all last month. I have not gained any weight but I have been at the same weight since Jan. I have been working out too. I spoke to a women that had gastric bypass and we were talking about this. She said she went through the same thing. She suggested to either go on a liquid diet for a week or drink liquids for two meals and a small solid meal. She said that it will re-start your weight loss and shrink your stomach and kind of re-ignite your spirt and get you off of the plateau. Have I done this yet "NO" But I plan on trying to soon. I am mad at myself. I have lost 80 some pounds in the last 7 months and I do not plan on gaining any of that back. Lord give me the strength to cover my mouth and throw the candy and junck food out. I think I will start the liquids for breakfast and lunch and very low carb "measured" dinner. Ok I had to vent so thanks for listening.:help: :help: :help:

The CS is a breeze. I am a nurse and we do this to patients all the time. The reason they do not want you to eat is because even though this is rare with these types of medications the risk is still there for you to vomit and then you could aspirate (suck the vomit into you lungs) and develope sever respiratory problems. I also had CS when I had carpal tunnel surgery. I have the worst and I mean worst recactions to anesthesia and pain meds, and I did beautifully. It was awesome. You do not have that groggy feeling or nausea because the medications are very short acting ( not in your system for very long) apposed to general anethesia. They do not want you jumping or moving all overy the place while they are attempting to place needles into your spine and accidently causing more damge to your spinal cord. When they place the injections into you spine they usually mix it with lidocaine to numb the area they are injecting so you will not have alot of pain to the area when you wake up. Just look at the postive side of this that you have another option apposed to surgery. Back surgeries are really tuff surgeries and sometimes the outcome is worse that what the income was. Not to scare you. Good Luck and you will be fine and running around in something skimmpy by summer :>

Well tommorow is my37 th birthday :phanvan I am not really upset about that. I am upset at myself. I feel that I am back to my old habbits again. I have to stop it and stop it now. I am not going back to that huge person tha I did not even know. Summer is on the way. I am not that far behinde that I can not catch up. I am not really even hungry when I eat it is purley out of old habits. I am the one who is is control of what I do. Which means that I am the one who is in charge of what I choose to put inside of my mouth. I am embaressed to go back to Stanish for a fill. I feel like I am letting him down. I know that he looks at me when ever I see him. I need to start measuring what I eat and that about what I am putting inside of my mouth. I need to write in this journal everyday. I have goals I have to meet. I need to make a mini goal and try to achieve that first instead of looking at the end goal. I have lost 80 pounds. I could have never done that with out the band. I want to start joggin. Once the weather gets better I am going to try to jog before I go to work. I think that if I really and I mean really watch my diet and can job five days a week that I will start to lose again. When Duane gets up ( he worked midnites) I will go out and get on my treadmil and do crunches on the ball. I just have to remember that I am responsible for me and that is it. If I have to write down everything that I put it my mouth then so be it. I also need to drink drink drink more water. My biggest thing is to go back to the sugar free diet. I was thinking about going on a liquid diet for a week or so to srink my stomach and start all over again. Oh God please please please be with my and help me to get back on the right pathway. Ok enough with the Daisy bashing, I have to give myself credit for what I have already accomplished and give myself a chance to forgive myself and put this in the past and start over new. Ok know that I feel better about tying all of my feeling out I need to put them into to action. DAISY, YOU CAN AND YOU WILL DO THIS GIRL!!!!!:clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

Well tommorow is my37 th birthday :phanvan I am not really upset about that. I am upset at myself. I feel that I am back to my old habbits again. I have to stop it and stop it now. I am not going back to that huge person tha I did not even know. Summer is on the way. I am not that far behinde that I can not catch up. I am not really even hungry when I eat it is purley out of old habits. :eek: I am the one who is is control of what I do. Which means that I am the one who is in charge of what I choose to put inside of my mouth. I am embaressed to go back to Stanish for a fill. I feel like I am letting him down. I know that he looks at me when ever I see him. I need to start measuring what I eat and that about what I am putting inside of my mouth. I need to write in this journal everyday. I have goals I have to meet. I need to make a mini goal and try to achieve that first instead of looking at the end goal. I have lost 80 pounds. I could have never done that with out the band. I want to start joggin. Once the weather gets better I am going to try to jog before I go to work. I think that if I really and I mean really watch my diet and can job five days a week that I will start to lose again. When Duane gets up ( he worked midnites) I will go out and get on my treadmil and do crunches on the ball. I just have to remember that I am responsible for me and that is it. If I have to write down everything that I put it my mouth then so be it. I also need to drink drink drink more water. My biggest thing is to go back to the sugar free diet. I was thinking about going on a liquid diet for a week or so to srink my stomach and start all over again. Oh God please please please be with my and help me to get back on the right pathway. Ok enough with the Daisy bashing, I have to give myself credit for what I have already accomplished and give myself a chance to forgive myself and put this in the past and start over new. Ok know that I feel better about tying all of my feeling out I need to put them into to action. DAISY, YOU CAN AND YOU WILL DO THIS GIRL!!!!!:clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

In the book I received prior to banding did mention 25% failure rate. But they did not mention why. But hey 75% did have success. I think if any of us were in that 25% we would not be on this forum.

I feel the same way alot of the time. I beat myself up for allowing myself to be weak. When I started this process I was sooooooo strict I would not put a grain of sugar near my mouth. Now I sometimes feel that I can eat as much as I did without the band and eat way too much sweats. I then think maybe I should have had GB and then I would not be able to eat that kind of crap. But then I have family members that have had GB and I have seen them eat that. Recently I have been eating the house down. I think it is a form of depression for me because I live in Indiana and the weather sucks in Indiana. I have come to the conclusion that the band is only a tool that we have been given. If it is used corrrectly it can be very rewarding. If it is abused it will not work. I think we all thought that this band was a miracle and that we would all be skinny. However, that is not the truth. We all know the solution, we all knew the solution before we had the surgery. There is nobody else responsible for the weight that we gain or loose but us!! We are the ones that are in control. If we want to have donuts and junk for lunch that is fine, that is called a choice. However, the band does not understand the difference between a donut or a piece of grilled chicken all it knows it that there is food in its stomach, but we do. We have the responsiblity, power and ability to take control over our eating habits. We all have had this ability deep inside us even before we had the surgery it took the surgery to give us the power to find it. If we did not want to succed we would not have. Like I said I have come to the conclusion that I am responsible for what I put in my mouth not the band. I am the one that suffers when I am weak and gives into to temptation not the band. I can go on and on and on about this but what I am trying to get to is that WE lost the weight to begin with not the BAND. As we all have found out that we actually can eat what we want the choice is do we want to. Good Luck to you Kellie on your TT let us know how you did. I thank you for starting this thread so I too can stop this horable cycle and get back on the right track before I end up where I started from.:violin:

I am an emergency room nurse. I work twelve hour shifts. I get up at 4am to work out before I go the work. I come home around 8:30-9pm. I try not to eat after 7 pm but that does not happen much. My husband works in radiology. Oh and in my spare time I am raising 3 year old twins :>

Hi, Elena I was banded on Aug 22, 2005. I lost 30 pounds pre-op due to the liquid diet that I was on for two weeks before the surgery. I have lost 50 pounds simce the banding with a total of 80 pounds. However, I have quit losing it seems. I have not lost anly weight in the last month. So I increased my exercise routine and actually gained 3 pounds. I know it could be from turing fat into muscle but I felt like WOW this is it, this is what I have been waiting for all of my life and then BAM, it was pulled right frin underneath me. I have yet to find my sweet spot. If I do not loose any weight in the next few weeks I am going to get another fill. I also feel that I can eat way more than I should be able to.:noidea:

If you had food poisoning you would have known it. The way your doctor knew it was a virus was the fact you have a fever. You would not have had a fever with food poisoning. I do not know where you live but where I do there is a ton of stomach flu going around. Except for the stuck chicken :> you had all of the same symptoms.:sick

:hippie: I think that alot of everyones fears (including mine) is because we are having a WLS and everyone thinks of the complications involved with gastric bypass. I understand surgery is surgery. The other reason is that we made a choice to have this done to us and that we could live without the surgery unlike many other surgeries, but we are a brave strong few that want to make are lives a life again and will risk our lives to achieve this. I too had these fears, but I cannot express the happiness that I have gotten back in my life because of this surgery. Today I was going through my closet to make room for my new summer clothes I will be getting and I found a pair of shorts that I had before I was married and had kids and I tried them on. I expected the shorts to be a little tight and you could not imagine how I felt to find them very baggy:> This surgery was the BEST BEST BEST thing that has ever happined to me (except my kids and husband of course). I now have the power to take control over that evil monster and actually win with weight loss. You guys will be fine, good luck to you and God bless.

Wow, are you on liquids or mushies or regular diet? I was on liquids for 2 weeks and then mushies for two weeks post banding. My doctor told me if you feel anything sticking to drink something hot like tea. Welcome to The Band Land. Even though you like fried dough obvioulsy your band does not. :hungry:

I feel the same way. I am really restricted in the am and then at lunch. But I sware when the sun goes down my band falls off. I have tried all kinds of alternatives. The best one for me if I can I get on this site. :help: :help: :help: :hungry: :hungry: :hungry:

Oh Shoot I forgot to post my weight 230 pounds. I will drink my water I will eat my protein I will stay away from junk food I will take my vitamins I will stay positive I will exersice I WILL GET SKINNY!!!!!!!!:clap2:

ok, I started to exersice and make a consicous effort to stay away form the bad foods. It worked I lost 4 pounds in the last two weeks. I hurt my back lifting my three year old son so I did not exersice this past week. I guess I would have lost more weight if I did. Also I just finished my period and let me tell you I think my band is wide open during that time. OK sarge I will exersice starting monday. PS I also hanve been getting MOST of my water in. That is one of the hardest things for me.:faint:

do not let your doctor entimidate you. He is going by a text book on how well you should be doing. Use his negative energy into positive energy for yourself. Look at the bright side you have lost 25 pounds. Stay positive don't focus on the past on things you cannot change look into the future to things that you can change. We all are human (yes even the doctor) a mistake is only harmful if one does not learn from it. Good Luck and hang in there. We all have are moments of weakness.:clap2:

They do not want us to talk NSAIDS (motrin, alieve, ibuprofen) because these medications can cause stomach ulcers. I do not think that once in awhile would kill you. However, I did have to sign a contract for my surgery stating that I would never take NSAIDs again. I to was totally addicted to motrin for my periods. Now I just suffer. I think tylenol sucks it does nothing by bring a fever down in my book. I also use a heating pad.:sick

me too, i feel like I could eat the house down when I am on my monthly. I also feel like at nite the band is wide open. I do great all day long but I am teeling you my band knows when it is after 9 pm.:hungry:

This is the kick in the butt that I needed. My weight loss is crawling. I HAVE to HAVE to HAVE to exercise and that is all there is to say!

I had the same problem the the abdominal pain. I was admitted back into the hospital one week post op. My pain was do to inflammation around the port site. I was given Toradol which is a NSAID (non steroidal anti inflammatory) AKA motrin. Unfortunately we cannot take oral NSAIDs but IV and IM injections are OK. After s few doses my pain went away and never came back. The low blood sugar thing I had to. Do you have a glucometer? I found my sugars to be as low as 20 to 30's sometimes. The best thing for hypoglycema is drink some fruit juice first and then have protein to sustain the sugar. The hypoglycemia lasted for a couple of months unitl my weight loss slowed down. It can be a rocky road at first until you turn onto the road to success then it is worth it.

I had the same problem the the abdominal pain. I was admitted back into the hospital one week post op. My pain was do to inflammation around the port site. I was given Toradol which is a NSAID (non steroidal anti inflammatory) AKA motrin. Unfortunately we cannot take oral NSAIDs but IV and IM injections are OK. After s few doses my pain went away and never came back. The low blood sugar thing I had to. Do you have a glucometer? I found my sugars to be as low as 20 to 30's sometimes. The best thing for hypoglycema is drink some fruit juice first and then have protein to sustain the sugar. The hypoglycemia lasted for a couple of months unitl my weight loss slowed down. It

I was totally were you are about 2 months ago. I have lost over half of my hair. Thank god that I started out with super thick hair. It is very noticable to people that knew what my hairl ooked like before. OK, take a deep breath this is what my surgeon said and it really makes a lot of since. Our bodies are used to getting tons of calories and fat (before the band) and now we are getting much less. Even though we are getting enough nutrition to live and loose weight our bodies are missing the extra calories and fat. When we loose the hair it is actually do to a form of a pseudo malnutrition. In real life we are very far away from actual having malnutrition however our bodies do not know where all those extra calories and fats have gone but are going into storage mode to keep what they can get. This way the vitamins and nutrients are not being shared throghout the body the way they should be. I took flax seed oil (it is kinda gross), biotin and added a green salad everyday to my meal plan. I also washed my hair with Nioxin shampoo ( which you buy at walmart for $13 in the salon only). Just a few days ago I noticed the hair loss is slowing down and I can feel little stubbles all over my scalp where new hair is starting to grow. Do not be afraid to brush your hair. Even though hair is falling our the brushing stimulates the hair folicules to grow. I thought for sure at the rate my hair was falling out that I would have been completely bald by the new year. Good Luck it will be ok

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Welcome The pre-op diet is very doable. I had to do two weeks of liquid diet. You just need to get yourself into a mind set. It is easier than when you start a diet in the past. In the past the diet was suppose to be for a lifetime. this diet is for only seven days and there is a goal (surgery) waiting for you if you comply. Actually the first couple of days is the hardest and then it just beomes normal. You cannot focus on what you cannot have you have to focus on what you will have (weight loss success). The BPing is similar to when a baby spits up. There is this slimmy stuff that comes up with food mixed into it. It is not like vomitting. Good luck to you.

Welcome The pre-op diet is very doable. I had to do two weeks of liquid diet. You just need to get yourself into a mind set. It is easier than when you start a diet in the past. In the past the diet was suppose to be for a lifetime. this diet is for only seven days and there is a goal (surgery) waiting for you if you comply. Actually the first couple of days is the hardest and then it just beomes normal. You cannot focus on what you cannot have you have to focus on what you will have (weight loss success). The BPing is similar to when a baby spits up. There is