mstrina27

im tight in the morning and normally warm tea normally helps, but is is kind of annoying when you are trying to take vitamins just forget about it.... norally in the even. i am pretty cool.. you should be ok..

wow.. i have a question where does the smimming come from and is it diffrent from throwing up? Why in the hell do we slime anyway please help me out.. you would think i would know this one but i dont...

I promise i had to check to make sure that i was not reading something that i had wrote... you are so right... i was kind of loosing hope i was taking diet pills because i was so hungry. I think i have about 9.25 or either 9.5cc in my band and i shouldnt need another fill for a long time from now.....lol i lost 6lbs in less than 5days my last fill was on tuesday i will say hold on to anyone you will see the light...

I agree it really is just know to take one day at a time.. Things will seem to go great in the beg. because you cant eat much of anything, but when you start to eat real food the weight loss may slow up a little but dont get sad just keep pushing.. and one thing i will tell you if you want to see quick and regular weight loss start doing some form of excercise at least 5days a week and you will be unstoppable... Congratulations and keep up the great work

You know I use to say the same thing until i actually started workingout. I workout on my lunch at work 30min 5days a week and i have been doing this for the past 14weeks and the weight is melting off... i am kind of pissed at myself because i could have been working out before but i thought just being banded would be enough no matter what i read and no matter what i was told... if you are not excercising start now... something is better than nothing it is getting nice out so just take a nice walk for about 30min and trust you will see the diffrence..

You know what when you first have your band put in you mainly have to rely on your own willpower for the first 4-6months and that is no lie... you will have no restriction after the first 2 fills depending on how much is put in i know i didnt. I was banded may 15th and i felt the first time i felt real restriction was in december of 08. Slow and steady wins the race...at least you didnt have a lemon parfait to go with it and 2 wings..

You are still swollen, and your insides are healing so it will prob. feel like you have a restriction but you really don't your body is getting use to the new tools it has inside...

Yes..i have been there... I was told that once i get to the proper restriction i would not be able to eat that many carbs.. which i love mac & cheese, breads etc... for the first 6mths i was like ahhhhh i can still eat it.. but now hell no!! the most i can tolerate is like 1-spoon of mac and cheese and no breads at all... you will get there where you will feel like you have lost your best friend but this friend i don't mind being without....

My band didn't really start working for me until i had at least 7.5cc's in it... so you will have to rely on your own will power for a little while, because you will be able to eat most of what you ate before until you get to the proper restriction...

The warm tea thing works for me... but if you are still filling like this by tomorrow and you are not able to eat anything or drink your normal amount of fluid go to your Dr. so they can loosen it up so it can pass thru and they will prob. put the fluid back in... be careful and don't sit and wait too long because you may become dehydrated...

I was banded May 15m 2008 and my band started working for me in December 2008. It takes a while to get to the point when 2 fork full's will be all you can eat. Some are diffrent but the honest truth for me is that it took almost 7-mths for the band to really start working for me and it really feels good... NOW... LOL so give it some time.. you will have to depend on your own will power for a few months....

You know I debated over this before i did it.. because most people will wait until you put something in your mouth and will then say HEY SHOULD YOU BE EATING THAT....and i am a grown woman i dont need for anyone to point out what i am eating... but i told a few people at work and they told someone, and then they mentioned it to someone else but were not convinced that i had had the procedure done because i only took off 4-days. But I know loosing weight is hard as hell and i actually don't mind people coming to me asking me if i had it done because they are thinking about doing it.. If i can help someone i will by sharing my story but for those that want to talk about you in a bad way... naaaa But i do agree with all of you.. it is a personal choice and you may want to keep it to yourself...

What the 'Sweet Spot' means for me is like the last person said.. when you get to that fill point where you can take a few bites and your done. I'm talking about having your dinner on your place and taking a few bites and you are so done... even though you may want to eat it all but just can't. When i realized after my last fill in Feb. that i was at my sweet spot i was actually shocked i thought i would never get there. I think i am at about 8 or so I asked my Dr. and he said that it dosent matter how many cc's it takes to get there as long as you get there... I would definately suggest to keep up with your apts. get weighed in and get the fills. Trust me you will be able to tell when you are at that right spot....

I am sure as everyone has already said... give it time... you did not gain it over night so it is not going to come off over night... the reason they give you 1/2 - 1cc at a time is so your stomach can get adjusted to that. You want the weight to stay off when you loose it so don't rush it... Everyone's success story is not the same. I am a slow looser but one thing i can tell you is that i havent gained back 1 pound that i have lost. This is not the biggest looser in the real world you can't workout 8-hours a day... Keep going to your apts. getting your fills and you will be ok... Congrats on the weight you have lost so far...

One thing i will say is that you can't trust everything you read. Some of us are honest with the amount of weight we have lost and others are not. Some could be snacking whle posting to the sight..lol.. but don't feed so much into the numbers of what others have put up. If i did i honestly would have given up a long time ago. I read a post where some one that had their sug. the same day as me dropped like 45lbs within 2 mths.... GREAT FREEKN JOB... for them as for me I will take the almost 11lb drop within that 2mth period. My biggest thing is the weight that i have lost is gone and i havent gained any of it back.... So keep doin you and know that anything is possiable...

You know I felt like that until i received my last fill.. which was in december***for the first few weeks after the fill it seemed like i was cool then it loosened up and i could eat way more than like you said the recomended amt. When i went to get my last fill in Dec. she show'd me a sample plate of what i should be eating and of course i was like what the hell...lmao r u kidding me... yeah ok. after that fill which was 1cc i couldn't eat anything but a boiled egg thru the entire day.. and i could barly drink liquids.. so i figured i was too tight.. like some they try to tuff it out and prehaps it would get better, but nope.. i had to go back so they could remove some. I am steady loosing now but i was banded in may of 08 and it has taken me to this point where i am loosing steady. Please don't look at others progress and say hey that should be me....No it shouldn't be they are not you and everyone's body is diffrent so just stay up on your fills and cut the snacking out. If you do snack get the 100-calorie packs the weight will come off as long as you are doing your part, but it does take time to get to the sweet spot, and that means if you took another bite of food you would prob. gag..lol well that is how it is for me. Good luck

You know it depends on how you work your band, and if you go get the proper restriction. As for myself I will be at a year as of 5-15-09, and I can see major progress within the way i looked last year vs today. It is totally not like the gastric and that kind of disapointed me to be honest, but with the slow weight loss i am not flabby like others i know that have had the gastric done...

Thanks for the reply.. I am worried about getting enough nutrition. I know I have enough fat on my azz to last me for months as long as i drink fluids, but it is hard for me to drink liquids. I can only take sips of water crystal lyte at a time thinking about drinking it straight down nope.. and that is truly bothering me. I can only take 2 or 3 bites of something and i am full as if i have ate the entire plate + some. If I sip on water all day then i wont eat which what has happened since thursday since i got this fill.. I think i am going to call in so he can take 1/2 of the 1/2 he put in out..