mini_me

LOOKING GOOD!!! But mine is still bigger!!! :eek: I hope you know how great you look!!

How is your weight loss? a bit slow, only 207 at consult/203 on surgeryday/196 today, but i remain patient. 11 lbs is gone for good right? Have you had your first fill? 2 fills, currently 1.8cc/4cc band, Has any one noticed your shrinking? Mom and Dad say I look thinner in upper body Complications or issues your having? Doing great, think I want to have a tiny bit more restriction, but no complications or problems. Lets all share we are all in it together Right!! good thread idea, thanks for starting it. Someone set me straight...it is 60 grams of Protein, ?? how many fat and carb?

IT'S A BOY!!! 13 lbs 11 oz Daddy is either Dick Cheney or Boss Hogg!!! YUMMY!

Happy Birthday #2!!!

i had trouble with the very foul taste of my crushed antidepressant also. i finally took someones advice, and used a partial spoon of sugar free pudding to conceal the crushed pill. i just did not move the pudding in my mouth. it stayed in the pudding until i swallowed it, and my taste buds were singing. plus the pudding was very soothing to my belly. also, i have learned, just today, that my antidepressant comes in liquid form...you can always check that out.

1ml? I did not know they made a liquid...hmmm... i take 100mg daily and i have noticed on several occasions that when my prescription ran out, and i went several days without it, that i had a VERY significant INCREASE in appetite. i did not crave solely sweets, but i did eat much more of the unhealthy stuff. i just couldnt get enough food in my mouth. You are absolutely right-on about your conclusion that zoloft helps food cravings. Makes perfect sense based on the whole pleasure reaction to food in the brain, and zolofts function of leveling the seratonin levels. ((i think i said it right, i am sure someone will correct me if i didn't)) i read an article about why we feel pleasure when we eat, and how it is a snowball effect. YEA ZOLOFT...helps the cravings---AND keeps my from strangling my kids.

niki, yea us!!

We went to have lunch at Golden Corral...btw they charged me off of the senior citizen menu for the buffet... I had my 2nd fill one week ago today. I have felt a difference, not really what I anticipated as "restriction" based on the accounts that I have read. But--I could tell when I drank my Water that things were moving a little slower than I had been accustomed since the first fill and before the first fill. However, since that second fill, last wednesday, I have had no internal indication that I had eaten enough at any meal. I was even SUPER STOOPID on the weekend, and gave in to a whole Totino's pizza from my oven((600 calories)) Bad, I know, and I punished myself by walking fast on my treadmill until the treadmill said that i had burned 400 calories.((PHEW!!)) OK, here is the thing now, today, I fixed myself a plate with a salad with egg and turkey + lf dressing, and a chicken strip. This is my typical lunch. I scrape most of the bread off of the chicken, and I have about 2-3 ounces of meat. (the manager is a buddy of mine and let me weigh it on their food scales so that i could have idea for sizing my portions) So i sit down to eat. Most of the chicken goes down. I steal a fried okra piece from DH. I eat some bites of salad(5-6 small bites) then I try a little piece of what is left of the chicken, and BAM! Like a ton of bricks, my band was saying "WHOOOOOOOOOOAA!!!" So I stopped. I thought maybe this was the dreaded PB thing about to happen, and I braced myself. No slime, no pressure, just the ole "HELLO" there is a band here sensation. So I stop, in the meantime, i am trying to decide whether this was restriction that I just encounted, and I nibble on a roll((bread does not give me any problems, it actually tends to stay put a little longer and keep me from being hungry...I know--bad food---I limit the stuff)) The bread stayed put and did not cause me any pain. The deal was, it got my attention very effectively, and while i probably could have eaten more, I found that I was MORE than content with the amount of food i had consumed. I was even able to push away the sugarfree desert i had picked up. So, ladies and gentlemen, is this what restriction is? Or is restriction something more pronounced??:nervous

SugarGlitzShock

i know what you guys are talking about...yes i do. hey wheetsin, i was thinking about you last night, you know, you have really done well in the past couple of months. it crossed my mind that you should change your name to wheetTHIN instead of wheetSIN

Time for some after pics...even if you want to skip the before pics!! I remember you say that you forgot to take them.

way to go sister girl!! we are all proud of you... ((mini walks away snickering because she has only lost 10 lbs in 2.5 mos)) (((((((((((((((((((JUST KIDDING))))))))))))))))))))))))

hope everything works out for you...

My mama always told me never to trust a girl whose thighs don't touch...

So long, Elliott. I really thought he would be in the finals. The radio said that Simon feels that Taylor is going to win. I concur. Thanks for the update guys.

i have the 9.75 cm, 4cc band

so, i am watching LOST, is anyone watching idol? someone should be booted off by now...

$15k covers - surgeon - 23-hour hospital stay - anesthesiologist - 1 year follow-up care/fills, 2nd year if you lose 50% of excess weight in first year no pre-op testing covered, but if you are healthy, the doc doesn't require any. I had no pre-op testing. bandmd.com

thanks so much for ALL of your input!! I am really excited and hope this restriction sticks around to play for a little while. I will follow all of the advice you all have offerred. I will keep any changes posted on this thread for those who are interested. Thanks for mentioning the part about my monthly...i did not even think of how that would effect my restriction. I will keep all these things in mind. and by the way, i felt no restriction at all with my first. I could eat whole side of beef with no problem. First fill was 1.3 and now i have 1.8cc.

1. how long have you been banded? 2.5 months 2. rate your level of restriction: c hoping for a d 3. how long after you wake do you drink your first liquids, are they hot or cold: cold, one hour after waking 4. how long after you wake do you eat your first food, is it solid or mushy? varies, usually an hour or two, solid if it is mushy, when is your first dense protien solid? 5. does your restriction change throughout the day? no change 6. how often do you PB? none yet 7. is it mostly Slime/Saliva or is it the offending food or liquid that comes up? had a little slime once or twice, but nothing alarming. 8. why are you PB'ing?n/a

thanks for the input!

Thanks Wheetsin, I was hoping you would respond. You always know how to find the right words to describe the inner-goings-on of the body. I sure hope this is restriction, I can lose weight this way!!

HELLLLOOOOO?? bumping for more opinions...hopefully...someone, anyone...?

Thanks, Moonie, I am so pleased. I hope this is not something that comes and goes. I could use this kind of "pinch" at every meal! I think I may have lost some weight since my fill, but it is THAT time of the month, so I can't really tell. I sure hope this means I have arrived at the foot of the mountain that i am about to climb...

i am glad the others did well, but i really do not have any desire to watch it now. And, I do not have one that i like enough to press redial on my phone a hundred times for. sigh...chris has ruined it for the others as far as i go. it is too painful for me to face the show and not see him...sniff...