misscristie

If you go long enough without the caffeine, you probably wouldn't "need" it anymore, but that's soooo hard! Maybe a 5 Hour Energy shot or something would help? Good luck!

I have encountered my first bit of snarkyness! I was really taken aback by it. A friend of mine from my old hometown sent me a picture of a plateful of food that she was having while one a trip. It looked AMAZING! I told her she was killing me because I was on a liquid diet due to being banded. (I'll shout it from the rooftops. At this point, I don't care who knows!) Her response, instead of what I expected, was more like "Wow, why did you do that?" She knows about my diabetes, my high blood pressure, my extreme obesity, etc. She also knows that I had a miscarriage last year that tore my life apart for a while thanks to my weight and other health issues. When I told her because I felt like even if I lost all of the weight on WW, that I was destined to gain it back. She basically said, "Well, if that's what you felt like you needed to do, then ok." She's usually a very kind, very loving, very supportive person. She also has a weight problem, so I had expected her to be happy for me. She wasn't mean or anything, just kind of like whatever. It bothered me a bit, I have to admit. Hopefully, she'll come around eventually. But, at the end of the day, this is for me and my family. If she continues to be snarky about it, I'll just have to sever that tie. If you can't be happy/proud/whatever of me for saving my own life by having a procedure done, then I don't need you in my life.

I would recommend a therapist. Hopefully they can help you work through some of your other issues. Making your stomach smaller unfortunately doesn't fix our minds :smile2: Best of luck to you.

Wow! I hope I don't have to deal with any of this mess further down the road, but I've always been pretty good about keeping toxic people out of my life. Maybe some more will crawl out of the woodwork! LOL

I'm avoiding mashed potatoes like the plague. Doc told us that the fastest way to beat the band is to eat a bunch of potatoes. Plus, I'm such a carbaholic, I'm afraid that if I have even a bite I'll fall into old, bad habits. I've been eating cottage cheese and yogurt. I'm terrified to try chicken salad, but I may give that a shot tonight. I don't have much of an appetite, so I haven't really had a craving for anything yet. If I do, I may have to get more creative.

So, I'm on day 10 post banding and I started mushies today. This morning, I had about 5 small spoonfuls of yogurt (maybe 1 oz?) and after work, I had 1/4 cup of applesauce. So, grand total today, I've had less than 100 calories. I know we're not supposed to eat if we're not hungry, but I'm thinking this is a bit excessive. Should I drink some juice or something just to up my calories? I've been drinking Water all day, so it's not like I can't keep anything down. Eating just doesn't appeal to me. :tongue2:

Thanks for the advice everybody. I'm going to shoot for at least 2 Protein shakes a day. I don't mind them. Actually, I've gotten to kind of enjoy them. Is that wrong of me? LOL As for eating my mushies, I'll just schedule it and eat what I can. I really don't want to get sick, so eating when I'm not hungry scares the dickens outta me, but I'll see how it goes.

Thanks, Nean. That's what I did. Just drained my first Protein shake of the day and I'll squeeze in another before bed. I've decided I'm just going to eat every few hours, hungry or not, and just keep my calories under 1000. Should be pretty easy to do since it doesn't take much to fill me up. LOL I'm mostly worried about not having the energy to workout. I know I need to do that to lose weight from previous experience. I worked in my flower beds yesterday and it sapped every ounce of energy from me and I actually had to sleep it off. I need to fix it!

IMHO, you're better off anyway. A man who doesn't care why his woman is having surgery isn't worth having. Just my 2 cents.

My name is Cristie and I live in North Dallas. I'm 33, married to a wonderful supportive husband and a mom to a very supportive, very excited 13 year old daughter. I work as an IT professional, so my job is very sedentary. I have had a weight problem since I was a young child. I've battled it since the age of 8. Eventually, I lost my battle of the bulge and ended up with Type II Diabetes and found myself about to bust out of a size 28 jeans tipping the scale at probably close to 340 pounds, but I'm not exactly sure, since my scale stopped at 330. I carried that weight for a long time - probably close to 7 years. Eventually, I lost about 30 pounds on my own. Then I joined WW and lost another 20. Of course, again, I went off track and gained back 30 of the 50 pounds lost and found myself about to slip back into those size 28s. I decided I'd had enough. I went to the lapband solutions website, filled out the review form, had an appointment the next day, my insurance was approved 3 days later and at the end of the next week, I started my 3 week pre-op diet. I had my surgery on May 14th with Dr. Frank Felts. When I walked into LBS, I weight 318 pounds. This morning, I was 287. I am so excited about what the future holds. I can't wait to ride roller coasters and go-carts with my daughter (she can't either). I can't wait to shop outside of a Lane Bryant - I never have! I can't wait to wear sky high heels! Oh boy! I am SO excited! I know the road is going to be long and it's going to be bumpy, but it really is about the journey. Every time I forget, I'll just play "The Climb" by Miley Cyrus to reel me back in. (Yes, I know it's Miley, but it is SUCH a great song for this journey!) I wish all of you the very best of everything. Good luck :thumbup:

And I am quite sorry to have used the work quite twice in one post! I will have to be quite careful moving forward! :thumbup:

LOL - Quite alright, Karen. I am quite used to it :thumbup:

Karma, that's the same load of stuff that I kept telling myself every time I went to the doctor and asked about WLS. "If I have to do this for 6 months and lose weight, then I can just do it by myself." Research shows though, that once you reach a certain level, you can lose it, but you're almost guaranteed to gain it back. That is crazy not healthy. You're doing this for him and for you, but mostly, you need to do it for you.

North Dallas here. Banded on 5/14/2010. Down 31 pounds this morning from my weight prior to starting my pre-op diet.

Wow, Jon!! That is amazing! I was just banded by Dr. Felts on Friday, he's great isn't he? I'm interested in what kind of workouts you're doing. How soon were you able to start working out after your surgery? I'm itching to get up and get moving, but I know it's too soon. Plus, I hurt! LOL

I was banded on 5/14. I was in agony the night of. Saturday I had a lot of shoulder pain and slept almost the entire day. I was able to get clear liquids down the night of surgery and Protein shakes yesterday. Today (day 3), the pain is a lot less and I felt up to showering. I'm a bit nauseous today, so I've just had a couple of ounces of Protein shake and a few sips of Water so far. I'll be on full liquids until day 11 where I can start mushies, then introduce solids on day 20.