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I understand why people losing a pound a month might get upset, but why does anyone losing .5-1 pound a week feel like a failure??? Is my surgeon the only one who wants paitients to lose no more than a pound a week?? That and exercise is what will keep us from accumulating layers of skin. My niece lost over 50 pounds on a very restrictive diet over 4 months. She says she never felt happy about the weight loss because of the layers of skin covering her body. It put her in a depression and she's regained the weight. Now with the encouragement and support of her husband she's started on an exercise program and though she assures me she's back to her high weight she looks tighter and slimmer. I've also lost 50 pounds since my surgery, but have been doing it slowly. I also aquasize for an hour a day four days a week and have no problems with loose skin. I weigh myself about every two to three weeks and as long as the scale is going down I'm happy. I just remember how awful it was pre-band when every trip to the scale showed a weight increase. So, I guess what I'm trying to say is that many of the people in this group are not slow losers, you're just sensible losers. At least that's my opinion.

I would go to the doctor to get this checked, that's how my awful episode of stomach irritation began. When in doubt, I will go to the doctor from now on.

He prescribed Pantoprazole 40mg. You're right about the experience taking one back to the first few weeks after surger, with the difference that I never felt this kind of pain after the surgery. Let me just add a note for people trying to decide whether to have the surgery; I would still have the lap band, I would just be a lot more careful about following the rules. You can bet I'll be cutting my food into tiny pieces, the doctor said no bitter than a pencil eraser and I'll also be counting my chew, 30.

My doctor has stated several times that he considers 1 lb a week the optimim weight loss. In his opinion it is an easy target to reach and helps the skin slowly restrict so you dont' have to face a body lift once you've lost your weight. And of course regular exercise is very important whether or not you need to lose weight. His opinion is that without adding exercise the weight loss alone gives you very little health benefits.

I absolutely couldn't stand it yesterday, my whole body was aching and I couldn't keep down even Water. I phoned my doctor and got in to see him yesterday afternoon. He took out all my fill and all symptoms ended instantly. I now have to take an antacid medication for a month, stay on liquids for a few days and then go back to the mush diet. I go back for a new fill in two weeks. All this happened because I haven't been absolutel religious about small, tiny bites and chewing. It has taught me an important lesson, for things to work well you have to follow the rules.

First the good news, I was banded on April 25th and have lost 55 pounds as of today. Now the bad news: in the last three days I have not been able to hold down any solid food. I have vomited everytime I tried to eat even mushy foods which I had no problem with previously. Last night, I couldn't sleep at all because of acid leaking out of my stomach and causing me to cough. Today, I have had nothing but liquids; Water, broth and a popsicle. It's now 9:30pm and I haven't vomited, but I still feel pain in my stomach and have a lot of gas. Has anyone gone through this??? Is it a reaction to overindulging during the holidays? I guess I'm looking for advice from other people who have gone through this. I'm going to give it a few more days and if it continues I guess I won't have any choice but to go in for a checkup. Thanks for listening.:help:

I wasn't given an amount to eat. I was told to eat lean protein first about 2 - 3 oz then veg and finally carbs; chew slowly, no drinking during meals and to eat until I got a satiated but not stuffed full feeling. It's working for me, I occassionally have a small snack between meals, but I usually don't feel the need to. I was also told not to go more than 4 hours without eating.

Sleepyjean, been there done that. I still believe one of the reasons I got into the whole overweight mess is because I stopped weighing myself during a prolonged bout of depression, like two years. When I finally got on a scale I was over 200 and the thought of losing all that weight just put me in another depression. I will deal with plateaus, but I don't want to go more than a week without checking my weight.

The band is a friend for the plate and bolts in my leg which were used to put my bones together after I fractured my ankle. :girl_hug:

I lost all taste for fast foods five years ago when I was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma. Fast foods are loaded with transfats and transfats are thought to be one of the main causes for the increase in cancers over the last forty years. Since my cancer, I try to stick to fresh food I cook myself. Unfortunately for my weight loss, eating a lot of food, even if it's healthy keeps you fat. One of the things that motivated me to get banded was reading about the benefits of low cal eating espoused by Dr Walford. Countless studies have shown that low cal diets, increase longevity and decrease disease in animals, no one yet claims it does the same in humans, but preliminary studies are pointing in that direction. Fortunately, my cancer was diagnosed in the early stages and I'm (fingers crossed) considered to have a low risk of recurrence. For me, the band is a way of increasing my chances against the big C.

I've been reading up on plateaus because I don't want to despair when I eventually hit one. A lot of fitness experts say that plateaus are what happen when the body catches up with the scale. For example, you lose 15 pounds in 3 weeks, well that's really almost impossible to do, at least not 15 pounds of fat. So that 15 pounds includes a lot of Fluid loss. As your body regains fluid and loses fat, your losing real weight, but it doesn't show on the scale. I hope I've explained that clearly. What you should do when you hit a plateau is divide the total weight you've lost by the number of weeks you've been dieting. To go back to that 15 pounds if you hit a two week plateau after the initial loss, you divide 15/5 and have achieved a weight loss of 3 pounds per week which is much more realistic. Hope this helps. I know I'll be using this formula when the plateaus hit.

I can see Sara Rue's career slimming down along with her size. She looks nothing like she used to. She may become a victim of the Jennifer Grey factor, remember Jennifer she nose jobbed her way out of a career. As for me, I'd love to have a body like Ellen Degeneres, fit and healthy, not too many curves. I don't know why but I'm just not comfortable with cleavage.

Miper70: way to go. I love your thinking.:clap2::clap2::clap2: