RestlessMonkey

google Lap band Green Zone. There's a chart that will tell you. Otherwise briefly...you get "satisfied" (not full) on small amounts of food (up to about a cup or so) and stay full for a long time (6 hours?) AND you lose at least 1-2 pounds a week. Feeling pain when you eat too fast isn't a function of "the sweet spot" but it's a function of the mechanics of eating as a bandster. In other words, if you eat too fast, don't chew well, or take bites that are too large it will hurt whether you are at your sweet spot or just mildly restricted. You can't use that as a ruler. It just means you need to pay attention and chew well. RARELY you will be so tight you can't eat food and then that pain means "UNFILL" but you aren't there....

I think jealousy is controlling and can't abide it, myself. Good grief; you've only lost 1/4 or so of your weight (great though that is) WTH would he do once you've lost about 1/2? Locked you up in a room a la some weirdo slasher flick or something? It's HIS problem; he needs to deal with it. You did the right thing. Relationships cannot function without trust. Well, dysfunctional relationships can thrive with jealousy and drama but that doesn't sound like what you want. Don't feel guilty. And next time, DO flirt with the roofer, if he's cute.

Honestly the BIG thing about that is the risk of blood clots because you'll be fairly sedentary, with your legs down, for long stretches. Check with your surgeon; he may want you to make sure you stop every so often (like every 40 minutes or so) and walk. If he gives you the go ahead and you're up to it, taking a pillow to brace your surgical sites will help a lot. As for feeling up to it, I would've been up for a car trip on day 2, as long as I could take my tylenol, and as I long as I didn't let my husband control the music!

Welcome and good luck!

I think Albacheeser pegged it: Different people react differently. And I think you are spot on about therapy. Apparently you used food as a coping mechanism and now that you can't or won't, you need to substitute a more healthy(physically and mentally) behavior. A good behavioral therapist will do wonders for you!

you should probably ask your surgeon. The nutritionist had it on the NEVER EVER NEVER list at my bariatric center but when I pinned her down as to WHY...(took me asking more than once) she finally answered "because it is an appetite stimulant for some people". Well, it doesn't stimulate mine, so it was immediately put back in the mix; coffee in the AM and my unsweetened iced tea the rest of the day. I DO get my 64 oz of water in though.

Tell your doc. You may have hurt yourself. Plus honestly you may need a little therapy to get over the head hunger/emotional issues involved with eating. I don't mean this unkindly (I'm going to a therapist myself right now) but the post op diet is for a reason...to allow your band to heal in place...and eating most of a medium pizza is dangerous. The bad cramps tell me your body didn't handle it well. I don't mean you need to "confess" to your doc, ok? But you are under medical care and may have harmed yourself, not meaning to. Call, let him decide if you're ok or if you need tests to check yourself out. And stick to your post op diet.

You know, I've got issues (you don't get to 405 without having issues!) but I've NEVER thought food was my friend. I've felt more like food was a hateful master who kept me on a short leash (no kidding). If you think food is your friend, as I've said before, she's a back stabbing beotch. Let her go.

I didn't take mine at all until I was in "mushies" because they are hard to handle on an empty stomach, for most of us. You should be ok; your doc will do bloodwork again soon anyway.

Thank God my doc doesn't require that. Seriously. I'd never have had the surgery if he had.

I think there's shrinkage on the johnson thread. No males have posted since HH. They're probably all taking pix with their web cams.

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yes we can go poke around on the johnson thread and see what comes up. blink blink.

Yes, whither is fanny?

How DARE they? HOW dare they?

Who cares? He's HOT! Way better than a three-way with your brother and the "O"-possum. I think. Having never had the pleasure, as it were.

Been banded just at a year (almost) and have had reflux once...when I went to bed too soon after dinner. Otherwise, no, thank goodness!

[ It's sick I know. But if I can't admit it here, privately, among friends, where can I admit it? It'd never last though; we'd fight over lingerie. And KC...girl, plain holds no fear for me. If he'd dress up like Tim Curry in Rocky Horror, well, um, uh, er. you know.

Ok I am starting to seriously get the hots for Tim Curry. Damn it.

I'm already going to need a whole body lift darn it. If I exercise, do you think my va-jay-jay will tighten up?

All my exes were hung like stallions. really.

ROFLMAO I left you so set up for that one!

There's no pictures. Just words like "testosterone" and "blood flow" ho hum.

If one never lays hands upon one's Queen, then how does one get one's heirs...the princes, the princesses? Inquiring monkeys wonder just what lays what on what to effect that process. Meaning, of course, no disrespect to Her Majesty.

I'll do an eval but you can't judge in a vacuum. I need before and after pics. I need comparison pics. I need banana daiquiris