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my doc did a complete unfill, but only because they have had patients in the past where the band has slipped and they don't discover it till after the baby is born, because they don't do xrays on your tummy while your pregnant... its should be your decision though but thats what my doc told me, and that was good enough for me...and a complete unfill hasn't been as disasterous as i thought...i got unfilled at 5 weeks, and now at 11 weeks, i've lost 5 lbs since that unfill.

so i guess i should do a proper introduction...i'm 11 weeks pregnant! wow...still in shock. banded 7/28/08...and i'm just a slow loser with the band...and my last fill before i found out i was pregnant was just wayyyy to tight, and i stuck it out thinking it would help me lose weight faster (dumb) but just ended up eating all the easy crap like chips and milkshakes, just cause nothing i ate no matter how much i chewed would stay down, so i ended up gaining weight before i found out i was pregnant when i found out i was pregnant they had me get a complete unfill, i almost cried, i was like your taking ALL of it...apparently my doctor has had patients who have had their band slip during pregnancy and they dont discover it till the baby is born... so i cried later, and then had a sandwhich, WITH BREAD!!!!! lmao...bread never tasted so good. i thought having a complete unfill would be disasterous...suprisingly...i've lost 5-6 lbs i have morning sickness all day every day since about week 6, only vomited twice, the rest is just REALLY bad nausea ok thats me, thats where i'm at, and just wanted to say HI!

carson is REALLY cute! awwww i want my baby already! congrats!

ok so i found i was pregnant today (breathe!) dude my hpt showed up Sooooooooooooooo light, but doc confirmed, so yippie. i say yippie but i'm really thinking OH MY GAWD! i don't know anything about babies...i know they smell of poo and spit up alot. lol i was banded in july so i'm 7 months post op. i have so many questions not just about what going to happen with my band but pregnancy in general...i havent met with my OB yet, just my general doc. but do you guys have any suggestions for websites, forums, books etc for new moms-to-be my mind is racing, when do i tell my mom, i'm almost 30 and i feel like i'm 13 and trying to tell her i'm pregnant. how do you pick a daycare, do i talk/read to my unborn baby is there things i can do/teach my child early (0-4yrs) that will help them in school? i haven't even had my baby yet and i'm already thinking about school, and goodness gracious what happens when it turns into a teenager! do most people get a complete unfilled while their pregnant, well i guess like everything else probably depends on the doctor. ok i'll stop this rambling, can someone just send me in the right direction

wow guys thanks so much! i've already picked up two of your recommended books, and i'll be logging on to the suggested websites tonight.... thank you thank you!

i miss fast food a little, then i realize its about 90% of the reason i needed surgery in the first place...some days i'd go to mcdonalds and just ordered fries i loved them so much...yeah i haven't been able to eat fries for months now. oh Breakfast tacos...ANY taco! i recently moved to a new city, and over new years i was watching my niece she's 8, and she wanted mcdonalds...um yeah i needed the gps to find one cause i had no idea where it was...its like i don't even pay attention to fast food places any more...i'm sure thats a good thing...

so i'm down 40+ lbs since i started with pre op, which is about 30 since having the band.. seeing the scale say 240-anything...just blew me away, its been since early 2007 the last time i saw that number. now when i was going up i thought i was going to cry at 248....but gosh on the way back down 248 never looked so good! i tried over and over to lose weight (story of our lives) and a few times before i had lap band surgery i got to 250.0 and could never break into the 240's 249.8 was just the magic number for me, to let me know that my band is making a difference, and OH MY i did it, (ok me and the band did it) just had to share, i'm so excited!!! i feel like if i can get to the 240's (which i tried sooooooooooo hard to do this year and couldn't) then there is NO reason that i can't meet goal...i don't think i've been this excited since the day i scheduled my surgery! thanks for listening good luck to all!

ok i used care credit as well...and oh yeah it was short simple to the point your approved...and in 3- 4 weeks i had surgery!!!!!!! good luck...breath easy tonight, your having surgery!!!!!! yaaaay!

i feel the EXACT same way, i guess its easy for me to tell you, to hang in there the weight will come off, but its hard for me to take my own advice... i have accepted the fact that i'm not losing weight as fast as most, and some time for 2 weeks straight i don't lose anything, and some times i gain!!! but then i did the math today and since my surgery it looks like i've lost about 3 lbs a week...and thats not bad i too wanted to be closer to 200 by xmas, it is just very frustrating! i do exercise and i KNOW i eat waaay less than i use to, i guess i just have to learn to be patient so good luck to us both!

oh WOW...hope everything turns out ok i had a new doc do my fill this last time, and she stuggle for a bit, and then finally did it under fluro to find it... oh gosh did you have to pay for that fill? thats VERY wrong.

ok so she was one of my friends i kinda hinted to about the band...and then just told her i was thinking about it, and i was going to try one last diet. well now she and her sister are interested in the band, and are asking me for resources...ugh!! i don't want to give them this website! i think this website has been the MOST helpful, and i truly feel that if your getting a band you need to come here...well find a good surgeon, read up on it, and come here..., but i still want my secret!!! i feel bad, cause i've been lying to her, but if you knew this girl, you'd be appalled that i even called her friend...she is the friend that if some one said hey you look great (to me) she'd say "well thats only cause she had surgery" no i'm not thinking worse case scenario, i've been there with her, i got into a professional school program in another city, someone asked me why i didn't just go to the school in my hometown, she jumps in and said, "cause she's not smart enough to get into school here" um yeah, when i'm done with school people will call me doctor, doesn't matter to me that i had to drive 300 miles north, but she's got the need to never let me be in the spotlight, and doesn't want anyone to be happy for me. so thats to give you some background on why i hid the surgery from her ok so um yeah, i'm thinking MAYBE i can tell her about my surgery, if she actually goes thru with it, but um i think i'm going to give her the website...ugh, its the right thing to do...but i'm soooooooooooo disappearing off this thread, lol i'm changing my name, erasing my photo, and hopefully by the time she logs on for the first time, all the threads started by me will be so far at the end of the forum she'll never find them...i think whether i tell her or not, a random internet search on lapband will lead you to this forum. ok maybe this rant should have been a blog and not a post...but thanks for listening!

thank you...i'm going to get on that ASAP

ok my 1st fill i was filled to 4.2 (10cc band) and i lost 13.5 lbs...ok 2nd fill to 5.2 and OMG i've gained 7 almost 8 lbs...WHAT HAPPENED, that fill was 3 weeks ago, (i go for fill number 3 thursday) i was fine, i wasn't feeling hungry, i could go from 6 am to 9 pm and never eat, ( i did eat!) but i never felt hungry, i had lost about 7 1/2 pounds, and now i've gained that back, so now i weigh more than i did then when i went for the fill!!! i'm so embarrassed, like i don't wanna go for my fill, its so frustrating, i mean i know where i messed up i guess...i was going to the gym 5-6 days a week, and i cut down to 3-4, and now this past week i've been REALLY hungry, i mean i try will power like i had done with past diets, but its crazy i'm really hungry... i'm trying to talk to myself...like its not going to get any better with out a fill, so i have to go, but dang! i'm so upset!!! anyone else going thru this? need some words of encouragement, cause all i wanna do is sit here and eat! and THAT is NOT the way to handle this

i'm like everyone else...dude i'm the diet champion, give me a diet, i'll follow it, i can lose weight, that was never a problem, can't say i tried a diet and didn't lose weight...lost weight every time! gained it back...and more EVERY TIME! i did every diet, sometimes very dedicated, some times not so dedicated, my whole life was a diet, i didn't like being fat, i was motivated as many days as i was unmotivated. i did not EVER think i would have surgery, puh-leeze thats for lazy people who don't wanna diet and exercise! i tried, i really freaking tried, this was a last resort, i didn't have it in me to try another diet, i'd been down that road hundreds of times before and it ended the same way, no matter how dedicated i was, no matter how many times i knew that THIS was the straw that broke the camels back, how many times i said i was doing this for me and no one else, it ended the same way, i gained it back and then some! yo-yo dieting is worse than just being fat, one more yo-yo diet and i was going to be over 300 lbs, and that scared me, i avoided hbp and diabetes while in the 200's but its only a matter of time before they caught up with me. the band is a tool, it tells your body your fuller sooner, instead of doing a 1200 calorie diet on your own and feeling hungry all the time, and just so many other benefits. i'm not at goal yet, and i have a long way to go...but i'm already feeling changes, i'm not thinking about food all day, i'm not hungry, it basically helps you stay on a "diet" i guess if thats what you wanna call it everyone is different do you reasearch and always do whats best for you

i'm a pink lemondade fan...but i have issues, i swear when i drink one it makes me hungry! lol...i think i wanna eat because i'm having a sweet drink...so i've had to cut back on them, i think i was having 3 a day.

OMG!!! i'm so excited for you!!! you must feel AWESOME!!!! i'm a little younger, but still putting off going to a class, please be very very very proud of yourself! thats amazing! i feel like i did it, i may be more excited than you are! i think its because i'm waiting to take a class till i can get my endurance up, still on eliptical/treadmill...but i'm pretty sure in 2 more weeks i'll be ready, cause i'm getting better and able to stay a little longer lately... but a boot camp class! ARE YOU INSANE! LMAO...you are the WOMAN! i bow to you, i've seen those classes, their crazy!!! you are truly motivating!!!!

perfect timing i JUST started yesterday with some info i found online about couch to 5k, so i did my first 90 second walk/ 60 second jog, but i'm going to check out the pod runner thanks

ok, so i thought i was going to be in the cool elite group of those who have never PB'ed or had any sliming...ahhh...almost 8 weeks post op...PB, :rolleyes2: ok so i had food in my mouth chewing when things felt bad...did i spit it out, heck no i swallowed the food like a champion eater! lmao! 0.0005 seconds later...OUCH!!! then me running to the bathroom chew chew chew <~ is that what yall ment? i can't keep taking giant bites! it all makes sense now...well duh if you wanted me to chew more than three times you shoulda wrote: chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew ok so i'm still starving and i ate some yogurt...i read somewhere after you PB you should go back to liquids or mushies the next day! i did not know that, something about swelling! OH MY, thank goodness i have this board!!! wheter its true or not, don't think it will hurt me to take it easy thanks for listening, just thought i'd share

a few weeks before my surgery i hinted to some friends i was considering the surgery, um they all said, no don't do it we like you the way you are...wasn't that nice of them (the biggest girl is a size 7, i was a tight 24, in size 26 denial) well heck i got it anyways, i couldn't even tie my shoes, were they serious?! only 3 people know about my surgery, i read too many bad stories on the boards about telling to many people...and this was just private for me, and my life is a freaking open book, i will tell you anything you wanna know, no matter how dark and freaky, lol, but this, this was my secret. like maybe once i reach goal, i'll tell people. so now almost 8 weeks post op down about 27 lbs from my heaviest weight...and i freaking worked for EVERY pound lost, i've been going to the gym, elliptical, treadmill, bike, even some arm weights. i started school at a new campus and it was built on a freaking HILL so just going from class to class is a work out i'm eating more fruit than ive ever had in my lifetime, and i have not had fast food in over 2 months (been out to chilies once with a group of friends) i truly feel like i'm doing the "diet/exercise" that has been preached for weightloss for years, how i've lost weight in the past, watching what i eat and exercising, nothing strange there i have 5.2 cc's in my band after my second fill, restriction is coming along well, then it happened... people started noticing my loss! and here it goes, people wispering wondering how i did it, i'm like i stopped eating late, i eat more fruit, portion control, and i've been exercising, am i lieing? my roommate jumps in an she's like "she goes to the gym EVERYDAY!" <~bless her and it kinda irks me abit, theres a group of 16 of us, were starting a doctoral program together, but one person notices the loss, and then its the new gossip and other start to question it. some don't believe i go to the gym...Really? cause you didn't see me there? wtf? these are the future doctors of america, please be frightened if thats there philosophy. one of the size 5's was like i work out and i haven't lost 27 lbs...ok she's about 111-115 and oh i started at 290. where does she need to lose 27 lbs from? i think what bothers me the most is that when i was working in 2006 i lost 40lbs...and that's when people noticed my lost (yeah they caught me off guard this time i was barely at 30 lost) but it was aggrevating after that, every time i ate something it was "aren't you supposed to be on a diet?, your not on your diet anymore? are you going to the gym today? ok and tons of unsolicited diet advice!!! ok it was like i got this far without you...thanks! well now i have to deal with the rumors...i know i shouldn't care it just bothers me, who cares if i had 5 surgeries, don't try to discredit my hard work waiting to say "oh well she had surgery"

first off...my scale hates me. there i said it. but i was reading a couple posts, and i'm thinking i'm getting tooo few calories...didn't notice till i started writing what i ate down... its been almost 2 weeks with no change in my weight, oh wait...i'm lieing it went up 4 lbs, and now i've lost 2 of the 4 that i gained, i've been to the gym from 30min-1hr for 7 out of 9 days... but then i started tracking my cals that i'm eating...um like 700-900/day. i'm currently going thru posts to see what a good number is, i just don't think 700 is a good number, with or without the band. and now that i have those numbers in perspective, i was burning that much at gym on eliptical (assuming the little calorie thing on the machine was semi-accurate) in an hour ok i may be over dramatic but i feel like i'm giving myself an ED, like i feel like if i eat more my wieghts going to go up? assuming i need an increase in calories, whats a good way to go about it without freaking myself out about eating too much and fyi, would have never guess a few weeks ago i'd be posting about not eating enough!

what its like to be me, in one day. the biggest of my friends here in denton is a size 7 (there are 11 girls 4 guys) then theres me, the 24 whos in size 26 denial. so my new school was built on a hill, but before that, lets ring the alarm at 7am! ok so since my surgery, i can tie my shoes, so thats not an issue anymore, yaaay me! getting on the bus...ok i usually choose the handicapped area seats, because squeezing next to someone is horrible cause i either squish them or hang out in the isle and or being the one in the seat, kinda makes me feel bad when no one sits next to me, of course occasionally the smallest tiny girl will have enough room in the seat next to me. walking to class, gotten better, but still is a task, i can almost keep up with my friends, but i really gotta powerwalk, some days i try to leave before them just so i can walk at an easier pace and get to class on time picking a desk...first or second chair in the first row against the wall, but then i feel bad because i don't really fit in the desk and i kinda block the row, my thigh is completely in the isle oh but my second class of the day has these desk that the chair is fixed, and the desk u pull up from the side and put over your lap. its sad, the desk cuts me in the stomach for 50 minutes. yeah i should be thankful i can get it down, but most of the time i don't take notes cause i don't wanna deal with the pain, hmmm i'lll just get them from someone later. my last class of the day i hate it, because i have to run from a building across campus to this building and most all the seats are taking these rows are horizontal, fixed chairs and desks, so as i have to squeeze down a row, i wanna freaking cry its soooooo embarrasing because the front of me is knocking people in the heads, they can't move their chairs and the back of me is rubbing on the tops of peoples desks on the row behind me so i'm knocking off papers and water bottles as a science major, we talk alot about the human body...and my favorite 7 letter word OBESITY, i sit and wonder do people think about me when this topic comes up...i know i shouldn't care, but i'm the biggest girl i've seen on campus in 3 weeks. we've had sociology talks about how obesity is a drain on society, we've had endocrinology talks about diabetes and obesity, just tell the diabetic to lose weight, ah simple enough, i'm not diabetic, but i am obese, i just wanna yell...Please don't think every fat person you see has not tried over a 100 times to lose weight! my group of 16 doctoral students started a flag football team, guess who was the only person not asked to play, it's like ask me to play, you know i'll say no, but come on,...by the time i found out we had a team, heck they were getting ready for the game...they have invited me to play since i was angry that day, but yeah, i can barely run i know it, so i'm fine, but everyday after being in class from 9-2, drained i walk back up the hill and go to the gym for 30-60 minutes, i'm at about 6 days a week for the last 3 weeks i told my mom my school story, she told me the next day that she cried...so bless lapband, i know i whine that i've only lost 27 lbs, but omg, i probably wouldn't be able to sit anywhere at school had i not lost it.

dallas tx as well, ditto, $15,000 it was either 1 year/ 10 fills

thank you guys, i'm currently in the middle of making a shopping list, with real food on it! lol i looked around, i definately need to up the cals, i'm just going to not let the scale get me down over the next week or two while i make this change i think increasing calories is easier to accept when you realize thats what will actually help you lose weight...heck you don't have to tell me twice :thumbup: thanks

i'm 5"8 my starting bmi was 43 something...yeah i just put a mental block on what that number was i think one of my biggest problems is not knowing what to eat, like i don't want to eat things that will go down too easy, slider foods? but i try to get my fruit and veggies in, but pretty soon i think i'm going to turn into a tunafish that smells like orange and watermelon pretty soon. i guess posting this has made me realize i need to really get serious and start looking up band friendly foods and recipies.