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Hey all.. havent been on in awhile.. just caught up reading everyones posts.. I wont be around for awhile.. we are heading out of the country tomorrow.. take care everyone and God's blessing on you for this holiday season.

awesome Orea! thats no small thing!! Kimaly, you are in my prayers as well.. please keep us posted.

Hello everyone.. I am still around Happy belated b-day crzytchr.. Orea glad to hear things are going well.. I am with you on the thanksgiving thing.. my hubby's family didnt eat all day to say up for the big meal and I am thinking to myself.. ummm ya.. not a good idea.. starve yourself and then load up on carbs! I did pretty well overall.. my weight did go up about 4lbs when I weighed myself after returning home.. I dont know maybe it was the scale or the crazy time of day I weighed myself.. but I was a little upset.. its been 2days since I have been back and I have dropped 3 of those lbs. so something tells me it was something weird.. I am a little frusterated because I need a little more fill but I have to wait till January for it.. because I leave in 9 days for a 3 week trip.. I just really could use the extra restriction!! I have been being really good and trying to only eat when my stomach grumbles something I didnt do over thanksgiving weekend. man that food was so rich.. well hopefully I will check in again before we leave..

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TOOOOOOOOOOO!!! the scale is not moving and I was told by my docs office to get back into the excercising to kick start the losing.... its 30 degrees outside!! I need to get to the mall or something and find my weights...

I have been debating the same thing.. but my issue is that I have restriction but feel like I am hungrier than I should be.. so I have been going back and forth about getting another fill or not.. because the scale is not moving.. its not going up.. but I am not losing either.. so my huge delimma is that I am going to be traveling for 3 weeks over the holidays and I just dont want to be overfilled and be in trouble.. but on the other hand I dont want to have gained weight over the holidays.. but today after talking to the docs office they recommend I wait till after i get back because they say that sometimes high altitudes can make your band tighten so they just dont want me to be in trouble.. they just said to kick up the walking.. (which wont be hard because we are going to europe and I am sure we will be walking everywhere).. BUT with all that said.. if you are losing I would stay where you are.. my docs office said to call them when I dont lose 1-2 lbs a week. everyone is different so to lose that amount everyone will eat different amounts.. so losing is the key.. if you are still losing.. I would stay where you are until you plateau again.

Orea, I will be praying that your husband finds a job quickly! Hang in there

I agree they shouldnt make you wait longer than 3 weeks between fills if you need them..It doesnt make sense to make you wait too long. generally they make you wait at least 3 weeks for the fill to settle because believe it or not some fills actually get tighter with time.. I would call and ask for more. I am the same I lost 3 lbs the first week after my fill and then I lose about 1 or stay the same the weeks following.

thanks kimaly, thats what i needed to hear. part of me wishes i could have the same restriction that i did 3 weeks ago.. and now i feel like i need a little more.. i know it takes a little time for the fill to settle and see where you are at. i guess what scares me i sometimes i have great restriction, but other times i am hungry all the time and need a little more.. and i guess those times out weigh the times I have good restriction.. so I probably need a little more.. but because I do have restriction sometimes it makes me afraid that I will be overfilled if I get more.. anyways bottom line is that in 20 days I will be traveling for 3 weeks so its probably better to be a little under filled than over filled and stuck in a foreign country. :thumbup: sO I guess I will re-evaluate my fill situation in January anyhow.:eek: thanks though for the comment!:frown:

congrats! hey I have a question for you. I see that you got your 3rd fill and then was over filled. I have had 2 fills and have decent restriction but I feel like I could eat a little less than what I am. but I am so nervous to go for the third fill because I dont want to be overfilled. was your 3rd fill a lot over? I think I could do a little more but I am afraid of the over fill

Hi! welcome.. its true 25lbs is great! I share your emotion however that I thought this would go much faster. but it does take some time to get things adjusted just right before you start losing consistantly. I am in that process. I was banded at the end of July as well and hoped to be down forty by Christmas, but hey,, even the fact that my size 20s are fitting loosely makes me happy. :thumbup: havent been below a 20 in years. so hang in there..

Hey All just checking in... stinks about all the possible leaking bands.... man I cant say if my band was leaking if I would go through all that again. well I hope it sincerely works out for all of you! I myself have been having a rough past couple of days. I went on a retreat and did pretty well with the eating thing.. there was a lot of snacks and crap and I did pretty well avoiding them. but then yesterday I must have made the wrong food choice from the start because I was running around so early in the morning.. because no matter what I was hungry all day... then breakfast turned into lunch and another not filling choice and then on to dinner and I had fish which always makes me hungry like an hour later.. so anyhow I just felt like crap about myself all day because I felt like I was struggling to keep it together. I just gotta know when I am hungry to make good healthy choices of food that will stay with me for a bit. anyways.. I wonder if I need another fill or if I just had a bad day. its only been 2 weeks since my last fill... but who knows maybe I need a little more...

welcome April!!:Dancing_sorry:

WOW Orea!! awesome!!!! I lost another lb this week and as I look at the scale wishing it were more I think of both my parents that lost all their weight in like 5 months with Gastic bypass and yet have gained some of that weight back and are still struggling.. I cant help but think slow and steady is the way to go. I only have 100 more lbs!! at one lb a week that should take... forever! lol! but seriously.. I am sad for them and wish they would have known about this option. I guess I can praise God that other than still throwing up weekly at times.. they dont have any other major problems as so others I know do.. its scary. its also nice to wear the tightest pants you have owned in the last 5 years and have them fit loosely or zip up a sweatshirt and not look like a stuffed sausage :tongue2: yay! for non-scale victories

wow thats awesome way to go!!

Hey guys.. so I just wanted to add something.. so when you switch to liquids for a few days and then slowly build back up.. you may or may not lose weight because your body is always trying to balance the fluid levels it has.. so you may initially lose but it could just be water weight. thats why they dont recommend liquids or fasting for a long period of time because it actually confuses the body and it starts to think its not going to get nutrience and starts to store everything as fat because its not sure when things will get back to normal. I am not a doctor but thats just some of the stuff I have learned from studying medicine and nutrition. so I think the pouch test could be beneficial in shrinking your stomach back to shape and help with some restriction or even calming hunger.. but you probably cant depend on it to lose weight. I think only small steady portions and excercise is going to help with that. anyone I have talked to that has lost a larger amount of weight just with diet and excercise talks about the great 'stall'.. but then they say if you are just consistant and can push through eventually you start to lose again. also the more muscle you tone and build the more fat you will burn because tone muscle burns fat because it needs the fat for energy. so working out it takes awhile to tone and so therefore you may not see any results for awhile.. I know this is frusterating.. but we just have to hang in there.. push through and be consistant.. at least thats what i am trying to do. I find it so hard to be patient and be happy with 1 lb a week.. but thats how it goes. you can do it!!

this weeks update: just going day by day and trying to do my best and hope that at the end of the week the scale will have moved. last week (the week after my last fill) I lost 3 lbs.. and oh it so hard not to hope for that.. i wish! slow and steady wins the race! its about 30-40 degrees here so I am just trying to be creative with getting my walking in, I have a 14 month old.. so to cold to be out to long.. so the mall it is!! that can be dangerous however... to many opportunities to buy stuff. :thumbup: hope you all are having a great week!

Surgical Weight Loss 5 Day Pouch Test congrats!! on hitting wonderland!! that must be a great feeling!! I am just trying to break 250 at the moment.. 6 lbs to that goal..

no.. but it does feel sore sometimes after excercising a lot. I drink something hot in the morning like tea and it seems to help with the extra morning tightness. I weighed myself yesterday because It was a week since my last fill and I had lost a pound and I said quietly to myself.. its ok.. a slow loss is stil a loss.. then this morning I hopped on it again because I normally weigh myself in the morning and I wanted to be consistant with the time of day and I about had a heart attack.. I was down 2 more lbs for a total of 3 this week! man I am still in shock!

kimaly. I know what you are saying. cause after my last fill I was having heartburn as I mentioned earlier for like 4-5 days after.. and thats a sign of being too tight.. and I was barely able to get 1/2 cup down.. but on like day 5 the heartburn stopped and things seemed to loosen up a little more and I can eat a little over a 1/2 cup before im full. so I cancelled my slight unfill that was susposed to be yesterday.. and last night the heartburn started again.. so i dont know.. its hard to judge things.. everything is staying down with the exception of a piece of pickle skin i didnt chew well enough. so I dont know..

ya.. its crazy how different we all are! I was feeling really tight after this last fill and I just must be used to it. cause its not like I am whoa everytime I eat. I am still doing well with portion size and not hungry. but I guess life just moves on when you get used to the restriction. I just dont think about it anymore. which I guess is good. but its nice that when I start feeling hungry my stomach is growling.. cause thats how it should be.. eat when you need to and not eat just to eat something. :eek:

Donna they are being really conservative with you.. I have had 2 fills and I am at 4.2 in a 10cc.. it took you 4 fills to get to almost where I am.. crazy! good luck.. maybe this will be the "one" :eek:

amen to that! if we only knew how to work it the pounds would just fly off!! congrats Donna and Orea:thumbup:

Hey all.. I had an appt for tomorrow to get a slight unfill because of the heartburn.. but I dont think I am gonna do it now.. its been a week and today I didnt have heartburn at all and I am able to eat a tiny bit more that when I first got the fill.. still around a half a cup.. but I dont want to get a slight unfill if I dont need it.. so i think I will cancel.. in other news. I was out doing wedding stuff with my friend who is getting married soon. and it was lunch time and I was like man I am starving.. because I ate breakfast at 7am and it was now 1pm or so.. so we go to sit down and I eat like 8 bites and I am full.. we get home and are eating supper later that evening with my hubby and she says laughing.. "so she said she was starving and then we sit down and she eats 8 bites and is full... she said she was starving!"... :thumbup: I love it.

yes.. what did the doc say? hope your feeling better

in other news I made an appt to get a little unfill because of the heart burn.. I hope they dont have to take much. I really am pleased with my restriction and lack of hunger. I thought it was a bit much when he filled me though.. ugh its all so annoying.. its a pain to get to my docs! well heres to hoping it all doesnt go away. :smile2: I have lost 1lb in four days!