swrktp

Candy I hear you about the pain if you eat to much I get that to. Mine goes from the band all the way down to the port when I eat to much. Weid I know. I sometimes wonder if the full pushes some of the fluid back into the port area and that is what hurts. I love my band to. But was in tears today the third time I PB'd. I am really tired and frustrated today with life nothing to do with the band and than the band is really talking to me today!! Thanks Dr. Baggs for only putting in .5ccs. Blessing in disquise!! I just hope this last more than a few days. I also think if I ate certain things like salad the band might now work as well. But who knows Riley could barely eat her salad today. I haven't tried that yet. I am down 1 pound today so crossing my fingers the plateau is broken!! :-)

Hey ladies, I have restriction. Boy do I have restriction............. I tried dinner twice neither time worked but I am not hungry. I finally had a protien bar and I am keeping that down and am feeling full. MENU: B. Protien shake: Slimfast strawberry!! YUM 180 Calories L. Lentils 3/4 cup-140 calories or a bit less cause I didn't eat the whole cup D.Tried to eat the inside of a burrito-PB'd it up Db Tried to eat some crackers and cheese a couple of hours later and PB that up too. Dc. Ate a protien bar and that is staying down-180 calories and really full now. (not to tastes 30grams of protein so on the dry/bland side but FULL so yah!!) Water 64 ounces easy. Nicole I am so, so, so thirsty the last week since I switched back to water. I can't get enough. I hear ya. I drink all day long. Fasting yesterday for the weigh in didn't help me being thirsty. I drink 120 ounces a day so barely made that today and yesterday.

I want a pound by tomorrow too!! LOL. I noticed you were limping a bit yesterday Riley. Well weird but my band seems to be tightening up a bit. I am not getting food down very well. I am not full per see but I just can't eat alot either. I am hungry for more but I get stuck if I eat some more.........ok maybe that is bandster full. Riley could you go camping and not S*N%A@C&K?

Riley I think I have dinner a and b too.............I thought that was ok as long as the calories were low and you didn't eat bad things. Still trying to get ahold of the concept that dinner b is a snack. So I guess I have to eat a bit more at dinner a to last all night or take something to sleep!! LOL. I am not sure mine is head hunger I know about that.....oh boy do I know when I have that. This is really hungry I get about 8pm at night. I am drinking alot of water today. Some crystal light and I just mowed the front and back yard. I need the exercise so I did it myself today. But I really have a bad, bad headache today. My port bruise is quite a beaty and getting more colorful by the hour!! I don't like to see it cause it looks worse than it hurts!!

Donna Dr. Baggs and Liz were asking me alot of questions about the support group in Sacramento. They wanted the address, date time ect. They also wanted to know how many bansters we had showing up. I told them between 13-18 (trying to estimate in my head the people around the table that day) They seemed impressed with that. I told them I thought we had more like 20+ bandsters between the Kaiser group and online support group. I emailed them both this morning and gave them all the information. They seemed interested in the support group and how active we all are and I know they love all the SAcramento ladies and the way we stick together. My guess is they will give out the information to their Sacramento clients and maybe even at orientation. Just Liz said they can't "push" people to our group or arrange get togethers becuase of the HIPPAA laws. So the group might grow. I have been strongly encouraged to keep up with the support group at every fill............:-)

Yea Riley you got the picture up!! Not sure how but yea!!

I don't feel full at all with 1/4 cup. But maybe with the next fill I will go from 3/4 to 1/4......... I am having alot of people around for lunch tomorrow and my mom is cooking all day. I think I get to taste everything and not much else ..............LOL. Seriously don't want another PB'ing episode between now and when I go back for a fill. Dr. Baggs probably won't give me one if I don't get this figured out............. My dad told me if they tell you don't eat to much than just don't and you won't throw up again. He said it is easy I don't know why you don't get it. Arrghhh..............I told him I had to eat 1/4 cup of food and he was like not that can't be right you won't survive. He asked me how long are you gonna do this it isn't healthy!! So much for support huh??

I ate 3/4 a cup of lentils today. I was starving. Did the protein shake this morning. I had 1 cup which I could eat yesterday but only was able to eat 3/4. Not 1/4 I know. But I guess I have a little restriction today. I also got really hungry about 2 hours later and I kept asking myself is this head hunger or really hungry. Seriously it was really hunger so I had a piece of weight watchers cheese......damn snack I know, I know. Well I PB'd right back up. I really tried to hold it down and wait it out but it came back up.........thinking to myself "no snacks Tina get a clue!!" I guess .5 is a good thing but like the guy said yesterday you really do get hungry.............

Congrats Christine!! Enjoy it you so deserve it!! Huge, huge victory!!! Ok ladies I post the pictures on the community social site since I can't figure this out!!

How do you post pictures on here? I have some from yesterday to post!!

So Nicole Liz will be there but we can have Dr. Baggs do it if we are his patients? I like talking to Liz cause she has alot of great ideas and gets the whole bariatric thinking process!! But I really want Dr. Baggs to do my fills......... My guess is that as time goes on the fills are less and less frequent and as you lose weight you fade out of the Richmond program. I also noticed that lots of patients came and went without being part of the group. I think the group is just for new patients but the old bandsters might now be doing them.......... Oh gotta love Gordon too!! He was at my last group fill and I really liked him!! He also told Robin socking things at the last appointment. THe cigar story was funny!! My daughter was laughing all the way home about the guy who was hungry so he got angry and than that made him hungrier so he got angrier...........MIchaela got a kick out of that and that he almost used the f word..............she said mom he was really really hungry you could tell!! BUt OMG 70 pounds since February??

OH Nicole I thought you went from 194 to 188 pretty fast there. But maybe it was just you didn't change your ticker!! LOL. Did that liqiud diet help you lose some more? I think they talked to me about bread because I only lost two pounds!! YOu lost 13 so even if your eating bread it works. Did you tell Dr. Baggs you can eat anything?? I told him it really depends on the day for me but lately I could eat alot more. But than again I PB'd two days ago so I have a very moody band. Riley I am really determined not to snack. I don't think I do but.................I think I eat four small meals cause I get hungry after dinner .........every four hours comes quick if you stay up late. Donna I read an old post by you about getting enough sleep and weight loss. I know I don't get enough sleep. I stay up till midnight and get up at 6am...........I used to use caffiene to fight that but not anymore.........and if I go to bed early.......than no need for the last supper or my fourth meal...... Been thinking alot today about if I am totally following the rules after all the discussion yesterday and I think Liz is pretty right on about something................

Riley 5 pounds overnight!! Seriously I want someone elses fill!! LOL. Ah have a really bad headache today. I did start taking my blood pressure meds again today and wonder if the headache is related to that. Going back to bed I think. Between the diahrea and that headache I wonder if it is the flu............ Riley maybe the weight gain was just water weight??

Riley I found some clothes!! Thanks so much!! Still not feeling any difference in restriction but I am sore from the fill all around the port. I think this is because it was so hard to find it yesterday and I got poked a bit. Ah Nicole still thinking about you getting poked my Liz!! You poor girl you were the guinea pig!! So is Liz gonna take over the fills?? Hmm...........I like Liz but I hope Dr. Baggs still keeps his patients. I do know Kaiser is getting alot of people filled at other places when the insurance changes and that is probably time consuming. I want to ask what is going on with the fill and why they are training Liz to do the fills?? Ah Pam I have a headache today too!!

Hey Pam so it didn't go to bad. Funny cause we told Robin the same thing at the group meeting and she seemed shocked!! Well it can only hold 7cc's?? Really?? so at 5.5 or so I am almost full?? Hmm I am gonna ask Dr. Baggs next time about that. I have been on liquids since yesteray was starved this morning and having diahrea probably from all the liquids!! LOL. Had a protien shake and I am ok for now. I am gonna stay on liquids until I get really hungry. Christine what you lost 2.5 overnight. I want your fill!! LOL. I am the same weight this morning which is good. I have been so up and down the last week that I am happy to be firmly in one place for now. I have been fighting the same 5 pounds for weeks. Now that I am not so up and down maybe the scale will start to go down. I have been the same weight for 4 days now!! And the Kaiser scale was only one pound more than my home scale so I know I am right on. I plan to stay on liquids until I can't stand it anymore and I am only eating protien.........sorta a 5 day pouch diet but twisted with the south beach thing Christine posted. I serious need to stop the carbs!!

Pam where are you? How did it go??

Ah Nicole sorry about the fill hurting. Mine didn't really hurt but Dr. Baggs couldn't find the port this time so I am really bruised up this morning. He did tell me that he was gonna do better next time. I told him he should not have said anything and I probably would not have known........... I can't tell a difference this morning either. I will wait a week or so for it to kick in. Hoping for no more PB'ing and some weight loss so I can get more of a fill next time. Nicole your doing great. What is that like a 6 pound jump downward?? Liz was talking to me the whole time during the fill and got me laughing which didn't help Dr. Baggs. They did give me a hard time about admitting to eating bread. I thought we could eat bread toasted?? I told Liz it was toasted and I still PB'ed on it. But than Robin asked me about eating bread too. Sorta confused on that one. But I don't eat it anymore now anyways!! Yea this liquid thing is not fun. But I have done good so far if you count the protien shake last night. But I am gonna drink those until I get rid of the whole case I bought........I need the protien and they have been sitting them since January when I bought them for pre op. Drinking two a day than eating dinner and I finally dropped two pounds so I think maybe the liquids and no carbs and high, high protien has my body back to losing again..............I hope.

Christinen I totally hear you!! Caffiene is huge weak spot for me!! I am afraid to get started again....... I still mentally crave it and always think I want a diet coke so I am still danger zone right now. Girls I am so hungry tonight..............going to bed to fight it!!

Candra I will read through the lap band stuff but my guess is you can have it. I think most of it is pre op. I will bring it on Saturday.

Donna thanks for all your work on the list. You were missed today!!

No caffiene for me since 4/13. I only drank soda to get my caffiene and I am really afraid of carbonation. I want to keep my band. I also AM very addicted so know one sip would do me in. Liz said no today that I wouldn't even like it now but I don't know........I did take a sip of 7up a few days ago to rinse my mouth out and it tasted way to sweet and thick, oily.......so maybe Liz is right. Riley Nicole said hello to Dr. Baggs and than as he walked by she said "there goes the King........he turned bright red!!

Candra I KNEW they were gonna say something about your coffee!! LOL. YOu did good though.............so now you know Liz so the CM appointment will be a breeze!!