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Riley do you know the fill schedule? Once every month for how long? Than how many times.....every three months, than every six? Hmm interesting but it makes sense..........

Well Riley we have all lived through........well I am not so sure I have lived through it yet............a 2cc fill. I just think to be fair to you you need to have your turn!! ;-P Honestly I didn't even try to eat again tonight but I am so thirsty and I am getting naseaus from water tonight. Sip, sip, sip........not big drinks. Pam didn't this happen to you at your last fill in January and you got used to it again? Wow this is not want Dr. Baggs said would happen. He said I would probably not feel this one. Ah so much for statistics I also have to be outside the norm..........LOL.

Ah Christine you are my weight loss idol!! I bet you will do it!! Girl you beat all the odds on weight loss, you amaze me. I want to be like you!! :-) I don't know how to rate Dr. Baggs. I tried that already. I think it is a brand new forum I just saw it today. So Dr. Baggs said to "tell your friends" cause I was wondering the other day what happens when he has so many bandsters that he is doing fills all the time and nothing else?? He was really back to back appointments the day I was there. I would be disappointted if he stopped doing the fills. He is to fun to joke around with.... Oh I did take a lap band book in to my fill appontment that had him as a recommended surgeon!! He had no idea he was in there but wrote down the name of the book!! I think he liked seing his name in print..........weird they recommended him but didn't tell him about the book.

Riley I bet next fill for you is 2cc fill!! ;-P

PB'ing is when eat to much and fill up your new stomach and also your espahaugus.............and your espahageous starts contracting and pushing it all back up...........but it is not exactly throwing up either it is a uniquely bandster thing............. Is is called Productive burping or PB'ing............I was so sure it would never happened to me. LOL. I have so much to learn Maybe I will come over to vallejo sometime we could have a girls day.........fitness related...........ah did I really say that!! Ok by than I will LOVE exercise and it will be ok!!

Hey Riley. I agree we might not need fills. Right now I DON'T want more of a fill!! I would love to get a protien shake or something but they are addictive to me so I will wait an hour and than out comes the vitamin water 10 my new addiction. I got stuck 2x yesterday and 2x today........I have to measure my foods now. I think I overestimate 1/4 a cup. This ia all good for me just makes me feel like I don't know what I am doing. Relearning it all.......... Sheena I think RNY can have the same problems but your really newly out of surgery and still on liquids.....I think you guys get the dumping and we get the PB'ing. Glad your feeling better. I was talking naps the whole first month............enjoy them!!

HEy all there is a new part of this forum for doctors. Dr. Baggs (Fisher, Parks and IM too) has a forum where you can rate him as a doctor and make comments on what you think of him as a surgeon!! Pretty cool. It is a new part of this forum. Of course I gave him a good review but thought everyone might like to go over there and make their own comments!! Go to home/main page........than NEW surgeon by state .......california.........Richmond and Dr. Baggs is first on the list I think...........

Riley how funny we are both in the same place. I am used to being able to get away with more like I was without the fill. I think your right head hunger is playing with me big time right now. I made a vegetarian tofu thing and veggies tonight......last week no problem. Tonight only half and I am not even sure this is 1/4 cup and I am sick instantly...... And you know that crazy thing.............my head still thinks that my stomach wants to eat the rest!! But I know my stomach can't handle it. It still looks yummy sitting on the plate!! I should NOT even want to touch it after getting stuck and sick!! ;-P So I am getting used to this fill but I feel like it is pretty tight fill right now..............lets hope I start dropping the weight since I know for sure I am barely eating right now. I think I went from no restriction to a pretty good amount overnight. No wonder I felt so tight that first night I should have paid more attention to that and maybe I would be in less trouble today!! No wonder they say protiens first after that there is not room for anything more!! Forget salads for awhile I guess. Hey Nicole and Christine how was your last fill? Are you guys getting full really quick and getting stuck too?? Hope everyone is having a great weekend out to the movies. Needless to say no snacks!! Hey Candra I will come walk that hill with you are you in Sacramento?? I really need a hill to walk!!

I have been PB'ing today everytime I eat. OMG I just threw up my whole dinner.............this restriction is no joke. When they say 1/4/ of a cup that is it period!! This is the first time I have every serious threw up with the band and hope it is the last. I worry about the band slipping but OMG that really, really hurts....................I had no choice!! I can see why people would resort to liquids if this happens for very long....... Gonna be careful as crazy as it sounds I would rather be here than where I was a week ago with no restriction at all............... Ah Riley at least I was home and not at a resterant!! It could have been worse. So serious I am at 1/4 cup not a bite more!! I am a bad girl I guess.........my eyes are bigger than my stomach right now!!

I had surgery on April 13, 2009. I just got my first fill on May 28, 2009 and am loving my band!! Not regrets no going back. I have lost 40 pounds and have never felt better. My weight has also been lifelong as well. I had to do this for my health. I needed a drastic change and this was what it took. I did go through bandster hell and than my emotions about my band were all over the place but I knew to expect that we all go through that. I am losing weight again and have restriction now!

Reggie I think we all go through that stage. I lost 12 pounds in the first two weeks than nothing until this week after my first till...........I was so careful.........well the salads was my bad.........but how bad is that. I just got so stuck and so discouraged. Bandster hell. I will tell you that the fill has made a big difference for me. I really, really can't eat alot without feeling it......the last two days. I only eat a very little and if I take another bite I am hurting....................I am trying to figure out what amount works for me now.........so just hold on until you fill. I am sure I will be ready for my next fill but for now this band thing is working...........I have eaten very little the last two days but I have not been hungry. So hold on................ And Reggie yep I get an achy port when I eat. Weird I know. The last two days I can feel the band. Sorta in my chest and back when I eat............. So hang on everyone waiting for a fill!! It has made me love my band again...........

I had my first fill two days ago. 6 weeks post op and I was still swollen. But it did not hurt. I was numbed first. Seriously no problem. Just a weird sensation when they hit the port and I felt the Fluid go in the band wich was seriously weird.........I felt the band tight all afternoon and that night which was uncomfortable but not painful. I do have a nasty bruise above my port but it doesn't hurt. No big deal!!!

Um they are the first thing you see over there............so look quick cause I am gonna try to delete them and move them back to my home page.............that is crazy embarrasing!! LOL

Ok I posted the pictures on the social group site........not were I really wanted them but I don't know what I am doing!! I just hope they aren't the first thing you see when you click on that site..............LOL. Let me know if you can see them now!!

I have actually told all my co workers. They were not surprized. I really think this will push in to retire but I am considering reporting him. I know he is worried about that. But I have saved all his emails!! :-) I figured it would come to this. Right now he is leaving me alone but this all happened last week. I think I have the upperhand but most of what he has done has been.........borderline stuff.........and he does that to all the women in the office........standing to close, making comments on womens clothing.......just with me he was trying to take it outside the office. The sad and ironic thing is that before he was working for the county he specialized in teen sex offenders and ran the therapy groups!! :-( Talk about psych background Reggie he is certainly using his background......... Anyway. Glad everyone is doing well. Candy you back to work this week right? Let me know how it goes. Reggie you still have two weeks right. You ready to go back yet? Riley: I had a resterant experience at Plutos salad resterant!! I know, I know.............and I had no restriction at the time. Sometimes the band just acts up I guess.......or I don't chew enough....... Christine have you updated your blog? I am anxious to see your new blog. Nicole have a fun, fun weekend.

I also have a female boss and she is fine. This guys is over her.............LOL. So anyway last week he got upset I would not go anywhere with him after work..........he wanted to to me about starting a business on the side with him.........ah right................he came in and asked if I was uncomfortable around him and if I was to stop making excuses and spit it out...........so I told him I won't go with you alone after work........we can go with my coworkers all together...........he got mad and left than started saying it was all me coming on to him...........blah, blah, blah............... Anyway he has been written up for sexual harrassment before so I really think he will leave me alone............just I worry about my job and his attitude around the office now. But this has needed to be address for years now and I did it finally!!

He does this with other people but right now I am the focus. He is trying to say he is interested in my health and being supportive.............LOL. Just you know how it goes.........standing to close, inappropriate comments and trying to arrange stuff after work...........he is married!! Come on I would love to tell his wife............but Candra he is like 60 years old!!!! I am SO NOT flattered by any of it. HE is gonna retire soon and I will probably get his spot!! Just he got really mad when I called him on it. Which to me says alot about his intentions.................. Not he just pouts...............I am trying to ignore him but I am gonna ask to be transferred to a female boss. I have worked for him for 6 years and I am tired of this.......and your right he was like this before but really, really more agressive now.................

Problem is that the male attention is from a supervisor at work........I called him on it and he denied it. Said I mistunderstood............he kept trying to arrange stuff for us to be alone together............anyway I can't lose my job and this i really uncomfortable. He is trying to say I was the one who wanted to be alone............. But anyway this has been along term issue but has gotten worse the last five months. I don't want to let it sabateuge my weigh loss or make me lose my job...... I know it sounds whiny but is starting to piss me off especially now that he is blaming me when we both know what he was doing...............

I think with either surgery you have to stay on top of things. If you mess up than you forgive yourself and get up and start all over again.......................can't beat yourself up over the past you just have to be ok with starting all over again. That said I heard the body gets used to RNY and can compensate by the small intestines starting to absorb food again and you gain weight. It is just the bodys way of trying to fix what was "purposely" broken................I also heard they were banding some RNY patients to prevent post op gain. Your friend needs a support and accountability system. Sounds like she is isolating and that is gonna do her in. She needs to get out and be with other people doing the same thing and who support her and hold her accountable to start all over again. Ok that is just my professional/social worker side talking.......I know is it hard not to isolate when you upset I do that same thing. I am probably going to start counseling soon. It was something that RObin talked about alot yesterday and some other people said it is very helpful.........when you start to lose alot of weight all the "feelings" that you have been hiding with your weight and food start shoving their way out..........one lady yesteday said she was getting angry alot more now.........like that her clothes were getting to big and she had no clothes.........she said it was what she wanted so she could not figure out why she got so upset about it...........I think this is a drastic thing and who knows what has been hidden for years that is gonna push its way out.....so far I am doing ok but this male attention sorta annoys me...........I don't like people invading my space or making me feel.........self conscious!! It is the stalker like, gawking rudeness I don't like.............but that is just part of my issues I guess. I think it is rude to just assume that women like that.........arrogant!!

Hey Riley I definetely have restriction today. I can only eat about half of what I could the day before..........oh course I already overestimated today that one last bite will kick you in the butt. I have to get over the clean your plate thing at resterants. There is a difference. HOw long it lasts I don't know but I am losing again. 215 today and I will weight again next Friday..................I think I am gonna lose the next couple of weeks. Right now I would NOT want to be any tighter. I also felt tight and pressure in my chest this morning. I thought it was left over swelling my the fill yesterday, but I till have to watch it and see it could just be a morning thing never thought about that. I may or may not want another fill in a month. I will see how it goes. I did get a really big fill of 2cc's. That will likely never happen again through. Next is 1cc than only .5 ccs after that. Dr. Baggs told me that he likes to sneak up on the sweet spot...........he said a .5 could make a HUGE difference. Anyway. I have retriction and a much better attitude about my band today. I feel like I can do this now.....

Hey Candra I have a weight watchers scale too!! You are so right I bet it IS rigged................I knew there was a reason it doesn't work in my favor!! I actually have two scaled and if they are within a pound of each other I know it is about the same as kaiser......ABOUT case I was up on their yesterday regardless!! I have a pedometer now too. I am gonna just keep it on all day to see how it goes. I got the cheap one casue like Candra I am a baby walker still!! I just want to extimate how much I walk and than try to up it everyday. I did ask Robin about calories yesterday. She told me they don't count calories post op but I kept asking her what was normal. She said 1200 is NOT normal it should be way under that if you only eating a 1/4 cup a meal...........I did find that alot of people were eating more than a cup and that they all felt ready for a fill. There were four brand new bandsters and about 8 people from last summer fall. I got alot tips from the old timers.................. Oh and Candy I was there with four people I went to pre op with...........they all said they had NO restriction and could eat anything.........one lost 12 pounds, one 15 and one 11 pounds in six weeks. So your doing well girl. But it was good to hear them complain they could eat just like before..... Ok ladies I am headed out. Want to get something to eat........shhhshh........I need a salad really, really bad today............Robin said salad doesn't fill you and that is the main problem......she said put on meat if you do eat it.....does veggie chicken count? I think.......YES!! Feeling much better today. Band is tight water going in slow but hey this is exactly what I signed up for .......... SHeena loved the crystal light popsicles!! The SF pudding I only eat one and hated it............LOL. I only like hot liquids!! Glad your doing better. Gas pain is a killer but by a week out your be much better........

Riley that is great!! I bet you get down to onderland by June 21st........... Can't wait to see everyone on the 25th!!

Hey Pam i am also logging everything again. STarted on Sunday. Just have to do it to stay on top of things.............. Robins group meeting usually gets over by 12pm or 1pm so I am guessing she goes straight back to see you........... Sore throat going around. I have been working on a cold the last three days and had a migraine......................alot of people at work have this cold. Lion King how fun!! Was it good!! I want to see that too.......... Wish someone was off today I want to get out and see a movie or something on my day off.......

ok almost 100% back to normal this morning...............temporary issue like I thought!! I still feel the band in my chest area but I can tell already it is looser than yesterday. Doesn't hurt but hard to forget about it when I feel it. I am on liquids until noon than I will try this out. I am down to 215 this morning so I am happy with that but serious I have barely ate for two days. I will see what happens today when I go back to stage 4 again............ I hope it stays tight for awhile although Dr. Baggs did say that I probably won't feel this one......well I did feel it yesterday but maybe I don't feel it the whole month. My bruise got bigger overnight but I bruised really easy since surgery. The port is sore can't sleep on that side. But Dr. Bagg said it is still swollen in there still.........still healing. Ok ladies everyone have a great day I am gonna get on the WII for awhile now that my daughter is gone to school...........Oh Dr. Baggs said watch your knees on the WII you can knock them out!! LOL...........told him I did that last week already!! Nicole you playing WII too?