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Still on mushies/pureeds food, that's why the selection is a little strange, lol. b-pudding s-tall decaf iced vanilla latte l-1/3 c refried beans w/cheese and hot sauce d-1/2 c sweet red pepper soup (V-8) s-3 french fries mashed to a pulp in my mouth

I had fun today too! Candy, those jeans fit perfect and so did all the tops, I'm feeling so cute and stylin' now in my new SMALLER duds...thanks and Happy Birthday again! I hope it was a great day for you. Also, after the meeting we went over to the Arden mall and let Sophie make a bear at Build-a-Bear...when it came to name it she thought for a while and we were giving her ideas and finally she said "I KNOW!!! I'm gonna name her Candy like your friend and then when we have our playdate I can say 'Candy...this is Candy!' She'll love that!" We were dying...thought it was so cute. She's really excited to have a playdate with Tyler and Abbey now. :smile2:

I hear ya, Tina. I don't ever want to be too tight either. I'd rather have to "diet" and eat healthy and eat what I want than be too tight and only be able to eat a couple of bites of food per meal...that just doesn't seem healthy at all! On my surgery day I asked Dr. Baggs how much he put in and he said 3ccs...then I asked how much he will put in at my first fill and he said if I lose enough weight and he has room to give me a fill it will probably be 2ccs. We'll see though, I'm sure every body is different and I know I'll get to my sweet spot eventually! Don't over do it with the exercise!!! Remember, 6 weeks before going back to real exercise and this time is for healing...they don't even expect us to lose very much weight so every pound we lose is just excellent!!! Take advantage of this time to be "lazy" and enjoy it and just heal. You'll have plenty of time to be turbo and exercise in starting in a few weeks.

b-8 oz ff hot chocolate l-1/3 c. applesauce s-1/2 c. ff frozen yogurt d-1/3 cup refried beans w/ cheese and hot sauce YUMMY!!!!

Riley, it doesn't sound like you HAVE to move to Pinole, just that the surgeons are going to be at the Pinole office one day a week for those that want to go there. Beverly told me we can schedule our appts for either location, so you should be fine. Thanks for the advice about plateaus, I'm sure I'm gonna hit one eventually. Honestly I can't believe I haven't hit one yet but I'm knockin' on wood, that's for sure!

WOWEE!! I'm so glad I called! I just got my first fill appt moved to the Pinole location and OVER a week early! I'll have my fill on Thursday the 5/14 instead of Friday 5/22 and won't even be 6 weeks until Monday the 5/18, but she said 4 days won't matter and I can still get a fill. SO COOL! You girls should call over there to reschedule too! She said it's a brand new beautiful facility and everyone is so jealous for the people that get to work over there, lol. Dr. Baggs just has sporadic days he's working over there (about once a week) but that's good enough for me! I asked if I can always have my appts there and she said yes, but the availability for appts might be less but since I'm flexible with not working that won't be a problem. Yay! That means 2 weeks 6 days til my first fill instead of 4 weeks from today!!!

I'm gonna call and see if they'll move my appts to Pinole too...my fill is still scheduled for the same day in Richmond online. Today I was 242.5! Another pound down...I'm still losing about .5 lb a day, it's crazy. AND I'm on my period too! Pretty cool stuff.

I'm still on mushies/pureed food so this isn't very interesting, but: b-8 oz hot chocolate l-1/3 cup hot chocolate d-pintos and cheese from Taco Bell s-sf pudding

The Pinole location is RIGHT off the freeway, you can see it when driving on 80. I'd love to go to that location for visits, it's closer and in a much better neighborhood!

YAY! I LOVE LOVE LOVE changing my ticker. Congratulations on melting away, isn't it fun? :thumbup:

Tina, I know Nicole got 3cc's too, I think Riley got less...I can't remember. Thursday the 30th would work fine for me, I need to find a sitter too. Natomas would be a great location since there's tons of stuff there (restaurants AND shopping) and Mimi's sounds yum!

OMG that's so cool! Looks like we're only about 4 years apart so the love of 80's music makes sense, lol. Erasure is my all time fave, I've seen them in concert I think about 6 or 7 times and I've met Andy Bell twice! I've got a pic of me and him and my sister all linking arms, and I got his autograph signed on the song list that he had taped onto the stage in front of him during the concert so he'd know what song was next. I also have a half drank bottle of water that he had on stage from one of the concerts!!! Pretty awesome! I'm glad you liked the videos! Thanks for the compliments too, I'm finally able to see the difference in my face thanks to those videos. It's so hard to notice it when you see yourself every day. Clothes are tangible so you KNOW your body is changing, but you really have to see pics/video of your face to see anything different. Dr. Baggs didn't tell you how much he put in at surgery? He told me he put in 3 ccs and that at my first fill if I've lost enough weight and he's got enough room around my stomach he'll put in 2cc's more...we'll see. You should email him and ask! I've gone between 1/4, 1/3 and 1/2 cup for meals too depending on how hungry I was and how runny the food was. If I was having cream soup that was runny I'd have up to 1/2 cup so I'd get more full, but with applesauce, pudding, and stuff like that I'd only need 1/4 or 1/3 to be "full". Just listen to your tummy and stop when you're not hungry anymore. I'm SURE you'll be back under 220 soon, there's no way you're eating enough calories to gain 2 lbs...that's impossible! It's gotta be water retention I'm thinking...

Tina, if you were a tight 20 and now you're a loose 20 I'd count that as a size down! For me, I noticed about I lost about 15 lbs to be down the first size and 20 lbs for the other 2 sizes I've gotten down so far. I bet you'll start to notice it really quick now. That's really weird and crappy that you're up 2 lbs! What's up with that? Maybe it is the potatoes...but don't do all liquids or you're gonna have NOTHING for energy. Maybe just have yogurt or applesauce or pudding today instead and drink lots of water. It's probably just water retention. Are you supposed to start your period anytime soon? I also can't wait to exercise again! I just wanna get on the recumbent bike or treadmill and go for an hour, but I know I shouldn't and I know it'll be uncomfortable and that I wouldn't have the energy for it either...so I'll wait. :thumbup: I slept on my tummy last night for a little bit and it felt so good. I also laid on my port side and that felt fine, I'm so glad to have all my sleeping positions available to me again!

I take the Caramel Viativ chews also!

Are you making your hot chocolate with the water or milk? I'm using milk so i can get a few calories and also some protein and calcium. The Diet Coke has been SO hard for me too, all my sisters and my mom drink it all the time. Tonight I picked up dinner at Taco Bell for Bri and Sophie and got him a soda and I wanted to take a sip SO bad!!! But I didn't. It's always been so automatic for me to drive thru once a day and get a soda and lots of times it was the thing I looked forward to most when out and about...I'll have to find something else to replace that, ideally something that's NOT food. That's freaky about the bread! You and Nicole are brave with the bread. As much as I want some, I'm too freaked! I did find myself today ALMOST pop 2 cheezits into my mouth, I picked them up and almost put them in and then thought "OH WAIT! Crap! I can't eat this!" but they were in a baggie in the front of the car for Sophie's snack. We really have to pay attention to what we're doing now, don't we?

OMG I hear ya on the food savings! It's nice though, I'm not gonna complain and neither is my hubby. I loved the potato soup too! I even went and bought yummy clam chowder and then blended it so there weren't any chunks in it and it seemed so much better than plain old cream of chicken or cream of broccoli, etc... I only had yogurt for breakfast and only had pudding about 3 times. I liked the warmer stuff as well. I've been really liking hot cocoa too. :rolleyes2: I use ff milk and it's only 100 cals for 8 oz and it keeps me full for a while, gives me some protein and added calcium and it feels like a TREAT! It's taken place of my Diet Coke that I used to have every day.

Hey everyone! Hope you all had a great day. Here's what I ate today: b-didn't eat until 12:30, 1/4 cup ricotta bake left over from last night l-8 oz hot cocoa :rolleyes2: d-1/3 cup mashed potatoes

Don't forget your calcium too, little missy! lol

Did Liz give you an earlier appt or just leave it the same? I asked Liz what Vitamins were the best to get and then just bought those. So I have Flinstones COMPLETE (they have Iron in them), and I bought Viactiv (in the purple box) for my Calcium. Viactive has milk chocolate and also caramel...I bought caramel and they're pretty good. 5 days til you get a surgery date! YAY!!!!!

Don't know if you guys are into this, but I have a channel on Youtube documenting my Lapband journey. If you wanna check it out, my link is: YouTube - swish's Channel I'm not good at writing in journals, so I thought this would be the next best thing...and it'll also show the differences in my body during this time.

I'm still a little swollen too, Tina. I can tell because it's on the left side and not the right...I'm crooked! May 1st sounds good to me to meet up, I put it on my calendar. I'll still be on mushies and so will Tina, so somewhere that has mashed potatoes or Soup would be great if we meet for lunch. I'm having the weirdest thing the last few days where I'm NOT hungry at all. The only hunger I've had in all this was the first couple days on full liquids, but the last few days I have to make myself eat. I don't know if I'm just bored with the food or what, but I have no feelings of hunger AND I'm on my period! Usually I'd be foraging for food all day and night!!! I guess I shouldn't complain though, at least I'm not starving! Hope you're all having a great day...I LOVE MY BAND TOO!

Tina--I was having awful gas pains still on Easter Sunday and that was the night that I bought the Gas-X strips that melt on your tongue. 15 minutes after taking it I had the hugest burp and I haven't had ANY gas ever since!!! I'd definitely recommend getting those and taking them today. You can take them pretty often too. I wonder why someone mentioned Benefiber for gas...it's a fiber supplement to help you poo easier...lol. I'm glad the incision is looking okay, I was starting to really worry. Should you have a bandaid on the incision? It might be better to let it get some air so it'll form a nice good scab and not stay too moist. None of my mine have ever been covered with anything but the glue. I'm still losing pretty steadily about 1/2- 1 lb a day and I'm 16 days out. I'm shocked, but super happy about that. I know the rapid weight loss won't last too long like RNY people but I'm gonna take what I can get! I got advanced to pureed food yesterday and even though it's gonna be some nasty crap to eat I know I'll have more energy since I'll have more options for getting protein in. Have a great day everyone!

Candy is next! Less than 2 weeks...WOOHOO! It's gonna be so neat when we're all post-op. We'll have to start a Richmond thread on the post-op forum sometime in May or June!

Tina, where the heck are you?! I'm starting to worry about that incision...I hope everything is okay and you didn't end up having to go to Richmond. Please update us soon!

303? You're doing great! You just might be under 300 in the next week or so, SO COOL! You dont' have to bring your journal, she'll just ask what kind of foods you've eaten and what exercise you've been doing. It's kindof a fun appt. :smile: I'm doing GREAT!!! Feeling pretty normal, only have what feels like a tiny side ache now and again. It's so nice to feel like ME again! And every day the scale goes down just like magic. I LOVE it!