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China, I will have to ask tomorrow when I go to the Dr. I was told it didn't have anything in it. I am just lucky I have been able to control my own appetite right now. I am just trying to do other things to keep me from getting frustrated and upset. Well off to take 2 of my dogs to the vets. I am missing Water aerobics but plan to go tonight instead. Then tomorrow at 10am at the Dr. Have a great day. Laurel

I don't think I have the realize band. They never told me. I did ask what size band I had on and the surgeon was kinda of shocked I asked. I am pretty sure I have a 8cc band. I am kinda of excited and nervous about my fill too. My weight is slowly steadily dropping but I am being super careful about food and am excercising a lot. I am only going to wait until I go to Dr. on tues. to post my weight loss. I bought a new scale for home and not sure how it is compares to my Dr's scale. Hope all is having a great weekend. Laurel

Rose, that is great that you are feeling some restriction. China and Matty, I guess we will both learn next week. I am not expecting to feel anything yet as my band was put in with nothing in it. I did get to gym 4 times this week. Next week will be harder as I have a Vet's appt., Dr. appt. and have to go in the middle of one day for my evaluation for work. Well have a great weekend, I have to work tonight for about 5 hours but will enjoy the little extra money I will make. Laurel

Congrats Pete. I lost 3 lbs this week. I worked hard for every pound. Laurel

Rose, I was ready a book and said if you are stuck eating friend chicken, make sure you take off the skin and coating. There is more calories and fat in that. China, Don't stress yourself with the scale. I had a stand still for about 2 weeks but keep plugging forward and it is starting to drop again. Well we made it to friday. Funny when we have a extra day on the weekend, the longer the short week feels longer too. I can't believe monday we will all be 6 weeks out. Remember until we hit the sweet spot, we are on are own with weight loss. I am looking for alternatives when I have to have something. Hope everyone is feeling good. Laurel:thumbup:

China, I am glad to hear you got your appointment moved up. What time do you go? I think mine is 9:30, I have to double check. Rose, I am glad you feel some restriction. How are you doing on your post weight loss? I know all of mine come from mine working hard at this. I will know for sure on Tues. Thank goodness tomorrow is friday. I am working on Sat. but I don't have to get up early. But I do plan on going to the gym on sat. am. I am working in the pm. Have a great evening. Laurel

Good morning to all. Glad your fill went easy Rose. Yesterday I didn't get a chance to even get online. I am using my morning to go to the gym. Again, I did 2 water classes. I do get everything sent to my cell phone so I can I can pull this website up on my phone. For some reason, it doesn't let me reply though. China, how did you make out trying to get fill pushed up? Matty, thanks for the encourageing words. Funny we think of ourselves as weak, yet so many see us as strong. I kinow when I talked to my counsilor, she said look at what you had to go through just to get the lap band on. Many people would have given up. I just see it as being determined. lol. I have my appetite under control right now, but who knows how long that will happen. I do get my first fill on the 27th. I am hoping before I have some extra stress added on, I will have some restriction with the band. I know I can lose weight on my own, I just can't keep it off. Well off to do some work out tapes and log my food from yesterday. Laurel

Thanks Rose for your comments. I still have a low self esteem which I am working on. Funny thing I went to my niece's wedding in Texas. She went through alot in the two years before that. She was going to marry someone else 2 years before and basically dumped her while she was recovering from back surgury. We had our tickets and went to texas anyways. I gave her some good aunt advice and told her this was a blessing and something better would come along and sure enough it did. She told me I was somone eshe admired the most because she saw me pick myself off and get on with life not complaining. I cried when she told me that. I think that was the beginning of my new journey in life. Those words gave me such a new insight on life. We all just plug along not thinking about what we are doing yet we do effect people in our lives. Good luck with your fill tomorrow Rose. China, yes you need to start doing for yourself too. I bought some sugar free candy and my treat when I do a good workout is to have 1 and only 1. I promised myself if I lose control on portioning, I will throw them out. Laurel

Good morning all. China, I am not mad at my son at all. He for some reason hates me right now. I know his father is encouraging. I still give him his b-day and Christmas gifts. I am not allowing him to control my life. He wants me to leave my hubby because of a big mistake my hubby made while he was sick with limes disease(it was in his system for 2 yrs and we didnt know) and he had a reaction to pain meds he was taking. Unfortately my ex and his whole family lives holding grudges. I am learning to be forgiving and a whole better person as a whole. My hubby and I go to counciling along with myself going alone. It has helped alot. I am just standing back waiting for my son to realize I love him. My brother and sister seem to hold a grudge against me. I think they are jelous that I lost everything yet I bounced back and bettered my life. But I busted my butt to get here. No one gave it to me. Of course thing are easier with my hubby. I know I can support myself, but I do enjoy being able to travel and do things. I am grateful for my family and a second chance at life. Laurel

China, I am sorry to hear you lost a child. I know just having the one 18 yr old not talking to me is hard. I have 4 kids from 25 down to 13. I don't know if I could have handled having to bury one. But I know we all have to move on. I only have my mother left. I know I will be a wreck when she passes. I can call her at any time and she listens to me. Very supportive at that. She is 81. I do have 1 sister I am close to but she lives in Texas. I also have another sister and brother but I really don't get along with them. At one time we had a business together and it all fell apart. It ruined the relationship. I am just glad I met my hubby now. He is my best friend. After a 21 year abuse marriage, it feels great to have a good one. Just my scars from the first one I know have held me back. I am working on healing them. Well, I need to go log my food for the day. Laurel

China, The one thing I have learned so far from the band, is I don't have to let food control my life. But it is awful hard work. Eating healthy is also so much harder and expensive than eating poorly. Laurel

Hi all. I had a good weekend too. Hubby worked on Sat. so I was able to go to water arobics, grocery shop and just do things my way. Sunday we went out to dinner with SIL. It would have been my MIL birthday. She passed away in May. It was nice not to have to cook. I don't feel my band is giving me any restriction right now. Thank goodness I am in a good frame of mind and eating healthy with proper portions. I don't know how long I can keep it up though. I do have my first fill on 1/27. I had to do 2 weeks of liquid medifast diet before surgery. My weight loss is slow. But I figure if I am eating healthy and excercising. It will come off. Hope everyone is doing well too. I had today off and did 2 water arobics classes and then some running around to do. Hope everyone is having a great day. Laurel

Don't get so discouraged Pete. You have done great up until this point. I have 0 this week. I ate good and did plenty of excercise. I am not going to let this get me discouraged. We are all in this for the long haul.!!!! Laurel

Welcome aboard Matty. Your welcome China. I want to get discouraged sometimes too. Seems like my calorie consumtion is way down from before and excercising is way up. But the pounds seem to come off when it wants to. Sometimes a week later. My first fill is 1/27. I hear it takes around 3 fills before you start getting good retriction. I kept track of everthing I ate yesterday and I ate right around 1200 calories. Yesterday I didn't do any excercise. Today I have already did an hour of water arobics. I plan on doing some wii fit tonight too. Thank goodness I am not as cold as you China. Today we are around 10. This is when I hate being a school bus driver. Having to be up and out so early. Have a great day everyone. Laurel

Yesterday was our 1 month aniversary. We made it this far. We all need to be patient. I know I was told by my Doctor, don't expect to lose weight, just try not to gain much. So we have to keep that in mind. I know my weight lose is slow, I know I am excercising so i do have to count that as gaining some muscle too. I do feel better. Let us all keep up the faith. We are in this for the long run. Hope all is well with everyone here. Laurel

Goodmorning China and Rose. My friend has lost 57 lbs so far. I understand to cards in poker, i just have no idea how and when to bet. I have to start writing down what I eat so I can log it. Seems lately I don't get much computor time in. Mostly because I am either at work or I am excercising. I am trying to keep track in my head but I know I need to put on paper in front of me cause I know I can tend to forgot things. It is snowing here so I am not going to water arobics today. On my way home from work this morning, I saw too many accidents. It isn't worth chancing an accident. I will stay home and do my wii fit until I go back to work. Hope everyone has a great day. Laurel

Glad your are feeling much better Rose. My first fill is 1/27. China, I have tried the daily plate and 1 other one. I did 2 water arobics classes today. I need to carry around a pad to write down everything I eat so when i have a chance I can post it and watch what I am doing. I do have 1 girl I work with who had her surgery on 6/30 so I been asking her some questions too. I too wish I could learn to play poker. I do understand basics. I am always afraid to play in Atlantic City or Las Vegas. It is cold her today it was around 10 degrees at 6am. Friday it will even be a little colder. I am looking forward to the nicer weather too. Hope everyone is doing well. Laurel

glad to see everyone doing well. I have been trying hard to keep up on calories, protein and fluids. I must being doing something right, as my weight is starting to slowly coming down. Thank goodness my work schedule isn't as crazy as it usually is at this time. The past 2 days, 1 meal I am very hungry. Thank goodness I do have some control. Atleast making good food choices. Hope everyone continues to do well. Laurel:thumbup:

Glad to see you back Rose. Very nice China planning out the whole meal thing. I missed my water arobics class today because I spent an hour on the phone trying to make an appointment for my 20 yr old daughter who broke her arm this sat. snowboarding. I will have to get some wii fit time in then. I finally got her an appointment at 2PM today. What we do as mothers.... I know it is hard for her to talk on the phone and write. I may have to call out of work this afternoon to take her. I am hoping her cousin can go with here as I have used up alot of sick days this year because of surgery. Hope everyone has a great day. Laurel

I need to keep better track of everything. My wii keeps track of my excercise and weight. It was just hard going back to work and getting back on schedule. Did good with making sure I was prepared with food everyday. Have a great day. Laurel

I have my wii and wii fit. I was just letting anyone else know that circuit city will have them tomorrow. But you will probably have to be there before it even opens. All scales are not the same. I just bought a new one as my old one always weighed me about 5 lbs lighter. I did lose 2 lbs this week. I plan on only posting my official weight loss when I go to the doctor's as I started using their scale. I am trying to get atleast 1 hr a day on excercise as when I work. I sit too much. I am noticing a big difference on how I feel and also how my pants fit. I know I did the right thing. Also my new sneakers came in yesterday. They fit very nice. So now I have 2 pairs to wear. One to work and one for weekend. I have to get better on keeping track of my calories, protein and water. Have a great day. Laurel

I am down 2 lbs. I worked very hard for that one too. Laurel

welcome mommysgirls, I found you really have to watch the sugar on all foods you comsume. I was at a standstill for about 2 weeks, but I am starting to drop again. slowly. Yesterday I had a hard time getting on this website so I didn't post. Hope you are feeling better Rose. I did see an ad for Circuit City, tomorrow they will have atleast 12 wii fits per store. China good luck with your moving. I just enjoy the wii fit so I can break up working out while I am home. Plus it is new so I am really trying everything. Hope everyone is feeling well. Laurel

China, I am really enjoying the wii fit. I don't play any of the video games. But I love the excercise program. I will go to the gym tomorrow to do the water arobics. I want to wait until 6 weeks to start any type of lifting. I do need to get the gym to set up some type of good program to follow for me. I want to keep everything fun so I will keep doing it. Plus changing up the excersizing is good for the body. Good luck with the moving and Rose, I hope you are feeling better. Laurel

Goodmorning to all. I have been getting some excercise everyday. This morning I put in 70 mins on the wii fit. Tomorrow I need to make sure I get to water arobics. I am paying for it. I love the wii fit as some of the excercises are yoga and stretching. Along with arobics and balance excercises. I know it has been harder and harder this week to get up. I do have alot more energy now though. I too am getting caught up in weighing myself everyday. But I am not letting me get discouraged as I know I am not over eating and I am excercise each day. Unfortunately my doctor's office is over 30 mins away. I won't be back ther until 1/27. Hope everyone has a great day. Laurel