Jaffa

My wife will be down there two weeks after you...the week of the 29th.

Don't tell anyone. If I could have, I wouldn't even have told my wife. It has no positive side, and many, many negative sides. I told my wife, I didn't want people to know, and she went and blabbled it to all sorts of people at her work. Well, at least she did learn from it, she definitely ISN'T telling anyone about her surgery.

Can your band slip from this activity? I hope not!!!

I left the 200's at about 4 months. I started at 250. I have 40 to go, to reach the top of the "normal weight" category.

Is this a joke? Your first post?

Well, I finally, broke my Plateau, and went to 195.5. WOW, being at 202 then 203 for two weeks was a terrible time for a plateau. It seemed like I was just waiting and waiting to go below 200. Now I can quit obsessing about the scale again.

You are right, for some people it doesn't change at all. I know for others it can really make things change a lot. It probably depends on how regular your smoking is, and how spaced out it is, also some people smoke with almost no change in BP, while others change a lot.

Well, yesterday, the tightness just got worse. I couldn't even swallow something that was half the size of a pea. I got stuck and it down right hurt. I went in today, and got some of my fluid taken out. They removed .5cc, to take me back to 5.8 total. I am on liquids right now, in hopes that I can get rid of any swelling and with the unfill, be just about right. We shall know in a couple of days. I know I will be happier this way, but I'm guessing I will be needing to execute some more self control at night again. That's ok with me, I don't want to be stuck again!!!! Not that kind of stuck. Were thinking I probably scratched my inside when I ate some grilled hamburger last week, and with the inflamation that occured afterward it just kept getting worse.

Yes it is, but I'm doing really good again now!!!

You need to quit. The nicotine will make your hydration level change a lot, and make getting properly adjusted very difficult. If you don't quit, completely, you will regret it when later with the band.

I think in reality you are using the bible and looking at it, exactly the way I do, if this statement is really how you feel. So yes, you should listen to Jaffa Steve....although, I am a free Jaffa and worship no Gouald.

I didn't overlook it, I was very impressed. Maybe the lapband causes writing enhancement?

I would use scuba gear for this, as the lapband isn't really going to provide you with much oxygen. But, I think it would also depend on how deep you go. Of course maybe you are referring to dive, as in diving off a board....in this case, yes, if you could before, you can now.

One had RNY, and I suspect the Old guy at the finale has a little secret of his own. Yes, I smell an old rat!!! There is no rule that the people who get booted can't have WLS when they get home, and he was in such bad shape, I'm not buying that he did it with just working out.

You are entering the phase, where the swelling that came from putting the band on, is probably going to start going down, plus you are going to be losing fat, both of which are going to cause a loss of restriction. Eventually, you will probably need a fill, but I think everyone can agree, that the longer you can go and the less aggressive the fills, the less potential trouble.

Well, I listen to the guy who works on my car, tell me how I should fix my house all of the time. Just because someone is a doctor doesn't mean they really know anything about the different WLS options out there now, and what the risks are associated with each type. In fact, many know less then the average person does after a good couple of days of research.

I was raised Catholic, and was mostly able to overcome it...LOL

Actually, Wasa accidently reminded me of my favorite of all questions. Ok, it really only applies to a Catholic Priest as far as I know. Why is that a Catholic Priest is allowed to read the bible and "interpret" what something means. But, you the Catholic follower are now allowed to interpret anything in the bible. Oh yes, you are allowed to read it, but you can not derive or attempt to derive any meaning from it. It is simply against the Catholic Church. I have actually asked this question of a priest, and the answer I got, was basically, "you are ignorant, and therefore unable to understand or even ask questions relating to what the bible says and what it means". To ask questions is to attempt to interpret and to not ask is to assume you understand. I practice what I preach (pun intended). I left the Catholic Church for good after this, and became a Luthern. You know the ones the Catholics cast out for not being willing to be just led around like sheep....LOL. Someone else mentioned earlier the worst sin. I don't care what any of them say, the worst sin to me, is someone using religion for financial gain. Did you know at one time you could kill someone and be forgiven for it by the Catholic Church. Of course you had a certain amount of money you needed to donate directly to the vatican, but it could be done. How can anyone follow such a church. Tell me they have changed....well have they really changed? I don't know, nor do I care to try and figure it out.

I just had my band unfilled for just the reason you stated Jachut. I was down to less then a cup of food except at night and then only just over a cup. But it pretty much had to be all Protein this way, and for me, it was much harder to eat. It was so much harder to manage the food going in, without getting stuck, and it instantly became harder to manage getting the food out, the other end (poopy). On top of all those problems, my weight loss came to a stop. I decided to have a little fill taken back out, in hopes of returning to where I was, when eating was a little more self control, but easier to actually do.

I have a t-shirt that say the following on it DICKIE DO My belly sticks out farther then my Dickie do My wife won't let me wear it anywhere??

I am surprised, that I get stuck at all. I thought, from research that if you get stuck you ate too fast or didn't chew well enough. Well, it turns out that dry meat is not going down no matter how much you chew. And even though I chew 30 times and take pea size bites, I can still get stuck in the morning, but later that day, I might have no restriction at all. I'm surprised at how MUCH the restriction level changes, daily, hourly, and sometimes by the minute. It is very frustrating. I just had an unfill, to try and make it a little less of a problem, but you know then it takes more will power. It is definitely easier then dieting without the band, but it is definitely harder then I expected.

Well, yesterday, the tightness just got worse. I couldn't even swallow something that was half the size of a pea. I got stuck and it down right hurt. I went in today, and got some of my fluid taken out. They removed .5cc, to take me back to 5.8 total. I am on liquids right now, in hopes that I can get rid of any swelling and with the unfill, be just about right. We shall know in a couple of days. I know I will be happier this way, but I'm guessing I will be needing to execute some more self control at night again. That's ok with me, I don't want to be stuck again!!!! Not that kind of stuck. Were thinking I probably scratched my inside when I ate some grilled hamburger last week, and with the inflamation that occured afterward it just kept getting worse.

"Plain" has accidently hit on a basic issue that is a really good one. Why, is it that people take the bible parts that make sense literally, and the parts that don't figuratively. Or why are some parts taken literally, and others are methaphorical. It is too often changed to one or the other to suit what we need it to say or mean. Or to make something that makes no logical sense in todays context of knowledge, still have value or not look down right silly. The bible is NOT the word of god, by the way. It is what many people wrote down at different times and different places, and then some people got together and pulled it all together into one book. They may claim it is the word of god, but if I wrote something right now and said it was the word of god, you would just laugh. I love the bible, but I read it and know it for what it is.....a collection of stories and paraboles. Christ was crucified because of what? I mean really, what was the real reason. Of course I know what christ said, but what was the reason the guy who actually nailed him to the cross thought Christ had done? Bin Laden is a terrorist and killed a bunch of people, but if you heard his version, he isn't a terrorist at all? He thinks he is like the muslim version of christ.....LOL.

"Wow, lotsa folks posting "Gotcha" questions to try and "trick" BG's pastor into giving an "a-ha" answer. Some, (Jaffa Steve) believe that if her pastor even hesitates in his worm / heaven question, she should immediately leave her church. Dude, I would want my pastor to really think and reflect on ANY question I asked, and not just give me a kneejerk reaction" Plain, you are exactly the kind of person I'm referring to....quoting the bible. The bible MEANS NOTHING. It proves nothing and to anyone who it proves anything to, they are misunderstanding where the bible originated and how it was produced. It sounds to me that you couldn't easily answer the worm question and I then offended you. I will say it again, you have to have faith, and any other BS intellectual justification is just your logical mind in conflict. ANY pastor or so called person of the cloth can answer the worm question easily, unless they don't understand the nature of the only true difference between us and other animals, the soul, and the nature of faith versus proof. You look for proof, but the whole point is, that you will not find it....duhhh.

Many churches don't like to talk about ritualistic versus idealogical religion. It doesn't fair well for them, when the goal is to get people to go to a church. I'm not even going to touch the subject of why they need you to go to church, when even the bible doesn't say it is at all necessary. If it makes someone feel better and they enjoy it, that is good enought for me.