Mrs Husker

I am at a point that I don't know if I want another fill, but think I need one. I was going to call after the first of the year and see about getting .1 or .2cc. Nothing more than that. I keep going back and forth on this and wish it was easier to tell.

This is normal. It's what is called bandster hell. You are in the healing phase right now. When you start getting fills is when the weight loss begins. Congrats.

They have a bodybug on ebay for $76.00 right now. It ends on 12/25 if anyone is interested.

Huh? I have never heard of losing a fill because of this. Is he sure you don't have a leak?

You poor thing Jeni, I hope you feel better soon. I have to work this weekend, but Monday and Tuesday are holidays and we are closed. I plan on taking half of Wednesday off, and I get Thursday and Friday off for working this weekend and will be taking the 31 off, so after Sunday, I don't have to work of over a week and only have to use 1 1/2 days of vacation. Damn, I love my job. Granted, yesterday kind of sucked. It had to do with a fish throwing up and trust me, it was messy. It will just be my dh, dd, ds and myself for Christmas. We don’t do much for Christmas Eve, just sit around and watch movies. Christmas Day this year I am thinking about making everyone wait to open anything until after Breakfast. I still haven’t made up my mind. But either way, breakfast is a hash brown casserole. It has hash browns, of course, with green peppers and onions, topped with sausage, scrambled eggs and cheese and baked until the cheese is melted. My family loves it. lunch will be Soup and sandwiches, but supper is the bomb. Standing Rib roast with baked potatoes and asparagus all paired with my favorite wine. Looking back over this, it still seems that I center holidays around food. But in-between meals, there is always something going on. Whether it is putting something together or playing a new board game, we spend it together. And that it what I love most, just being with my family on that day. With my son turning 19 in February and going away for college this spring, it seem like these days are numbered. So for now I just want to enjoy it while it last. So, what are everyone’s plans for the holidays?

Dead here!! In about 5 min I will be the only one left until 4:30. So I plan on sitting at the front desk playing Bloons on ninjakiwi.com. I also have to work the weekend but am off all of next week.

Congrats and stay safe. I will keep you in my thoughts.

Tell me about it, I am 5 foot even and I have a problem with walking on my hems. Right now I am wearing a pair of jeans that all I have to do is undo the belt and they slide right off. I’m lucky I guess because we don’t have to dress up for work. Just jeans and a work t-shirt that I don't even have to tuck in.

OH Juli, You will get to your goal, and 5 lbs a month is nothing to sneeze at. Congrats again.

Jmcambra - 3 lbs down!! Hot Dang!! I am so happy for you. You have been busting your butt and you do deserve it. Janine - I am at a point where at times I can eat way too much, but on other days, I get stuck on tuna. I don't know if I want another fill or not. I don't want to push it. I hope you get to a good restriction and quit haveing to "yo-yo" fill. OHJuli - I don't know how I missed it, but are you over 100 lbs down?? Holy carp!! Way to go!!

After reading what MizPeppy wrote, I had to comment. Sorry for the hijack. I wish the rest of the world realized that obesity wasn’t a “character flaw”. For the most part we are seen as lazy slobs with no self control or respect. Just as no one strives to be an alcoholic, we didn’t decide one day that we wanted to be obese. Yet people that are alcoholics and drug addicts are seen as having a “disease”, they have organizations (different rehabs, the Salvation Army, etc) that will help them become clean and sober. Where as we are seen as gluttonous and just need to learn to “put down that fork”. There is no one out there that is willing to pay my bills so I can go into rehab to get my obesity in check. This is something that each and every one of us has had to do on our own. And until people realize the obesity is a disease, we will all just have to keep fight the good fight and keep on keeping on. With that being said, I completely understand wanting to sabotage myself when I get to a certain weight or size. I find myself saying that I can be happy at this weight/size. Then I do a big reality check. At 5 foot even, 184 lbs is not a healthy weight. Heck my goal of 135 is still considered overweight. So I look in my medicine cabinet and take down my diabetic pills (which, since banding, I don’t have to take anymore) and ask myself if I want to go back there again. I already have kidney problems, becoming an insulin dependent diabetic will surly not help with that. Then I will walk down the stair to my basement and walk back up again just so I don’t hear my knees going snap/crackle/pop and how not out of breath I am. My motivation is not in a pant size or number on the scale, it’s my health. I just have to keep reminding myself that and it helps. Granted, when thing get really bad, I do have a sexy nighty that I have put away in a size 10, and I do pull it out as needed also. LOL

For about the first month after being banded I was like this, now I would kill for it!! Now once a week is about the norm. How long have you been banded?

Do what I did when we had a choice of switching insurance, call them and ask.

I forgot to add that I am 1 lb over half way. I didn’t want to edit because they haven’t gotten that fixed yet. So 51 gone and 49 to go.

My insurance also considers it a same day procedure if it is under 23 hours. I figured that they didn’t start the clock until I was taken from recovery to my room because my surgery was around 7am and I didn’t leave the hospital until about 11am the next day. Granted, I had a crappy roommate (daughter spent the night with her and they talked and watched TV all night) so I think I would have gotten better rest if I went home, but was glad someone was there to help me get up out of bed the first few hours after surgery. And you do get the best pain meds in the hospital. LOL

Well, here I sit, 4 lbs from my Christmas goal of 180 and for some reason my ankle is killing me. I didn’t twist it, bang it, stretch it or bruise it, it just hurts like hell to walk on it. I have no idea what the heck is wrong. I am still going to push for my goal, but decided it will not be the end of the world if I don’t make it right on Christmas day. I found myself getting almost depressed about not being 180 by Christmas and had to started reminding myself about all the great things that have happened to me since I’ve been banded. Like I am off all my diabetic meds, my knees don’t snap/crackle/pop when I walk, my back isn’t killing me, I have gone from a snug 22 to a snug 14 and I can walk up stairs without breathing hard. Best of all, I feel good about myself, granted I am still overweight, but now I know that this too shall pass. The weight is coming off, albeit slower then I would like, but it is coming off. I am trying to remind myself that the numbers on the scale are secondary to the health benefit that I have already achieved. Now if I do make 180 by Christmas, I am going to be very excited and my fellow Marchies will be the first to know, but if I don’t make it right on that day, it’s ok, the key is knowing that I AM GOING TO MAKE IT.

Mine doc does them between 1 and 2. My appt seems to always be 1:20 and nothing to eat 1 hour before hand. I try and eat something light for lunch that day because I know that I have to get on the scale and am working for every oz I can get.

I try and put some smaller gifts in the stocking, this way I don’t have to wrap them. My dd is getting perfume, a brush and comb set, and lip balm. My ds will be getting some hand tools. They are both getting that 20 Q game. I don’t put food stuff in the stockings, never have. Granted, we celebrate St. Nicholas day, Dec 6, with the kids putting their boats outside the door and in the morning if it has switches in it they know that they had better get on the ball and start behaving. If it has a chocolate in it, that means that they are doing fine. My kids get both, just to keep them guessing.

My family knows that when I have a fill, they are eating out. This also gives me some quiet time at home all alone which I love. This is also the reason I don't keep junk food in my house, I was a closet eater and it would be so easy to fall into that habbit again. So when I get a fill, there is no crap or quick fixing foods in the house, just lots of SF popcicles.

Mbanja said it all. If you are not pbing and swallow liquids, give it a few more days, you might still be swollen from the fill.

I think I would love one of those. It would be interesting see how we sleep in a waterbed. LOL.

I got both my kids stars a few years back. My sons is named ABGB, that is short for his baby knickname, Angle Baby Gooshie Butt. My daughters is Boo Bug, again baby knickname. My husband got me 1 sq foot in WY, complete with hunting rights, one year. I thought that was cool until I heard about Ireland. Now I want some land in Ireland.

I don’t think that much of it becomes "waste" or I wouldn’t be so constipated, ya know what I mean. But fat cells do have a long memory.

Fudge? Did someone say Fudge? I decided not to make any this year because it is too tempting. With me, I wanted a large steak and lots of it for my "last supper". I still find that I miss being able to eat as much as before. But am finding that I taste my food more now than before because I eat so slowly.

That is the part about fills I hate. Not the needle or the wait, the full liquids. I get sooooooo hungry by supper time. It makes for one long evening.