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Me too was just unfilled today due pouch being too big cause of overeating. So what works best for those 2 weeks liquids soft food low carbs, whats best for healing and low to no weight gain?? Chery; Banded May2006-215 January30th-160 totally unfilled pouch too big

Thanks everyone for the support!! I am going to try and stay focused, went to the gym for the first time today and worked out like I should have been doing all along. Felt good but I feel a whole lot of anxiety over this. Well gonna start lap band group meetings at my doc office every monday nite hopefully this can help keep me focused and on track better. See the only thing is I haven't ate right all along so doing it now is like learning right after surgery. So if anyone has any advice on what they consume for 4oz of a meal for morning linch and dinner boy I would love some ideas !!!

One more thing my doc had originally told me I was 3cc filled but when they unfilled me today they could only get out 1.5 cc I don't understand that does anyone have a clue to that??

Hello All, Well I went to my surgeon finally after months of vomiting 10-20 times a day. I had it in my head I would not go see him about this until I was down to 140lbs in fear he would open my band and i would gain weight. I haven't been able to handle this kinda lifesyle anymore so I made he call oday and hey wanted to see me right away. My doctor said I look good and even though I have been sick so much that I must be getting something cause of how well I looked. He said I am not living the band lifestyle well. I need to see a pschologist to talk to which I new that. Also going for a swoll study to make sure I did no damage to the band and he said maybe they will open it up a little. I have a 4cc band and am 3cc filled. He also says what i am doin is not eating slow enough so my esopigus is filling up with food causeing me to get sick cause i am not allowing enough time to let some food pass through the band. So since thismorning with my visit I have not comited as of yet. I am real excited about that. I ate a little tuna salad for lunch and followed the rules about when to drink and all went well like m y doc said it would. I just had dinner some meatloaf with mozzarella chesse and procuto wow it was so good but I took 2 bites had to stop for 10 min took 2 more bites now i feel full up to my neck. But I am gonna wait and try to let this pass threw normally i would drink fluids to vomit it up to get rid of that feeling be full up to my neck feeling. This time I am really going to try to work better with this and follow the rules better. Thsi is just a update from a previous email when I exspressed what I was going threw. Hope everyone is doin well and if anyone else has these types of problems would love to talk about it. banded may22-215 today -156.5 Cheryl

Yeah I was hoping on not seeing any weight change but I think its time to focus on living with the band rather then how much weight i am losing. Thanks for your support:-) 215/157/140

I feel the need to comment on some of what you have said. I no that I could have not had the surgery after the pschy eval but I really struggeled with yoyo dieting all my life and tried just about everything so I wanted to do this real bad. You no not for nothing but everyone who is obese has some kind of eating disorder or they wouldn't have gotten that way in the start. I really dont no how you can say just take a couple bites and stop don't go past that cause its hard just to stop how do you think myself or you or anyone else on this board had gotten that way to begin with. If it was that easy to just stop eating then why did you or anyone else get the surgery you could just stop eating and loose the weight without the band. And I no more about that doctor since he works at the hospital I work at and so I have a better feel of how he pratices. But yes I could have gotten my eval by someone else but I wanted this band and hey I was willing to do whatever I had to. And I am sure I am not the only one. I have to deal with my eating behavoral problem which was always there to begin with I just can notice it much more now. But not only me everyone has to deal with there eating behavior how do you think people get obese to start. I am also doing what I have to on a day to day basis tring to live the correct way with the band and I no that I need my band loosened and a swollow atudy so your comment to that just didn't sound right. I love with this everyday and battle this all day there is no way in hell that I am just sitting back. And yo uno what at least I can admit there is a problem and I am dong something about it. Maybe I took some of the stuff you said a bit harsh but I feel you are misuinderstood in some of your comments. Its hard to tell when your typing rather then talking face to face to someone so if I took things the wrong way I apologize. t hats

what is twoterville sounds like a drink????HAHA

Well I wasn't really making myself vomit I was eating in excess then drinking fluids right after to get rid of the aweful full feeling I have after eating. I look at it as I have already asked for help by going to my surgeon and being honest with him telling him all thats really going on and asking for guidance. I already made a counceling appointment and next week I have the swollow study and maybe get a little looser. The doc who did my psch eval i new him and he said i have a eating disorder but he wouldn't put that in the notes if I really wanted this surgery. I no thats a foul thing to do but I am sure he isn't the first or only doc to do it. Everyone who is overweight in a sense has a eating disorder I believe that anyhow. I would rather not go back to that doc cause he is pill happy and i dont wanna be on any crazy medications. So I thought the counceling would be a good start. I am so far going a whole day without vomiting and I am so happy about it. But this filled up to my neck feeling is rough to stand its very uncomfortable. I appreciate all your support and thanks for being there.

Thanks for your support!!

I am also scared of stretching my pouch and i do take it for granted. Its like I just eat and drink all day long but I cant take the pain so when the pain comes on the food just comes right back up so its a viscious cycle for me. I spend more time in the bathroom sick then anything else. This is real sad and dangerous i am aware but its so hard to control, its like i never get that full feeling just a i am gonna be sick feeling and thats my day in a nut shell. Well I am gonna go back to basics and start on liquids again for a couple days cause when i say i am sick for me its like 10-20 times a day anytime i try to eat. Also need to get looser I am just in love with my weight lose and wanna go down another 17 pounds. This is a battle but hopefully this to shall pass. Good luck to all Cheryl May22nd2006-215 today-157

I said hell no only because I did things in reverse. I had a breadt lift reduction and tummy tuck a few years before having my band done. I obviously was inpulsive and thought this would solve my problem but it didn't. My end result I still have real tight abs and my chest doesn't sag. Maybe my thighs and butt may have excess skin but for some reason I dont really notice that it was always my chest and belly that bugged me. Cheryl May2006-215 Today-158

It took me 2 fills but i think i may have too much restriction.

My doctor says I should eat 3x a day the whole meal should be the sixe of the palm of my hand and no snaking in between. I have a hard time following that and my nutritionist says if I can't follow the rules of the band I shouldn't have it. Pretty harsh I think. Anyway I am looking for new ways to eat throughout my day any ideas............................. Thanks Cheryl May22nd banded-215 Today-165

I was banded in May2005, When I started I weighed 215 and I just wanted to get to 185 well now I am at 161 and I really want to get to 140 and maintain that weight. My surgeon wanted me at 160 so I guess I am real close either way. I am 5'5 and wear a size 11/12 would love to be 7/8 or 9/10, whatever 140 brings me to. I have a battle with eating with my band. If I eat to much to fast I get sick I still haven't mastered the food thing yet and sometimes when the food is real good its frustrating cause I can't get it down when sometimes I really want to, at least for that moment I really want to. I am very happy with my success with the band so far and once I get my band a little loser I think I will be happier. I have a 4cc band and a, 3cc filled. Good luck everyone and congrats to all ..........................:-)

So I am wondering is following the south beach diet better to do then a low arb diet?? I am tring to find a diet to follow cause i need that structure in my life or i will binge eat on everything, there are so many diets out there I have to pick one to follow and to stick too!! Any suggestions???

Hello All, I really am not sure what my BMI is. Need to ask my doc at my next app. I no that it was around 36 and my insurance paid for it. I was banded on May.22nd 2006 starting weight at 215 and weigh now 165. So 50lbs in about 6or7months. I am still loosing steadily about 2lbs a week. My band is 4cc and I have had 2 fills totalling 3cc. I am pretty tight and I try to eat more then I should which causes me to get sick alot more then I should. Need to work on that one. Anyway would love to join this group. My goal weight is around 140.

Hi Susan I totally agree with you. The phentermine did the same thing to me and I will never go there again as well. I had gotten the band to get away from all that diet stuff as well and it feels real good to finally be off all that stuff.

Hey King did I mention what those pills did to my sex life!! I drove my husband crazy after a while!! I guess we are getting old!!

No problem!! I wish you all the best of luck!! I as well wanted to rip my husband apart when I was on those pills I was sooooo nasty that I couldn't stand my own skin!! And that was the less severe of all the side effects that I personally had experienced.

how do you insert your signiture??

just checking my signiture!!

okay then your a RN so you no what your doing then good luck, was just giving you my own exsperience with the drug.

I wasn't plannig on getting the band unfilled once goal I was just going to get it loosened a bit. I have a 4cc band and am 3CC filled. So I thought maybe if I loosened it a little I could maintain my goal weight. I am very aware of what I am risking and I am working at this everyday of my life. I already have a counceling appointment for the 11th, this counceling group also does group sessions with my surgeon for lap band patients for sopport groups which I may attend as well. I am not quite sure if my band is too tight or if I am just tring to eat to much to fast to quickly.

I took phentermine for about 15 years on and off. First off I used to get it from a diet doctor who would dispense right from his home then I started buying it online. It worked great in the begginning I lost all the weight then as years went by I gained it back, as I incresed the medication the side efects were intolerable. VERY moody, hands shaking, migranes, tachycardia. So since I work in the ER at my local hospital I looked the drug up in the Physicians Desk Reference book, this drug is very bad for you. The highest level of problems associated from this drug are CVA which is a stroke, heart valve problems, hypertension and death. This drug is very addicting. I have to say I was so happy to find the lap band to finally be off them pills, they were terrible and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone. This is my own personal exsperience and my own research, along with talking to health care workers about it at work. Good Luck!

shutuplena I am wondering did u or do u take phentermine?? I use to take it alot in my past until I found the lapband then stopped. That message board I use to go to as well.