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good luck lisa g keep us informed!!

just trouble getting the fill just right the fill on monday will be my 4th fill the last one helped a lot but just a little more and i think i'll find my"sweet spot" i was the 1st one they did at the surg. center and i guess they still do them there

steph i go monday for a fill wish i could have gotten it before the holiday because the scales have finally started to move down and i really want to stay on that track hope i have a little will power of my own you and cris have really done so great. big congratulation hapy turkey day!!

i was banded by dr h on 7/14 i have been slow losing but the drs are great and i had it done at the surg. center there in texarkana because i'm self pay and it was a few k's less and the nurses and staff where great there and of course deb and betty may are the best. i go mon for a fill and i think that after it hings will get to moving

renebean i'm not a real new newbie but i read your post just to see what advice you had for newbies and i'm so glad i did. i was banded 7/06 and have been very slow with my wieght loss but i haven't really been dieting i eat what i want just much less, but i did not do this to be on a strict diet! now after my 3rd fill i'm almost at the right restriction and i have begun to lose weight at a slightly faster rate i go next monday for another fill and i'm hoping that this one will be the "sweet spot" one!!! i have lost clothes sizes more than weight i started at a 24 and can now wear a 20 comfortbly and people are begining to say something about my loss now i'm down 20lbs and need to loss 50-60 more i guess the exercise (walking 2-3 miles 3x a week) is making up the difference between strict dieting and losing. sorry to ramble on but i read lots of post abour fast and big losses but few post that i could relate to.

and to think i was appalled when my dr mentioned that the needle he had just used to miss my fill cost $10 and now the other dr who came in to try would have to use a new one!!! i thought to myself when he said that, that was what my 15000 pd for!!!

hi i really belong with the slower losers club but since i was banded in july i keep in touch with the july crew i'm a dental hygienist and have been cleaning teeth for 33 years we have 2 kid a daughter 29 who is a librarian for the city of irving tex and a son who is a logistic analyst for verison networking also in irving they live about 100 miles from us neither are married so no grandkids after they left home we got us 2 new babies a wirehared terrier(kramer_ and the boss a westie named daisy my favorite exercise is working in my yard planting hoeing raking watering and even push mowing but during the week i make myself walk 2 miles 3-4 times a week even though i only lost 18 lbs i have lost inches i started at a tight 24 and now can wear 20 my fills have alll been dificult for the dr to inject the saline into the band i'm at 2.5 but still don't have the right restriction i can still eat normal and get hungry fast sorry for alll the personal info i guess i'm just a chatty-kathy today thanks susan

sherrijo just ck out your pics on the b4&AFTER BOARD you are looking GREAT you go girl!!!!

hey mykidsrock i was banded by dr h in 7/06 the weight has been very slow to come off but the inches are coming off because i have had to go down in sizes

i was bnded on 7-14-06 and have had to 2 fills but no restriction and i know i have been eating too much but try to watch what i eat. but today and yesterday i have had a slight pain under the sterum it is not a sharp pain just pressure i have been eating nuts latelly could i have one stuck or something i do not have any problem swallowing and have not pb'd or slimed just this stupid little pain. i go monday for my 3rd fill and each time the dr has had some problem getting the saline into the port they can find the port but have trouble injecting the saline into it. i don't think they actually got any in the last fill. i have not lost any weight in the last 3 months but i have not been the best bandster still eat my chocolate but WAY WAY less than before the band and i have seen a loss of inches. i know i'm rambling but i'm full of questions.

check out dr hekier and kalien in texarkana they have a good self pay fee if you need more info let me know

i think i need to apply to the slow losers club!!! i was banded 7/14/06 and have only lost 18 lbs most of it was the the 2wk pre op and 2wks post op this is mostly my fault because i eat what i want but much less than before i am still not restricted enough i have had 2 fills but with each fill the dr. has had trouble getting the needle in the right place to inject the saline in with the last fill the dr commented on not being alble to pull the saline back tso see how much was in. the first fill was make with fluro after the dr tried without the second was done in office with no flouro i can still eat bread and big bites and i know i don,t chew enough i walk 2-3 miles 3x a week at least and then work in the yard on the weekend(push mow , hoe and transplant and pruning plants. i'm trying not to get discouraged and i go on the 30th for a fill ( i called for an earlier one but dr on vacation) maybe after the 30th things will change!! sorry for all the rambling but i needed to talk it through!! Thanks for listening susan

that says it all!!!! i want my husband to read this he doesn't understand why i eat or whyb i'm "lazy''

desiree what a big change congrad. on the lose!!!!

i understand that there is a healing stage and that weight loss is a bonus during this time but i'm 2.5 months out and have not lost or gained any weight sinice the first few weeks so i am back to my old habits of eating to musch junk i have had 2 fills my dr has not told me how much but i still do not have any restriction so my question is if and when i finally do get restriction will the junk food craving get better i try to be good but i always eat when i am stressed so i really get discouraged and stressed. i guess i looking for reassurance since i'm self pay!!!

i have 2 kids that are both college graduates and here is an example of what my money has paid for. my dd and i were driving along the interstate on the way to Dallas and she ask me who Mr. Frontage is. i looked at her and asked what she was talking about and her reply was every big town has a road named for someone named frontage and i don't remember ever hearing about anyone by that name. we almost did not make it to dallas because i was laughing so hard i almost peed my pants!!!! shortly after that my ds comes home after registering for college classes and i was quizzing him about what classes and who was the teachers. his reply was he had never heard of his engllish teacher but he taught a lot of classes so fool that i am i asked who the teacher was and ds said his named was MR. Staff!!! now you have to remember both of these little darlings were grown and in college when we had these mind boggling conversations.!!!!

KARI i worked in my yard this morning for a couple of hr and then this afternoon my dh called and needed help we have a part time business that can turn in to a nitemare on the weekends we rent the inflatable bounce houses out and we deliver and set them up . my dh didn't get one of the rental down on his calender so he called me to load one in my truck and meet him where it was to be set up the darn things weight about 200 or 300 lbs so you should have seen me struggling to get this think in the back of my truck that was a good 30 min. of pulling and tugging and cussing!!! so i think i met the challenge!!! susan

ruthie i have a few yrs on you i have been cleaning teeth for the last 33 yrs and i'm glad you teachers have all the little darlings back in class so things will slow down at our dental office!!! i plan on retiring in 7yrs i'll be 60 and will have cleaned teeth for 40 yrs!!!! slowly losing, susan

la madam thanks so much!! this is why we all come to lbt but all the other crap we newbies have had to read lately. i'm6 wks out and have had my 1st fill but i think i have very conservative drs. but i'm slowly losing and inches must be going because this weekend i have had 2 people coment on my wl but your old post was just what i needed to read thanks again

yep happen to me to only lost around 18 total # but have had a visitor monthly since 7/14 after almost a year without yuck!!!1

BEWARE OF EGGS!! why didn't i listen to everyone who has written about EGGS I have been able to eat most anything until i tried a fried egg for breakfast this morning!!! no more ever again. BEWARE OF EGGS!!! I am now a member of the PB, slime and vomit club YUCK

i finally got my 1st fill on friday yea!!! i went in for my fill last mon, and the dr couldn't get the needle in the port just right so he couldn't do the fill so i had to reschedule the fill at the hospital so he could use the flouroscope my dr and his wife are both band drs so she was the one to actually do the fill on friday and she had no problems. it is so nice not to be so hungry!!! hopefully now i will start losing again. my hormones have been so screwy since the surg. i think i'm the only 53 woman to have a regular TOM lately!!! i stopped tking my hormones because of that being an issue with weight loss. maybe my system will get all straighten out soon i think i need to apply for membership for the SLOW LOSERS CLUB!!

i'm in north east tx about 100 miles from dallss and we are still getting some rain and it is 77 degrees here!!!!

i was banded on 7-14 and i've only lost 15lbs and this included the pre op time. the first 3 weeks no hunger and no craving. but this last 1-2 week has been so hard because i'm hugry i try to make good choices and try not to eat as much as before but i can eat anything and more than i could in the first part of this journey. i go tomorrow for my first fill and i'm just praying this will be helpful. and i won't be able to eat so much and still fill full. i know that the first few wks are for healing but everyone on the forum seems to have lost so much more than i have. i'm not exercising as much as i should but the morn. here in texas start out at 90 and my exercise of choice is walking i'm so ready for fall. OK enough whining things will be better after tomorrow!!!:phanvan

i am waiting for my first fill which is going to be 8-21 just this last week i've been so hungry i try to make smart choices but stay so hungry my ? is after the fill i know i can't eat as much but does the hunger pains go away i've only lost 15lbs total preop and post op so i;m discouraged!!!