TracyinKS

Interesting thread........ thanks everyone! I'm off to refill my Water glass

as I sit here with MINIMAL restriction eating a can of chunk chicken breast (like a tuna can) reading this thread... I have to say THANK YOU! Tomorrow is my two month bandversary and I actually gained weight last week on my vacation..... I have my 2nd fill next week. I could go out and eat crap for lunch but instead I'm drinking water and eating the boring old canned chicken that has 25 grams of protien but a ton of sodium At times I feel like a big fat failure because I did eat the icecream topped funnel cake.. and it went down fine! but then Mark said this: "It is too soon to feel discouraged. It's like you just bought a fancy sports car but it has no air in the tires. Of course it is not going to go very fast. You have not yet put air in the tires. That's exactly the same situation you have now with the band. You are simply not using the band yet because you do not have adequate restriction. Keep getting more fills until you have adequate restriction." thank you for this Mark! I know I'm beating myself up for the self sabotage I inflicked on myself, but I also am running on no air in my tires. I am down in weight overall.. and it is not a quick fix..... It IS mind over matter right now for me because I CAN eat way more than I should be able tooooo

thanks for this....... I am just starting out and next week is fill #2..... I feel like a failure.. I had planned to be much further along by now, but alas I gained weight last week on my vacations and today I feared the scale and have not eaten anything yet....... Your post really hit home... REALLY hit home

WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!! You ROCK! My arms got goosebumps just LOOKING at your pics!

Hello all!!!!!!!! Returned from vacation and a week away from ALL computers! I am sunburned to a lobster crisp right now due to all the outside activities of the last week. I need a fill, I can eat tooo much. I gained 5 pounds last week, some of which I'm sure is water because I didn't drink enough of it. Tomorrow I go back to the gym but today I am back in reality with water and eating. We went on a motorcyle charity run yesterday and I PB'd on a plain grilled hot dog...... IT WAS NOT PRETTY! Imagine trying to hold it in while I waited for a porta potty! YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!! OK.. work awaits Have a good one I'll be back later to catch up!

I wanted everyone to know that I'm going on vacation for 1 week and will not be near a net connection! If we decide to move the thread to the monthly section someone needs to send me a link for when I get back... I NEED MY VIOLETS! GOD HELP ME, all my restriction is gone! LOVE and KISSES............. mooooooouaaaaauuu!

I'm heading off for vacation... someone send me a link to the new stuff for when I get back..........

GREAT JOB ON ALL THAT WATER Laura! Also WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO on the exercise!

Ms_Jen: How wonderful!!!!!!!!! I am really hungry, but afraid to eat because my throat STILL hurts from the PB episode! Michelle: Don't sweat it about gaining... my doc said most everyone gains the first four weeks

GOOD MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!! TGIF, Day 4 at the gym! I was up and out the door early and home earlier than other days this week. DBF was on the front porch (his smoking patio) so we chatted while I watered my flowers... next thing you know my son is up and it is NOT EVEN 6:00 a.m. yet! I even fixed some scrambled eggs and it was a MISTAKE.. I ate it too fast and had a very bad PB episode.. so bad infact that my throat hurts.... (this was the worst one to date) The perm pic.... I will take it AFTER I can actually WASH my hair.... It is very loose and dbf LOVES it... I am up 3 pounds!!!!!!!! This is discouraging especially since I've been exercising.. I KNOW IT IS TEMP but still it sux! Until this morning I would of swore that I had NO restriction, but apparently I'm tighter in the morning like a lot here... (I never eat solid food for breakfast during the work week) The weird morning yesterday......... Wednesday night our oldest had family night at scout camp so we met up with dbf's exwife, her new husband and the other boys and arrived together..... we had a small hike to the troops campsite and upon arrival you could of heard a pin drop with the dropped jaws... we are a noisy group and we all popped out of the trees at once... a big ring of parents were seated in a big circle just looking at us like we were aliens...... (the significance just hit me then) Dbf used to be the fire cheif for all these (small town) people, they all knew them as married since after High School... Cody (the scout) starts introducing us... my stepdad, my step mom, my step brother... etc....... I was getting the once over... so I just spread my hands out wide and said.... we decided to just bring EVERYBODY! this broke the tension I guess because people laughed (I later found out that the Troop Leader is actually the one that broke up DBF's 1st marriage! Troop Leader and Exwife got caught sleeping together one afternoon! Ex-wifes NEW husband (who is a loveable goober) kept making wise cracks among us, to make sure we got a pic of dbf, troopleader, and newhusband together) all men who've slept with exwife.... .. THEN YESTERDAY..... I get an email on my old hotmail address from my EX HUSBANDS uncle who has been long thought to be dead... he has been missing from the family for 15 years.... and he ends up with MY email... he wanted some old family photos....... WIERD... so that ended in a call from me to my ex husband.. (who was my HS sweetheart, and best friend for 17 years,he is not my sons bio, he is also the one who royally screwed up my head) SO I get to the point about the Uncle email and then .. ExHusband gets all chatty.... and starts giving me the third degree... it was so weird.... it was almost like he didn't want to get off the phone like he was starving for some "adult" conversation... I finally end the call.. and forward the uncle email to him and to my ex inlaws..... Then my "nun" boss (who is a HARD, HARD, HARD woman to work for) gives my direct boss a seminar packet for me and my good work bud to go too.. (a Womens Conference, that actually would be FUN) WIERD and VERY out of character for her....... and lastly........... I AM ON VACATION ALL NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Roc: When I first came here looking for research I was steered AWAY from the WLSC.... a gal that was banded last year, works in the medical field and warned me against the dr who works there..... I can't speak for them, but I didn't use them becasue they were not affiliated with ANY insurance and offered to help me get reimbursed....... I opted for Dr. Malley who WAS on my insurance

My Virgin Eyes..owwwwwwww Owwwwwwwww My Virgin Eyes......

I'm late for a meeting but I had to stop in and say that I've had a WIERD morning....... Exhusbands, Ex Husbands uncle emails, Boyscouts with exwives, new husbands, and marriage breakers troop leaders, gym at 4:37a.m. and earlybird YOGA and now meetings with nuns! ohhhhhhboyyyyyy

back from Permland! LOOKS GOOD, except she curled it with a curling iron and then I looked like a fat babara walters! (70's version) so I went home and stuck my head in the shower to scrunch it back! LOL I am happy with the softness and the size of curls............ yes, yes, I will take a pic and post.... Have a great rest of the day. OH I had lunch at Popeyes chicken......... 1 Thigh 1 side of Green beans 1/2 of a diet pepsi (that I brought back to work with me) I am starting to get hungry now 2.5 hours later.

I'm only going to say this once on these boards...... but I've had 2 best friends have the RNY one 4 years ago and one 2.... both lost 120 the first year... my friend that had it 4 years ago never dumped and could eat anything...... she has gained back and got depressed and tried to kill herself..... (she was pissed off when she woke up in a hospital) I love this woman and to write it makes me tear up..... she is now looking into banding over her stretched out pouch.... Not only will she always have to take all the vitimin supplements, permantly be malnourished and to top it off she has to start all over again in weight....

hmmmmmmmm makes sense slech!! Thanks for posting!

Bud: This post gave me goosebumps! WELCOME to the BANDSIDE of life! I've only had one fill and have very little restriction, but I'm ON MY WAY, and yes.......... up and down up and down the scale that was me and portion control.

OH..... and get this.. we are going to family night at our 12 year olds boy scout camp TONIGHT.... boys' mom and her hubby and all ....... PERFECT time to unveil a brand new stinky perm RIGHT??? LOL Man oh man I'm HUNGRY!

LOL!!!!!!!!!! 1.5cc in a 4cc band........still waiting for GOOD restriction....thanks for this thread.. funny stuff!

GREAT NSV's Mine... (besides the clothes I'm fitting into again) is.... The proud feeling I have walking OUT of the gym all sweaty and red faced!

Day TWO at the gym this morning! Am I smoking or what???? Wait.....Don't answer that........ My thighs and arms really feel it! I am HUNGRY though.

LOL Judy! HAVE FUN with your friends today.. don't forget to take a pic! (congrats on the loss too)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TERRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! congrats on the 195!!

GOOD MORNING VIOLETS! Yes, I did the gym this morning! day 2! My thighs and arms feel it, but I am so proud of myself.. Yay ME! Pamela: Baaaaaaaaaaaaad Te-kill-ya (what I call it since a run in with it in the 90's) Shake it off and go do an EXTRA workout to cleanse those nasty toxins.. oh and WATER, WATER, WATER today. Jennifur: Good job on the school and possible job. You will be lucky if you only need a couple fills! Kat: THOUGHTS, HUGS, and PRAYERS go out to you and Rick and (Kelsey) today! TracyK: Hope the chiro pops you back into place! Michelle: YUP bandster hell baby! Two weeks out and I was hungry as ever... stick it out and know that right now you are in healing mode. Jane: I see your filled to 3cc's how are you feeling????? Hope everyone has a great day. I am getting a perm today........ (the first one in 8 years!) I hope I don't come out looking like a poodle... I told her a lose perm just to give my hair some life..... WISH ME LUCK!

welcome welcome!!!!! I really miss the old way of editing the first post... I'm sorry I can't add everyone to page one! POST POST please! I am set for workout number two tomorrow morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had mexican for dinner.......... I ate chips and salsa and a cheese quesidilla........ although less than I would of eating pre band...... more than a cup..... I guess 1.5 cc's isn't enough to really give me restriction. OK>.. little naked boy just ran past me........... gotta go