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Week 2 22.1 miles walked 27.9 to go

Welcome to our group MrsNeener. Good luck on your journey. Hope you are doing well.

Hi Neon. I'm sorry to hear about your injury. Shin splints are so painful. The only thing I know to tell you is to rest for a while. You can use ice and anti-flammatory meds. Good luck!

Congratulations Jujuvee! I know you are on cloud 9 because of your weight loss. You must be proud of your miles logged for the week as well. Were you exercising before? What exercise are you doing for the challenge?

Happy Belated Birthday Jenai!

Good Morning everyone. 14.6 miles walked week 1. 35.4 miles to goal.

Welcome aboard Neon!

Hello 2Fly. Congratulations! I really would like to know your secret. Do you weigh and measure your food? Do you exercise? Are you at restriction with your fills? How many fills do you have? I have already reached a plateau after only 6 weeks post op. I exercise, I do not eat as much although I do not have restriction. Any advice will be appreciated.

I am posting this as a TEST. I attempted to make a third ticker. Hope this time worked.

Wow Godshelp! Your weight loss is aewsome. Over 70 lbs in a year should be celebrated. Congratulations. Thanks for letting me know about the tickers. I will try again to make a third one. As of now, I am keeping track of my miles on a daily calendar.

Hi Jenai. I'm so glad to know you are doing well. Welcome to our group. Hopefully we can continue with new challenges month after month. This site has been so great on bringing so many of us together. I am happy to be on this journey with people who understand what I am going through.

Congratulations and welcome to our group!

Navy I am so glad you are ok. Thank you for sharing. Sometimes we will think the pain is nothing to worry about when we should be persistent with the doctors. This is very valuable information for us all. Again, I am glad you are ok.

Thank you. That verse keeps me going.

I have not experienced these and hope I never will, but I too was curious and asked the same questions. PBing is when you overeat and its like a burp, but the food comes back up. It is not vomiting. Sliming happens when food gets stuck and your body produces a thick saliva which also comes up, sometimes with the stuck food most times just the slime. I think you will continue to slime until the food passes or comes up. Hope this helps.

I have a 10cc band with a 3cc fill. I have no restriction. I can't wait until I get there. When were you banded and have you lost weight?

Follow the eating plan that your surgeon gave you. The hospital gives everyone the same booklets, but each surgeon has different requirements for their patients. Make sure you call the surgeon if he did not give you a specific plan. I was on two weeks of liquids and one week of soft foods. My surgeon said it was important that I heal first, which is why he recommends 2 weeks of liquids before moving to softs, then solids. Hope this helps.

Hi..what questions do you have?

How many ccs did you get?

Welcome to the challenge Openag and congratulations on your surgery.

Wow Kitty. I am glad to hear that you are ok. Thanks for posting this. This post may help someone else that may be going through the same thing. It is a journey. The more I read the post, the more educated I get. The surgeons do not explain all that you go through after getting a band. All most of us know is that the band will help you lose weight. Thank God for this forum and all who post here. I wish you well on you journey.

Hi Godshelp. This is what this challenge was intended, to get all of us moving. Welcome to our little group. I tried making a new ticker and adding it to my signature line with no success. Willowcat could possibly walk you through the making of the ticker.

I too felt the way you do now. I am one month post op and so happy that I was banded. I started feeling better 3 weeks post op. After one month, I have more energy and have started exercising. I havn't exercised in years. I missed the foods, but I stayed on course. I called my doctor's office 2 days before I was to start soft foods and ask for permission to move from liquids to soft. I was told I could. I lasted 12 days on the liquid diet. I was really proud that I did not cheat. You will be able to enjoy the food again. Make sure you give your body a chance to heal before you move to solids. The band is the best thing to happen to me. The weight loss is slow, but it is weight loss. I could not do this without the band. I lived from one fad diet to another and none worked. I felt bad about myself. I stopped doing things with my family outside of the home. The band has given me my confidence back. You can do it!