Stacy1980

Hi Guys, So i am down 80 lbs and feeling great. And because I am looking great and feeling great, I guess man i beginning to notice me more. With that said, I am going on my first date this saturday. first date since my divorce and first date in about 12 years! :thumbup: We are going to go to Chillis for dinner and i am so worried about eating there. Since I got the band, I really have been good about cooking at home and if i do go out, I usually go out with a family and friends. So if I get a stuck episode they know all about it and its not a problem. I just got another fill done last week so i am very tight still. Just today, I went out for sushi and had 2.5 pieces and I am done. So any advice on how to do this on the date? What to order? I don't want to tell him about the band yet (just bc its personal) but what do i tell him if he asks why did i eat two bites? As i said before this is my first date in a very long time so i am already nervouse - I don't want eating portion of it to be an issue. thank you everybody :laugh:

Today is an incredible day for me. As of this morning, I weigh under 200 lbs! I have not seen 19# since i was 15 years old and i am sooo happy.

I had that happened to me about 2 months post op. My 2 year old decided to jump on me and when i tried to "get out of the way" i pulled something inside. that sucks. I was totally ok, but as always calling a doctor and running this by him/her is the best thing.

When you say you have no restriction, can you explain more? Can you still eat as much as you did before? The same amounts? the same foods?

I was talking to my friend today how i lost 57 lbs since my 10/26/09 surgery but i was telling her that I am not seeing SUCH a huge difference as everybody else is saying. So she told me to do the before and after. We had a party at our office today and there were pictures taken of me so i decided this would be a great time to do the before/after and what I saw...i have to admit I AM PROUD OF MYSELF!!!!! [ATTACH]19371[/ATTACH] e :redface:

you can toot, yell, brag, scream on top of your lugs!! you deserve it! LOOK AT YOU!!!!!! Congrats and thank you for being an inspiration!

I had my surgery on 10/26/09 and first fill 91 days later (due to insurance regulations and my doctor). My first fill was just fine -got 5CC i felt weird on the day of and after that i was eating anything that i was just in smaller portions. I didn't get sick and nothing got stuck. April 21st, I had another fill - and 5 days later I still can't eat! I had an addiitonal 3 cc put in and when looking on the ultra sound, the drink went down just fine - slow but fine. I was on liquids only for the first day. The next day, per doctor's instructions, I had a liquid Breakfast and tried to have chicken salad for lunch and it just got stuck from the first bite. I try to eat something mushy and slowly everyday and it just gets stuck. Finally, today i was able to eat yogurt and .5 banana with no problem. Decided to have sashimi for lunch (no rice)- had 2 small pieces and i have the stuck feeling again. and I am not throwing up but i keep sliming every minute or I slime. Sushi slime - EWWWWWW!!! lol Doctor said to go back on Mushies and that it should pass in a week - but do you think that its overfilled???

Hi. where you overweight when you married her? Do you feel that you settled and now that you have your options, you no longer feel that "need" for her? I am trying to look at this from your side and her side. I have been on her side where after I gave birth to my daughter, my husband said that i was fat..i was a "great" person and deserved to be really loved. It hurt like a Mother F*er. But now that i am almost 2 years out of that relationship and loosing weight and feel better and better about myself i realized that when I got together with him and settled (eventhough I grew to love him because I kinda had to as a wife) most of my love came from settling. I didn't think I would be able to find another guy who cared for me as he did. (he was very much into me when we met eventhought i was overweight). But yeah, I loved him bc he was my husband and i settled. I think that if i was still married to him, I would take have of the crap he put me through and would have fallen out of love with him as well because I actually would feel better about myself and love myself enough to realize that. This might be two different stories but what i am saying is that i kind of understand where you are coming from. However, I do believe that she stuck with you through thick and thin and i don't know what kind of relationship you had with her before this, but i agree with the prior post that it sounds like you already made up your mind and that is why the counseling is not working. There must have been something that you loved about her and maybe she is in a rut and as her husband, her best friend, her life companion, you should help her get out of that and be as happy as you are now. No judgment here :biggrin: you have to do what you have to do but don't forget that you are not the only person in this relationship and what you decide will effect her life as well. I believe that marriage is a life time commitment unless you are physically and mentally abused. and i also believe that if you really want to - you can make this a great marriage but I have a feeling you don't as you are probably not used to the attention from other woman and now catching up with the lost time. Good luck :laugh: Stacy

I was just telling my friend the same thing another night. I have only lost 47 lbs and still have a lot to go but people are noticing me! Before I would be invisible but now people say hi and smile and try to talk to me. It’s strange but I love it.

Good Morning!! I woke up early this morning and did my first work out for the couch - 5K training program. I wanted to die but once i completed the workout, I felt great. The question i have is why does it feel like i have a sore throat and something is stuck in my checks. It hurts a little to breath in and i have to cough. I am sure its because i am out of shape, but i wanted to see why I felt that way and what can i do to prevent this from happening again. Maybe i am not breathing right? thankk you in advance! Stacy

Yep! thats exactly how it felt. and afterwards I was just more aware of it. I don't think its because I was paranoid because everytime I turned my body i felt let as i did when i first got out of the hospital. Not the pain but just i feel it there pushing. I am ok as of this morning so I will see how it goes. thanks!

My doctor said that he had attached my port so it won't move. Last night i was doing a yoga stretch and as i twisted my lefts to the right and my head and arms to the left...i felt something weird. I followed by doing set ups and i felt my port. I haven't felt m port in 2 months (i am 3.5 post op). So it is possible that i messed something up with that stretch? I have a doctor's appoitment this wednesday, but wanted to run it by you guys. Thanks! Stacy

Thanks Jacqui! that makes sense - it really does feel like an asthma attach for like 20 min. I guess I just have to get over it and i will be fine. thanks!! Stacy

umm...i can tell you what i did that helped me. I signed up for Weight Watchers online and just in the past week it helped me loose 3 lbs. I was snacking so much and eventhough i thought i was eating little, i really was not at all. also, if I eat carbs (only good ones of course) I eat them at lunch or Breakfast. For dinner only veggies and lean Protein. And I stop eating afte 6:30-7 about 4 hours before i go to bed. Drink lots of Water. I have 2 cheat meals a week. Hope you get there

hi. How many calories are you eating? Are you driking enough water? Have you had your fills?

I finally found some pre-op pictures where i wasn't hiding behind something. These are when i am around 272 and the post is as of today - 228

thank you so much! for the next picture i am actually going to do my hair and make up hehe. It was a crazy day with my toddler and i just didn't care at that point.

i am so glad you are alright!