wannabesmall09

Ive bought two books - the Atkins New Diet Revolution and the Atkins Shopping Guide. Should be here next week. I'll read before I start. Long long ago I lost a lot of weight on Atkins and it made me feel great. No big excuse why I stopped and I wish I never had.

For thos of you actually on Atkins, can you give me some advice, cause I'm in the exact same boat as the OP. I had surgery a year ago and have lost 44 pounds. I expected to be farther along than this. I really want to start atkins, but I'm not sure what to eat in the induction phase. Everything I read is geared towards higher portions. What do you eat each day?

My husband's co-worker had lap band in December and is now about 5 months pregnant. Her dr never discussed it with her, and it never occurred to her. She was told before that she couldn't get pregnant. Well, surprise...

I hate it, too, and have to make myself do stuff. Plus, I run ALL the time, and am not a morning person, so I just don't bounce out of bed at 5am ready to hit the gym. I really like the Beach Body excersizes. They are 10 minutes each, and if I do one in the am and one in the evening (most evenings) I feel good. I run a LOT, too, have horses, dogs, a kid. And between giving riding lessons, taking my daughter to gymnastics, running back and forth to the farm, etc, I'm just not home a lot, and spending an hour in front of the TV just isn't something else I can fit into my schedule. I can do 10 minutes, tho...

My doc just does the fills. I've never been xrayed or anything... He is a specialist, so I guess he knows what he's doing, right? I have been overfilled twice now... that makes me a little nervous...

My first goal is 214, that is what I weighed before I got pregnant in 2005, and was what I weighed for 3 years. I am ONE pound away as of this morning, I about fell off of the scales when it said 215!!! :thumbup: My next goal is 199. I haven't been under 200 pounds in about 8 years. Man, that will feel GOOD!!! I'd really like to be 180 or even 170 by Christmas. I'd really like to get professional pictures taken with my daughter, I won't get them taken now with me being so heavy. And, I hate taking pictures now. I usually won't let anyone take pictures of me... I can't wait til I walk into my husbands family's house and their jaws drop!!! Its gonna be awesome!!!

He had to remove about a third of that .5 cc. Its actually good tho, cause last night I ate diner and was only able to eat part of what I could a couple days before and I was full for a long time. Usually I'm hungry after about two hours of eating.

Small fills are a GOOD thing. Take it from someone who was overfilled the first time with 3 ccs at once. I was MISERABLE, couldn't even swallow my spit. I had to sit in the hospital the next morning for over an hour waiting on my doc to get out of surgery so he could remove 1cc. Now, here I sit, at 3 ccs in my band and I think I'm overfilled again, or at least swollen to the point that I can't drink much of anything. I've taken two swallows of coffee and I can feel it sitting on my stomach, so I need to go in this morning for another unfill... Fun. Guess 2.5-2.75 is my number for now.

Congratulations! I'm 4 pounds away from my first goal!

Most drs have you on liquids for the first 24 hours after a fill. I would go liquid for now, mushies for a day or two, then back to solids.

Ditto - everyone is different. My first fill I was given 3 ccs in a 10 cc band and had to have 1 cc removed the next morning because I couldn't even swallow my own saliva. My next fill is Thursday and I'm a little nervous. I can tell that I need more restriction, tho...

Sounds like the nurse didn't put in the extra 2 ccs...

I am two and a half weeks post op and am already back to riding horses, and helped build a deck this past weekend. My dr said as long as I was feeling good and didn't get sore after that I should be just fine, and if this was normal pre-surgery activity, that I should be able to take it right back up and not have any issues. I tend to bounce back from stuff like this, and would have been devastated had they told me no activity for 6 weeks, I am a really active person. When I had my daughter (the natural way) I was back on a horse in 3 weeks. I say do what you feel comfortable with.