janetsjourneytoslim
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Hi! Thanks for the great comments! I am doing well tonight, getting along better with my food and food intake. Looking for that 100 lbs to go away even if it takes me longer that one year, hey I did not get this big in one year right? It IS happening, I AM losing the weight and we ALL will WIN this battle with FAT!!!!
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:scared2:Today is the day I see the Dr. for a Fill OR NOT! I dread this day, cause I have not been eating right, cause stuff will not go down, so I need a slight unfill so I don't eat sliders to feel full. (Sliders=Stuff I should not have full of calories, that slide through easy) So Here I go to face the fiddler and to help myself to eat fish, chicken and salads again! I will not be as depressed either! On a good note:smile:My oldest grandson will graduate from Kindergarten this morning and I feel so blessed for having this year almost behind me! Life gets better every year. This year two more grandchildren will be added to our family and my daughter gets married in October! So we will be growing our little family! God is a Good God!:smile2:
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I had the unfill, sent you a message, and I love your Blog!
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before and 5 months in
janetsjourneytoslim commented on LeighaMason's gallery image in Member Photo Gallery
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Constant tenasity! Just be very consistant with your eating habits, exercise and try to relax with and go with the flow of things, It does get a bit humdrum, but as time goes by so do the lbs! Life is like a boat, floating down the river, smooth sailing one day and then you hit a rock or a hard place, just get free of those hard spots and keep on floating! Sounds like you have a stressful job too and that can keep one wound up, I too deal with stress in my life and with customers, you got to get that LET it ROLL attitude, when they know it is eating at you, they try harder to tick you off! Just let it Roll Off your shoulders! You will feel better, I promise! Good Luck!
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Loved your post! I too prayed the night before and the day of, not worried or afraid, just for that Perfect Peace! I did write my husband a Love Letter and before he left the operating room I gave it to him. He has been the love of my life and the father of my children for 32 yrs, and if it was in Gods will for me to leave him, I just wanted him to know all the things I said to him in that letter! I am way too sentimental, so after we got home, I felt like a silly little school girl, but I knew that he Knew and neither one of us ever mentioned it again, it has been 10 months since that day and I was cleaning and found he had kept the letter in a drawer. Sweet!
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Hey read my post, It sounds just like what I said! I had my unfill yesterday and it really has made all the difference in me! I did not want to tell the DR. either, that was my greatest fear, but I got the guts went in and it was good for ME so just do it and get real with this journey, they don't know as much as WE KNOW about how we FEEL! Take Care!
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Hi, I have had the band for 10 mos, my daughter is an RN ~can she give me fills? Just saying! I have lost 82 lbs in about 10 months so I am doing good I feel, I just had an unfill of .04ccs under flouroscopy each time! I feel so much better and hope to get to my goal in a total of 18 months, started at 272, day of surgery 247! I want to weigh around 165 in the end and maintain. Since you have had yours awhile, I was wondering what sort of foods you eat daily to keep it from being boring to eat.
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Well thanks for commenting:thumbup: on my post! It went well, I ate a small amount before going to the Dr. and on the drive over it came up, I was so frustrated and then I got on the scales and I was 3 lbs up!! The Dr. came in and we talked, this has gone on since my last fill and got more severe on my cruise! He put me under the exray and saw the swelling around my port and band immediately! The upchucking had caused irritation and swelling causing the band to tighten! So he removed .04ccs and then I had liquids for 48 hours, then I ate and I was so full and the food stayed down! How wonderful, I feel satisfied too.
I did not know it, but with a too tight band, you will NOT lose weight, when you throw up, you eat more to try and get something to go in and it may be all the wrong things!
I am checking out the recipes you have and going to try them now that I can eat again! We do have to learn to live this life after the LAP-BAND?! I am going back to the Gym next week too.
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You are so right! I ALWAYS appreciate your comments and your encouragment! I have lots to be so thankful for and I just as anyone else get down and out, but I just look up and then look around and I can see others struggling, just starting and not knowing this new path we are on and I get so humbled. I had a slight unfill yesterday, liquids for 48 hours and then I ate, the food stayed down and I am FULL so that is what I needed. Mr Dr. is so understanding! I so love him and his staff and I am so blessed with that they are caring and want the best for my life. I am grateful for coming this far.
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Janet at 9 1/2 Months on trip to Alaska, Layered with clothing too! 82 lbs down! Still have a ways to go, but happy at the moment!
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Thanks so much sandif! I feel amazing too! -
Janet at 9 1/2 Months on trip to Alaska, Layered with clothing too! 82 lbs down! Still have a ways to go, but happy at the moment!
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From the album: 9 1/2 Months Out and Counting
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Depressed or what? Don't know but I could not move off the couch today, just did not want to do anything. I had so much energy the first six months of the journey and now I feel tired, well I did just get back from a 12 day Vacation, (No Rest then) Guess I need a vacation to get over my vacation. Nothing really on TV either, can't believe that I watched Top Model!!?? I wanted to eat more today too, just sitting around, should have gotten my butt up and gone to the Gym, well there is always tomorrow! My next appt is Friday and I dread it, because of the cruise, I have not lost any weight this month, and dread the visit! I need my Mojo Back! And the Dr. and Staff always do that for me, cause they are my friends now and really care about me, I know this to be true~sooo I will suck it up and get to the Dr. I think I get too hung up on Goal Setting and feeling like a failure when I don't meet the goals! Got to get past this! I also have a few friends who are a little upset and maybe even a bit jealous I am getting smaller than them, they can say things that really hurt! I want to take off 30 lbs this next year and I believe I will too, got to work at it and I will. Thanks for hearing me vent! Later!:smile2:
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What beach was your wedding on? Love the dress and the B/W theme too.
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left was taken 6 wks after surgery, the right was 9 mos after
janetsjourneytoslim commented on nawlinzlady's gallery image in Member Photo Gallery
You look terrific, feeling better? Love the new white suit on you! Cute! -
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Thanks so much marmotsgrl! I feel like dancing now that the extra lbs are gone! had a blast on this cruise! -
Pizza is not Passing Through Anymore! NOOOOOOO!
janetsjourneytoslim posted a blog entry in Blog 75574
:frown: It's official. After the fifth fill I am too tight for Pizza! So I am deliberating with having a little unfill. Not that I love Pizza and have to have it or anything like that, but with an episode in the parking lot at Wal-Mart with everyone around, and no where to let it out, trying to hold it in until I get into the restroom and can't OMG was I ever so embarrassed! Well then when I did get inside, I had to visit the Bathroom again! ONLY ONE PIECE TOO! The salad I had enjoyed stayed, the Pizza did not! I had only had liquids for breakfast and it was 4:20 PM so I decided to eat with my husband out tonight. So much for the romantic ending! I came home and made some Lumpia Roll mix (like an egg roll) I was still hungry and so I ate a small bowl of the hot filling, cabbage carrots, onions, hamburger meat, and chopped green beans, etc. Very good. When I am at home and relaxed, everything goes very well, when I eat out, watch out! Are we LapBanders so different that we can't eat out anymore, or not very well anyway? I am fast discovering this so I will order small from thence forth. I may have a slight unfill on June 4th, haven't actually made up my mind yet, but maybe!:sad: -
Food and Memorial Day Blahs?
janetsjourneytoslim commented on janetsjourneytoslim's blog entry in Blog 75574
Yes it is called Bandster Hell, cause you can still eat and have little restriction, the swelling inside has gone down and you need the fill, and once you get the fill you will feel tight when you eat, it is all down hill from there. Until you hit a Holiday! LOL I really can not complain cause I have kept off 82 lbs so far. It just is a life changing thing! -
:frown:Just thinking I wish I could eat a Hot Dog! Blah, Blah is my body adjusting faster than My Brain? I use to think that my brain moved faster than I could talk, and that I could think of things and ways to amuse my mind to keep the hands away from food. Is it Just Memorial Day Blahs? I use to love to fix a big potato salad and ribs and hot dogs and hamburgers, I just kinda feel like I am missing out and just feeling a little low and left out right about now. Not with the way I look and how I like getting into clothes sizes I could not wear for the past 10 or so years, I just sit around (when I am not working and think too much, it is hard to stop thinking about foods that I want to eat and can't) and want to eat, so I have to modify this behavior I KNOW! Anyway I think it has to do with lots of depressing things going on in my life right now, recent deaths, financial concerns, etc. I will get over it, and I will move on, and life will get better I KNOW: just needed to vent to those of you who KNOW where I am at at this stage, rolling 4 or 5 lbs around is so depressing, up and then down and then back up again, very challenging for the last 20 lbs on any diet program and even with the band too.:sad:
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9 1/2 Months Out and Counting
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Some photos of before the surgery and the now photos, down about 84 lbs or so from the start of the Journey -
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From the album: 9 1/2 Months Out and Counting
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Sailing Away, Let the Dancing Begin
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From the album: 9 1/2 Months Out and Counting
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From the album: 9 1/2 Months Out and Counting
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From the album: 9 1/2 Months Out and Counting
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Hi I just flew to Seattle WA from Florida and then on to an Alaskan Cruise, I did fine with it, take plenty of snacks and ask for double water when the tray comes around, you can not take on water with you as you check in, but you can buy bottled water in the terminal after you pass the metal detectors and check in line, take some to make sure you get hydrated! I had a blast, no problems.
