briarrose1206

Happy 50th Birthday briarrose1206!

Hi Michelle. Have not heard from you in a long time, sure hope everything is going well for you!

By the way, no problems at all with the fill. NP did a little lanocane, I flexed my stomach muscles, and it was done.

I'm now released for any activity, so plan to start the slim in 6 program, and biking to work..hope it doesn't take long to get back in the saddle. You take care, and let me know how things are going for you...hope you are still losing weight and feeling positive!

so, down 24 pounds since early this year, and 17 since surgery. Concerned that it has slowed down substanially. By the way...found a recipe for black bean brownies on line....they were AWFUL! the reviews said that people, including kid, could not tell the difference, but I have to say....I can tell the difference. I like beans, love beans for that matter...not in brownies, evidently!

Hi Michelle. Hope all is going well with you. Well, I am still hungry and and now have 2 cc's in my band. The np told me that since my first fill, since I was losing weight, she was only going to give me 1 cc (evidently had 1 cc in the band) more. I explained to her that I was losing weight because I was struggling so hard, but it was in vain...1 cc for me this time. She said I can come back in 4 weeks if not losing weight.

I did pretty good in MTH 60, managed to garner a B. I'm a bit of an over-achiever, and had hoped for an A, but it was not to be. So, now I am self teaching myself about polynomials, with the hopes of getting out of paying for math 65, and test into math 95 in the fall...I will hope for the best! It does help me by diverting me from food, but I will be glad when I can get on my bicycle again and head out for a bike ride. I plan to begin riding my bike to work July 1st also, at least 2 days a week...it's not a long ride, but that combined with the walking at lunch, then aerobics 3 times a week, seems to me to be a pretty good amount of exercise for this little fatty.

Well, am going to go. Will weigh in tomorrow. Will hope for the best, at least hope I didn't gain anything back. Worried, but working on reminding myself that again, this is a journey and I will likely have a few setbacks. You too...be kind to yourself and I will likely post after the fill on Tuesday....ttyl.

I think part of the reason I am eating too much this week (besides the obvious tom issue) is I know I am getting a fill on Tuesday and I expect to be back on protien shakes for a few days...then, I also expect to be a bit more restricted, so I think I will be motivated to not over eat...right now, I can overeat, and just be uncomfortable. Next week I might actually throw up (which I have not done at all) if I am stupid....and, I do not want to throw up. I'm going to try to get myself back on track this weekend, and stay at about 1000, maybe 1100 calories...that seems to be pretty good for me. I am now walking about 45 minutes at lunch. I live in a hilly area, so walk a block level, then up one block, and then so on....I'm lovinlly calling it interval training. I have a new workout system, Slim in Six, and plan to start that the first of July.

hmmm, I love brownies! Just about my most favorite dessert of all time. Let me know how they turn out, and I will look into making them. I go on Tuesday for my first fill, and they told me that they would likely do 2 cc's to begin with. I agree with you that it is crazy to have the band so tight that you can't eat reasonably. For me, the whole purpose of the band is to help me learn to eat very slowly (so the longer it takes, the less I eat) and to help me not feel physically hungry for longer periods of time. It is NOT for me to starve to death and not be able to eat good food.

Hey Michelle, so nice to hear from you...you know, 16 pounds is nothing to sneeze at in 4 weeks, that's pretty darn impressive. I am on my period this week, and my eating has gone to the pigs, for sure. I bet I ate my way through about 1500 or 1600 calories each day for the last few days...its' bad, and I'm afraid to weight in tomorrow morning. As crazy as this sounds, I feel like taking some metamucil tonight so I can poop before I weigh....crazy talk! This is the second period since having the surgery and the first one was not so bad, but this one is dreadful.

So I am going to try out the receipe and ask my co-workers to try them... Anyways, I agree with you, we are alot alike - should have finished college years ago when we were closer, just unfortunately, was not mature enough then, and or focused like we are today... Its good to have something to focus on and keep our minds occupied from food.. I dont know about you, but I am still alittle hungry every day, but if I keep drinking the water, it keeps me full for the meantime.. Just have to stop gulping... Hope you pass your math class. Keep in touch....

So anyways, I did go out and purchase a healthy cooking book, found a very interesting one by Rocco Dispirito - he is the chef for the Biggest Loser.. He takes ordinary meals and turns them to under 350 calories.. He even has a receipe for Brownies - made with Black beans. Believe this he took brownies which usually are 1,500 cal.. and turned it into 53 calories using black beans - AMAZING... He is also listed on U-tube when he did a News Channel, and one of the anchors ate 2 brownies before the show, not knowing they were made with black beans, and said he would have never believed it

I dont know how that is healthy. The other lady was at 8 cc's and she could hardly swallow her spit without throwing up, I was like SERIOUSLY??? Why on earth would you torcher yourself like that? So what I have been reading on the posts, it seems like alot of people are happy right around 6-6.5 as their sweet spot.... What is your advice on this?

I am not sure that I am getting my first fill this coming Monday, as it will be 4 weeks post op, when I went 2 days after surgery, 2 other people in front of me were 4 weeks post op and were told to come back in 2 weeks and they would do the fill. I dont know about you, but I really only want to get 2 cc's for my first fill, and then try another 2 cc's, but really dont want to go more than 6. I have heard horror stories about 8 cc's and how people just cant get food down. Infact, there were 2 ladies in the office on my 2 day check up, and one, was at 7.5 cc's and eating a frappachino n few crackers as her meal as this was all she could get down