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I am with ya Jenn! I got way too much! It has gone down some but it's still huge and even more noticable now that my waist is smaller. You know you got too much butt when your little sister gets tired in the grocery store and wants to prop her elbow on it and take a break while I am looking for something!

That's awesome! I am trying to be like you by the end of April and get into 18's! I am a 20 now and they are tight so I got some work to do! Congrats!

I think you are doing great! 20lbs in less than 3 months is pretty good. Congrats!

I use wheat pasta and I don't have any issues with it.

It took me 7 months after surgery to get a good enough fill to actually feel the difference and I started to lose. I also got mad enough to join the gym in September. So with the workouts and a better fill I started losing again. It took me to get over 6.0 cc's to feel any real restriction. I hope you start losing again real soon because I know it get's frustrating to have surgery and still not lose.

It took about 2 weeks before I felt real hunger. I was hoping like you it would last a very long time....it came back but now that I have 7.3 cc's in my band I am never hungry again yea! But, I am having issues with just wanting to eat because...so once I get a hold to that I will be good.

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Congrats on your weight loss and not becoming an addict! You did really good!

Is this your second time being banded? Your ticker says 2006. Oh, I forgot to answer your question. Yea, gas is likely to be anywhere after surgery. I hope you got your gax-x.

I have great restriction at this time. It took me awhile to get here but I am here. I have been banded for a year now and I am losing slow and steady. I have good days and bad days but I love my band! I was 360 the day I got banded but that was after I lost some weight. If you decided to do this you will probably lose some as well over your 3 to 6 month diet with a dietician or your doctor. I had a BMI over 60 as well. Good luck!

I hope you get to feeling better.

I really believe that there are going to be days were no amount of willpower is going to keep you from those cookies! What you can do is to try to cut back on the rest of your calories for the day to make sure you don't go over and keep up with your kickboxing. I noticed that if I don't treat myself sometimes I will eventually go crazy and end up overdoing it the next time I do see some sweets. I may be wrong about the willpower thing but from what I noticed if most of us had willpower we would not need the band period. So, with that in mind keep everything in moderation. Oh, another thing I do is eat one or two and throw the rest in the trash. I am not a trash eater so once it goes in there it's no going back lol! I threw almost a whole box of cinnamon toast crunch away yesterday.

Have you tried greek yogurt?

Congrats!

Do you actually vomit or are you slimming?

Well, for me I can eat anything if I take my time and make sure there is plenty of dipping sauces or something to help liquify it. I just choose not to eat a lot of things because those dipping sauces can add up in calories. 2 tb of ranch got like 120 calories in it! I would have to use a lot of it to help break down a subway sandwich. I know they got reduced cal and fat sauces but why waste my time with those.

I miss Subway! Oh, I wanna cry now from just thinking about it! The smell of that place just give me a rush! LOL! I love bread! It doesn't love me though!

I would not worry about looking to thin with the band. Once you are done with the liquid diets and everything following surgery the weight loss will dramatically slow down to an average or 1 to 2 pounds per week. It's nothing like the gastric where you lose 100lbs in less than 6 months and look like a race horse in the face until your body catch up. Now, there are some people that accomplished this but they are usually over 250 plus pounds and spend some time in the gym as well.

Meka weighing in... Down 4 lbs! Yea!