WrenBird

Wow. I am so thankful that I don't have to put my weight on my driver's license LOL. That would be so embarassing.

A friend told me that if she weighs herself everyday she gets discouraged. I do it everyday and I sort of feel like that - but in the end, I've stuck to my diet (most of the time) and am doing pretty well. So how often do you weigh yourself, and is there a reason behind it? :thumbup:

Mine is getting harder to feel...I think it's tearing away from the abdominal wall, but I'm still losing weight.

I've decided to no longer weigh myself everyday. I'm getting discouraged now that I'm in a plateau stage again. I also stopped using fitday, which was a big no-no on my part.

I was very hungry before my first fill. I actually didn't start losing a lot of weight until I went and got my first fill. I suggest sticking to what the doctor says...It will stop you from thinking you have a slipped band...First time I ate something bad (and it got stuck) I thought I was having a heart attack...I thought my band had slipped too and was so worried. I screwed up in my second week and thought my band had slipped before I wasn't doing as I was told lol...But it was just stuck food, which happens ocassionally.

In the first 2 weeks you have to concerntrate on healing, so if you feel hungry, don't be too afraid to eat (mushies, or whatever you surgeon has told you to eat), but also don't overdo it. I had a problem with mushies because my appetite wasn't supressed at all...It was bad because I actually didn't end up losing much weight until I had my first fill. I'm down 15 kilos now and I had my surgery less than 2 months ago. So yeah. Chances are you will get hungry. Just remember to do what your surgeon says to do (this will help with paranoia too) and know that you will have to keep using your willpower even after the first 2 weeks - infact you'll probably have to use willpower for the rest of your life.

I only deleted one post...Not two. The one and only I deleted, you so kindly re-posted for everyone to see. I was just making it perfectly clear that I have nothing against diet pills. The reason I was offended in the first place was because you assumed everyone was like you. The reason I kept saying I was offended was because you and other people kept assuming everyone had something against diet pills. That wasn't my problem. Apparently I hadn't made that clear.

Hello! I just wanna know your stories. I'm going to guess that some, if not most are going to be similar. I'm just curious as to why you didn't get a gastric bypass or the sleeve? Why did you go for the LAP-BAND? For me personally I was a little worried about the restriction being permanent. At some stage I'd like to have kids and having a good amount of restriction while pregnant worried me a little. I think the adjustable side of things makes me feel a lot more comfortable. I'd love to hear your stories, opinions and experiences!

For the record: I, and most of the 'critical people' in this thread aren't against diet pills. It's her lack of knowledge on the subject and judgement towards everyone with a lap-band that irked me.

I'm so sorry to hear. I hope everything works out for you. <3 *hugs*.

I'm worried the same thing will happen to me...My fiance first took notice to me becasue he liked my chubby round bum. He has a thing for chubby women and I'm worried he's not going to find me attractive when I'm thinner. I don't really have any advice for you besides seeing a therapist. My mum and dad's marriage is perfect because they've seen a therapist a few times. They've been together since they were 15 and they're so inlove. Sometimes these things just happen. If you love someone enough you'll see that it's worth fighting for - I think both of you need to start fighting. At the moment though, your husband seems to be making it a bit tougher for you...Just let him know the importance of weightloss and what it means to you. If he really loves you then I think you guys will do just fine. Good luck to you both. It takes a lot of effort, but I think if you guys really do love each other then there's no way this little obstical will ruin your marriage.

What does he use to find the port? x-ray? ultra sound?

2 weeks seems a bit excessive for humans, but it makes sense for rats. People do stop eating when junk food isn't available, which I think is the point they're trying to make. The duration of that period of not eating is irrelevant because we're as a different species with different needs. I knew that before I got my band I used to get hostile when someone didn't buy me my favourite foods...It was all junk food, of course. If there wasn't junk food in the fridge or pantry I wouldn't eat and I'd get very very mad and complain that there was nothing to eat. In those days I was a very very upset girl and the fridge was always full of nutritious foods that I eat now, but wouldn't think to of eaten back then. I once went 3 days without eating and told my doctor that it was because my mum hadn't gone shopping. There was plenty of salad in the fridge, I was just being a bitch. It's amazing what the asbence of an addictive thing can do to someone...I was a completely different person when I was forced to eat like a normal person.

Scientist have previously proven links between drug addiction and fast-food addiction, but now there is a growing body of research that is finding out how junk food is hard wiring our brains for cravings. The latest study, published March 28 in "Nature Neuroscience," likened the affects of high-fat, high-calorie fast food to those of cocaine or heroin, in animals at least. The researchers showed that the pleasure-center in rats brains were overstimulated from the fast food similar to an addict's cocaine binge. Eventually, the pleasure centers became so overloaded that rats needed more and more food to feel normal, according to Paul H. Kenny, an associate professor of molecular therapeutics at the Scripps Research Institute. Throughout the study, Kenny and his co-author studied three groups of lab rats for 40 days. The first group ate healthy food. The second ate a limited amount of junk food. The third group, however, was allowed to gorge on high-fat, high-calorie foods and became obese. The startling side effect? The brains of the obese rats changed. "The body adapts remarkably well to change -- and that's the problem," Kenny said in a press release. "When the animal overstimulates its brain pleasure centers with highly palatable food, the systems adapt by decreasing their activity. However, now the animal requires constant stimulation from palatable food to avoid entering a persistent state of negative reward". During the study, the rats lost complete control over the ability to regulate whether they were hungry, often eating despite electric shocks. When the obese rats were put on a healthy diet, they refused to eat, starving themselves for two weeks. In another study, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City showed that feeding rats a diet high in saturated fat, calories and sugar -- which is the typical make-up for a fast-food menu item -- lowered the rats ability to respond to leptin, a hormone that helps regulate eating behavior by controlling how full one feels. As rats grew fatter, the amount of leptin in their bodies increased signaling that they were dangerously close to starvation. They continued to overeat and gain weight. Those who yo-yo diet face similar problems that those going through withdrawal do, Boston University researchers proved last year. According to Pietro Cottone, an assistant professor in the Laboratory of Addictive Disorders at BU, dieters seek out foods to avoid the negative feelings that they experience if they are deprived of their favorite comfort foods. "These findings confirm what we and many others have suspected," Kenny said, "that over-consumption of highly pleasurable food triggers addiction-like neuroadaptive responses in brain reward circuitries, driving the development of compulsive eating. Common mechanisms may therefore underlie obesity and drug addiction." Found here: Fast Food As Addictive As Heroin, Study Confirms - That's Fit P.S: Sorry if this has already been posted. :blushing:

Good luck with your surgery <3

Awww, no worries :-) Glad to see the word's getting around. BTW: Refined sugar is also addictive.

Is it possible that the gas is unable to escape because the band might be too tight? Hope it all works out for you. x

I would think so too...

It'd be kinda cool to have sister wives I reckon...But if you have a catfight with one of them then you're stuck with them,.

I deleted it right after I posted it because I was looking at the wrong thread...Why would you re-post it if I deleted it? I think I'll hold back on sharing my experiences with appetite suppressants now, it's obvious you don't want to hear my opinion.

No one was attacking you for wanting to take appetite suppressants...I think they were more offended by your ignorance than anything else, which is why I find it hard to believe that multiple people messaged you saying they were in the same boat. Once again, no one's against appetite suppressants. If you just posted here to get people to smile at you and say 'go for it', it wouldn't be a very good advice forum, would it?

I also know of someone who's had the band and never had a fill. She's lost 60 kilos :-)

I hear ya...When someone does as much work as we do to get fit, THEN they can judge...Quietly and to themselves... The funny thing is though I actually felt guilty from eating mince meat...I looked at how much work I'd done and then thought to myself, "you know what? Mince meat is something I HAVE to have because I can't eat very much Protein at the moment". I just needed to look at the logical side of things and trust myself and not make myself feel sick over guilt. People like that are the ones that enforce unhealthy eating obsessions on other people. My mum does it (yet she riddles her house with junk food) and my stupid friends do it too. It's annoying. But someday I'm going to be thinner than all of them and I can then slap the celery out of their hands.

I read your blog :-) I love peanut dressing!

Gah. I hate it when people who know NOTHING try to give you weightloss advice. My friend who's lost all of her weight through liposuction tried to tell me to not eat mince meat the other day...I was so offended that someone who has had liposuction and it booked for another round gave ME advice on losing weight. I work my damned ass off to lose weight! I exercise 10 hours a week and I watch what I eat...Just because I needed meat and at the time I couldn't eat it because it was too heavy for my fill, I chose mince meat and she said that it had a tonne of calories in it. I believe I had one bite, felt horribly guilty and then cried. People are stupid. They think that if you eat foods like nachos or meat or anything that isn't lettuce that it's obvious that you eat it often and the band is doing ALL of the work for you. Gah...The band does 1/4 of the work and you have to do the rest. If you wanna eat nachos like a normal person, which you are, then who the hell ahs the right to tell you to stop? No one. Especially someone who has no idea what the hell they're talking about.