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Went to the doctor on Tuesday and we decide not to do a fill for this month, as I do have some restriction and I'm leaving on vacation next week. Will be gone for two weeks and then I will go back on the 12th and see how I'm doing. Not losing but not gaining either. If I could jusl lose this sweet tooth that I have. I really crave sweets. I do pretty good with everything else. Just can't seem to leave them alone. I don't buy cookies any more, now I need not to make them anymore. I will send the rest of what I made on Tuesday home with my granddaughter today. I'm really trying hard to get all my water in and eating the right things. I wish my husband was more in to eating right. I wish he would eat more salad and stuff. He usually wants just meat and potatoes. Oh well I can't use him for an excuse. He eats pretty much what I put on the table. Oh well today is going ok will do much better tomorrow. My ped account this past week was pretty good for me. Everyday I made it over 2,000 steps each day. Now my next goal is to increase my steps by at least 100 to 200 more steps each day. I walk in plase some times just to get some steps in. Life isn't always fair.
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So a little about me. Starting weight 252, i was banded on Oct 1st weighing 232. I've had a very good recovery except for a little bit of gas pain. Sincy surgery i've lost about 13-14 lbs. I can't seem to get anymore weight off of me. I've had 2 fills and still no restriction. I only have 2cc's in. I don't knkow what else to do. I can eat just about anything and as much as i want. I'm feeling like this tool i have is letting me down. Excercising 3 times a week. Doing my best at portion sizes. What's my problem now why can't i loose any weight. I have only lost 1.5 lbs in 7 weeks. I feel like such a failure.:w00t: When i get stressed i turn to food and i know that's not the thing to do but i'm loosing my drive. I have the band to help me and it's not doing what i paid for it to do. My Dr will only fill 1cc per visit. When am i going to get restriction? Somebody please help me.
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Another banded newbie
annieM replied to Cricketsnoise's topic in Tell Your Weight Loss Surgery Story
Welcome! Sorry about the bleeding trouble. I'm sure your scars will fade to nothing-much. Mine did. I had 5 incisions twice and only about three of those are visible. Don't be in too much of a hurry for that first fill, you are still healing. It's important to let yourself heal completely to avoid trouble down the road so follow your doc's instructions about exercise and foods to the letter. (please) I'd bet you will bypass your goal weight and keep going. I'm 5'7" and 150 and you are just a tiny thing. (soon to really be tiny) I'm four years out from my surgery and the best advise I can give is to be patient with the process and with yourself. You are attempting a major lifestyle change and that is SO difficult. Cut yourself a break when you falter. Just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get back on the "bandwagon" without recriminations. It takes a long time to lose a pound of fat. That's a deficit of 3500 calories. Unless you workout like a mad fool, losing 1-2 lbs a week is just fine. The band really helps with the patience. It keeps you from the "oh what the heck" moments that wreck a weeks efforts. Good luck on your journey, -
Am i a failure?
ParrotheadCathy replied to heyred1's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
No matter WHEN you go for that next fill, emphasize that you get hungy much quicker than in four hours, that you can eat quite a bit more than you were led to believe would be a satisfying meal and point out that your weight loss is pretty much stalled ... and tell them you NEED more than a 1cc fill to move you forward. Lots of docs don't want to do more than a 1cc fill, so you may be up against that mindset but push. Ask for AT LEAST 2 MORE CCS which would take you to 4. Probably not your sweet spot but I'm thinking if you get 2 ccs that's probably going to be a big concession on your doc's part. My first fill was 4 ccs on top of .6cc that was left in my band when they tested it in the operating room. That was too tight at the time and they removed 1cc. Then, a month later, took me right past that 3.6cc with no problem. At 5.8ccs and I've been at that point for a few weeks, I am at my sweet spot. For others it takes more than that. Our physical details are not all exactly the same, so what is enough for one, isn't enough for another and can be too much for a third person. So just work with it. When you get this next fill, make an appointment for as soon as they will let you have another fill. Better to have it on the books! -
No hunger on liquid diet??
Bozzj replied to txaberry's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
See i don't mind doing it at all...for me it's the start of a great tool i'll get soon. Ok another question..how soon does this stuff start? Like just this week my surgery was scheduled..now what? They said i'll have to go for tests, etc, but when? Should I just wait until it gets closer (again it's 4/17)...i don't want to bug them, but i'm curious about the preop diet thing and what's coming next. Arrrgh!! Why did i forget to ask this in the consult!! :thumbup: -
Back to Work?
Shells_Almost_There replied to sleeveforkayla's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I have heard of this, and I think it has to do with both your surgery experience/results and your personal pain tolerance. I found that I couldn't sit up at my computer for very long after surgery (I work at a desk all day) - At first, if I sat up in my office chair for more than 2 hours my left side really hurt. So, I took a couple weeks off work as a vacation (no one at work really knows I had surgery), and I'm glad I did, I think everyone's experience is different, and hopefully you will be able to go back sooner if that's your goal. Good luck! -
VSG for dummies (Insurance rant)
bdiddy13 replied to Patti K's topic in Tell Your Weight Loss Surgery Story
I had to do a "6 month, medically supervised" weight loss program.. Which meant that l did weight watchers, and during that 6 months, l had to meet with my primary Dr 3 times where he "supervised" my progress... Then my lns finally approved me... Here is the thing tho, DONT DO GOOD AT WEIGHT WATCHERS!!!! If you do, your lns will say that you dont need the operation because you are doing fine on your own.. Dont lose anything, even gain if you need to... Weight watchers will print you out a week by week of your 6 months... You dont have to stay for a single meeting, just go weigh in so that its recorded -
This is taking SO LONG!
hannahj914 replied to phthaloblue's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Hey how are you i know how you feel with this process it has been a hard one for me also since i am part of a study and i was also 17 ...there was back and forth to the doctors office for a year i started in jan 08 they said i had to start a six month diet also with that i thought taking blood and doing all theses other things i would be able to get my lap band after six months. When the six months where over my doctor said oh you need a sleep study and after that oh you this oh you need that after all of that i finally got my day (apr 15) after a yr and 4 mons my insurance approved it with in two weeks because i had everything at once so with that i know how you feel and it can be hard sometime but just keep hope alive -
Fast fill - 1 month after surgery
DodgerFan replied to stratcat's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I think mine was between 3-4 weeks. Be glad for it, it'll help ward off the impending "bandster hell". -
I am 6 weeks post op and still feel tired and fatigued . Had VSG with hiatal and umbilical hernia repair. I hear everyone saying how much energy they have. Any thoughts ???
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yes we have someone to help just for 3 weeks. We should be golden after then
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Yes it does. But a lot of our eating problems have little to do with physical appetite, head hunger is still a problem. But its what you do 90% of the time that matters. You dont have to be perfect. I eat bad foods sometimes, I give into head hunger a lot of time, but I virtually NEVER eat till I'm stuffed, the discomfort is just not worth it, its really really horrible to overeat when you're banded. So I may give in to the head hunger and buy a muffin and a coffee down at the shops but I can guarantee you I wont eat more than half the muffin. And probably only half the coffee as well. Those little things add up to calorie deficit. I dont have a lot of willpower when it comes to not eating chocolate or a cookie or whatever just because I feel like it. But I have good willpower for not eating McDonalds for lunch, or making something cheesy and fattening or whatever, I find it quite easy to eat a good Soup or a salad instead and what the band helps with is once I've become satisfied on that, the desire to eat what I may have been tempted to eat just evaporates. And I guess the other reason why I've been successful is I've done what no band can make you do, I've started, built up to and committed for life to a good exercise program - I run about 40kms a week these days. If you can do that and eat well most of the time, not beat yourself up over slips and indiscretions and learn to fit those "somtimes" foods into your life without having them takeover, you'll be very successful. Just personally, I do not believe being banded is about dieting, I believe its about working on your relationship with food, learning not to be afraid of it, learning that you are in control and that just because you go to dinner somewhere and its Pasta put in front of you not freaking and refusing to eat it and not eating it and thinking that's licence to gorge for 3 days - learning that its just pasta, its just one meal and its no big deal - is what you're aiming for.
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When I spoke to the nurse to go over what to do this week she said to stop taking my multivitamin bc the vitamin e thins your blood.
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Within 2 weeks unless you don't follow doctor's advice. tmf
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Now that I'm not overfilled, I'd agree. When I was overfilled, a meal wouldn't go by that my husband and soon would look at me and (apparently by the expression on my face) ask, "Stuck again?" Since we sit down together as a family for meals, I cook the way I need to eat and, as a result, my family eats healthier now as well. I also now only fix enough for that one meal. In the past, there would always be leftovers because I'd cook extra 'in case' someone would be hungrier. Now I understand that normal people eat normal amounts and then they're satisfied. So I fix normal amounts...and nobody has ever walked away from the table hungry. I do occasionally bake french bread or my special artisan type crusty bread because they like it, but I never eat it. I also will 'occasionally' (*maybe* once a week on Sunday) make a dessert, but I never eat it. Wheat and sugar are taboo to them. .
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so difficult to loose weight
Keia replied to hopeful2 be slim's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I've done all of that. I've been consistently working out three times a week since March. I use the Lose It! app on my phone to track my food intake. I can't say I'm perfect all of the time but 4 -5 days a week, I stay within my range. I have lost a lot of inches, but my body is so slow in releasing the pounds. It's quite frustrating at times. When my Nurse Practitioner and I spoke last month, I realized that I have averaged 5 pounds a month (for the first five months) but that doesn't hold true now. I'm in my sixth month and I haven't lost anything yet. I'm going to get a fill next week. I'm rarely satisfied after meals (they're measured out) and my hunger returns too quickly. Finally after my fill last month I can feel restriction. But I still need help. It's exciting to give away clothes and have to go buy new ones. So I know the surgery is working and everyone is affected differently. Good luck to you, too! -
so difficult to loose weight
Cocoabean replied to hopeful2 be slim's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
One thing with weight loss, your calorie deficit of yesterday does not always equate a loss today. My weight went down in fits and starts. The body seems to want to hold on as much as possible, then will let it go all at once. I'd stay the same for 3 or 4 weeks then drop 4 pounds. I'd go up 1 then down 2, stay the same for 2 weeks then drop 1. It was not steady at all. But over the course of time, the trend was DOWN. That's all that mattered in the long run. Try to only get on the scale once a week. This is really about long-term life style habits. Get used to eating proper portions, the weight loss and better health will come. -
What to eat what not to eat That is the question!
beccaboolane posted a topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I was banded 4 days ago and am going crazy!! I was told I need to be on a liquid diet for the first week and then start adding in thicker liquids and then soft food. Any advice on this?? I have been living on soup and jello. I went to Jamba Juice today and that was like Heaven. What else can I do? Do I really need to be worried that I will throw up if I drink too fast?? That is my biggest fear!! -
I'm a newbie! Just adding my story....
SlimBra replied to SlimBra's topic in Tell Your Weight Loss Surgery Story
ugh. I could puke. I called my insurance company this morning...did not want to be a pest so I waited two weeks to call they did not show any pending claim for me. they said it was cancelled bcz the doctor's office did not provide a date range, but a specific date and that date has since passed...so they just cancelled it! waaaah! nothing was said to the doctor's office or me...just cancelled! sorry for the bad punctuation and grammar..I'm at work..sneaking to update how could anyone just forget about little old me! wah! fingers crossed this will be resolved Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using the BariatricPal App -
Weight Loss Surgery Cookbooks
jingleboob replied to jingleboob's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
There are pics of a lot of the recipes in it. I made sweet potatoes au gratin last night and it was delish!!! Each recipe lists what weeks post op you can handle that food... -
I finally got a XBox Kinect last week and I'm in love (upgrade from a Wii). I've been doing the Your Shape game every morning before work this week and boy is it intense. So I see that you can connect to XBox Live and compete with friends. Anyone else have this game and want to compete? I also have Zumba Core and Hip Hop Experience. Love them both!
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5 days post op fluid hurts going down
Nataliesmom replied to CrissCriss's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Mine did for the first week, it was like pressure with a burning feeling. It got better. -
weight loss after surgery
treequeen replied to ladiebashful's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
This is day 8 for me and it took the first week just to lose the IV liquid weight. But happily I am down 5 #s since my origional surgery day weight. Definatly take measurements too. -
nobody likes a cpap, and I mean nobody. if you need it, use it. As you lose weight you likely wont need it anymore but in the meantime, it helps you get actual sleep. I personally felt like crap the first weeks and even months post sleeve. It is really hard to stay hydrated and getting back on solid food was a chore...etc etc. I didn't feel truly human again until about 10-12 weeks post op. To some extent, there is a little bit of just "powering through it". Hang in there, it gets easier and you start feeling GREAT as your fitness improves, the weight comes off etc.
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It's officially one month today since my surgery and I have lost 43lbs which is amazing. Why am I not happy I feel so down I have no energy not to mention I can barely sleep. I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and insomnia which I found hard to believe. I never used a sleep pap machine before and since my surgery was coming up on 7/20 I didn't care for it. Now I struggle to sleep and if I take an ambien I'm up in 5-6 hours which makes no sense. I went back to work on 7/28 which was a week after the surgery but I still haven't adjusted I'm sooooo tired and weak I can't shake it off. I cried yesterday for the first time I was so emotional. I have been trying my best to stay active and focused at work but it's so hard some days like today are worse than others. I feel so drained n weak
