Hello my 2/11 BandFriends

[justplaintired 0]

Hi Everyone!

I'm back and ready to rock and roll after a few crazy months. It started with a bad tummy virus which made it impossible to keep down any food or even Water. I guess the stomach gets inflamed and what was a nice amt of restriction turned into way tooo much. So they had to remove all the Fluid from the band. I was freefalling baby! Once my tummy was better I went a cruise and really from there the summer was not a great time for me. I ended up gaining about 8lbs back from my loss (boo hiss) but since getting refilled two times I have lost all of that and am now on my way to losing more. I'm a good restriction level which will prevent me from overeating. I'm also making great choices again.

I had some gyn surgery 1.5 wks ago so I haven't been able to exercise yet but I plan on starting up just as soon as possible...maybe tomorrow since I'm feeling half way decent. I was doing so well before the summer...on the treadmill for one hour per day RELIGIOUSLY, doing crunches and I even started some universal arm work. But typical of me, once I fell off the wagon....I FELL OFF! lol

So, how is everyone else doing? I miss hearing about everyone. I promise not to vanish again. I know we can all have a GREAT 1 yr BANDIVERSARY if we stick together.

Hugz to everyone!

JPT

[Elle23 0]

Hi JPT!

I'm glad to hear that you are doing well again! Like you, I have had my ups and downs and I can't seem to get my exercise rhythm back on track -- though I'm starting back up full steam with a boot camp class this week. Lol! Not sure what I'm getting myself into. I am not in the green zone, but my doctor has been really hard to get into for fills and due to a stomach bug, I had to cancel the last appointment (and couldn't get back in until the end of this month...so hopefully that fill will put me closer to the "green zone").

I hope all of our other Feb 2011 bandsters are out there and doing well!

Check in when you can and we can chat!

[bigtom1948 8]

Hello and welcome back. I am still hanging in there but weight is too. Spoke to doctor about it just yesterday and because I am older he said I should expect the weight loss to be about 2-5 pounds a month. I am finally at a stage where I feel restriction with most meals and I am not hungry all the time. I confess that I am probably eating more than I should to facilitate rapid weight loss but I will be happy with an average of a pound a week. Sorry that you had it rough and hope that the recent gyn surgery is not causing you distress. Good luck to us all.

Tom

[bamakaren 14]

Well its good to hear y'all are doing pretty good. I have done absolutely terrible. My doctor is very conservative so i haven't had any restrictions, only two fills up until last week and had gained back 8 pounds of the amount i had lost. Went in for another fill last week and FINALLY i think we have got restrictions. It's absolutely amazing how different this feels. this is what i thought it would be like wheni had the surgery and it took 8 months to get me there. Oh well, no sense crying over spilled milk - i think i'm now on track from some decent weight loss. I've started walking again and hopefully the weight will start dropping.

[sophinator 2]

Hi all,

I'm still around... though feeling a bit unmotivated and irritated with myself. I still do not have very much restriction. Not sure what I'm doing wrong...know I'm not always making the best food choices but my gosh I eat so much less than I used to and yet I've been at a stand still for 3 months! I go back to the dr. on Monday (guess no halloween candy for me...that's a good thing!) I have 4.5 cc's in my band and believe my dr. is going down to .25 cc's from now on Hopefully I will get there...it's a bit embarassing going in there and being the same!

Hope you all are doing well...and better than me! Planning on getting on here a bit more often...for some motivation.

Take Care!

[Korilynn 1]

How is everyone doing now? It looks like no one has posted in almost a month...How are we doing?