HAPPY NEW YEAR

It is a new year and lets all start it with goals that we can achieve!! Never did I ever think that coming into this new year I woulld be 32kg lighter.

2008

Lost 32kg have no idea where its gone and Im not going to go find it!!!

2009

Aim to get off 25kg plus

Lets do it!!

Beena

Hi Smiles and Skinnie minnie

Hi guys hope you had a great new year. As for the comment about learning the hard way.. I don't know it seems I never seem to learn!!! but I had the same episode after chewing 1 chip really well so I dont know if its the way my body reacts when i get due for my period (cos it seems to happen around then) or if its me not chewing rigth... I know for sure that the boxing day incident was my fault though!! and Ive been pretty careful since.

Em the Optifat is really important, go back on my blogs in July and you will see how upset I was about doing it all, hopefully it will help you get through it. Doing it over Christmas is an extra challenge so i can only imagine how much harder it is for you.. Take each day at a time and you will get through it. If you can do 4 full days by the 5Th day it should get a little easier and you wont feel the bubbly tummy and hunger much and drink stacks of water and keep yourself busy. These tips helped me get through it. I was trying to cook for my kids and it was soooooooo bloody hard I feel for you.. Do your best because it is important and helps you in the long run. It also is a great start to what life is like with the band! What i mean by that is there is certain things you cant have with the band and the same with optifast.

Smiles... you poor thing I'm glad it only lasted a few hours mine was all night. I have gone off track the past week and eating everything last night (new years eve). We had a bbq and I really was not hungry but ate anyway (not a lot) but I could of done without it. I have to be good and try hard this week the last thing I want to do is stretch the band and get another operation that would really suck. I guess there are days in our new banded life where things like this are going to happen. I have created habits over the past 29years that are not going to be broken over night so i don't plan to beat myself up over it and just live and learn and make better choices over the coming years. That's all i can do.

Good Luck Girls

Beena

Boxing day nightmare with the band

HMMMMMM There are very few days so far that I regret having the band, but I must say Boxing day I was beginning to wonder. I had a really awful episode about 2 hours after I ate where the pain runs thought my back and through my chest. It may of been foods stuck and i tried everything to dislodge it but no go!! Usually it lasts for a few hours but this bad pain went from 6pm to 4am and I did not get a wink of sleep. My tummy was really swollen and I could not lay on my back or tummy it was a nightmare. I think with all the Christmas excitement and conversation at lunch I forgot about the band and just ate like I usually would (how!!! well it can happen) once you are past the op and everything is healed and you haven't had an episode for a while It seems to creep up on you to remind you that you don't wanna be fat again and reminds you of just how you use to eat... You soon learn to take it easy.

Anyway I'm all good now and I am looking forward to the new year!

Beena

CHRISTMAS GOAL DONE

CHRISTMAS GOAL REACHED

I have finally made my Christmas goal Im in the double figures 99.6kg!!! I can not remember being under 100 and its been a L.O.N.G time !!!! I really dont know how Ive got there this week cos ive been eating not the best stuff. Yesterday i had red rooster... Of course it was a drumstick and about 6 chips so i guess the word moderation is the way to diet. The lapband has been great like that. I would of usually had a quater chicken and chips with gravy and eaten the whole thing plus a snack plus dinner plus 4 toast for breackfast plus more snacks and drinks during the day making the daily calerie and fat intake very high!!! I wouldnt excersise so hence my fatjiggly butt and thihs!! LOL

Anyway I did do a lot of excersise yesterday dragging bark in and out of the backyard so it paid off. 99.6KG CHRISTMAS GOAL REACHED NEW GOAL............

TO GET TO 89KG BY...........MARCH 2009!! BABY STEPS !!!

Chocolate..... my weakness!!!!

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE chocolate and really have to stop eating large amounts of it. I have moments of silliness where I will just have it in front of the t.v!! I don't drink, don't smoke but mate!!!!! do I have a weakness for the good stuff !! chocolate!!! LOL!!
I guess there will always be a vise in every ones life whether they like it or not! At the moment the lap band has been great, but it does not make food choices for me all the time!!! (it does with a few things of course that I find hard to eat)!!! One thing you should know is that i do get to a point where i look at a menu and even though can eat chicken at the moment i choose the fish because it is easier to chew and sometimes I cant be bothered chewing for ages (I wish chocolate was hard to chew!!!) anyway Christmas is here and I still have to challenge myself to try to be good!!!!

Beena

Near 1st big goal!

My first big goal was to get to 100 or under by Christmas 2008! and I guess when you set goals you don't really know if its possible and having the band i still didn't know if it was going to work... I went into this not thinking it was going to be the overall solution to my long life problem but a start to fixing it and changing my habits by force but so far it has came pretty close to fixing it.

I jumped on the scales today after a grueling gym workout and low and behold the scales were undeceive as to whether i was 99.8kg or 100.2kgs but either way the fact that it was flashing is a great sign that I am near my Christmas goal which was to be under 100!!!

It will be a great feeling when the scales finally make up their mind but for now i will just wait.... I only have 7 days to reach the big 1st goal and I just hope i don't put it all on during Christmas celebrations. If I'm going on past history.... well lets just say Shit happens!! LOL i Will always be a fatty at heart!:)

beena

Trying to reach next goal!

Im at 100.5kg and Im trying to reach a reasonable goal of under 100 by Christmas a target that seemed very easy a few weeks back but at the moment I might just get to the 100kg which is still great from 132.5kg. Just to think that this time last year i was 32 kg heavier. I tried to pick that weight up at the gym with the weights and BOY it was much heavier then I thought!

Anyway off shopping today.

Beena

Hi Smiles

Hi Smiles!
to answer your questions! first of all I think my doctor gave me 1 ml because I was stating to him that there may be something wrong with the band as i have been eating a lot more and snacking a bunch during that month so he decided to give me 1 ml (so it was kind of my fault) Ive had 5 fills and my appointments are 4 weeks apart so I was getting a little impatient! LOL!

I did have the water in the clinic before i left and I also had my husband and 2 toddlers with me (which for this appointment could not of been helped) , all was fine in the car until we hit the freeway and I felt not well! We were stuck in traffic i had two kids crying because they were hungry and my husband was rushing back to work! (really bad circumstances) and as a mother I forget about myself sometimes and worry about my 3 boys (hubby included) more then me!!!! Looking back I should of turned back and got him to take out the fill but in my defence i had never been "over filled" before so I was not sure if the feeling I was getting was normal or not!! and was kind of hoping it would pass!!

My doctor is a very caring guy he seems to really care for his patients so I was very surprised when he wasn't there to help me over the weekend! (don't know if he was really inter sate or just couldn't get there), but either way I'm fine now...

Good luck with Optifast it is really worth doing I hated it and if you look back on my blogs there is probably some angry optifast moments where i had enough.... but on the day of my opperation my doctor said that there was no fatty liver and that he even put a smaller band in because I must of did a great job on the optifast for the month! so Im really glad I stuck to it the best I could. There were a few stuff ups but Im only human and they were not bad ones usually a grilled fish. I just did the best I could, after all I have an eating problem and asking someone like me to stop eating and drink yucky stuff for a month was a big ask LOL!!!


Its a hurdle Ive jumped! and yes!! TRACY it is such a learning curve isn't it!!
but a path Worth taking...

Cheers

Beena

Hi tracy RESTRICTION RESOLVED

Hi Tracy,

I hear what you are saying but unfortunately it was not the case with me! I do know what you are taking about and I have experienced the same thing and my doctor suggests semi flat cola to settle the oesophagus down but if I come across it again i will try your solution!
I ended up in the hospital today as my surgeon finally got back to me. I copped one of his registrars! (why do doctors always seem to conveniently be interstate when you need them!!!) HMMMMMMMM!! The registrar didn't seem to know what he was doing at first and I said to him politely "please do not do it if you can not find the port because I really do not want to be re operated on". Even my own surgeon finds it really hard to get the needle in these days!

To cut a Long story short he finally got the very huge needle in and took out .5mls It felt like I had a huge weight lifted off my shoulders like I could breathe again! and that glass of water he gave me was like heaven because i was so thirsty and was so glad that it didn't come back up! I was over filled LOL

Today since the removal of the fill I have been able to eat lunch and tea! much less then before so I'm now hoping I'm at my "sweet spot" the spot where I'm not hungry much, I don't snack and don't need much food to get by. The spot that we get the lap band for. The kind of restriction where I'm satisfied with not much food and where the weight is coming off again fast like it was when first banded! i was not expecting the restriction to take so long to hit i thought a few fills and I will be fine! I have a 10ml band with about 8 in it and its taken about 5 fills to figure it out but I'm hoping I'm there. Only time will tell..

Beena

SERIOUS RESTRICTION

OK so I had my fill on Friday i think I'm up to fill number 5 and the doctor decided to put in 1 whole ml which is a fair bit for him to do. He usually only does .5mls but i had only lost 1.9kg in the month so he bumped it up!!. Today is Saturday and low and behold he is not answering his pager yet!!! The restriction is that bad i can not hold down water, I tsp of porridge made me wanna puke and felt like i ate a rock!! NOT GOOD!!

I will either wait till he calls or just stick it out until Monday! and just not eat or drink anything!! I will stick to icy poles for a few days I guess! Its the worst feeling and I can really understand what restriction now is after not really getting it.Be careful what you wish for!!

I have gone from being able to eat everything to not being able to drink or eat anything with just 1ml!!!

I will keep you posted.

This weekend is going to suck!!
Good news though I'm now 100.5kg!! (well no surprise there)!!LOL need food!!)

HI EM!!!

Hi EM,

I am not at restriction yet!!! so Im eating more then i should at this point but still not much... My parents (who know about the band but don't really get it) do make the odd comment like "is that all you are having" they don't really get it!!! I have not yet found that anyone has really noticed me not eating much or maybe they have but just not said anything! the only comments i have is when i dine out and I don't eat the food... The chef seems to think I didn't like it (Ive had a few ask me if i liked the meal only cos there was so much left on the plate!!) I have also told everyone that Im eating less cos i have chosen 2 and that is how i have lost the 30kg!! so i guess thats another reason they dont question me. The best advise i can give anyone is to always grab the smallest plate and just eat off that...People then dont tend to question you so much cos it looks like you are eating a "full meal" but the plate is just smaller!! The band hasnt effected me as much as I though it would. I have been pretty lucky that I can eat pretty much everything just not much of it. i thought I would be vomiting every time i ate!!! The food does get stuck and it can be painful but it passes and you soon learn the lesson to eat slow and chew. The first few weeks after the op you most likely wont feel like eating so just take it slow!! I didn't see an exercise Physiologist but i did have an overnight sleep test which was not fun!!! i must say that the weeks i dont exercise are the weeks I dont loose much or stay the same so its really vital!! thats really great they have got you seeing a specialist in that field!!


All the best

REPLY TO SMILES

SMILES Good luck I know what its like to be on the pre-op diet I did it for 4 weeks and my doctor was really strict Optifast ONLY for breakfast, lunch and tea and green veg only 2 cups per day!! there were some days I would rather of starved then stomach another optifast but I got through it and you will 2!

As I get thinner I realise i have made the right choice not telling many people, I can focus on me and not what everyone else is thinking of my decision. At first my husband thought I was joking when i said what i wanted to do. After a good 12 months of research he began to see I was really serious about my choice of the band! He thinks I made the right choice because he has spent the past 10 years watching me go on and off diets and suddenly seen 30kg disapear off me in 4 months which is something I have never done so fast before. He sees my happiness and he has also seen me in a lot of pain and hes been really great. I needed the support especially from someone who was not going to tell me "I told you so" if it didnt work" Its great that he has finally seen its your decision. You need a bit of help to get through the post op stage because for me it hurt, and I have kids that needed to be cared for a while why I recovered
Best wishes
Good luck. Keep me posted.
Beena

December 6, 2008 4:25 PM
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Wishing Everyone a very Merry Christmas

People who have not seen me for ages

This has been an eye opener this week... i guess with the lead up until Christmas you tend to see people you may not of seen for a while and they have seemed to be in total shock that I have lost so much weight!!! Its a good feeling but at the same time its made me realise just how big i was and just how big people saw me! When you are big all your life you tend to some how block it out and live life like everyone else, not knowing or feeling any different to anyone else. For me it would always haunt me and i was forever dieting. I feel like the same person so I cant understand why people are raving about it so much... Its very nice to get compliments, something im not use to.

Iam only sad that I have been kind of lying to everyone about how i have managed to loose so much in little time! I usually say that Im eating smaller portions which is somewhat true, but i feel no need to tell everyone about the band. in the past I have told people of the diets i was on only to be watched and i feel that this is only for me and not anyone else and really no ones business. There are a few people who know... those people i trust and have helped me through this. You can not un tell people of the decision made so really truly think who you tell!!!

There is also a small stigma with some people about WLS,( i used to be one of them who thought it was a no no) but its especially from those who are fortunate enough to be granted the "thin gene" they seem to assume that we can all just diet and excersise and bang!!! magic!!!!!! Some people can and good for them... But not me!! I was ALWAYS hungry and ALWAYS eating... Not anymore!!!

Beena