Its been a rough few weeks since my last fill.  I'll admit that.  Its been an experiment in eating all over again, and a test in the endurance of my patience.  I don't believe that I am over all too tight.  But I do believe that sometimes I get too tight.  Especially in the morning through lunchtime.  Dinner I am okay and can eat without much worry of getting stuck.  Pills have been a challenge as I have gotten stuck on pills 3 or 4 times.

Unfortunately I have had many many sliming episodes and at least 3 PBing episodes.  But I'm being dilligent about chewing well, taking small bites, and paying more attention to whether or not I'm full (still gotta stop trying to clean my plate even if I only took a small amount in the first place).

Asking for an unfill isn't possible.  I fought so long and so hard for this fill (4 months) that I won't go to him and ask him to take some out.  I can just see asking to have .25 cc taken out and him taking out a full cc or more.  I know with increaed weightloss the band will loosen up anyways, so thats where I'm looking.  Like I said, I don't think I'm TOO tight.  I could lose probably .25 cc and be ok restriction wise, but I'm able to still eat solid protein as long as I'm careful and its moist.

Anyways, this morning I woke up and stepped on the scale - 252 lbs - thats 2 lbs away from my first goal weight and 90 lbs lost since I started the process on December 9, 2007 (13 months ago).  90 lbs in 13 months!!  Thats crazy.  Somedays I feel like a completely different person and some days I don't.  The other night I was looking in the mirror and noticed how pronounced my collarbones are.  Its almost creepy!  When I lose more weight those things are going to stick out so far!  I never would have guessed that.  Anyways...frustrating as the past couple weeks have been both with band-related things, and non band-related things (car accident, horrible plane ride, allergic reaction) I'm still happy.  And thats a good thing.  Happy Friday everyone!