2nd fill and 1st support group meeting.

Sep 09, 2009

I went in for my 2nd fill yesterday. On their scale I weighed 246 which is a 2 pound loss from my last visit (my scale is 245). I felt I really needed this fill as I have nothing helping me stop eating. I've even tested myself taking bigger bites and things like that just to see what would happen. Well nothing happened, I have never thrown up. I have gotten stuck before but nothing came back up it just kind of sits in my throat and takes a bit to do down. Anyways so I got a fill of .5cc and the first 3cc were still in there so a total 3.5cc in me for now. I go back in another 2 weeks on the 22nd.

It just happened to work out that my appointment yesterday was at the end of the day and that the support group was being held just about and hour after my fill so I stuck around for the group just to see what its like. This was all at the Lafayette office because it is more on my way home from Downtown Denver and hard for me to get out to Greeley after work. Anyways for the hour I had to spare between I walked around the doc office/hospital. they had a nice sidewalk all the way around and even mile markers so I walked about 2 miles then went to the support meeting. I was told this is a smaller group because at this location it hasn't caught on as much yet because they have only been having them there for about a year. I kind of liked that it was a small group only about 9 people. It was a little awkward at first but of course once we started talking it the rest was fine. One guy who had the lap band in May brought a co worker with him who had stomach stapling 25 years ago and hearing her talk about that was pretty interesting. Sadly she has gained the weight back but she says it was the lack of support and no one really knew what to tell her to eat and not eat and when to eat ect. Just a general surgeon did it and sent her on her way. She never even saw that surgeon again.

I guess I didn't really get much out of the meeting but I am glad I went and I hope to be able to attend one every few months at least. I did get to finally sign up for some other after care classes that my doc office offers in November one is a nutrition class that they will go over in more detail what they have already told us but it didn't sink in and the other is an emotional eating class. I look forward to the emotional eating class especially!

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