John T.

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Ok....Ok...the Sox won the first two games but now we are back at home for game 3 of the series...the rockies will come back   My friend invited me to game 5...they are box seats and cost $250 apiece, whew!   But scalped tickets are in the thousands!!
Im doing good..my 2nd fill has made me watch more of what i eat...the band is tight in the morning and if i dont slow down eating i will have a problem.  there as been a couple of times where i EAT TOO FAST and dont chew my food well enough...so i end up sliming and PB'ing...  Not a good site!  I eat mostly protien, a little fruit, a little veggies.  I basically eliminated bread, pasta and rice...sometimes i have a tortilla if i eat it real slow...I no longer have any carbonated soft drinks (used to have 4 diet mountain dews a day!)  I do very very few sweets...i sometimes have a hershey kiss or piece of hard candy to fufill that sweet tooth.   My biggest VICE right now is i HAVE to have my beer or two a week...i know its not good cuz of carbination, but we are not perfect...cheers.I should switch to wine, but i have always been a beer man..My 2nd biggest issue is I NEED TO EXERCISE on a REGULAR BASIS. i do some but not consistently    
I am loosing weight pretty fast...i hear other people on this website that are much slower loosers than i am...I feel sorry for them but i understand.  Everybody is different.  I know some of them even try harder than i do. Im loosing 4.2 pounds per week on average. WOW!!!! give myself a hand!  I understand this weight loss pace will taper off. but hope to at least loose 2lbs a week minimum. Ok..thats it....i will c u Nov 16th for my 3rd fill!!!

Got my 2nd fill this morning...  it was earlier than i was planning cuz the dr is going to go on vacation and i didnt want to wait until he was back without a huge amount of restriction.  i got 1.6 cc's more giving me 6.6 cc's in a 14 cc band.   I had a leftover chicken breast from KFC that i ate for lunch, and I definitely felt the restriction.   I think i ate it a bit too fast and started sliming and hiccuping and i swear i was going to throw up but didnt .  Ive still have to learn to SLOW DOWN on my food.  I still have that inhale mentality and now i have a childs stomach. I mainly avoid bread, pasta, rice and concentrate on protien.  i have some fruits and veggies.  I've lost 43 lbs so far and my doctor is pleased with the progress!!!!     43 lbs is about 12% of my original body weight..  im doing even better than i thought i would!! 

I recently went on an 8 night vacation to New England to see the fall folliage!   I went to maine, NH, VT, mass,,conn, ri.   saw LOTS of covered bridges, museums, lighthouses, changing leaves, etc...it was fun!   
I also ate lots of different foods.....shrimp,lobster, haddock, shark, clams, scallops....being from Denver CO, i could not get enough seafood!  yummy.....but of course my new stomach said...NO you cant engorge your self with seafood .   so i learned to work with my new first fill and learned when i get lots of burbs or hiccups,  its time to STOP.     But i still got enough of that fresh, juicy lobster i shared to feel satisfied.  Yeah!.   I did have some times i had problems...morning seems like im more restricted...and once  i threw up and once i had what i think is called a PB (productive burp).   I need to learn to slow down a be more attune to when to STOP.   i also walked quite a bit on vaca...i think this helped with my weight loss
So anyway...i usually go on a vacation and GAIN 10 lbs......well this time i LOST 5 lbs in 11 days!!!!  how exciting!!

Cheap date:
Ive heard from posts before that people that are banded are "cheap dates" meaning that they are lightweights with alcohol...   I really didnt think i would change that much....boy i was wrong!
I had my first fill on 9/24  and went on vacation to New England to see the fall folliage.   I shared a bottle of wine with a friend and had two glasses of wine.
Oh my gosh!  i was buzzed on the first glass and laughing my head of on the 2nd!!! It used to take me at least 3 beers to get a buzz and about 6 or 7+ to get me feeling what i was with that wine!  Thats cool....i dont mind being a "cheap date"!!

i got my first fill.  it definitely is more restricted but i dont think its optimal yet.. According to the DR i have a 14cc AP large band and he filled it with 4.8cc on the first fill.  i will try it out and let you know.

ok..now at 328. 4 more lbs and i will have lost 10% of my body weight!!!  im now at the point i can eat what i want but at a smaller portion.  if i eat too much it seems a couple of things happen..1) i get alot of burps 2) my stomach seems to get a little unsettling.  I ordered chicken wings at the bar on sunday...they gave me 12 wings and i ate 3 and had to stop.  Before surgury i probably could eat 18 wings plus fries!  (i also had my first 2 beers since my surgury...dont tell my doctor!   ).   Some things dont go down too well (bread, rice, tortillas) so i basically have been following a low-carb diet, lots of protien and try to keep hydrated with water or crystal light lemonade.  However i do feel i definitely need my first fill.  I still have hunger at different times of the day, but it isn't like it was before the surgury.  (I get hungry at 9pm)  For those not understanding what a "fill" is:  when they first put in the lap-band, they put it in loose without tightenining the band that is around your stomach.  so they can adjust, how much goes thru my somach at one time by filling or unfilling saline to the lap band thru my port. so, the first month, i can eat alot more than after the fill. 9/24 is my first fill date.
Since im such a big guy, my weight loss has not been obvious to others.  I have purposely kept it secret at my work.  I have told some friends but still keeping it generally quiet.  To me, this is a personal matter and i dont want the public to know everything.  I think when i loose another 40lbs the cat will be out of the bag and i will have to do some explaining (Lucy...u have some splainin to do!)  I have been noticing all of my clothes that were tight before now are becoming pretty loose.   probably another 10-20 lbs and i will have to get new clothes.

im doing great!  i lost 12 lbs the first week...then when i started adding new foods, all the sudden i gained 2 lbs....I lost that and some more...so far i have lost 14lbs pre-surgury and 15lbs post-surgury.....not bad!!  

Since i havent had my first fill...i noticed that i have a healthy appettite but not as much hunger for food as before.  today i went for an omlette at a restaurant and ate a little more than 1/3 of it.   i tried an apple for the first time and it made my somache a litte unsettling...its hard to get used to what is the right amount and right kind of foods.
they say once you get your first fill, what you can eat will totally change.
i go for my fill on 9/24

wish me luck!

Well i completed my lap band surgury and everything went very well

I lost 14 lbs before the surgury (low carb), and lost 6lbs already in 5 days after the surgury!!  wow!   
Its a little hard right now...on a full liquid diet right now...its kinda hard just eating cream of wheat, broth, jello, etc