Anjali A.

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i hvnt been on OH for a long time, the weight loss has been good.
down by close to 24 kgs, tht wud be 48 pounds.
i wont say it was easy, had my share of problems.
to start with, i got my last adjustment about one month back, the doc made it too tight. i got it done on a saturday since they do the adjustments only on saturdays. sundays the hospital is closed, so saturday all day i did not have a single drop of water...nothing.. yes nothing.

even my saliva was coming out aftr being collectd in the food pipe for about half an hour. so no nothing for 2 days. evry bit of liquid tht i took in came out.. so monday morning first thing i went to the hospital and got an unfill

and ofcourse sunday i had to get 4 bottles of IV fluid, since my doc said minimum requirement for our body is 2 ltrs.. so there i ws down by 4 kgs(tht wud be 8 pounds), in not more thn 2 days..

so u c thts how we loose water from our body if we dont enuff of it..

anyway, in last 8 months tht i hv been banded i realised one thing, nothing gets stuck int he band..

i repleat NOTHING gets stuck in the band.. its the way we eat tht makes thing stuck inthe band. and people, trust me, i am not kidding here..

i eat rice, i eat noodles, pizza, almost evrything tht is high on carb, there r times wen it gets stuck n there r times wen it passes off easily..

if i eat with my family my food gets stuck, and if i eat alone the same food wud pass the band as if its a piece of cake.

neway, the trick is, go slow, take a bite, sit with a novel, dont look at food aftr  the bite goes in for atleast 2 mins, let the food settle, and make the food semi liquid..

being an indian our food consists of pulses and lentil and ofcourse curd, so i mix evrything, some veggies and a spoon of rice and a huge bowl of curd, tht way the consistency is good, the veggies tk care of the fibre and the necessary vitamins n minerals, the lentil takes care of the protein and the curd takes care of my stomach..

talking of my stomach.. anothr problem tht i faced aftr almost all my fills.. bad constipation which aggrevated my piles and i ws in tears evrytime i thot of taking a dump.. so til now.. in 8 months about thrice i hv been in deep crap.. well, not really.. but evrytime i c the weight loss, it makes me feel happy, i forget all my pain and i smile out of joy.

so keep it simple, eat ur food real slow, n nothing wud get stuck... nothing at all

hey all,
i hv been sooo busy with things that i just cudnt make it on OH.
dunno how many missed me but yeh i did mis coming here.

lemme put in my progress first.

27 pounds down since 5th feb,
makes it 2  half months.

got my first fill a while back(about 3 weeks back) and since then i hv lost about 5-6 pounds.

which aint tht good but then i can eat and eat n eat.

talked to the doc n he feels since i am loosing at the rate of 2-3 pounds per week, anothr fill isnt suggested.
so wheat if i cane eat. so tht means no fil til the weight los stops.

funny thing is there r times i just can not eat and there r times wen i can eat big.

anyway..

now is the NSV time.
i can wear my seat belt without being suffocated. earlier, my seatbelt used to suffocate me and make me go crazy, so much so that i had stopped wearing it and got various tickets for it but now.. no suffocation..its comfortable as ever.

attaching my current pix people..
love u all
anj

A funny thing happened today, went to c a client. He was shocked to c me. Not tht he stated it but I cud c it in his eyes. He was staring for good 10 mins. And he is not the kinds who wud stare at anyone. I hv never seen him like that. And then he said, wow..u look diffrnt. Infact his guard too said the same thing..ma’am u look diffrnt.

The guy said, I wonder u look this way aftr loosing 20 pounds, how will it be aftr u loose another 20 or 30 pounds.
and according that i look hot..haha.. i cant stop laughing

I cant explain how excited I was. It feels great.

Rathr, it feels better thn great..

How I wish anyone and everyone who falls in obesity bracket should get banding done. It has changed my life completely.

first the good news.. 20 pounds down..yipeee..calls for a cheer!! (even aftr all the eating i did pre fill, i lost anothr kilo... awesome..feels great)

second, got a 3.2 in my 11 cc band yesterday(17th march 07). this is my first fill.

now my issue here is, how come 3.2cc? i dont remember reading anyone getting such a heavy fill..

it was funny..i saw it all happen on the screen. saw the liquid passing thru the band, saw the port and the seline being filled in. wow..technology!!

the doc asked me to go on a 3 days liquid.
before i went for thefill, i knew i wont be eating for a while, and tht i mite need some energy later in the week. my breakfast included, a slice of wheat bread, one egg-scrambled, 50 gms of cottage cheese.

post fill i had one cup of lentil soup for lunch.
one hour aftr lunch i had two glasses of black current-sugarfree juice finished in about 2 hrs.
dinner again ws lentil soup with fresh home-made yoghurt

i dont really feel a thing right now.

i had a glass full of milk about half an hour back. dunno if i am full or not..but yeh it feel diffrnt-maybe psycological but it feel diffrnt.

cant wait for a week to pass, wud come to know then if the restriction is there, will loose some more by then.

life has become so exciting all of a sudden.
for a change i love the idea of getting on a weighing scale..

went to check my weight at the hospital today. (i hv not kept a weighing machine at home for a simple reason that i dont want my weighing machine thats around me)
just when i was about to get on the scale, i was scared as hel. not that i had deviated from mushies diet but stil i was anxious and scared and xcited..all the same time.

i got on the weighing scale and yipeeee, i was 18 pounds down in all from the day i started the pre op diet. (i did the pre op diet for just one week because of which i just lost 6 pounds).

all in all i am down by 12 pounds in 22 days(plus the 6 pounds pre op).

i am so freaking excited....

and yeh ofcourse, thanx to all those who hv been replying to my posts. it is becoming easier just because of me being around here with so many who care.

since the time i left the hospital i hv been calling everyone n telling them.

my guy took me out 2 days back n got me a ring.life cudnt be happier.

my doc says have 2-3 litrs of fluids in a day.

my diet is as under(as suggested by the doc)

Breakfast-
200 ml milk(flavored)
200 ml fresh apple juice (sugarfree)

Lunch-
one serve veggie soup or chicken stock(approx 200 ml)
200 ml curd mixed with water and blended (water consistency) with added salt and black pepepr

Dinner
one serve veggie soup or chicken stock(approx 200 ml)
200 ml fresh apple juice (sugarfree)

plus 50ml of water every now and then. and minimum i have to have 2 Ltrs of liquid in a day.
the consistency of anythinga nd everything in the first 2 weeks has to be wattery(anything tht passes a straw test)

been on optifast (pre op high protein diet) for 14 days. lost about 3 kgs (1 kg is about 2.02 lbs)

3rd i went for lunch with my guy. it was heavenly. relished evry bit that i had. we then saw "love actuallly". beautiful movie. 4th morning i went to see him again. made breakfast for him. penne pasta. he loved evry bit of it. followed by goodbyes and all the best.

went to the hospital on 4th. reached at 3 pm. they took my BP thrice, body temperature ws taken again n again.

could'nt sleep all night. anxiety was killing me.

5th morning i was up and about at 6 am. waiting for the doc to come and tel me wen will i be taken in for the big surgery.

10 am they took me in the OT. 2 pm i regained consciousness. i cursed myself for getting the surgery done. all i could think was, why..god WHY?? why did i get the surgery done. the pain was intense.

they wanted to send me to the surgical ICU but i requested the doc to send me back to the room. i wanted to be with mom n dad. but again, the pain was unbearable.

the rest of the day i was sleeping, feeling groggy, trying to make sense of what i had put myself into.

the pain was way too intense. my back was hurting (i cudnt turn sidewards). lying on the bed all along and just on the back is tedious.

i kept asking the nurse for pain killers. they gave me about 15 shots. for pain, nausea and wut not.

14 bottles of seline/glucose. my hand was about half an inch swollen where the drip ws given.

overnight the pain got better. in the morning around 5am i went for a stroll in the corridor outside my room.

the worst was the odour from the mouth(since i had not taken a sip of water), i brushed thrice on the surgery day but i think i have got this thing for bad odour. just cant take it. psycologically i feel tht maybe i am smelling. 

finally they did the tests on 6th morning. i was allowed to have 60 ml of water(tht wud be 1/4th of a normal glass)

came back home in the evening.

the pain is still there and its as bad. but it surprises me how the pain reduces drastically overnight. u sleep or u don't, the pain goes down only atnight making u feel better the next morning.