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Hey everyone it's been months since I got on this site, I'm glad to see everyone is doing good. I've over shot my goal and am now in a size 5/6 sometime a 2 in some stores. I never thought I would make it to this point and I still see the old me in the mirror. That's pretty much what's I'm dealing with now is just accepting myself and reminding myself that the old me is gone. I'm trying not to lose anymore weight and trying to just be happy where am at. My mom says I'm starting to look to thin, her and my dad and everyone else around me is trying to make me stop with the low cal food and sugar free candy but I told them this is for life.

Everyone thinks I'm still trying to lose but I'm only trying to maintain now, I made it this far with only 3 fills. I'm very proud of that, my doctor is shocked and proud too. I recently did a commercial that will be airing at the end of this month (Dec.09) it will air on channel 9 and 9 cable channels. I love to shop and I think I'm doing it a little to much now but I can't stop. I could never just go to a store and grab something off the rack, now I can go in any store and find many outfits. My skin held up very good too, I don't have any hanging skin.

Everything went right back into place, though my boobs are very small now compared to the DD's they were before I'm now in a B cup but that's OK. My daughter is so mad cuz everyone says we look like sisters and I can now share clothes with her. It's been a long journey but now I'm able to live my new life and follow the new eating habits I've taught myself.

Take Care for now everyone and Good luck with the weight loss! Keep it up I know you can do it!

I'm so happy and excited for the first time in 17yrs I did a cartwheel, my daughter was doing them outside and asked me if I could so I just went for it and I did it. I never thought I would be able to do that again.

Hello everyone it's been a while since I've been on here, how is everyone? I've had really good results so far and I'm only 16 pounds away from my goal. I feel I'm not going to reach it but I'm really going to try I've been working out all week every week and I'm trying to eat right. I must admit through this jorney I've cheated a lot  and If I hadn't I probably would of met my goal already. I'm so much happier now with myself and I'm love to be around people now, I would hide out at home before. I really have to control myself because I'm still that "Fat Girl" at heart and I still have my cravings so it's a daily battle. Just yesterday I was fighting with myself not to eat potatoe wedges from KFC. I wanted them so bad and kept trying to tell myself just a couple won't be bad but finally I came to terms with not being able to have them. I just recently had my 3rd fill and boy is it tight, I cant eat much at all. Everyone that see's me cannot believe it's me! It's so hard though and sometimes I think what If I gain the weight back is this only temporary but I know it's all up to me, it's just really hard. Till next time take care, eat healthy and stay true to your goals don't give in to the nasty cravings you'll feel bad about it later anyways and you already know how that food taste so you ain't missing out on anything.

OK so I've only had 2 fills, I canceled my last appointment for my 3rd fill because I'm scared to get anymore. I'm not getting very full when I eat, so I can pretty much put it down at the table if I wanted to but I didn't get my 3rd fill because it already hurts when I swallow certain food even soggy cereal. When I swallow I have to sit a bit and I can feel it going down but it's take forever, so I figured If I get another fill I really won't be able to swallow. Is anyone having this trouble? If I get a 3rd and 4Th fill will I ever get the feeling of fullness and get to the point where I can only eat a Tbs of food cause as of right now a Tbs will not get me full. I cant really describe the pain when I swallow so hopefully you know what I'm talking about, well it's not really pain but tough going down even if i take a really small bite and chew very well. Until this goes away I don't think I'll get another fill because won't my swallowing get worse with a tighter band?

Is anyone experiencing this? I've lost about 32-33 pounds now and that great but I'm also losing hair. It's falling out so much I'm really worried one morning I'm going to wake up and be bald. When I wash it the shower is full of hair, I get out and brush it and the floor and brush is full of hair all day long I'm pulling hair off my clothes, my car seat, my chair at work. My hair is so thin now, I'm very scared. My doctor took blood and said I'm Anemic and need iron but I don't think that can cause hair loss. I just need to know if anyone else has this going on.

OK so I went for my 2ND fill on Mon 3/16/09 and boy did it hurt, my god I thought I wanted to die. My 1st one didn't fill like anything but this time around something was different. The doctor couldn't understand why I was saying it hurt he just kept telling me " It doesn't hurt, I'm not even doing anything " " How can it hurt". I was getting pissed because I know he used a thicker needle and he went straight through one of my incisions, last time he went right on the side of the incision. If that wasn't enough after he sat me up he hands me the needle and Say's "I'll be right back". I wanted to scream and try not to move at the same time, here I am sitting there in pain holding a dam big ass needle in my stomach well the doctor goes to do whatever the hell he had to do. I was looking down at the needle and wanted to just die, it was very thick. So needless to say my 2ND fill didn't go so well. I told him it was so bad I may not be back for the 3rd one, on the bright side though I lost another 7 pounds. He Say's 4 in the norm, so that I'm doing very very well. I went from 195 in the beginning of all this to 168 from 12/30/08 to 3/16/09. It doesn't seem like to much to me but if he Say's so, he is the doc right? I thought I would of seen more weight loss by now, my dad is no help he told me yesterday that when is the surgery going to start working. So I'm kinda down right now, the pain from the fill and the unhappiness with what I lost has really made me upset. I had the fill yesterday and today was the 1st time eating since and I officially experienced a bad side effect I guess you would call it. I had to throw up, I came home for lunch took one bite of a piece of bread and had so much pain in my chest I though I was going to die. The pain lasted for about 30 to 40 min. I ran to the toilet and tried to get the bread out but it just wouldn't come up, I guess the 2ND fill is working. I learned my lesson no more bread for me. I was throwing up all acid or some kind of fluid, I don't really know what it was. This was my 1st time experiencing anything negative about the band, well other then my left shoulder pain that I've had since surgery. Now everything I eat has to be cut up very small and chewed many times, unlike all these other months the food has been going down just fine. I started thinking did I really have surgery cuz I was eating a little to well. Well talk to you soon thanks for letting me vent. (=

Hi everyone I'm sorry I haven't been on, I hope all of you are doing well. As for me the scale is still moving down I'm now down to 168, it's still a lot but I haven't weighed this much since high school. I don't think I will be getting the 2nd fill just yet because I'm losing weight so I don't think I need it yet until I feel like I'm not losing anymore. So tell me how all of you are doing?

Finally I've been at the same weight for a month and 1 week but since my fill 3 weeks ago I've dropped 5 more pounds. I was starting to get very upset that the number wasn't going down but it seems a weekend made a big differance for me.  I stopped getting on the scale and I just recently got on to my surprise I lost weight. My eating habits have been very good so that's why I was getting upset that I wasn't seeing a drop in weight. So lets home it keeps dropping, I still haven't added exercise and Yes I know I should. I'll update again soon, till then take care and keep up the good work everyone remember none of you are alone we're all in this together. That's what helps me through each week just knowing I have all of you by my side

Ok everyone so I got my fill yesterday (1/2/09) and at first the doctor didn't want to do it, I had to talk him into it by telling him my weight has been at a stand still for 3 weeks now and my portions are growing. He said I made my point and did it, by the way he had to use the biggest needle they had. It was nothing and virtually painless I got myself so scared for nothing. The thing that I'm wondering is was I supposed to feel something, I didnt even feel the band getting tighter. I'm thinking my doctor didn't even really tighten the band, he said 3 1/2 cc's is what he put.  I think he is trying to make me loose the weight with the least amount of restriction. He keeps saying I can do it and just eat small portions, but I don't feel I'm getting full. Maybe it's all in my head but I'm thinking if he put that much shouldn't I be feeling full really fast. I really don't think a doctor would be a liar about filling the band, maybe it's just all in my head. I'm just feeling really disgusted that I don't feel the restriction like I thought I would. Does this sound normal? If my weight does not start going down again I'm going to cry. Ok gotta go just wanted to vent, thanks for reading (=

OK so I know this losing weight thing is going to take time and I'm kinda seeing it a little but I totally feel like I fell off the wagon I have not got a fill yet so I just have the band and I'm going on week 4 and can feel the hunger coming back. I'm able to eat more now and I went to a baby shower I was doing good but then I just had to take a couple bites of cake and then the next day got a child's bowl of mac and cheese w/ chicken pieces and today I finished what I had left plus I ate a small bowl of cereal I feel so fat now and disgusted with myself. I'm so fat for a reason I just love food and I'm trying to stay focused but with me not feeling any restriction it's getting really hard. If I could of done this on my own I would not of needed the band has anyone went through this?