-35 Pounds! Yeah Me!

A little hard to see, but I can sure tell the difference!!

Woo Hoo!

I got weighed today. I've lost 4 pounds this week! For a total of 24! Yeah!

My Lap Band

Is just not tight enough! I went back and got another fill this afternoon. We'll see how this goes. I've been stuck at the same weight for a while. I will lose a little and gain a little but never stay consistently down. I want to make sure it is not possible to gain weight over the holidays! (Admit it, there are times you'd LOVE to throw a fit like this chick is!)

Lapband update

Okay, I only lost 1/2 a pound this week. But that is something I was expecting. I was hungry starting about Tuesday!

I am at the point that they are trying to adjust my band so that it works best for me. Today, the nurse put in 2 more cc's. So there are 5 cc's in my 10 cc band. My weight loss total is 15 lbs. The equivalent to 60 sticks of butter. Not too bad.

This week I went to a support group meeting for people banded through my dr's office. Lots of great people and good information!

Weight loss update

Minor miracle, my dr.'s scale weighs me lighter than my scale!! So, I am officially down 14 pounds!!!! The fill was not a big deal. Just a prick. I have 3cc of fluid in a band that holds up to 10cc. I go back next week. I'll try to keep the updates to once weekly so as not to bore you all!!

Lap Band, Fills, and Real People and Headaches

Several of you have asked about the whole lap band experience so far. Thus far, not much has happened except healing. I spent a week eating only liquids. Then 2 weeks on mushies. Food with the consistency of refried beans. For the past week and a half I have been on solid food. My band is empty right now. Which means my stomach is pretty much back to normal. I can eat what I could eat before the surgery. This afternoon I have my first "fill" where saline is put into the band through a port. A needle is inserted into port and saline is injected. It goes through a line into the band. It will probably take 2 or 3 fills to find the spot where I am consistently losing weight. Will keep you updated. So far I am down 10 pounds.

This week the kids have been out of the house a lot more because of the whole school thing. Yesterday, I caught myself, a couple of times, reminding my kids that there were "real people" around us. Just a general reminder that they were not the only people on the planet and to be aware of others around them. This is usually given when they are running through groups of people that we don't know.


Last night I was on the phone with a dear friend who lives in Maine. His kids have just entered middle school and high school this year. He and his wife are the same age as Kevin and I. As we were trying to talk, 4 of my kiddos were running around the table screaming while Grace sat at the table trying to do her homework. Her solution to this? To alternately yell at them to stop and at me to stop them. Never mind that she has a homework desk upstairs in the quiet with a lock on the door so she can do her work without distraction.

Have I mentioned how much I love these 'unreal people' or how much they make me yell and laugh at the same time??

In case you are wondering what "unreal people" look like, check out the following:

Oh, and yesterday's headache, named Headache Gustav by my sister, is still hanging in but is more a tropical storm that the level three hurricane it was yesterday