Lap Band Blog

If you follow this blog, then you know that for the past couple of weeks I’ve really been trying to tweak my diet in order to make sure I’m eating a balanced diet after my lap band surgery.
I am not there yet, in fact I know I’m not getting anywhere near the variety I need, […]

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When I first started really counting my calories this last summer, I was eating about 900 calories per day, I soon hit a plateau. I didn’t stop losing weight completely, but it slowed down dramatically. I could also see some loss in how my clothes fit, but I wasn’t seeing the scale move.
Maybe […]

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As I stated in my last post, I decided it was time to get off my butt and attend one of the support groups provided by the clinic that did my surgery.
I really want to be successful in my weight loss using the lap band, and this is just one of the tools provided to […]

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Every second Wednesday of the month they have a support group for lap band patients still in their first year.
I’ll be honest when I tell you that this has been on of my failures in goal setting.  I vowed that I would attend these meetings, and over eaters anonymous if necessary to overcome my bad […]

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Technically I’m only supposed to eat 4 oz per meal because of my lap band.  When you only eat 4 oz of anything, it is hard to eat enough calories to gain weight, but I don’t want to eat so little that I force my body into starvation mode, therefore causing my metabolism to slow […]

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Weighing in this morning at my home scale, it is the 2nd day in a row, that I came in under 250 pounds at 249.50.
Each and every pound that drops is exciting, but when you start bypassing those big numbers like 300, 275, and 250, it’s really quite unbelievable. I’m afraid that when I […]

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I don’t know what the hell is wrong with me, but I just don’t ever feel full for very long.  This isn’t something new, this is how I’ve felt for years now.
Pre-op, I could eat a double quarter pounder, with large fries, x-large diet coke, and x-large vanilla shake, and 30 minutes later devour a […]

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I had my fill on Saturday, and so far so good.  I am feeling more restriction than normal, but more importantly I’m feeling full.
I still do get some hunger pangs, but I’m really thinking it’s more psychological than anything else.  That is something I can work on.
Today for breakfast I had a small tuna salad, […]

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I had my last fill on 9/11, they took me from 2.2 cc’s, to 2.4.  I felt great for a couple of days, never really all that hungry, but once the weekend hit I was hungry all the time from then on.
I had been talking to a friend who was being very aggressive with his […]

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This last fill I had is just not taking.  I felt restriction for about two days following the fill, but that was over a week and a half ago, and now my hunger grows daily.
I’ll give you a quick run down of everything I ate today.
I started off the morning with yogurt, and about 1/4 […]

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