Slow Losers - Unite!

Hi. So after reading your posts...I guess I have to swallow my pride and go get ANOTHER fill! I mean really...we didnt all spend $15,000 to be sitting here on the slow losing thread right?? It is great to know I am not alone but DAMMIT if I didn't predict this! I read these forums BEFORE making the final decision to have the surgery....I saw this forum and said to myself..."man, I hope I don't have to relate to this one." Ok...so here I am...thank goodness you exist!! :) I hope to report a decent weight loss next post! thanks guys!

I'm in!!! Banded July 06 and only lost 20lbs...8 in the first week! I can't remember the last time the scale said I'd lost any! I'm hypothyroid and am working out, so hopefully it's all muscle (that's what I keep telling myself, LOL)

I don't know if I qualify yet. I have only lost 2 lbs since moving off from liquids after my first fill, for a total of 20 lbs. I haven't lost anything in the last month. I am 54 and I have heard that the older you are the slower you lose, plus I am on hormones. I have also heard you lose really slowly if you are on hormones. I am afraid to get any more fill because food gets stuck often. I have never pbed though. I just need to take smaller bites and chew more. I have 1.25 ccs in the band that holds 4 or 5. Surgeon said 5 but someone else told me there is no such thing.

I really would like opinions on whether or not I should get any more put in there, since I get food stuck so often. I certainly didn't pay 10,000 to not lose the weight and that's what I am really afraid of.

Thanks for any help or advice you can give me.

I would not get a fill, just up the excerize and make smart choices on the food you put in your mouth.

I am joining the "slow losers unite" I was banded Aug /06 and I am down 30lbs- scale goes down 1 up 1, ect. But in reality thats good case before the badn it went up, up, up.LOL Count me in in SLU
Robyn

You sound just like me. I lost the 20 when I was on liquids for 4 weeks and now after my first fill I am having trouble keeping that 20 off. It's really discouraging.

Denise/MsRoby I hear that! I was banded OCT 30th and have only lost 37lbs!! I am getting discouraged too. I am really working on making better choices but I am an emotional eater so its hard for me! I am depressed the scale doesn't move- so I eat. I am screwed up I know! :nervous

Hang in there- spring is comming and we can start walking!!


Turner24

Hey there, i was banded July '06 and as of today i have only lost 20lbs total. I know my problem though. I am not following the rules and haven't been for some time. My band is awesome - i am just not making good choices. For the past 6 months my mom struggled with brain cancer. :cry She went home with the Lord this past Monday - the 5th of March. I think i have used that as an excuse for too long. No more!!!! Today is the day that i have to work with ~ and i have the choice to stay miserable and cause myself health problems - or put some effort into this band and make some positive progress. So, i still consider myself a slow loser ~ but i'm going to make a real effort to lose. We are only defeated if we don't try. Thanks to everyone who posts here ~ i have gained much knowlege and encouragement from you guys :clap2:. I hope you all have a great day - i know here in my part of Texas it is beautiful outside!!

jess, i can relate to your story.
my dad passed injuly 05 and his twin brother nine days later, my son had a stroke the previous december and my mother lost a breast and went through chemo right after she returned from being evacuated (with my oldest son) from Rita. (it was a tough year)
it was preband but i gained a hundred lbs. we eat when we grieve.
top it off, id quit smoking dec04 (after 23 yrs, 19 at three packs a day) and stayed smoke free during everything else.
after my mom started chemo i found the answer one day. The day she called crying saying she lost her hair (she had been in denial that it would happen, she thought attitude would prevent it) i went to a local salon and had ALL my hair cut off (to a supershort cut, like a little boys) and kept it that way until i felt i was done. Its just now growing back. Its right now scraggly and about chin length. it worked though. Im not saying a donut isnt sexy.....but sometimes something big makes that "when i said whoa, i mean whoa" statement better than suffering quietly through it, regardless of what it is. Im in galveston right now hiding from the snow up north and working. I go back home on March 21rst. Good luck to you!!!

hello all!
i'm eric from the philippines, its a small country on the other side of the globe where most of you are all from.

was banded aug 06 and just lost 30lbs. feeling im loosing at a slow rate compared to the 1st month of my band.

had a vanguard too. isnt the max fill for this type is 7 or 10cc?

i think im on my 7cc fill mark already.

need support buddies. im also new at this site and appreciate if anyone can direct me to some nutritional/excersice info on this forum.

I am so sorry to hear about your mom. That had to be really hard to go through. I don't know what to say to ease your pain, other than I lost my mom 4 years ago, and it's really hard to think about not being able to talk to her anymore.

We are all here to support each other, and let us know if there is anything
we can do to encourage you.

Wow! You really have had a horrible year. I am so sorry. We hear about the hurricane victims but this actually makes it a lot more real.

I hope you will stay here on this thread and keep us posted on how you're doing. We are here for you!

I just read some of the past posts, and the struggles we are all having. It doesn't make sense that meat gets stuck and it's so hard to eat, but junk food goes down just like we were never banded.

I know for me, the only thing that helps me is to just eat protein and veggies, and very little fruit. The more carbs I eat, the more I crave them. It gets really old, that's for sure. I get really sick of eating the same things over and over again. But I know for a fact, if I eat something I am not supposed to have, I will gain a couple of lbs that it took me a month to lose. It very discouraging, but I know I didn't pay $10,000 and take out a 2nd mortgage on my house to not lose this weight. I have to keep remembering that.

Can't eat much of anything when I first wake up, everything gets stuck. I have bad epigastric pain and pb. But by midday, I can eat all the junk food I can suck down. But high protein foods like white meat chicken, fish filet's and vegetables or salad's still get stuck, even with the tiniest bites and chewing as best I can til its mush.
Oh how I wish I could just eat 6-8 oz....be full as a tick and be done!!

I'm not sure if I'm a slow loser or not, but everyone in the "January Bandsters" is losing a lot more than me, well it seems. I've lost 25 pounds since January first. 13 pounds before Surgery and 12 pounds after Surgery and its now been 2 months. I guess I am a slow loser...that sucks.