Just discovered a new method for "unplugging" stuck food!
Or, at least, I *think* it's new! I just can't believe I didn't think of it before!
Lots of TMI ahead, so beware:
So I had a fill on Wednesday afternoon to about 2.25 cc (I had been unfilled to 1 cc for vacation on my request).
48 hours of liquids, and this afternoon I was ready to switch to mushies. I thought that very thin black bean soup would be just right.
Yeah, well... I was wrong.
So an hour and a half after I ate 3 spoonfulls, I'm sliming and all the other wonderful stuff that comes with being "plugged up". I haven't PBd in over a month b/c of the unfill, and I didn't want to try to force the plug back up.
In a flash of (IMO) brilliance, I looked at my gym schedule sitting on my desk and realized that I was missing my yoga class.
Hmmm...yoga...mat work...
Downward-facing dog? Let's give it a shot!
So I did the downward-facing dog move...and lo! The plug of black beans just effortlessly cascaded back up (or down, as it were)! No retching, no stressing the band!
I just can't believe I hadn't thought of this before! Okay...which one of you was holding out on me about this! :p
__________________ stinaNYC Surgery date: 2/11/2006 Dr. Fielding, NYU CSWL
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__________________ banded July 21-06 280 fill 1 Aug 21 - 1.65cc 255 fill 2 Oct 23 - 2.2cc 245 fill 3 Feb 15 - 2.5cc 228 fill 4 Apr 2 - 3.0 218 fill 5 Oct 22 - 3.2 195 Goal Feb 3, 2008 174 280-165
Yoda: See, at first? I was like "Maybe I should do a handstand!" Then I remembered that I'm *245 lbs* and that wouldn't work so much. Then the yoga popped into myhead and...well...the rest is history!
Paulax: LOL! I feel like TMI warnings are so unnecessary at this point. I mean, we all have bands around our stomachs! How do we avoid the gross stuff? ;)
__________________ stinaNYC Surgery date: 2/11/2006 Dr. Fielding, NYU CSWL
Okay,
Call me stupid, but I don't get my first fill until Tuesday and you all know how I've stressed how afraid I am of this slimming called stuff and pbing, so call me stupid but what in the hell is a backward looking dog or whatever. I may need to do this some time if I can get my big butt in a certain position.
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Banded 7/10/06 Dr. Rodolfo Sanchez, Dr. Zapata
Monterrey, Mexico
Dr. Trace Curry, Cincinatti, Ohio (Fill Doctor)
Inamed 9.75 cm band w/lowprofile mini port
3.00cc's fill in 4cc's band S-280 C-209 G-165
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Band Date 5/26/2005; 1.5 in 4 cc band
218/143 (highest/now)
Dr Schmit, Bismarck, ND
Currently in the International Zone, Baghdad
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