Support Meeting # 2

I really enjoyed the support meeting on Saturday - it was great catching up with everyone who came!

Everyone was happy with their progress and all of us said we would do the procedure again and that we had all made the right decision for ourselves to have the WLS.

The meeting has motivated me "to come out of the closet" regarding my lap band - kind of scary but it was said that I might be able to help someone by telling them about my experience.  I know that what helped me decide to go ahead with the procedure was because I found out that Jessica "Island Bandit" was doing it and she was so good as to explain it all to me - and that gave me the courage to start my journey - thank you Jessica :)

Support meeting

I am happy to say that our group will be having a support meeting this Saturday - we haven't had one for over two months ! so I am excited to catch up with the other ladies and gents about what has been going on in their lives.

I jogged for two 2 minute intervals on the treadmill on Wednesday and my heart rate was 180 which is the heart rate of a 40 year old - how great is that - I am doing exercises that I never thought I could do - Dr. Patti is a fantastic trainer/nutritionist !!

Have a great week end everyone :)

  

September already

I cannot believe that it is September already.

Trying to become friends with my lapband and get into the "live your life after lapband" thing -.

I was just reading "Island Bandit" and now realize why my own lap band has been giving me a hard time - some days throwing up every thing and some days being 100% in harmony with the darn thing!  I'll be glad when hurricane season is over!

I only lost 4 pounds during the month of August and I am determined to do better in September - I am hoping to be at 150 by Christmas day - which is another 12.5 pounds to go.

My original goal weight was 140 (so that I could could finally be a "normal weight" ) but now I am rethinking that - maybe 150 will be ok - I am wearing size 10 jeans and medium tops which means when I have lost another 12 pounds I will be at size 8 - wow!  Maybe what I will do is maintain at 150 for a few months before I try to get to 140.  Anyway, I'll see how I feel when I get to 150 (classed as "overweight) :(

No to an Unfill

I have decided not to go the unfill route -

I am going to try eating "mushies" for the next 5 days and see if I can keep all of that down and hopefully this will give my stomach a rest !

Not feeling hungry

I have been back from Nova Scotia for two weeks now and I just have no interest in food at all - other than maybe cheese and ice cream.(icecream being a no.. no !)

Sometimes I think I may actually feel hungry but once I eat a bite or more - I don't want to eat any more.

An hour or so ago I threw up crackers and peanut butter that I eaten for a snack -  - I have been doing that a few times a week since I got back!

Has anyone experienced anything like this and how did you get back to eating again and actually wanting to eat!

Never thought I would have no interest in food !!!

Vacation over :(

These last 6 weeks have gone by so fast -

I am back home now and trying to get use to the heat again - and boy do I mean Hot !!!!

I tried to soak up all the wonderful cool weather while I was in Nova Scotia - temperatures from low 50's to high 80's - the only thing is that when it was in the 80's it was a dry heat and unlike here it was bearable !  It always cooled down in the evenings though - it only rained about three times while I was there.

I walked 3 to 4 hours most every day - all my family thought I was crazy - cause even when it rained - I just put on a rain coat and put up my umbrella and off I went.

I use to walk down to the Dartmouth Ferry and went over to Halifax that way or walked over the Dartmouth bridge to Halifax - I mostly liked to go on the ferry though because once off the ferry there was lots of hilly streets to climb - I loved every moment of my walking.

Only had one bad situation with my band and a couple of little ones but on the whole I did very well -

I went for my official weigh in on Tuesday and I lost about 13 1/2 pounds while I was there so that was great - works out to about 2 pounds a week loss.

I am now wearing size 10 slacks and medium tops :)

While there I bought a few things - mostly from thrift shops - like "Frenchy's and "Salvation Army" - all had original price tags on them for a fraction of their price - If I lived full time in Canada or the United States, I would never buy anywhere else but in the "thrift" shops !

I hope everyone is doing well and I am looking forward to getting back into the swing of blogging !

Bad day today

I have been PB'ing like crazy today - woke up this morning and tried to take my vitamin pills, etc., but after the second one, it got stuck.

Tried to drink some tea - got about 1/4 of a cup in me - could not eat a thing.

Tried to eat lunch - got one mouthful of seafood chowder in me and had to run to the bathroom - lucky for me it was two seconds away from the table we were sitting at.  I went for a walk when we go back to their house and I threw up about three times and was sliming like crazy the whole time.  Now it was 4 oclock and I hadn't eaten anything all day!

I am staying with my sister and her husband for a few days - they didn't know about the lapband - but with my eating so little , etc., I could see they were worried about me - so I sat down with them and told them about the fact that I did have the lapband and all about it. 

I guess the travelling by plane and being in a different climate, etc., has caused my lapband to tighten up - anyway _ I felt emotionally better after I told them.

My brother-in-law went to the drug store and got me some Gravol to take  - I had forgetten that that is what you should take when you have such a bad stomach - so I took the dosage too fast and threw up everything - looked like food from the last couple of days - anyway - once that happened I felt 100% better and took another dosage of gravol and now I feel human again.

I looked on the internet to see if there were any lapband centers in Halifax but it looks like there isn't - bummer!