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  • Birthday 12/19/1967

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  1. DrCif

    Are you ready for tomorrow?? Solid food, baby!! This has been a LONG 21 days!!

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  2. DrCif

    I see your weight loss ticker moving down...Congrats! Still holding strong here...well, not exactly strong, more like wobbly knees, with the liquid phase...we are almost to the end of it! It might be easier if I didn't have weddings, birthday parties, and county fairs every weekend since the band...yikes, talk about testing our will power!

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  3. jennyontheblock

    Lost down 19lbs then gained a few back but headed back down again. Only a few more days until I can chew something again. YEA!!!

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  4. jennyontheblock
    I had my husband give me a good backrub and also gently thump me on the back to help break up the bigger gas bubbles and that seemed to really break things up for me. Kind of like gentle karate chops all over your back. Since I could not lay on my stomach I just leaned over the kitchen counter. Good luck.
  5. jennyontheblock
    Some good advice I received from a fellow bandster. When you do experiment with new foods, do so in the privacy of you home, in case you do have some trouble
  6. jennyontheblock
    I am taking the diuretic for high blood pressure, have been on it for about two years, so I figured that any extra water retention would be taken care of with that. I am going to switch to low sodium soups. They will be better for me and my high blood pressure anyway. So hard to stay off the scale. It was so exciting to be getting on it and be down 2lbs every morning for the first 8 days.
  7. jennyontheblock
    I had surgery on 7/26 I was losing about 2lbs a day while on the clear liquids. Now that I have added soups I am gaining weight. I am keeping it to no more than 3 cups of full liquids a day like they suggested. Did anyone else start gaining when they started the full liquids? I am already taking a diuretic so its hard to believe that it could be from salt in the soups, but maybe. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Trying really hard not to get discouraged this early in the process.
  8. meesa

    Hi Jenny - It's Krista from Mexico. Glad to hear you are doing well! I've finally managed to get some computer times so thought I would come and check in and see how everyone was doing. Other than pretty much constant gas pains, and being cranky with my husband because I can't eat (I dont care if its "mental hunger" - I want to CHEW something - anything!) things are ...

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  9. jennyontheblock
    I have struggled with my weight ever since my son was born 14 years ago. I am pretty good at losing weight, it is the not gaining it back that I am not so good at. Like most of us on here I have tried all different things, Weight Watchers, Body Bugg, High Protein, etc. and I do good but it is just not sustainable for me. My biggest problem is portion control (I can out eat all my friends and family) at 5'11" I can pack in the food. I decided to get banded when two of my friends did and it has really helped them. I just need that extra help to keep the weight off. It seems like each year I check off one more side affect of being obese/over weight. ~~ high blood pressure, sleep apenia and bladder problems! So that is really what has motivated me to move forward on this. ~Jenny
  10. jennyontheblock
    The Protein Water is the Special K protein powder that you can add to water. Just to help me get protein when I am on the liquid diet post-op. Fiber powder is BeneFiber powder to add to water to help with any constipation. I don't know about the chewable Gas X but they have strips that just dissolve on your tongue. I had two friends banded at the OCC a little over a year ago and with their advice and other posts on this website I came up with these things that I though would help me over the next few weeks.
  11. jennyontheblock
    Protein Water Mix - Check Fiber Powder - Check Gas-X strips - Check Liquid Extra Stenght Tylenol - Check "Eat, Pray, Love" book for the Trip - Check Waiting for Monday to get here!!!!!!!!!
  12. jennyontheblock
    I am really lucky, two of my very best friends were banded at the OCC a little over a year ago. So when I tell people that I am having the surgery in Mexico and tell them that is where my friends went they really can't be judgemental because my friends surgery went great and they look wonderful. There is also a very well respected Nurse Practioner here in my town that does fills and runs a support group and she is also very supportive of the OCC. For my family and friends that are not aware of these people I have just started the conversation with "I am so excited, now don't freak out but I am going to Tijuana to have lap band surgery!" When they start to freak. I tell them that I have done lots and lots of research and then I point out the whole Oprah and the show the Doctors and that when they need an expert on Lap Bands they have Dr. Ortiz on. At that point there really is not much they can say about it
  13. jennyontheblock

    My name is Jennifer. See you on the 25th or 26th. We will do great!!!!!

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  14. jennyontheblock
    We are also flying in on the 25th. Land in San Diego around 11:30am. It will be fun to meet, up. If not at the hotel at least on the Van ride over to the Clinic the morning of the 26th.
  15. jennyontheblock
    My daughter had a large cut on her check below her eye that required 7 stiches. We used Mederma for scars and it worked great.
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