My jeans fit me again!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D

Things are going well and I'm feeling much better now.

I'm not struggling as much to get down food, but I do know that if I'm not careful then I definitely will get stuck. It's been a few days now since I got something stuck, so I'm fairly relieved... it's so freakin painful. I guess most of it is time to adjust to the new style of chewing. It takes a while, but once its a habit, you don't notice as much.... I'm not thinking about it as much as I originally had to... my tongue uses it's brain instead... not letting me swallow unless something is small enough and seperating anything that might not get down... like a piece of potato skin or the funky bits in a prawn.... lol

When I weighed in on Thursday I was a total of 16.5kg down than my highest weight. Thought it's time to try on some clothes that I just grew out of. My jeans fit again :) I'm wearing them today. I tried them on before my surgery and not only did I have to squeeze my thighs into them, I had to really squeeze my stomach in to do up the button. Today the button was fine and I have some space in the thigh section to move around... they don't feel like they have been painted on :)

I'm comfortable where I am now in regards to a fill, so after the next three weeks if I feel like I'm looser than I am now, then I will probably get a top off... otherwise if I feel like I am now in 3 weeks time, I will cancel my appointment and re-schedule for another months time.

Here is my first comparison... doesn't look much different... in fact, I think the side on picture my tummy looks bigger?? Unless I was sucking in for the camera the first time round.... which I may have done without knowing... Some back fat has gone and some of my rolls have decreased a little...

 

 

First Band Fill, First Loss

Just over 5kg loss in my first fill week :D

Hair Style

When I get to my goal weight, this is how I want to change my hair. :)

stuck you say??

This first fill is taking some getting used to. I think because right off the bat I’m really tight is making my adjustment a bit more hardcore than if I had to have 2 or 3 fills before I got the level of restriction I’m at now.

Friday and Saturday I struggled, not just with food, but with the time it takes to eat the food. Half way through my already small portion, I get so sick of eating I start getting frustrated and started giving food to the dog lol. Most of Friday and Saturday things were getting stuck. Sunday morning my toast got stuck, but the rest of the day I coped fine (besides the time thing). Had a sausage some onion and a piece of rye bread for lunch and dinner was a small portion of roast lamb and some veggies.

So far this morning I’ve had a piece of toast and a smoothie which I shared with Aaron. Should be right from now on I hope.

Once I know I'm good with most foods, I'll be easing into TF again most likely. I've always done better with low carby stuff :)

So damn tight..

Yesterday was a struggle.

I knew I was pretty damn tight, but I didn’t realise how tight I was.

My lunch went down okay… chewed really well and it was a weight watchers cottage pie meal anyway, so just mince, veg and potato + saucyness.

Started to swell up later in the afternoon, water was still going down, just sitting for a bit before going down.

About 4.30 I had a corn thing with vegemite and it got a lil stuck, but went through.

Dinner was a disaster. We were out for a little after work so on the way home we got pasta, I changed my order to spaghetti from fettuccini because it would be easier to chew. First bite got stuck and I paid hell for it. PB’d to no end, sliming like a mad woman, eventually had to go a bit deeper and a stupid piece of spaghetti about 1cm long and 2mm thick had gotten stuck. ALL THAT PAIN FOR THAT STUPID LITTLE PIECE?? D:

Water struggled to get down so I tried a bit of ice cream. That just sat there and wouldn’t go down either so that came up. Frustrated as all hell by this point I cracked the shits and went to bed.

Today is OK though. Rice bubbles went down this morning and just had a coffee which went down a treat. Now.. to try this pasta for lunch again ._.

to fill or not to fill....

Good news is that about a week before I went on holidays, the infection cleared up and the wound closed up. Since then I haven’t had any problems regarding the infection.

Since the first night I got out of hospital the second time around after the 4 days of IV anti biotics, I’ve been getting pains after eating (not every meal, but majority). I need to have tests, but I’m 99% certain that I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) which has been linked to long periods of anti biotic or steroid use. Also the fact bowel disease and IBS runs in my family, means that I had a higher chance than most of getting it. Obviously I’m not 100% sure yet, but the symptoms are there, the area of pain is the same as my Mum’s (she’s had Crohn’s coupled with IBS for 30-40 years now so as soon as I pointed where the pain is she’s like “oh no….that’s the what-you-ma-call-it where I get my pain!”.

Anyway, that aside, I went for my first test/checkup/(fill) this morning, and although it would take a while for erosion of the band to happen (I thought this morning was going to be a ‘either it works or it doesn’t’ moment) this morning went well and I got 7ml out of 12ml put in. I have the gargle sound back lol.

Haven’t tried a meal yet, but water and coffee is going down OK, after the gurgle that is… so the next test is solids. Wish me luck anyway :) GOOD LUCK!!!!