Off to Sturgis

Slight unfill has not been so bad...... I haven't had heart burn at all. I am still too chicken to eat something crazy.. but I'm sure I will be testing the waters next week.

Later Peeps.

oh 179 today.. damn period!

Toying with a slight Unfill SCAREY

I did it.................. .4 cc is gone......... and my stomach actually GROWLED!!!!

I am not going to lie.. I am freaking out about feeling actual hunger again.

My band has been the total FREEDOM from hunger pains.....

By my calculations I started today with 3.7 cc's in my band, she took .4cc's so that leaves me 3.3 cc's! AHHHHHHHH this basically takes me back to OCTOBEER 2007 fill levels....... ok.. heres a vent...........

See..... I've been frequenting the Low Carb Friends /Atkins Friends forumn since 1999...... it was small and a totally different layout.......... but it was on LCF that I found a home... and hence my first trip DOWN the scale......... getting down to 172 lbs..... all by doing STRICT, and I MEAN STRICT Atkins Induction levels for a year.......... I got happy, lazy and BAMMM! Regain #1............. back up to 256........ 2003, did it again, and again in 2005....... so going into 2007... I decided to get a lap band installed to HELP with the maintenance and losing again......... FILL FILL FILL I screamed........... then I got too tight... and I stayed TOO tight during the holidays 2007 because I was AFRAID of gaining .. by January I HAD to get an unfill..... my husband was pointing out how ridiculous it was that I was not eating and if I did eat.. it would not go through........... so January I had .3 cc taken out and it was the difference between sipping broth and food........ but lately.... I've been having heartburn like crazy.. and NO... I haven't been flushing my pouch or any of that.......... and I CAN eat crunchy tacos, nachos, thick soup and crock pot meat............. but a friend emailed me and said that she had really bad heartburn and could eat more than she thought........... she went in and found out that she had stretched her esophogus and he totally UNFILLED her so that she could heal for 5 weeks.

THIS FREAKED ME OUT............... so after last night having really bad heart burn....... and 1/2 a bottle of rolaids later..... (and I wore size 10's yesterday) I decided that I would go get an unfil today........ I LOVE LOVE LOVE MY BAND and I don't want to hurt it or make it to where I have to get unfilled... (yeee gawds thats scarey)...........

Now......... 3.3 cc's in a band that is marketed to hold 4 cc's is still way more than the average joe.......... but for me...... I know that I will be able to consume things I shouldn't............ but my hope is that I will BE A BETTER Low Carber! ...........

and I gotta tell you when my stomach growled... I about cried....... MY STOMACH HAS NOT GROWLED AT ME IN A YEAR!!!!!!!!!! but then after I freaked out... I looked at the clock at it was 11:30 a.m. (DUH Lunch time.. I SHOULD BE HUNGRY) but I don't like it one bit.

I am being 100% honest here......... my husband, told me to snap out of it, because he pointed out.. its not like 95 lbs is going to jump back on me.. I can always go get more fill if I feel I need it....... and friends on other forums can attest to the fact that as little as .1 cc can make a difference........... AHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

OK.. I'm done now.

the good thing is the docs office was extremely happy with my loss because to them I'm down 25 lbs since January when they last saw me........

OH and AF is due today............ so LOVELY water retention here I come!

I have a band baby and more!

NO I AM NOT PREGNANT! (1 son and 3 step sons.. gawd forbid) LOL

But.. I have inspired a family member to get banded.. he did so in Mexico last week. We'll call him Betty. This pic is HORRIBLE of me as I was in the middle of bike washing and yard work, when he called needing a personalized pep talk... He is doing great.. shown here 2 days post op and a flight to KS later he is doing good...
He looks pretty beat up because he also had surgery for Colon Cancer last year *note the OPEN incision*

His biggest complaint is that he was hungry! (and BIL was fixing carne asada taco's) I explained bandster hell and that he was in it! LOL... anyway watch for Betty Updates. He was 70 lbs overweight.

Happy Monday

I have added a WEBcam to my site for the next month. We are heading to Sturgis, SD for bike week. It will be my 5th or 6th time, but the first time for hubby. We are keeping it low key by camping outside Mt. Rushmoore, but really unless you camp at "the Chip" or Glencoe, your times will NOT be wild.

I've got an extremely busy week.... Doctor, Dentist, Kids apts... and I'm also going to appointments with my mom in relation to her suspected breast cancer. Please say a prayer for her. I joked last night that my diet of Taco's and Icecream is a nutritionists nightmare, and a BAD example for would be bandsters... SO DON'T DO IT!

I will say this... it is pretty cool when 1 beef taco and 1/2 of a fried icecream is considered TOTALLY PIGGING OUT! Scale was 178 today.

Back to Reality!

Back from Vegas, Back from Camping with all my Lace sistah's......
back to work, back to getting on track with my eating, back to housework!

I hadn't weighed since leaving for Vegas........... LUCKILY I only bounced 3 lbs!
whew...... One of my Lace Sisters has been doing Induction Levels of LC for a year now and she looks AWESOME! She has also been getting up and running... (even while camping) she ran, and stayed on plan............. when we all went to Dairy Queen and I had a small thin mint blizzard.......... she had diet coke... damn I'm proud of her! HATS OFF TO YOU FIREDOG! YOU ROCK!