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But I had a small unfill on Tuesday, which felt fabulous as I can now eat without gagging on pretty much everything. And while it was only 0.2 ml out...apparently I think I can eat the entire kitchen. First few days was fine, but I know that I had started to develop some bad eating habits as I couldnt keep things down, and still lost weight. But of course some were things that I shouldnt be

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So I thought I would take you on a photo tour of some of my daily walk, generally I walk in our local botanical garden. Last Sunday I took hubby on a tour of the much heard of tortures walks. We went really early, before it got hot and surprisingly it was quite enjoyable....and he wants to do it again.  A view from the top on a week day Followed by a weekend visit!   The cute great white

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(A) Age: 37 (B) Bed Size: Queen (C) Chore You Hate: Cleaning the shower. (D) Dogs? Meh, sometimes I want one but it isnt fair cos we are gone from 7.00am until about 6.30pm (E) Essential Start Your Day Item: Clean teeth and a coffee (F) Favorite Color: Red (closely followed by black) (G) Gold or Silver? Gold, rose gold to be specific. (H) Height: 5'7"ish (apparently I have shrunk from just over

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I never quite made it for an unfill, technical issues at work, it would have helped if I had a working phone! Anyway so the weekend rolls round, I am being super cautious cos although I ate well on Thursday (I was bad and had chinese, but it comes with lots of soft meats and sauces) I was still pretty tight over the weekend. Now others had asked if maybe Iwas tight cos it was my TOM, but that

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I had a fill last Friday of 0.4, since then I have stuck and slimed three times. First I think was on Sunday, no biggy, eventually went down with lots of sliming (can't remember what it was). Then on Tuesday I had some pork minute steaks which were obviously too dry, even though I had sauce with it and cut it tiny and chewed, chewed, chewed, I got a little slimy and bought up a timy bit of the

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Can't beleive it's been two weeks since I last posted. I have been flat tack with work, we moved offices (and agency), and so it is like all the team are starting a new job and no one knows what is going on. On the plus side all the stress seems to have completely dropped off since Tuesday. And while I have had some slow moving food episodes there were no stuck or sliming. So today I went to

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Well I went for my fill appointment today and because of everything going on in my life we decided to put it off for another 2 weeks. My office is being relocated into another department, and the entire move etc was only announced a few weeks before Xmas, and I managed to ignore it over the break but now we are back and it is becoming a hard reality, unfortunately we have a few staff members

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Well I went back to work this week and thought maybe that would get me back on track, as I was grazing all day. Mon and Tues, good eating, walking up hills at lunch..... and no weight loss. I was getting quite annoyed and disappointed, but I knew I had added the protein I really needed to my diet, but it was frustrating. Wednesday I get home from work, start on dinner - after deciding not to

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As I begin my 50lbs in 111 days I realised that oops I started up on where I was earlier in December, So my starting weight for the challenge will be 119.6. Luckily it appears the last box of chocolates has been finished, I had lots of water today and ate my actual meals, rather than grazing (which is my traditional Christmas holiday style). One thing I have noticed is that normally for me,

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Mostly that I need to take it easy and think through my eating a little more carefully! But also the following... * don't think just cos you have had the odd sip on an empty stomach that somehow after eating a full meal to take a swig of lemonade (yes fizzy!)...I spent the next 20 minutes in the bathroom as close to PBing as I care to get - how can one mouth produce so much saliva? * hair loss,

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Well not quite the same, but all was fine. I had the fill nurse (you only get the dr every few times) and she was lovely. She checked how much I actually had in the band - turns out to be 4.6ml (including the 0.5 she put in today). The fill really seems to have made a wee difference as even coming back from the fill my hunger had dropped (I had forgotten to eat breakfast before going at

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Well I had my first fill yesterday... No pain, apart from him trying to find the port. But it was all over in seconds (hubby watched). Good thing I still have quite the fat roll (and boobs) so i couldnt see it anyway! Of course there were lots of probing questions. Mostly to get a picture of where I was and any risky behaviours (such as my love affair with open sweet items).  It was helpful

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This is a post I wrote two/three weeks ago.....finally feel able to post it.  Sorry I fell off the radar but it was too hard to write about stuff. Well during the weekend I managed to get control of my eating, and as of today (Tues 5.00am) I am down to 122.6kg. I even managed to eat fish and chips on Sunday about 6.00pm, which was just as well as after 7.00pm I havent really felt like eating...

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So I thought I should share some comparison shots, OK they are only a month apart but luckily I tell that my chins and stuff seem to be disappearing - a good sign! and of course I couldnt resist

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I havent posted in a wee while probably because I have gained...and that was just too depressing. I know it isnt huge and this is the first week on solids, and back at work...but the last few days I went from 122.6 up to 122.9 and then 123.1. And that is with an hour walking everyday, up a steep hill. I do know that I seem to have no restriction and it takes heaps (comparatively) to get me

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OK, all last week all I lost was 1 kilo (it was very short Aunt Flow time) and then in the last two days I have lost 1.5 kilo's. I know having my period can really stuff things up but loosing that much in two days is even odder as I am really starting my third week which with my Dr is soft normal foods. So for example I had scrambled eggs for breakfast, fresh salmon chunks and fruit for lunch

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Or just found some motivation to do stuff.. This afternoon DH and his father cut our picture railing to put up (mitring is not my strong suit). And although my MIL bought baking for afternoon tea (she is a fab baker) I decided to make lemon muffins.... (we have a lemon tree which I trimmed this morning so a few had to come off the tree) I have no idea why, when it's not like I can eat one even

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I am so glad to be able to move on to mushies and just enjoyed scrambled eggs for lunch...nom nom I spent this morning weeding the garden and tying stuff up and then came inside and watched hubby painting the hallway..and we still feel lazy cos the guy next door is building a new deck - and we know he will have finished it by the end of the weekend (he is incredibly motivated and builds

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well maybe 500 words ..because when I went to find them I could only find one shoe...

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So today was an ok day, I managed to get around a bit and the pain seems to not be as bad I also took a picture of my stomach after I took my strips off ... (the red circles are my previous surgery laroscopic scars - the blue circles, this times)

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Well it all went pretty smoothly, except the whole getting a cold again the day before the op! I rang the surgeon the night before and he said just to come in and the anaethetist would make the call. So I as pretty nervous when I turned up as I was also having a bit of asthma too. They ended up giving a nebuliser for the asthma and when checking my oxygen levels they came up as too low. So

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Spoke to the anesthetist tonight. She gave me advice about my asthma (it's been flaring up) and answered some other questions I had. She said compared to kidney donation I will fly through it. Great to know, cos the donation thing I was 25 kilo's lighter and three years younger. My weight is coming down slowly and my clothes are getting looser. On another subject entirely - hubby went to the

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Well woke up this morning to less coughing and flem, so looks like the cold is going. And a nice surprise of a drop to 131.0 ( after two days of gains that was nice). I realised that because I have a cold as well I just wasnt having enough water so yesterday I had 2.25 litres of water, plus many cups of tea, and some zero cokes. Funnily I was still thirsty when I went to bed so whenever I woke

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That I have no infection (as I thought) and it is simply a cold and should be gone by next week. The nurse at the clinic was happy with that as long as the dr had actually listened to my chest and sure there wereno other infections. Down another half kilo or so to 131.2. Thats 5.2 down, so I am all on track for next week. I can see and feel the difference in my cheeks and my thighs mostly.

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Well it's day 5 of pre op diet, apart from two tiny bits of cheese I am pretty much sticking too it. But it definately has slowed down yesterday. (the cat's pills had to be hidden in cheese hence the reason I was even near it) This may be because I was off sick and did no moving really at all. You see I caught a chill on Friday night....unfortunately I now need to call the clinic and find out

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