I’ve had my lap band now since May 21st, a good two months. I’ve lost between 20 and 25 pounds depending on the scale I look at.<\/p>\n
I am slowly and steadily losing weight — but it’s still a bit frustrating since we’re talking about a pound a week. I’d rather lose more, and the initial weight loss makes it more frustrating.<\/p>\n
Here’s how I am trying to wrap my head around this.<\/p>\n
I went for about a year maintaining my weight within 5 pounds (and yes that was frustrating too, but at least I was maintaining. Then last year, about August, I started gaining about 10 pounds a month. That was not only frustrating but physically hard on my body. <\/p>\n
It was November when I finally realized I needed help and went to TLC Edge. At that point I stopped gaining weight, and started maintaining again. It was still physically hard on my body along with the psychological problems that went with that.<\/p>\n
So then I lost between 20 and 25 pounds when I actually had the surgery. At first it felt better, but now I am back to a lot of physical pain. Going to the chiropractor is helping that, and I’m doing both Celebrix and Tylenol.<\/p>\n
I am still learning how to eat, and I often ignore the stop eating signs. Can’t ignore them for long, and I am stopping long before I used to. So yes, the lap band is helping with portion sizes. I am still having trouble picking the right food sometimes and the lap band isn’t going to help that.<\/p>\n
I’m "working" this week, staff development for a possible camp on Monday, then traveling and going to a workshop in Missouri. I’m going to see the fit tech at TLC Edge when I get back and decide what to do then.<\/p>\n
It isn’t easy, but it is working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve had my lap band now since May 21st, a good two months. I’ve lost between 20 and 25 pounds depending on the scale I look at. I am slowly and steadily losing weight — but it’s still a bit frustrating since we’re talking about a pound a week. I’d rather lose more, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}