Category Archives: Band Lessons

lessons learned

January 17, 2010 – 7:42 pm

It has been such a long week! First, let me state clearly that stomach flu with the lap-band equals a whole new level of suck. Now, what are the lessons I learned? First, although it’s scary and painful, probably the band is not going to slip while attempting to vomit with the lap-band. Sugarless gum [...]

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surviving the stomach flu

January 12, 2010 – 1:09 pm

This is not a post for everyone. I warn you now, if the post title didn’t warn you enough, it has the potential to get graphic. This post is for other lap-banders who are scared of what might happen if they get the stomach flu. Let’s face it, it may not happen very often (oh [...]

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bathing a cat and other christmas lessons

December 25, 2009 – 7:54 pm

In a lot of ways, today was just another day here. Christmas has changed since my brothers and I were children and I suppose that’s a natural thing for most people. This year, with Mom in the nursing home, all the energy that we try to still put into making each other happy just drained [...]

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cheating is sometimes a good thing

November 6, 2009 – 6:05 pm

I wrote quite a long post over atChickens and Eggs today on Cheater’s BBQ. I’m counting that toward NaBloPoMo but I wanted to say a couple things here, as well. Now that I’m officially on the blogroll, I got a nifty new NaBloPoMo badge designed by Tracey at Pretty Little Things. Feel free to admire [...]

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epiphany

September 23, 2009 – 9:00 am

I think I’ve been pretty clear about my frustrations with my eating and weight loss this summer. I’ve been up and down, I’ve been grazing too often, I am emotionally eating, and I haven’t lost as much weight as I would like. Even when I’ve kept the grazing and emotional eating under control, my overall [...]

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to fill or not to fill

August 21, 2009 – 9:58 am

One of the challenges of living with the lap-band is deciding when you need a fill. Or, at least it is for me. What’s a fill? How do they do it? Okay, here’s a little lap-band reminder for those coming late to the party. The actual band placement is not as neat and clean as [...]

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lap-band and the emotional binge

July 3, 2009 – 10:20 pm

You’d think that I couldn’t binge with the band in place – and restriction currently working. You’d be wrong. As an emotional eater, I’m trying to give myself a break. What I’m basically saying to myself is, hey, it’d be nice if I had all the skills I need to deal with this stress – [...]

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another band lesson

May 25, 2009 – 11:54 am

This post may be too much information for those prone to become queasy. Feel free to stop reading now. Today I experienced a couple of those things that I keep hearing about from other lap-banders. Sliming and productive burping. Neither one is especially fun. Sliming occurs when a piece of food is stuck in the [...]

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lessons of a different sort

April 1, 2009 – 9:05 pm

It’s been a strange week here at Chez Zaz. Or, at least, I’ve been feeling strange. I’ve actively avoided email. Writing seems to take too much effort (and there are actually things I want to write about!). I’ve spent probably too much time killing ghouls and basilisks. My head has been telling me that I’ve [...]

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band lessons, the book

March 26, 2009 – 2:10 pm

I’ve written out a kind of long story of my lap-band experiences at 3 months out from surgery. Well, it’s only 4 pages but still. I’ve published it as a pdf which opens fine in IE and FireFox but for some reason hates Google Chrome, my browser of choice. If I can figure out why, [...]

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