Another lapband fill
I came back to Australia a couple of days ago to see my surgeon and get another fill in my lapband. I’ve now got 6 cc’s in a 10 cc band. I don’t think I can hold any more, although by the numbers I should be able to get 4 more in there. Fat chance!
After she injected the saline into the port under the skin up and to the right of my belly button, she asked me to drink some water – slowly without talking so I didn’t swallow any air.
“Maybe that’s too much, I can hear you gurgling from over here,” she said.
Like I want to go around gurgling!
The water went down ok and no pain so I said I wanted to keep it in the band and I’d just eat even more slowly than I have been. I’m determined to get this weight off over the next 6 months. That’s my goal. All off in 6 months.
I’m not that far off my goal so if I get in gear and do the walking, the weight training with the dumbells and eat to my plan, my commitment to myself will all be worth it.
Now, about this EFT. I told my surgeon about it and told her I felt really foolish doing it with my shrink but I still have no cravings for sweets and I haven’t looked for something to put in my mouth for a week. I know it’s not a sure thing but I haven’t gone a week without eating for emotional or anxiety reasons for more than 30 years. Who knows, maybe it’s 40 years. It’s certainly been a long time.
I found out that an acquaintance of mine is an EFT counselor in town I used to live in back in Australia (errr.. where I am right now) so I’m seeing her tomorrow just to see what she has to say about it. My shrink didn’t give me tons of details. When he told me what we were going to do I rolled my eyes and he said, “You’ve done it your way for 40 years and it hasn’t worked, at least TRY it.” I couldn’t argue with that logic.
I’ll post more photos in a few weeks.
Oh.. according to the surgeon I lost 3 kilos over the past month. Not enough. Better than gaining though! Any loss is better than gaining.