cheryl2586

If you are eating more then you should is it because you just want to? You can't just eat as much as you want and still lose weight. If a cup or less of food keeps you satisfied for 3 to 4 hours then you don't need a fill. If you are waiting for things to pass through your band to continue to eat, you are over eating. I would suggest to measure exactly a cup of food and only eat that and no more. You need to see if you really need a fill or if you are pushing your band. Over eating will make your pouch stretch because you are putting too much food in it. It is only supposed to hold 2 to 4 ounces of food. When I eat and need to let things pass through my band then I am full and quit eating. I think you are eating too much and yes plateus happen to all of us sometimes up to three months or more.

If you get the quaker oatmeal weight control it does have 7 grams of protein in it. Cottage cheese, I eat eggs everyday and my cholesterol is fine. You can eat hummus, couscous, I also eat black bean casserole for breakfast which is good. Recipes.com has tons of protein meals. You don't always have to eat breakfast food for breakfast.

I agree with Floridadays. I didn't have a preop diet but knowing I would fail early on kept me accountable. I still cooked the same for my husband I just ate other things. Learing to eat differently was my biggest challenge but it was not that difficult

Weight stalls are normal. It happens to the best of us. Increase your protein and wait it out it will eventually start coming off again.

Of course its normal. You won't have pain forever. I don't even know my band is there unless I get something stuck

Dressing on the bottom, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, spinach, couscous

It's times like this you have to learn to stop thinking about food and put that energy in to some positive goals. Take a walk, exercise dims your hunger and makes you feel good. Read a book, watch a good movie without food commericials. Don't mourn what has made you miserable for all these years. Consider yourself lucky to have had something that a lot of people will never have. Freedom from food.

Try some flavoring in your water. 4 c makes no calorie flavors. My taste altered but not to the point that I couldnt eat. What about jello, sugar free popsicles?

Call your doctor tomorrow and get an unfill. Try to get in liquids until then.

72 degrees in Florida today

I dont make them anymore because I dont have too. Those days are over for me. Just enjoying life one day at a time.

This is all normal. It will go away in time.

Its not about feeling full anymore its about being satisfied. Enjoy being hungry because it's a feeling you probably havent felt in a lot of years. I enjoy feeling hungry. Makes me know I need to eat to live now.

Im with you on that also. No new resolutions for me either. I am happy to not have to do that. I quit smoking 2 and a half years ago when I was six months post op, have lost so much weight and feel great. I loathe all the years I spent making those stupid resolutions to only find myself feeling guilty that I didnt make it a week out. Nope no more for me. Just loving life as it is.

I love the NSV better then the numbers on the scale. Keeps me motivated.

Its normal for a dr not to give you a fill if you're still losing. Don't be in a hurry to get filled up. Use it when 1 you are forraging for food, are too hungry, weight loss stops not slows. Getting filled slow guarentees you will keep it off. Some people are in a hurry to get filled up but what do you have to work with if your band is completely filled.

I know winter puts a damper on most when you don't belong to a gym and even if you do who wants to venture out in the cold, but there are ways to exercise and keep yourself motivated during the winter months. I have three walk away the pound cd's. The 1 mile, two mile, and five mile. I do the 1 mile in the morning because it's only 17 minutes and gets your day started, then I do the two mile at night. I also turn on the tv to one of the best music stations and dance the night away. When I was younger I used to go out dancing at least three nights a week and kept my weight down. Take the clothes off your treadmill, stationary bike, or any other equipment you have and use it. Dancing burns a lot of calories. Use your husband/wife, boyfriend/girlfriend and burn some calories. There is no time like the present on this first day of January to get yourself in the exercise mode and get moving. Not only does it relieve stress but it makes you feel invigorated. So who is with me to some good old hard working fun exercise? I am going to start today off with 30 minutes of heart pounding, good feeling, get me motivated for the day EXERCISE. COME AND JOIN ME.

I just eat like I did when I was losing. I don't eat junk food or ice cream or sweets, no fast food. I eat healthy nutritious food every day. That way I dont have to worry about maintaining. I also weigh twice daily but I have from the beginning. It keeps me accountable.

I love hummus too. A great snack.

I'm in will use my walk away the pounds tape the two mile one and I have the five mile one too. It's a great work out and a good walk and energizing to say the least. I feel so good after I do it and sweat like hell.

Betrayal comes from many aspects of our life. From friends, family, spouses and children. Everytime you are betrayed by people you love it hurts. So why with the band do you betray yourself by eating things you are not supposed to and in the long run feeling guilty and hurt by your decisions. Life isn't always easy and we have enough stress without letting the band stress us more. It's supposed to help us feel better about ourselves not feel miserable. As the new year approaches, stop betraying yourself with the band. Follow your instructions that you were given and even if your weight loss is slow, a pound loss is a loss no matter how you look at it. I betrayed myself for years with tons of food, feeling miserable, feeling overly full and depending on food to get me through rough times. I stil have rough times, but I don't use food as another means to betray myself. I use it to make myself feel good by getting rid of the horrible self image I had when I was almost 300lbs. Sometimes it's not easy dealing with problems without the comfort of food but I have learned to stop letting meaningless things get on my nerves. Happy New Year with a new attitude about band life!

Get some good old fashioned prune juice. Works every time

We don't eat to feel full any longer we eat to feel satisfied there is a big difference. Stick with your alotted amounts and that is it. Weight stalls happen and sometimes longer then we want. Up you protein and slack starchy carbs if your eating them.

I don't have an issue with will power anymore. I just don't crave or want the bad foods I used to eat at all. I think even without the band if you go without something long enough then you don't want it anymore. It just helped me control my hunger not anything else.

The whole idea of the preop diet is to shrink the fat out of your liver. As long as you are eating no high fat foods it probably won't matter if you gain or lose.