Kime-lou

Yeah, CG- I am in Raleigh to. I hate the weather. I have been downing green tea all day to help with the sore throat. I forced myself to eat breakfast and lunch, but I have only gotten 200 calories for the day, which I guess isn't a bad thing. I just hate this feeling.

Thankfully, Duke has an awesome cafe. They have hummus and a HUGE salad and fruit bar. There home cook line has calorie counts to help you make a decision. They do have unhealthy options, but they have more healthy options. Great hospital, glad it's so close- it's saved many family members and it's where I had my lapband done.

Today I was better on eating and after dinner my hubby and I are going for a walk on the trail behind our house.

I understand. I have anxiety to, and it go horrible. Mine was centered around driving. My hubs is visually impaired so can't drive, so I have to do all of it. I was getting to the point where I couldn't or was scared to go anywhere. I tried therapy, didn't work for long. Then my doctor did some test and my horomones were off. I am on Paxil now and he said I need to stay on it for a while and get my body back straigh. Since I started it back in Feb I feel a 100 times better. I know a lot of people don't like meds, but I finally feel like myself again. I hated the way I was feeling before it was torture.

I am heating healthy. I eat good lean protein. I eat chicken, turkey, fish. I eat salads- with healthy stuff. I have stopped making meatload and such with hamburger and instead use turkey. I eat my protien first and a few veggies with. I am staying fairly satisfied. Only in the mornings do I get hunger pains, I eat breakfast at 6 and snack about 9:30, but before noon I really hungry again. I have been exercising, I did great up to this week. It's the first week the kids came back to school and I have worked late a lot and had work to bring home and been exhausted. Took one night off to get the yard taken care of, but other than that work has taken me over.

I have to get back on track.

Lucie- I only have a .25 acre lot in the city, so I go to the farmers market and buy my veggies. Some of the veggies my parents grow (they live an hour and a half away in the country) I will go up and get them on weekends to work on.

Most of my friends think I am crazy to work so hard over it. Even my husband though that to start with, but then he tasted the fresh garden stuff and he changed his mind.

I know what you mean about the plinking of the can lids Brings back memories of Grandma's house every time I hear it.

Thanks Carolina girl. The last 3 months have been a total change for me. I don't think I ever realized I was an emotional eater. But in in the south you eat for everything - to celelbrate, to greive, to have fun, to visit. When I go visit my family it's tough, my mom was always use to showing her love through food, so she is having to adjust to my new eating habits. Me, my mom, and grandma spent a lot of time together through the years. I am now an hour and a half away and my grandmother is on hospice and basically just a vegetable- really hard. The 3 of us spent a lot of time cooking for the family, canning veggies, freezing veggies, most of our time together was in the kitchen. On days like today I remember and want to be in the kitchen. I don't have kids to start new tradtitions with and doubt I will ever have any. So days like today make me remember and yearn for the days gone by.

But, I am getting up now and hitting the elliptical!!

Time of the month

Amen sister!! I think all banders feel like this on at least one day, and if they say they don't, likely they are lying. This has not been an easy process. I have lost 25 lbs since surgery on June 22. Most of the weight came off the first month, the last few weeks it's just been 1 lbs a week even though I have a large calorie deficit. Some days are major frustrating and some days it's awesome.

You are right when I see a skinny chick eating a big milkshake or a yeast roll, I want to slap her However, I want to loose this weight so I will discipline my self and count my calories and once the weight is gone I will enjoy shopping.

Thanks- It's just frustrating. In the last month I have only lost 2lbs. I am eating so much less than I ever have yet the weight doesn't seem to want to come off. I go back for another fill this week, yet I don't know if she will give me one. I am not getting hungry much and I am eating a cup to 1.5 cups at a time. I will talk to my doctor and see what he has to say.

Thanks all. I opted to eat at my desk today and ms negative had to come in my office to see what I was eating. I wanted to toss it in her face. Yeah I went to McDonalds and no I did not get a big mac (gross) I got a salad. I ate the grilled chicken on top and some lettuce and now I am full- yeah me!!

I so want to stick it to them and show them what kind of success you can have if you put your mind to it.

OMG girl! I hope you improve quickly. You had some kind of experience.

LOL to the short and chunky comment! So funny!

I have a vasovagel response (pass out) to fills - so they told me I was senstive and my fills would have to be slow. Only had 1 fill so far so not sure how it will go from here I go back in two weeks for my 2nd one.

I don't know anything about your case, but for me, my nutritionist told me not to drop below 800 calories because I could put my body into starvation mode and not lose weight.

But go with what your team told you. It sounds like you are getting it down to a science. Kudos to you!