Daisalana

Congrats, it sounds like you're on the right track! 3lbs in a week is great! I would suggest you going to get more restriction if you consider it a 'wee bit'. Ease into it for sure, but don't stop going!

Aw I wish I saw this post before, sorry I just now saw it :biggrin: My secret? Nothing. Hehe. Better genes than I thought maybe? I don't diet. I counted calories the first 6 months due to no restriction. I weaned down.. 1,600 calories a day.. then 1,400 calories a day 2 months later.. uhm.. down to 1,000ish.. And every once in a while I'd go over my 'goal'. Once I finally received good restriction, I don't count anything. I eat carbs.. sugar.. But I can only eat small portions, so I'm not worried about eating too much of anything. If I eat chocolate cake, I can only eat 2 small bites. There are a couple things I have to keep out of the house-- cokes & ice cream. Both go down fine and are yummy to me, and I'd eat/drink them all day long. So things the band won't control like that, I don't tempt myself with. Other then that.. really no secret. I believe 100% you need to get that good restriction.

Hah I found this post searching for my profile.. Thanks for letting me know! I did like Capri Sun, then moved to the 10 calorie Kool Aid things that are in capri sun bags.. they were horrible (and still on top of my fridge), so I'll have to check those out!!

I have had chronic heartburn most my life.. and took antacids.. and I didn't like milk. I do have milk cravings now. And pre-band I *hated* the taste of milk, I never drank it..always used it minimally in cereal. Now I crave it in the mornings, and get a little carton of low-fat chocolate milk (which again, I never liked before) or skim milk. DH says skim milk is nasty and doesn't know how I drink it, but for whatever reason I now like it. I'm not pregnant. Never thought of my 'why', I just go with it.

Janet Jackson goes from size 24 to a size 8 overnight. She's gone up and down twice now that I remember in a small period of time. That's not very consistent with a surgery.. I think it has to do with being able to afford a trainer & a chef. As for Jared, those things are so easy to manipulate. Say he went to the gym and started eating nothing but subs.. instead of gorging on everything else. Sure, he lost the weight. He could probably go to the gym all day and eat 1x McDonald's cheeseburger for each meal (and nothing else) and lose the weight.. then claim McDonald's helped him lose weight. It's all a spin on perspective.

Hehe, it may just be me, but I can never have too much garlic or onion in anything. I add it to lots of recipes that never call for it.

Well I just bought a cami & a high-rise tummy control panty from Spanx. I'll let ya'll know how they turn out. $92.. but they have a 30 day return policy for any reason.. so if they roll down or up, I'm sendin em back!

Gold schlagger is some sort of alcohol.. with... wait for it... GOLD IN IT! Really. It's little flakes of gold.. and you drink it. I don't care for the taste of ANY alcohol to be honest, but I enjoy drinking gold flakes. Makes me feel rich that I can poo gold.

LOL!! As long as there's no drama!! I can't believe the drama with people I know when they get drunk. I get drunk and laugh and laugh and chit-chat and have fun. DH is a crazy maniac.. 2 co-workers are crazy maniacs. Happy vibes please!! This was not my favorite weekend, I was hoping Sat. night was going to be fun, but eh.. I don't plan on going out with them again anytime soon. I did find out though our married customer we were taking out, ended up sleeping with the guy in the band that came back to the apartments with us. AHEM. She wanted our designated driver(sales guy here), but settled for the band person. Crazy stuff, glad I went home. Coffee stalling weightloss, just from everything I know, maybe because it dehydrates your body.. but if you counteract it with water, shouldn't matter. And caffein raises your body temperature which raises your metabolism so I would have thought it helps.

Welcome to Bandland!

I was kind of scared to get on the scale this weekend. I had countless buttery nipple shots, which are a billion calories I am sure.. and margaritas, and vodka & cranberry, lots of gold schlagger (sp). I thought, I gained 10lbs tonight!!!!! Then, yesterday I ate a couple bites of chocolate cake, a 100 calorie ice cream, and nibbled on a lot of cheese throughout the day. My band loves me though.. or my metabolism.. or something.

Mwhahaha ok. Well it started Saturday.. a co-worker who use to paint (fancy painting) restaurants & houses for a living, offered a trade. She'll paint our house if DH fixed her internet and set up her wireless. They are in Decatur, a city about 20 minutes from here. So we're doing it, it takes a while and DH had to take her computer home. Ends up, her teen daughter got a lot of virus & spyware on it from downloading crap. So it made me feel better, I'm making her paint the living room, entry, halls, etc. majority of the house.. so now I know DH actually had to do some work for her. Anyway, on our way back, she told me to buy our paint and she'll bring the brushes. We pass a Home Depot in Decatur and I tell DH to stop, he throws a fit saying he wants to go home, but we were THERE so I made him do it. We go to park and a woman comes flying out of her spot in an SUV and gouges & scrapes all down the side of his card. Then she didn't know what to do, so she's going the opposite direction, scraping it even more. We were fine because she ended up with her front bumper going up the side of our car, so it didn't do anything to us. Anywho.. then that night, co-workers invited me out. Customer in town. We had gone to lunch earlier with DH, and someone mentioned how one of their husbands will NOT come pick them up if they get drunk. He says "You took her out and got her drunk, you bring her back". DH was saying he would pick me up (duh, I'd kill em if he didn't!). So I said I needed him to pick me up later. He said in Madison, right? NOT Huntsville? I was like yea, we have a designated driver that is bringing us back to Madison, then you just pick me up there. So we go out, the designated driver(DD) is a recovering? alcoholic, but he has been the DD lately for everyone apparently. We started off at a mexican restaurant that was happenin'! We had margies, and some shots. DD had tea. Yay. Then we go to the bar. Oy. I got trashed. One of the managers (I only have 1 boss here- the owner!) got trashed and confrontational. She's unhappy in her marriage, and she doesn't like me cause I don't kiss her ass like the other girls here (she's their boss). So long story short, she called me out on stuff she doesn't like that I do here, and how I should live my life, when I should have kids, and how they mess up careers, etc. etc. I was really uncomfortable talking about this with her.. then we ran into a former vender at the bar and she confronted her, insinuating the only reason she was talking to our DD is that she thought they'd get more business. Oy oy. THEN.. DD sneaks off, and in a matter of 30m becomes plastered.. more than ANY of us who had been drinking all night. He is falling down drunk, so we take his keys.. and he passes out in the flowerbed. I call DH at 4am to come pick us up Bless him, he didn't get mad, didn't say one mean thing. Just asked how to get there.. first he had to take my small car, to go pick up his bigger car at the original spot he was suppose to pick me up, then drive into downtown Huntsville.. to pick up 4 drunk folks. He gets there, and the DD is so trashed he is PUKING all over the place. We had to cram into DH's car, stop every mile for DD to puke, meanwhile he got mulch from the flowerbed ALL OVER the car. I swear. It was crazy. But one thing I wanted to accomplish, and fully informed DH about, is with 100lb gone, I wanted to get hit on. I was there with my size 1 co-workers who always look so sexy.. I wanted ME to get picked up mwhaha. And I did accomplish this. Some guy bought me a drink and sent his friend over to talk to me, then he finally came over, was tellin me he owns an ambulance company in MS and he's there for a shriner convention or something. I had my driver's license in my cigarette pack, and I saw him looking at it, so I flipped it over LOL. He asked for my phone # and I dodged it pretty easily, by talking about other random stuff. It felt good. When DH dropped everyone else off, I kept apologizing and saying please don't be mad.. and he didn't. And I told him about the guy, and I was like "HE WANTED YOUR WOMAN!" and he just grinned. Next morning he woke me up with "Hey baby how are you feeling?" so he really didn't get mad that I drug him out of bed in the middle of the night to deal with drunk folks. He earned some brownie points Next morning though, right after we woke up (10am) his mom calls. She is 10 minutes from our house. WHAT! Our house is a mess, since it's getting painted, I have all kinds of stuff out of order, things all over the floor.. and our guest bathroom is unusable due to the litterbox.. and the master bath, I had lingerie, my dirty underwear all over the floor, piles of dishes in the sink, etc. His mom goes to use our bathroom and I was just mortified. I made a comment when she came out "I wish I knew you were coming, I would have cleaned!!" and she goes 'I told Russell I would be coming today'. WAY TO TELL ME!!! :smile2: He forgot.. So then I busted my ass cleaning the house like I haven't cleaned it before, with them there.. so she didn't think I was a total slob. I think that's enough stories for my weekend. I took Before pics of my living room to show ya'll how nice it's gonna be after she paints! It's a dark purple color. Our big entertainment center is delivered tomorrow. I also bought faux wood venetian blinds for the entire house, our little metal ones are ripped up all over the place from the animals. So excited!!

Jeans are gone now.. I will be posting more jeans eventually, just ordered some smaller ones so I'll be out of these pretty soon. I'll post then! I saw my thread and read "Want some Jesus?" and then saw I was the author, almost panicked thinking I was hacked! Good luck to you Katie!!

Michelle that is a great B&A pic with piglet as your control group. Too funny, you can tell a huge difference!!

I am spose to be in bed, but real quick just in reference to people hating the band (as per the end of your post)... everyone in my family loves it cause it's made me healthy and young. I can walk walk walk all over town without dying now. They love it, cause I love it! My friends don't love or unlove it.. they are happy for me, but I don't think they care lol.

Hey V's, I'm normally MIA on weekends due to catching up on MY life and not work when I'm home, but I wanted to just pop in real quick. DH & I got in a lil wreck yesterday (100% not a big deal, but his new car lost its virginity hah hah). Had drama with coworkers and a bar last night, I'll tell you all about it tomorrow. NOT TO OUTDO YOU MICHELLE.. I was 237lb today! MWHAHAHA. No seriously congrats, we're SO CLOSE to onederland!! Can you taste it yet? I was just thinking tonight.. I'm less then 40lbs from being in 100's. 40lbs is NOTHIN! WOW. It actually sunk in this weekend that I've lost almost 100lbs. A human being. (((TERRY & PAM)))) Gina you look great, and I loved the hat, I forgot to post it the other day. Ok, goin to bed, I promised I'd be at work early tomorrow (oops, not at this rate). LOVE YALL!

Hiccups after eating almost always result in a PB for me. I've had nausea 3 times total in 7 months.. it's very rare, and I'm not sure what instigated it. My symptoms are just a tightness and sliming, and you can 'feel' the food getting stuck. Mine really aren't horrible, it's not a 'throw up' feeling except those 3 times, and I don't even know if they were band related.

Before good restriction, I allowed Sundays to be my 'free day'. Now, there is no need for one. I eat whatever, can't eat enough to really matter.. unless it's junk food, and I don't set time limits on it, I just have it on occasion.

Hah same here, except v'day and b'day. Personally, I don't get the difference... well except the 5-7 calories :thumbup:

Makin my fancy dinner, but had to brag.. 238lb stuck. Same today. YAY! --- Does anyone else have a hard time judging food portions when serving a non-bandster? In my day-to-day life, i stopped spooning DH's plate because I give him what I think he should eat... which is more than banded. But if he spoons it, it's so much that I am in disbelief. I have no good judgement of food portions anymore. Christmas at the In-Laws, they pass plates around and whatever you sit by, you spoon up for someone. I had bad anxiety, cause to me, a small spoon was good. When I did theirs, I had to ask everyone 'more? more? more?' and I was always way off. Just wondering if anyone else has this problem too. My mom asked me to save her some of my dinner tonight, when she came by to pick up the plate I made for her she said "I'm not banded!!". I thought I did good. Huh.

DH is a sci-fi nut and didn't have an answer. I bought the book I Am Legend. Good book, but in the back it has a series of short-stories. VERY MORBID short stories. Also good, I liked it a lot. But there was one story about the "Loopy Dance" which was the Dance of the Dead. Now, I know it's a fictional writer and fictional short story but it makes references to the gas after WWII they realized the gas used to kill people, animated them, and thus the Loopy Dance. Just wondering, was this true? When I google it, I don't get any good information. Was the Loopy Dance a real term? Be nice please :smile2: DANCE OF THE DEAD-PAGE 1 That's the story if you like morbid stories.

Just for the OP, I was at TGIF's the other day, and they have things marked 'LOW FAT!' so I looked at the bottom after seeing this post.. and it says on there "Our "LOW FAT" items contain 500 calories each" (paraphrasing).

Depends on your restriction.. I wouldn't have either of those until you're into solids. Before a good fill, I had pizza & pancakes. After first successful fill I could eat thin crust from dominoes, but only 1 square piece filled me up. Now with a good fill, I can pick the toppings off of pizza, but no crust. And pancakes.. I want them sometimes, and even drenched in syrup, one little bite gets stuck. It turns all doughy I guess and clogs me up.

I PB pretty often. It's when I either 1. eat too fast 2. don't chew a bite well enough 3. eat something that doesn't go with my band All my PBs vary on discomfort and severity. Sometimes if I'm eating too fast or not chewing enough, without even a burp, the food just comes right back up and I can see that I did not in fact chew enough. Less frequently something gets 'stuck', and I make a lot of slime, spit up a lot of slime, salivate a lot, and eventually I gag up whatever it was.. this normally happens with bread for me. I know better than to it, but I try every once in a while. At first it's ok, then it hurts, and slime/spit, then it comes up. Some people very rarely if ever have PB's.

I gotta say, it wasn't fake sugars that got me fat. I now use Sweet-N-Low in tea & lemonade.. and I'm not stalling. All those researches contradict each other, it's hard to decide the truth. One minute it's bad, then it's good, then it's bad again. Same with the Eggbeaters, etc.