Terry Poperszky

Congrats on the weight loss, Good Job! Your problem here is not your band, it is your mind. "You wanted more because it was very good" The amount that you mentioned would have been just about right for me, but your mind/emotions took over. Slider foods, by the time these hit your band they might as well be liquid.

This is a danger signal. For the vast majority of us, the band will not force us to do anything, we can eat past the band if we chose to. For me, the band allows me to feel less physical hunger and be satiated with less food. It does not affect the head hunger (emotional eating, bored eating, etc.) at all. I still pace in the evenings as I fight the urge to shove things in my mouth to fulfill a emotional need rather than a physical one. Not telling you what to do, just telling you like it is...

The thing that resonated with my personal experience was the reduce calories to lose, exercise to maintain. Yes there has to be a balance, but like most things in life I don't approach my exercise with moderation and it really throws my weight loss for a loop. First off, I put on muscle really fast, secondly my appetite skyrockets and I have a much harder time eating a low calorie regime.

Sorry, I don't like Hockey, so March Madness is of no interest to me.

From my experience this early in the journey a week or two stall is totally normal. Just keep following the rules and ignore the scale for awhile.

Like I said, almost twice your age which means I have probably failed at twice as many diets as you This can be different, all you have to do is remember that the band is a tool, it is not your master. If you want something that will help you succeed where you have failed in the past, you are in the right place. If you are looking for something that will force you to succeed and force you to not break the rules, then let me know when you find it.

Jennifer, personal experience for me is that when I exercise a lot, my weight loss stops or slows dramatically. You are building muscle (Looser clothes), retaining Water for muscle repair. I had to skip my spin classes last week and dropped 5 pounds in a couple of days, where I had been stalled the week before. Starting spin back up today, I expect to see a scale increase tomorrow.

To be blunt, the problem is not with your band, or your exercise, the problem is with your expectations. Both your Dr. and your Nut are fine with your progress, and it is repeated over and over on LBT that the first 6 weeks is for healing. One of the hardest things for any of us is our minds/expectations are our worst enemy. Listen to the people with the experience, your Dr. and NUT will let you know when you aren't where you need to be and set you expectations on a 1-2 year journey. That was something my Dr. kept repeating over and over and over and over. This is our journey, one foot in front of the other.

We can't answer that for you. All I can tell you is this is one of the better decisions I have made in my life. I am almost twice your age and I will tell you right now, going through most of your life being morbidly obese is not the way to live life.

This sounds marvelous.

2 months here, down 40 odd pounds. I chose LB because like the others I couldn't justify hacking away 3/4 of my stomach or rerouting my intestines. Besides, all WLS has the possibility of complications, but the LB has by far the lowest incident. Do your research, make your own choice. I just wish I had done this earlier.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/3500-calories-one-pound-fat-calorie-burn_n_2806578.html

My Dr. said no. If that that is what it takes to be successful with the tool, it is a small price to pay.

2 week schedule here. The nurse decides what she will give me, so far I haven't found a reason not to listen to her.

Every Dr. seems to have his own ideas, didn't yours give you some type of info packet?

Your Dr's advice may vary, but mine has not problem with it. I usually have 1 or 2 ounces of alcohol in the evening. Currently my drink of choice is Irish Whiskey on he rocks, although once in a while I will make a margarita. Remember, alcohol is a liquid calorie, make sure to count them.

You can add other body parts in MFP. Great Job.

11K, outpatient from a surgical center. 1 year of fills.

First off, make sure you are drinking enough. Dehydration can make you lightheaded. Secondly, are you pulling in enough calories? I found that during my stage 1 period, I would feel fine, until I exerted myself in the lest, at which time, I would become light headed and shaky. But I was having a hard time getting 500 calories a day in, and my body just wouldn't handle that.

You will be fine. Welcome to the Journey

NSV's are NEVER silly.

Nice article, but it is true? I notice that she doesn't quote any sources, are these "facts" a product of her own research?

****Caution Personal Opinion**** I tell anyone who notices my weight loss and asks how I did it that I had WLS. My reason? I struggled and failed for so many years trying to do it myself that I would hate to add to the guilt of anyone else when they failed at doing what it took surgery for me to do.

I have been fat all of my life, I remember as a freshman in High School wrestling varsity heavy weight which had a top limit of 230 and how I had to struggle to stay under that limit. I fought my weight all through my adult life finally ending up at 324 in my early 40's. Finally joining WW and getting back down into the 280's in the late 90's. In 2005 I had knee surgery and was back up to the wrong side of 300, so I went back to WW and after 8 months of hard work I got down to 250 where I stalled. I finally got down to 249.8 and then started putting weight back on. That number 249.8 has always been a magical number to me since then, but I have never been able to come close to it, let alone pass it. This morning the scale read 249.4 (even got on and off the scale twice because I couldn't believe it). My next goal? Under 230 so that I can qualify for Heavy Weight high school wresting again! For people who care about the particulars, I am shooting for 1300 calories a day, although that fluctuates. I am exercising 3-4 times a week, I am eating (for the most part) my exercise calories). I am not tracking my carbs, but I am not eating a lot of them. I still have a Protein shake (with blended fruit) for Breakfast each day. I am avoiding bread, Pasta and rice, not because I can't eat them, (My band doesn't prevent me from eating anything) but because I view them as empty calories. And I generally eat 4 1/2 - 3/4 cup meals a day. So I am basically following the rules my Dr. laid down for me.

Leslie, everyone here can lose weight with diet and exercise, I did it for 40 odd years, until i couldn't. I would loose weight and then the knee replacement sidelined me and I gained it back. I would lose weight and then I ripped my achilles in half and gained it back. I would lose weight and then my testosterone levels got low and sent me into a deep depression and I gained it back. Until this last year when I worked my butt off but didn't lose weight. That is when I got the band. The band is a tool that studies show not only will help you lose weight, but it will help you keep it off. Would you rather do that when you are younger, or are you going to waste all those years like I did. Regardless, you have the tool, now please use it.