IndioGirl55

Hey Gang Well I got my pantry all cleaned out and organized - went to Target & Marshalls and got baskets to put stuff in - looks really nice - had to throw out expired canned food that's been in there since surgery - have all but 1 cupboard straighten out - junk drawer cleaned.. That's my exciting day :0) P.S. Got that cupboard done :0) Now don't know what I am going to have for dinner - maybe take out - but that means getting dressed - I was cleaning in my bra & undies (tmi :0) the priviledge of living alone :0) But now have jammies on -

Mine came and saw me in the hospital and I have his cell number I Love my Doc !!!

Hopeful You know the answer - you just don't want to acknowledge that it's you who is sabotaging yourself.. By continuing to eat like you use to - that's what got us fat in the 1st place Quit eating junk food - I don't care how tight you are - you are still going to be able to eat around your band... It's only a tool - you gotta chose your food.. If you are hungry - eat meat - dense food that will make you feel full and if you aren't full after eating your meat move to veggies.. You don't have to turn to junk food when you are hungry.. If you want something sweet - eat a sf pudding - sf fudgsicle - if you want salt crunch eat a 100 cal snack pack of popcorn Also - full does not equate to being satisfied... I will eat my dinner - be physically full but still want to eat - still crave food - this is head hunger and the majority of our hunger is in our heads not our stomachs - especially now that we are eating a smaller amount of food - our heads tell us - oh that's not enough or we want more of the taste of whatever we are eating.. Start keeping a food diary - Are you exercising?? Does your doc off have a nutritionist to work w/you.. How about support group.. Pull up those bootstraps - Realize that you have to change your eating habits - You gotta eat healthy - You gotta move (exercise) - Your band will help - but the work is really up to you..

Good Morning Gang How cool Candice !!! Glad your gig went well - but I knew it would - You now have your retirement career ;0) Leg cramps - drink tonic water Karla - You will get it all done - don't sweat it - you will need to post pics once it's installed.. When you get time ck fb and vote for Phyl on her before & after pics she posted !!!! Up at the crack of dawn - Bella just doesn't go more that 4 hrs w/o needing to pee - but what the hell - I don't need sleep - don't know what I am doing today - may clean out the pantry.. I got food in there that must be expired ;0) Need to do a little wash and mop the floors - vaccumed last night before Candy came over.. Happy Saturday - at least I don't have to go to work ;0)

Karla Glad you had a good time ... My gf Candy came over - left just a little while ago - I need to eat and head to bed I had the same calcification - I had to have a biospy they were nothing- then had to go back 6 month was clear - then went again in 6 months cuz now it was a yr - the found a lump behind my nipple - nothing and I think I had another set of calcification biopsyed too - I forget now - I know I have a few markers left in my right or is it my left breast - I don't remember but for the last 2 yrs I've been clear.. So go - it's better to get it early ... Well gang - I am going to go eat.. Oh ya Karla - that's the thing about andrew not being here - I will have to come and feed the dogs before I go out after work - I don't do it often - but every now and then..

Thanks KCG

Nancee A bit of advice - that the words Try & I Think out of your vocabulary - Replace them with I WILL & I KNOW... I used positive affirmation during my journey and I still do.. If you think you can't you won't - if you know you can you will. ;0) You can never ever go back to your old habits - they are what got us fat in the 1st place.. I have a healthy fear of food (well imho I do ;0) I allow splurges/treats about once a week and don't flake at the gym to often - Sometimes life gets in the way - but 98% of the time I eat healthy.. You can do this !!!! Pull up those boot straps and move forward.. Glad you are getting the support you need - LBT has been that for me.. Hugs Janet

Break a leg tonite - or whatever you tell singer ;0) Hope you have a good crowd tonite - Friday should be better not a lot of pple go out on Thursday nites..

Phyl - go ck out fb - you got the the lbt girls on your side -lol - that lady isn't going to know what hit her !!!!

Yep GF we are your true friends !!!!! Forever !!!! I already told you I would go kick her freaking butt - but I left a message on fb too.. I think she's gotten the point and hope she feels bad..

My original goal was 170 - got there once with Weight Watchers - thought I looked pretty good at that weight Once I got to 180 I then moved my goal to 160 - I wanted to move it to 150 but was afraid to put that in writing cuz I didn't know if I would get there. Well I got to normal bmi in 1 yr 1 week and lost the next few lbs in the next few months (quit tracking after I got to goal) and have maintained my weight loss for the last 2 yrs - by doing the same thing eating healthy and exercising. It finally hit me that my old eating habits are what made me fat in the 1st place - I can never go back to eating my normal - high fat - high sugar and sitting on my butt 24/7 and expect to wear a size 4 - that behaivor is what made me morbitly obese and wearing an 18/20 pant and 22 top.. It is acheivable.. You can do it... I have not dieted since being banded - I am eating healthy and exercising - Go for the gold Girl - You can do it !!!

Loving anything is what helped us get to where we are (needing wls) I can eat lite (90 cal for 2 slices) sandwich bread - but I don't do it often - why - starches make you retain water - goes straight to fat - you know the blab blab blab about carbs/starches and it has no nutritional value. Please know I'm not an Atkins person- I do eat my starches - but I limit them. Everyone tolerates foods differently - you may be able to eat bread - you won't know till you get to the normal stage. Some can - some can't - for me I can eat almost anything - corn on the cob and stringy meats give me a problem - but as long as I eat slowly and chew and tiny bites I can eat anything.. Also one day you can eat something and then the next day you might not be able to Just becareful w/the starches - Follow band rules - protien 1st Good luck on your journey

Your gallbladder doesn't have anything to do with losing or not Losing weight is all about the foods/calories your are consuming and the amount of exercise you get.. Start keeping a food diary/counting calories to track you food consumption and are you exercising..

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Good Morning Gang Phyl - Congrates on Chris's promotion... That's fantastic.. WTG on being a pound down - all that eating out and visiting has to be hard.. So you are in Dallas area now.. Sure have missed you.. How's Zoey?? I would write a letter to the management of that place.. Screw them... Karla - WTG on food - even though it didn't seem very much at least you ate :thumbup:... Yes I had my mamo on 8/5 - I go every yr since I had sugery - plus I have aflac so I get $$ for just going ;0) incentive right there.. 6 weeks off ;0) the 1st few might not be great but - and girl you better follow directions of your doc.. Which DD will come and stay w/you for the 1st few days.. They can have my boobs - I don't care - I rather live - but would have reconstruction if it happen now - but not at 65 - my aunt got it back in 99 and she was over 65 they call it old age cancer and not neccessary in my genes - but since she had it and my great aunt Tilly - I do get my mamos ;0) Candice - how did it go last night??? Well at work need to get busy... CBL TGIF

Good Evening Gang.. Karla studying !!! Candice singing !!! Phyl visiting !!! Steph ???? Linda ???? Food today - ham & cheese for bf one pot wonder for lunch fish veggies maybe some rice - dinner snacks popcorn and sf ice cream

Thanks ;0) Hugs

I would be a ball of nerves - You will do just fine ;0) Can't wait to hear all about it - what are you going to wear...

I wish I had your band - cuz mine doesn't do a darn thing for my compulsion to eat and I have optimal restriction.. I will eat my dinner - be physically full and still want to eat and I'm 3 yrs out. I try and distract myself - but if that doesn't work - I eat a 100 snack pack popcorn - They are my lifesavers - and yes sometimes I do eat 2 - but really after eating one I have taken care of the hand to mouth issues.. I don't keep dangerous foods in my house - period - If you were an alcoholic you wouldn't leave a bottle of booze on the kitchen counter.. When I go shopping - I look at the junk - candy - cheese puffs - and say - ah hell no they aren't worth it - and if I just need something (a treat) I buy 1 candy bar - I buy 1 small bag of chips - cuz after it's gone - it's gone.. I am like Sparky - I have great intentions of just eating 1 - 100 cal snack pack of cookie or whatever it happens to be - but end up eating the whole box ( or the whole whatever it is) - sugar is my heroin - it's my drug of choice - if I start I don't quit - so I make sure I only have 1 serving at my disposal.. There are certain things I can control – like Ice Cream for the most part – I have sf stuff in the house and I can limit myself to a serving – but if a bag of reese Peanut Butter cups were in the house – forget about it – they would be in my stomach – or in the trash.. I have my trigger foods – that I really try to stay away from. I have an addiction - I am in recovery for the last 3 yrs - but the want is still there - do I act on it no - but the desire is with me. The foods that I want to eat are all sliders so my band doesn't do a darn thing about stopping me.. What stops me is that I have lost 115 lbs and I feel so much better - I never want to be morbitly obese again.. I don't want to go back there - so I don't eat the crap that got me there in the 1st place

If you blend it w/ice it makes a lot - but again it's a liquid the key is to stop when your stomach says i'm full - sip on it as long as you want - you need your pt (protein) We are all diff on our restriction - and since I'm 3 yrs out I really don't remember - but would say I drank 8 oz - but again don't really remember - key stop when full - pay attention to your stomach

Good Morning Gang Candice - Nice pics of the camper.. Break a leg tonite at your gig ;0) Karla - Robot is the way too go - gf dh had prostrate removed by a robot - and my boss is going to have that surgery next month - Well might not be 100% your fault - but girl if you get this surgery - then no more moving 100 lbs pots by yourself ;0) Well I guess or Phyl is too busy in OK - Can't wait til she post again regularly .. Steph - Linda what's up girls.. Last night was my late night - gym x 2 - watched survivor and Oprah when I got home - bed - now starting all over - well it's Thrusday - no exercise tonite ;0)

Pure Protein makes a good vanilla cream shake pre-made - 120 cal 19 grms pt and low in carbs - I add 1/2 banana and some Peanut Butter in a blender and ice - It's to die for - and I really don't do Protein Shakes at this stage (3 yrs) I really use it for dessert - you can add what ever you like - I had the unjury when I 1st got banded - unflavored - added flavored sf yogurt and fruit - But to tell you the truth I like the pure protein pre-made ones the best - and I hate pt shakes - like I said when you doctor them up they are excellent - imho That was too much food too in a short period of time - you have to contimplate your stomach - you will feel a new diff full now - but your head will say - oh that's all you are you need more food - Don't listen to it - listen to your stomach you are suppose to eat 3 meals and my doc allows 2 healthy Snacks - So after you have had your planed food - no more - 30 min (or what ever your doc instructed) start drinking your Water.. Yep - no band for your head - I know you have been told - WLS is not the easy way out - even when you have good restriction.. It's still work..

None of us are doctors - I would think your doc would give you some guide lines - I would eat 1/2 cup cream soup and be full .. I am 3 yrs out and I will tell you first had - the band does nothing about what your brain wants.. I will be physically full - but my brains says to eat more.. Please be prepared for all of this - they banded our stomachs but the majority of our problems w/food is in our brains and they haven't developed a band for that yet. Good Luck

Attached is sample menu - Hope it helps !!! I have eaten this way since day one and had no problem losing the weight or maintaning it - I made this a lifetime lifestyle change - I will never go back to eating how I ate pre-band - I know that's how I got fat in the first place - it's not so much how much I ate but the kinds of food I ate - high fat - high sugar and zero exercise Now I eat healthy and am a semi gym rat - maintaining 135-138... Sample Menu.doc

Karla - My meat is oscar meyer sandwich - brown sugar deli ham - not actual deli meat -but that would work too - 6 slices is like 50 cal - cheese 45 - so really you could have 2 servings - I'm good w/one most days. Can't say I stay full till lunch - I get hungry around 10:30 - 11 - and I try to drink then.. I do ok on workout days w/my water I take a 20 oz and I will have it gone by the end of the hour - but that's 1/3 of our water - but I do have at least 2 - 10 oz coffee and then 8-16 oz of juice at nite and 12 oz of ice tea in the afternoons (need the caffiene to keep going).. But some days (non exercise days) all I get is my coffee and a little juice- then I have 2 problems tight and tmi ;0)