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Hey girl are we twins ??!?! you described me EXACTLY> I have been "off the wagon" of rules too and slack in applying all the rules that I know will help me, I too have been on a plateau about 5 months now, but all my own fault. Thanks for your post, we will encourage each other and suffer through the halloween candy together. I am resolved to giving all my extra trick or treat candy away and if any left it is going to my kids at church. I have been horrible and need accountability myself What you say we post on here daily what we eat (every little bite) and what water and exercise we do? I also needed to hear from others who fell off the wagon, but let us remember we can fall off the wagon, but just don't get run over by it! ha ha

(continuing the thread I started ealier under Suggestions, feedback section) The link started is here: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/showthread.php?t=9537 Today's post: Well we got some good responses so far from you all. How about we do follow up on this thread with each other? Weekly sign-ins would be great although a daily thread would be fine withe me too as I need daily and sometimes hourly encouragement.... At my highest weight I needed to loose 170 pounds and have lost 130 of it so far. I have hit a plateau for a while now. I know I need to increase exercise and decrease snacking between meals. Any more suggestions? I am gonna sit down real soon and make out a list of all the NSV and maybe that will help motivate me and others too. Glad to meet all you other 100 pounds + fellow bandsters, to all you who have lost 100+ Congratulations Way to go..... For all you who still need to lost 100+ - you can do it!! Let us encourage one another. Hope to hear back from all you 100+ club members really soon! __________________

I have hit a plateau and know I need to increase my Water intake, but do not have a natural love of water, but love iced tea with splenda and flavored fruit waters, but still struggle to get in over 66 oz per day, I need about double this amount but fail to accomplish this daily. I know it would probably help me pass this plateau I am on. Got any ideas on how to include more of it daily? Schedule you go by for water intake? Rewards for getting in certain amount etc.? Sounds silly but I need help on this one. thanks for any info.

Hey 100+ fellow bandsters, TGIF!!! First off, Kim, welcome to the 100+ club. Thanks for your input and advice on how you work your band and diet strategies,etc. I too am lax on the exercise part, very badly actually. My work keeps me so bogged down I don't feel like I have time to exercise, but I know it will help me get over this plateau, so next week I vow to start back to exercising. I have a Y membership being wasted as well but not after next week, I am just gonna mark it on my schedule to exercise as though it was an important appointment. I have to!! Please check on me and ask me daily if I have exercised, I need that kind of accountability. Well after earlier in the week figuring out how I needed to write down everything that goes in my mouth, and recording it on Fitday.com, I have done that every and increased my Water intake to at least 100 oz of water per day, I am happy to say I have lost 5 pounds this week!! Well, it might be just water weight but at least it is a start!! Maybe I am getting over the plateau?! I sure hope so, but the weekend is coming up and I have trouble then. I will try my hardest to continue my food diary over the weekend too, and increased water intake. Sorry for the long post and thanks for posting here with me. Together we can do this!

I think it would be great to form a forum/board just for people who need to lose 100 + pounds to include those who have lost 100+ pounds. I bet you would get some good responses. Be nice to confer with others who have lost 100+ pounds when we hit plateaus, etc.

Welcome to the 100+ club!! Hope everyone reports here at least once a week so we can encoaurge one another.

I found a cool calorie calculator online at: http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/calories-goal.php You put in your age, sex, current weight, goal weight and height and it calculates how many calories per day to reach your goal weight, but it was averaging it on a loss of 0.5 (half) a pound a week., tells you how many weeks it will take to get to your goal weight at this amount. Of course, if I am serious in my attempts, I usually will lose more than 1/2 pound per week, but I guess that is something to go by anyway if you wanted to try it. Thanks.

Thanks to all of your for yoru good Water advice and tricks. I like the idea of chewing on ice too, gives the illusion of eating something when your really not! ha ha. I went out in search of some flavored water and I had found some 33 oz bottles of flavored distilled water sweetened with splenda at Ingles Grocery store here and love the cherry limeade and peach one. They had about 5 flavors in all, but I had tried these two before and got them. I looked like a water "sot", my buggy was full of 12 bottles of water! But they were only 88 cents each not bad for 33 oz bottle huh? Teresa - thanks for your complimentsm you have done great too with your wt loss, keep up the good work and thanks for the info about how good water is for me. My skin needs all the help it can get! Thanks for all your advice. I will take it and use it! Maybe between the extra water intake, extra exercise and your advice and support, I can push through my plateau and get the scales moving again.

Keri, No the thread is for anyone who either has lost over 100 pounds or still needs to, just a support/encouragement type thread. I know I can always use extra encouragement on a daily basis. 38 pounds gone - GOOD FOR YOU!!! Your little train will be at the station of 135 pounds before you know it. (ticker) You go girl!

Well we got some good responses so far from you all. How about we do follow up on this thread with each other? Weekly sign-ins would be great although a daily thread would be fine withe me too as I need daily and sometimes hourly encouragement.... At my highest weight I needed to loose 170 pounds and have lost 130 of it so far. I have hit a plateau for a while now. I know I need to increase exercise and decrease snacking between meals. Any more suggestions? I am gonna sit down real soon and make out a list of all the NSV and maybe that will help motivate me and others too. Glad to meet all you other 100 pounds + fellow bandsters, to all you who have lost 100+ Congratulations Way to go..... For all you who still need to lost 100+ - you can do it!! Let us encourage one another. Hope to hear back from all you 100+ club members really soon!

Well I have been Enlightened.... I have been keeping a food journal to keep up with calories, fat, Protein, Fiber, etc, at fitday.com and putting every single thing that goes in my mouth on there. I have been enlightened with a rude awakening! :straight I had hit a plateau and was getting all depressed and sad wondering why I had stopped losing ---- well, I was eating way more than I needed for a day. More in between snacking than I care to admit to and poor food choices for Snacks, too much fat and calories. Just wanted to share how much I feel that fitday.com will help me pass my plateau. I had to have this slap in the face of brutal honesty to wake me up. I am like a kid who has to be told what to do sometimes, but please pray for me that I will continue to keep the food journal and pass this plateau! Thanks for your prayers! My new motto- If I bite it I write it (in the food journal)

Well, I am 37 years old and have bought my very FIRST pair of bluejeans! (Hold on to something tight, the earth might be moving where you are - I am in he process of doing the happy dance!!) I have always been a big girl and never ever thought I looked good in jeans and still don't actually look good in them, but at least I feel comfortable in a size 18 now! I never would bring myself to buy them to wear because I never felt I would look decent in them. Might not be a big deal to alot of folks, but that is going in my scrapbook as soon as I get my hubby to take a picture of me wearing them! Thanks for listening to me and my silly NSV.

You go girl! That is a HUGE NSV. I am very proud for you. My advise is to keep a list of all your NSV as you go along for it helps to look back at all these great little miracles when you are at a plateau in your wt loss (like I am right now). Have a great day and ENJOY the new freedom of skirts with no stockings!

Laura, Yes, I have gotten the "stuck" golfball feeling without the slimes. That is your signal to stop right then of course. You won't get this unless you have eaten to big a bite and did not chew it well enough. Just chew chew chew until the food in your mouth is mush before swallowing food and take very small bites and eat slow. I have had a slip with replacement of band and I want to help in anyway I can to advise people who are new to the band. Feel free to send mea private message any time you are scared. You are smart to go back to mushies for a day. Good girl! Take care and good luck with it.

Here is some encouaragement and tips/hints I got from a fellow bandster regarding my plateu in a private message; hope this helps you. "It sounds as though you need a pretty massive overhaul in your diet and exercise regime. Try doing completely different exercises than you're doing now. Something that will work a different group of muscles. If your body gets into too much of a rut the exercising will not really do anything any more - so a varied exercise regime is best for continued weight loss. Try mixing up your low carb diet with more fruits - unless that is something you're already doing. Its hard for me to give diet advice not knowing much about what you currently eat. But often times it's that the body is in starvation mode from not getting enough good carbs. Eating some sweets fruits every day (get organic, they taste better) can help that. Also, have you gotten another fill recently? If you feel you're too restricted for another fill then you may need to modify your eating habits more so you can get another fill. In other words, learning to chew REALLY REALLY REALLY well (you'll find that only "pure" foods taste good when you have to chew 100 times for each little bite). And also learning that you can't eat things like bulky salads for lunch. There are adjustments that need to be made as you get more fills".

LooLoo, Yes, been there and done that (still doing it actually) I have been plateaued at a loss of 133 pounds now for 7 months and am very tired of waiting to get restarted on the weight loss. Please read my post I placed here about my plateau and the responses from other bandsters who encouraged me.... it is at this link: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/showthread.php?t=9365 Good luck to you and please feel free to send a private message to me any time. I enjoy talking to others and gaining tips and hints about our journey.

Hello fellow Tennessee bandster! Welcome to bandland! Vinesqueen is right, without a proper fill yet, you will not feel restriction yet. Just eat small amounts often to keep from getting hungry as bad. I would drink high-protein, lowcarb slimfast chocolate shakes and they would stick with me for a while and kept me from getting as hungry as often during the liquid part of the diet. Hang in there, once you get your adjustments going, you will start feeling restriction, however, the hunger for me never went away but it just don't take near as much to make the hunger go away after you start getting your fills/adjustments. Good luck to you!

You will know! Trust me. I have the larger VG band and it took me 3 fills to get where I needed to be with restriction. Just keep on doing what you are doing and eating until you feel satisified, that is the safest bet. If you push it to feeling "full" you will have a heavy golf-ball feeling in your chest, that tells me I ate too much, which is very uncomfortable. Don't want to go there, trust me. Good luck with it.

You need the following amounts for a balanced diet Calories - 1200 - 1500 Protein - 50-60 grams per day Fiber - 20-30 grams per day Calcium - 1200 -1500 mg per day Water - 64-100 ounces per day Exercise - at least 45 minutes per day

Having been banded for 1 yr 7 months, I wanted to add my 2 cents worth.... I love scrambled eggs as well and it was like Heaven when I got to start on real food again. I never have had a PB on the eggs, but do be careful. I make mine moist by adding fat free mayonaisse to them or maybe some salsa, that way they are moist going in with less likely chance of getting stuck. Good luck on your WLS journey....

just adding my 2 Cents worth. I do not drink with my meals whatsoever, as one, it is painful when I have tried in the past and two, if you eat some and then add something to drink after getting your pouch partially full of food, you increase the pressure on your pouch which over time could lead to pouch dilation and slippage. So as for me, I don't want to risk that again (I had revision for slippage) and will just opt to not drink even sips with my meals and wait one hour after to drink anything. I usually pop in a breath mint after I eat to get the taste out of my mouth. Hope this helps...

Here is what I need this daily food thread, you people are so great and supportive. I am gonna make sure I do the fitday.com every day. It has woke me up and made me realize how much off course I have been in guessing about my daily intake. Here is my intake so far for today.... Foods Eaten Today: Breakfast: cheese slice, kraft deli 1 slice turkey deli meat sliced 1 serving lunch Bush Baked Beans, barbeque 1/2 cup 1 fatfree oscar meyer weiner saltine crackers (2 crackers) Thanks for starting this food thread....

I have BC/BS mass and it was great for me. I had no problems as I met the necessary BMI and had 2 doctors who sent letters of medical necessity for me. Overall, they did what they said they would do on their part. Good luck!

Cindy, I had slippage 10 months out from my first band, I could eat anything fine, my only symptom was extreme gastric reflux but only at night when I laid down. I never felt anything different and was able to eat anything. So slippage has pretty much no symptoms on some folks. I will pray you are just too tight and that an unfill will fix you right up. Take care.

Way to go!! I am doing the happy dance for you, did you feel the earth shake? It was not an earthquake, just me doing the happy dance! It is a great feeling huh? God has been so good!! Take care and keep up the good work.