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The trouble is, without exercise during weight loss, we lose muscle as well as fat, and when we lose muscle, it takes less to fuel our bodies. So to maintain during winter when you don't want to move too much, you will find yourself eating next to nothing. Or putting on weight.

No, I just had a tummy tuck, nothing done to my breasts, or backside. I didn't have any lipo either. It's now been 15 months since my tummy tuck, and I am still as happy with the results now as I was at 8 months po. Thanks. Thank you muchly! I logged out, and could still see it. Maybe try refreshing your page?

If that's the type of lifestyle you are after, maybe the RNY is a better option, because for every bandster who doesn't exercise to lose 100lbs, there are 20 who do have to exercise to lose the same 100lbs. That said, I don't actually know of too many people who have had RNY who don't exercise either.

No, I don't eat any red meat, chicken or fish at all. For protein I eat eggs, cheese, TVP, Beans and nuts. I never really counted protein grams, so I couldn't say exactly how many grams a day I eat. When I eat out I usually just order from the vegetarian section of the menu (99.95% of the places I eat at have this) And when there isn't a Vege menu to order from, there is usually something that suits me. I didn't become vegetarian for any ethical reason (I don't have a problem with seeing other people eat meat) I was just never a big meat eater, and I found that I was eating less and less meat as time went on and just thought to myself "why not just become vegetarian?" and within a couple of weeks I had eliminated meats from my diet all together. I am what's call and ovo-lacto vegetarian, meaning I still eat dairy, eggs and honey. There are other types of vegetarianism that are far more restrictive in what can be consumed, but I love my cheese and yoghurt, so I don't see myself becoming vegan any time soon.

About 6 months post op I started running (slowly!!) 3 times a week, and I did, and still do 3 days a week of resistance work. These days I run about 5km a day, a long run on the weekends of about 10km (I am working on getting my daily run up to 8km, and my weekend run up to 15km), still do the resistance work 3x a week, and when my friends can rope me into it, a yoga class a week. I stopped taking my met around the time I started running, at about 6 months post op. For my money's worth, it's not just been exercise. I converted to vegetarianism about 2 years ago now, and the weight started falling off when I paid attention to eating whole foods (not over processed diet type foods). The exercise was a HUGE part, don't get me wrong, but I felt a huge change when I started eating whole, organic foods.

Yes, they are my start and finish weights. I was banded Feb 2005, I got to goal in early July 2006, and had a tummy tuck in August 2006. And welcome to LBT!

I try to wait at least an hour.

I was Dx'd with PCOS and IR in 2001, then with Diabetes in 2002. I was Dx'd after my GP put 2 and 2 together and sent me to an endo. I had a million and 2 blood tests, a pelvic exam, and an ultrasound that confirmed cysts. Since my weight loss, I have seen a marked improvement in my symptoms. My mood swings are much better, my skin is clear, the hair growth has slowed down, and I now have a perfect 28 day cycle, and am off Metformin.

A big hello from Brisbane! And welcome to LBT. Good luck with your surgery tomorrow Amy!! Sam.

My shoe size went down too. I was roughly an 8.5 to a 9 depending on the shoe, and I am now in a six.

I am LOVING mine. I actually just got back from the shop with a Nike + for iPod thing. I ended up with the 4gig silver, simply because all the shops I went to were sold out of the pretty colours, and only had the video and iTouch left, or the 4gig in sliver, and I wasn't spending that sort of cash for something I wasn't even sure I needed. Now that I have had a good play with it, I do intend to buy an 8gig in the purple or teal colour in the new year and hand this one down to DS who has already dented this one.

You can just eat less and lose weight, but you won't just be loosing fat, you will lose muscle too. And then, there is no guarantee that you will keep the weight off without exercise. And really, for optimum health, people should be doing around an hours exercise a day. 1. Because there is no malabsorption. Ever calorie we eat we absorb. 2. That's up to the individual. I exercise daily for anywhere up to 90 minutes (most days I average about an hour) 3. I can only speek for myself here, but pretty early on in the picture I started running. And I still run now, over a year into my maintenance. I actually run more now than I did while I was losing. I also do some resistance training 3 times a week on top of my cardio.

Drinking water during and after a run has never been a problem for me.

Losing weight "fixed" a lot of my PCOS symptoms, I now have a 28 day cycle, the hair growth has slowed, my skin is clear, my insulin and sugar issues (diabetes) are now totally resolved, and my mood swings are much better.

:clap2:Congratulations!!:clap2:

Honestly, I have made a life long change, and I ended up doing better than the RNY stats quoted. So if you are looking at this in terms of a total lifestyle change, and a commitment to said change, there is no reason that 100% EWL cannot be achieved. That all said, if I lost my band for some reason, and was unable to be re-banded, I would look at my other options (RNY, DS and VSG)

When I got to goal, I found it hard to stop losing weight, so i had a couple of small unfills, then a total unfill (the weight loss stoped at that point) I have now been unfilled for about a year, and I haven't gained any weight at all. In fact I am a couple of pounds lighter. I think the thing is, if a person is going to just "diet" the weight off with idea that once they get to goal they can unfill, and eat "normally" again, they will probably regain the weight. BUT if a person changes their lifestyles, there is a much better chance that a year down the tack they will have kept the weight off. And I am not too sure where the idea that an unfilled band will "want to slip" comes from. It's not like it's so loose it's flopping around on your stomach or anything. It's still tight, but not as tight as when it's filled. I do love my doctor. But as much as I love him, he is too short for my liking, so I don't think I would marry him! LMAO I do get what you mean. I don't think that you are tied to any one doctor, but I have always seen the same doc because I like him, we get on well (that is very important for me) and he is close by.

Good to know. I am really looking forward to being able to put together play lists, rather than having to scroll through hundreds of songs. That is a pain in the ass. I so want to come! It's a matter of organising the time off. I zoned out during my run today, and had a little daydream about running the Disney marathon. Ahh..... Then I just about fell into a pothole.

I think I killed my shuffle on Wednesday night. I went out for my run, and it started bucketing down, I was saturated, and so was my shuffle. I tuned it off straight away, but it still got soaked. I got home, dried it off, and left it to dry out. Now the dammed thing won't stay charged. So I am thinking it is a really good excuse to by a Nano. Does anyone have one? Any issues with them? Or are they just the best things in the whole wide world? TIA.

Usually liquids following a fill are to give any swelling that the fill may have caused a chance to go down.

Hell yes. Being over restricted makes it hard to eat good solid food, so people turn to stuff that goes down easy, like ice cream, chips, milk shakes ect. Not good for weight loss.

I guess you could say that. I lost from my highest recorded weight of 135kg (my scale wouldn't go any higher than 135kg, so I could have been heavier), down to 49kg. So a loss of roughly 86kg. I got to goal in about 17 months.

Yeah, I was banded 22/2/05. Close to 3 years ago.

Congrats on the first 10kg down Dazey!! And Hi and congrats to Sundowner! I am starting to think we need to organise a Brisbane meet up.

That looks like a really good run! I wonder if DH could get the time away from work so I can run Disney World...