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No matter how you lose the weight! Just lose it, your health is what is most impornent. with your weight loss comes a whole new CONFIDENCE. be happy that you can get the band to help you maintain your weight. your taking the first step to a new life of better health, GOOD FOR YOU!

Drink more water, also if you have to stick some thing in your mouth let it be healthy like fruit, or some thing yourgert..

This health system really suck's because if you are a normal person or middle class citzen you fallen to the group where the Goverment don't care to help. it's sad Some time's you are better off being POOR! then trying to make a living working and being the working poor! I have been fighting this Discrimination for years because I"m lucky "I guess because I have a some what of a Good union Job! witch Praise the Lord, we make it because Im the soul provider at this point and for the last Ten year's with a family of five. If I go to work then I knock my wife and family of health care! with the great union job I have first you have to get 300 hours in then you have to wait two month's after that to get insurence, then if your lucky enough to keep getting lots of hours then you only have to pay few hundred dollers amonth. but with this WAR we have to feed things are only going to get worse! sorry to step on your post! "I hate this system we have.JOHNQ

Im Sorry To Hear About Your Trouble! You Would Think They Would Want To See You Healthy And Happy! You Can Do It On Your Own Butt It Is Very Tuff, Im Mean Tuff I Have To Fight My Weight Loss Every Day Its Now A Job More Or Less! I Chose To Be Healthy So There For I Will Have To Watch My food Intake For The Rest Of My Life Or Just Ballon Back Up! Good Luck Hope It Works Out For You! Also Try To Loss Some Of That Stress That Aint Good For You Eather Have A Sit Down With Them? Good Luck Johnq

Thats Great!!!!!

Welcome Aboard And Being Banded.

I was reading a post last night here on few people having some trouble on staying focused on Exercise! we all Do at some point even me..... Start/today Schedule 3 work out a week for only thirty Minutes, my self I like Carideo with lite weights. ( Walking ) What do you want to Accomplish faster weight loss? I think that if you keep a record of your food intake and your calorie consumption you are allowing your self amore accurate approach to maintaining your weight loss ( because ) your thinking about all the food you are eating! Also keep a Journal of your exercise, and if your going to work out (work your whole body!) Have you ever went to a gym and there are people standing around talking about football or other stuff like the War, what ever. Then you hear him say I was the Gym for three hour's what a work out! yeah your lips were a flapping! Just go in thirty minutes get your heart rate up and leave build your self up! the key is doing some thing! "I lost most of my weight walking one hour a day before I hurt my back and watching my calorie intake and drinking lots of water! With out no fancy GYM! You don't even need weight use you own body! the plank is great laying on your elbows like your doing apush up holding your stomach in. its harder then you think! or there is the super man just laying on your stomach suck it in pushing your arms in the air and your legs in the air! this exercise targets your core muscles stronger stomach and lower back! also push ups sit ups. for most of us that are over weight eather way walking! is the best and its free! Easy on your knee's and back! being large myself for over twenty years of being FAT you feel the extra weight that we carry! So if you are in a slump her is a ..............( PUSH ).... summer is just around the corner! and keep track of at least one thing aday your ( PRIMARY GOAL ) yes I want to lose that weight and help your band out and your body in side that is saying I can do this, Good luck start walking to day! JOHNQ

It's good to see you guys back on track, with exercise! Exercise is a great way to keep the weight off but when it over take's you and then become's a JOB! its time to CHANGE UP YOUR ROUTINE try some thing else maybe just walking with your head phones on what ever it takes to keep you moving! and if your really fried from over exercising just talk a few days off and Eat lite, then get back into the grove. Good luck with your weight loss! Ive" fallen off my bike afew times but I always climb back on to fitness.JOHNQ

Diabetes news letter. Thank you all MY friends at LBT for your words of encourgement support.JOHNQ also wrote a journal.

I posted it earlyer but say's the article,. is to big. So I will have to build a web site? unless some has any idea's?

In a Diabetes newsletter,on preventing Diabetes, and losing over hundred pound's. it was nice article,about how exercise and changing your eating habits helped me lose weight! I' try and send a copy. ps how is every one doing on there own weight loss? I hope you are meeting your goals. for the ladys and every one out there that has lost there band due to erosion or restriction I fell bad for you! hang in there. take care God bless! JOHNQ

Aspartame! any thing with it even gum make's me sick.

Penni Im sorry that your going through some tuff time's I' did not get to read the thread but no matter what I would suport you hands down,as you have been a leader among the LBT family! some time's I' wonder if Im, only a mouth full of food away from being over weight again.... but then again for my self even if I had to walk on broken legs I would just keep the weight off. I no you can do it because your head strong you will be fine good luck sorry about your problem.JOHNQ

"I" think I have sceen it all on this site. now Just to funny! I'have worked hard for over a year now so here you GO.........MAN Boob"S

I' went through five scale before I'found one that was accurate. it was a TAYLOR body fat analyzer and scale $29.00 dollers at menards good up to 330 pounds/150kg LCD read out and clock. Good luck.

the state voc rehab program is going through a lot of cut back's thanks to Bush! you would have better luck trying through your home state. MA/MEDICARE then you would need, two doctor's to agree your own and another to say it was a medical necesity then there is a fine line...they will do the gastric but not the band in WI, Good luck!

Weight Isssue, This is only my opinion,people that are on the heaver side tend to be self-conscious or low self-esteem "I know I was! and people tend to treat obease people different. 2nd class "I may have been FAT but deep down I was still good looking at (least in my own mind.) I was seeing a Doctor about my arm shoulder we were talking, he stopped what he was doing and told me that I was FAT, he was small in size then me but he was over weight FAT too! so I kindly told him to look into the mirror buddy because you are to! that was the only time I have ever been so hurt and mad at the same time. said some thing. If you really stop and think about life,think about your weight and how weight holds you back! from your on body's ability to pick your self up sure you would like to go for a walk but your back hurts, knee's hurt and all the many problems that go along with being over weight. sure you like to run next to your kidds playing with them chasing them around the yard but weight holds us back. Im happy you feel great and are picking and holding your heads UP! Im just learning that, now that Im out of (prison with my weight) I can run freely with my kidds I can join in there fun after losing all my weight I now no that there is nothing that can stop me on any thing! I CAN DO ANY THING! and my main focus is to stay healthy for my self and my kidds. I refuse to be fat again to be in bondge! if i have to walk every day swim bike what ever! I will do it. Im so proud of my self that I have lost weight, and proud of all of you guy's even if you lost ten pounds or hundred more your taking back your LIFE! keep the fight going for your self and the family that love's you! lose the weight at all cost.

Good JOB! keep it up!

Hey vine's glad to see are doing good! I hope you and spud boy had a nice time,good job on the inhailer's.

Drink more water! little exercise, and if you have to eat some thing (Small ) make sure its healthy!

"I hope your day goe's well GOOD luck! speedy recovery.

Here is my photo's I' think im in line for a tummy tuck? I rate my stomach at and ugly 7.5 Show us your's.....:faint:

<TABLE class=tborder id=post127140 cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=6 width="100%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=thead>2005, 03:53 PM <!-- / status icon and date --> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2 style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><!-- user info --><TABLE cellSpacing=6 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=alt2></TD><TD noWrap>jqpublic <SCRIPT type=text/javascript> vbmenu_register("postmenu_127140", true); </SCRIPT> Registered User </TD><TD width="100%"> </TD><TD vAlign=top noWrap>Join Date: Mar 2005 Age: 40 Posts: 329 </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- / user info --></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt1 id=td_post_127140><!-- message, attachments, sig --><!-- icon and title -->calorie counters/ starvation <HR style="COLOR: #d1d1e1" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->Starvation/ i did it not knowing I was doing it by low calorie diet of 1000 calorie's not counting the hours of exercise I was doing in a week,tell one day I was looking into my food journal and was shocked on how many calorie's I was consuming the burning all most that much off 3 pounds of weight loss in 42 hard days of exercise! learn from my mistake.please also you can take your weight time's elevin that is the calories your body need's in a day 500 more to gain weight 5oo less to lose works. good luck! I have been looking this up. It's hard to find information on starvation that isn't given relating to eating disorders, and I want more than just that one branch of opinion. http://jaoii.lunarpages.com/bar.gif One article on POWs in Japan said they were on a "near-starvation diet of 700 calories per day". Most sources will agree that this is most definitely within actual starvation range. A diet article said that "to avoid triggering the starvation-adaptation response, you should consume at least 1,200 Calories per day if you’re a woman and 1,600 Calories if you’re a man." I think, though, that they were more concerned with the metabolism's slowing-down response than actual starvation. And I found a technical, encyclopaedic definition that seems pretty thorough: Starvation is classified into three categories based on caloric intake over time (Frisancho, 1981): 1. Acute - less than 600 calories/day for less than two weeks. 2. Semiacute starvation - less than 1100 calories/day for less than 30 days. 3. Moderate semistarvation - less than 1600 calories/day for as long as 24 weeks. Initial consequences of starvation are apathy, muscle weakness, and reduction of activity. Body weight loss is progressive. The body first extracts energy from carbohydrate stored in the liver and glycogen in muscles. Then the body burns fat to get needed energy for about two weeks. After that point both fat and Protein are used. After 24 weeks there is a loss of physical work performance. Individuals with a daily diet intake of less than 2,000 calories per day have impaired physical work capacity. Many sources agree that starvation causes some pretty typical behavior changes. Interestingly enough these new behaviors are the same as those usually found in eating-disordered people... a fixation on the body, an obsession with meal-planning and cooking, the tendency to hoard food or pictures of food, other compulsive-type ritualized patterns. I'm curious. How many of those traits do eating-disordered people start with, and how many show up on their own as a result of our food habits? A lot of doctors attribute our disorders to those traits, not the traits to the disorder, and therefore tend not to consider the possibility. And the article about the Minnesota starvation study has finally reared its pretty head. I'm so frickin' happy! I love this baby. It explains so many of those odd little quirks that plague me from time to time, and I think it's fascinating to see how starvation can turn almost anyone into an ED, at least for a while. I wonder if that's really how a lot of EDs begin. People with the tendencies start to diet, then their bodies kick into gear and yank them down. So it's not just a matter of willpower or self-control or "not letting a diet get out of hand" if some of us really can't mess with that without going nuts, is it? Go here to read the parts pertaining to the study, and here to find the whole thing (load the page, then click "psychoeducational"). http://jaoii.lunarpages.com/bar.gif untitled2.html An Endocrinologist Talks About Consequences of Starvation Problems Caused By Being Underweight IB Holocaust Project: Starvation, Cold, and Disease Levi - food, calories Primo Levi. Concentration camp survivor and author. Very interesting. Effects of Combining Low-Carb with Starvation Anorexics Sentenced to Death An article about how the USA's health-care system is failing anorexics. Practice: Case Examples, Practice Essentials and Frequently Asked Questions Digestive Reading 5 A Policy of Deliberate Starvation Details on the food situation in concentration camps. The Air Commodore Birchall on Leadership Not specifically about starvation, but worth reading. He kicks ass. Story of his experiences in a POW camp. THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 1, Ch. 2, Malnutrition Toothpaste Used Up the Rest of my Calories! A "normal guy's" response to a diet. http://jaoii.lunarpages.com/bar.gif home This was found on a site called fat like me! I hope every one out there is losing weight and doing it right,way. If you are going to count calories please do it with an open mind weight loss is good but not at the cost of starvation! I,am guilt of living around 1200 caolries daily and lower but at what cost long term? please read! I hope it made you think "that" all. http://jaoii.lunarpages.com/starve.html <!-- / message --><!-- sig -->__________________ :banana :banana :banana With God behind you success is a prayer away. Weight 197.6.......... BMI 26.8 and ("DROPPING").......with lean muscle... P.S I" hope that you are meeting your weight loss goal's Will Venture to 185lb. Mini Goal. "You cannot achieve fitness with out Exercise! </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

I" have to agree with Jachut! (Carideo) is the best way to lose weight with light weight's more reps; walking swimming biking are all good! easy on your knee's and back. You are just starting out in the game of weight loss there will be good day's and bad, it all take's time. you have to change up your routines and try a little more exercise. Exercise Is the key in weight loss. Your Band is a Important tool in your weight loss,now you just have to learn to help it! Good luck John

Hello there! glad you are doing fine! and welcome to band land.