bandster_1007

a prescription diuretic is probably your best bet. it does not have caffeine but it can decrease your potassium levels. i take hydrochlorthiazide and i love it. but i have severe swelling and some days i have to take a lasix in addition to that.

ok, where is everyone at?

here is my report for yesterday: 1155 calories and 38 grams of Protein. no fruit, but three veggies.

had a rough night really, spent 3 hours in the salon, while i had a Migraine, sugar bottomed out (65) drank sweet tea, that set up a spiral for the rest of the night. then i couldn't sleep (that seems to be the norm) so i ate. i finally went to sleep at 2 and woke up at 6.

i'll not be on here this weekend, we are going to the Buffalo River to go on a canoe float. that will take care of my exercise :wub: ...i will not track my calories there, i know that i need too, but we make a lot of dutch oven meals, that have a lot of ingredients, that i honestly do not want to add up. :thumbup:

here is the quote of the day.

"Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves."

OH I LOVE DORY..she was truly my favorite character in nemo.

we must remember not to beat ourselves up. i don't want this to be a "i did bad so beat me up thread" that would not be cool.

instead we are going to encourage each other. don't fret, it is just one day. if you don't do it all the time, it's not going to hurt, and you have to allow yourself some freedom within your diet, just not too much. so Cookies and milk and popcorn is not a big deal. you did great the day before, and today is a new day.

i had milk this morning, totally threw off my calories for the day......i'll eat a good lunch. i think i'm going to try to find a good salad.

ok, there is the motivation quote of the day.

my report for yesterday:

still haven't exercised. it is that tom, and for anyone who has been following me around here will know that i just went through a miscarriage and some serious infections, and finally had surgery to fix it all 6 weeks ago. overall i missed 9 1/2 weeks of work. so i'm still very tired, and i think i'm pms'ing right now, i'm tired, achy, bloated, etc. and i had a Migraine yesterday. so i should have exercised the day before because i felt fine. (i have fibromyalgia too and it gets me)

i ate 825 calories yesterday and i had 23 grams of Protein. i had one fruit, that i barfed up, but no veggies. i couldn't fit it down yesterday. i ate those crackers and ham and cheese rolls, then for lunch i had lunch meat and cheese, and then i couldn't really eat a dinner. so i'm still doing better than i was before i started this whole thing.

want_so..., i'm anxious to see how you are doing.

coo, are you still with us?

lulac you have done so well, and even though i'm not where you are, i still appreciate your experiences.

...i haven't even begun to deal with why i self sabotage myself, well actually i take that back, i think it has to do with my man problem. it is hard and i studied psychologin in college, and i'm beginning to think that working on yourself may not be such a good idea..i need someone from the outside.

ok, so how did you guys finally break your habit of head hunger. mine is particularly bad at night after i take all my meds. i think it is because they relax my stomach. i started doing word puzzles at one point and i think i'm going to take that back up again.

my husband recently went back on evening shift 3-11 and i miss him, and i can't sleep. so i think i want to eat for comfort when normally we would be sitting around talking.

my doctor says that it is just air coming up from the food or Water that you have just swallowed.

they say it is perfectly normal

if i have a good fill, i gurgle with every sip.

hate it....

want...WOW..WAY TO GO GIRL. and the exercising, great thing. see that is why i need to exercise, so i can eat more calories!!!! good for you on that Protein, i can see why you lost.

ok, now, i'm dedicated to keep this going until we get where we need to be, so want_so_bad, those mental issues....

i'm afraid that when i get close to goal i am not going to like the attention that i get from other..particularly men. i have a problem with men. i mean i have healthy relationships with them, i'm married, etc, but i avoid men like the plague. i love where i work because there is only one, i will not check out with a man checker if i can help it, if i'm doing a loan i always try to talk to the woman..it took me a while to realize this, but i'm afraid it works against me.

so, is that anything to do with the mental issues that you are dealing with? how are you dealing? let's talk about it, and maybe it will help us get through it and others dealing with it too.

ok girls. i work at a mortgage company and sometimes our appraiser's love us enough to send food. well, today is the day!! i had one ham and cheese roll and 4 saltine crackers. i am stopping at that. it measured up to be about 90 calories worth.

i found a small fish oil at Walmart that i use and i only have to take one a day.

ok, so i'm ready to report on yesterday's behaviors. i consumed a little over 800 calories, but not much. YEEEAAAAHHHHHH!!!! however, i only ate 14 grams of Protein.... :frown: ....bbbbaaadddd me. i ate 2 veggies, i never got around to the fruit though.

my goal for today is the same as yesterday. i did good, but got to work on Protein.< /p>

oh, and yesterday's weight was from Saturday actually. i never re weighed. now i'm at 207.4 !!!! down 2 lbs.

ok GIRLS LETS DO IT!!!!!

I guess since this is a motivational thread i will post a quote of the day: (not related to weight)

..........i'm waiting to hear how everyone else did, don't let this thread die. let's band together and work through this.

welcome coo, i still think you are doing great, but i do hear that halfway is a hard point. i'm glad you are joining us!

i use the daily plate also. i love it.

i'm thinking of purchasing wii fit to see if that will motivate me. i do not like leaving my house :thumbup:. i hate walking outside. arkansas weather...well..it's humid and hot...or cold..lol

you are doing really well want..i mean you are only 20 lbs from goal. that is when i hear it gets hard. i can understand you wanting to do the extra exercising. really that is where i want to be when i am at that point.

i want to eat normally when i am at maintenance mode, and i believe the only way to do that is to exercise, not to mention the health benefits. and although i'm all for it mentally...getting my body to cooperate is quite different.

..mine is cheese dip....tom and i eat it for dinner every night :thumbup:

i always ride out tom by having soft foods or liquids.< /p>

you said it want...that is my problem too, tomorrow this...tomorrow that.

well, i haven't had my fruit or veggies yet. i've had 236 calories and only 9 grams of Protein. so, i'm not making good choices yet either.

(i picked my calorie goal from my doctor..he swears that if you only eat 800 calories a day you WILL lose 2 lbs a week, no exceptions).

OK, WANT...YOU CAN DO IT!!! ...an hour a day..whew!!! i feel i need to kick my goal up some (twice a week..ha), but i burn out easy..so slow start for me.

is the Centrum chewable good, i was afraid to try it.

truly country my best advise is start trying to exercise now, and cut out simple sugars. it will help a lot after surgery.

also, do not expect the world, that way if you get it you will be pleasantly surprised. be prepared to lose weight slow. i have only lost 14 lbs since october, but that is 14 lbs that i probably would have gained otherwise.

i like unjury Protein, ONLY. i cannot stand the other stuff. it is good. tastes just like chocolate milk.

when i started my paperwork with dr. wellborn i was banded a month later. i'm a self pay. it took no time. i had already decided to use him before i went to the seminar. actually the seminar was the week before my surgery :tongue_smilie:.

he is great, but i hear great things about lutrell and baker.

all i know is make sure you do your research, i have heard there is a doctor in arkansas doing bands, that has been banned from baptist and uams hospital due to his large amounts of malpractice. he/she therefore HAS to do their surgery in a surgery center. lot's of people are having problems with said doctor. i do not know their name, this is all i know. i got this information from a pretty reliable source though.

diane, it sounds like your problem is not in your choices but in the band itself. if you eat meat, veggie, and fruit and are hungry 2 hours later and it is a solid meat, then you need a fill.

my doctor's rule of thumb is that if you can eat a half of a white bread sandwich you need a fill. no exeptions.

my problem isn't in that i get hungry, all the time, but in that i make bad decisons.

thanks for joining me!! looking forward to working through this together.

ok, so i have had 36 calories today (coffee), now i want taco bell for lunch. i know bad, but it goes down easy when you are tight.

trying to talk myself out of it.

i have to take 2 diuretics a day and druing tom it is especially bad. have you ever considered a diuretic?

my doctor says when you are swollen (hands, feet, etc) then your organs are going through the same thing so you will be tighter. it hits me every month.

Ok, so I’ve got to get back into the swing of things.

I don’t know how the rest of you “tenacious tens” are doing, but I am not doing like I expected to be. I’ve only lost 14 lbs since October. Now, keep in mind that I have been unfilled since march. I did not gain anything during my unfill YEAH FOR ME, but I did not lose either. Now I have a fill, and I’ve found that I’m having trouble following the rules.

So I am going to get on here and post everyday and tell you what I have done, and what I haven’t.

First, these are my goals. I do not eat very healthy at all, and I do not exercise. So for this next week, my goal is to eat one piece of fruit and one vegetable (at least) per day and to exercise at least twice. Little, I know, but I’m pretty much starting over.

So, yesterday I scarfed down a whole 1700 calories. This only 2 days after a fill (I was filled Saturday). I’m decently tight, if I eat solid food, but instead I drank sweet tea, had ice cream and ate chips. So….now you know where I am starting. Today’s weight is 209, I will weigh again next Tuesday.

Ok, so here is my guilt so far. I went an purchased a dr.pepper because I’m so darn tired!!!! This after I drank 20 ounces of coffee and took B12. well, I can’t handle the soda, so I gave it away YEAH!!!!. I haven’t had Breakfast yet, so I will post again later today.

Please join me. I’m going to share all and see if it helps, emotions, etc.

I will admit I have been going through a lot of emotional stuff lately with the miscarriage and everything else. I’m taking a lot of new medicine’s, and I seem to not want to ween from the pain pills like I should. This is a struggle when you are trying not to eat.

So, anyone else who feels the need to straighten up or stay straight, please join me.

My goal for today is 800 calories and at least 40 grams of Protein (this will increase over time, I hope).

i think i have 9.5, and i haven't lost very much.

i take two flinstone's a day.

i was taking a prenatal for a while, but my ob/gyn was so stupid that she put me on one that was for people who eat a really healthy diet. so i got a severe Vitamin deficiency and i'm still paying for it.

it made me severly fatiqued, achy, and i had sore like things on each side of my lips, my tongue, etc. (and yes i went to a doctor and it was a Vitamin deficiency). i was freaking out because i thought i had cold sores for over a month ( i was sick, but i didn't think i was that sick ...lol).

so, to sum up my point, make sure you take a vitamin, no matter what it is. and that crap about not absorbing is stupid, after one week of flinstone's (2 per day) my sores were cleared up.

hey all, i will re introduce myself. my name is tabatha. i live in jacksonville. i'm 26 had lap band 10-2007 haven't lost a lot, but had medical issues this year.

i'm a self pay patient and used dr. wellborn. i love him.

as for Pasta, you will probably find after surgery that it is not worth the effort to eat. your cravings go away. i used to have Pasta with every dinner (lipton noodles, rice, pasta salad, etc.) now i rarely cook it. it is just too hard to eat. this includes spaghetti. i can only eat that whenever i am loose. as for veggies, i don't like several, but i eat the ones that i do so it is fine.

i am right there with you. my last fill i was so tight that i couldn't swallow my own spit for 48 hours. i'm a little worried about this fill on saturday too. (i was banded oct 18 and i've lost 20 lbs.) i had some medical issues that i had to deal with since march though.

thank you jack. you are always so knowlegeable. i am supposed to be taking glucophage but i am afraid to take it do to the lows that i experience a lot. i do need to eat better and you nailed it, i think i get the lows after eating sugar.

i do feel A LOT worse when it is low than when it is high. i kind of feel "crazy" when it is high, but i feel like i will faint or eat someone's arm off when it is low