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I probably wouldn't be abl to sleep if I went that late, hard exercise hypes me up too much

You'll know if you're overtraining. You won't recover, you'll lack energy, not sleep well and you may get depressed too. Maybe your immunity will take a nose dive and you'll pick up annoying colds etc.

Ha, love it.
We're doing lots of Christmas stuff at school which is a bit risky for a public school in Australia!

The people that appear to lose really fast to me always seem to be low carbers, or those really strict on the Protein first thing.
Personally, I'd rather lose slower, lol.
But what really worked to keep it coming off for me was running - an hour six or seven days a week. I dont do quite so much cardio now, more mixed up and spaced out with things like circuit training and gym work. But to shed fat when you've got lots of it, running really works.

I just dont understand how people can put themselves on these crackpot nutty fad diets and then feel bad because they break them!
Why on earth would you need to do something like that to yourself? Its madness, of COURSE you're going to get hungry and make poor choices sooner or later and of course any weight lost gets regained because all you achieve is to dehydrate yourself and burn up your muscles.
Just stick to sensible, regular eating and it becomes much less difficult to avoid blow outs.
That pouch test is ridiculous and by following regimes like that, you're setting yourself up for this kind of fall. It doenst matter that there's a band round your stomach, starve your body like that and it's going to retaliate. I know I would have done the exact same thing.
That's why I got a band, to leave that kind of behaviour behind forever.

Sounds like reflux - the pain is acid burning your eophagus. You might need an unfill or to take proper medication for it.

Sounds like reflux - the pain is acid burning your eophagus. You might need an unfill or to take proper medication for it.

The band is not a static thing, fill needs and levels change all the time. I think you were right at the time, tight, loose, whatever if you cant keep food down an unfill is probably necessary and I find it hard to imagine a doc would insist on going by what an xray says and not by your experience! That's pretty insane.
Whatever the case, you've gone on, lost more, the band will have loosened as a result of time and weight loss and it is no admission of anything to go back and have a fill now!

Do you know, I got there quite a few years back now and wear mostly whatever I like to wear - although we all have some limitations and some things that just dont suit us. What is really really good though is not having to shop in fat stores. I still appreciate the freedom of being able to shop anywhere - particularly my one or two favourite designers and being able to go on holidays and fossick around in resort towns and stuff like that.
I'm not even taking my old bikinis to Thailand in a few weeks - can buy nice new ones there! I never could have dreamed of doing that with anything, let alone bikinis.
For me anyway, this was one of the BEST things bout weigh loss - I wasnt on medication, nor did I have any real comorbidities. But not being able to buy nice clothes was a truly dreadful dilemma!

Sigh. Look, I have just accepted that I an "sick", suffering from obesity and I always will be.
There will never be a time when I eat what I want when I want and stay thin. I will always struggle with wanting to eat more than I can burn off. I think it comes from both sides of the equation - hightened appetite with slower metabolism.
I could be diabetic, could have a rare genetic order, or Parkinsons or lupus or epilepsy and I would need medical attention and medication to manage that condition for life. I dont suffer from those diseases, I suffer from obesity. Thankfully, with a positive attitude,I have a damn good tool for managing it. Like any disease, some periods of my life I will manage better than others. I have gotten too skinny, I've regained more than I wanted, I've been in despair becuase although my body is no longer fat, I have had weeks of eating chocolate till I want to puke, or let my insane carb and sugar addiction take over again. But it is always possible to get back on track.
Thank god I love to run, spin and go to the gym. It really really helps. And if you dont love it, well do it anyway. Unlike eating, exercise IS all about willpower. If you're able bodied then you can and should be doing it. And pushing hard.
I think the sooner we all face up to that harsh reality, the sooner we can stop beating ourselves up over what we perceive as moral failings, and start the business of managing a disease.

Its taken a week. Had a small fill last Wednesday after six months of under restriction. Five lb was the most gain I was going to tolerate!
Ive been on nexium all year but doc and I both agree the heartburn (no actual reflux) is unrelated to my band and more likly due to the damage chemo has one to my gut - am now wheat, lactose and fructose intolerant.
Have a a noticeable decline in my appetite for Breakfast, had sushi for dinner and only ate 3 pieces and had to pour out most of my glass of wine. Hallelujah! I've spent the last six months trying to impose those restrictions on my own!
Welcome back band!

Its taken a week. Had a small fill last Wednesday after six months of under restriction. Five lb was the most gain I was going to tolerate!
Ive been on nexium all year but doc and I both agree the heartburn (no actual reflux) is unrelated to my band and more likly due to the damage chemo has one to my gut - am now wheat, lactose and fructose intolerant.
Have a a noticeable decline in my appetite for Breakfast, had sushi for dinner and only ate 3 pieces and had to pour out most of my glass of wine. Hallelujah! I've spent the last six months trying to impose those restrictions on my own!
Welcome back band!

Sigh. Look, I have just accepted that I an "sick", suffering from obesity and I always will be.
There will never be a time when I eat what I want when I want and stay thin. I will always struggle with wanting to eat more than I can burn off. I think it comes from both sides of the equation - hightened appetite with slower metabolism.
I could be diabetic, could have a rare genetic order, or Parkinsons or lupus or epilepsy and I would need medical attention and medication to manage that condition for life. I dont suffer from those diseases, I suffer from obesity. Thankfully, with a positive attitude,I have a damn good tool for managing it. Like any disease, some periods of my life I will manage better than others. I have gotten too skinny, I've regained more than I wanted, I've been in despair becuase although my body is no longer fat, I have had weeks of eating chocolate till I want to puke, or let my insane carb and sugar addiction take over again. But it is always possible to get back on track.
Thank god I love to run, spin and go to the gym. It really really helps. And if you dont love it, well do it anyway. Unlike eating, exercise IS all about willpower. If you're able bodied then you can and should be doing it. And pushing hard.
I think the sooner we all face up to that harsh reality, the sooner we can stop beating ourselves up over what we perceive as moral failings, and start the business of managing a disease.

Its taken a week. Had a small fill last Wednesday after six months of under restriction. Five lb was the most gain I was going to tolerate!
Ive been on nexium all year but doc and I both agree the heartburn (no actual reflux) is unrelated to my band and more likly due to the damage chemo has one to my gut - am now wheat, lactose and fructose intolerant.
Have a a noticeable decline in my appetite for Breakfast, had sushi for dinner and only ate 3 pieces and had to pour out most of my glass of wine. Hallelujah! I've spent the last six months trying to impose those restrictions on my own!
Welcome back band!

Its taken a week. Had a small fill last Wednesday after six months of under restriction. Five lb was the most gain I was going to tolerate!
Ive been on nexium all year but doc and I both agree the heartburn (no actual reflux) is unrelated to my band and more likly due to the damage chemo has one to my gut - am now wheat, lactose and fructose intolerant.
Have a a noticeable decline in my appetite for Breakfast, had sushi for dinner and only ate 3 pieces and had to pour out most of my glass of wine. Hallelujah! I've spent the last six months trying to impose those restrictions on my own!
Welcome back band!

Sigh. Look, I have just accepted that I an "sick", suffering from obesity and I always will be.
There will never be a time when I eat what I want when I want and stay thin. I will always struggle with wanting to eat more than I can burn off. I think it comes from both sides of the equation - hightened appetite with slower metabolism.
I could be diabetic, could have a rare genetic order, or Parkinsons or lupus or epilepsy and I would need medical attention and medication to manage that condition for life. I dont suffer from those diseases, I suffer from obesity. Thankfully, with a positive attitude,I have a damn good tool for managing it. Like any disease, some periods of my life I will manage better than others. I have gotten too skinny, I've regained more than I wanted, I've been in despair becuase although my body is no longer fat, I have had weeks of eating chocolate till I want to puke, or let my insane carb and sugar addiction take over again. But it is always possible to get back on track.
Thank god I love to run, spin and go to the gym. It really really helps. And if you dont love it, well do it anyway. Unlike eating, exercise IS all about willpower. If you're able bodied then you can and should be doing it. And pushing hard.
I think the sooner we all face up to that harsh reality, the sooner we can stop beating ourselves up over what we perceive as moral failings, and start the business of managing a disease.

Sigh. Look, I have just accepted that I an "sick", suffering from obesity and I always will be.
There will never be a time when I eat what I want when I want and stay thin. I will always struggle with wanting to eat more than I can burn off. I think it comes from both sides of the equation - hightened appetite with slower metabolism.
I could be diabetic, could have a rare genetic order, or Parkinsons or lupus or epilepsy and I would need medical attention and medication to manage that condition for life. I dont suffer from those diseases, I suffer from obesity. Thankfully, with a positive attitude,I have a damn good tool for managing it. Like any disease, some periods of my life I will manage better than others. I have gotten too skinny, I've regained more than I wanted, I've been in despair becuase although my body is no longer fat, I have had weeks of eating chocolate till I want to puke, or let my insane carb and sugar addiction take over again. But it is always possible to get back on track.
Thank god I love to run, spin and go to the gym. It really really helps. And if you dont love it, well do it anyway. Unlike eating, exercise IS all about willpower. If you're able bodied then you can and should be doing it. And pushing hard.
I think the sooner we all face up to that harsh reality, the sooner we can stop beating ourselves up over what we perceive as moral failings, and start the business of managing a disease.

It's good insurance. The average woman needs2000 calories a day of healthy food, nd as binders we might eat healthy but not enough. Seven years on I've had issues with Iron, B12 and I've had two broken ribs this year, bone density scan results were less than awesome. I've ad major problems with energy and mood too.
Needless to say I now top up with Vitamins.

I think its a great way to ruin a good friendship personally - at the moment, have a friend in a similar situation. He speaks as if its the greatest thing int he world, all care, no responsibility, but he's definitely bluffing and she treats it the same but is even more obviously bluffing.
Although there's nothing wrong with sex just for the sake of it, entering into a relationship where you give that away but get nothing back can be demoralising and degrading for both sexes. It rarely brings happiness.
So personally, when I was not married I might be talked into it once if I were reaaaaaaally horny (usually involving alchohol) once would be it. I wouldnt enter into an official "friends with benefits' relationship. Its bound to end in tears if you ask me.

My port was repositioned and the profile lowered, looks better now than it ever did

My port was repositioned and the profile lowered, looks better now than it ever did

Its harder now seven years out than it was to lose the weight over the first three. I feel like there is definitely an adaptation to the band where the body gradually resumes its old appetites and habits and I have to work very hard now to keep to the bandster rules and not to give in to my continual urges to binge on sugar - I really, really have a problem with sugar. I'm successful four days out of five, but once or twice a week I do tend to have massive sugar binges, where I will eat eight or nine Cookies (or similar). Generally I make it through a normal Breakfast and lunch and by 3pm, the urge simply overwhelms me and there will be no healthy dinner that night, I will just pick for hours on crap.
This seems to do no damage to my weight at all but it upsets my very sensitive gut and makes me feel terrible about myself! I have taken years to get to the root of my eating problems (I've been banded seven) and its only inthe last year that I really have accepted that I do have a real disordered eating pattern. I am a perfectionist, over controlling, all or nothing and scarily I can identify with ALL of the thoughts and mental outlooks that you'll find on any list of anorexia symptoms. I've never managed to get myself anorexic thin, but its not for want of trying. I like the look of being underweight, I've never been happy to stop at a BMI of 25, that was never good enough for me, etc.
This all escalated markedly for me with being diagnosed with cancer and I struggle now to eat sensibly, regularly and in moderate amounts that are consistent from day to day - rather than starve one day binge the next.
I find it hard to accept that there's people out there that are much much heavier than I ever was who actually probably have an easier time of it because they dont harbour so many dysfunctional thoughts. Hunger never ever was a part of my problem - yet the band worked brilliantly for me my dampening that and limiting what I could eat - so whatever your issues, it is a tool you can work with.
I'm actually really glad that I feel like finally, 45 years into my life, I think I have a better understanding of what makes me tick. I may or may not seek professional help- I feel I'm in good control at the moment but it swings to ovrwhelming at the drop of a hat, so I think it would be good for me.
What I feel the band gives me is control. It takes away the fear for me that I will eat and eat and not stop. With it, I can allow myself the luxury of having confidence in my body's signals - so for me its a huge psychological prop. I actually at more and better with my band!
So banded life is hard, but life without it would be hard too. Lets face it, obesity is a horrible disease that causes hardships in your life. You have it, so its a question of how to manage it, not whether the band is easy or not.

I'd say it was coincidence and I'd also be VERY careful about bigger portion sizes so early on. Exercise is a much better idea.
Just accept the plateaus, thy are going to occur no matter what you do.

I'd say it was coincidence and I'd also be VERY careful about bigger portion sizes so early on. Exercise is a much better idea.
Just accept the plateaus, thy are going to occur no matter what you do.

Real sun is just as dangerous - but I sure can't resist a tan. I believe its ersonal choice. Fake tans these days are very good! In Australia, most people end up losing chunks of themselves o skin cancer, it's not nice.