tchilambe

I need a buddy so much. I am not loosing at all Help me!! Tione

Anybody interested in raving-up his/her exercise this summer? I know of a gentleman who teaches bootcamp classes in the Medford, Somerville, Arlington, Malden areas. I would like to approach him with the idea of putting together a post surgical exercise group. If you are interested in this please email me privately at tchilambe@gmail.com Thanks Tione

Am a Lahey bandster. Talk to Pam and trust her guidance. She will give you all the info you need.

I didnot get a lapband to do a weight watchers!! I didnt get cut up in surgery so I could do Weight Watchers. Then whats the use?

I grew up with a lot of food - but it was in Africa and most of it was organic, home grown and fresh. Its a culture where food production is close to home, unlike in the USA where everything has got to be transported. And also, in Africa, if its not season, you dont eat it!!! So you could eat whatever was in season and it was healthier. I walked a lot and did lots of chores around the household. But all that changed once I got in this country, I realized that to eat like I ate back home, I have to shop at expensive food stores like Whole Foods! My lifestyle became more sedetary - so the pounds kept pilling on. and also i went through some emotional trauma - and I dealt with it using food. So here I am - before I knew it, i had tipped the scale to 296LBS.... then I got scared -- now that I have embarked on the reversal journey - I am glad the scale if finally going backwards. But with that comes the realization that i had really allowed myself to get that BIG! I am just coming to terms with it, i really did not know how big I was because inspite of my weight, I was still a very physically active person. I carried my weight like it was nothing --- but i know that it is all a factor of age, so I got to deal with it now before I reach the other side of 35!

Good Job! You have done really well!

Thanks for the support.... Its not that am impatient, its just that I am wondering what people with 2LB weight lost a week do! I have seen those TV shows and people loose 10LBS a week! how does one do that!!!! I am just taken aback that all the work that I am doing - it yields me 1LB a week which is alot considering where I am coming from.. but for those that loose 2LBS what do they do? I have a high BMI of 42 and over a 100 pounds to loose so I guess i can go faster. But dont know how.

I dont understand how this thing work. I am sure my band is tight now!! I can bearly eat anything but yogurt in the morning. For the past month here is what I have been doing, Breakfast - Light and Fit Yogurt - 60 calories, a string of cheese -- and I am full, too full! lunch - a Kashi meal - 300 cals - bearly finishing it dinner - broiled Protein - fish/chicken - Fluids - 60 oz of Water or crystal lite Average total cal intake a day 1100 cals. Exercise - I walk 4 miles one day, Curves, four times a week, a bootcamp class three times a week ---- which I think is far much more that most folks are doing!!! Results of all this --- in the month of May I lost a total of FOUR pounds.... and three inches.. Thats it!! All that WORK yielded me that!! I am like WOW! so what do the people that loose 2 pounds a week do--- let alone those that loose 3 pounds a week! I really want to see what they do!!! Because I am puzzled! I am enjoying the workouts though!

Here is my thing, if you are having problems getting motivated - take a class at the gymn. That will force you to obey the trainer for an hour, meet other people and get you going again. In terms of strength versus cardio - you need both.... choose the one you feel like doing that day. Trick is burning calories.

biologically, my body needs 1800 calories to live - no gain, no loss!! So if I try to stick to 1400 cals (which my current diet sort of falters around) and in addition I burn about 700 cals a day - that kind of puts me at negative 4900 cals a week which indeed comes up to 1.4 LBS lost a week --------- hence my 4-5 LB lost a month!!!!!!! of I totally get it now!!!! DUH! Boy! I thought I was doing a lot compared to what I am hearing folks saying they are doing!!! Now I see that I am not doing as much as I thought I was doing --- come on!! what the heck are you guys doing to get your 10 LBs loss a month - for those that were banded in January, just like I did - am hearing folks reporting 40 LBS plus weight losses, while I am just at at 22 LBS!!! Are you guys starving yourselves and sleeping at the gymn???

I have lost 22 pounds! nothing is loose on me so I wont bother post a picture. I still have a long way to go before I see any visible effects. I am still wearing the same clothes!! I was wearing pants size 22w while weighing 296LBS, I currentyl weigh 274LBS and I am still wearing the same pants - they are not even loose at all - not even extra comfortable... they are exactly the same..... so I wonder where the 22 pounds came from!!! I believe my weight crept up on me because I was able to maintain the same wardrobe through time, I can still fit in some of the stuff I wore when I was 250LBS!!

I dont understand what folks mean when they say that they lost just from dieting, without incorporating any exercises. Let me give you an idea of what I do on a daily basis in order for me to loose five pounds a month!!! I have very minimal restriction in my band - which I only feel in the morning. So the food part is all willpower amidst a rumbling stomach!! Breakfast - Yogourt and cheese stick - to make my 20 oz Protein drink - 25 oz of Crystal light until lunch Lunch - Lean Cuisine meal of about 340 cals drink - 25 oz of crystal light dinner - steamed vegetables and some broiled fish or chicken (kind of careless here - i think i take in about 800 cals of food) walk back and forth to work - 4 miles a day Curves - 30 minutes. Drink - 25 oz of Water - I am able to do that with exercising. Now doing all this, I have lost four pounds in the last month!!!! I need to loose 100+ pounds. and I really dont know what else to do to get there. What am I doing wrong that y'all seem to be dropping pounds and I have them sticking onto me like crazy!!!

I have been working the program intensively in the last two weeks, am talking about doing CURVES and Calisthetics five times a week. Eating Lean Cuisine and drinking 70 oz of Water everyday ---- but when i weighed in last Tuesday, the scale told me that I had gained four pounds. I was so depressed!! Today, I had an appointment with my nutritionist, and scale at the hospital indicated that I had lost FIVE pounds in two weeks. Conclusion, GET RID OF YOUR BATHROOM SCALE..... its in the trash as I speak!!