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?

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!!

It looks like you have lost 50lbs in a year. and you have had 6 fills!! When does one know that this fill is working! I have had two fills in a 4cc band, and I thought I had it under control. I am exercising a whole lot but the scale is not budging. Which begs to tell me that I dont have the food thing under control. At my last weigh in at Curves, I gained TWO pounds back, but lost five inches overall. How are people getting the great drop down numbers? Am I a more compulsive eater than I thought I was? To the extent that I have a delusional image of what i am truly taking in. I think and feel I need help but dont know who and how to ask for it.

I didnt think the Lap band group was on Tuesday May 13th, I thought its on the last Tuesday evening of every month?

WOW good job!