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I don't do protein anymore unless I'm sick or I have been filled. Protein drinks are an easy food, if you think about it. I have stopped doing everything it seems like. I haven't been able to exercise because with me running all over the hospital for 8 hours I'm to tired to think, let alone care about exercise after I get home. Right now I'm on the 5am till 1 pm shift, and believe it or not these hours aren't bad, but you do need a power nap when you get home. I feel I'm lucky if anything around the house gets done, thank god for kids and husbands. I'm lucky if I eat at all, last week I don't know if it was nerves but I was so sick no matter what it was, this week I'm eating but just not a lot, just till I feel full. Hey good luck on that tummy tuck goal, you will make and things will be fine...just have faith.

I haven't found an exercise that eliminates all surgical procedures. I know that as I loose weight and exercise my stomach doesn't seem as flabby, so myself will not be getting a tummy tuck...but as I exercise and lose weight I do have a boob issue and I will be having surgery on them one day...just not soon. So in my opinion exercise helps alot but doesn't help everything....just an opinion though.

Diffently not skinny jeans, I have thighs that I call tree trunks. They don't look good in skinny jeans. DH thinks the thighs are changing shape...I can't see it but he thinks my legs are looking pretty good. The weather here is also changing and I really can't wait for summer, happy with spring and watching all my tulips coming up...but I'm really a hot weather girl. I don't want skinny jeans, I just want the ability to say that I have lost a hundred pounds...I want my 100, that's all.

Well I'm almost back to the fill restriction that I was before they decided to over fill me. I had stopped working out because I fell back into the thinking that I can do everything for everyone all the time, when I do that I always take myself out of the loop. Well I have stopped babysitting for my step sister cause that was taking up alot of my time, and I'm on spring break from school...so I have started exercising again...so now I'm back in the loop. It also helps that I had to get weighted and mesured on this past Thursday...up 10 pounds and 8 inches...theirs the kick in the butt that I think I really needed. I hope everyone else is doing well.

You will be fine...because even though I have had to have the port and tube replaced, I just know I would be heavier then I am now, and that I am more then happy to have done it...not just the first time but also the second time. I can only imagine my what my life would be life without my band. I was a diabetic, with thyroid issues taking a bunch of pills...now I take nothing but vitamins...so I'm more then happy to have done the band, and to even have my port fixed...and if i need to i would do it again as many times as I have to.

My port and tubing was replaced July of 2009, all was well until just this January. My doctor's assistant went to give me a bump in fluid and ended up overfilling me, so now I'm still not where I was before the overfill. The doctor was like all this poking of the port could cause this one to start leaking one day. I was like yeah you act like I overfilled myself, like you filled the needle and handed it to me to fill myself with it...if this one starts leaking you need to talk to your staff not me, I didn't do it.

I would do so much better if the doctor's assistant would just stop touching me. I'm not the weight that my tracker says. See back in January I seen the doctor, and he wasn't there so I had to see his assistant. She was like I will give you a small bump in the band and it should all be good, she overfilled me...so I'm still loose cause it was bad, maybe in March I will be able to get some of the fluid put back in. This isn't the first time she did this to me, she did it so much in the first year and half that I had to have my port and tubing replaced. You say you wouldn't know what to do if you seen the scale go up more then a couple of pounds...I have seen it go up more then 10 pounds on more then one occassion due to the assistant. I'm tired of the fight and watching it all go the other direction...I'm looking at the easy way out(weight watchers, nutrisystem, etc...) anything...I have even begged friends to break my jaw just so I could have it wired shut...I will say this out loud to all of you...the doctor will be the only person touching my port and doing my fills every again. I was so overfilled that day that he was afraid my port had flipped because he couldn't get the needle in to get the fluid out, he really had to push the needle in harder...I'm still bruised and sore around my port.

I agree with that...I'm not giving up, I'm just tired of the fight...I'm so tired.

addictions change that's for sure. I had my band done january 2007, and I went from food to exercise...and yes exercise can be an addiction, from that to shopping...now I'm in debt, to sex. Just thought I would share all that with everyone.

Well today is Wednesday and I ran on Monday, even lifted some weights. I hadn't exercised in so long I'm out of it. I mean I couldn't run the whole time like normal, couldn't breathe right either..But I kept going, and the weights I added because my arms need some special attention again. Well my arms are sore and I didn't do that many reps or that much weight. I will be back out on the treadmill tomorrow. I can't workout as regular as I would like because of my class schedule and within the next couple of months even that schedule will change. Well the 18th was my 3 years since my band, I texted all my friends and was like I'm not happy with where I'm at yet, but I am happy about where I'm not at. I'm happy that I'm NO longer 233.9 pounds and a size 20/22. I'm not at goal and I keep having to see numbers that I don't like..it never fails though because everytime I get a couple of numbers away from my goal I sabotoge myself and then go visiting places that I have already seen, that makes me feel bad, then I go back to being almost at goal and then the circle starts again. I still not the size that I was, and really I'm not the size that I wanted to be, I'm smaller...yippie! Now I'm working on the numbers goal.

I hate working out anymore because after I run my legs seem bigger then what they were before, in other words my thighs on my jeans don't fit my thighs. I have now been told though that I have to get back into exercise. I had a fill last week, and they filled me to full, so I had to go back the next day to have an emergency unfill. I was so sick thought I was going to die. Now I'm so unfull, that food tastes so good, I have been eating everything that I'm not suppose to. I got a small refill yesterday. Was told to exercise not only my body, but to also exercise good judgement on food, and not to rely so much on my band. I hate being loose, I was at a good spot, and with a small bump of fluid it would have been a great spot, but instead of a bump I got overfilled. So now I have to start all over again to get to that really good spot, I'm visiting numbers that I hated the last 3 times I seen them...so I guess I'm exercising again starting tomorrow. Ok my pitty party is over...thanks for listening.

Sorry to hear about your hand, and the ring. Is the dogs ok. You really should have the puncture checked, I really hope the dog that caused the puncture had his shots.

Congrets on the Baby, and my prayers are with you and him.

I was for 2 years before surgery then like 4 months before surgery my family physician was giving a script for insulin...told him I wasn't going to take it, and went and had lap band...and the rest they say is history. I also had thyroid problems and was on medication for that, doctors told me you never come off thyroid medication..well never believe everything that doctors tell you, because I'm living proof that I don't need any medication..just vitamins. YOU will be fine, just drop the weight and watch all the other problems disappear like magic...just remember also the band is a tool, the more you put into working your tool the better your tool will help you.

Bill I'm still here. I run in the garage on the treadmill, so yeah I'm still here. I haven't progressed to outside world yet, suppose to do that this spring. I'm glad to hear that your 2010 should be easy...I still haven't meet my goals, and that's what I'm going to continue to work on, that and school work.

I started out with simple goals for me...like to burn 4000 calories in 4 weeks, that one makes me nervous don't know if I will make that one...to do 10 runs in 4 weeks, that's an easy one for me unless life happens and I'm unable to workout...to run 14 miles in 4 weeks, that is also an easy one for me unless life happens. My next goal is to train for a half marathon, because I'm signed up for the Chicago rock and roll half marathon in August of 2010.

It's a sport watch that has a usb flashdrive that you plug into your computer and you can then upload your exercise, calories burned, and other goals that you set for yourself to your page. I know where my husband bought mine (dicks sporting goods) but you can even go to Nike+.com and look at them. I don't like nike shoes, so my sweet husband found a place on the internet that sells the pouch for the sensor and then you just lace the pouch to your shoelaces. I used it yesterday and have now figured out that my treadmill lies about the distance I run. They say the sportband is like 96% accurant right out of the box. I can believe it, cause like I said the distance on the treadmill is so far off, compaired to the sportband. I'm glad that this is what I wanted, and I will have to say that this gift is a keeper. I mean right now I want to meet my goals that I have placed into it for me.

Well my Christmas was good I got the things that I wanted. I asked for a Nike+ sportband, and my darling husband got it for me. Now I just have to get up off my lazy butt, today and use the thing. I hope everyone had a Blessed Christmas and Happy Holidays.

The hubby built me a workout tent sort of room in the garage, sharing the space with the harley, because he always keeps heat in there for the harley. I guess I should be nice and say thank you for sharing his space with my treadmill, but he told me don't get crazy and fly of the back of the treadmill because I would knock over the harley. Even with heat it's cold getting from the house to the tent. I call it a tent it's a room, the size about half of our 2 car garage with plastic walls that way in the summer we can pull the harley out and take down the whole thing till next winter. I wish Santa would bring me a bigger house so I could have a room inside for me and my treadmill...not going to happen...well maybe when I get rid of my kids I will have a room to call my own...lol

Well I doing better!!! I'm now able to eat things that should never touch my lips, so I have to go in and get a fill. The stress is still high, but I only have 2 weeks left of class before I get a break for a couple of weeks. Haven't had a lot of time to run, and it makes me crazy to not be able to do that. I didn't have to go to the in-laws for Thanksgiving, not because of homework, I had the flu that whole week, so I guess you can say I was thankful for the flu. Now I need to get whatever is going around for Christmas, so I can miss that also.

Glad to hear that you had a great time and run. Happy Holidays!!!

I love my compression running tights. I have 3 pairs, I bought them because there was no way I was going to run in the garage on the treadmill in the cold...they keep you real warm. Love them

Hello everyone: I'm doing good in my opinion, but the Doctor has another one. See I'm only eating(drinking) 1 muscle milk-regular (300 calories) a day. I'm not hungry, and I just seem to have to much going on in my life right now to even force myself to drink or eat more. The Doctor told me Thursday that if I don't start drinking at least 2 muscle milks a day, he will take out my restriction and have to put me in the hospital. Yeah yeah I know but guess what I'm not listening...I'm a little slow in the head...lol. I'm just not hungry. I get in all my water and sometimes more, depending if I'm in class or not. I'm back to running since the stress fracture and I'm loving it. I'm happy for that because running keeps my mental stress to a lower level sometimes. I learned one thing though when the Doctor asks how you doing, don't unload on him because then they want to give you pills and a phone number to another doctor. I'm not crazy...just stressed with life like everyone else exspecially this time of year...I hate the holidays and always have, my husbands family are mean and nasty people. Thank god I can't have Thanksgiving with them because I will have to much homework, so I guess you can say I'm Thankful for homework...yippie!!!

I would run/jog at that 3.0 until you feel like your able to up the speed. But at that speed you should be able to run continously, nonstop. After being able to do that for a while then you should turn up your speed. That's what I was told, and that's how I've been doing it myself. Not intervels are a different story those are sprints and I myself am not a sprinter, I can but I don't like them.

I run on the treadmill, That is where I started also on the treadmill...haven't moved outside yet still nervous about the outside. This is what I was told once by a trainer, the speed that is your fastest walk, that is the speed before you actually have to run...that fast walking speed is the speed you should be jogging at, that way if you need a walking break you can still walk it. As you get stronger, you will be able to up your speed to a new faster walking speed...it's just a progress. Oh and remember to breathe, breathing right also helps. My personal favorite is my ipod music also because music tempo helps. But just remember to just do the best you can, because that's all that matters.