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I like SparkPeople a lot more. It seems easier to use, easier to find all kinds of foods, and helps you track your goal. It's fun. Also, before giving you a recommended calorie intake, it asks if you're ready to excercise or weight train, and it applies your answer to the recommendation. The amount SparkPeople recommended is about the same my dietetician recommended. Good luck! BTW, I tried fitday.com too and it was allright, but it seemed a little confusing. I'm sure once you get the hang of it, it works fine too.

Its ok Mandy, I was just wondering. No need to give him my info again.

Mandy! Whatever happened to that guy you know? :eek: Pantheretti, the program at Mercy hospital is a 16 week program that requires you to attend every wednesday for about two hours. First there is a support group kind of thing where we discuss weight issue topics with a psychologist aka Dr Greg. We also go around and talk out the issues. It's not super exciting but not boring either. Second there is a weigh in time at the Dr's office and every other week the Dr talks to you, and every week you get weighed in and blood pressure taken. Before you start the whole 16 week program you first have an initial appointment with the Dr, then the psychologist, and later the dietetician. You also talk to an excercise person but that's pretty boring hehe. I lost about 4 pounds on this program and I've been doing the diet they subscribed for a week and 2 days.

Well your tummy is probably more sensitive right now and booze might make you throw up the next day. I would not do it if I was you, it's too risky. If you get sick to your stomach after a night of drinking your band might slip.

A girl friend of mine asked me once what I weigh. I told her I don't really like to share that info and she gave me a real hard time about it, insisting that I am lying to MYSELF. What a selfish person eh? Well I never told her, but we argued about it and to a degree made me question the friendship.

Herbalife isnt so bad, I enjoyed it. It's very expensive though, and you take lots of pills.

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JoyceGA, wonderful!!!! I'm goign to Borders later, will be sure to pick up one from your list!

I also love the garbage bin statement. I have to tell this to everyone I know. This is a very inspiring thread. Tellymelly, you go girl! Excercise is such a good way to lose weight, you're strenghtening your whole body and spirit, very good!!

A book recommended to me by my Psychologist: Mindful Eating It's a Buddhist book that talks about having a good relationship with food, eat to be healthy etc. Very fun and quick read. Another Buddhist book: The Zen of Eating I have a cookbook for weight loss surgery patients: Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery. The Author is a bandster. recipes look very easy and the book is very simple and organized. I haven't tried any recipes yet but enjoyed flipping through it to see what it's all about. I also have a great older book called: Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal. It has a paragraph or two on almost any food or spice you can think of. It's a good guide for people who like using health foods or home remedies. The Complete Guide to Natural Healing: Lots of cool info on herbs and teas, home remedies, natural healing, beauty etc. I LOVE this one. Conversations With The Fat Girl: A cute novel. Fun and easy read. The Everything Yoga Book: I particularly enjoy the beginners stretching excercises. It pretty much helped me heal my sore back. Also, this has nothing to do with being fat but found it to be a wonderful guide in love relationships: Light His Fire. Nuff Said lol. Come on Ladies, I am sure I'm not the only book junkie around!

Have any of you read any great books about losing weight, diet, excercise, eating, weight loss surgery, lap band specific, cookbooks, etc that were helpful and informative? If anyone has any recommendations, please post them here. Please provide name of book as well as a small description of it. THANKS!

In my opinion, I think your expectations could be a little bit too high at this point. You're 58 years old and your metabolism is definately slower at this age. My suggestion is not to worry so much about weight watchers points and do the band suggested diet of LOTS of Protein, more veggies, and little carbs. With limited calorie intake, we have to make sure the choices we make are the best ones. I'm on a 1200 calorie diet right now and I could be just eating two big macs per day but instead I do a mix of healthy foods like salads, lean meats, healthy choice etc. I know that weight watchers is a good diet for non bandsters, and could be great for someone who is banded for a while and is at their max fill, but to someone who is still on their first fill, I would just do the band recommended diet. I'm sure this isn't advice that you were looking for so feel free to ignore me completely :scared:

Hm edit is broken, I meant to say we DONT need threads discussing this. Oopsie.

Why is everyone so damn concerned with this? Who gives a damn what she does? We need threads discussing someones career choices, especially someone we don't even know. I think it is extremely childish of people to judge the woman based on what the media says. NOBODY knows her personally, and NOBODY knows what happens behind closed doors. If I was constantly drilled about losing weight, I'd have a damn chip on my shoulder too. Her private life is just that, private. She doesn't owe it to anyone to explain how she lost weight, just like I never will go public with my choice. Being a celebrity is hard work and all the money in the world can't buy you respect. The media can ruin you with one photo or rumor, can ruin your family, career, whole life. Why do you think it is that so many celebrities hide away in fancy high security hotels or start using drugs and alcohol. Because people are so f-ing fascinated with the stars that papparazzi and magazines will do anything to get a sale. Leave her alone, you DO NOT know her, so why badmouth her? Walk a mile in her shoes before you make a judgement.

Maybe they just want a fat girl on the show.

I did it a long time ago and it was very hard to do. I don't think it's healthy.

From my research I learned that all doctors have different opinions and plans for their patients. Some follow inamed guidelines, some make their own stricter rules, and some probably are in the band business for so long they just go based on experience which is probably that people can eat thicker liquids after a few days without problems. I've heard so many people are able to have mushies after just a week and I'm gonna be on liquids for two weeks after surgery, I'm kind of annoyed and jealous lol. Best thing is follow your doctors rules because if you dont you'll have to tell him you're cheating and he may not like that too much. Good Luck and please don't worry, if it went through then it's probably fine. Wait til you PB, I hear thats really bad. Also, please note that I am not speaking from experience, all this is what I learned from reading LapBand message boards and websites.

Well we know the sun wont run out anytime soon lol Those are cool pics. Thanks for sharing.

Sometimes people react negatively when they are worried. Maybe he doesnt want you to die and tries to convince himself he doesnt need you in case... I'm no therapist, but I've noticed people acting this way before. When things were going badly with my ex and he knew I wanted to break it off, he would be super mean to me because he was trying to comfort himself.

New Age, Country, Dance, Soft Rock, Oldies

I haven't been banded yet but I think generally it's always a good idea to address any kind of pain to your doctor. Especially if it is near the area of your band/port. Good luck

Oh gosh what a topic! I think the day I saw myself for how I really looked, big, fat, swollen, puffy, unattractive... At 5'3 and nearly 300lbs I look really unpretty. I would never be attracted to myself so how could any man find me attractive. I decided that if I ever want to feel sexy I have to do something to lose weight, BUT three years ago I only weighed about 240lbs and lost 80lbs by very strict diet. I promised myself I would never be fat again because of how happy my weight loss made me. Somehow I gained 125lbs in three years... I finally decided I KNOW I can't lose weight and keep it off, so it was time for surgery.

How do they know if you've had the procedure? Do they simply ask or do insurance companies have access to people's medical recs. Isn't HIPAA supposed to protect our med recs? I am not in the medical field so I don't know much about this.

Congratulations!! :rant:

I have a system for laundry. Every Saturday I take all of the dirty clothes, towels and sheets down to the basement and put them in a big pile on the floor. I pick out all the sheets and throw them in the washer. While sheets are washing I sort all the laundry by color. When sheets are done I throw them in the dryer and load the towels. After sheets are dry I throw towels in dryer, whites in the wash and take sheets upstairs to go back on the beds. After the towels dry I fold them while still warm and bring upstairs while the rest of the clothes are washing and drying. My trick to keeping everything wrinkle free is to take care of it as soon as it comes out of the dryer. I have LOADS of hangers and as soon as cothes come out of the dryer they go on hangers and then into the closet. The thing is that almost everything gets hung up. All t-shirts, camis, pants, blouses, skirts, even tube tops. I only keep undies and socks in the drawers. Target sells hangers very cheap, I think 13 plastic hangers for about a dollar. They also sell kid size hangers too. I like doing laundry this way because it only takes three hours and in between loads I can clean the other areas of the house. I'm Polish though, cleaning comes natural to me lol