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I know you posted this awile ago but here are my thoughts: I dont think it matters what you eat if you burn more cal than you eat you will loose weight. I like low carb because I dont have room for the carbs so If I stick to protein and veggies for the most I will loose weight. Also carbs (except bread) go down so easy for me. Ice cream, chips, rice ex are sliders for me so I always eat to much! I don't avoid fruit carbs just cant eat much of raw fruit. My doctor told me to eat every 3 hours while awake. I can never eat to much at one time and I feel like if I did not eat every 3 hours or so I would starve. I only eat 50-100 cal. at a time except for dinner because I have more time to sit and focus on eating. Hope this helps and hope you are doing good!

I was banded with the realize band on 5/14/08. It has taken months to acheive restriction. I think I have had 5 fills and currently have 8.25cc in a 9cc band. The restriction is there. However if I eat chips, or sweets there is not much restriction so I did not loose much through the holiday's because there was so much of this type of food everywhere. But I have been back on track since the beginging of this week and can not eat much during my meals. I feel like this tool is finaly working. Good luck to everyone. Hang in there it takes a wile!

This turned out so good. Follow the dirrections for the pumpkin pie recepie on the back of Libby's 100% pumpkin making the following substatutions. Omit the crust! use splenda not sugar use 1 and 1/2 cups redused fat cottege cheese in leu of the canned milk. Add 2TBS milk I used egg substatute not whole eggs Blend all ingredience in a blender and poor in a shallow baking dish or pie plate, I sprayed mine with a little olive oil so it would not stick. Bake as directed. Fridge over night. This was so good and the cottege cheese ups the protein! I am eating this for Breakfast all week.

I though it tasted like vomit, but that is just me!

My insurance required a BMI of 35 or greater and at least 1 of the following, Sleep Apnea, Diabeties, Heart Disease, or high blood pressure. Or a BMI of 40 or higher (if you were 40 or higher you did not need to have one of the above conditons) My MD office quoted a price of "about 25,000 if you were private pay but I know that varies. I am not sure about the financing question. Hope this helps good luck.

I use splenda in my tea. It measres cup for cup just like sugar, I use about 1/2-3/4 cup of splenda depending on the size of the picture I am making. I use decaf tea bags because my doctor does not like for us to have alot of caffeine, it is a diuretic and can cause you to become dehydrated if you have to much of it. I still have my one cup of coffie every AM. And when I am out I drink tea with caffeine, I like to go to McDonalds and get a Unsweet tea and add splenda.

It is kind of like a pumpkin fluf, or pudding. I tried it with the protein powder but If you add that you have to eat it right away it does not taste good the next day. So next time I am going to add the protein to each serving before I eat it.

Yesterday walked for about 20 min outside. Would have gone longer but it was getting dark. Today i downloaded some new music for my walk later today!

This is one of my fav weight watcers recipes 1 can pumpkin (NOT pumpkin pie filling just regular pumpkin) 1 package vanilla sugar free pudding (the powder do not add milk) 1 container sugar free cool whip pumpkin pie spice to taste Mix all ingredience together and put in the fridge until cold and eat, I am going to try and make this and add a scoop of vanilla Protein powder but i have not done this yet. I will try and let you know how it turns out.

My report for yesterday is as follows: Weights for one hour and then walked outside for about 20min. I am going to be sad when day light savings time ends!

Great! I did the one mile walk yesterday AM and then lifted weights yesterday evening. This AM i did not drag my but out of bed soon enough so I will walk outside after I lift. Have a great day.

OK, here is the deal. I have done great with weight training since March of this year. I work out 3 times per week for about 1 hour with a friend who is a personal trainer. But we just lift weights. I do cardio on and off but not religiously. So I am setting a goal of working out (cardio) every day this month. I have alot of Walk away the pound videos by Leslie Sansone. So on the days I work I am going to wake up early and do at least the 1 mile walk, and on my days off I am going to walk out side or ride my bike, something more creative. So if any one wants to join me to try and work out at least once a day evey day this month let me know!

I sometimes feel the same way you do! But I think we both made the right choice. I know people who have had the bypass and also loose slower or loose all the weight quick and then start to gain it back. I know I have days when I don't want to eat the way I should and I know this has slowed my loss. But I am not perfect if I was I never whould have had weight loss surgery. I hope I acheive your loss at 9 months I think you have done great! Keep up the good work and mabie with this next fill the lbs will start to fall off.

the pain could have been from the sugar alcohol, that causes gi discomfourt for some. almost all sugar free candy has sugar alcohols in it. My doc says sugar alcohol is no beter for you than sugar. I also love sugar free candy it is hard to resist. Sometimes that bad taste in your mouth is caused beecause you are in fat burning mode. Embrace your bad breath it means you are on your way to being skiny!

sugar is bad for everyone because it makes us Fat. Most things made with sugar are empty calories, that offer no nutritional value like candy, sweets, exc. to bad it tastes SOOOO good!