MacMadame

I want to get off my blood pressure meds. The fact that I have to take them drives me crazy. I want to take up ballroom dancing and be able to find a partner to compete with. (No one wants to dance with the fat girl.) I want to .... well, that's mostly it. I am a gal of simple wants, I guess.

I wanted to start trying some Protein bars pre-surgery since a lot of people here eat them post-op to get in their protein requirements. I started grabbing ones at Target that looked good. Then I read the labels... these things have TONS of sugar in them. Their nutritional composition reads like a bowl of sugary kids Cereal. I put them all back. I am looking for a tasty bar that has under 10g of sugar and at least 7g of protein. It would be nice to have some Fiber too. Any suggestions?

Well processed solids is mushies. So you do have one, it's just really short and really late. Not sure I could do 5 weeks of full liquids. Does your doctor have an insanely low slippage rate to back up doing it this way? I would do it if I thought it meant less chance of slippage, but otherwise I'd be a bit underwhelmed by such a requirement.

The office job sounds like a trap to me. Yes, you get more per hour but you aren't getting more per week and that's what counts. Also, what if you turn down hours at Dress Barn or LnT because it's the time you are supposed to be in the office and then they cancel?

She and the GM went off to a casino in the middle of the day ... Hmm. Is the GM a guy? Because that just doesn't look good.

I wrote this really long post about it and of course I was too dumb to save it. I'll try to find it and post a link.

I swear I posted on this thread yesterday. The post monster must have eaten it! I'm in Fremont. No band yet. I'm still working out insurance issues.

You need to be careful about these kinds of numbers. There is no way that one number can be right for everyone. At 6'3" you are going to have a bigger waist than someone who is 5'7". The kind of numbers you want to look at are ratios and % because those adjust for different heights and body types. So for waist, you want to look at your waist to hip ratio, not your absolute waist measurement. It should be below .95. For absolute weight, BMI is not accurate for 25% of the population according to some experts. I would go with body fat percentage, myself. It should be at least 25% or lower, though the "ideal" is lower. The last time I lost gobs of weight, I had people telling me "oh you are going to look so great in a bikini when you are done". I knew that wasn't going to be true. I got down 10 lb. below my goal weight and I looked fantastic in clothes but I could never have worn a bikini without significant plastic surgery. I was happy though. I actually think I look better naked than with clothes but I know when I get to goal, that won't be true. I am prepared for it.

The band helps our bodies shrink but it doesn't do a thing for our heads! But there are other resources: I am working through a workbook called The Food and Feelings Workbook that I bought on Amazon. I'm still in the first section about feelings so I'm not sure yet how well it's going to work. There is also a web site called Shrink Yourself that goes along with a book and they have a short online course you can take for free. http://www.shrinkyourself.com/home.asp?bhcp=1 Also, if you have health insurance, you might have a mental health benefit for some counseling sessions.

I have only told my immediate family and my mom. Once I have the surgery and the weight starts coming off, I will tell people if they ask. But I don't want the world to think I'm inviting them into my business. I've done that before and then you get people asking you how much you lost every day and commenting on everything you put in your mouth. Even if they aren't doing it to be mean, it gets annoying after a while. OTOH, I just found out my dh told a mutual friend of ours! I think I need to talk to him. I don't really mind that much that our friend knows, but I wanted it to be my decision to tell people.

My experience with losing large amounts of weight is that your skin will keep tightening up after you get to goal. Eventually that stops or maybe it won't be enough, but I'm hoping that it will be for my arms and legs, at least as I really try to avoid surgery at all costs. (It took a lot to get me to the point of even considering WLS for that reason.)

I love mine because NO MORE WEDGIES! I get horrible wedgies from regular underwear, even if I buy it a size too big for me. My fat butt just sucks that material right in like a black hole. Plus, they get cleaner in the wash.

If you are in the US, there are no bands in use here that haven't been used in other countries for years. So it's really quite safe to use a "new" band. As for the radio controlled one, I've been watching the various clinical trial websites and there doesn't appear to be clinical trial going for it just yet. The FDA only recently approved it to go into clinical trial so I assume they are setting up the programs now. So it shouldn't be too much longer.

Actually Marie Osmond is using Nutri/system. Valerie and Kirstie used Jenny Craig.

I just found out that Kirstie Alley is planning to start her own line of weight loss centers. Because when you think of successful dieters, you think of people like Kirstie Alley. :w00t:

There are people who believe this but they haven't got good data to back up their assertions. The link between body fat and menses is well-known. It's why elite athletes with low body fat often stop menstruating.

My ds was born at Mercy. Anyway, Wasa says your lapband surgeon should have done at least 300 bands in her Researching Mexican Doctors thread.

This has nothing to do with anything, but when I lived in your area, I could see Grossmont Hospital from my front lawn. :rolleyes2:

I don't have any advice but I have definitely seen this in every place I've ever worked. There is always one person who really sucks but their boss doesn't see it. These people are really good at "managing up". I think the only way to defeat them is to become even better at it than they are.

It's easy to tell people they are stupid. But it's not very helpful.

You don't have to go to the home page. You can go to the forum home page. Just click on Forum instead of Home. Or type in: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/forum.html

Not if Dr. Phil is on there. Unless he's there to eat HIS words. All of them. About everything. :redface:

:redface: I think Oprah could benefit from a band. I'd love to watch her eat her WLS-hating words.

I just had one of those today. They are AWESOME. :tt2: They are also exactly the portions that the dietician showed me at my Nutritional evaluation. They are definitely more than 1/2 a cup of food! More like 1 to 1.5 cups. I will measure the next one before I eat it to be sure.

I've been biting my tongue about this, but I can't hold it in any longer. I hate that expression with the passion of a thousand fiery nuns! Maybe a million nuns. That's because every time I join a diet program, the people in it and the leaders say that. And then half the people drop out before they make goal and the rest gain their weight back. The truth is that food not only tastes great, it fills emotional needs. So in the short run, it often tastes better than being thin (an abstract concept that is far in the future for many) feels. My own motto is: I can do anything for 1 day. Or sometimes it's I can do anything for 2 hours or even 1 hour because that's all the willpower I have at that particular moment. I plan to use this motto a lot during the liquid and mushy stages.