Long - it's just like reality tv which is all edited to make you watch - pple sensationalize everything now a days. I think the commercial that runs now is a real lady - cuz it shows a before and after - but when it says it takes away your hunger - well - yes it helps but it doesn't take it away 100% and again it's more about our head hunger than our physical hunger..
Serenity
I will be here till Friday Morning - I am proud of you for the exercise - way to go:thumbup:
As to cleaning the cupboards - if you can't throw it away - then bag it up and take it to your local homeless shelter.
Yep the whole clean plate club - starving children in china - I was taught the same thing - that being wasteful was sinful - but so is being obese - gluttony is a sin too - doing anything in excess is a sin. But our whole head game doesn't let us remember those facts we don't look at fat as being a sin... But we are abusing the body that God gave us - we are committing a slow legal suicide..
When you clean out the cupboards (whether you throw it away or give it away) say this "Better in Thee than in ME" You will find it empowering - yep it's hard to give up your best Friend food - but it's not really your Friend - cuz a real Friend wouldn't be killing you...
Try it - even if it's just one thing - give it a try and see how you feel.
But make sure that you can't dig it out later in a moment of weakness - open it up dump it in and put other trash over it so that you can go back to it later..
Indio,
Man oh man am I having a hard time with this weight loss. I was banded in November last year and am down only 50 + pounds. I have been trying to lose 10 pounds a month and it was going good for a while but now I have seemed to plateau. I had a fill back in May and have felt great restriction but here I am, not losing. I started at 316 pounds and today I weighed myself and was 262. I'm 26 years old and 5'4" this shouldn't be this hard... I admit that exercise has turned into a weekly thing instead of daily and I contribute that to many meaningless excuses. Why can't I seem to get out of my old pattern of eating and not exercising? Gosh, I am so discouraged. I know that it is my fault and that I rely too much on the band to stop me from eating. I read what you wrote about doing anything in excess is a sin and that really hit me. You're right. I am working so hard in building my relationship with God and for me to be doing these things... He must be so dissapointed in me. I need to rely on Him and know that He has a better plan for me than this overweight and over uncomfortable life I live. Thank you very much for all that you have shared on here. You are truly an inspiration!
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Indio,
Man oh man am I having a hard time with this weight loss. I was banded in November last year and am down only 50 + pounds. I have been trying to lose 10 pounds a month and it was going good for a while but now I have seemed to plateau. I had a fill back in May and have felt great restriction but here I am, not losing. I started at 316 pounds and today I weighed myself and was 262. I'm 26 years old and 5'4" this shouldn't be this hard... I admit that exercise has turned into a weekly thing instead of daily and I contribute that to many meaningless excuses. Why can't I seem to get out of my old pattern of eating and not exercising? Gosh, I am so discouraged. I know that it is my fault and that I rely too much on the band to stop me from eating. I read what you wrote about doing anything in excess is a sin and that really hit me. You're right. I am working so hard in building my relationship with God and for me to be doing these things... He must be so dissapointed in me. I need to rely on Him and know that He has a better plan for me than this overweight and over uncomfortable life I live. Thank you very much for all that you have shared on here. You are truly an inspiration!
Heather