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I lost 40lbs in one year.

I lost 2.4 lbs until 2days ago but today scale shows only 0.4 lbs loss, I think it was bad eating over the weekend plus TOM coming!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbup:

I am in!!!!!!!!! I am shooting for 16.6 lbs by labor day. My weight today is 246.6 and aiming for 230.

Ooohooo! I met my goal plus 0.4lbs more! My starting weight for labor day challenge will be 246.6.

I have just joined a boot camp for exercise and it lasts for an hour. I think I might be burning anywhere from 500 to 1000 calories daily because it is very intense workout.

I have realize band and I think I have 5cc of different kind of Fluid not saline in my band. That's why I have restriction at 5cc which my doc says is difficult with saline. I know I need to do major changes in my eating just like what I did to my exercise 3wks back and I feel great.

I haven't gone for a fill for 3 months now but I used to go monthly until I got good restriction. My insurance changed to bcbs and they don't pay for fills so I am a self pay that's why I push my fills further if I can. I just joined intense exercise boot camp 4 days a week which is making me lose little faster than before. I was eating lot of granola bars until 2 days ago but I stopped now but cravings for sweets are killing me!!!!!! I can easily eat 1 cup of food at one sitting, still getting stuck though on rice, bread and eggs mostly which are my staple foods. I am trying to do major changes in my diet starting after long wend. With this info what do y'all think, do I need a 0.3 or 0.5 cc fill?

I had surgery exactly one year ago today and lost total of 39.8lbs. I want to see if there are any June 30th or close by bandsters out there to see how they are doing and How much other people lost?

Hello everyone, today is my one year band anniversary and I have lost only 39.8lbs so far compared to others who got it done same time I have lost very less. I think people lost anywhere from 60 lbs to 100 lbs and I wish I was one of them! Then on positive side, I think if I haven't had this surgery, I would be same weight may be few extra pounds. My band didn't work for first 7-8 months but now I feel I have restriction. I can still eat 1500 calories a day and I am contemplating whether I should go for some small fill, what do you suggest?

I have gained lots of weight over the years in trial and error of antidepressants and none of the doctors forewarned me about weight gain. Finally I am settled down on combination of cymbalta and abilify and abilify made me gain 30lbs. It was the best med for my depression so I decided to lose weight rather than stop the med because it became a survival issue for me. Let me know the name of your med and I will tell you what it does and will tell you some good alternatives, wellbutrin is one of them as you lose on wellbutrin but it doesn't work for everyone, I know it didn't work for me.

I am down 2.4 lbs this week making it a total loss of 8lbs so far. I am happy with my loss this week but need to lose two more lbs by next week to make it to the goal of July 4th challenge. Also, today I achieve my 2nd mini goal of 250lbs or less weighing at 249lbs. My next goal is to reach 225 lbs.

i am down only 0.6lbs this week, has to do better then this next week........

I used it in the past for b12 deficiency as my stomach cant absorb oral b12 good and nasal stuff is good alternative to injection. Hope that helps.

I lost 0.8 lbs this week, until yesterday scale was showing 2.8lbs loss but last night did some wrong choices in eating and this morning scale was not happy..................

I lost 2.4lbs this week and that's great considering we were out of town and I was eating muffin or Danish for breakfast, subway for lunch and eating at different restaurants at dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have to get back to routine now which I am finding It hard to do...............

I lost only 1.4 lbs this week which includes one lb gain from last week so net loss is 0.4 lbs for this week.

I was banded June 30th 2009 and just started doing fine on wt loss. No problems so far with band.

I am 5feet 2 or 3 inches depends who measures me and I will be happy if I can reach 195pounds. I dont know if I can lose more than that or not with the slow slow slow weight loss I am having.

I gained 1 pound this week, some of it is out of control eating and less exercise and some of it is TOM was just here! No excuses for next week!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since I have good restriction and I am eating less food, I only get bowel movement once every 2-3 days which is very unusual for me because I used to go daily. My question is, is this normal after getting restriction and after you start eating less food? Please let me know. Do you think I need a stool softener to go daily? Thanks in advance.

I lost 1.4lbs this week which is surprising because I am a slow loser............but I am very happy for it.:thumbup:

Hi all, Today my scale showed me 255.6lbs that means I have acheived my first goal to reach 256lbs. My doc put me on abilify 2yrs ago which works great for my depression but I gained 31 pounds on it. It took me this long to lose those 31 lbs per my home scale. I am very happy but just don't know how to celebrate. Any ideas?

I had surgery in June 2009 that is 10 months ago and I have lost only 30lbs so far. I am happy for my slow loss bcoz it is better to lose some than gain. I wish I have lost 60-80lbs like others by now. It took 5-6 fills before I felt the restriction. Now I eat very less, dont feel constantly hungry but I am not loosing fast. I am taking it at face value as there are no other options for me. I do have some drawbacks though as I am still eating sweets and going to gym only 2x a week. If I can work on some of the issues may be I will lose some more weight but willpower is not there. Hang in, think positive.....things will be better slowly.:thumbup:

Sign me in too! My first challenge.......want to lose 10lbs by july 4th.

I have same problem!!!!!!!! I use only 500 calories until 4pm then BOOM!!!!!!!! I cant stop eating after 4pm, something happens to my body that it just craves food and sweets. I talked to my doc about it and he suggested 2 things: 1) Fiber plus bars for sweet tooth which has only 7gm of sugar 2) eat tbsp or two of peanut butter which has lot of fat and it tricks our brains in thinking that we are full and cravings go away. Both options are working pretty good for me. Give it a try.............