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It's kind of scary but I actually enjoy keeping track of the calories going in and out. I am not obsessed with staying below a certain number but it makes me feel better to keep intake below 2,000 and burn above 3,500. I am not yet banded and so far this approach has been working for me. I just hope I can keep it up until I am banded with restriction.

I am not getting banded just to lose weight. I am getting banded because I am sick of putting the weight I lose back on. I know I can lose 100 pounds but I also know that I revert back to my old ways of ordering 3 pizzas at a time so I can eat 2 for dinner and 1 for Breakfast.

There is always the old wives tale about red meat causing cancer as well.

Which insurance company is this? I want to sign up Congrats!

Do you know what you are burning or are you guessing? Get a Bodybugg if you don't have one and you may find the answer there.

If you have $200 to spend, the Bodybugg is the best gift you can get yourself!! I got mine in late September and it has helped me immensely. I am eating 1,500 to 2,000 calories a day and still losing 3-5 pounds a week. In my opinion; counting how many calories you are eating is useless unless you know how many you are burning.

I'll weigh meat once in a while just to make sure that my estimates are close for logging purposes. I weigh myself way too often. I really need to stop that.

They are a lot flabbier than any of us. You could see the body shapers under their clothes. Why do you think the men don't take their shirts off any more?

I also got the Bodybugg because I saw it on The Biggest Loser. It is great. Ladies, you have to understand that men's physiology is much different from yours when it comes to burning calories. For a 400 pound man to burn 3,800 calories; he just has to be alive At 365 pounds I was burning 4,500 calories a day with little or no exercise.

I consider fasting abstaining from food, including food in a liquid form. I have probably seen a dozen nutritionists over the past 15 or so years (2 in the last 6 months) and all of them preach the same thing: a balance diet and portion control. Any that I have asked about starvation diets were against them. As for fat people knowing more than the experts; thinking we know more than the experts is what got us here in the first place.

A 2 or 3 month liquid diet? A 300 calorie diet for 2 months is not a diet, it is starvation and liable to kill you!!! Are you sure this guy knows what he is talking about?

Our bodies get used to the same routines every day and optimize our metabolism. You have to switch things up a little. eat one or two hundred more calories a day and up your exercise regimen to burn off the extra.

#1. Surgery date? Paperwork being submitted to insurance on January 6th. I was told it should be approved and surgery date will probably be in February. #2. State you live in? Texas #3. Doctor/Surgery Center? Dr David Kim #4. Insurance or self pay? Aetna #5. Age and height? 45 / 5'8 #6. Current weight and goal weight? 314 / 170 #7. What was your deciding factor for having this surgery? Midlife crisis and didn't enjoy the heart attack. #7. Do you have the support of family and friends? It is nobody's business but mine. #8. Concerns and questions? The same one everyone has has. Will it actually work. We mostly hear from the successes around here. Are they the majority or minority?

Nutritionists/Dietitians are against fasting. They usually just lead to binging the next day and accomplish nothing more than making you miserable the first day and feeling guilty the second. That being said, everyone is different and it may work for you. I can do without the misery.

I disagree. As many people on this site can tell you; the problem for a lot of us is not losing the weight, it is keeping it off. I've personally lost over 75 pounds 3 times only to gain back more than I lost. The insurance companies are aware of yo-yo dieting and that is why they ask for a diet history.

At least 4 months. If you're lucky you be be banded in late April. But don't fret it. The time flies by. It only takes a week or 2 for the insurance company to approve but most insurance companies require a 3 to 6 month supervised diet period before the paperwork can even be submitted.

How did you get to the doctor? Drive? I'm willing to bet that more people die in automobile accidents than do from Lapband surgery. I went looking for the rate of death from Lapband and couldn't find it. It is next to nil. Use google and do the research yourself. It will definitely put you at ease.

I am not banded yet. So, I can't speak from personal experience but I would not worry about it considering how many people fly to Mexico to get banded and then fly back a day or so later.

If you are worried you will cheat because of the holidays, postpone your surgery for a couple of weeks.

It's vegetarian and even Kosher. There is no real bacon in it. If you have high blood pressure, make sure to get the low sodium types.

Somebody has to be the one to disagree with the majority. Why is it always me? IMHO, weight loss surgery to lose 50 pounds is overkill. What else have you tried? WLS is not a magic pill, it is only a tool and you will still have to work hard at it. I am not saying that you shouldn't have WLS but anybody that is considering it should do a lot of research first.

I'd say get a Bodybugg so that you know exactly how many calories you are burning except I have one and am going through the same thing this week. From what I found online our metabolism gets used to the same routines every day and optimizes the energy our body uses. I am going to try eating 500 more calories a day and burning 200 more than I have been just to switch things up.

I wish her all the luck but those saddle bags are not going to disappear and fast as her upper body (visceral fat) did. I don't think she will lose another 50 pounds by May.

I wouldn't call what anybody has said even being tough on you let alone bashing. Giving you a big hug and whispering in your ear that everything is going to be all right probably will not help you. I'm not big on 12 step programs but the first step is always admitting you have a problem. You've done that and you know what needs to come next. Cut back on your WoW time. How long have you been playing? In that time you must have taken a week or even a few days off. The world did not end. Also, use the support group to your advantage. Don't just sit back, speak up and be honest. Most of the other have their own struggles and may be able to help you (and it's cheaper than therapy.)

OK. I will be blunt. The BMI never made a difference to me. I don't believe in public assistance for the able-minded. If somebody has the ability to chat on the internet and collaborate to scam the American taxpayer, they have the ability to work. I don't care if somebody has a BMI of 99 and pops like a balloon. I shouldn't be unwillingly paying the bill for their elective surgery. We have people in this country unwilling to work because they are depressed and some because they are morbidly obese. I am both, as are most of the members of this site and we all work. Somehow our society has become so liberal that these people not only feel no shame but they are openly trying to cheat us. Anybody concerned about her well-being can send a check. I couldn't have been any more blunt than that.