LeighaMason

I have something sweet every Sunday. Ice cream, cup cake, homemade Cookies. I make sure it is the best quality and I enjoy every bite but I make sure that it is single serving so its not hanging around on Monday! And I have alcohol on Fridays too...

Your having surgery on my first bandiversary! I think I will adopt you, :biggrin:. Congratulations on getting your date! Don't worry about the 2 week diet you can do it, just take it one day at a time. When I had to do it I told myself, "I don't know what is going to happen tomorrow but I know I can do this today" and my old time favorite "One more day down only __ to go, you can do it!" Silly but it works. I used the CIB shakes too. The milk has plenty of sugar to keep your blood sugar from plummeting. If you are a heavy carb addict you might want to go low carb for a week or so before you start the shakes so you wont have carb withdrawals at the same time you are starting the shakes. I promise your Dr would not prescribe this diet if it were unsafe in any manner, he would be liable. If you think you have selected a good Dr please do as he asks to have the best chance of a successful surgery. If you don't feel you can do as he asks, talk to him about doing something different, this is about your health. P.S. Crash dieting:lol::scared2:!

Oh look at those sweet babies. I'm sorry for the loss of your Jeffrey. I bet Lucian will be a wonderful new addition, he may seem timid but I have been around Germans before, they are so loyal. Once you are his person he will do anything for you.

WTG! I am so proud of you!

Don't worry, your just mourning your loss of your old lifestyle, it will pass. Once you start seeing results, this feeling will diminish. And you will eat again! I actually feel I can eat more, not more food but more choices. Before the band, when I went to a restaurant, I was limited on the menu to things that were large portions because I didn't want to be hungry when I was finished. Now I can order anything on the menu and be happy with it. I am through trying to lose weight so my band is semi-loose and I have not found anything I cant eat if I take my time and chew properly, but even when it was tighter, I could still eat everything except bread and bananas. It will get better, I promise and shortly you will be the one telling your family, I told you so!

Any time my weight changes upward on the scale less than 3 pounds I just tell myself "That is just Water weight" and go on. Salt, extra exercise, time of month, sickness, all cause water retention. If you are eating 1000 calories a day it is physically impossible to gain 2.8 pounds of fat in a week, you would have to eat 9800 calories more than you burned, and you only ate 7700 calories so its mathematically impossible. Dismiss it and go on. The good news is when I gain a couple pounds of water weight, when it went away it usually took a couple of pounds with it, kind of a cell flushing thing. I hope it works like that for you too.:biggrin:

Never avoid (or never have) a life changing surgery based on what a boyfriend, husband, significant other, friend or family member thinks you should do. Listen to their advice, consider all the options, and then make a decision based on the facts you have collected. You should do what you think is best for you. Period. You only get one shot at this life and you don't want to turn 40, 50 or 60 thinking what if. I am not saying you should get the band, I am saying you should make an informed decision for yourself.

6 kilos! Boy, you are ambitious. I like the fact that you tried. I am signing up to run a "jailbreak" on my 41st birthday later this month with my son and his girlfriend. Here is the link if you haven't seen a jailbreak course before. Home | Run the Jailbreak Dash | Race in Dallas / Fort Worth Texas And then on 10/10/10 I am going to participate in a half marathon, so I better get busy with my training. I have been lazy lately and only been working out 2 days a week instead of 3.

Your mourning the loss of your previous lifestyle. Even though you gave it up voluntarily, you still have to readjust your brain. Change is scary. Don't worry, soon you will feel physically better too, the toxins from bad foods will leave your body, your new foods will start nourishing your body in a way that hasn't happened for a long time, exercise will be helping flush bad stuff out and you will feel lighter, fresher and younger than you have in years. Then you wont even remember this period of doubt. It gets better I promise. Your never alone, there are thousands of people who are going through or have gone through the same things here, no matter what you post, someone else has done it, ate it, or PB'd it. :biggrin:

Good morning everyone. Denise-- HOLY CRAP on the dentist! Boy do I hate to spend money that way. Stacie-- I am having a hard time feeling sorry for you in the boob department. You get to be skinny and still have big boobs, sheesh! Crystl-- You havent given us an update on how your doing lately. (Or if you did I missed it) Betsy-- Thinking about you. I have some strange things going on in my life. Someone has been getting in my office at night and taking petty cash. My husband and I are the only people with keys other than the landlord, who said they changed the locks before they rented us the building. So I installed a security camera yesterday and we will know soon. Maybe I am sleepwalking. My husband called me a couple of days ago and I could tell he was excited. So he tells me he found an old memory card and there is a picture of me on it. Then he tells me "And you were FAT!" so I was like "um, yeah" then he told me something I thought was really sweet. "I didnt know you were fat! I knew you were a little overweight but I didnt realize you were fat!" We met in 2001 and he had never seen me when I was thin. I guess love is really blind. Here is my new found fat pic with my son and one of us that is a few months old, he has changed some too.

Do you mean a 1/2 a cup of food is your whole meal? If so that is probably the problem. If you eat 1/2 cup at Breakfast and 1/2 cup at lunch you are overeating at night because you are starving. If I don't eat enough during the day it leads to overeating at night. Once I get too hungry, I am hungry for the rest of the day. When I was in the losing stage I ate 2-4 oz of meat (by weight on the scales) 1/2 cup of veggies and 1/4 cup of starch at each meal. Keeping each meal around 250-300 calories. As an example, lunch 2oz of fish, 1/2 cup green Beans, and 1/4 cup mashed potatoes.

I was suppose to work out on Tuesday but I pushed it to Wednesday. It was only 77 degrees but the humidity was 95%! Come on fall! Here is what I was suppose to do: As many rounds as you can do for 30 minutes: 8 minute run/walk with purpose 15 body rows 15 tuck jumps 5 plank holds for :45 seconds 30 squats Here is what I did: Rode my bike to the park 1.49 miles I ran 17:31 min for 1.47 miles 30 body rows 30 tuck jumps 10 :20 sec plank holds (huge improvement from my :05 max hold time at first) 60 squats And then rode home.

I decided to stop losing and I had a .2 cc unfill. Then I lost 2 more pounds so I have upped my calories, I included a cup of 2% milk each day, and changed my portion size from 1/4 cup of complex carb to 1/2 cup and increased my meat portion from 2 oz to 4 oz and I have stayed at the same weight for 2 weeks. I also have a glass of wine on Friday and a serving of ice cream or something similar on Sunday.

I had a .2 cc unfill 2 weeks ago and I have not gained an ounce. I got to goal and had the unfill so I could stop losing and then I found I was eating less calories after the unfill because I was eating solid food and not hungry so I have added a cup of milk a day plus more starches to try and keep from losing. Before my unfill I would have a Protein shake for Breakfast and then a Greek yogurt at 10:30 which is 250 calories and I would be hungry again at noon. Now I have 1/2 a bagel thin, 1 fried egg and 1 piece of bacon which is 230 calories and I am not hungry until 1 or 1:30. Remember, an unfill is not permanent! You can always get it put back in if you start gaining.

WTG! 37 min is great (even with your fall!)

I am behind on posting, Sunday was day 19, it had cooled off and was so much easier. I slept in and didn't start until 8:30. Here is what I was suppose to do: As many rounds as you can do for 30 minutes: 4 minute run/walk with a purpose 15 push ups 30 squats 25 sit ups Here is what I did: Rode my bike to the park 1:09 miles Ran a total of 16 min. 1.51 miles 60 push ups 120 squats 100 sit ups and rode my bike home I was able to run the 1.51 miles in 14 min which means I have gone from 12:30 min mile to 10:30 min/ mile. :tt2: On to tomorrow which will be day 20!

You can not live on Jello and coffee creamer! Your body will start burning lean muscle which in turn slows your metabolism and sets up a yo-yo effect. The less muscle you have, the less your body burns the less you can eat, etc... Please do not do this to your body. We get the band is so we can learn to eat normal. You need a healthy mix of Protein, carbs and fats every day for your body to function properly. You could have just .3 or .5 cc removed and regain the ability to eat nutritious food without feeling hungry.

Have you tried journaling your food to see a true calorie count of what you are eating? When I was first banded I was not losing and I told my husband "But I am doing everything right!" and he was like "um, no your not" so I started weighing and measuring everything and tracking it on a web site and then I found out that I was eating a lot of stuff I shouldn't. Here is a link to a blog that I wrote of what I eat, I hope it helps. What I eat... - LAP-BAND

I will say wine will impede your weight loss more than just the calories it holds. I was still having my daily glass of wine during my weight loss stage and "fitting" in the calories. But when I got to the last 15 pounds I could not lose it while drinking wine. I stopped wine and replaced the 200 calories with food and lost the last little bit in about a month. Now I only drink wine on Friday night. (Which is also saving me a lot of money!) I was reading a nutrition text book recently and it stated that your body burns all the alcohol before it even considers starting to burn fat so if you consume 200 calories a day in alcohol you have to exercise an extra 30 min a day (estimated) at 80% of you heart capacity to reach the fat burning stage.

Faith, I put mine on EBay a few days ago, have you tried Ebay or craigslist?

So explain to me exactly how I "cheated the system". My Dr weighed me at 195, I am a true 5' 5" and I paid $10,200 of my hard earned money for my band.

Betsy, I'm glad your back, I have been wondering about you. It sucks sometimes to find out someone is different than you thought. My husband says my biggest fault is that I expect other people to act like I do, and when they do things that I wouldn't do it really hurts me. Please don't worry about taking care of yourself, you are so smart, taking care of yourself financially will be no problem, just keep your eyes open, an opportunity will present itself shortly. People are always looking for someone who smart and capable to help them. You are always welcome here, LBT would really suck without you.

I think mourning the loss of your previous eating habits really helps. It means you are facing the fact that you are going to eat differently for the rest of your life. And since change is scary your not sure if you will be this unhappy the whole time. Don't worry, you wont. I love my new eating habits. Before, when I went to a restaurant, I had to look at the menu and pick out the things that I thought had enough food to satisfy me. Now I can order anything on the menu. I have so many more choices now. It will get better I promise!

And your BMI just went under 40! Congrats!

Try a pack of tuna, the kind in the vacuum package. Its like 90 calories and keeps me full for hours.