Jess55

I honestly never used to understand my mother. She is a total gym rat. She goes at ike 5 am to the gym mostly every morning. I always thought she was crazy. Now I understand. While I don't go to they regular gym every day. I am addicted to kickboxing. I go 5 days a week. Occasionally doing more than one class or going twice a day. I just love it. If I have to miss it I feel awful. I am looking forward to going to Florida fro a Vet conference, but wondering how I'm going to get my workouts in while I'm away. I know I'll feel like crap if I don't and I just know I'll gain if I don't. I also go to the regular gym one day a week and go on the elliptical for an hour. I sometimes find myself really wanting to go on Tuesdays (my day off from working out) but I know you really need to have a off day from working out. In the past if I've felt kind of sick I'd take a day off, but found that I felt worse for doing so. Now I push through and go and I usually feel better after it. So I guess I'm a gym rat too now!

You can walk right away. I got the clear from my doc at my 9 day post op visit to do cardio, but I waited till about 14 days or so. And he had told me 3 more weeks to start lifting.

If you're losing and not in a place where you feel like you're starving all the time. There is no need to get one. A fill is not going to make you lose weight. I have been banded almost a year and have one tiny fill ( which I would get removed if I had the guts to ask my doc...lol) I'm losing and while I'm not near the so called green zone I'm happy with where I am and how I'm losing. Also why would you want to feel some of the side effects? I've never been stuck, nor do I want to, I hear it's really painful. I have had a couple instances where my food was way to big and I swallowed and I felt it kind of painfully go down my esophagus slowly and that was painful,, though I don't believe it was stuck. If that happens I take a few sips of Water to push it down and it clears up, so I don't believe I was stuck. I've never truly PB'd. I don't want to ever experience the uncomfortableness of being to tight.

My doc told me that the no ibuprofen rule is for bypass patients and has no problem with me taking it. I take advil if I need it.

I had vision problems post op too. I was going crazy, I was like why did the anesthesia do? y eyes were fine for a minute, but after trying to read things for more than a few minutes they could not focus. I found out it was due to the scopolamine patch. Once I took it off after a day my eyes were fine. Give the meds some time to get out of your system and if you are still having trouble then go see a doc.

I was actually told by a trainer Not to eat carbs within 2-3 hours of working out. As for me, I usually work out at 10 am. I drink a protein drink a little before 9 am and have a either have a small something like 1/2 cup fiber one cereal (dry) or a string cheese. Most times I just wait til I have lunch, which I know isn't good.

You can eat them. But be careful, my sisters husband is diabetic, so he eats sugar free stuff and he says some of them can be pretty bad in your digestive tract.

First of all, I think you're doing well. Some people lose slower than others. I've never been able to average 2 lb per week. A lot of people who were banded the same time as me have lost a lot more than me already but you can't compare to others. In fact as much as it sucks, slower is better. More time for your skin to catch up and I feel less likely to gain it back. You say you don't see how you're not losing quicker with 6 cc in your band, the band is not going to make you lose weight. As had been said countless times on this board before, it is just a tool. You have to make the right choices, you have to watch yourself. The band does nothing to limit how much is digested such as bypass, so it is up to you. I'm actually not using my tool but I've learned to change myself so I'm still losing. But like I said you're doing well. Remember slow and steady wins the race

For the first 8 months I did not eat them. Then my weight loss plateaued. After talking with people I started upping my calories until I was eating mostly all of them. I gained like a lb at first then stayed plateaued for 6 weeks then it started coming off again. I workout 6 days a week and burn 500-800 calories or more (per my bmf) per session and per my bmf burn over 3000 calories per day 1200 calories was just not sustaining me anymore.

I did have a tiny fill, only 0.75cc at 5 months post op. But I've decided to do this with basically just diet and exercise. The band gave me the kick and the motivation to do something about my weight, but I'm doing this on my own (for the most part), yes I get hungry between meals, so I'm not in the green zone. But I've chosen this. Last time I went to the doc my weight loss had and still has slow down and he wanted to give me a fill, but I declined. I knew what I needed to do to change things up, and I'm still losing. Would I like to lose the weight all at once, sure, but I'm losing and that's all I care about. Personally IMO I feel if you lose it fast you are more likely to put it back on and you have not had time to thoroughly change your habits so when you go to maintenance down the road you're gonna start slipping back to your old ways. That's just my opinion though.

Actually muscle does not weigh more than fat. A pound equals a pound. It is just that more muscle will take up the same amount of space that fat will take up. Muscle is small in size, so if you lose one pound of fat and it gets taken up by one pound of muscle it will look smaller, but it will weigh the same.

I was there for about 7 hours. My doc said I'd only have to stay overnight if for some reason he had to convert to an open procedure.

I would call your surgeons office and ask if there is someone that they use. My doc had given me a list of requirements and under the psych and nutrition areas were a couple choices that they recommended. Since the psych had worked with the surgeon before he knew what was required. If they've never done a eval for a surgery before they probably are not sure what is needed

If you're working out, then most definitely you can be losing inches and not weight. I think I've lost more size than the scale says weight wise. I had two people at work say I look thinner even though the scale hasn't moved in three weeks. Also weight wise I feel I haven't lost enough to be down another size but my large scrubs are falling off me (waiting for my mediums to come in). I still have 45 lbs to get to a normal bmi but no one believes me because I'm much smaller size wise. I've lost 67 lb and gone from a 24 jeans to a 12. I workout 6 days a week so I know that my body is changing and doing weights once a week is helping inches even though the scale isn't moving.

If you're having reflux and regurgitating. I think you should get a slight unfill. I would think you're to tight and risking damage to yourself and your band.

I understand that, my weight loss has slowed way down too and it's getting kind of annoying. It's to the point I don't haven't been to my doc in 2-3 months, because last time he was there he wanted to give me a fill, which I do not want. My weight los now seems to come in spurts. I'll plateau (last one was 7 weeks!), then I'll lose for 2 weeks, (which equaled 4.2 lb), now I've been plateaued again for the past 2 weeks (TOM right now, hope it drops when it's over). But it's really annoying. I work out 6 days a week, burning anywhere from 500-almost 900 calories sometimes. I have a daily deficit of a minimum of 1000 calories. Which should equal 2 lb per week, but it doesn't. I know my exact deficits and burns thanks to my Bodymeda Fit. So it is really annoying. Last time I broke the plateau, I thought that was it, I'd finally figured it out, but nope, I guess this is just what my body is going to do now. Oh and I don't plateau at my lowest weight, I plateau a little above it. (ThoughI don't count that, I only count my lows) But it is really discouraging!

Chocolates going to go down easy whatever amount of fill you have. It's a slider food. So.woth that you just have to use good old fashioned will power!

In the past, I would have binged, but not anymore, so now, I will go to the gym or kickboxing and work my stress out. I feel so much better when I do. Unfortunately I still have A LOT of trouble controlling myself when there is junk food around at work. That is something I have to work on.

I have a physical job. On my feet 10 hour shifts. Bending, lifting (only let myself lift up to 20 lb til 3.5 weeks post op). I'm an LVT. I took one week off, but felt I could've gone back by day 5

I'd not set a goal, but just work on good habits. A lot of people don't lose weight during this time. I was up and down like 2 lbs weeks 2-4. Finally started losing week 5. So if you are like this, you'll only set yourself up for disappointment.

I understand the inches but no pounds. I'm 11 months post op and for the past 3 months or so weight loss has been really slow. I plateau for a number of weeks, drop a like 4 or 5 pounds in 2 weeks, then plateau again. I work out 6 days a week and I'm still losing inches. So I know I'm still doing right, but it's annoying.

My doc told me that the no Ibuprofen rule was mainly for bypass patients, and has not problem with me taking it. At the time I asked him, I was so glad because I'd hurt my shoulder and it was going on weeks with no resolve, so I was so grateful to be able to take an antiinflammatory. Only took a few days after that to resolve.

There are many who have done it. Also you have being a male in your favor. They lose quicker and possibly easier than females. I know you can do it. Good Luck!

I would let yourself heal for a bit before you play, if it is kind of with contact and stuff, but I see absolutely no reason not to play. If my having surgery ever kept me from doing something I'd be like, take this out please. Not sure when but I plan to join a martial arts some time and if I'm sparring or something and I get kicked in the abdomen, I'm sure the lap band won't care, but my port is easily felt and it might end up twinging a bit, but I'm not gonna care because I'm happy now.

First off, one week of not weight loss is not a plateau. Secondly, I saw you had surgery 11/11. The first six weeks are not about weight loss, but about healing. It is quite normal not to lose weight during that time. I lost and gained the same 2 pounds over weeks 2-5 post op. Your body is trying to heal itself from the surgery. And I assume your caloric intake is minimal right now. I cannot lose weight on a very low calorie diet. Week 6 I had finally got my intake up to 1100-1200 and that's when I started losing again. Have patience and the scale will move.