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After some reflection, I suppose the minimum threshold would be below 'obese' status on the bmi charts. For a 41 year old 6'3" tall man like myself that is reached around 240 lbs. Seems like stopping short of acheiving merely 'overweight' status would be fooling myself and leaving too many potential health issues lingering on the table. Back to the task at hand of further refining my habits...

Well the bmi charts peg me at 22 lbs lower than my goal to not be overweight. So in reality, I'd be 80 lbs. over that number. I'm sure it's obese in their standard.

My tips would be to not take in any calories after 6pm, make yourself go 4 hours between meals-take in NO calories between those meals and cut carbs. Obviously you should workout for 20-45 minutes most days too if your doctor says you're healthy enough. If you're able to take in more than 2/3rds of a Lean Cousine, you probably need a fill.

So, like most folks on here, the band has worked well for me. I now know normal portions and have gone from 370 lbs to stabilizing around 280. I workout and still eat most of what I want. Another level of sacrifice would be required for me to get to, and more importantly hold, the next 20 lb lower level.

Does anybody ever think it may be okay, or possibly even just more realistic, to not go to extremes on food sacrifice just to chase bmi tables or insurance charts into the ground? Or is it nuts to attempt to be happy/ healthy/ fit at 50-60 lbs over goal weight?

Most guys my age, height and weight would have lost more than the 5 lbs per month I've lost since bring banded. It took me 3 monyhs to lose the last 10. But I finally got my head right recently. Now I'm adjusted to the ordering of a side item for my entree or seeing two hard boiled eggs constitute a complete and filling meal.

It's weird when you reach that point where you no longer think like a fat person or think of yourself as somebody who should act like a fat person. Now I really feel like a skinny guy with only a couple to three months of time as the only thing between me and the final 50-60 lbs. Anybody else see this change finally happen like a switch was flipped?

waist is down 5+ inches. Weight is off 100 lbs from my high. My head just got right 13 months after the band so the weight loss is ramping back up. Now I'm finally okay with having 1 side item and/or Soup being my entire order when I eat out. 2 hard boiled eggs now stuff me and work as a meal. If I could just kick the 2-3 dailu trenta sugar free vanilla iced coffees with a ton of 2% milk, I'd lose another lb per week. How is everybody else doing?

As a follow up to my own question...I'm now about two thirds of the way to my goal weight and females treat me differently for sure. I'm less ckncerned with going after female friends as I now see options everywhere. Stoked on this band.

Haven't been on in a while but I was wondering what kind of rate of loss you guys were seeing from the date of your surgery til 6-12 months out. I'm doing the math and I'm only down 6.1 lbs/ month for my first 9 months post-surgery (though it is going faster now than ever). I'm probably up to 10 lbs. per month now but I'm far off of the 9-15 lbs./ month I was hoping to lose with the band.

Mexican is always a good choice. I ordered 2 tacos the other day and ate about 1.4 of them before getting momentarily stuck. I second the post about it not being good that your mom's retort was that you don't love her. That is a manipulative and odd reaction for a well adjusted person. Next time she says something like that, just say in a very matter of fact way, "yep, guess so" and leave it at that.

Seeing "run for 20 minutes" really took me back but it wasn't really hard. If you stick to the program, it preps your body. It just takes your mind a while to catch on. I ran 22 minutes the other night and it was the first time I'd run for 20+ minutes straight in over 21 years. I hadn't missed a session in the program until the start of this past week (week 6 of the program for me). Then the flu put everything on hold for several days. Now I'm wondering where to start back, week 4?

Thanks. I've added p90x to my routine and between that and the couch to 5k program, I should be dropping the last 95 lbs by the end of the year. That has got to help my time.

I keep telling myself that my fit friends would run at a slow pace too if they were wearing 95 lbs of extra weight. My pace makes sense when I think of it that way. I am determined to run this 5k in 40 minutes or less next month so between the training regimen and the 20-30 lbs it will let me drop, I need to make huge improvements.

So I started the couch to 5k a while back (finished week 5 tonight). The program tells you to run a set time or distance with each session. I kept finding that when I completed the set time, I was well short of what they listed for the approx distance for the time.

So tonight I was supposed to jog 20 minutes or 2 miles. I ended up going for 22 minutes straight but only covered 1.3 miles! That is a 17 minute mile. At that pace, It'll take me 55 minutes to complete the 5k I plan to run in a month!

Anybody else running a crazy slow pace? My stats are: male, aged 40, 6' 3", weight 323 lbs. (approx 100 lbs over my target ideal weight).

Yeah, week 5 looks really tough on paper even when the first 4 have been smooth sailing. What I am amazed by is how tough you think it is / would be in your mind but then you try the session and it doesn't end up being any harder than the previous ones because the program has prepped you so well for it.

I'm slowly going from the 'what? No way can I run that much!' mindset when I read the next week's schedule to realizing that I can easily do whatever they've laid out for me because they've conditioned my system for it. I'm also 320+ lbs currently so it's like I'm running with a 90 lb backpack on.

I started p90x yesterday and I credit the couch to 5k program with getting my cardiovascular system up to the task of dealing with the intensity of p90x. I'm only in the 5th week of c25k but my body has made huge advances in endurance.

I'm doing p90x 6 days per week plus the couch to 5k program 3 of those days. So about 45 minutes on 3 days, an hour and 10 minutes on 3 days and a day of rest. It should be good for half a lb to a lb of weight loss per day.

Confidence increasing is a part of it but only a small part. I think 90% of it is everybody's tendency to shun and ignore people that don't inspire a positive biological response. I think that facially challenged people probably face the same treatment even if they're in shape.

I'm starting p90x in about an hour and it looks incredibly hard. A work buddy who seemed to be in great shape before is noticeably more ripped after just a few weeks. Should do wonders on an obese body.

I just finished week 4 and am really enjoying it. That said, my pace is glacial. When they say run x distance or 5 minutes, I hit the 5 minute mark hundreds of yards short of what they indicate the distance should be. I'm scared that people in walkers will be passing me when I do my first 5k in late sept. or worse, I'll run 30 minutes and end up way short of the finish line.

I now hold doors open for myself where as I used to let the fat me just walk right into them face first.

Dave-do you do emr by chance?

Anybody else notice this? I still have 95 lbs to go but feel like I've rejoined society on some levels with the way people actually acknowledge my existence now.

I know what I look like at the highest end of the 'normal' scale on the BMI charts and it is way too skinny. Those charts are not really all that accurate for a lot of people. At 6' 3" and 205 lbs in high school, I looked stupid skinny. 230 lbs is perfect for my bones and the BMI chart is way off in my case.

I've finally figured out why I've had some PBing even though I chew everything very well. There are no problems if I allow each swallow of food to get way down before swallowing again. Before, I'd chew a lot but swallow a follow up bite too closely behind the previous one. That pile up down there caused stuckages. Hope this helps somebody else who may be having the same issue. Pause a while between swallows no matter how well you chew.

I have been losing about 1/2 lb. per day when I let the band work for me (took me a couple fills and several weeks). I'm down about 30 since my initial consult weigh in which was early April of 2011. I want to keep up the 1/2 lb. weight loss rate many more months and I've got a couple of weapons to bust out when I fall off of that pace, low carbs and cardio. With just limited food, I can keep up the pace for the next 20-30 lbs. probably. Once I get to within 70 lbs. of goal weight, I'll probably need to cut carbs and walk a lot to keep it dropping. Whenever a day goes by where I stall or even bump up a lb. or two, I walk for about an hour and really restrict what I take in and that lb. or two drops right back off. It is so hard to wait for the next 6 months to get lived so my excess weight will be gone.