WrenBird

I'm pear shaped a bit...My bottom isn't predominantly larger than the rest of me, but my stomach seems to go in quite a bit just bellow my rib cage. I'm sort of a mixture between pear shaped and hour glass. I just found this on google: If you are an apple, you will want to focus on aerobic training in order to slim down and lose body fat. By working on the lower half of your body, you can help balance out your chest and shoulders. Look to perform exercises that are low-resistance and involve low repetitions, such as: stairclimbing walking on an incline running leg squats, leg presses, and deadlifts Top Fitness Tips: Excercise for Your Body Type and 8 toning exercises for apple shaped women: http://www.3fatchicks.com/8-toning-exercises-for-apple-shaped-women/ Might be worth getting a personal trainer for a week to teach you which exercises to do. Good luck!

Pastry is a bit no-no for me. Pretty much anything super carby is hard to get down - I think a lot of people are like that. Oranges were particuarly difficult, so I'd just suck the juice out of them and throw the rest away lol. I can eat those now.

Only if you take it everyday for a prolonged period of time. Your body relies on it too much and then you have problems releasing your bowels by yourself. Every 5 days sounds ok though.

Congrats on making it through your first day. Good luck for tomorrow, you're gonna kill it!!

Vitamin E cream and Bio Oil (not sure if you can buy that where you live, but it's quite popular here in Australia).

Wow. Am I really going to have to find all of the threads where you mentioned Optifast? or eating 1200 calories? or starvation mode? or everything else you've been bothering me about or disagreed with me just for the sake of it? Thankgod. Please do. Now hopefully you'll leave me alone and stop being so horrible to me.

My surgeon decided to go away on the day of my intended appointment, so I'm getting it done a little late. I'm a bit worried that I have a leakage of my band at the moment which a few people asked me to update them on. I've really had to pull through these past couple of days because I've been very hungry lately. Has anyone put on weight waiting for a fill?

It's nice to see that you don't care that following me around and disagreeing with me on more than 5 different subjects (interestingly enough) doesn't bother you. It bothers me and there was a time where I didn't want to come back here because everything I'd say, no matter how many people agreed with me, you'd disagree and say that YOU'VE done it and it doesn't work for you. After coming back after 4 days to see a once again rediculous post at trying to make me look bad, I just got sick of it. This has happened multiple times and it seems like ignoring you doesn't work anymore. I come here to get motivated to lose weight and help people with my experiences of weight loss and your nastiness is ruining it for me. Don't call me a bully. YOU are obviously doing what you're doing on purpose. It's obvious you have a problem with me because in my first thread here you misunderstood something I said and it made you look stupid. Ever since then you've been on my jock about EVERYTHING. You say you don't know who I am?...So how do you know soooo much about me? You're quick to judge for someone who doesn't even know me. You said that you've only lost what? 38 lbs in a year since you got your band? I'm just going by what you're saying. It makes me wonder if you put it there just to look better on the forums. Are you following me around and disagreeing with me so you can look better on the forums too? I work my ass off and it works for me. I've lost 33 lbs in less than 2 months and I'm pretty darned proud of myself and what I'm doing is working for ME and I think you need to leave me alone and stop dropping these little hints that you think I haven't got a clue what I'm talking about when obviously what I'm doing is working. P.S: I'm so sorry to the thread starter for hijacking your thread. I just can't take this grouchy women anymore!!

Um... A doctor can see if their liver hasn't shrunk enough. People get turned away all the time because they can't opperate because of that. Read this thread and a majority of people know that. Optifast makes your liver shrink and if you follow the diet correctly you can't help but lose weight because you lose weight from your liver. Unless you've had some strange allergic reaction to something in Optifast, that makes you put on weight from non-existant calories and your liver then retains Water from it, I find it all very hard to believe. Maybe you need to exercise more. I don'tt hink you should put down Optifast when it helps a lot of people before surgery shrink their livers and make it easier to opperate. Telling them that a pre-op diet isn't important is ignorant and I think you're only doing this to disagree with me, once again. I also find it hard to believe that you'd stick to a very hard to follow diet for a month when you're not losing any weight. This gives me reason to believe that you've never been on Optifast and you continuously state that you have to prove me wrong from a disagreement we had 3 weeks ago. Optifast isn't just a 'diet', it's used to shrink your liver before surgery. That's why people go on those diets before surgery. Get over it. We have different opinions. You shouldn't lie in order to convince people you know what you're talking about. I also think you shouldn't lie about your weight loss in your signature - it's a little off putting to be honest.

I think the whole thing is really interesting, but I wouldn't want to go onto that diet anyway because the food is crap. I've heard all of the bullcrap diets lol. A lady at aqua aerobics the other day said this, "It's better to exercise on a empty stomach. Your body takes energy from your left over fat rather than the food in your stomach!". I didn't quite know what to say. I just smiled and said, "wow, that's very interesting".

Is any weight loss surgery covered? They could be an alternative to lap-band.

Is anyone on this one? At first I thought it was a load of poopie until they described my bloodtype as 'slightly lactose intollerant, builds muscle and needs protein' and all of the foods I'm meant to be eating to stay slim are the ones I hate! Ironically, the ones I love so much are the ones I'm not meant to be eating. It describes my eating habbits and the reason I'm so overweight (though obviously it's not the whole reason I'm overweight...I'm aware of that lol). I'm still not 100% convinced, but I do know of a lady who lost 40 kilos on it and her daughter lost 33 who swear by it. One of the big issues for me is that the foods I'm meant to eat are a lot of meat (which I hate) and things that are high in Protein (which often come with a lot of fat). Anyone been on this? Has it worked for you? What's your blood type? Do you think it's poopie? Let me know :frown:

Whatever supresses your appetite and works best for you!

I've heard that people who had the band done at my surgery were turned away on the day of their operation. If you're on a diet to shrink your liver (Optifast, etc) it's probably best you stick to it. It increases risks if you don't follow the diet. If your liver is too big, it can be hard to operate.

I've never heard of people using the band to make themselves sick before. Throwing up with the band terrifies me. Having things slightly stuck is bad enough and makes me feel horrible. I hope that girl is doing better now. She's very brave to go onto that show and even though I didn't see it, I heard she did it to help people. That's pretty cool of her.

It could be poor circulation if it's occuring in the morning. Have you have a blood test recently? I found that my knees ached when I had a vitamin D deficiency.

I had a Vitamin D deficiency and it was horrible. My joints and muscles ached all the time, I was tired all the time and didn't want to get out of bed. I started taking vitamin D tablets and exercised daily (regardless of how sore I was) and it's gotten so much better.

I think it's just another word for 'being able to eat small meals and feeling satisfied'. There's people out there that are constantly trying to find that magical spot where they can eat whatever consistancy of food they want, and have their hunger supressed. - It doesn't work that way. and there's always going to be foods you can't have. When you find the right amount of fill that works for you, you'll be able to comfortably eat small portions of food and be satisfied. If you're too tight, it can lead to weight gain. In the end you just need to find what's right for you. Everyone's going to be different and some people's restrictions are going to be greater than others.

I've experienced that one. I was too tight at my last fill and resorted to eating runny meals that weren't making me full - they were just easier to eat. I put on a kilo because of that and was eating small foods all the time to keep my hunger down. In the end I was intaking too many calories.

I passed out int he shower in my first week out of surgery. I was washing my hair at the time and I started to feel short of breath. I was fixated on finishing wahsing my hair and getting clean so I could lay down. Apparently I overdid it just from that and I'm very lucky I didn't fall through the glass. Don't overdo anything in your first week. You need to lay down and rest and just relax :-) If you feel like something's not right, then it's ok to have a lay down (obviously you need to shower, but if you start feeling weird, don't push yourself). Be selfish. The more you move your stomach muscles, the more likely the port will detatch itself from the abdominal wall, so let everything heal and sleep a lot and be good to yourself. :-)

Yeah, if I ever HAVE to eat vegemite, I always put in on thinly. I wasn't raised on vegemite, I ate promite more as a kid. I loveee Promite with a boiled egg or cheese. Mmmm. Everyone I know who loves vegemite has been eating it since they were kids, or they enjoy salty foods. Not me!

Thanks :-D

I almost vomitted getting a barium swallow. It was horrible for me, but for other people it's not as bad. Good luck to you.

Awww whoa. That is going to be amazing. AHA. Let us know how it goes! I'd love to do something like that at some stage. You've got gutts!

I feel the same though! I get colder so much easier now! It's great though. Summers coming up here and I'd rather be cold than hot and sweaty.