I am really confused and having a bad day

[Mapasanchez 0]

I was banded Feb 11/10 and i have 2cc in my band.

I started at 215 and las week I was 199.. On Friday we went out with my family to a restaurant when I had 2 champagnes . % shrimps and a Decaf Cappuccino with Fat free. ON monday i was 202. and today 203.5. Today I really cry like a baby... I am doing a big effort even thug I still fighting my Hunger!!

Besides that freaky friday My diet is pretty the same than the last two weeks. SO what am I doing wrong??? I dont; count calories BUT i tried to keep my intake lower than 1200 ( doing a quick look of the nutritional fact) I am also having NO MORE tha 1 Cup of food every meal.. snack One cottage cheese at morning and in the afternoon couple crackers with 35calories cheese.< /p>

on top of that I started last week to do 20 min in bicycle at the gym and the 1 or 2 racquetball games (15- 30 minutes).

So what should I do to loose weight again?

I can't count calories. I don;t have time and I am not good in write thing down.. By I try to do ALL fat free not sugar and Always NO more than 1 cup . Lots of Protein. Lentils , quinoa....

Please help me....

[LeighaMason 19]

on top of that I started last week to do 20 min in bicycle at the gym and the 1 or 2 racquetball games (15- 30 minutes).

Please help me....

Me too! I started working out and here is what my friend BetsyB told me on another thread (cut and paste) I hope this helps!

Are you making sure that there's a day of rest in between each time you work a certain muscle group? (In other words, if you're working out M-F, are you doing upper body on M, W, F, and lower on T-Th?)

I ask, because it's really important, in terms of building muscle, for you to give this time. When you lift weights, the muscles form tiny micro-tears; during the day of rest, these heal, thereby building new muscle tissue. If you don't have that rest time, they don't heal---and it can cause damage.

As for the relationship between the scale and lifting weights---well, it takes about 8 weeks of consistently working out to build a pound of muscle, so you're not likely seeing much fat displaced by muscle yet. BUT, weight lifting causes gains for another reason. When you lift, your muscle cells need more oxygen than your body can get from breathing. So, they use a process called lactic acid fermentation to derive oxygen from materials they have. The byproduct, as the name suggests, is lactic acid. This is the stuff that makes you sore after a workout. It's also the stuff that makes weight lifters get that "pumped" look right after working out. How? It draws Fluid into the muscles.

What happens is this: the body likes homeostasis. When there is more lactic acid in the muscle cells than there is in the surrounding Fluid, fluid moves (by osmosis) into the cells to even things out.

The kidneys ultimately do an exquisite job of ridding the body of both the excess fluid and the lactic acid (the day of rest plays in here, too), but in the meantime, the scale shows a gain.

I always am up a little after a weight workout. For my own home weigh-ins, it doesn't faze me. But if I'm having an "official" weigh-in, I make sure my last weight workout was at least 24---and preferably 48--hours before. (I will schedule my appointment for early on a day when I'm due for a workout, then do it after I've been weighed.)

It's just water---but if it's getting written down in my chart, I don't want it!

Edited March 12, 2010 by LeighaMason
added color for clarity--Green is BetsyB talking