I'm sure that quite a few of us pay attention to that show for obvious reasons. I'm currently exercising a good deal and taking in about 800 calories a day. The scale is MAYBE nudging downward these days but barely (my 3rd fill is in 2.5 weeks), so how do those people regularly lose 10 pounds per week? I know they exercise all day long but I still feel that there's something about the band that causes you to lose weight more slowly that you would if you were eating and exercising this way without it. Or am I missing something?

I'm totally thrilled with the band so this isn't a complaint. Just an observation.

Sometimes, when life gets so busy, I break up my workouts into two 10-15 minute sessions a day. I get up ten minutes early ...hit the treadmill and then take 10 minutes before my bath at night and do it again. That way I feel I've done something that day. It all adds up. Also, you don't have to do cardio everyday to get a workout. I walk/jog three times a week and do yoga/ stretch three times a week. So, I work out six days a week and rest on day seven. I've read that a day of rest is so important.

They also have a person that makes most of their food. Give me a Personal trainer, a Chef and a gym like that on my property and I would be a different story!

lol thats right:thumbup:

"I'm currently exercising a good deal and taking in about 800 calories a day"

I'm 5'7 and my doctor told me I will lose more weight by eating 1400 calories a day then eating 800.

During one of the seasons, I took the time to read the players' blogs..NO THANK YOU. Their life is not realistic, like so many other weight loss efforts and unless you continue the regimen, you will gain back the wt. That is reason 2004 why I love the idea of being banded. It is a tool to help keep that from happening if I let it!

During one of the seasons, I took the time to read the players' blogs..NO THANK YOU. Their life is not realistic, like so many other weight loss efforts and unless you continue the regimen, you will gain back the wt. That is reason 2004 why I love the idea of being banded. It is a tool to help keep that from happening if I let it!

I think season three's winner did gain all of his weight back. They had some kind of show either on the discovery health channel or TLC about his weight gain and how he was going to get it off again.

Walking can be done any time, and is cheap... An hour walk a day, increases weight loss, feels good because of the endorphine thing, and creates wonderful alone time where much good thinking can be done!!! Hugs!!!

Amen! :thumbup: I love my walks during the day. I use 2 of my three breaks at work to walk. The last break I always work right through and forget to take. :thumbup:

One 15 min break and my 1/2 hour lunch break and it gives me some very much needed time away from my co-workers. It's so very therapeutic. I don't know how I survived so long without them.

I'm a dedicated exerciser, and I'm fit. I love exercising. But I really notice the difference between my own runs, and boot camp with a trainer. The intensity is way harder!

I dont really think its possible to achieve that intensity consistently without someone in your face, pushing you. It hurts and it doesnt feel pleasant (great afterwards though) and its just a normal human instinct not to do that to ourselves, lol.

I even ran 3kms with a bunch of 11 year olds yesterday and that nearly killed me too, lol, and I normally run 8kms a day. They were so much faster than my natural pace, you do slow down a bit between 11 and 43! If I ran that hard every day I'd be superwoman, but its just impossible without that additional push.

So.... if you had a trainer several hours a day, it would make a HUGE difference. They work out like fiends, at super high intensities AND they walk for hours an hours a day to lose weight like that. It just doesnt compare with what you can achieve at home on your own.