I just found out my surgery will be in July (granted my pre-op testing goes okay) SOOOOOOOOO

Here's a thread for everyone getting banded in July 07!

Does anyone have any good ideas for a neat name we could call ourselves?

Well I have never really done soups since being banded because of the whole "no liquids" thing. I brought some of those Green Giant steamers today (cauliflower in cheese sauce...only 150 calories for the entire box) and it is soft enough to get down. Now if only I didn't have 16 dozen cookies sitting behind my classroom calling my name. We did a cookie exchange yesterday and I am going to be giving them as gifts and handing them out to my kiddos tomorrow so I am not going to be eating them!

LOOK AT MY TICKER!!

I DID IT!!

- 3.6 lb this week so I made my -100 milestone!!

DH went to TOPS early and was waiting at the door for me when I got there. My Wii said I wasn't quite there, but it hasn't been agreeing with the TOPS scale so he thought I would make it today. And he was right. So, after we all shed a few tears, some of the TOPS ladies helped me with the earrings... I brought them with me because I was hopeful, too, but not quite as confident as DH was! So, a great day!

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PHYL

CONGRATULATIONS

100 LBS !!!!

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Edited December 19, 200817 yr by IndioGirl55

WTG Phyl! You're awesome!

whoo-o-o-o ho-o-o-o ! ! ! ! !

triple digits

way to go, phyl ! !

let's boogie ! ! ! !

Congrats Phyl!!! Way to go!

Well I have never really done soups since being banded because of the whole "no liquids" thing. I brought some of those Green Giant steamers today (cauliflower in cheese sauce...only 150 calories for the entire box) and it is soft enough to get down. Now if only I didn't have 16 dozen cookies sitting behind my classroom calling my name. We did a cookie exchange yesterday and I am going to be giving them as gifts and handing them out to my kiddos tomorrow so I am not going to be eating them!

Karri

Remember you hate sugar - sugar is the devil - Oh here's a good one -(deleted) no I can't say that - it was mean - .. I'm a steak (rare :huh2:) Well it was worth a try - I won't be eating any cookies til next week - then watch out - with my kid's here I will want to eat... But to compensate - Exercise..

Ya I remember you saying that before after I suggested it -so you don't eat chili - If I make soup - well my sis says I make a stew cuz I put so much in it - I just eat the meat veggies tatoes - not really alot of the juice part

I ate 1 cookie and then stopped there. I am working out really hard right now. I was sent a link by the lady that I went to the support group to a website that has an online book. This is the lady that gave me the name of the therapist that I am going to and this is the book that she had her read. So I figure that I am going to get a head start. It is www.foodsanity.com. I will let you know if it is any good. It focuses on the relationship between you and food. That is truly something that I need.

Welll I am going to go read and then go to bed. We have a 2 hour delay tomorrow. Everyone go out and do a snow dance for me so that we can have our first snow day in ...30 years!!!

whoo-o-o-o ho-o-o-o ! ! ! ! !

triple digits

way to go, phyl ! !

let's boogie ! ! ! !

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I ate 1 cookie and then stopped there. I am working out really hard right now. I was sent a link by the lady that I went to the support group to a website that has an online book. This is the lady that gave me the name of the therapist that I am going to and this is the book that she had her read. So I figure that I am going to get a head start. It is www.foodsanity.com. I will let you know if it is any good. It focuses on the relationship between you and food. That is truly something that I need.

Welll I am going to go read and then go to bed. We have a 2 hour delay tomorrow. Everyone go out and do a snow dance for me so that we can have our first snow day in ...30 years!!!

Karri - One cookie is ok.. I will ck out the link. I need to get in some extra exercise this next week so that I don't have a gain with my planned indulgences next week.

Congrats on your Snow Day

Phyl

Are you still flying high - I want a pic of you in that shirt :biggrin:

Karri - One cookie is ok..

It's virtually impossible for me stop at one cookie unless someone else is in the room. I guess not wanting to make a pig of myself in front of others controls me somewhat but leave me alone with a plate of cookies and you'll be lucky to find a crumb!

It's virtually impossible for me stop at one cookie unless someone else is in the room. I guess not wanting to make a pig of myself in front of others controls me somewhat but leave me alone with a plate of cookies and you'll be lucky to find a crumb!

Donna - you aren't the lone ranger in that aspect - That's why for me avoidance is key - last yr GS bday made cupcakes - they were calling my name - so I put them in a baggie and said if you want these put them in your room - most times if they are out of sight then out of mind for me - key word is sometime - cuz I did this with halloween candy but I did go in there and snagged some..

Donna - you aren't the lone ranger in that aspect - That's why for me avoidance is key - last yr GS bday made cupcakes - they were calling my name - so I put them in a baggie and said if you want these put them in your room - most times if they are out of sight then out of mind for me - key word is sometime - cuz I did this with halloween candy but I did go in there and snagged some..

Halloween was really tough for me. I ate a fistful of mini cholcolates on a daily basis for 2 weeks -- sometimes 2 fistfuls at a time. Amazingly I didn't gain during that time but needless to say, it only extended my plateau. I'm convinced I could be below 180 now if I had been more reasonable during that time. Oh well, no sense in looking back, this band is all about the present, right?

Halloween was really tough for me. I ate a fistful of mini cholcolates on a daily basis for 2 weeks -- sometimes 2 fistfuls at a time. Amazingly I didn't gain during that time but needless to say, it only extended my plateau. I'm convinced I could be below 180 now if I had been more reasonable during that time. Oh well, no sense in looking back, this band is all about the present, right?

Yep - all we can worry about or control is right now - we can't change what happend yesterda - we have no control over tomorrow today - the only things we have to concentrate on is the now

I had fiberone bar for bf - top of cobb salad for lunch (it wasn't mixed all the good stuff on top - turkey cheese a little avocado w/ranch dressing ... No candy so far today :biggrin: not even a bite :sad:

So I only had 1 cookie yesterday before I typed my message. But we will not talk about what happened afterwards. I kind of had a melt down. I was frustrated after watching DH eat a BUNCH of cookies and when he went out to get milk, well...I ate and ate and ate. Then I went to bed feeling terribly guilty and horrible about myself. But knowing that I didn't have to get up early today I read the entire book that was on the website I posted yesterday. WOW...did it hit home.

I am still a fat person. Not physically anymore...but I am still a fat girl in a thin body. My attitude toward food really hasn't changed. I pick better choices usually and I physically can't eat as much but the reasons that I eat have not changed. My motivation to eat has not changed. And lately even the food choices have not been good. So I read the book with some hope and by the end I realized that this is definetly what I need to do. I am glad that I am going to a therapist cause I don't think that I can do this on my own. But I am going to try to start in the next two weeks. The major point of the book is that we often eat for comfort and not true hunger. To be honest, I haven't felt much real hunger since being banded...but in the last 4 months I have been hungry for a lot of things.

Mainly I am bored and frustrated. Even though I spend hours and hours and hours at work doing something, it is not challenging my mind...just my patience. The work doesn't challenge me. It is just monotanous and tedious. I love working with students and when I am actually teaching and doing something that I feel is productive then I have no desire to eat. However the last 2 days the students have been doing research in the library and I have been "starving". I have eaten WAY more now than I normally do because I am so damn bored.

Then there is frustration. I am frustrated with so much right now. Mainly the people that I work with, but also with what is going on at home. DH is going to school and trying to get his teaching license and the program is so terrible that it frustrates me. I wear my emotions on my sleeve and when things aren't fair or just I get frustrated. I can feel the frustration in my body. I am always tense and non-confrontational me has yelled at several people over the last several weeks. I am pretty certain that there are some customer service agents that wish that they had not taken my phone call! Things are really bad at work and any time I try to say or do anything to fix it, there are a couple of people who tell me that I just need to "play nice in the sandbox." Well I am sick of it and since I can't really say anything anymore I turn to food because at least when I am eating I don't have to deal with the problem. The issue is that I am consuming WAY more calories than I need, I am eating more than I want, and I am reinforcing the use of food to make me feel better.

There was one major part of the book that I really liked and that was the part about being selfish. Basically it says that we have come to believe that being selfish is a negative aspect, but in reality, thinking and caring about yourself is more imporatant than anything else. We don't consider babies to be selfish and yet they exist for themselves only.

I can't ever remember a time when I put myself first...except for last year when I was losing weight. My PS changed a lot in me. Others made me feel selfish for having the surgery because it wasn't necessary for health. Comments have been made at work and as a result (because of my upbringing) the negativity caused a shift in my thinking and I began believeing again that putting too much time into me was a bad thing.

So over the next two weeks I am going to spend a lot of time on me. I do need to do some work for school so that I can continue my current work hours and not be at school all the time. But other than that I am going to start working on the mental shift that I need in order to maintain the hard work that I have put into me.

I have already started my food journal and each time I eat I write down what it is and why I am eating. So far today...boredom and frustration have won out.:biggrin:

Well I should go.. class is over and I have to get ready for the next one.