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Trying to get back on the 'band' wagon

aussie_jode

By aussie_jode, in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums

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aussie_jode    0

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Hey ho!

How are you all? Lots have happened since i was last here. I am seriously grateful for the reminder emails that kept saying...we haven't seen you at lapbandtalk.com. we miss you LOL

Every time i saw one I would upset myself.

I got onto a good wicket a little earlier in the year, then got really stressed at work. I turned to the wrong foods and now need to snap out of it. We have moved and i have gotten rid of the stress but not the bad habits. (chocolate and milo and biccies and muffins!)

After having my baby a little over a year ago now, I had gotten down to 82.5kg! YAY btu then the stress and bad habits have taken me back up to 87:faint:. I need to stop it now! before its too late.:help:

:thinkanyone been through something similar with the band? I really need support right now and i know you guys will help out.;)

I am not really exercising and would love to know how to get that fitting into my schedule... i am a teaching principal with 4 kids under 7. I leave for work at 7.40 and get home on sunset most days. I have to seriously try and get the exercise in at school i think. Maybe a 40 minute routine with the kids. Its not my forte so i really don't know where to start.

How do i get rid of that rubbish without my kids suffering???(the stuff i am eating is what i bake for them for lunches etc...the choc is the choc bits for baking!:omg::help:

Somebody please slap me back to reality!

Jode

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Hi Jode! Welcome back to LBT! I have often wondered how you are going.

You asked how to get rid of the garbage without the kids suffering?

Well.... My opinion on this is rarely popular, but my kid doesn't actually get cakes, chips or any lollies. We make piklets, and banana muffins for the lunch box on Sunday, but apart from that, he gets only salad or egg sandwiches, fruit, soy milk, and granola bars in his lunch box. He doesn't need the sugar and junk. He doesn't suffer at all. Well, in my opinion, anyway!

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Hi Jode, Please don't be too hard on yourself. You are a busy mum and life has a way of keeping as all stressed and busy. The good thing about the band is that it is there waiting for you when you are ready to start making the little changes you need to make in your daily life.

I wish you all the best with it.;)

Susannah

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Hi Jode! Welcome back to LBT! I have often wondered how you are going.

You asked how to get rid of the garbage without the kids suffering?

Well.... My opinion on this is rarely popular, but my kid doesn't actually get cakes, chips or any lollies. We make piklets, and banana muffins for the lunch box on Sunday, but apart from that, he gets only salad or egg sandwiches, fruit, soy milk, and granola bars in his lunch box. He doesn't need the sugar and junk. He doesn't suffer at all. Well, in my opinion, anyway!

LOL...

Did i make it sound like my kids were topping up on junk? Not really...just me!;)

We bake muffins (usually fruit of some description)and when i haven't eaten the choc bits then we add choc bits to the muffins or biccies. Like you we bake for the lunch box. I have a policy that the kids don't actually take ANY prepackaged foods to school. we don't even have museli bars.

They always take a salad sanga, 2 pieces of fruit, and for recess they will have a muffin or a cookie along with their fruit. 3 days a week and crackers and cheese the other two days. The muffins and Cookies we bake are from the simply to good cook books, so they are pretty healthy, low in fat and sugar. The only problem is that although they are rationed, I am not. LOL

This week will be a good start to change things around as the kids are sick with the flu so no lunch boxes to worry me. There are no more choc chips left to nick and i won't be buying any more! You have my word on that!

When I looked at my signature the other night i realised that I haven't had a fill for more than a year...that probably isn't helping how much i can eat also...hmmm

Thanks for the kick up the butt though!:lol:

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