I know - I know... I've read all the posts and I know the time between surgery and your first fill is bad news - but COME ON! Three weeks (3!!) without losing a single miserable pound. I've been walking 5x p/week, eating like a bird (ok, maybe an occasional tootsie roll from the Halloween leftovers) - but, still! I'm still eating 1/2 of what I used to, plus walking - NOTHING! Should I be losing something being so darn fat?? I'm just not friend of the band right now. I hope we can make-up soon. My first fill is today. I'd like to say I'm excited, but, I'm not. I think I'm destined to be fat forever (start the violins). Just feeling blue I guess - and MAD!

This is not correct. A pound of muscle weighs as much as a pound of fat, A POUND. BUT that being said, muscle is less bulky. It takes less of it to weigh a pound.

Actually - muscle DOES weigh more than fat. 1 cup of fat will weigh less than one cup of muscle. Or in other term - 1 cubic inch of muscle is more weighty than one cubic inch of fat.

Here is a quote from fitness.gov: The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports - Publications

People who exercise appropriately increase lean body mass while decreasing their overall fat level. Depending on the amount of fat loss, this can result in a loss of inches without a loss of weight, since muscle weighs more than fat. However, with the proper combination of diet and exercise, both body fat and overall weight can be reduced.

That being said - One pound of feathers weighs the same as one pound of lead. It is just still one pound. But the lead is more dense... so 1 cup of lead weighs more than one cup of feathers.

Make sense?

Muscle and fat do the same thing - one is more dense than the other and therefore can and does weigh more than the other. Which is why muscle weighs more than fat. As you can see from the excerpt above - my point is indeed correct.

Let me give yet another description - I am 5' 5" tall. At 165lbs I wear a size 5/6 in pants/skirts/shorts. I can bench 210lbs and am very defined. My identical twin sister weighs the same, but wears a size 12/14/16 pants depending on the brand. She can bench 85lbs. She is larger because she has more mass than I do because my muscle takes up less space - but we weigh the same.

By the way - the first part about me - is true (pre-kids) ... the second part was for illustration - my sister and I are not twins (even though we get asked it a lot)... our body types are different, height same... bone structure different (I have a 2" elbow measurement, hers is 1.5 inches) I am big boned, she is not.

AND before anyone says anything- yes - there are truly people who are big boned out there who carry their weight differently than those who have a petite frame.

Just thought I would share that bit of info...

Hope that clears up any confusion.

Amy

Hi! I was banded on Oct. 24 and the last couple of weeks I have not lost a lb. Finally I lost 1.5 # and am down a total of 32.5#. I am eating very little, maybe 500 calories/day. Am exercising though I could do more. It is hard for me to get in my liquids and am lucky to drink 8 cups/day. Now I am premenstrual and feel bloated and very hungry!!!!!!!! I get my first fill Dec. 12 and am worried it is not going to help. I really can't eat much regular food yet. Got chicken stuck yesterday, but it was dry. Very unpleasant! But we have to keep it up and the surgery should work. Keep in touch.

I am also about 3 1/2 weeks out from my surgery. I have my first fill Thursday the 29th. Thanksgiving was rough. I felt like I wanted to eat everything. I feel I find my self filling on soups....I think this might be bad for me. I just want to feel satisfied. I guess I need to figure out my head hunger and real hunger. I am now trying to stick with 3 meals a day and looking foward to my first fill. Thanks for all the information. This site is a blessing!