I am getting banded early next year. For those of you who have the band how can you or what makes you motivated to exercise after the band. You know for most of us we didn't exercise before the band. So why, how does everyone exercise after it?

It seems like after people get the band they say ok now I will exercise. Why can't we just exercise now????

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:eek: Ok so after I posted this about exercise, and my son said to me, "why do you need surgery? Why can't you just exercise and eat right now?" I decided to get a group of people together to exersice together, weigh in once a week, and change our eating habits, for a local weight loss contest.

We have been doing this now for about 10 days. I have lost 8 pounds already!

My son who is over weight is doing it as well, and he has lost 6 pounds.

I'm thinking if we can keep this up I won't need the surgery after all.

People should try this if you haven't. It is way better if you do it with people. Our group walks at a local school in the evening. It's cold her in MN so we can't walk outside right now. We walk 2 miles 3x per week. We also eat better. A few people are going to weight watchers. We also exercise on our own.

I found some yummy healthly low cost food at a store called Trader Joe's. You should try the Chile Lime Chicken Breast. They are in the frozen section. Only 110 cal, 3g fat, 15g protine.They also have frozen green beans that are yummy with some added fat free spray butter.

I wish everyone the best of luck, and I hope I can keep this up!

Jen, MN

:eek: Ok so after I posted this about exercise, and my son said to me, "why do you need surgery? Why can't you just exercise and eat right now?" I decided to get a group of people together to exersice together, weigh in once a week, and change our eating habits, for a local weight loss contest.

We have been doing this now for about 10 days. I have lost 8 pounds already!

My son who is over weight is doing it as well, and he has lost 6 pounds.

I'm thinking if we can keep this up I won't need the surgery after all.

People should try this if you haven't. It is way better if you do it with people. Our group walks at a local school in the evening. It's cold her in MN so we can't walk outside right now. We walk 2 miles 3x per week. We also eat better. A few people are going to weight watchers. We also exercise on our own.

I found some yummy healthly low cost food at a store called Trader Joe's. You should try the Chile Lime chicken Breast. They are in the frozen section. Only 110 cal, 3g fat, 15g protine.They also have frozen green Beans that are yummy with some added fat free spray butter.

I wish everyone the best of luck, and I hope I can keep this up!

Jen, MN

Good luck to you. I never had a problem losing weight, I had a problem maintaining that loss.

The most I ever lost was 10 pounds. So we will see. I still may need the Lab Band, but I am hoping I won't.

Congrats on your weight loss!!

"Diet and exercise"

Yep, I've lost hundreds of lbs that way over my lifetime-- and gained them all back when the willpower lagged. The whole point of the band, for me, is to backstop me when I fall off the wagon. Kinda hard to pig out on pizza when you're vomiting out the second slice.

Yuck! That would stop me too.