Hello everyone...I am being banded on April 10th. I am so excited! Seems like it's been forever to get to the countdown, but I think it'll be here before we know it!

Anyone else scheduled in April? We need to come up with a group name!

Carol

Has anyone tried those Anytizers? I like the tequilla and lime ones they are 200 calories with 20 grams Protein.

Leslie - thanks for setting up our group on dailyplate. That's awesome, I didn't know it would do that. Now we can stop transferring it over here right? {{{fingers crossed}}} LOl!

Brandy - I couldn't find you yesterday, but I've gotcha today.

Hey, where's mom? Is she still on her trip?

I got good news today in P.E. We had our midterm evals and I've lost more inches, my body fat went down 3%, my resting heart rate went way down, and I lost a total of 8 pounds (3 of that was this week). So, I'm hoping the weight plateau is broken! I'm 3 pounds from Onderland!! But even if my weight loss slows down even more, I at least know that I'm continuing to loose inches. I lost about 2.5 inches off my hips, about as much off my waist, and of course more in the boob area. I gained inches in my shoulders, but that's from lifting weights or at least that's what I'm telling myself! HA! All of that was accomplished in 6 weeks. Anyway, I feel better for the moment! :biggrin:

That is excellent Bea! Congrats on the weight and the inches :biggrin: Sounds like you might be on a roll now.

Yea Bea!!!!!!!!! That's awesome!! Yea - no more posting twice. We need to be diligent about writing everything down. I just had 1 3-musketeers mini (25 cal) and wrote it down. Every little morsal!

I'm going to the gym when I get off work today!!!!! Back in the saddle.

Yea Bea!!!!!!!!! That's awesome!! Yea - no more posting twice. We need to be diligent about writing everything down. I just had 1 3-musketeers mini (25 cal) and wrote it down. Every little morsal!

I'm going to the gym when I get off work today!!!!! Back in the saddle.

Wtg Leslie! I am going to try to make it to weds step class. If I cannot then I will go to sat and sunday class. I am going to give it a couple weeks. I think I will complete atleast 1/2 of the class each time till I get the hang of it and then I might feel confident and well enough to do the whole 1 hour.

Uggh sorry I spam the thread... I really do try not to but I like asking your guys first :biggrin:

On dailyplate do you normally create meals for like Turkey sandwich and such? Sometimes I can be pretty boring and since I don't eat alot when I buy something I usually keep at it till it's all gone lol

I created a meal on mine for chicken salad - I make it a lot and hate having to look up the ingredients over and over again...don't worry about spaming...that's what we we're here for!

My turn to spam the thread...

As you all know, I'm still on my plateau (and gain). I've been reading up on Target Heart Rates and such. On WebMD, I found some good information about exercising, but I want to know a few things.

1) Do you exercise following that protocol? (Target Zone, etc)

2) How LONG do you exercise? (ie, 30 min, 40 min, 60 min)

3) How many times a week do you exercise? (3 days, 5 days, 7 days)

4) Do you weight train, and how often?

5) Do you weight train and do cardio on the same days?

6) If so, do you do it before or after the weight training?

So I obviously think I'm doing something wrong. I just read that the new standard for weight loss is now 60 minutes every day. For real????? Wow, I was still operating under the premise that 30 minutes 3 x week was sufficient. Where have I been? Why did I think that was going to help me lose weight? An hour seems like a lot. According to WebMD, the first 20 minutes is burning sugars only, the second 20 minutes burns the remainder of any sugars, and starts to tap into the fat reserve. After 40 minutes, it's using all fat!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and they recommend exercising in the Water or the cold as this causes the body to burn the fat in order to stay warm.

Thoughts?

Edited October 21, 200817 yr by Turler

Hey guys! I'm back...thanks for asking Bea.

It took me awhile to read 6 pages of posts to catch up...ya'll have been talkative and so much has happened, don't know where to start.

Bea- WAY TO GO!!!!!! I am so happy for you girl! That is such good news with the scales moving, losing inches and losing fat%! Keep it up and onederland will be here in no time!!!

L2L - glad you had a good trip. I know how you feel from being wiped out though. I always feel like I need a vacation to get over my mini-vacations:)

Well, the camping trip went great. It was cold but not too bad. The kids loved it. I didn't eat the best but I also hiked and walked non-stop so I came home not gaining anything:) Now that I am done catching up with laundry, I can relax some....

Didn't make it to the gym yesterday, too tired. But made up for it today with 1 and 1/2 hours. Felt really good to get back to it. Was surprised how much I'd missed it.

I go back for another fill Thursday. I am so excited. I have no restriction. Kept waiting for it to come since the last one but there is none. I can eat whatever I want and unfortunately have been. Haven't been making too good of choices lately but its time to turn that around.

Have any of you heard of Clean Eating? I've been reading about it lately and I think after this fill, I'm going to give it a try. I want to do it till Thanksgiving to see if it helps. If any of you have done it, let me know if you liked it or if it worked.

Sorry I'm so long winded today. Making up for lost time:)

Hey Mom! Are you on dailyplate? We have a group there started to track our food...that way we don't have to do it twice...

I'm glad ya'll had fun! It's good to see you back :-)

I am. THough I haven't been posting since Thursday. I'll go on tonight and get things going again.

Oh...and another thing...

I am so eating more than I thought! Leslie, I hate journaling, but I have to admit it's opening my eyes. In fact, I felt so sorry for myself that I had chocolate! So there!

Hi Mom! Glad you had a good time. Welcome back!

Bea- Woot! YAY!!!!

I think my other post got hung up...I wrote a real long one with questions...went to post it and it said it was duplicated. Not sure what happened.

Ok...I found it

Scroll down a few if you didn't see it!

Do share Carol :biggrin: I love hearing new tips.

Hey Mom I would love to know more about the clean eating as well.

I have heard of the negative calorie but that doesn't work for bandsters since it would be way too hard to get in enough protein if you're stuffing up with negative calorie food.

Carol yes I believe they are correct about the amount of time needed is about 1 hour. However, alot of the experts differ on the science of exercise. I am almost 100% the exercising in your heart zone is a great idea because if I did a full out sprint for 1 mile I would probably die of a heart attack hehe

My water aerobics instructor also mentioned that you burn more doing water aerobics because your body has resistance along with it trying to keep your extremeties warm... They might be onto something there. It also tightens your muscles up and makes you feel tired more quicker I thought when I did it.