The Good!

The weather here in Michigan was mild today, sunny, still chilly but no wind, so I managed to get outside for my exercise today! Fresh air, YES! :drool: Had a lovely brisk walk. I can't wait for the dang snow to melt, and the green growing stuff/Spring flowers to come in! Normally I love the snow, but we've had more than our share this year . . . enough is enough! Anyway, the walk was sweet

And, I saw my doctor today! I'm still doing great, I still can't feel my port or anything (doctor says I might eventually). Not that I want to, it just seems strange to me . . . I expected to feel something. I got the rest of my steri strips removed from my incisions, I'm healing well! It feels so awesome to be doing good so far. I worried so much before I got the band, about how my body would react to it. So far it seems my body has made friends with the band! :laugh: And best of all . . . I HAVE A FILL DATE! :w00t:

The Bad!

(vent warning!) I'm counting calories, carbs, fats, and Proteins religiously . . . exercising everyday (and increasing it), following my diet without any extra stuff . . . and still the scales are being sluggish. :frown: I don't understand it. Keeping my calories under 1000 and Protein about 60-80 grams/day. I *think* I'm doing everything right, just can't get the weight to move. And yes, I'm bad (sigh), I'm a "scale watcher" . . . maybe that's my problem! :sneaky: It's just frustrating, because I am doing good on my diet. I'm really still in the "mushies" progressing to soft foods stage. It would make more sense if I enjoyed something yummy that I'm not supposed to have, but honestly that's not the case. I guess I can only hope I can make my weight loss ticker move again soon! I probably need to increase my exercise to an hour a day, and stay active as possible. (ok, vent off!) :wub:

The Ugly!

I am officially in "Bandster Hell". I'M HUNGRY! As stated above, I'm sticking to my diet, but it seems every day it's harder. The hunger beast is back! It's gonna be a tough two weeks until I get my first fill.

And, to make it worse, I went shopping today to buy things for my son's Easter basket. I'm trying to stick to a bunch of small toys and gifts (with some candy) in the basket, hoping to cut down on the amount of sugar he's getting, and spare him my obese fate. Good to start them young! But while shopping, I passed by all the Easter candy. Oy! :frown: All those major tempting Cadbury Cream eggs, Peeps, Hershey's chocolate eggs, gourmet jelly Beans . . . gah! I'm a big choco-holic, I really had to practice some restraint. I bought some things for my son's basket, plus I got a dozen of the small-sized Cadbury cream eggs (my favorite! I wait every year for these!). They only came in a dozen, so I'm gonna save one or two for myself and give the rest to hubby to take to his work. If they stay in the house, they will be quickly consumed by the chocolate-crazed woman here! :tt2: At least these are just small ones, I hope I can treat myself to just one or two! It's really amazing at the enormous amount and variety of Easter candy the stores have to offer!

(ramble off) So, my adventures for the day . . . anyone else having Easter candy issues?

I've reached a plateau too. Been stuck at 17lbs since last week. This is week 3 for me so it's reassuring to know it's common.

My weight loss is since the day I was banded.

I didn't have to do a pre op diet so I was the same weight as always (well, actually I was a my heaviest) when I went for surgery.

My 5 year old is very concerned that I won't be getting an easter egg. Think I'll buy a cream egg as a treat and let himself eat most of it!

Angie- good point.

All this talk about Cadbury eggs....*drools on keyboard*

Some of my best memories of childhood revolve around Cadbury Eggs. How sick is that?

I did buy candy I hate for my students this year. I bought gummie eggs and bunnies. I HATE GUMMY CANDY. It makes me gag. Of course, that didn't stop me from eating some this morning, even though I envisioned a big, gag-nasty, rubbery bunnie stuck in my stoma. How could I explain THAT to my surgeon?