so i don't think that i have ever posted on this board, but i too am a feb '08 bandster. since being banded i have lost about 50 lbs. i was exercising 5 days a week and then in july i ended up really hurting my back and my hip so i could hardly move. turns out when i was running i was arching my back and my time on my mile was getting so good too! anyway has anyone else lost their mojo? i have pretty good restriction...there's alot of things i just can't eat and i get full pretty fast...pretty much i'm never hungry i just know i have to eat...1 because you have to eat and 2 because i start getting really crabby. i'll go through periods of just wanting to eat around the band...i really wish i hadn't learned that one! i'm just not sure how to get back on track. i set an exercise goal for aug and yeah...that's pretty much not going to happen. i've lost enough to where i can buy "regular" clothes and not have to shop in the plus sizes anymore and i think that has something to do with it...it's like, that's enough? it's not enough and i really need to get back to the mentality i was at before...anyone else going through this????

Oh yeah.. a while back my band suddenly got tight and then I got second degree burns on my legs to where they swelled up like elephant legs and I could barely walk.. the pain was so bad and then I stopped working out cuz of it. I got some fill out and even though I didn't gain any weight, I haven't really lost much either this past month.. but I started back on my work out regime yesterday.. and it feels good.

I need to go get my fill back next week now that all the swelling is down. I'm hungry all the time, but I make better decisions, like eating spring salads with 1 calorie spray instead of chips... or sugar free 50 calorie fudgsicles instead of candy ... stuff like that. So, it helps.

I'm sure we all stray away due to stuff like this every now and again, but as long as we find our way back and it doesn't cause too much damage, aka, weight gain, I think it's fine. Welcome to the group!

I think the exercise part is the most important. Just ease back into it so you don't get hurt again. I'm guessing that you may have set your August goal too high, thinking about how much you did before you got hurt. Maybe start off with 15 minutes a day and add 5 or 10 minutes to that each week until you get back to where you were. The weight loss should just naturally happen is you exercise and make smart food choices 80% to 90% of the time.

I imagine it would be hard to keep motivated once you've reached normal size clothing. I'm still dreaming of that. Congrats on that great accomplishment. And you know you can always stop if you're happy. But I'm guessing you aren't where you want to be yet. That alone will drive you. You're just gonna have to force yourself to get back into the exercise routine. Maybe try a new kind of exercise, that might make it easier.

I really ramble before I have my coffee, don't I? :thumbup:

Thats what I've been missing

i'll go through periods of just wanting to eat around the band...i really wish i hadn't learned that one! i'm just not sure how to get back on track... i've lost enough to where i can buy "regular" clothes and not have to shop in the plus sizes anymore and i think that has something to do with it...it's like, that's enough? it's not enough and i really need to get back to the mentality i was at before...anyone else going through this????

You are singing my song!

Eating around the band is just so tempting, so easy, and so wrong. I know it's wrong, and yet I fight that urge more than I care to admit. I know as long as I am fighting it, I will win the war, but ohhhh sometimes I'm ready to concede defeat!

Exercise - I'm doing it because I have to not because I enjoy it. I am trying different things, mixing them up, increasing the duration but haven't yet hit a point where I WANT to exercise, where I look forward to it. I do it; I do it faithfully, I appreciate the results, but I make myself do it.

So doing the exercising, making the conscious decisions on food are not yet second nature...but hell, I lived my life the other way for 50 years, so there is a lot of unlearning to do!!!

I will do this; I will succeed. You will too! We ALL will.

So doing the exercising, making the conscious decisions on food are not yet second nature...but hell, I lived my life the other way for 50 years, so there is a lot of unlearning to do!!!

I will do this; I will succeed. You will too! We ALL will.

:thumbup: Great point! There is so much un-learning to do. Sometimes I get frustrated, but I think I'll try to keep this in mind.

We've lived our lives the other way for so long, and it's hard to change - but it's not impossible!

Thanks for the replys guys! I think that I probably did set my aug goal a bit too high and should maybe lower it a tad and then maybe I might feel it's attainable in the last few days we have left here. I'll need to make sure I keep my Sept goal in check too! =) My goal was to run a 5k in oct but I'm not sure how likely that is to happen now, which i think is what really makes alot of this depressing and unmotivating for me. I am really lucky to not have gained any weight in the last month in half...i just ended up fluctuating a few lbs up and then back down. motivation and mojo is what i need!

motivation and mojo is what i need!

If someone could just figure out how to bottle them, what a market there would be!! The line starts behind me...:smile2: