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Hooray, this slow loser just buttoned up her size 10 jeans!!! They ain't pretty (muffin top) but they fit :-)

Wow! Now that is success no matter the speed!:confused:

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Hooray, this slow loser just buttoned up her size 10 jeans!!! They ain't pretty (muffin top) but they fit :-)

Congratulations, that's great! The muffin top will be gone in no time.

I really don't count calories. I just follow the band rules, eat Protein first, then veggies. There's usually no room for carbs. I seem to have a hard time with carbs anyway. It seems the only carb I can eat with no trouble is mashed potatos. French Fries even cause pain. But lately I have been eating a lot of junk. I am going for a fill next week to get me back on track.

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I was losing very slowly too. Last time I saw my surgeon I was actually up .5 lbs. I started doing circuit training with the Chalean Extreme videos and weights. The scale is finally moving. In the first month of the workout, I lost 8% body fat and 12 inches. What are others doing for exercise???

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well i'm happy !, i went to k-mart yesterday and while waiting on my daughter i tryed on a pair of 16w this time they went all the way up! and button and the waist was LOOSE!!!! YEPPIEEEEE still not loosing but i was glad to see some inches gone so hopefully i can get into a 14 by summer

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I was losing very slowly too. Last time I saw my surgeon I was actually up .5 lbs. I started doing circuit training with the Chalean Extreme videos and weights. The scale is finally moving. In the first month of the workout, I lost 8% body fat and 12 inches. What are others doing for exercise???

I started doing Turbo Jam. I love it. I have lost 4 pounds since I started the 20th of January.

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EXERCISE IS KEY!!!! I am going to the gym 6 days per week now and the weight is starting to come off more quickly!!! 45 minutes of cardio and 20 minutes of strength training (focusing heavily on my mid-section)!!!!

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I started Curves in October...not to bad nice to get out of the house. And my skinny teenager and i do belly dancing video's....not that i look great doing it but it is nice to break up the routine....maybe we should have an exercise tape exchange . i have tried a few different ones Core Rythems ,,,not so fun yet routines are hard to learn,still I figure if you keep moving your doing okay ...... Slim in 6 boring bet it works just hard to bring your self to do it everyday and my VCR died....Favorite tape is The MTV Grind Workout....sounds dumb but I like it and had good success with it

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congrats to everybody!!!! im a sllloooowww looser but its coming off my doctor finaly approved me to start going to the gym ( do to seizures) which are ok and have been since 12-08 so i pray the weight can start coming back off again keep me in prayers and ill do the same 4 you all good luck and god bless

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I had my band on 5/6/2008. I have lost only 40 lbs. I am still happy I got the band although it has been a slow process. I am at 202 and working hard to become a onester. I'm glad I'm not alone though. Anyone else embarrased to go to the doctor because I haven't lost enough weight

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I have lost 25 lbs in 10 months--10 of that was during surgery. I expected to lose at least 50 in a year so I have been disappointed. But its a loss and I'll take it. I have good restriction and it has taken me at least this long to figure out how I should eat. I only started exercising again in December at Curves. I didn't want to tell anyone about my lapband and have been getting weighed and measured every other month. My name goes on the board and I am usually in the top 3 for biggest loser of lbs & inches. Of course the ladies ask how did I do it. I stay quiet. This month I lost a total of over 12 lbs & inches and the ladies really pressed me. I gave in and told about my lapband. Oh, like its a cop out. Of course you would lose "that way." But you know, all those years of being weighed & measured and it really never added up to much. And then avoiding the scale, not tracking my results, not wanting to know. Just smack me around for not jumping for joy at my 25 lbs in 10 months. When have I ever done that before lapband? Its not a cop out. It takes work and effort. It is not an easy fix. And guess what else? It will take a long time--maybe even the rest of my life.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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