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TURKEY DAY Challenge 2009

kaninag

By kaninag, in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums

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Lady Lap Band    71

Lady Lap Band
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i am so thankful i am getting my 3rd fill tomorrow bc i am so hungry and the scale isnt budging!!!!!!

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TracyK    3

TracyK
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Turkey Day i hope to be down at least fifteen pounds. Sounds realistic. Then I will close to onederland again :blushing:

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bdbmamaw    0

bdbmamaw
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I'm in!!! I put my info in the spreadsheet and froze the first two rows so you could scroll down the spreadsheet and still see the column headings. Hope you don't mind. :blushing: Good luck everyone!

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RobinAnn    2

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I'm in!!! I put my info in the spreadsheet and froze the first two rows so you could scroll down the spreadsheet and still see the column headings. Hope you don't mind. :blushing: Good luck everyone!

Wonderful.... collaboration at its best.

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TenaciousTrace    4

TenaciousTrace
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I want to get in on the challenge....can I still jump in now?:biggrin:

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Libbyjane1976    1

Libbyjane1976
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I'm in. This will give me incentive!!! My weight loss has been slowing down lately and this will help keep me focused!

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healthy-me-in-Az    0

healthy-me-in-Az
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Hi everyone! I am in! I added my info! I hope to breeze right through the 190's!

Thanks for setting this up! Do we have a specific weigh in day? Also, can someone post the link for the spreadsheet on that weigh in day so we don't have to scroll through all the posts?

Can't wait to meet everyone on here!

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melinda_205    0

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Hey, I added my information to the sheet also. I hope that I'm not too late to join. I dont know if I will ever make the goal that I put on there, but I have a really good reason to try. What day do we weigh in?

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Lizandrk    1

Lizandrk
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Just added my info. Stoked to participate in my first challenge, banded on 6-19. My goal might be alittle lofty but I'm hoping and shooting for 3 lbs/wk about. This will be fun!

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kaninag    35

kaninag
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I'm trying to figure out why the spreadsheet is saying some of us have 12 weeks left and some have 13? Any ideas?

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caminco    0

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I think I have an idea why some say 13 weeks to go and some say 12 weeks to go. As of yesterday(9/3), Thanksgiving is exactly 12 weeks away. The dates on the left hand side where it is saying 13 weeks to go are end of August dates. The dates where it is saying 12 weeks to go are beginning of September dates. I am excited to do this challenge to get me back on track. I got my band last summer and am having a hard time with these last pounds.

Thanks, Colleen

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Lap band surgery: 5/6/08

Revision for kinked tubing: 7/17/08

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kaninag    35

kaninag
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OH I gottcha!

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wannabthinagain    0

wannabthinagain
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I'm SO close to goal! this is going to get me to it!!!

it may even get me to lower my goal. I'm only 4'10.5 and 120 is at the higher end of my 'ideal weight/bmi', so i have room to lower it.

I already have people telling me i don't need to take the weight loss TOO far though... i think they are just used to seeing me bigger and can't remember how thin i was a long time ago...no one thought anything of it then!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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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        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.

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